skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not live in the city, my father was born there and lived within city limits until the 70's. I am located ~25 minutes west, just about where the sidewalk ends, though I have both worked and played downtown for years.

Biggest little city in the US... a lot of sprawl (we might have invented it alongside the automobile & the 80 hour work week) that makes the city seem to go on forever. Infrastructure has been failing for a long time, city government rarely makes any progress, more often they succeed at hampering one another's attempts to do so. City lighting is constantly busted, leaving large areas poorly lit at night, either because of actual failures, or because of rolling blackouts instituted to save money. Roads and bridges are crumbling, and there are many, many vacant properties, everywhere you look. The police are underfunded, corruption within the force is a known problem. FIrefighters are underfunded and of late, shot at regularly. The city has no grocery store - yep - not one, but we have a killer open air market which many of the city's residents and business owners rely on for fresh produce etc. What else... we have a high school here with a football field that is less than 100 yards simply because no one bothered to properly plan for it... yet there are entire elementary school buildings that are vacant less than two miles away... I'd be happy to chat about the city, the people, etc any time.
Cheesecake Factory turns to IBM's Big Data for analytics
I think what people seem to be saying is that China is one of the only countries so blatantly using it for economic espionage against private corporations. This is fundamentally different than what other countries are rumored to be doing.
I'm responsible for helping to kill spam on Quora, so I'm happy to hear that you've had a good experience. In reality, we get a lot of spam, but we also allow anyone to edit most content so this crowdsourcing approach helps a lot. I'm sure the same is true for Wikipedia/StackExchange.

No matter how large your site, if you give people you trust the tools to stomp out spam/bad content, they will use it and you eventually "win."
You gotta be kidding on the sideways text as an important part of the UI. Also adding the vim integration is a waste of time as long as you don't have buffers, registers, ranges and can't parse my .vimrc nor use my modules you might as well not do it.
I definitely support this. Having a rolling release was the primary reason why I decided to go with debian (unstable) vs (x)ubuntu a few weeks ago. My previous install (oneiric; non-LTS) was about to become unsupported, and the last time I decided to ignore the official support status (years ago... I think it was dapper?), the main repository upped and vanished one day. That was not a fun morning.
Zurb Launches Foundation 4
It seems that one of the defining features of a patent troll is that they like to sit on a patent until a large, profitable, and well-established industry has built up around a technology that could be construed to fall under the patent's domain. At that point, they make their move for fame and profit.

Would it be reasonable to require "due diligence" on the part of the patent holder in order for a patent to be considered valid? In other words, if they have shown no interest in protecting their intellectual property in the face of long-standing and widely known "violations," it seems that a situation could apply that would work in a way analogous to the idea of piercing the corporate veil. Patent holders who have sat idly by as the violations of their patents (pending or otherwise) have gained notoriety and fame have demonstrated a lack of desire to pursue the technology, and are obviously just using it as a get rich quick scheme.

The idea here would be that, in this case, Personal Audio would have had to protect the rights to their setup as soon as it became reasonably evident that violations could be occurring (maybe the birth of iTunes or something). That would have been many years ago, before podcasting became popular. At that point, there's little profit in a lawsuit other than actually stopping someone from stealing an idea, so it's not so much of a bank account booster.

This just occurred to me, so I apologize if it's been discussed and demolished before -- it does seem that it would help to prevent this sort of surprise attack from happening without harming actual legitimate patent holders (they will pursue their rights early and often regardless of this idea being implemented).
I believe the "donate towards our costs" button only shows up when there are no patients to donate to. I have a paypal receipt from donating towards their operating costs, so I know it was up there at some point!
"Everyone says it's cheaper to build and launch things, but it still costs the same to market it worldwide and get customers," said Bob Greene, managing partner of Contour Venture Partners and chairman of the New York Venture Capital Association.

I would say that the cost of reaching customers is rapidly decreasing. The popularity of various distribution platforms (Facebook, Search, Adwords, App Store, LinkedIn, Email, etc..) are allowing customers to be reached more efficiently.
PHP has reached its limit
Or for that matter, drink to much of it.

Water intoxication is real and potentially life threatening, not just in theory but practice as well.

The key difference between water and sugar here is that most people stop drinking water when they've had to much.
Just donated and it feels so great.
Looking at your profile, there are 48 submissions counting this one. Over 18 days, that's not unreasonable considering that they often are receiving upvotes and several have generated meaningful comment threads.

I tend to submit articles in clusters, so I suspect that it is not an uncommon pattern. So long as your submissions are not getting heavily flagged you should be ok. If you find yourself banned, take a few weeks break and work on your comments.
me too. win 7 64bit
I found out why the Twitter link isn't working; it's because you're using the "Twitter button(TM)". This gets blocked by Ghostery, so using an old time-y link would probably be better for fallback purposes. Up to you, of course. :)
With Watsi's 100% of funds going to patients and the fact that they make it so easy to donate, I decided last month to start donating 2% of my monthly income through Watsi. Basically at the start of each month I choose 2 campaigns and donate $50 on each. Is very easy, you should try it.

Whats I find even more interesting is that by end of year I'll donate $1,200. Which turns out to be roughly the amount of 1 life saving surgery in Nepal. So basically I'll save 1 life by the end of the year.
Sorry, allow me to clarify, the pet overpopulation problem* is simply a said side effect to humanity.
But Linus opposes third party modules, especially proprietary. He use only Intel hardware and has personal hate against NVidia. He want to force everybody to contribute to kernel. "Stable API Nonsense".
I scratch your back, you give me job.
>There is not a common breed that doesn't find it's way through our doors at some point during the year.

This may very well be the case where you live, but it is not the case everywhere. In southern ontario for example, there are not many dogs at any of the shelters, and seeing anything other than lab and shepherd mixes is quite rare. If you are looking for a specific breed up here, you'll probably be looking forever.
Dr. Lustig does indeed claim sugar is toxic in the same since that alcohol is toxic. He goes through the complete cycle of metabolizing 1 molecule of sucrose (1 half glucose linked to 1 half fructose). The fructose metabolism is the problematic part, which was hard to follow for me, and I have an undergrad degree in Biochemistry and graduated with a 4.0. Here is the original talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

JPKab below has a good high level overview.
> Lots of upvotes? Post more like those, since the community wants them.

I wish I could agree but sometimes articles with many upvotes are lousy articles.
Thanks for replying! I did miss the caveats, and I'm sorry I picked yours as an example; I was mainly referring to the general tone of this class of articles, which promote WFH in such broad and general terms that it's not clear what limits they recognize for the practice.
The problem is that Debian can be faster or slower whilst Ubuntu LTS releases are on a schedule. For example I believe the currently stable Debian release includes Python 2.6 because 2.7 just missed it. I prefer Ubuntu's LTS releases to Debian because they are predictable.
I ran chmod like that as root.
Switched from godaddy to namecheap for my 20+ domains a couple years ago. I couldn't be happier.
Alternatively, Microsoft could sign x.509 certs. Why are they placing certificate data into Windows binaries in the first place?

The Linux kernel is simply not the place to parse Windows binaries. It's not Linus's fault the de facto standard is a Windows binary, it's just another harmful side-effect of the Windows monopoly.

Really SecureBoot should just die on the vine. But the monopolist wants to force it on their customers, so here it is.
The site offers to install a plugin as a fallback for browsers that don't appear to offer the required HTML5 APIs (mainly WebGL). This allows the JavaScript/WebGL games to run on a wider range of browsers (particularly IE and when required APIs are locked behind a developer switch.)
We are in five. But one has 50%+, two are investors that don't get in the way, and the other two are tech and art.

I am the tech guy, but I am.also the most experienced in the field, so I have some power too. But overall the structure is: CEO leads, I help. The others keep us two checked.

Never we made we tried to.make a full blown decision by everyone.
Publication Culture in Computing Research [pdf]
Cool, the whole system of projects you guys are working on look exciting. Glad that Ruby is finally getting its act together a little bit.
Yes, and this seems mainly an interesting persuasion technique. By finding a local 'natural experiment', and then expanding it via constant re-emphasis of its lessons, people could see the difference-in-results themselves.

What the Sternins discovered, after all, isn't so surprising: To avoid malnourishment, eat more things more often, even when you're sick. Oh, and wash your hands before eating.

The trick was convincing people, over the influence of whatever forklore/habits had them doing other things, to change.

I could imagine in some cultures, and sufficiently desperate conditions, the technique could generate a backlash, at least for the 'deviants'. For example, what if the anomalously-nourished children's families were transgressing norms in some more serious way, like sneaking food from a common store, or breaching religious dietary taboos?
I wonder how often corporations quietly let judges know that if they rule a certain way, there will be a high-paying position reserved for them 1-2 years down the road...
make that 5
Sugars may not be "toxic" per se but dietary intake of sugar or carbohydrate is certainly not essential for human life. Your liver will create glucose when needed and your brain will happily burn ketone bodies when it isn't available. You can easily survive on a diet of mostly animal fat.
That will involve the judge also getting two other judges to risk career suicide in order to get a consulting job for one of them.
I was skeptical at first, but the rest of the evidence makes it look like it's not a coincidence.
Until next time.
(I'm a Balanced employee)

Hi there,

We use Quora as a way to answer these questions:

- http://www.quora.com/Balanced/How-does-Balanced-compare-agai...

Our customers highlight why they switched from Braintree, Authorize, Stripe etc to Balanced here:

- http://www.quora.com/Balanced/Why-do-you-use-Balanced-for-pa...

One of our many differences is that your charged/acquired funds are available to you SAME DAY (if you've got a Wells Fargo bank account) or NEXT DAY (if you're not a Wells Fargo customer).

Compare to Stripe's 7day rolling reserve or Braintree's 2 day settlement.

Your use case is very common, many companies like SellSimple / Zaarly / etc use us for that reason. Facilitating transactions is our speciality, though not necessarily all that we can do.

Happy to talk more - hop on IRC (irc.freenode.net #balanced).
> It's very frustrating to me.

Why? We're human beings--all we do is categorize...
Fundraising 101 is don't fundraise. Any investor worth his salt says don't raise money unless you have to. You need some damned good reasons to give up your equity/control. I don't get why this is a big deal. This article should have focused more on the changing VC model then illustrate the basics of bootstrapping.
8086, you were lucky!
Confirmed. Coinbase was great about a month ago, but now they appear to be dying under load.

There's nothing like waiting 6 days for your order to complete, only to find it's been canceled.
12 Types of DDoS Attacks Used By Hackers
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a growing concern with far-reaching effects for businesses and organizations of all sizes. DDoS attacks are used by criminal enterprises, politically-motivated cyber terrorists, and hackers hoping to bring websites down for fun or profit.
Neutering in rats slightly increases lifespan of the animal. If this could be proven in dogs/cats, etc. as a more general biological phenomenon I think it'd be a great selling point for the procedure to new pet owners.

Who doesn't want their new pet to live longer?

http://www.ratbehavior.org/Neutering.htm
I am boycotting Name.com so hard right now. Actually they just jumped ABOVE GoDaddy on my boycott list. At least GoDaddy said sorry and pretended.

Still using NameCheap here.
That scenario is pretty much exactly what Balanced is designed to address. The money goes:

Buyer's card -> Your Balanced escrow account -> Merchants bank account
-> Fee to you

We're also faster, e.g. you have access to the money instantly rather than waiting 7 days for it with.
Amnesty International: You keep getting it wrong
Foundation 4 Goes Mobile-First, Switches From jQuery To Zepto
I also give out a separate email address to every service I sign up for. So far geico, mint, and dyndns have lost or sold my email address. I haven't gotten any spam on my dropbox account, but I've only had an account since 2012-10-02.

I don't run any spam filtering, at all, and my email box is the catchall for my domain. These aren't just lucky guesses.
The way the moderators handled this was pretty damn bad. Two different users tell the moderator they use UNIQUE e-mail addresses for dropbox only, and they received spam roughly at the same time and yet the moderator answers by assuming the users are idiots.
All files in Clojure require a namespace form at the top:

(ns foo.bar)

Since you don't have one, clojure.core isn't available and it freaks out. I'll look into setting the default namespace of file so that it's a little nicer for newcomers :)
> Educate then, don't attempt to socially engineer.

Education is social engineering.
I'm surprised to see mint in that list. Have you contacted them in any way about this?
I volunteer as a canine friend at the Berkeley East Bay Humane Society and it kills me to know that for every one of the dogs that they save (no kill policy), many other dogs who are just as sweet are put down.

I've been volunteering there for a year and have never had a problem with a dog. Their population is almost exclusively pitbulls and they've all been great.

I started freelancing a few months ago and my first client was http://www.wagaroo.com The site is built with rails and ember.js. It's very MVP right now and any feedback is appreciated.

They just got started and are only working with shelters and rescues for now. Their ultimate plan is to include responsible breeders and fight the puppy mills but they are taking their time in order gain understanding and to find the best way to make it happen.
If the bread is a typical "pedestrian" loaf, there's probably little difference. There is a bigger difference if it's something like Ezekial sprouted grain bread.
Levi Weintraub has a really great tech talk hosted at airbnb, where he talks abouts all the different aspects of WebKit and it's components: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGzmST5nNSM&playnext=1...

Some more really good tech talks @ https://www.airbnb.com/techtalks
Thanks for the support and suggestions! Since we launched Watsi with 0 funding, it was the ultimate MVP. Because of that, we've had some performance and backend things to fix up before jumping into new features (e.g. until recently our partners were individually emailing us patient profiles).

But we're about to push some new features (Stripe integration, optional "tips" to Watsi, and a General Fund). They're coming soon, we promise! (Teasers below)

Payments & Tips: http://i.imgur.com/ZRzTvhj.jpg
General Fund: http://i.imgur.com/fUCM4za.jpg
Smoking was reduced through education, not taxation.

Do you have any references to back this up? I'd be genuinely very curious to see them!
Same questions myself
Would taxes on sugary things actually decrease consumption? I doubt you would actually be able to tax a 50 cent drink enough to make anyone reconsider purchasing it, particularly considering people will pay up to several dollars for that same beverage in other contexts. Nobody is going to be doing the "can I afford this, with the tax price included" calculus with things that cheap. (The fact that we seem to always display prices pre-tax only aggravates this)
This kind of thing is a good reason why a monoculture would be bad for the Web. It's entirely possible that, if WebKit had a monopoly, Web sites would rely on subdomains' space not being counted toward the parent domain's space, and it'd be impossible to fix this bug without breaking the Web. But because we don't have a monoculture and some browsers implemented subdomain limits, Web sites haven't been able to rely on WebKit's behavior. So WebKit will be able to fix the bug without breaking the Web—which is better for WebKit, and better for the Web.
Yeah some personal experience would benefit the article probably. Although the manipulation techniques described aren't the worst I've come across. One time a "client" said they didn't have money to pay for the done work, the guy claimed he had to sell his car to pay me.

Obviously when I refused to send the work without payment the money arrived the same day (it was a subcontracted thing, so I guess they really needed it as well).
Yes, I agree that ubuntu's time based releases are generally a better experience that debian's "whenever it's ready" stable releases. Debian's testing and unstable branches are rolling releases though, and those were the only alternatives I was actually considering.
Got it ;-)!
> You can in fact prevent your dog from having sex with other dogs.

Yes, mostly because dogs, in general, can be easily fenced in. Cats, however, are much more wily.
No, old-fashioned is not a code word for that specific test. it was the best word I could come with for a more traditional mindset vet.

Some vets agree with you and consider it unethical. Many other vets disagree.

Haven't read these all yet, but should note:

Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—Because earlyage gonadectomy appears to offer more benefits than risks for male dogs, animal shelters can safely gonadectomize male dogs at a young age and veterinary practitioners should consider recommending routine gonadectomy for client-owned male dogs before the traditional age of 6 to 8 months. For female dogs, however, increased urinary incontinence suggests that delaying gonadectomy until at least 3 months of age may be beneficial. ( J Am Vet Med Assoc 2004; 224:380–387) (http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.2004.224....)

As to your dog, assuming it's adult what does early age neutering have to do with the situation?

Sounds like you're getting some heat from others about your decision to not neuter an adult male dog. That's a different debate that has nothing to do with neutering dogs at a younger age.
I LOVE Route53, it is just expensive. At least compared to other similar services (e.g. ZoneEdit). Route53 is basically $1/month/domain - most other services can match or beat that.
How we implemented Provably Fair Gaming in our Bitcoin Hi/Lo Game
I've started using [feedly](http://www.feedly.com/) not too long ago and I like it so far.
Anyone have numbers on the total number of pets in the US? Or on the number of natural deaths each year? It's hard to contextualize these numbers without understanding the overall population.
Really? Because I always thought the ever increasing cost of cigarettes had some small role in it as well.
http://www.treatobacco.net/en/page_120.php
This article can't point to any evidence of impropriety, so it substitutes vague innuendo. Pretty weak.
I feel bad for the people whose houses he painted. This guy probably did a shitty job. They're going to need to repaint sooner than they should. Guess we're supposed to be proud of him for swindling/pressuring people into buying a subpar service. Not to mention the employees who are lured into half-baked businesses and lose months of their lives to an incompetent "entrepreneur".
>This leads to neat little groups

Not so neat. Some people eat dog and some have pet rats.
I'm not a huge fan of the Glass project, but what tweaked me about this article was how the guy constantly said the iphone was 'so innovative' you can't possibly nail down the thought process that lead to it. I can do it right here, in one sentence:

"Let's make a blackberry that's not a pile of shit."
The difference is that table sugar and high fructose corn syrup are about 50% fructose (the rest glucose).

While glucose (which is what bread is mostly metabolized into) can be used by every cell in the body, fructose must be broken down by the liver using a metabolic pathway similar to that used by alcohol.

There is a hypothesis that once a person's metabolism has been damaged by enough fructose, that any carbohydrate is likely to cause obesity. Basically, that insulin resistance seems to affect fat cell last and once it sets it glucose will be preferentially absorbed by fat cells.

So people with a well-functioning insulin response should be able to eat relatively large amounts of (non-fructose-containing) carbohydrates without issue, but those in whom the insulin response is damaged (probably a majority of Americans over age 25) might need to cut back on all carbohydrates to stay lean.

But again, this is very much an untested hypothesis.
EA makes games free, relying on in-game microtransactions instead
Why bother? ZoneEdit works great. I've been using them for, geez, over 15 years I think.
Is aspartame a good alternative?
"These aren't just lucky guesses."

How did you rule that out?
The article is spot on. I create a consultancy during my studies, in ... 2001!!

Best learning experience ever- tough times help make a tough mind, and the best part is after university cost and life cost, it even left a profit. My clients were satisfied, and kept coming back for more - which made me raise prices (market demand you know).

And what can I say about the referrals- that really make one feel proud, because it means you did a good job not only by your own standards, but also by the other person standard, enough than he feels like taking a risk and recommending you to friends & family.

Basically, internship is passive. Entrepreneurship is active.

If you want to be a salaryman, you should really do an internship.

If you don't, you know what you have to do.
Yup, especially Chris' behaviour is a no go. I don't know how the mods are affiliated with dropbox but if they are employees I wouldn't let them have any customer contact at all.
Yeah, this is a cool idea - will add it to our TODO
Spoken like someone who truly has zero experience with the USPTO.
Every time I see an article related to Medicine on HN it seems a high amount of people comment without reading or at least comprehending the article. It's pretty and remind me of the negative parts of Reddit.