skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. at least in Europe and Russia the worst case for a tick bite is death (from TBE). I am not sure what the worst case is in North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_disease

EDIT: Seems like some North American ticks can kill you with their neurotoxins.
There are many Googlers here, you know :) You either talk about G positively or not at all.

The glass is the most Orwellian thing I've ever heard of. The only thing that could beat it would be direct brain interfaces, capable of stealing thoughts.
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This message is very confusing for me.

I'm happy that you're finding personal benefit from Gittip. If it allows or helps you to keep providing great work to the community, that's excellent for everyone.

However, the numbers you quote are not good.
$13 is an amount that a Bangladeshi garment worker earns in a week or so.
It's nobody's aspirational goal to earn that in a year.

It may be the case (in the wider population) that such disproportionately small rewards actually discourage contributions compared to volunteerism, as it provides a (very bad) point of reference to compare the value of open source work to paid commercial work.
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> 100% DEET (you can get it in Alaska) does the trick for about 30 minutes before you have to re-apply

July evening mosquitoes in Western Siberia tundra plains land onto and bite even freshly DEET-ed skin :)

> black fly season

1cm long - nah, 2 cm long - painful, yet usually can't get through clothes, 3 cm long - get you even through clothes like jeans, really painful and blood doesn't clot oozing through a 3mm razor cut.
FTA: "Take the example of a tester, or a 3rd line support analyst – in the main their ranks are filled with the below-par programmer. They help the process by reduce the programmers’ work load and don’t cost as much to the CFO’s bottom line."

Don't cost as much as what? As much as a smaller team of expert programmers doing it right?
The high degree of cooperation many countries appear to be giving the United States so far...

This is actually a serious mistake from a USA national security perspective, in that it ensures that whatever info Snowden has and fails to secure will be given directly to rival nations. If those in charge were worried primarily about national security, they would have let him run to a normal country like Finland or Chile or New Zealand, where Snowden could have been observed reliably. If he ever progressed from criticism of domestic surveillance to active assistance of rogue states, the host nation could have brought its own charges.

That those in charge didn't allow this tells us one of two things: A) they're really not very good at their jobs or B) their primary concern is not Snowden revealing secrets which will harm the USA, but rather secrets that will harm their own careers. It were ever thus.
That's good, thanks, but it doesn't really address the original question regarding games for example. Also what if dementia already has some effects early in life, just more subtle. So for example early stages could be more difficulty concentrating, variations in attention, or greater difficulty in internalizing ideas, memorization, or recall. Then those who would later show typical symptoms of dementia later in life would be more likely to end education early just because they had more difficulty with it than their peers.
For porn he could stream it incognito. For protecting banking credentials, he could use a separate password manager that auto shuts down after a minute or so.

Solving the special case is sometimes easier.
More likely to be the availability of porn than anything.
Ah, I thought it was like a population trying to produce a one-in-a-billion sperm. The Usain Bolt of sperm, able to sprint through that hostile environment and reach the finish line in record time.

But I don't understand how having more is like having a bigger engine. Are they working collectively?
If you're already "wired up to the computer", would another USB connection make any difference?

An Arduino can act as a keyboard ( http://hackaday.com/2012/06/29/turning-an-arduino-into-a-usb... )

You could then hook that into some controls you've already got on the chair - the obvious choice being to have "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start" trigger the Arduino to type out your password.

(Where are you from? I know if someone asked for help with this on my local (Sydney, Australia) hackerspace mailing list, there's probaby be three or four people building prototypes by the weekend…)
"fun and diverse"? Doesn't that just mean "we have a foosball table and some in staff voted democrat and others republican"?

They should say, "work with a team of both genders and different nationalities, a truly diverse team" and not place one gender on a string to dangle from a stick in front of the other gender, all while assuming heterosexuality.
They're great fun. I live in Austin, TX and we have several in the house. They obliterate mosquitoes with a satisfying "POP" noise. The mosquitoes literally explode into tiny pieces when you hit them with the bat. It's awesome (especially when you are like me--I can get 20+ bites on a single night while wearing insect repellent, where everyone else around me is fine, and I use the bats as revenge. :)
Aren't the mobile photo sharing and messaging markets both large and established? Past technologies that have made those tasks slightly faster or easier have seen widespread adoption, and it seems possible the same thing could happen with Glass.
You are not considering that most Go UI frameworks are twenty years of C/C++ and a couple months of Go. Naturally anything trying to do significant reinvention is not going to be as far along.
Just an idea, but if you get a bunch of tips coming in, that'd be awesome if you tip them to projects that you use. You probably have a pretty good idea of what the cool things on the horizon might be.
I am hosting an installation of this at http://txt.jazzychad.net/ if you want to see a reference implementation.

Also this system could be setup to be multi-tenant with multiple authors if anyone wanted to host such a site.
There is probably a large set of developers coming to go for whom that is a lot more natural from familiarity.
gimp toolkit. gtk is older than gnome and was made by the gimp devs.
Since frequency of emission leads to sperm count changes, it would be interesting to see a plot of sperm count against easy availability and societal acceptance of porn.
Man sues Apple for allowing him to become addicted to porn
>I'd also be interested to see if modern cannabis actually is stronger than cannabis used in the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc.

http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/sourcefiles/UMPMC-quarter...

Check out Table 2. (Seized) marijuana from the late 2000s has 10x as much THC as that from the mid-1970s.
Surprisingly, according to the Wikipedia article on RTGs (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, the power source for the Voyager probes), by 2001, the probes' RTGs were down to 67% of capacity, instead of the 83-and-change percent expected. [1]

So, while still impressive, they're unfortunately not working as well as they could be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_Thermoelectric_Ge...
What the fuck is the holdup?
Huh? There's no law or budget that requires PRISM. Any of these programs could be shut down with one phone call from the Oval Office, and Congress couldn't say boo. That's sort of the reason they're Constitutional in the first place: The executive has broad national security powers.
I don't know if its unfortunate or a change in the kind of startups being created. I worked at a startup that patented its technology. We were (and the company still is) competing in the wireless sector, specifically military radio technology. Our competitors were Raytheon, Rockwell, etc, companies we could never compete against as a product company, because of their manufacturing prowess, deep industry network, etc. So we developed technology and patented it for licensing. A lot of the market dynamics that makes patents of questionable value for software startups were not present. Our technology cost millions of dollars and took years to develop. We had a fairly large (couple of dozen engineers) interdisciplinary team. Capital costs were high (hardware spins are not cheap, equipment is not cheap, testing was not cheap). There was no opportunity to "pivot." It was impractical to protect our IP with copyrights (we delivered firmware source).

I think at the end of the day, there has to be some protection against unfair competition, even if its not the existing patent regime. On the recent story about SpaceX, someone mentioned that SpaceX keeps trade secrets instead of patents because the Chinese would copy the technology via the patents. That's a form of IP and the concern of copying is the same concern patents address. Even if Elon Musk dislikes patents, he also dislikes Chinese companies ripping them off.

As VC moves into more areas, like life sciences, medical technology, energy, etc, you will see more patents. It's unfortunate if it leads to meritless patent litigation, but the VC's aren't interested in people ripping off their portfolio companies either, so I doubt you'll get strong push back from them on the subject of reducing the amount of patenting within the industry.

That said, the amount of litigation has clearly gotten out of hand. Patent litigation shouldn't be more common than say shareholder litigation or antitrust litigation, etc.
This company will be bought by New Relic in 3... 2... 1...
If you combine the point on what constitutes a normal count and the point on the hostile environment, you get the answer.

Also - related point - for IVF, they have very strict quality standards. Using the measurement standards for IVF would consider 15% "normal forms" as an acceptable level.
CPA is closely tied to competition.
The question I've always asked myself is: why is it that of all living things, we humans are the only ones that don't get dissolved back into the ecosystem once we die?

At least not in a natural way, some people get cremated others get put into a box. Why not get buried naked and plant a tree that will feed off of a soil enriched by the decomposition of your body? A tree representing the continuity of life where your loved ones can gather and remember you rather than a stone with engraving on it.
Why would he know their name? Why wouldn't they have a similar group of people-switches arranged in a hierarchy?
6 Points of Contact - Philosophy of startup marketing
I see the value, even though I'm ambivalent about the concept. I'd love to get my hands on something like it, but given the NSA revelations, not from Google (and not from Microsoft, either).

The irony is that I'd probably trust something from Taiwan or Korea. Ironic in that when I did work for the government,anything manufactured in these countries automatically ruled it out.
Has it reached the machine planet yet? See: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/V'Ger
In short, we weren't aware of the project.

I just gave it a try now, but the code will not compile on my dev box (OpenBSD, go tip). Even after making some minor fixes (I fixed an #include directive, removed a call to a deprecated function, etc.) there appear to be some serious issues (one error I got mentioned the size of an array being negative).

It appears this code has not been updated in a year, and we wished to target a recent GTK version (3.8, to be precise) with our bindings. Had we known about the project, we probably would have considered submitted patches to fix its issue and bring it up to date with newer dependencies, but even then, I feel that it would be almost as much or perhaps even more to fix and verify an unfamiliar and broken code base than rolling our own.

But I'm glad to see this project seems to be doing memory management in a Go-like manner.
Coding checks such as those are pretty tedious. It's not hard, and that's why it's not interesting.
Assuming that you have a well working team, then everybody will notice who 'takes one for the team' from time to time.
I had a go-round on this with Gabe Stein of FastCo.Labs. Since Gittip is anonymous in the particulars I thought maybe that would get around the journalistic conflict of interest, but Gabe articulated how that probably wasn't sufficient because there's always the threat of finding out (as with jashkenas and Khan in this case).

Queued up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OerW0Q_2_7o#t=32m03s

Not sure yet what, if anything, is to be done about this. Gabe is experimenting with Gittip as well:

https://www.gittip.com/gabestein/
I am surprised that Microsoft took as much flak for it as it did when pretty much every other online property including Google and Facebook has complied with these demand (as they are legally supposed to do).
Besides it is also interesting to note that providers such as Google and Facebook probably have a lot more interesting data that the government is likely interested in. It is more likely that data from the likes of Google and Facebook that can be used to track an individual or can be detrimental to them as compared to the data that Microsoft has.
Yes, they suddenly care about "constitutional principles" one month after the revelations.
Is marijuana the answer to overpopulation???
We are a philly startup hearo.fm and there is quite an ecosystem. Philly Startup Leaders hosts a ton of events and Penn/Wharton has a ton of founders who organize all kinds of things. Mentortech Partners and First Round are the prominent VCs. There are also a few co-working spaces. Are you a developer?
Nor will I, or much of anyone else, I imagine.

Yet people gladly upvote stories about computers implemented insite Minecraft and life-size spaceships made out of Lego blocks. Are you saying it has nothing to do with the difficulty involved? I doubt this story would be equally well received if there was some easy way to achieve the same result. If you take difficulty of the task out of the equation, what will be left? How much of what's left is genuine creativity and skill, and how much is mere patience?
He's still loyal to the USA. Even though its leaders have betrayed him along with our ideals.
Japan prepares to restart nuclear plants
Andy Weissman from USV suggested that on a skype call we had. Unfortunately that was before I started doing open calls so I can't link to it. :-/

Ticketed: https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1153
And downright scary when scientists do.
I would love to help build something if you can't find a solution. Maybe you could lock or unlock your laptop via facial recognition [1], or you could add an accelerometer that automatically locks the laptop if someone picks it up. Or just physically lock the laptop to your chair.

Or you could plug an Arduino into the USB port and use it as a keyboard device to send a stream of keypresses when you touch a button (just like a yubikey, except you could put the button anywhere.) The first button press could type in a password to unlock the computer, and the second button press could press a keyboard shortcut to lock it again. Or you could program it to recognize a simple morse code sequence. Let me know if you're interested in that idea, and I would be happy to program one and mail it to you.

[1]: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36762/keylemon
One of my favorite podcasts, This American Life, has two excellent episodes concerning patents:

Part 1: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w...

Part 2: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/w...

I agree that hardware patents seem reasonable, as long as they are technical patents and not design patents, but shortening their length to 5 years sounds like a good idea.

As a programmer, I cannot think of one software patent that I've seen granted which did not appear obvious. I'm sure they are out there, and there are many innovations taking place in computer science, but the kind of programming involved in developing most software-based startups does not warrant protection.

Facebook didn't catch on due to amazing technology, it was amazing implementation. Likewise with Airbnb.
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Is nobody going to mention that atrocity of a pie chart rendered at an angle?
I'm looking to get some input on this. I'd really like to hear what everyone has to think.
Might want to check out this map of statups in Philly:

http://phillystartupleaders.org/map/

I'm from the city, I live in SoCal now taking advantage of that startup scene, but I think if I moved back home I could find something tech oriented to do. Whether that company will be the next Amazon is a different story...
We have been using ReadTheDocs quite successfully. You get a link for each document that lets you immediately edit the page you are looking at through the GitHub interface and RTD does the rest. I believe you can nicely do a basic blog through RST.
I suspect that most of the reason it seems that everybody is smoking is that the stigma (and concrete consequences) of being known to smoke are dropping so more people are willing to admit to it.

It's legal for me to smoke, but I don't. Ten years ago it wasn't, but I could have if I were inclined. I don't think that legalization efforts or the like are really increasing the number of people who smoke, either you want to and did regardless, or you don't anyway.

Maybe there was a temporary drop in the number of smokers before the kids that grew up on D.A.R.E. learned how to use the internet (and subsequently learned that no, pot won't kill you with just one hit...), but otherwise I would hesitate a guess that we are still around 1960's level consumption.
Is a smaller version of NY, easier for mining data. Is a multi-cultural haven in which they all mingle within a 2 miles radius. Head over to North 3rd(N3rd) St, is the equivalent of Silicon Valley. That's your best bet to Net-Work if you seeking Innovation. HUSTLE!!!

I hope that was helpful..

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Nature is great. Which is why cloning and gene selection is bad (we don't understand nature yet).
I had an excellent exchange with Chad recently on twitter (and then Github Issues) where we went through a transient GitHub OAuth issue that Github ended up acknowledging via email as being an error on their side. I feel much more confident in him and the gittip service where initially I felt some hesitation and doubt about the trustworthiness of the service.
Hah. I'm afraid that -- between being currently funemployed, having just had all of my worldly possessions (at least for this year) stolen out of the back of my car last week, and discovering that travel insurance doesn't really cover it very well ... I can certainly think of a few good uses for it ;)

I'm afraid that I'm still "actively" working on everything (except for Ruby-Processing, which has been passed along), but it's all on a light simmer on the slow burner. More excitingly, there's a new OSS project, still in the early planning stages, which I'm pretty jazzed about.

Seriously though, thanks for the nudge. Much of the time, open source can feel like a slog through a bottomless pit for inane GitHub issues, with the occasional diamond in the rough. Your article is making open source feel more like a friendly love-in tonight.
Patents (and, before that, provisional patents, i.e. "patent pending") are also a ways to capitalize IP, that for a startup represents most of its initial value. The only other way I'm aware of is having research publications, that IMHO is way harder (at least compared to provisional patents).
With the recent relations of the spying that happens on civilians by the NSA, and other government security agencies, are we ready for something like Google glass?
I agree, but with a reservation that personalities are different. Someone less sociable (like me) may even confuse extensively sugar-coated criticism for an approval. Those more sophisticated and well-versed in politics would see right through it—and direct criticism may sound insulting to them. (I believe the latter kind isn't very common among programmer folk, but still.)

IMO it's important that a person can position themselves in a company so that they mostly communicate with colleagues who share communication style.

Anyway, Linus is known for his personality even outside Linux kernel development team, so I wonder whether this issue is blown out of proportion.
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Why? Did you lose them? o.O
Gittip is designed to grow slowly and shrink slowly. It's designed to be relatively stable over the long term so that you can depend on it to pay your bills. There are three ways for "unknown" developers to receive significant money on Gittip:

1) When a famous developer accepts tips despite the fact that they don't need them, and then regifts them to "unknown" developers that are known to them, perhaps as the people behind the scenes on the projects they're famous for.

2) When you set up an (opaque) project account such as ReadTheDocs has done: https://www.gittip.com/readthedocs/. ReadTheDocs can split that under the hood however they want.

3) When you set up a (transparent) team account and everyone on the team gets to take some of the money given to the team. This is a relatively new feature, see: https://medium.com/building-gittip/eba0a27825b8.

Again, though, funding will always grow slowly. Gittip is for the long term.
First we already own the means of production, at least my boxes usually have a gcc installed. And second, if we can 0wn the product of our labor, we should patch the product of our labor.
Ingress wasn't through EXIF headers, obfuscation is the goal. If this post effects your environment, you've already been compromised, and the hackers are merely attempting to avoid detection by hiding in the EXIF headers.

This file wasn't uploaded through any legitimate means, it was replaced with malicious intent.
Kevin Systrom is Twitter (twttr) early-adopter?
This debate about knowing when Glass is recording puzzles me a bit. We have an established way to indicate that a device is recording across both camcorders and webcams on laptops - a small light indicating when the camera is on.

On most camcorders it's a small red light. On Macs it's green.

Glass has an indicator towards the back that is poorly visible. Just move it to the front and maybe make it a little brighter.

Last I checked, no one is running away from a person walking around with a camcorder that's not on. When it is on, it's easy to see and step out of the view.
What makes you think you have a right to tell someone else what they can record in a public place? You cannot have an expectation of privacy in public.
Right, I'm asking about us, as a prospective customer, having an outage on our site.

I only skimmed (and bookmarked / todo'ed) the "emergency mode" article. I haven't dug into it yet. Maybe it's not much work, but in the spirit of offloading the status page work to a SaaS provider such as StatusPage.io, I wondered if StatusPage.io couldn't also allow me to cross "set up an emergency mode site" off my list by solving the whole site-down communication problem at once.
I really don't mind these data collections if it indeed can thwart terror attacks & can provides an adavtange over China/Russia/Iran, BUT I wish I had access to the data- like being able to see your own FBI file

Imagine, the NSA for "free" (kinda) has created "Dropbox++"- all your online content indexed & backed up
I also don't want to be recorded by convenience store or shopping mall cctv, or by repo man ANPR, or by red light / speeding cameras.

We've lost that argument though.

What I would like to see, is for there to be appropriate responsibility assumed by the people taking advantage of the privilege of recording everything. I eagerly await the first few court cases where someone drunkenly records and uploads to youtube something that they _really_ shouldn't have, and a judge and jury decides it's entirely appropriate to hold Glass-wearers to account for what they choose to record and publish.