skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the severance and extended benefits are far more generous than any layoff I've been through here in the states

Interesting. Are big tech companies less generous than big engineering firms in other fields? When companies like BP, Boeing, etc. have had layoff rounds, 3 months is just about the minimum package for an involuntary termination, and it's common to first offer much higher voluntary packages to reduce headcount without having to actually fire (sorry, "terminate") people, especially longtime employees. My dad accepted a voluntary severance package equal to 18 months' salary some years ago (something like "1 month per year of service up to a cap" is a common formula for voluntary offers).

I think this is in part due to what you mention: the morale of the existing employees can be significantly impacted by how their former colleagues were treated. Many people know each other out of work, so escorting the employees out of the building by security with no warning is not going to successfully keep them from talking, and if anything will probably just make them more resentful when they meet up for a beer after work to discuss how the layoff was handled. The former employees may also turn up in other situations (college recruiting, industry organizations, consulting/sales, etc.) where it's not to your company's advantage for there to be a lot of people floating around who hold a grudge about the manner in which they were abruptly laid off.
Really can't stand this "reality show" feel to the footage. Why does everything have to be over sensationalized?
Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
Great for testing your copy
> I felt left out because my little country did not matter.

The truth is that you really don't matter to American politicians, and American politicians are (ostensibly) the only ones who wield power over the NSA. Our politicians don't even care about their constituents; why in the world would they care about you?

The general American psyche holds the rights of US citizens in high regard while ignoring or outright disparaging the rights of non-citizens. We have to be realistic. Our message is much more powerful when we focus on the crimes against the American people.
Most IBM employees are in India, over the years they've consistently trimmed their US workforce (got the treatment) to the point that only the research arm and a relatively small consulting staff and management remains US employees.

I suspect that is how they've been able to impress financially given all the multimillion dollar troubled projects they've overseen. Should be interesting times to come. Apparently Watson is now the great software hope, we'll see.
Just to make one clarification:

Obviously the household exists in a context regarding dealings with other households in a traditional culture so intrahousehold dynamics are important. Again, I said I saw modern feminism and women's suffrage arising as a response to changes in the interhousehold space brought on by industrialization.

This being said matriarchy and patriarchy are almost always a question of intra-household dynamics. The question is, whether women effectively hold the keys to power or whether women are isolated from eachother, unable to effectively organize and make their agendas compelling. A strong matriarchy/patriarchy in the household is a good indication of women being able to do this (again one sees this in Greek material despite the fact that the society was formally patriarchal with formal privileges associated with men only, see the drama of Lysistrata for a dramatic account, but also look at Faraone's works cited above).

The family is also generally a state in miniature. What goes on with the family is a mirror of state power structures (see Elaine Combs-Schilling, "Etching Patriarchal Rule" for some brief discussion of this, but also see "Mass Psychology of Fascism" by Wilhelm Reich for a psychologist's view). So intra-household dynamics are the among the best indications of political power structures in the whole of society.

In short, whoever has power at home, has power everywhere.
First steps of gamification – 3D MailBox (2007)
Even better: make the script work with local paths as well.

Then you can put

alias cd='sshcd'

in your .bashrc, and you won't have to distinguish between local and remote paths ever again.
Absolutely! I'm really only using this for SCP-like syntax when SSHing into unfamiliar boxes.

WARNING: SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION BELOW

Unless, you know, you used something like homes(h)ick...

https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
If you've been drinking 2% milk since childhood because that's what your family drank, I suggest you try whole milk.

You might never go back because the taste difference is unbelievable.
I agree with your comment.

Once every 2 months or so, I buy one of these[1]. But there's no way it can be "part of a healthy diet just like anything else", as the person I replied to seems to think. It is an exception to my healthy diet, not part of it. I deviate from my healthy diet once every 6 - 8 weeks to indulge. I'm also aware of Micheal Phelp's diet[2] would work for me too if I could swim back & forth for at least 4 hours a day instead of standing[3] in front of a computer for 8+ hrs.

1. http://www.militarydiscountscentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

2. http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/08/13/the-michael-phelps-di...

3. I have a standing desk and never use my chair.
Web browsers had had the capability to execute javascript through the URL bar since as long as I can remember. Social engineers should be able to just bypass this by telling users to copy paste the following code, Control+L, type "javascript:" (chrome strips it when copy-pasting), Control+V, Enter.

javascript:alert('hi ' + document.body.innerHTML);

If people can be tricked into executing code in the dev console, then why not this too?
> middle-aged men who consumed high-fat milk, butter and cream were significantly less likely to become obese over a period of 12 years compared to men who never or rarely ate high-fat dairy.

What I would like to know is if those not eating high-fat dairy compensate with high-carbs dairy.

The way this article is written led me to think that eating fat would help people avoid obesity which is a very different story than "you should choose high-fat dairy instead of high-carbs dairy"

Anyhow, I'm glad fat is making a come back. There's this weird , untold thinking that eating fat automatically translates to storing fat which is nonsense.
Steve Jobs Time Capsule and Lisa Mouse Found in Colorado
Yes, not really a lay-off. More like winding down the scale of outsourcing. I hope jobs will re-emerge onshore later on.
I was thinking about aliasing cd like that and instead having psuedo-directories that you can cd into to SSH into another box. The biggest problem though would be moving around in the box, as `cd ..` wouldn't take you back to your local machine.

What do you think?
Ask HN: What are you looking for in a Content Writing Studio?
Hey HN.

I am a co-owner of a small content writing studio in Eastern Europe. We provide different types of content to a few local businesses, but we want to grow larger and serve international clients.

My question is what would startups and small companies would expect of us and what kind of features they are looking for?

We have great writers and editors, working full time in our office and we are in search for new hires.

Thanks for your time :]
Not by itself it doesn't. Google does mass surveillance on us all the time, and most people barely register that. What creates the chilling effect is mass surveillance _combined with power_. That's what people are scared of - not just that some magic oracle somewhere knows what they're talking with their friends about, what their job is, what microscopic laws they're breaking and who they're cheating on their spouses with, but the fact that the entity doing the surveillance is also the entity that has a near-unlimited capability to do essentially whatever they want to them. That's where the self-censorship comes in.
It's funny. I grew up with ADD and ended up on medication by accident when I was a teenager (I was medicated for misdiagnosed depression). It was helpful but I was not on the typical medications for ADD.

My son has ADD too, and so far we have been able to get by without pharmaceuticals. He does drink coffee most mornings and that really helps him. But we'd avoid medications if possible.

Here in Indonesia such things are still very stigmatized but there's a positive side to that too, in that the definition of "normal" is much more expansive. To a remarkable extent by destigmatizing these things we've paved the way in the US to allow the elision of "normal" from descriptions of actual, living, breathing people.
SURE you need money to do great things - but hey, what i have a problem with is how they/he announced the NEWS

did you ever expected THIS kind of DOGGY release from MOZILLA?
A Better GitHub Issue Queue
hahah, awesome.
> The FLOSS movement used to be about caring about other people and projects.

Was it? I thought the primary driver was "I had a problem, this is the fix for my problem, maybe it helps you. I share this solution, you share yours.". Which basically holds true nowadays: Systemd solves Redhats problems. If it solves enough problems for enough people then it will prevail and other people might enhance it to fix their problems as well if they deem it a viable foundation. If it doesn't, then systemd will remain a niche solution that fixes redhats problems - which would totally be fine with me.

Given that we have the discussion on the debian list I'm inclined to believe that at least enough people think systemd is it to give it a push. If you don't like it stick with what you like or roll your own, but don't bitch and moan about redhat building a software that suits their use-case primarily and giving it away for free.
Larry McVoy was the BitKeeper guy. This was early in terms of distributed version control, but I have no idea if it was the first or just (for a while) the most popular. Linus wrote git using several lessons he learned from using BitKeeper. It's not just a copy, though.
From the article:

> We show that sex differences in gene expression and splicing are widespread in adult human brain, being detectable in all major brain regions and involving 2.5% of all expressed genes.

While I don't have a similar number, inter-racial differences of gene expression will be quite similar, if not even higher. This is the reason why RNAseq experiments these days in some cases can even find opposing evidence, given the genetic background of the subjects, such as in the recent bladder cancer publications regarding the role of STAG2 [1].

Please do not claim (or, rather, proselytize...) the "evidence" for sex differences based on a Nature article most people taking positions in that respect probably do not even quite comprehend.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v13/n12/full/nrc3631.html
Created 6 years ago.

Actually: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy+creation+date
Essentially, Campbell claims that Taubes fails to distinguish between the carbohydrates in foods such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains, versus that from refined carbohydrates.

Also, he claims that Taubes mis-represents the "low-fat" diet advocated by most health officials since the 1970's - and that the SAD (Standard American Diet) has never really been low-fat. It has around 30% of calories from fat, as opposed to the 10 - 12% that he advocates. Hence, when we compare a low-carb, high-fat diet against the normal "low-fat" diet, we're really just going for a high-fat, high refined carbohydrate diet, which is meaningless.

He also points to some studies, and says we need to do more research on the long-term effects of high-fat, low-carb diets:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23372809

I don't know if I'd agree with everything yet, and I'm definitely not vegan...haha.

But I've found I've been trying to exercise fairly regularly (cycle to work, swim/run), and keep my portion sizes small. I've been eating a tonne of fruit lately though...lol.
1. you posted a link to your site yesterday
2. this article is 3 years old
Daniel_Newby, you are [dead].
Ridiculously smart spam filtering.
As an aside, why is that every time I've been to the USA I cannot seem to just buy fresh whole milk?

I always seem to find these massive containers, full of enriched this, and added that. Sometimes flavoured or low-fat.

If I wanted vitamin enriched low-fat something or other I'd be spoilt for choice... but if one wants regular milk, from a cow, untouched except by pasteurisation, well this seems quite difficult.

Was I just going to all the wrong shops?
View-source: on Android Phones
The Old Reader introduces premium subscription
I totally agree, a lot more of my work life is spent on our Linux platform. tmux is a godsend due to my sometimes flaky VPN connection.
Another passionate-less bloke, spreading the passionate-less gospel. Yay for averageness and stagnating lazy stupidness!
Psychology can teach us much about why many people fear GM foods
Thanks for the sincere comment! I hope you have a kickass Wednesday.
Swedish developer discovers security hole in iPhone
I challenged hackers to investigate me (2013)
IBM has sold the XSeries division, STG is a different division (storages and systems), and is not up for sale AFAIK.
zsh can do this :)
That's always worked by default for me on Ubuntu (assuming ssh keys etc)
i skipped a grade too in school, and i skipped through a year university, also helping higher semester students in classes i never had.

the problem ended up being that i lost all my peers to study and eventually lost interest in the university. the result was that all my peers now have a ph.d and i struggled to get back in many years later to now write a master thesis...
iMessage from Terminal
Tired of getting off your terminal screen to answer that dickheads friends of yours?
Now you can curse them right on the terminal!
>Ubuntu on other side asks only for user password

It's the user password of an admin user. What other password can it possibly ask for? a global su password?
Another misconception is that skimmed and semi-skimmed milk would be better for lactose intolerance—it isn't as there is a similar (if not slightly higher) concentration of lactose in skimmed and semi-skimmed milk

http://www.gihealth.com/html/education/lactose.html
I love you too.
Plenty of whole milk around me from a variety of dairies. Probably depends on where you were geographically and which stores in particular you went to
Minority set-asides aren't our exclusive purpose. We want to reform the procurement process to make it more competitive and honest. Part of that is making it so that a woman doesn't have to write an essay explaining that she's a woman before she gets granted woman owned business status by the SBA.

But another part of it is advocating for the RFP-IT Act, which would make it a lot easier for small businesses to sell to the federal government: http://blog.dobt.co/2014/01/27/Reform-Federal-Procurement-fo...

And another is piloting our software, Screendoor.io, which is based on the project we ran successfully in the White House, RFP-EZ: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/15/rfp-ez-delivers-sa...
Isn't lack of ability to modularize a sign of lack of another kind of gift? Gifts come in different traits.
Anyone knows what is to be expected to be inside? Has this been documented earlier? Like does it contain 'current' things Jobs thought would be a mark for the future, or rather new inventions / drawings of things to come (davinci style)? Invented by himself or others?
> Apple/Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/AOL/etc are after your money, they only protect your rights if it means "more money", not if it threatens to impact their profit.

That's a wild generalization and baseless accusation.

First of all, collaborating with the NSA brings nothing to their bottom line, only infrastructure costs. Second, they are forbidden to be honest about NSA's demands and therefore this has hurt their image in the international market-place.

Maybe most of us were aware that our communications are intercepted, but we had no idea to what extent that happens. As a non-US citizen, I now think twice about collaborating with US-based companies. And it's not because I fear the NSA, I really don't, but rather because I'm thinking that the same backdoors these companies were forced to build can be discovered and used by other organizations that may be closer to home.

And even worse than that - as a non-US citizen I am not represented by any of your officials and suing anybody in the US would be totally unfeasible because of costs. The only thing I can do is to loudly complain about it on the Internet or to my acquaintances and that's about it. If it were my own government doing this shit - at the very least I'd have other options.

Make no mistake - the credibility of all US-based companies suffers and because of this you will see in the following years a lot of (1) proposals for country-wide Intranets, (2) governments switching to their own forks of open-source software and (3) businesses switching to local software providers and so on. You can already see signs of this happening and it's precisely companies like Apple/Google/Microsoft/Yahoo that will take the biggest hit.

And I fear that US citizens and officials aren't taking this seriously - as if us, non-US citizens should have expected this surveillance, without thinking that the US placed itself as the guardian of the Internet, that trust has now been eroded and the effects (e.g. country-wide Intranets, local software achieving monopoly by government intervention, etc) will be negative for everybody.

EDIT: speak of the devil - http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-142_en.htm
Sorry, I should have added the date. Also, I'm not the author. I just came across this site this morning while reading this article [1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7221713
Says the Google employee...
Funny you mention it, I actually have this working! (http://i.imgur.com/8VBYDd4.png)

You can check out my dotfiles (https://github.com/christianbundy/dotfiles), but I'm pretty sure that the functionality came standard with one of my Zsh submodules, Prezto (https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto).
Systems and Technology Group is the hardware wing and within contains X-Series Division. IBM is keeping the other power, storage and Z (mainframe) IIRC.
From a chemistry point of view milk is an emulsion of cow fats dispersed in water (and some proteins, and electrolytes, not relevant to this discussion). Shaking up milk or using a churn breaks the emulsion and you get solid butter. Strangely about 95% of the population has no idea where butter comes from beyond "it comes from the store". Ordinarily water and oil don't mix very well. Some really tasty foods (not just milk) involve oil/water emulsions, sauces, gravys, salad dressings, mayonnaise, to a greater or lesser extent raw baked good doughs, etc.

So thats chemistry lesson 1, lesson 2 is "lots of stuff" in o-chem class prefers to partition itself in oil or water phase. So at least some ochem lab work involves a sep funnel which is a magic, yet simple, way to do liq vs liq extractions. Stuff moves from being dissolved in liq 1 to being dissolved in liq 2. Its a law of nature that its impossible for an undergrad lab involving a sep funnel to not have an accident or incident of some sort, usually more funny than dangerous. Not surprisingly one liquid is usually polar and one is usually non-polar because you can't do much of an extraction if liq 1 and liq 2 mix perfectly to create liq 3. And the sep fraction is often crazy, if you work the polar / nonpolar hard enough. I would imagine the sep fraction for salt or sugar in water/veg oil could be nearly a million, like the only salt in veg oil might be mechanical turbidity/suspension. Thats just a guess but I'm sure its ridiculously high if not a million. You can still have a "useful at lab scale" extraction if its only a factor of 2 or so, just pointing out its not shocking to be much higher.

Anyway the point of this chem discussion is there is no such thing as milk, there's a liquid that comes out of a cow and its got all kinds of crazy stuff in it, some of which STRONGLY partitions into either the polar or nonpolar phase. So the eventual discovery is probably going to be some kind of hormone, protein, mineral, herbicide, antiseptic, antibiotic, pesticide, solvent, "something" that strongly partitions / dissolves into fat and not into water. In the list above, hormones, herbicides, pesticides, and solvents tend to partition strongly into fat, the other stuff is a tough call one way or the other.

I would theorize that other animals living in the same contaminated conditions would partition the same way. Us mammals are not as biochemically different as some think. So its entirely possible you'd get the same effect from eating fatty meat, perhaps bacon, or foods cooked in (or made with) lard. Its worth some study.
It didn't occur to me to check across all regions, and that sounds like a good idea! (so far, I have only checked across various machine types in availability zones in "my" region). Automating the checks across all regions with a script sounds like a good idea.
Browsers have already started to remove/limit code execution capability from the address bar.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656433

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=82181
So much wrong with this coverage. The only thing new is the exclusive "fake" find video. From a cnet article back in September:

But Jobs' mouse wasn't easily found inside. Rather, it was hidden amidst hundreds, or even thousands of other artifacts last seen in 1983. So the "Diggers" team had to wait a few days before reaching their goal.

Which also begs the question. From thousands of artifacts the only thing worth a photo is a mouse?
Lisp does this and has been doing this way before Erlang.
A large percentage of U.S. milk has vitamin D added.
I have to disagree. One of the things I like about HN is that grammar/usage nazi responses seeem to occur at a lower rate than just about anywhere else. Even better - the speed of downmodding is directly proportionate to the quantity of pedanticism present.
Thanks for the Calculus Made Easy reference. It's here, to save anyone googling. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf

The prologue is great:

"Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.

Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics (and they are mostly clever fools) seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way.

Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can."
Making it an option is not very intuitive. If those likes are useless, just stop them from liking or hellban them by never having their likes show up or cost anything.

Either solution would require Facebook to admit that there are tons of fake likes though. The assumption being that admitting this will have a negative impact on revenue.

Also, either solution would probably result in a lot of new click far accounts being created with the new goal of keeping likes to a minimum. It'll be a constant battle I'm sure.
Thanks, almost entirely, to Mozilla's efforts.

Yes, Mozilla gets most of its income from Google right now, but saying that Spread Firefox's success was almost entirely attributable to Google's money is tantamount to saying that Mozilla would've been unable to secure any other source of funding.