skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This parasite messes with the brain, causing rats, for instance, to feel a fierce attraction to its predator, the cat.

This is wrong. The parasite causes rats to lose their natural fear of cat smells, not gain an attraction to cats. The author mis-read the research:

"Infected rodents show a reduction in their innate aversion to cat odors; while uninfected mice and rats will generally avoid areas marked with cat urine or with cat body odor, this avoidance is reduced or eliminated in infected animals. Moreover, some evidence suggests this loss of aversion may be specific to feline odors: when given a choice between two predator odors (cat or mink), infected rodents show a significantly stronger preference to cat odors than do uninfected controls."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Rodent_behavior
I'm An iOS Engineer. I Want To Leave My Failing Startup.
There's a relatively simple fix for lane markings, that would help autonomous cars even in good weather. You know those reflective lane marking doodads they embed in the road surface? We start replacing them with magnetized nails that are pounded into the asphalt in intervals. Sensors in the car could recognize the lanes even in deep snow or pea-soup fog. And homeowners could easily outfit their driveways with a trip to Home Depot.
But note, it doesn't say that ISPs have to have the same size pipe to all peers. Which was the problem in this case... Comcast, et al. didn't want to upgrade their Cogent links to handle the required traffic from Netflix. Everyone sending Comcast traffic through Cogent was equally penalized during prime time hours. You can argue it's poor network management, but it is still "neutral".
No, I believe it means the programmer gets automatically paid when milestones are marked as done. They are referring to the 3.5k being paid for the job. Any revenue the app gets has nothing to do with them.
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Ask HN: Equity for first employee unpaid?
Startup consist of 2 founders, they were at this for the last year+ - building a B2B product.
1. industry expert / sales
2. data scientist / cto (part-time)

One of them is my friend.

I joined 3 months ago, helped accelerated the growth - research, sales support, marketing, and products.

However I did not know enough about the industry (which I caught up understanding through reading; [experience needed]) nor I have data science expertise.

Last 3 months, we spoken to clients. Soon to closing early BETA deals. Marketing materials developed. Prior, we did not have any of this.

We still will not see substantial revenue until the next 3 months.

So for 6+ months, with little or no income. I am okay for now since I still live with my family and have savings. However risk is being incurred...

Option A: Look for a product manager role at another startup.

Option B: Stay, if 10%+ equity? No income for 6+ months?

EDIT Option C: Do some freelance gig till then. (Not a big fan of this one.)

FYI, I am a self-taught developer, designer, and sales & marketing. Jack of all trades, master of none (depends on who am I talking to). Just graduated Masters a few years ago, previously worked in financial industry. My aspiration is to be an entrepreneur myself, tried a few things before, hard time finding a team.
It's a complex issue. De-instiutionalization was driven both by cost concerns and advocacy for keeping the mentally ill in the community. At one time, the cops would use "searching for a bed" to detain people for excessive periods of time.

That advocacy was driven by the horrific conditions that became common. Google Willowbrook.
NXDOMAIN hijacking is what OpenDNS does.
DNS is so cheap, and Amazon Route53 has such an advantage with their latency based routing, health checks, and integrations with other AWS services. Honestly zones are $0.50 and $0.50 per million queries. You have to be pushing lots of DNS queries to have costs even exceed a tiny bill of $20 a month.

It is the definition of a lot of engineers hours and infrastructure costs for literally no profit for the company. However, it is a basic service every hosting provides has to offer to be competitive.
Naïve question but what kind of organizations will benefit the most from this service? Or put it other way, the situations this service is needed for? Can anyone explain to me please?
You see similar skepticism with autoimmune disorders. Invisible pain is something coworkers and families get bored with quickly.
That sounds like a really positive result from a horrible occurrence. Mental health care is woefully underfunded in much of the US. Here in Florida they have 24 hours to place someone at a facility after they've been medically discharged, and they still have trouble. Most places that can take people have a very limited number of beds that are already filled, which in turn causes pressure to discharge people potentially prematurely to open up new beds.

The health insurance situation only exacerbates that: there might be 5 facilities in the area that can take people, but only 1 that can take the uninsured. Florida is one of the states that "wisely" chose not to do a Medicaid expansion, and so if you're poor but without a diagnosed, processed, shortlisted disability, you're uninsured. Hilariously federal subsidies for buying coverage only kick in if you're making some high percentage of the poverty line, which people with mental health issues often have trouble reaching a fraction of that.

Oh and to add to that for the one available facility they used the Room 101 description from Orwell's 1984 as inspiration. No windows. Smoothed concrete floors. Echoing cries and screams. Blood. Food barely fit for animal consumption. And of course nothing helpful like any sort of talk therapy. Psychiatrist in residence once a day for 30 minutes, allotting on average 30 seconds per patient. Sleeping in cots on the floor. Sitting against the wall for hours with nothing to do but stare. If you've never experienced it before it becomes pretty clear pretty quick how much meaningful care is provided to unprivileged people suffering from mental health issues in this country.
It's relative velocity that counts, and in most situations it's the other cars that are more likely to cut in front of you or rear-end you than the tree on the side of the road. People who think slow (relative to the ground) is safer are oversimplifying.
Well a new one was recently started promising to give ordinary folks aka Entrepreneurs, Facebook and Apple like "exits". Its imaginatively named "neurs.com" .

After some research I had put my comments under this review of the neurs setup and how it seems to work.
http://avoidonlinemarketingscams.com/what-is-neurs-is-it-the...

Now I play in the same space as my USP is to connect warm leads to companies via incentives. Looking at their videos they claim to connect Entrepreneurs with providers( leads in my world). So I did my research and found they have atleast a few 100k's of pageviews in the past few months. I am trying to decode their marketing tactics to figure out the do's and don'ts. Would like to hear what others think about it.
Are all prototypes worth $3500? I'm confused as to why there is a fixed price.
Well documented sure, but man are there some long lines in there. I get that 80 char width can be a bit limiting, but several of those are 200+.

Still, I'll take the documentation. :)
I monetized purely via display ads (a lot of second tier networks that would turn a blind eye to the libelous content), with fairly terrible CPM but lots of views.

I believe the purchase also monetized using paid CAPTCHAs (where the viewer has to watch a video / type a phrase), which probably did very well considering the sheer volume of posts.

Exit was on the latter order-of-magnitude.
Reddit hiring Mobile Engineer for official app
Awesome. I've been using Mongoose with MongoDB with my latest Node project, but I've really wanted to take a closer look at RethinkDB. Thinky reaching 1.0 might just be the catalyst to do so.
The hero is called in to patch up some flaming wreckage. Mgmt never allocates the resources to actually fix the root cause. Thus the hero is seldom at fault, otherwise they would be Jane Doe. There is a specific type of hero who deliberately creates this situation, but IME they are not the rule.

Source: I was That Guy for about 8 years at three different gigs. Now I specifically negotiate no afterhours support in my job interviews, and turn off my phone when on holiday.
Well it cost them some business, because some companies wouldn't use it due to performing poorly on other processors. I can't see how it would be beneficial for them to cripple AMD performance.
Given their other Cloud-oriented offerings (Compute Engine and App Engine), I'm not so sure they are doing this to make gobs of money. It's a hole in their service portfolio that they are filling. This can indirectly lead to people being more comfortable choosing Compute Engine, increasing adoption and earning Google more money as a whole.

AWS has Route 53 (which is probably not a huge money maker), Google needs to match them on this. I expect Google's offering to improve over time technically, just like Route 53 has. DNS is but one piece of each company's portfolio, but it's such a critical piece that it's expected to be there.
> Rarely, at least according to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In a 2006 opinion he cited an approximate error rate of 0.027 percent, based on [...]

I laughed out loud. 1 mistake per 3700 cases. The software industry averages 1 bug every 50 lines of code [1]. Microsoft hits ~1/2000. The space shuttle achieved ~1/20000, but that takes serious dedication and cost [2].

Doesn't matter what the "based on" is. Deciding court cases is not easier than writing a line of code. That estimate is off by at least two orders of magnitude. Which is funny until the fact that it was a supreme court justice who repeated it sinks in.

(The article itself gives a false positive rate of 4.1%, which is much more reasonable.)

1: http://amartester.blogspot.com/2007/04/bugs-per-lines-of-cod...
2: http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
China accused of anti-Christian campaign as church demolition begins
Weren't the launch codes set to 0000000 or something because for convenience for decades? So no need to upgrade to larger storage for this.

edit: found it
http://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-u...
Ask HN: I have too many ideas! How can I get rid of them?
I have a problem; I have too many ideas all the time, and they bother me. They are popping back in my mind all the time and I can't escape from them. Whatever project I start, whatever new field or area I look into, I usually have a ton of new ideas instantly; how could I make this better, what would be killer features, how could the UI improved, etc.. Tons of them.
Right now I have more than 40 project ideas and 546 new issues (mostly feature ideas) in my private tracker which I would like to implement (LOL).

Writing them down as David Allen suggests in GTD helped a TON, really. Once I write them down, they don't come back as much, because I know they are in a good place and won't get lost but still, if I don't jot down an idea immediately as it pops into my mind, it just doesn't let me do my job...

Another good practice is to try to focus on one thing and one thing only and do only that and don't bother anything else. (e.g. one project at a time)

I read a couple of articles in the topic but I still have this problem from time to time, and sometimes, I just can't focus on what I need to do right now, because of them.

If you suffered from this, how did you overcome by it? What techniques could you stop them popping into your mind? How could you forget or not deal with them and increase your focus on what needs to be done instead of daydreaming?
I'm wondering how Dyn is taking this. These guys have been working on DNS for years, and were probably one of the first "managed DNS" or "enterprise DNS" services. Over time though they've failed to really innovate, or even keep up with standard (you can't use any of their value add services like the global traffic manager if you also want to use DNSSEC, for instance). Despite this their prices have remained ridiculously high. Now that other players are moving into the market at literally multiple orders of magnitude cheaper it's tough to see why any of their customers would stay.

As a personal note, I would recommend the Edgecast DNS service over anything else. They have amazing customer support (something Google really lacks), and they've been in the CDN game for long enough to know that they are going to be around for awhile. They're also rather crazy about getting the best performance possible.
I don't have experience with Akka specificially, but I have long experience with Scala, and similar web frameworks in another languages.

Here is one of my projects in Scala: https://github.com/Eliah-Lakhin/papa-carlo
And this is my resume: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26689230/cv.pdf

I would like to work in Akka based startup as a remote full-time contractor(I had been working remotely for years). As a a middle-ware role for start. What do you think?
Was this announced by Google today, or is this on HN because of the XKCD? If the former, did Google push the announcement because of the XKCD?
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So this is quite relevant to me.

I wouldn't like to be a solo founder because it's too much work and stress for one person. I've had this idea for a mobile app (it's a social network game - littlequest.me) for about 2 years now but still haven't done it because I don't have the right co-founder. Mostly because my network is too dispersed I think.

I do have a couple friends with no experience with building mobile apps interested though. Do you think I should team up with them or hire a professional? I really don't like the idea of doing a business by myself though.
As long as my self-driving car is allowed to report you to the Highway Patrol, I can't see this becoming a problem. It's just another one of those issues that's a lot more easily solved than what's been done to get driverless cars to their current state of capability.
Hopefully the lower cost from google causes aws to drop prices for this service as well.
Can you lay out a new case for them? If you've already agreed to Option B, then I would say it's going to be difficult to do anything other than assess which option is more ideal for you personally. Otherwise I would add an addendum to Option B, which is that the company pays you back for all your unpaid time (whatever rate is agreeable) should it become profitable or get funded.
The pricing is right there on the sidebar (third link). https://developers.google.com/cloud-dns/pricing
AT&T is fixing to do a similar deal too from the looks of it. I have to say, I see some very, very bitter irony in them doing this while publicly shaming Comcast over their paid peering arrangement.

So which ISP is next?
it says in the upper right hand corner. It out performs green sock on higher workloads.
Really, how much would you save? We we even talking dollars a month?
https://www.cityharvest.org/
The same type of people who use CDNs. If you want great performance globally it helps to have primary DNS services near by, rather than having lookups cross the world.
If you are using Compute Engine or App Engine, this would give you a cheap, API-driven method for managing your DNS zones, without relying on an external service (though, there is nothing wrong with doing so).

It's also likely that Google will continue to improve this service over time, so who knows what the future will hold. In the case of Amazon's Route 53, they have some really neat features for pointing alias records at S3 buckets and Load Balancers.
How are you taking payments? Checks?
No. $0.20 per hosted zone + $0.40 per million queries (first usage tier).
Food for thought - this article is discussing JAH and GitHub. Over the last few weeks, JAH has repeatedly quoted this person. Maybe that has some relevance.
These systems are designed to do one thing and do it well, without error. They have been in place a long time. Because they are old does not mean they are not secure. Much like the Apollo mission computers are often quoted as being "less powerful than a calculator" does not mean that they do not work. Many military computers are not impressive from a hardware standpoint because they don't have to be.
Cool video, who made yours?
The military still use bolts! And screws! And I bet if you look really hard you can find a copper wire! Some of these things are hundreds of years old!

If it works, why change it? So long as they can find a supplier of new floppy disks for the data, it seems pretty reasonable to me (and given they're nuclear missiles, a few dozen grand per disc really doesn't seem that bad). Now if there are no more suppliers of those disks at all, and no way to read/write to them (at all), then we should start being a bit more concerned.
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Eurisko – The Computer With A Mind Of It's Own
A Doctor's Declaration of Independence
EdgeCast looks nice, but minimum of $50 a month.

http://www.edgecast.com/services/route-managed-dns/

We pay around $2 a month at Route53.
Really should be https. I like the idea though and hope it's successful.
I was thinking the same thing. Has XKCD predicted the future again?
So, assuming you had an extra $3,500 to blow. What would you most like to have built?
I wish either AWS Route 53 or Google Cloud DNS would support being a BIND protocol secondary :(
I work in Scala and Akka everyday at my full time job creating systems to handle video image processing and web client access plus analytics. (I love Scala, warts and all.)

I am also a technical reviewer for Scalatra in Action (Manning) and was a technical reviewer for Developing an Akka Edge (Bleeding Edge).

I'm looking for remote contract work; post a reply if you're interested. I'm pretty easy to find.
actually its an awesome talent,you should put it to use,put them ideas into actions.I'm the same way ,i used to think of it as problem too,bt someone told me to choose one idea at a time and accomplish them.
Actually, your opinion is not only wrong but also the opposite of what happened with Blackberry. Unlike fried waffles or Groupon, Blackberry never lost its core business -- that of enterprise sales. Blackberry was never a fad -- it was a genuine productivity tool. There were not much of entertainment apps on BB. In fact RIM never took Iphone or android seriously until it was too late. They thought third party developers were a bother. They had repeat business from government, enterprises and telecoms; even now a large chunk of their core customer base is still with them ; however the momentum has swung towards consumer oriented devices. I remember running in Jim Balsille at a fund raiser and I told him how atrocious the developer support was for blackberry compared to Android and I left with a sense that third party developers were not a priority for them.

There is a lesson to be had from Blackberry's decline but its not the same as Groupon /HerbalLife /Fried waffles.
Unless your app operates at a truly massive scale with a very specific set of characteristics, this won't save you even a minuscule fraction on your total budget. Route 53 is dirt freaking cheap.
We will have the docs set up in the next 2-3 weeks.

Agreement was we do opposing research and share those readings based on common equity startup practices.

Obviously, its all different case-by-case.

What equity (or extra) compensation should I request for at this point?

A thought keep passing my head is: If I take a job at a mature startup, I be an employee as well. Here, I am also an employee (co-founder level) but no pay. Status is not important at the end, but it just cannot escape my head about it.
Benchmark Unreal Engine 4's "Elemental" demo – NeoGAF
Slightly related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqgMIRF7acw. On a more serious note it will be interesting to see if it works considering France has been thinking of scrapping the 35 hour work week.
Matt Blaze: My life as an international arms courier (1995)
Robots Fighting To The Death. Because It's Educational.
This is a scan of his temporary export license: http://www.crypto.com/private/exportlic-scan.pdf
Very interesting article;

I have a shell script that helps with setting up trusted keys: trusted keys help if you need to run automated tests, that involve several machines, or simply if you would like to skip typing in a password on each connection.

http://mosermichael.github.io/cstuff/all/projects/2011/07/14...
Or use tsocks. Proxies everything that uses tcp through a socks proxy (ssh -D) http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/tsocks.1.html
They are moving towards http://xkcd.com/1361/ :P
Oh upvote the shit out of this! The only hassle we've had with Hangouts is how to start one by yourself and then get a link that's easily pastable into IM so everyone else can join, and this works like a charm.
They are trying to create a two-sided marketplace on something that is traditionally a consulting gig.

So many things can go sideways, and at a 4% take on $3,500 projects, as loosely defined as that is, there is no way this can scale.
"In dysfunctional organizations, dysfunctional software happens despite of the bright people."

A variation of Conway's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Law
The 64-core coprocessor has a different architecture than the main ARM processor. Kernel code and regular userspace programs won't run on it.
"and though the missiles have been upgraded numerous times to make them safer and more reliable"

A strange sentence for nuclear missiles.
#JustDating
Pretty clever comedy. If you're in your late 20s, you'll probably enjoy this. Watch the other episodes, they're all pretty good!
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> accepting things as they are

really? as opposed to innovating?
Great article. Might be hard to get through, so I'll put out this quote which I enjoyed and compelled me to read the rest of it.

"Matthews had started a cystic-fibrosis treatment program as a young pulmonary specialist at Babies and Children’s Hospital, in Cleveland, in 1957, and within a few years was claiming to have an annual mortality rate that was less than two per cent. To anyone treating CF at the time, it was a preposterous assertion. National mortality rates for the disease were estimated to be higher than twenty per cent a year, and the average patient died by the age of three. Yet here was Matthews saying that he and his colleagues could stop the disease from doing serious harm for years. “How long [our patients] will live remains to be seen, but I expect most of them to come to my funeral,” he told one conference of physicians.

In 1964, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation gave a University of Minnesota pediatrician named Warren Warwick a budget of ten thousand dollars to collect reports on every patient treated at the thirty-one CF centers in the United States that year—data that would test Matthews’s claim. Several months later, he had the results: the median estimated age at death for patients in Matthews’s center was twenty-one years, seven times the age of patients treated elsewhere. He had not had a single death among patients younger than six in at least five years."
The git history wasn't her most "concrete" charge of sexism. Your attitude demonstrates that you have no idea what sexism is. Her most "concrete" charge of sexism was the charge that Theresa Preston-Werner, with her husband's consent (tacit or otherwise) emotionally tormented her. And that charge appears to have been confirmed.
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Route53 is not a bad option. If you're using EdgeCast CDN as well you'll probably get a discount on DNS (and I will point out that the EdgeCast CDN is faster, and more importantly, a hell of a lot cheaper than Cloudfront is).
If it's a startup, doesn't that give you a good deal of leverage to sway the direction of the product? Why not communicate with them about the issues you see?