skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Vitamin B-12 deficiency and depletion are common in wealthier countries, particularly among the elderly, and are most prevalent in poorer populations around the world. This prevalence was underestimated in the past for several reasons, including the erroneous belief that deficiency is unlikely except in strict vegetarians or patients with pernicious anemia, and that it usually takes ≈20 y for stores of the vitamin to become depleted."

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/89/2/693S.full

"Vitamin B12 deficiency is a common but under-recognized, yet easily treatable disorder in older adults. Although several causes exist, food-cobalamin malabsorption is now believed to be the most common etiology."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12650116

Older adults because it can take 20 years+ for deficiencies to become apparent.

http://chriskresser.com/b12-deficiency-a-silent-epidemic-wit...
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If you clicked on it, it went to a reproduction of our Google apps login page with our logo and everything. The goal was to get the person to enter their Google Apps credentials. It was a simulation, but that’s the sort of thing that’s really hard to prevent from a purely technical standpoint.

Is it? I just save the password in the browser. Computers are not fooled by logos and pretty pages, the manager won't fill in the password on a fake site.
This is a useless advice as there is no accountability/testing for these claims.... you cannot even be sure what kind of fish that you are buying nowadays (organic is even harder to prove). DNA testing would solve that, but the FDA apparently don't have the budget. For example: https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/one-third-fish... .
Congrats Estimote - We recently got the developer pack and implemented an Android SDK for the same, and the motes are handy. The calibration is a bit off for each mote, and thus location accuracy is a bit compromised. Hope the production version will be better calibrated.

We also have a similar SDK that works over indoor WiFi, though the accuracy is definitely better for the BLE beacon.
While I am not a lawyer, this is a cut and paste from an email from our lawyers: "83(b)s are only for restricted stock."

It is my understanding that you don't file an 83(b) for ISOs or any other type of options, only for actual restricted stock.
Yes, considering your comment, I'll be surprised if you know anything about it.
If you don't hate jump puzzles, you'll probably like FEZ (by Polytron Corp.). It doesn't have much of an explicit story, but there are things scattered here and there that do a bit of world-building.

Psychonauts (by Double Fine) might be too shooter-y for you, but I'm really fond of the strong characters that you meet throughout the game (each with a backstory of some depth).

Both of these games are pretty cheap on Steam, if you're not opposed to using Steam. They both run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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bitcoins don't provide anonymity.
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> People say this a lot. That is the entirety of the evidence for it.

"I haven't seen the evidence" is hardly synonymous with "there isn't any": http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf
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>If US economy tanks, all world economies will tanks, too.

I think in a few different ways it's possible this wouldn't be the case. Specifically in the event of an all out attack on the US, where the dollar might become useless while bitcoin could fair well. Regardless, I couldn't agree more about gas, drugs and other better doomsday investments, but I think bitcoin serves me in the short-term for more scenarios. I do however have a doomsday trade prepared, moonshine makin'! :D
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Programming as a Profession
What we need are more people who know what they're doing. I find it condescending to assume that we really need to coddle more people and make them feel good about coding. Do we need to make this same argument for electrical engineers, surgeons, pilots and air traffic controllers?

I don't mean to imply that the current software world is a cabal of highly-skilled geniuses who need preserving - it's not. From personal professional experience, it's, on average, a nuthouse of self-promoting Java idiots with a "dropout genius" mentality who have no common sense and are not nearly as smart or good at problem-solving as their blogs or resumes would lead you to believe.

However, I think it would another discussion entirely to ask if the wrong people feel confident enough to write code. The belief that we need to reach out and bring more people into programming, in a world where the average developer struggles to cobble together a web application that isn't full of basic security holes, is ridiculous.

Also, I strongly suspect all of these efforts to drag more people into coding are at least partly sponsored by industry, in an attempt to drive the relatively-high wage of a programmer down, in the face of a perceived increase in programmer demand.
>it was apparently designed to be walkable.

was it really "designed"? To me one of the issues with modern development is that it is explicitly "designed/planned" and thus diversity and vibrancy is naturally limited by the views/imagination of the designers/developers and politicians. (an illustration from another area - it is like "planned" economy vs. naturally evolving/developing capitalist economy)
Ever heard of Gone Home? Definitely worth a shot if you're into nuanced stories.
"I don't see why non-programmers would take up coding"

Because coding lets you do neat, fun things? Video games are a big motivator for many.
Reminds me of the early days of CSS3 demos where people would only use the -webkit prefix and not bother to use the other vendor prefixes or even the standard non-prefix property name.
So what is the address of my backyard? Besides being an inane argument, how do you know it is not private?

Unless you run your own mail server, someone knows your email address, so are you trying to define that as not private? Obviously, we are using fuzzy terms about private/public when there is a huge gradient of privacy.
I was working at E.A., on the 3DO console no less, when one day in early January of '94 one of the guys brought in a copy of Doom. That was the end of any productivity at E.A. for at least a week while that game erupted like a brush fire through E.A. advanced technology group.
Funny how very very creepy this game was and yet there was no problem with that. More than gore and 'biological' lets say, it had ingredients more haunting than Indiana Jones Temple of Doom (NPI) : corpses hanging, skulls, metal chains, spikes ... It didn't require effects to scare you, no hidden monster suddenly revealed through thromboscopic lights as in Doom 3. You just sink in this filthy space.
Maybe people don't like walking? I know I don't.
Why does it look like President Obama look like he took a beating on the right side of his face? The right side of his face looks somewhat bruised, even (probably) with the application of make-up, and somewhat swollen. His right eye also does not look right.- It looks somewhat discolored -reddened and swollen.
Short version:

In 1934, machineguns & "destructive devices" were hit with a $200 "transfer tax" and subject to tight paperwork regulations and severe penalties for violations. Given the products in question cost around $50, and the tax equaled some $3000 in today's US$, it was practically a ban. Inflation brought the tax down to affordable (cough) levels today.

In 1986, possession/manufacture of new machineguns was banned outright. Old ones could still be owned & transferred, but between the severely limited supply and accumulated $200 taxes, prices have increased about 25x over what they would cost unrestricted, making them desirable for investment and undesirable for mundane use.

When the US Army transitioned to "Humvees" replacing Jeeps, the contract included a clause prohibiting resale to civilians. Likewise other equipment cannot be resold, not so much by law but by contract.

As it is, the tactical gear market is "allowed" to exist mainly because there isn't much way to legally prohibit it. Most such gear is objectively indistinguishable from other common products (clothing, camping equipment, radios, hunting gear); the differences are significant in specialized use but nowhere near enough to be codified in law. As demonstrated during the now-expired 10-year "assault weapons ban", the marketplace will come up with all kinds of creative solutions to bridge any gaps caused by prohibition (10 round limit? get subcompact pistols or .50-caliber semi-auto rifles. Weight limits? superlight plastic/carbon-fiber guns.)
Just have to treat the options as confetti from then on.

Agree. (1) Don't ever take a salary drop for options w/out cap table, and (2) don't make sacrifices that would hurt your career or home life because of them either.

Most people in the startup world have evolved enough to get (1) but (2) is where startup culture tends to go off the rails-- people start working 80-hour weeks on career-incoherent grunt work for their options, blissfully unaware of the 10-100x larger grants given to all of the nontechnical VPs who go home at 3:30.
If each cul-de-sac just had a walking path cut out of it, I think you'd have the ideal. That's what it's like in small-town Holland. Cul-de-sacs do have other benefits like a quiet street and keeping your little kids "corralled".
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Anonymity is not a binary variable which is why I worded it "degree of anonymity". I think it should be obvious that credit cards and bank accounts are vastly less anonymous than Bitcoin.
That is correct. The 83(b) declaration is only valid for 'restricted stock' which is stock that is granted to you rather than as an option to buy.

In those situations you acquire the 'right' to the stock over time (this is called vesting). And when you vest stock the IRS treats it like income and it gets added to your W2 as such.

The 83(b) election allows you to take the entire tax hit immediately even though you don't have the ownership rights on the stock yet. You need to come up with the tax payment but since you "own" the stock even when it vests you won't pay additional taxes, and your ownership starts the clock on long term gains (vs short term gains).

If the stock is going up an 83b can save you some money, if it is going down it makes it more complicated (you can write off up to $3,000 of "loss" per year of stock which is worth less than the 83b election price. I got to do that for just over 10 years on my dot com era 83b stock election.

Generally places like Facebook or Google will sell some of your RSUs as they vest to cover the tax hit so its pretty invisible to you.
Escrow is only really viable if you know the future recipient or if you can depend on the sender to return to approve transactions. Seems difficult to fit it to this type of situation.
The problem with this funding model is that it encourages fluff pull requests, such as this one: https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/138/files.

If there was no financial incentive, I would probably merge it but now I'm questioning the motivations of the committer. If I merge this, it means there will be less money for someone else, who makes a more significant contribution in the future.

Personally, I prefer Gittip’s model to incentivize open-source contributions, if only because it doesn’t create this kind of noise for project maintainers.
And echoing pages with Telnet before that.
Any advice if the company is already public and they are offering stock options as part of the compensation package?
Oh... I didn't know that the coach had tried to speak with the cop.

Yeah... I guess that makes it a little worse for the cops.

My only point was that this is a problem that should have been settled between the teacher(s) and the cop(s). They should have communicated better. Now if the teacher TRIED to communicate and the cop ignored him... yeah... that's a problem too.

I mean, adults need to work together to solve problems where children are concerned... not get in pissing contests to see who's is bigger. This is an issue where, I would think, it's obvious that the schools and the police should be communicating about what's going to happen with respect to transportation.

But you can't set up transportation. Communicate the arrangements to parents and students. Then show up and arrest all of the students for following your instructions. That's just a poorly run school district AND police department really. Actually... probably more a poorly run city.

And to arrest the kids because of the bumbling ineptitude of all of the adults involved in the incident is unforgivable. People should be fired for that. Anyone who plays CYA by trying to pin his ineptitude on children should be out of a job.

Incidentally... you do get suspended for some number of games for missing practice or a game. At least, those were the rules in my day. And that's how most teams are run at the school I work with. Basketball, Volleyball, Football or whatever.
Someone on Reddit made a bot that implements this functionality site-wide. You can say "+/u/bitcointip @Username $1" in a comment or message, and the bot will send $1 worth of bitcoins out of your balance to that user. If they don't have a Reddit Bitcoin wallet, it creates one when they get sent coins. The bot also has denominations of beer ($3.64), coffee ($1.38), and internet ($0.25).
Cloning quantum information from the past
Fitbit promotes the 10,000 step number. They have a blog post with links to sources. http://blog.fitbit.com/?p=194

Having several family members with fit bits, I can tell you it's definitely do-able. It adds up more quickly than you think!
Hey! Thanks for posting this to HN. I'm not quite sure of the code improvements myself. If anyone could repeat the benchmarks, it'd be great
You nailed it. What also changes is people in authoritarian posts. The system has to be resilient to the occasional wrong guy being chosen for a powerful post. Also it doesn't make sense to fight individuals since it gives a fake sense justice. If the system allows injustice then it is bound to happen and abundantly so.
I think the truly smart people don't realize how smart they are. I only know that I'm "smart" because I keep hearing it constantly from people. I thought I had normal conversations, apparently I have "intelligent conversations" instead! I have had the same experience as the author but I have internalized at this point that I do seem to be smarter than the average person.

I also feel that pushing programming for everyone is a stretch. Some people just don't get it, and never will, and that's apart from intelligence - it just requires a specific type of intelligence to truly grasp the concepts.
Some people like dead-end streets and large yards. Some people want to prevent people from having such an option.
> If someone takes part in a protest against meat products because of animal suffering, and then eats meat or wears leather, they are hypocrites.

I highly disagree.

Why would wearing a leather jacket make me a hypocrite? It's very much possible to raise and butcher an animal humanely, and still enjoy its meat and leather.
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Yes, when people use "supercomputer on a chip" marketing like this, they mean "as powerful as a supercomputer of X years ago" for some value of X, as well frequently "using high levels of parallelism like a supercomputer does."

I just checked the Top500 list from November 1999 (just an arbitrary year to pick) and the lowest on the list hits 38.5 GFlop/s, so if the Parallella gets 90 GFlop/s, it's ell within the range of supercomputers of 14 years ago. In fact, it looks like it would still make the cut in the November 2000 list, but is hitting the edge in the June 2001 and solidly off the November 2001 list.

All, of course, assuming that the 90 GFlop/s quoted is comparable to that measured on the Top500 machines; but even if you toss in a factor of 2 or 4, that still only pushes you a few more years.

Of course, if you stretch that X back a few more years, almost any modern processor is a supercomputer on a chip. I remember when the Cray Y-MP was a supercomputer to dream about, and nowadays its performance would be considered mid-tier for a smartphone.
This is excellent Daniel. Your take on the 2nd amendment is sensible almost to the point of obviousness, yet it's one that I've not encountered before.
I made no claim that there is a small cabal of powerful people controlling everything brought down the system.

There are, however, Goldman Sachs people that lied to their own customers in order to make money, for example. That is the kind of behaviour that can be persecuted, mostly along the conflict of interest or fraud lines. Those are specific laws.

Oh, by the way, heard of the Libor scandal? Not specifically related to the crash, but interesting reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal
So... are you going to answer them?
Everyone gets diluted when a company raises more money: founders, employees, and previous investors. Investors usually have ‘prorata rights’ which mean they are allowed to invest additional money at the new valuation to maintain their given percentage ownership of the company.

Founders generally have the same class of stock as employees (common stock), and so are in the same boat.

Investors have preferred shares. Preferred shares have a few special properties, but the most important is ‘liquidation preference’, meaning they’re first in line to get their money out if things go wrong. Sometimes investors have a right to a multiple on their money back: twice their money would be a 2x liquidation preference.

One thing to ask about in the case of a company that has raised money on convertible notes. Since they haven’t actually sold equity, but only debt which will later convert equity, it’s worth asking if a given stake is before or after those notes convert.

Generally, if things are going well, dilution isn’t worth worrying about. In any case, the founder will be just as diluted as any employees, so their interests are aligned.
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So does Automattic with gravatars (on nearly 20% of the internet, no less), and pray tell how many other companies that use md5(email) as a unique ID for a reason or another. Duh! What were they thinking!
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An 83(b) election is for restricted stock only. Meaning the company pays you in actual equity (vesting notwithstanding).

Restricted stock, notably, is not the same as an RSU (Google's "GSU"); one of the reasons an RSU exists is to simplify taxes, and because you are not issued stock at the time of grant there is no 83(b) election for RSUs.

Think of restricted stock as a chunk of equity set aside for you that you gradually vest rights upon. RSUs, on the other hand, are a promise to give you equity on a similar vesting schedule but the equity is not set aside. The effect on the valuation of the security with regard to your taxes in both scenarios should be self-evident.
If your stock option plan allows you to "early exercise" (exercise before the options vest--this gives you restricted shares that vest on the same schedule as the options you exercised) then you can file an 83(b) for those restricted shares.

Edit: I should add that this only matters for AMT purposes. If you early-exercise ISOs then the 83(b) election doesn't change anything for regular income tax, but does effectively accelerate your AMT income.
You might argue that it is not a software bug but a mistake or odd choice in the design thought process. The way that it seems to fall accidentally and obscurely from the implementation details argues strongly against this.
'War-nography', islamophobia, narco-phobia... and the script goes on.

Why is it that those movies attract capital?
I know plenty of US citizens that have emigrated to Canada, via school or work related methods. It's not particularly hard, it just takes time for the paperwork to clear.
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I can confirm that. I've lost a TM backup recently made over the (wired) network. The cable failed, backup in progress hung, TM volume remained locked until I reboot, I rebooted and sparsebundle got screwed up. TM started it all over again.
Checkmate.

Good call on this. If you can't trust the CPU you're running on, you can't trust anything at all. The proper solution is to find a supplier you trust and go with them.

Pulling useful entropy away from the OS's RNG functions is the best example of an ignorant knee-jerk reaction to this security problem.
Sounds like a B-movie plot.

The problem is, the newly-appointed tyrant would need everyone in the military to play along with the blackmail. All it would take is a few rogue Air Force pilots to shoot down that ICBM.
- I'll say career change. That's just me.
> Oh yeah. "Hope And Change! Now That I Got This Fuck You". Rinse, repeat.

Those liberals who opposed the war in Iraq and voted for Obama turned right around and cheered for intervention in Syria. It's not some failure of democracy when people get what they want.

> No, you send them to Gitmo or black sites. Snowden is stuck in Russia. Manning got tortured right at home.

One U.S. citizen was ever held in Guantanamo, and he was caught fighting against the U.S. in Afghanistan. He was transferred out. Snowden is stuck in Russia because he doesn't want to face charges for crimes he committed. Manning submitted to military justice by joining the military.

> Well, the private prison industry is more profitable, is it not? http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/blog/%E2%80%9Clockup-quot....

I very strongly oppose private prisons, but it's utterly ridiculous to compare them to the Stalinist regime. 8% of Americas prisoners are in private prisons. The number became substantially more than 0% only in this decade, while we've been imprisoning poor minorities in huge numbers since the 1980's and 1990's. In other words, they're a response to incarceration rates, not something driving those incarceration rates.

It's not really a compelling argument to point to a random list of bad things about America then say "it's just like Stalinist Russia." There's no thought or reason in your argument, just vituperative handwaving.
> government authors not electing to transfer agree to assign an exclusive publishing and distribution license

Can you issue a DMCA based on this type of clause? I wonder if they have issued DMCAs for documents falling under this?
Thank you for the heads up, I will look into that... I just bought the domain
Great news for SD. Let's keep the tech momentum going!
I love that the program knows not to respond with any audio clips that were already used. Classic robot giveaway.
Bloody vikings! Stop singing!
Exactly what does the cap table have to do with your expected outcome, presuming you know the percentage of your allocation, the liquidation preferences and valuation, and the company's runway?
Driving around underground parking is also unpleasant, so instead of firing up the car to drive to the megaplex supermarket, you're more likely to the shop down the street.
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Couldn't agree more! "Matrix is a function" is a super useful analogy, especially for us programmers, who deal with functions every day.
OK I agree victim might have been kind of harsh. Some other term for a monopoly middleman not perfectly meeting a fiduciary responsibility to maximize returns for anyone, not themselves or her.

There is no monopoly provider in the knick-knack space, or at least its not the same monopoly provider, so she could try to use them as a strategy to bypass the somewhat ineffective monopolistic middleman.
- Just keep your head up and continue to follow your heart.