skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is ridiculous. from what I read the "harm" that happened was really the fact that it was prominently placed in the search engines, which the blogger really had no direct control over.

If you do a google search and "the place to avoid in Cap-Ferret: Il Giardino", it would not matter if it was 1st or 21st, and that seems to match the judgement. Ms Doudet makes the claim in regards to the search rank.
it could also be an organism that was simply invented rather than modified from an existing one.
I bought what's called a "stack slicer" used on ebay for about $300. It'll neatly slice the spine off and your finger! Man it's sharp, I found out the hard way. I do enough that it's worth the cost. You'll be sorry if you scrimp on this piece of equipment.

You'll also need a sheet feeding scanner with a hopper on it, that'll scan both sides at the same time. Otherwise, it takes far too long. The software with the scanner will OCR it automagically and create a PDF. I scan at 400 dpi, which looks real sweet on a retina screen. There are a lot of settings to tweak on the scanner, some experimenting will get you the best results. Make sure you turn the double feed detection on.

Use some denatured alcohol to regularly clean the window and rollers, I also use a solder sucker to blow the paper dust out of it.

And lastly, you'll never get 100% of a book to go through cleanly. Just rescan the screw-ups, and assemble the result using pdftk (a marvelous tool). I also like to scan the covers separately in color and fold them in.

Times vary, but I can scan an average paperback in 5 minutes. Turning the sheets sideways makes it go much faster.
Sorry, was tired. I fixed that and a couple other typos. Thanks for reading, everyone.
Hmm. Do you want to pay for the medical supervision she'll need for that fast? Healthy food might be cheaper.
We'll have to wait until the other 4 companies debut before confirming that.
Combination of CSS3 transitions (blur, translation, glow) and d3 I think
In your last point you touch on something important - do we need a rich digital UI for everything? Is the dryer that has essentially an Android tablet embedded in it superior to the two knobs and a button my current one has? (And of that, I use 10% of my options.) Do I need yet finer control? I only have so much attention to give; no interface is more appealing to me. An appliance can be "smart" without having the trappings of computers, I hope.

And likewise, do we need an Internet connection in order for the object to be smart? If context awareness is the name of the game, there's quite a bit you can glean by being a physical object with a memory of how it's used, and beyond that, a local network.

The Drift lightbulb is interesting because it adds some smarts to a dumb object but doesn't add more I/O - it still uses a light switch and an LED bulb, and it isn't trying to get on the network. There are computers that are taking on the form factor of a light bulb, and there are light bulbs that are taking on the force multiplier of a computing device. The latter philosophy needs to be explored more.
diversification could make the company more robust without sacrificing his vision.
Yes. He's been a rather vocal opponent of the current buddy-buddy arrangement between ULA and the US Military. Also, since the military tends to have a pretty full plate regarding rocket launches, having a military contract would give lots of reoccurring experience in building up for future stages of his goals.
Instagram API hacked to allow uploads?
> This is due to gravitation time dilation

If you're talking about an object in orbit compared to an object at rest on the Earth's surface, both gravitational time dilation and the other type you describe come into play, because the objects are in motion relative to each other as well as being at different altitudes in the Earth's gravitational field. Many other comments in this thread have addressed this.

> In this case, it is the accelerated frame of reference in which time "slows down" relative to the non-accelerated frame.

Not really. The key difference is not acceleration; it's the fact that the super space ship is in motion relative to the center of mass of the galaxy, while the Earth is not. (Strictly speaking, the Earth is too, but its motion with respect to the galaxy's center of mass is so slow that it can be ignored in this scenario.) Similarly, if I sit at rest on the Earth's equator and you move westward around the equator at the same speed as the Earth is rotating (about 450 meters per second), then when we meet up again, my clock will have less elapsed time than yours, because you will have been at rest with respect to the Earth's center of mass, not me (because I am rotating with the Earth, but you are not).
> Any time I hit my special trigger key combination, it will 'launch' that app. If it is open it gives it focus, and if it is not running it opens the app. This means I can rearrange my apps and desktops however I like and I always instantly travel to the app I want next.

What if I have 6 full-screen Terminal windows (connected to SSH servers, tmux sessions, and so on), and I need to switch between them? Your comment prompted me to install Quicksilver, but it doesn't seem like it can handle that. I'd be glad to hear if I'm wrong.
Yeah. And especially, the FDA should get on it and fast-track the reversible, non-invasive male birth control (1 time injection) that has been safely used (in trials) in India for 20 years. Men need birth control too, am I right?
The mathematics of quantum computing
Would you recommend a reference on Semco's approach?
The 2008 crisis showed that systemic risk in the repackaging business far outweighs the fine print in retail investment products. If people are upset it's not due to their ignorance but because of the feigned ignorance of those experts whose job is to study and understand risk, especially at government regulatory offices. The sporting equivalent would be for a commissioner to wax eloquent about the 'glorious uncertainties of the game' when the reality is a less-than-glorious certainty of match-fixing scandals.
Another amazing feature from the Streak team. My whole company is thoroughly addicted.
IBM announces $3B research initiative
I don't see why it would conflict. He gets to prove his rockets function well enough for DoD needs, and SpaceX gets more money/experience.

AFAIK, following the retirement of the shuttles, the US no longer has a heavy lift capability. Looking to indigenous companies for filling that void is probably a medium/long term goal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_cat
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The whole RIF combined with headcount freeze was a massive screwup IMHO.

My hope this time around is that they free up way more IC dev and UX roles and RIF middle management and good chunks of PM and test. There are too many leads and managers afraid of becoming an IC and having to do work (instead of playing politics). Give them plenty of opportunities to contribute as IC and if they do not want that, let them go.
Sometimes there is overlap, sometimes there is extra baggage, sometimes there is redundancy...What there is and what is left depends on how things are handled.

Sometimes the recurring "let the bottom 5% go" that companies like Cisco do might actually make sense.
Those of the OS X persuasion can find similar functionality in fs_usage.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
> Relativistic time dilation will have no effect on chemical and biological reactions.

This is not correct. Relativistic time dilation affects all processes. If you flew a chemical reaction and a living organism on a GPS satellite, and then brought them back and compared them with a similar reaction and organism that stayed behind on Earth, the reaction on the satellite would have proceeded further and the organism on the satellite would have aged more. (In practice, the differences would be too small to detect with our current technology, but if we had accurate enough ways of measuring we could detect them.)
Microsoft employee here. This is great news - we have so much duplication and layers. Anything to reduce the bloat and increase agility is great news.

There is a lot of great news at Microsoft these days - great place to be - hope I'm around after tomorrow!
What to do when your prospect doesn't want to switch software?
I remember meeting and hanging out with Jason Kelly in Cambridge (several times, I think the first one was at a Grey Thumb meetup, an artificial life themed group), the work on refactoring the T7 bacteriophage really sparked my interest in bioengineering and got me involved with DIYbio. Soon after Jason co-founded Ginkgo Bioworks.

Both as an amateur biologist and as a YC alumnus I'm really happy to see Ginkgo survive and grow. Just as one of the goals of DIYbio are to be to biotech what the Homebrew Computer Club was to personal computing, Ginko's systematizing and modularizing of biotech can be the Altair 8080 of life sciences.

(Edit: well, perhaps targeting truly amateur kit users is early right now, and it's more about modularizing aspects of biotech, I like the spirit I expressed in the previous paragraph :>)
Anyone else found it a little surprising he managed to get a patent for it? Encoder wheels for 7-segment-displays have been around for a long time (e.g. http://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/old-two-digit-led-wit... ), and this is just the straightforward implementation of one using photonics - basically a 1-of-10 to 7-segment decoder with OR gates.
YouTube Product Manager making an epic marriage proposal goes viral
Ask HN: Why Oracle Virtual Box too slow in Mac while running Win?
Last week when we bought MBP for my friend, we tried to run Win 7 in Oracle Virtualbox but it was too slow and laggy, so finally spent some bucks to buy Parallels that ran the OS smoothly. Why is it so? Has anyone felt the same?
In the comments sections someone also recommended this great talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_prager_in_search_for_the_man...
While I won't dispute that marijuana may magnify paranoid thoughts, I will say that it's just as likely that such an effect wouldn't not really matter if there wasn't something to be paranoid about. When I lived in North Carolina, Brazil and other places with laws proscribing harsh punishments and strict enforcement for possession, I regularly encountered people somewhat paranoid when high. Since living in San Francisco, I can't think of the last time I talked to someone who was acting/feeling paranoid while high.
Cellphone cameras had the exact same backlash when they first started showing up.
> Are they running differently? Or they only appear to do so?

As acchow says, this question doesn't really make sense, but if you want a short answer, I agree with his: they are running differently.

> what happens when the two participants get closer? Do clocks start "getting in sync"?

I don't understand what you're asking here: can you be more specific about what "getting closer" means and what "getting in sync" means?

> Can it "tell" it is running slower?

If the clock can only use measurements internal to itself, then no, it can't tell. It needs to be able to compare itself to some external reference (such as another clock in a different state of motion) to "know" that it is running slower. And even then, all it "knows" is that it is running slower relative to whatever other clock it is comparing itself to.

> Is it possible that the body would "not work correctly" under certain gravitational forces because of the effects of time?

Not because of the effects of time alone, no; those just make the body age differently relative to a similar body that is in a different state of motion or at a different place in a gravity well. Gravity can cause a body not to "work correctly" in other ways, such as tidal gravity disrupting its structure, but that's not an "effect of time".
graycat, could you dig through your browser history and email
me the given link (email in profile)? I know you were being
kind and intentionally avoiding revealing the specific post.

In most cases, lines that are so long that they make a mess
of the usual HN display are handled to prevent making browsers
need to do side scrolling. I have a hunch that I know what happened
but I'd like to look at the example.

http://paulgraham.com/gfaq.html
> "Why is the text on your site so narrow? It wastes screen space."

> "The aim of web design is not to use all available screen space. It is legibility. Text is most legible with no more than 70 characters per line."
Maybe a little off-topic but which podcasts do you guys listen to? Any good tips on entrepreneurship / hacking podcasts?
If they have people regularly turning down offers, then yes, it's likely explained by compensation. If they can't get talented people to apply in the first place, then there are countless other reasons that could be at play.
I agree the camera is a tremendous benefit. But it's problematic; and there are great benefits without it (half of them by your accountant - it's still a lot).

Specially, a phone/browser you don't have to take out of your pocket. A display that is light and unobtrusive. A form factor that has "headroom to shrink" - smartphone size is limited by having a usable display. But they are hard to read. So we have a trend towards bigger displays, which therefore are both more and less convenient, because of these conflicting benefits. Wearable displays resolve the conflict.

It's very hard, especially for an engineer, to give up fantastic benefits of a new technology. That's why I suspect Google cannot bring itself to drop the camera. In contrast, Apple has often foregone specific benefits for the sake of overall benefits (e.g. no 1080p phone resolution, for the sake of battery life). So I think Apple could bring itself to do this.
Thanks! Who knew breaking a large problem into smaller chunks works in rocketry as well ;-)
Author was talking about vesting terms not equity percentages, but one could say the same applies. Four years is pretty standard though, no?
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Driverless Cars Could Be Used As A ‘Lethal Weapon’ According to FBI
In healthcare and government, MSFT has things owned at the desktop level.
They may be losing at the home level, but they can just jack up their license fees (or move to more subscription models) to make up for it.
Tesla, Apple, And Why Focus Wins The Day
Microsoft has made billion dollar blunders too. Look at aQuantive, it torched almost 7 billion dollars.
> All software has bugs, and professional end users often hit edge case bugs that affect few others.

I'm kind of amused by the implication that I'm not a professional end user.

> Do you push fixes for these back into your distribution (or upstream and cherry-pick into the distribution, etc), or do you maintain your own private repositories containing your modifications?

Or maybe, y'know, a third option where one picks software that is highly reliable for your use case.

You are suggesting a very false choice. If you have unique needs that frequently cause you to encounter edge case issues, you need someone in house who can fix those on your timetable and not a vendor's.
Honest question as a developer looking eventually to move to the Valley in a year or so: is it really that hard to find good people? Is software development really that hard? I taught myself 99% of what I know and found it to be pretty easy, and currently do iOS dev work. Just wondering.
I like the extension. It's like an internet attention vampire repellent. I am using this now.
Right after you buy a company that adds 20% more to your workforce? I think not.
This is really amazing; on the desktop, the site looks fantastic and it is very interesting to browse. I learned way more about his travel history than probably necessary due to sheer interest.

That said, it is completely unusable on the phone. Not just 'it looks weird' but completely broken. I can't navigate anything or even read the article linked here. -Firefox on Nexus 5
They bought Nokia's mobile division for patents, not personnel.
The US still has heavy lift capability from the Delta IV, which will be used for the first few launches of the Orion system. It isn't human rated, though, with that replacement coming in a few years with the Space Launch System/
That sounds silly,unless they were going to do a test of the LED in order to activate the camera. Otherwise people determined to record could just break the light. It's not like there isn't a ton of spy cams available anyways.
I'm just shocked the video wasn't taken down by Google's automatic flagging system for infringement, or that Disney or the other content owners haven't taken it down themselves. Having selective enforcement power at Google must be nice. If it was anyone else, that video probably wouldn't last more than 5 minutes on Youtube.
In theory, yes, but do we even know how to do such a thing?
> Backporting upstream patches by request, enhancing upstream, help debugging difficult, multi-level issues and so on. I also took it for granted but seeing what I see today, I understand.

I guess to me if you don't have the expertise in-house as a tech company, I think you have issues because you are outsourcing core competencies [the ability compile & maintain linux related software, the ability to debug complex issues that are likely part of generating your competitive advantage in someway].
Exactly. And it's not just tech. Most large companies have mid-level workers whose sole job is to not to get laid off (fired). I pity anyone under them cause they are usually the hardest working and first to go. Companies should be looking top-down instead of the usual bottom-up.

And man, it gets cut-throat. You know, when I traded, I used to think that was the most cut-throat work environment. Then the firm I was trading for got acquired by a bigger (much bigger) "traditional" bank. I quickly realized the trading floor was a picnic compared to mid-level management (at a bank they are called VP's) politics. At least a trader, you know the score. Make a profit you win. Don't you leave. Working at this bank; I had to learn to watch my back.

It was at that point I decided to leave banking, and NYC.
fs_usage is a useful tool; the original version of iosnoop(1m) has also been available since Dtrace was added to OS X 10.5.
I live in chile and since i got my hands on kindle books i got access to tittles that don't even exist anymore in my country
So any easy access to kindle books is well come,
Great! I don't know enough iOS-SQLite to confidently tweak it myself, and my small experiment (in an emulator, so ginormous caveats apply) gave mostly-unbelievable results so I somewhat doubt I did it right.

I'll definitely watch with interest! I'd love a safe, faster, easier data store than SQLite. I'm certain such a thing is possible, and it would address a massive range of uses. Good luck though - SQLite is pretty fantastic, it's a tough competitor to have :)
Agree. Decision to make engines multi-chambered had to take into account the overall situation existing at the moment.

For example, when in 1954 Energomash was designing RD-107, it had to make a decision which would allow to make engine soon - and they couldn't make single-chamber engine for the thrust required. So they went for multi-chamber design, since they didn't have time to do it differently.

In "Осуществление мечты" an engine professional, who worked in Energomash, mentioned that when Energomash was choosing 4-chamber design for RD-170, there were two groups of specialists defending different approaches. One group - which had experience with RD-107 (multi-chamber engine) and RD-270 (biggest one-chamber Energomash engine) - advocated single-chamber design. Another group - which had experience with RD-253 (single-chamber) and engines for Kosmos launcher - advocated multi-chamber design. The decision was influenced by having the instrumentation necessary to conduct testing of smaller chambers independently.
> It appears this "license" allows implicit re-assignment of copyright

US copyright law does not recognize implicit transfers of copyright. And we're unusually liberal in what can and cannot be done with copyright. And I don't believe for a moment that any judge in any country would recognize WTFPL as providing for any such thing in the first place.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/204
I saw it first hand. My manager was pushing everyone to get promoted to level 5, of the few who didn't, one was put on a pip then fired, the others worked like madmen after seeing that, still didn't get promoted and somehow moved into another group. They still haven't gotten promoted but they work insanely hard/ aren't the same people. I guess it depends on the group, but I was told that timelines for promotion to level 5 are an unwritten rule.
I should have elaborated.

You are right, hiring and firing is a political process, and so you are right, its vulnerable to manipulation by the shrewdest political players.

My assumption, however, is that the layoffs are managed by senior management, who are the shrewdest of all the political players. If they do layoffs right, they put the power of firing into the hands of people in a separate power structure. I mean people like external consultants, or a special committee.

If that isn't the case; and if mid-level management is providing the data to direct layoffs, then yes, its a colossal disaster.
Just wondering. Which insurance supports monthly blood testing. Are thee reasonable private providers with reasonable charges?
Do you have any specific examples? I ask as someone that has landed on the Haskell boat but still keeps an eye/ear on the Ocaml one ;)
As someone starting at Microsoft in the near future, should this make me worried?
Governments and other bigco's are still as willing as ever to lock themselves into vendors. I don't see this changing soon at the OS level when they can't even sort themselves out at the application level.
Why does the Android app need access to my photos, camera, and mic?
I believe Musk is interested in bringing in money to fund his vision of bringing humans to space. Developing cheaper ways to bring humans to space is very very expensive as we all know. And having military contracts is very very lucrative.
I read mostly technical stuff, mostly online articles, snd few books to begin with... I prefer physical books for diving into something more new to me as I tend to remember better with a physical book. I remember better with roughly where something is in the book. I don't get that with ebooks, I've tried. I don't go to the library as technology books are usually too dated for me.
Microsoft is a publically traded company, they have a fiduciary responsibility to return their profits to shareholders and not employees, for better or worse.
As much as I love civilian space programs... they've always just been excuses for designing incredible rocket based weapons...

"Hey look, we can get a friggin lander to the moon. we can also drop enough nukes from orbit to completely obliterate you too!"
> using insects as a livestock feed is explicitly legal only in Ohio

Really ? That's very surprising. What's the officially allowed livestock feed? Only corporation made stuff?
In what countries will they spend the money? Who can apply for grants?
> Turning the sheets sideways makes it go much faster.

Great tip, thanks - presumably it also reduces misfeeds.

Would you recommend a particular scanner?

How does pdftk help with rescanned pages, does it magically know where to reinsert?
Not yet, but it's one of the most actively pursued questions in modern biology. Some of the smartest biologists of our time, including Jack Szostak (2009 Nobel Laureate) and Craig Venter are working on it: http://www.economist.com/node/16163006
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