skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2) Mac OS Lion also added a feature named "Spaces" (I think this is called virtual desktops or so on other platforms). The problem is that when you switch between spaces, both screens switch simultaneously. Now let's assume you use your secondary monitor to show an IM client, or to show some live error log, or similar, it's really annoying if that disappears when you switch between spaces on your main display.

Can you explain how is this fixed? Are the spaces on each monitor independent or is there a method to "always show" certain windows? Because I really hate the former method.
I work for a VERY large financial company and we have space issues. In some areas people are required to work from home 1-2 days a week. Our legal department is very strict, so I don't think this would be happening if compliance was really an issue.
A little research (sources at end) shows that the many commenters pointing to vehicular accidents, homicide, infant mortality, and suicide as the "reason" for lower US life expectancy are flat-out wrong:

Each year the chance of someone dying in a vehicular accident is about 1 in 10,000 in the US. Over 80 years that means a citizen has roughly a 1 / 125 chance of dying in a vehicular accident. The total reduction in life expectancy from vehicular accidents is thus well under 1.0 years. Assume, for example that such an accident cuts an average of 60 years off a person's life -- they would have lived to 80, say, but their life was cut short at just 20 years old. That works out as a 0.5 year reduction in life expectancy due to accidents.

This is without taking into account the vehicular fatality rates in other countries. When you do that for, e.g., Japan (1 in 20,000 per year), the difference in life expectancy is likely around 0.25 years.

The homicide rate in the US is about 1 in 20,000 people per year, or about half the vehicular fatality rate, so perhaps a further 0.25 year reduction, without factoring in homicides in other countries.

For infant mortality, the chance of dying at birth is a little over 1 in 200 in the US. That translates to a reduction in life expectancy of about 0.4 years, without factoring in infant mortality in other countries.

A similar analysis shows suicide rates are probably not a factor -- in fact, in some countries, such as Japan, the rate is higher than in the US, while in countries such as the UK it is comparable to the US.

So the contributions from all four of these sources is very unlikely to be more than a 1 year difference in life expectancy. It's probably quite a bit less, since I've ignored (e.g.) infant mortality in other countries. Certainly, the contribution from all four of these is nowhere near the dominant effect to explain differences in life expectancy.

A caveat: some people pointing to infant mortality are claiming that what's going on is that a large number of stillbirths simply aren't being reported in some countries outside the US, and this is skewing the results. That possibility isn't accounted for in my analysis above. I doubt it's true - in my many years living in Canada and Australia I've known quite a few people who died in car accidents, and none of whom had a stillbirth (to my knowledge). But while this suggests to me that this effect isn't large, it's of course only anecdotal evidence.

Sources for rates:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...

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

And if you want to look at the details of the suicide statistics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...
What is Shopify's policy on working remotely?
If you don't trust Google, run it in Firefox.
I don't have much hope - the pile-on against applets has been unrelenting for months now - but I will give this a shot. It's not obvious to me which part of the site you mean yet, though.
Acquiring material possessions and forming emotional attachments to them? No, that is not what living means.
I haven't read OP's piece yet, but I agree with @dennybritz that there are plenty of us here in SV who care about solving the big problems.

For example we just launched Prime, an iPhone app that allows you to download your medical record from any doctor and share health activity with friends and family. http://stayinyourprime.com. We're not the only ones in healthcare. There's also Practice Fusion, drchrono, DoctorBase, and countless others.

And on the education side there's Inkling, for example. And on the banking side there's Simple (though they're actually based in Portland). And of course YC famously backed Watsi. Maybe you have different examples in mind of what big problems are but it does seem to me that as we are seeing more startups overall that means we're seeing more startups addressing bigger/more meaningful problems.
There is a part of me that is strangely impressed that the code ran at all after 8 years of things changing around it.

I would have expected it to just segfault or error out in some way.
As I understand, Google can go evil and use its patents to impose certain restrictions, like killing potential independent VP10 project or messing with webm's royalty-free status.
Draft – A Physical Notebook That Syncs To The Cloud.
Paris Hackers News meetup on November 6th
Many large companies will not trust their data to an outside company under any circumstances. They will put the SaaS solution on their intranet only accessible locally or thru a VPN. If the SaaS company isn't willing to do this, then they won't sell to these companies. This can be a valid choice for the SaaS company as long as they can find enough other customers to make them profitable.
Who Earns More: Professor or Fry Cook?
That is not the idea.

The idea is to use the shortcuts.
It's a live stream of a marketing event of a company. In an ideal world, no one besides die hard apple fans should be interested in watching it live as it happens.

I don't remember the iPod with Windows video event being streamed live as well but yet, as you say, it was a success.

The video is almost always immediately available for everyone after the event. What does anyone gain by watching (or providing) what is widely speculated to be an announcement of a new iteration of an existing product live ?
Good for them. This and the other similar change they did recently ("add on items" for Prime so that you don't end up ordering $1.5 items with free 2-day shipping) makes me believe Amazon will be more profitable and survive in the long term. I find Amazon extremely useful and love their customer support.
This sounds horrifying. I do hope you mean something like "using a different version control." Even then you can use git-svn or similar to keep the official version control in sync with the usable version control.
These are 4 good reasons to Join workspaces like that :) http://www.sharedesk.net/blog/2013/06/4-reasons-to-join-coll...

I use headphones but i don't mind people talking around me, sometimes it's energizing.
Obviously you have to choose the right one.

Good thing is that you can also just try them for a week (and that's what i did at the beginning)...after a while i decided to co-found ShareDesk. :P

You have to find the right one, but YES, they are definitely places where to be more productive. Try!
If you believe Amazon.ca is a joke try Amazon.com.mx
Foundation is a bit lighter and nicer IMHO, used it on a recent project, but I'm going to suggest going for something like neat instead http://neat.bourbon.io/

This assumes the primary reason you are using a framework is to get the niceness of an infinitely nesting responsive grid and you care about semantic HTML.

Putting the grid in your LESS or SCSS is so much nicer than littering your HTML with "large-4 columns", etc -
Last time VLC on WinXP would crash after a few seconds trying to play the official apple stream. Check reddit.com/r/apple and someone will post up a list of "pirate streams". One of them worked great for me in Firefox on XP last time.

EDIT: As of T-45 minutes, someone said they're going to use http://www.onemorething.nl/live which will hopefully not have commentary when it starts. Also they're saying the URL for VLC is http://live.wowza.kpnstreaming.nl/onemorethinglive/OMTLIVE/p...

EDIT: For me, on Win XP, latest VLC is playing http://live.wowza.kpnstreaming.nl/onemorethinglive/OMTLIVE/p... perfectly. It's the stream, no commentary, etc.
Google adds handwriting input to Gmail and Google Docs via mouse & trackpad
Coursera Machine Learning Supplement
100% of it is pure paranoia. Working over a VPN or any other sillyness really has no effect on an employees ability to take your data. All they need is 30 seconds with a flash drive (or a screwdriver when nobody is looking and remove an HDD) and your data is gone. Something like source code is even easier with only a few parts in the code that is really ever 'trade secret' and it can be photographed with a cellphone.

Rather work on making your employees loyal to the company by being loyal to them. A happy and well paid employee is not going to steal your data, ever. An unhappy and smart employee will steal your data regardless of any silly obstacles you try to put up.
I'm interested to see if their AdWords/AdSense algos will detect uProxy and choose not to serve ads to its users. Right now, the US/UK/Canada are huge markets for Google AdWords/AdSense but most US-based companies do not have their ads shown in Latvia/Iran/Russia (just to randomly pick some faraway countries). There's a good reason - if I own a restaurant in Dallas, for example, I want people searching for "best dallas steak restaurant" to see my ad. If that starts getting shown worldwide, the CTR will plummet which would not be good for Google.
> Not sure what you mean by "Google consolidating most APIs into Play Services would ensure it's constantly active and never purged from memory"

A lot of common APIs (Location API, Maps API, Play Games API, Push Notifications API, etc) have been consolidated under the Google Play Services umbrella process. Since these common APIs are used by lots of applications, this would ensure the Play Services process never gets booted from memory.

It also has the added benefit that applications using push notifications like Gmail don't need to maintain a background service because they can rely on Google Play Services to activate them as needed. Location based apps like Yelp can determine your location more quickly because Google Play Services is constantly monitoring it. All while reducing the over all memory foot print of applications because they're all deferring to Google Play Services.

Google can also change their APIs for services, upgrade to new protocols like SPDY, and developers don't need to update their applications because Google just needs to maintain the interface to Google Play Services. It's pretty clever.
Founders relaunch Streamy to prove a point about big data platforms
This is a very interesting take. If true, the book is not the product. They don't care how well the book sells. They care that you and I know they wrote a book on the topic and so therefore, they are the authority.
Security Check Now Starts Long Before You Fly
> Put simply, Americans have an anomalously high rate of dying when they are young due to homicide and accidents, particularly vehicular.

Except that, as noted in the NIH study cited in the report [1], the US has, over the past several decades, been progressively falling behind other OECD countries in life expectancy at age 50 in both genders, because of a higher mortality rate at the younger end of the 50+ scale. So, no, its just not about Americans getting killed (whether in accidents and homicides or any other way) at a young age.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62373/
Node-pg-query-stream - Query results from node-postgres as a readable stream
I have two remote workers in my team. The two downsides from what I've seen / heard:

* They miss the casual social interaction

* If, like us you're in an environment where some people home work but most don't you can find some ways of working can disadvantage home workers - standups are a good example - for remote workers to really be part of it you need the board to either be visible by camera (or virtualised) and you need good audio so they can hear and be heard

On the last point: home working requires the company to invest money and time in working out how to get the best from the home workers. Be wary about anyone who allows it having not done this.
PureCSS really needs to improve its markup. I tried using it but soon found my CSS littered with 'pure-' everywhere. And the grid is really "unsemantic" (?). It might just be my personal opinion, but I really disliked it.
Ask HN: Keys to scoring your first internship?
I'm in my third year of a CS degree at a large university and am pushing hard for a good internship this summer.

I haven't had one up to this point, and I'm not an absolute rockstar coder, and I feel like these two things are making me easily fall through the cracks with some of the bigger companies I've interviewed with.

What's your best advice, whether you're a recruiter or have been in my position, for somebody trying to score a good internship?
I like how 37signals promotes a solid work life balance. They also do a really good job of telling stories.
The funny math of clothing sizes
I really like the idea of this. I wonder if they will let you pick the frequency of new notebooks. I don't think I would use an entire notebook in a month but maybe with this I would.
Kobo link to pre-order is giving 404. =(
Only dealing with an indefinite long term is the same as not dealing at all. The fact is, during that entire indefinite period, people will be experiencing life in the present.

The consequences of the means have to be justified by the benefits of the ends.
IMO, the only stuff that everybody needs to know is how to read, how to write (or more generally communicate) and math up through about Algebra I or Geometry. After that, everything else is an elective. Simply structuring the schools to make sure everybody got that core down by 8th grade, and then make high school nothing but electives, would go a long way towards making the education system much more effective.

That could be done within the constraints of the existing public school system. I've read Holt and Gatto and generally agree with them. (Both my kids were homeschooled K-12). However, what they are talking about is less redoing school and more redoing society. It's too much to ever get done. However, cherry picking the ideas that can work with what we have now is a much more doable project.
I love New Work City but took me several bad experiences to find it.
The issue of widespread usage of alpha transparency and animated images do apply however. Rather than hold up WebP over a future imagined codec that doesn't exist pending research, a never-going-to-implement-anyway HEVC, or a doesnt-have-all-the-features JPEG, why not work with the WebP folks to fix any deficiencies?

It's highly reminiscent of fight over the ACA in Congress. "Repeal it". Rather than work with making the bill better or fixing the problems, just filibuster.
Symfony2 plugin is also nice.
Looks like someone didn't read my post :)
But it's not Apple's game to play in the things that Amazon plays. Amazon has their own strategy and Apple has their own strategy. Building entire new lines of business is risky and Apple probably does not think that the risk is worth the reward at the end. There's also the question of whether Apple can do as well as Amazon at what it does.
.. So don't use it on hangouts and run it on Firefox. Scan the source for any "call home code."
The SaaS Valuation Bubble
I'm pretty much doing the exact same thing, but with django instead of rails. That gives a very nice Postgres + Django + AngularJS. When I need to add realtime feeds I throw RabbitMQ with the Web-Stomp Plugin into the mix: it works amazingly well!
Privy's Ben Jabbaway was Born to Help Small Business
As the article (and even more, the NIH study cited in the article) shows, statistics show that the US does poorly against other developed countries if you look at life expectancy at age 50, which is obviously not skewed by differences in reporting infant mortality.
I don't understand what GoInstant does, the "How it Works" page tells me nothing. How does the real time functionality work? Is it MVCC, Operational Transformation, just a locking protocol?
These are pros who are paid very well to have a clue. It is not silly if "acting stupidly" is described in writing, such that all parties adequately understand when the hammer is likely to come down. I am sure a lot of traders push the envelope and "drive 71 in a 65 mph zone". But it still not silly to give the guy driving 81 a ticket.
what's the difference between this and parse?
I work remotely most days a week (and sometimes for a week at a time). I love it. I agree with everything in that video - the only problem I deal with these days is the constant fear of it coming to and end at some point :)
I'd use neither and go for the Skeleton CSS framework. Nice and clean: http://www.getskeleton.com
I don't have any bad stories, but in retrospect (after three years remote) I do have some advice:

- Give yourself a dedicated space (very preferably behind a door that closes if you don't live alone)

- Give it a few weeks. It takes getting used to, so avoid entertaining "This just isn't working out" feelings for a while. Took me a bit to get used to the quiet for one thing!

- Be social! Visit the office when you can, don't be afraid to talk about not-work in chat rooms, etc. Office chit-chat and lunches together have value, they enrich your relationship with colleagues and keep humanity levels high in work debates. I find I can find myself with shorter patience if I haven't been "hanging out" with coworkers for a while.

- Work for a remote team. Being the one-remote-guy on a team is a challenge. Remote working works best when the team is committed to working asynchronously, when the chat-room is the office, etc.

The last bit is key. Most of the stories I've heard about it not working out had a lot more to do with the team not actually being committed to remote working than some fundamental flaw in remoteness.
Laravel kept complaining it couldn't convert Response Object to string or json encode. Looked nice though :-(
There's also http://www.coworkingrochester.com/, I don't know exactly where near you is.
I like the naming scheme for Semantic UI (though I'm not sure it is truly "semantic" and it seems a bit pre-release still). PureCSS and Cardinal are new to me (thanks for the info, HN people!). Maybe I can include them as options in the RailsLayout gem. For the beginner's book, I still think Foundation is optimal (for popularity plus direct support for Rails with Sass and a gem).
Bell and IBM show that this does not always work. MS may be the next example in ~10 years.
Yeah, We'll learn how governments magically turned the 90s internet dream of anarchistic freedom into Big Brother.
And how network analysis, in real time, can instantly identify the core members of any "movement", and if "inappropriate" quickly stomp on them.
In the USSR and DDR there lived millions of people.

Not everyone was abducted, the numbers are in the thousands.

People fear lightening. We must not fear our government. Fear of the people who are supposed to represent you is not quite democracy.

That is the point of oppression. To instill fear, not bu actually abducting and torturing half the population, just many enough to get the message across.

Obey, citizen.
Npm like centralized repository for versioned Go packages
>Hotels and taxi companies fear the sharing economy, Airbnb, Uber and Lyft.

I thought the sharing economy was bittorrent and Free Software. Aren't AirBnB, Uber, and Lyft part of the home piecework subcontractor temp-for-life economy?
There are a lot of reviews i read that don't make any sense at all, like they were generated by some algorithm and the review fails to say anything even remotely meaningful. I always wonder where those reviews come from and they always have like 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful instantly the minute the review is written.

I love and use Amazon all the time. but there are so many weird things about it.

Sometimes I buy something thinking it's from Amazon, but it's not, it's from another seller, and sometimes the product is not "mint." It seems like it was opened before and put back in and there are finger prints all over it or something that is "slightly" off like a tiny dent.

I feel like there's definitely room for something better.
I'll purposefully try and pick an option that results in a DHL delivery to avoid the risk of Yodel/Hermes instead, as they're just awful.
Today was my first experience with 2 monitors on OSX (10.8), knowing nothing about how it was going to work, and your description of my feelings this morning is absolutely perfect.
My current and previous company were both hardware companies (though we had firmware and software teams to go with it). So we have to have lab environments to simulate various types of data for the hardware. For that, remote employees have to VPN into the network.

Interestingly enough, my company's wifi in their office is just a normal public internet connection (does not go onto the corporate network), so if you are on Wifi, you still have to VPN in. Its their way of allowing visitors to get proper wifi access anywhere in the building (plus they trust VPN encryption more than Wifi security).

As far as leaking data: anyone with a laptop can leak data. You should have good IT practices to prevent this type of thing. All laptops should have their harddisks encrypted and password protected. Now if the employee is being malicious, a local employee could steal data just as easily (see NSA and Snowden).

Good IT practices when you have a lot of computers on your network: (1) don't trust any device on your network, so you should have an IDS/IPS for tracking activity. (2) for VPN people, you want all traffic going through your network, so you can monitor the users network traffic with your IDS/IPS. (3) try to log as much activity as you can in-case you need to do post-mortem analysis once you've been hacked. (there is a lot more, but that's what you hire a good IT person/team for).

If you are working for a startup of < 50 people, you probably won't be the target of hackers. But if you are a large company or have sensitive data, you are a target. Having sound IT practices are important for your company's data.
Sweet. They must take a ton of effort to make.
Nfu: Command-line Numeric Fu
More computers aimed solely at content consumers, neutered only to run web browsers, with their own NIH development environments tied down to specific languages.
You mean you'd be unscrewed ;-)
Looks good! The part I chose to jump to was deployment as there's a million ways to do it and I've been looking for a best practices. Was a little saddened to see you chose PythonAnywhere not because the service is bad, but because it has a limited use case.
You are confusing state redistribution of income and wealth with competitive offers. If the state was only to satisfy particular interests then you would have clientelism.
Quality of life is up just about everywhere else as well over the last several decades.
Health Startup Noom Receives NIH Grant
UProxy is a point-to-point proxy, where both sides know each other (by being buddies on the chat network) and choose to participate with one another. Don't proxy for your hacker friends.
MySQL AB worked this way with and it worked quite well (very well, imho). 70% of the staff worked remotely.
IRC and company meetings helped a lot. I met my boss after 5 months in the company and that was not the record :)
Mårten Mickos' interview about this: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/03/07/1826212/

BTW, if anoyone is looking for remote iOS/RoR developer drop me a line ;)