skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am skeptical about a crowd founded Bio-tech company. If they are legit then it shouldn't be hard to get some NIH funding (you know, the crowd sourcing platform that I pay into already). Government funded research may not be a perfect system, but it works pretty well and is peer reviewed.
"I know that the VSs got liquidate first usually."

That statement is accurate for secondary markets, but for the Bay Area, I'd say it's more accurate to say "I know that the VSs got liquidate first historically, but that's not necessarily the default today."

I'm saying that companies raising rounds in secondary markets like Atlanta and Raleigh typically get less favorable terms than those raising money in Silicon Valley. They have fewer VCs to choose from and the local VCs have term sheet expectations more similar to the term sheet expectations in the Bay Area from several years ago, which are far less favorable to term sheets today. I doubt that startups in secondary markets could even find investors willing to offer convertible notes or willing to budge on liquidation preferences.
I didn't say conservatives were a monolithic bloc, which is why I started my post with: "Many American conservatives..." That said, your description suggests brighter lines than exist in practice. I'd say the mainstream of American conservatives are both pro-business but also very concerned with maintaining American power, prosperity, influence, and culture. Heck, a lot of those people are quite religious, too. And that amalgam certainly defines the rhetoric of conservatives in the mainstream, especially as you drill down from national to state-level. The question for those people is: what happens when the interests of trans-national corporations are not aligned with the interests of maintaining American power, prosperity, influence, and culture? Historically, they haven't had to grapple with this question, because within the theory of their worldview, what was good for say IBM was good for America. A bigger, stronger IBM only meant more jobs for Americans and more returns for American shareholders. Trans-national corporations overturn these established assumptions.
It is an animation. Hopefully the mods will edit the link to point to the actual content, which is an animated, interactive map:

http://www.cfr.org/interactives/GH_Vaccine_Map/#map
libjpeg is not "the JPEG standard".
Thanks for the tip about railwaycat's fork. Note though that before you can run:

brew install emacs-mac

you first need to run this:

brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport

Otherwise, `brew` won't be aware of that version. (Whoops. Noticed just now that someone said this earlier as well. Since the comments are all spread out, I'm leaving mine in case it helps someone see the issue faster.)
Whole bunch of editorializing in this "news" article. Is this the "opinion" section of the LA Times?
Yeah, what I want is a single sheet overview of hiring/retaining/firing across multiple locations.

In Germany it seems easy enough to get to 5-10 people with essentially founders and contractors, or expats, or corp to corp. I wonder if something like a PEO could exist which has the long-term employment relationship with the employees, who can move between startups -- it wouldn't be a "staffing agency" or body shop which just provides a bunch of morons for a low price as needed, but a way for employees to be essentially consultants and either promote themselves to companies, or be recruited by companies, without friction.
Wow, FreedomPop has a terrible site. No coverage map, overly SEO coverage list, everything tries to get you into the funnel rather than giving you helpful info.
There are a couple of articles you might find interesting, that build on some of the links between the film, the book, and the games:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/01/zone-cherno...

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/ghosts-of-future-borrow...
To an extent, I agree. I'm past the point of caring about who or what is to blame. I'm more interested in whether or not we are sufficiently prepared for a drastic change in climate (whether it be hot or cold).

And more than that, I'm far more concerned about the state of our oceans. Particularly because of a lack of knowledge about it's current state, where it's headed, and what it means for us.
"The lesson of all this is that vaccination is not an individual choice to be made by a parent for his or her own offspring. It's a public health issue, because the diseases contracted by unvaccinated children are a threat to the community."

Unvaccinated children who contract a disease are only a threat to other unvaccinated children, who are generally unvaccinated by choice. Not sure why this is a public health issue.
AngelList Tests Charging For Job Posts
About once/week, my iPhone 5S will reboot itself, which is separate from the battery issue.

To me, it seemed like an intentional feature to keep the phone from screwing up. Like an automatic reboot. not sure if it's a feature or a bug.
Power Provisioning for a Warehouse-sized Computer
Am I the only person who thinks that relying on client behaviour for "security" is, well, a bit naive?
I have never had this happen on my iPhone but my iPad randomly does this if the battery is low and I have just begun loading a web page. Surprisingly, youtube never poses any issue so it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the amount of data being retrieved. I'm wondering if the sudden network activation as I click on a link causes some power management bug in the OS.
The issue is not black and white - and laying the entire issue at the feet of non-vaccinated is blatant propaganda. For example, the recent whooping cough outbreaks are due to the fact that the newer (safer!) acellular vaccines are just not as effective as the older (less safe) vaccines. Vaccinated populations are falling victim to whooping cough, as the current vaccines are not long-lasting enough. Reuters published a pretty good explanation of the issue in August of last year: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/01/us-whooping-cough-...

tl;dr: We need a new vaccine. Tilting at small populations of anti-vaxxers may feel satisfying, but it is ultimately counterproductive, especially in this case.
Very nice. Which font is this?
I spend some time playing with the original map and the references for data points I examined more closely always were papers published in journals. This might not be the case for all data points that have been used and I wasn't able to find a comprehensive list of references. It's definitely better than just news reports though.
Most people who know how to program attempt to teach their kids how to program. That being said, we need many more resources of all kinds directed towards teaching children. I hope this leads to 100 more programming books/videos directed at children.

I think these are awesome too http://kidscodecamp.com/
> From what I've seen, a lot of women have a low tolerance for this level of overt critique, regardless of whether the critique is correct or not.

Please stop talking.
"under the supervision of a court order"

A court order is not a warrant. This is the heart of the discussion you are trying to get into. The 4th amendment is very clear:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

If we allow a court order or a subpoena to continue to be all that LEO/LEA's to need to get whatever information they want, they will stop going to the courts for warrants, and worse, they will end up doing FISA style bulk orders/subpoena's.

Bottom line, if you have probable cause, get a fucking warrant, else, fuck off. (and companies should be requiring warrants for access to customer information too, not just setting up a pay portal for LEA's to peruse at leisure.)
>I can imagine a script that's just a few lines that downloads go-gettable dependencies and updates import paths. You run it at exactly the time you want to update.

And I can imagine an CSP implementation for C. Should we ditch Go then?
I suspect that those people value the fact that this is happening more than the fact that they don't "get" to complain about it not happening.
You don't actually import from live git paths. You import from your local filesystem ($GOPATH). The compiler doesn't care how code gets into $GOPATH.

A single tool, "go get", pulls code directly from 3rd parties and puts it in $GOPATH. If you're uncomfortable or frustrated using "go get" there are a number of 3rd party options.
Intrinsically, there is no harm in 0% employment. One can certainly imagine a society in which nobody works, and the fruits of automations are enjoyed by all.

Alternatively, one can imagine an extremely hierarchical society where the fruits of automation are enjoyed only be a few, and the rest of the population is treated as a burden or a threat.

My hypothesis implies no value judgment about the future of human labor. Maybe 0% employment will be good, maybe it will be bad. I'm merely imagining how we could get to 0%, not what that will mean for us.
Everyone is pro-vaccine until you have to jam 3 or 4 vaccines into your own child seemingly every doctors visit and sometimes have to suffer through a "sickness" (but let's not call it that) post shot reaction. I'm not speculating here, just speaking from experience as a parent of two children who knows and speaks with parents of other young children. We're not anti-vaccine but I'm not dancing into the Dr. office with my kids to get it done.
Yeah, I know the differences--I'm using it right now (though I didn't realize it was actually transitive, my bad). I'm straight-up shocked that you say you've had more trouble with gems than source imports; my experience is that it just works (though I have more experience with Java/Scala in Maven than Ruby).

I spend most of my time these days in C++ (writing a game), where there's likewise no package management to speak of, and dealing with the slough of git repos (except when it's hg or svn, because reasons) where I have to go find which ones are updated (and then, how), sucks. It's opaque and stupid and takes time out of my day that could be better spent thinking or writing code or hitting myself between the eyes with a hammer. My favorite dependencies in C++ are ones like Boost that I can just get out of Homebrew as a library and come with release notes. (That's rare enough in C++. And maybe I just pick better Java dependencies, but I pretty much always know what changes between Guava 13.0 and Guava 14.0 without vgrepping a bunch of files. Or compiling the world.)

This is poking me in a sore spot right now because, as it happens, I'm stuck modifying a client's former consultant's pet Go project right now, written in it because trendy. Stuff is broken in some of his pulled-in dependencies, so I've been trying to update them while actually understanding them which means having my head in vimdiff all day. It's making me want to set fire to things and I'm sorely skeptical of claims that this is easier or takes less time for...well...anybody.
Couldn't they just follow him?
Where Is The Pirate Bay?
I felt that the criticism was actually kind of light with the majority in support of the book.
If you consider "global cooling" and "global warming" to be similar phenomenon within the scientific community, then you really are very badly misinformed. This is ironic since you accuse others of "accepting everything printed". I think maybe you're the one with a poor sense of credibility.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases:

“Better diagnosis and reporting of whooping cough may be contributing to the increased numbers, along with the fact that the disease tends to peak and wane in cycles. It does not appear that anti-vaccination sentiment among parents has contributed…”
And when's the last time your company promoted the floor sweeper to something related to your core business? Probably never. And that's why candidates don't waste their time.
Bitcoin defends against Sybil attacks by making 'hashing power' the metric for vote weight.
Yes. It took me 2 months to find a place in a WG. In the mean time I was hopping around AirBNB and friends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
Fascinating! What do you think the best resource is for brushing up on this stuff? I haven't had a good biology class for a while.
Another major retailer!

It's funny, all of the "Bitcoin is dead! Bitcoin solves a non-existent problem! Bitcoin.....etc" posters have vanished.
I'm not unsympathetic to the exasperation of scientists concerning that their work is being dismissed by people who don't have the expertise to evaluate it, but all this talk about a "consensus" is where they shoot themselves in the foot. Science doesn't advance by "consensus". And using that as the defense is just a different type of faith (faith in the omniscience of the group).

Prior to the 80's the 'consensus' was that stomach ulcers are caused by stress and spicy foods. Two lone Australian medical researchers thought a bacterium was the causal agent, and so one of them actually swallowed a petri dish to prove his point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
It's interesting that the whooping cough outbreaks seem to be concentrated in the US. In the rest of the world, measles dominates.
Sadly you are wrong. Not all vaccinated children will be protected. Herd immunity keeps even those people safe. When people do not vaccinate they destroy herd immunity, meaning that unvaccinated and vaccinated but vulnerable children are at risk.
"This is, IMHO, an entry point, to give a taste of what programming is, so kids can try themselves later in front of a computer."

- I suspect that this compartmentalized targeting (esp. to younger demographics) really should be explored with other projects...

...Arduino, BSD/Linux/*nix, Py, JS, and so forth.
It's part of "defense in depth." Mess up one input validation? No problem, your CSP prevents client-side execution of injected scripts for most users.

Returning user, temporarily on an untrustworthy network? No problem, your HSTS header ensures they only attempt to talk to you over SSL.

It's the same reason you should set cookies to `secure; HttpOnly` -- you don't expect untrustworthy scripts to run on your page, but if they somehow do, you've got a second line of defense.
Keep it civil.

Seems like you're trying to augment your argument by asserting some sort of language dominance. Do you find that helps with other people?

You clearly privilege Judith Curry's work over the rest of the scientific community

Her work? Partially. I prefer her calm approach to Science that demands evidence and remains skeptical vs the all-too-often politically-driven one I see at the IPCC. That said, I read realclimate about as often as I read Curry's blog.

she's significantly outnumbered

Yeah, I'm significantly outnumbered by Miley Cyrus fans too. What of it?

crusso is an expert at saying climate scientists are evil

At the end of the day, we can't all understand everything. Lacking models that reflect reality, this is all just guesswork - so I'd prefer to rely on my understanding of what makes good Science.
Something tells me that Jenny McCarthy hasn't made a huge impact on Africa.
Disposable paper hoppers are hardly an expense worth worrying about considering the costs it helps replace (salaries, health insurance, other benefits, other liabilities).

Once the machine proves effective, they are likely to identify impeding factors like labor cost of cleaning and figure out how to minimize those costs.

A simply food-safe inner-laminated (possibly PTFE) non-woven material would be perfect for these machines. Easy to package and ship in collapsed form to McD's around the country and extremely cheap to manufacture, especially at McD's scale.

The main factor preventing McD's from adopting this is the cost of ingredients. This machine most likely requires all beef chuck, without fillers to achieve the desired quality level.
Why I'm Betting On Julia
It's certainly an interesting line of inquiry. Replacement of 100% of human labor would seem to imply a very sophisticated artificial intelligence. We don't yet know what properties that AI would have. Would it be sentient? Would it have ambitions and desires? Are these factors even in our control, or are sentience, ambition, and desire strictly necessary for any AI capable of replacing all human labor? Would there be ethical implications if we put an advanced AI to work? Would the AIs deserve and/or demand full citizenship? Et cetera.
There's always this adage: "No problem, no funding."
> Apple is trying to block Bitcoin on the iPhone to anti-competitively prop up their own crappy payments system, at the expense of hard working merchants that want to accept Bitcoin at their stores.

Oh, FFS. No, Apple isn't blocking Bitcoin out of fear it'll supplant IAP. They're almost certainly concerned about regulatory issues if the Feds decide to go after Bitcoin.
Touch in this case is rather like hover though.

Lack of hover is one of the trickiest things in designing for touch screens right now. There's no good way to tell the user a bit more about what's going to happen, until they commit to a touch.
Coding for Eventual Consistency
Google Street View Car vs The Stig
Once that plateau is reached no problem, it's the way toward it thats the problem for a lot of people.
I like the "one volume control" feature best of all. I used a Nexus 4 and I now own an iPhone, and the volume behavior is... unexpected, to put it nicely. On my iPhone right now, I have the silent switch turned on, so the phone doesn't ring. I'm opening up a YouTube video to see something but I don't want to disturb the people around me. Thinking ahead at the home screen, I hold the volume down button until the volume is at the lowest. I then load up the video, and it starts blaring at full volume. I can't turn it down until it's already making noise? How does that make any sense?

While it might be better to have different controls for everything, at least on Windows Phone I know that if the phone is muted, sound will not play. At all.
Why isn't that anti-vaccine?
During the Cold War there were nuclear anti-aircraft missiles, nuclear anti-missile missiles, nuclear depth charges, nuclear artillery shells, nuclear torpedos, nuclear man-portable demolition charges, even nuclear recoilless guns:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device...

Crazy times....
Screw the models, look at the data. Especially the biological and physical data: plant and animal species ranges, bird migration patterns, permafrost melting. All point toward warming.
My understanding of it:

Vaccines are not force fields that prevent you from contracting a disease. They just lower your chances considerably. So an unvaccinated child can infect vaccinated children.

Vaccinating "eradicates" disease in that it lowers the overall chance of transmission to the point where the disease can't effectively spread. A bunch of unvaccinated kids raises that overall chance back up and can cause outbreaks.
A warning about FreedomPop: They'll charge you for the next package of bandwidth when you hit 400MB (supposedly so "You'll never run out of data", more likely so "We'll never run out of cash!") You can't set it to turn off when 500MB is hit.
Interesting. What is the rough percentage of vaccinated but vulnerable children?
The post is grey because all threads posted to HN are like that. Is that what you mean?
Is it me or are all the "has-beens", or unrelevant companies accepting bitcoin nowadays?

We had Overstock, who has fallen from its high.
We had App.net, who is struggling to be relevant.
now TigerDirect.

When is Starbucks or Apple going to accept Bitcoin?
Balanced Uses Crowdfunding To Float & Fund New Product Feature
How do you knowledge share?
What's the best way to work with the developers and learn how the code works?
this is already supported by Go through tags: http://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Download_and_install_packages_...
Theory: If you don't register "Certified Users", they won't actually enroll you (because their legal team is not stupid), but they're hoping that people will because it implies that those people, by creating the "Certified Users", accept the terms and charge mentioned in the email.
You could also try to go into developing/modding a game called Xonotic. while it's based on the Q3 engine, it looks really good and has an active developer community! it's fantastic really :)

http://xonotic.org
You should send a reminder, even if it's just a few days before you take the charge. It's not just a Good Thing To Do, but it will even reduce the risk of charge-backs.

As your business grows and you take on more payments, you will find there are a small group of your customers who will look at their credit card bill at the end of the month (or months) and just call up the credit card company to charge back items that they don't recognise (due to them not recognising the charge (innocent mistake) or they genuinely didn't use your service and feel "cheated")

On a side note, why do you take CC info at signup ? I've done about 4 SaaS currently live, and not a single one takes CC information upfront, but rather send them a reminder to pay an invoice as their trial reaches it's end.
Don't both sides claim this kind of thing has happened to them? So again, who do we believe?
The arguments are the same as today: We don't want more controls and oversight, because our enemies could use our limitations against us to neutralize our capability, and in any case strict military discipline and comprehensive personnel screening will eliminate abuse. Sound familiar?
My point is that as a class of product, Snapchat could disappear and not be replaced and no critical infrastructure would halt nor any innovation or science be stopped. At worst you would have some grumpy people.

It's silly to compare this to a product class that is crucial to our society and claim that it is better. The relative worth of one server to another is one thing, but the class of server products is infinitely more important than the class social picture sharing products.
In the early days of guided missiles, having a kill radius of a mile or so rather than a few hundred feet had quite the appeal.
1st amendment says otherwise.
Why? Do you find that uncomfortable?

A lot of women do. So do a lot of men. Computer science is filled with people on the poor side of "social skill set", and that rubs a lot of people the wrong way. That's why there are less women in the field - they simply aren't going to tolerate a default reaction that is insulting first and helpful only if you ignore the attitude.

Don't get me wrong, we turn off a lot of people - men and women - because of this, but we lose a lot more women, percentage wise.

And just a note: The irony of you telling me to "please stop talking" is, well, perfectly suited to the topic of our conversation.
> It would be a clear science argument if there weren't groups that are very motivated (money, power) to misdirect the public by making "doubts" for their own gains, as the article clearly illustrates.

Definitely. There are groups willing to spend a lot of money to spread doubt about global warming. And, there are groups willing spend a lot of money to spread fear about global warming.

> There is a practical scientific consensus that the current global warming is real and caused by the human activity.

Consensus suggests correctness, but it isn't a guarantee. Once there was a consensus the sun rotated around the earth and that was dis-proven by a guy with a telescope and good record keeping. Granted we've come a long way in science, but we're also analyzing far more complex systems.