skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it goes against most people, but I bought a dog from a breeder. Basically just to see its parents and how it acted around its litter.

My wife and I adopted a Lab two years earlier from a humane society. When she went through puberty, she started acting "off". As in she'd be playing, stop, have no depth in her eyes, and bite you if you got near her. 40 seconds later she was fine and she didn't even know what happened. She even bit the last trainer when she had one of her "seizures." The rest of the time she did every trick and voice command perfectly. After we that, we decided we had to put her down. We spent probably $2000 on training in the year-ish we had her not including the hours calling universities and whatnot for advice.

After many hours of researching, we found out her dad "might have been" a German Shepherd used in dog fighting that had other issues. That dog was shot like a coyote because it kept on tormenting cattle. Would have been nice to know that ahead of time.

We didn't want to go through that again. So we paid the $800, drove 6 hours, saw our new dog get corrected by its father, and be genuinely rambunctious. Now when we go on vacation people argue for the rights to take care of him instead of saying no way.

It's amazing what knowing the family history can do to your stress levels.
Is that dropbox@domain.com email listed on any of your phone contacts? Ever had a virus on a machine that has sent or received an email from that account? How many people know that account exists? Only one of them needs to have a careless attitude about permissions.
They have a mobile app version. I've been using it for years. You get yellow arrows instead of buses, and it's route specific. Sometimes busses disappear.
https://www.avma.org/News/JAVMANews/Pages/100301g.aspx

"New research on the biology of aging in dogs suggests a link between shortened life expectancy and ovary removal."

"The study, published in the December 2009 issue of the journal Aging Cell, found that Rottweilers that were spayed after they were 6 years old were 4.6 times as likely to reach 13 years of age as were Rottweilers that were spayed at a younger age."
Reading that thread was painful. I always use custom one-off email addresses for services I sign-up for and. When I've attempted to report disclosure of my email address I'm almost always met with major skepticism. It's maddening.

I used to enjoy the reactions I'd get from store clerks and telephone reps when I give them my email address. "Oh, how you have an email address with our company name in it?" In recent years the reactions have turned kinda hostile, "What is your connection with our company?" and once "You can't have our company name in your email address." I gave up fighting and now I just use random strings.
"But what if you end up working on a product for a company that never makes them any money at all?"

This isn't something that happens to you, this is something you choose. It's your responsibility as a consultant to pick your clients carefully.

If you're talking about a project that everyone expects to have an enormous upside, but doesn't, and it's not your fault, you base your rates from the outset on the client's expectation of value returned, not what the actual result is.
IOS Programming Recipe 15: Building a Weather Application
A Good tutorial on creating a weather app with the use of API and AFNetworking.
Testing is, in the large, not respected.

When you have a really good, competent, creative tester, the contribution can be invaluable.

But... many organizations tend to rank testers somewhere around the janitorial staff.

(By the way, get incompetent janitorial service, and watch what happens to your work environment... And, personally, I've found many of them to be plenty competent, caring, and helpful -- better people than many of the suits.)

Then, there is the other side of testing... It does exist. People who couldn't hack (aka "handle") any more, and who really are more or less button pushers. They are the ones who provide "QA signoff" as opposed to real troubleshooting.

It can be difficult to argue your value, when much of your field is a morass on two axes: Lack of respect, and lack of competence.
>> I can guarantee that you can find what you're looking for at a local shelter.

I'm not sure. Our local shelters are dominated by 2 breeds: pit bulls and chihuahuas. I would say it's over 75% of the dogs here. In fact, I heard our shelter was bringing in dogs/breeds from other cities because no one wants the dogs brought in locally.

Also, I have reservations (maybe unwarranted) about bringing a shelter dog into a home with small kids (I have 3 and one has already been bitten by a dog). I'd much rather start with a puppy (which, again, I don't see a lot of in our shelters other than the breeds mentioned above).
Aha, that explains it! I've been contacting school about my e-mail address being spammed; I was certain I never publicly posted it. I used my school's e-mail address for the Dropbox Space Race a while ago.
why? welcome to the cloud world!
> The question for distros is just when? A rolling distro sees such changes continuously, and each package may in principle change at any point independently of any other package.

The way it's set up now is there is a -proposed pocket where major transitions are being held, so the old notion of having a library upgrade breaking $foo applications doesn't really happen anymore. From my view, I've been running 13.04 everyday and about half way through the development cycle it was better than 12.10. EDIT: There is also a ton of active QA happening in Ubuntu now, we have nice things we never had before like daily builds firing off and having tests run, prerelease pocket test, and (soonish) phased updates.

As far as what you're going to do when your user apps upgrade, you've been doing it on Firefox/Chrome/your phone for ages now, it's about time our desktops caught up!
The Fear-Factor: hacking your motivation
This makes me think about why I've been receiving spam at my professional email, which I tend to use quite sparingly.
As a customer, I can look up the price of a C-class, but how can I judge the value? I do it mostly by comparing with other cars available, and what they can do, but what was the price of the other cars based on? And what is the value anyway? How fast it goes, how it makes me look to others, how big the luggage compartment is? There is no one true objective value.

I'd argue the reason your customers are happier with a fixed price is not to do with value (after all, what is value - can a customer tell you?), but to do with predictable expenditure and risk. It's a good policy and popular with clients (and also helps to make scope very clear and costed), but it's popular with customers because it gives you a very good incentive to finish on time and on budget, as compared to hourly billing. I'm not sure that's really comparable to shopping for a car.
Cristina from Stripe here. Stripe Connect is the product most of our platforms and marketplaces use: https://stripe.com/connect

Amber on our team clarified some of the differences between Stripe and Balanced here: http://www.quora.com/Balanced/How-does-Balanced-compare-agai...

-- Flow of Funds --

With Balanced, since all of the payments are aggregated in one account, it’s up to the marketplace to keep track of how much each seller is owed and explicitly pay them out. This means full control on exactly when and what gets paid: things like escrow and custom payout schedules are possible.

With Stripe Connect, since all of the sellers have different Stripe accounts and the charges are made with their distinct API keys, the money will automatically go into their Stripe account and be paid out a 7-day rolling basis. The application can take a cut of each transaction and/or issue refunds, but you never have to touch (or worry about) distributing any of the funds. Because of this, however, payout schedules are less flexible.

-- Liability/Disputes --

Balanced provides the ability to pass disputes onto the seller, but the marketplace ultimately has full liability for chargebacks, fraud, and so on.

With Stripe Connect, each seller is responsible for charges run through their own Stripe account. This removes any liability from the marketplace, and is really useful if you want to purely be a platform of facilitating payments and don’t actually want to be involved in the risk and complexity of handling any of the money.

-- Signing up a seller --

With Balanced, each seller can be signed up directly through the API (which includes an underwriting API). However, any charges made are still the responsibility of the marketplace.

With Stripe Connect, the seller can use an existing Stripe account or create a new one during the OAuth flow (which requires a redirect to Stripe’s site). Stripe takes full responsibility for evaluating each seller.

For the application you mentioned, Stripe Connect can certainly facilitate a transaction like that. With Balanced, if something goes wrong with the transaction, the marketplace is liable for disputes. With Stripe, because the transaction is happening directly between the buyer and seller, the marketplace avoids all liability.
I remember running into Hinton one afternoon back in 2005 while on St. George. He was walking home, and especially cheerful from having just figured out how to do learning efficiently on deep belief nets. It's amazing to see the influence this work has had.
http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=10627
29Ah is often used in various ways as a tribute of sorts to that group. Anyone likely to write something like this is also likely to have "grown up" being influenced by 29a.

Or maybe the writer just needed to align? I use 666 for dummy vals too.
Would you mind expanding on your experience? I would really appreciate it.
A quick inspection of the source code indicates that the data is being fetched from NextBus. (Examine http://supermuni.com/js/services.js )
I am happy to see that Time Warner Cable knows what people want.
Other people that knew what people wanted:

- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office (1876): “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”

- H.M. Warner, Warner Bros. (1927): “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk”

- Ken Olson, President & Founder of Digital Equipment Corp (1977): “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home”

- Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft (2012): “Surface is the tablet people want”

Source: http://www.rinkworks.com/said/predictions.shtml
I wondered the same thing. For the most important variable in their study they sure don't explain it very well.

I looked all over FAOSTAT but couldn't find an explanation.
http://faostat3.fao.org/home/index.html#METADATA
Worse, rats are at least as capable of training and intelligent behavior as dogs, making the differential treatment even harder to understand.

One significant difference though, is the rate at which rats breed and how much more of a negative load they can place on the environment (and humans) when released into the wild.
Did you wait for a study before you switched to git? Or did you simply start using it cause it made sense?

Let's be realistic here ...
This is so awesome. I'd love to share your story with the rest of the Watsi community. Mind shooting an email to grace@watsi.org so we can connect?
Nathan C was doing okay. It's hard when there's a bunch of mods leaping in with irrelevant stuff.
The way some people do "fredsmith+amazon@gmail.com" as proof that it must be amazon that leaks their passwords has some issues.

The guy who says that he had a truly random bunch of letters as his dropbox account is probably a better indicator, but it's hard to know if the guy ever leaked it himself.

Doesn't excuse the moderators being jerks, though.
Those mods don't work for Dropbox, they are community volunteers who've just been given mod permissions.
The mere fact that something like this can be patented is the clearer indication of how broken the whole system is.

Basically what is patented here is the displaying of some information on a screen. How on earth can something like that be considered a patent?
Yeah, Chris seems a bit of prick:

"Just the fact that you listed your emails says it all."
You fail reading forever.

It's not sugarS. He didn't talk about sugar>S<. Nobody is claiming that the entire family of sugar>>>>>>>S<<<<<< is toxic. The title is "SUGAR is toxic" (see, no sugar>>S<<. It's not sugarS. He isn't talking about a class of molecules.)

SUGAR - a.k.a. sucrose, saccharose, one part glucose and one part fructose, either bound in a single molecule or alone in what's called HFCS. Extracted. Alone by itself or mixed in a liquid. IS TOXIC.

THAT sugar.

NOT sugarS.
Welcome to the post-VC era.
Show HN: reddit for things to do
Almost everyone I know(in my age group and younger) eat much more healthily than their parents do/did simply because they are better informed.

So basically, everyone you know is rich and either white or first-generation indian/chinese?

The government subsidizes the production of corn syrup, to a huge extent, and that's why it's used in damn near everything, with serious costs to public health (reflected in your insurance premiums and tax bills).
Show HN: ikitrack, a simple ad management
I think it really depends on what your aspirations are. If I want to become the best engineer, then industry experience is crucial; if I want to eventually become a successful entrepreneur in the B2C space, then I think the OP has an extremely valid point.
This article starts off promising, with valid complaints about the "antidote to distraction" idea and the perils of being recorded, but then derails into paranoia. "Anything you say" might well end up on YouTube, but it's not going to be "tagged to your online identity, and stored in Google's search index", in order to "instantly bring up documentation of every word you’ve ever spoken within earshot of a Google Glass device." Such a feature would provide no benefit for the person taking the video in the first place, and would, of course, cause an uproar if ever introduced, so it's ridiculous to believe Google would introduce it just because they're working on a HUD. At worst Google might (might! it would still creep a lot of people out) introduce a search-by-face option for YouTube, but it would still presumably be limited to videos people explicitly decided to upload... maybe the ability to search by text at the same time? I'm not seeing it.
For those who want to read more, Sternin wrote a book about it http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7978844-the-power-of-posi...
Hey guys, I would like to present you ikitrack, a little project we've been working on for the last couple of weeks. It's an ad management system for small to medium web site owners. We consider this a MVP, we have quite a few ideas about what to add and improve but would like to get some feedback first.

https://ikitrack.com
Features and functionality wise they're pretty much at the same level. Foundation uses Sass instead of Less so that is a pro to some people.

Personally, my main reason for using Foundation over Bootstrap is that it's not Bootstrap, meaning for side projects and demo sites I can leave the default styles without people complaining about "another Bootstrap site".
> Just the fact that you listed your emails says it all.

Wow, that moderator is really professional.
I normally hold the philosophy that a person should not recieve health care unless there is money to pay for them, and I woudn't ever advocate that someone donate to a charity like that. Life is hard and not everybody can make it.

But the smile on her face, especially in that last photo, is really something. And especially at $1125, the chance that she'll contribute more than that back to the global GPD some day is good.

And it might even be enough for me that she might live a normal life.
For Startups: How to prevent employee burnout
How Pinterest Has Changed the Way Brands Create Content
There is no mention of it in this thread so far, so here: http://reddit.com/r/keto Check the sidebar out.

See the transformations which happen to people when they (mostly) give up consuming sugars: http://www.reddit.com/r/keto/search?q=progress&sort=top&...
Byrdr
I use a catchall and give different email addresses to everyone. I've received 3 spam emails in the past month to my dropbox account, but they aren't the only ones with problems, for example the following are the number of spams for various sites:
* 2 emails Foursquare
* 6 emails Groupon
* 6 emails Rackspace
* 25+ emails Ticketmaster
* 50+ Absolute Radio (UK Radio station)

Absolute Radio was hacked, not sure about the others.
Make your phone as a game controller on web
Seattle HN meetup March 5th in FB seattle office
This seems to be the trendy advice to give to young people now, "go start a business straight out of college!".

But speaking as somebody who relatively recently set one up, this seems to ignore how expensive it can be to get even a simple business off the ground without someone willing to help bankroll you to begin with.

No, you don't need millions of dollars but you probably need at least a couple of thousand $ spare to cover your living expenses for a few months + whatever up front costs you need to fork out on.

You get problems like clients who pay very late, or for whatever reason try and not pay you at all. And since you're the new guy with no track record people don't want to give you much up front and know you're going to struggle to lawyer up so put you at the bottom of the payment list.

Not the sort of money who somebody who is likely without savings (and who probably also has debt) is likely to be able to spare.

Also the advantage of having a job before you go out on your own is that you already have some track record with a company people have (hopefully) heard of as well as more connections and hopefully knowledge that you have acquired on someone elses dime.
I recently had to sit through a customer rep read a 32 character long alphanumspecial email address out to me for "security reasons". Bet she was glad I didn't use usicode.
why wouldn't you want your employees having contact with your customers?
I don't think it's wrong at all even from a common sense perspective when you look at the facts.

If you are a company and you are in a lawsuit you are allowed to call an expert in to defend your position. Companies always choose an expert who is likely to agree with them (as do their opponents!).

This guy is an expert in both law and the particular kind of cases. He has also already shown to Samsung that he has a view on the matters that are in line with Samsungs interests. As a judge he comes across as a trustworthy expert.

Why not hire him? And for the judge, why not be hired? The case is done, he's not likely to rule between Apple and Samsung again for obvious reasons.
Why do people continue to upload and trust their data to this company? I closed my Dropbox account back in 2011 when they had that 'bug' that made passwords for any account optional for four hours.

Since then they have had more security problems/breaches, and admitted to user info being stolen.

Today's news isn't anything concrete... but their moderators were jerks, which makes the company look bad whether they are employees or not.
Acme Inc's employees being suspicious of people with "acme" in their email address is probably, on the whole, a good thing. It smells like a phishing scam to people who don't know about throwaways.
Moving from Google Code to GitHub: a horrible, ultimately rewarding odyssey
Baidu Claims First 'Large-Scale' ARM Server Deployment
Personally, depending upon breed I wouldn't neuter until your dog is mature, irrespective of health issues, there are numerous behavioural issues that neutering can bring about.
There is a second fear period that all dogs go through, and removing testosterone CAN in some dogs cause them to develop nervousness &/or fearful aggression, not to mention other behaviours.
It is best to wait until a dog of either sex is mature for their breed, for most dogs that won't be until 2 years of age at the earliest.
If you'd truly get a faster response being a Pro member, then it might be worth a shot to purchase Pro again - then when they respond, have them refund you and reset your account back to it's previous time left for your membership.
Talk to a lawyer.

Other than that, my white paper is probably your best bet for general information. http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/whitepapers/heldhosta...
In general Foundation is considered smaller and lighter than Bootstrap, many devs also prefer its use of SASS instead of LESS (which is the Bootstrap default css pre-processor).

There is also a smaller community around Foundation, which is good and bad: there isn't the massive third party ecosystem that Bootstrap has [1] but on the flip side many feel that Foundation sites don't look so 'Bootstrappy'.

I'm really invested in Bootstrap, but I'm stoked that more and more people are using front-end frameworks as they pretty much across the board improve developer productivity and make sites better/more usable.

1 - http://www.bootstraphero.com/the-big-badass-list-of-twitter-...
Yes, it does. You can choose to "Show Read Articles".

Also, it was redesigned last September. It's definitely worth a try.
Moderate alcohol consumption actually increases longevity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol. So regular periodic consumption of a reasonable amount of alcohol is actually helping you.
Maybe you should play around with Bootstrap a bit more just so you can learn not to care when people snark about "another Bootstrap site", because nobody who's really ready to spend money to have a computer solve one of their problems cares (or likely even groks) what web framework you used.
I'm a strong advocate of the Tor project, but man would I ever be afraid to be an exit node
Controversial topic... but I agree, it speeds things up a lot when under pressure of failing!
Yep. I've seen this too, usually as the "Blocked" state at the end of the process. Items that go in the blocked state need a blocked reason.
maybe its time to reconsider some of your philosophy. :)

ayn rand teaches incredible things, but there are big gaps
That's why client-side encryption is useful - even with the company (Dropbox) not leaking/selling their users' data on purpose, it is easy to inadvertently leak it.

Proper client-side encryption, while often not appropriate in critical environments, is useful to protect against this type of situations.

Disclosure: I run AES.io
I'm perfectly happy with PHP. I'd rather concentrate on what I'm actually shipping instead of worrying about how efficient my language is.
I don't think PHP will die off for a long, long time. The low barrier to entry and ease of deployment means that beginners will be able to hack together solutions to their problems and even experienced programmers are able to use it for short and simple tasks.

The article makes a rather poor case for PHP being dead. It focuses on some syntax issues and doesn't touch on the strong business case for using PHP for many types of smaller projects.

If you're a small business that needs a couple of forms setup, say an order form and a contact form, PHP is a very reasonable choice. A small business that sells something online isn't making money by producing the most elegant possible code - they make money by setting something up to solve their problem, using cheap shared hosting they don't have to worry about setting up or maintaining, and focusing on selling their product. PHP is a great choice for that - and really that's what most small businesses actually need.

My suggestion would be to use the right tool for the job. For a simple small business website with a couple of forms, PHP might be the best choice. For a complex web application, Rails is a much better choice.
I made juice this morning: 2 oranges, 2 kiwi, and 1 grapefruit. Made two cups of juice for my wife and me. I don't know about the science of sugar, but eating 1 orange, 1 kiwi, and half a grapefruit doesn't seem excessive to me.
Pretty hard not to find that touching.