skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the article sensational when it says that about cysts in the brain? Cause I've had a cat for over 4.5 years now.!?

The wikepedia article says that Toxo is linked to ADHD and OCD, both of which I have, OCD since last year.
Science fiction's utopias are built out of wilful ignorance
I met some cool gay engineers at a StartOut social event.
> Later, I thought of Dr. Venkman in Ghostbusters when they were zapped by a demon after replying “No” to the question of whether the Ghostbusters were gods. He said, “If someone ask you if you are a god, you say yes!”

That was Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson), to Ray Stanz (Dan Aykroyd). Venkman (Bill Murray) was not party to that exchange.
I remember years ago the SunOS documentation used to have a ping joke: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19504-01/802-5753/6i9g71m4p/index...
Quite peculiar — and on topic — that the name of this excellent piece’s author is nowhere to be found…
There's a fascinating RadioLab episode which focuses on various parasites, including Toxo (Season 6, Episode 3: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91689-parasites/).

One of the key mechanisms of Toxo's behavior is that it can penetrate the brain of rodents and make them sexually attracted to feline urine -- the point is to facilitate the reproduction of the parasite which can occur only on feline intestines.
Papers provide their own TL;DR: just read the introduction, skip to the conclusion and lessons learned, then go back and read any graphs. :)
You are right, sorry for that and thanks for the reminder. We just recently changed that conceptually and haven't fully synced it -- for the first year, everyone at any rank was able to edit anywhere in area 1 - 4, even in center. We'll look at it soon, was quite a big wave tonight!
I guess I don't have a source for this and don't know that it's strictly true, but tumblr is certainly /designed/ with collated dashboard reading of content as its intended use case. The actual blogs at tumblr subdomains are incidental to how registered tumblr users use tumblr, and those are the people tumblr is focusing on. I think the only blogs whose content are primarily read at the blog level are those tumblr blogs that are actually some organization's website blog and which are consequently well-designed.
What happened in the jump cut at 44m50s?
Killer Queen: A 10-Person Console Game
I think you may find people more receptive to something like this if it's built as a Composer package.

One of the most important aspects of a PHP framework to me is the ease with which you can add or swap out libraries - and being able to include things with Composer and use its autoloading features would make a framework more modular and easier to manage and extend in the future.

Having your own extension system is fine and perfectly valid, but a lot of people have already invested in the existing package manager and PSR-0, and will expect to be able to use it in for their projects.

As far as the rest of it, I would mention the use of the deprecated (and highly vulnerable) sql_* functions and the lack of xss protection in the templates but I assume changes to those would be forthcoming.

I like the lack of abstraction and the built-in MVC, though I think people used to Rails-style routers in other frameworks like Laravel might wind up a bit put off.
I use mtr nowadays. It's not ping but a traceroute that updates as it goes. I find it much more useful than a plain ping in most cases.
A Promising Pill, Not So Hard to Swallow
Sure, you could choose your hardware as long as you were running Windows. This is a new, different type of choice that MS is backing. ASP.NET(and MVC) vNext is goingt to be tested against mono. And mono represents code running on non-Windows platforms. I certainly view this as a shift; how large a shift is rather subjective.
Wow... it looks like this thread got dunked hard by the mods.

Probably worth mentioning the 'bugs and feature requests' link in the page footer: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues...
~10% net receipts is fairly standard I believe.
Get your first 10 from people you know.
You must know parents or know people that know parents.

Do your problem/solution/MVP interviews with these people.
Then use them to refer you to others that may have the same issue/be interested.

Pour gas on your social networks - Facebook, twitter, linkedin whatever. Spread the word and force close friends to like/share/retweet etc to maximize reach.

That should get you to your first 50-100 easily.

Beyond that, in parallel, post to /r startups and /r parenting on reddit.
Submit link to Betali.st and ProductHunt and do a ShowHN.

With all of this, you should get to your 1000 number.
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front (1991)
This is revealing, but really unsure how this relates to Hacker News
I loved the bit about piping ping through sed through vocoder, playing it on the stereo at 11, and finding the network fault by seeing which wiggled connector caused silence.
I agree with lambda that it is probably the patent clause.

Suppose I'm distributing GPLv3 software as part of my commercial product. I'm fully complying with GPLv3.

Some third party comes along who is in the business of distributing software, and tells me that they have a patent covering the GPLv3 software I'm distributing.

They want me to buy a license for their patent for $1/copy sold of my commercial product. This license would cover the use of the GPLv3 software in that copy of my product. It would not cover copies or derivative works made from those copies.

GPLv3 says that I must reject this licensing deal. I can only accept a licensing deal that results in all of the copies and derivative works made from those copies or their down streams and so on receiving patent licenses.

If I cannot arrange for this open ended licensing, I have to either stop distributing the GPLv3 code, or I'll have to try to defeat the patent.

No way am I going to distribute GPLv3 code as an essential part of my product with that "all or nothing" patent licensing restriction hanging over it.
Never submit your app's username and password to a third-party. Be careful the information you passed to a third-party managing your other third-party information. For example, there are tons of social media managing app and it is best to avoid them. Of course you can try to decompile the code but if they do stuff on their server to access your data for you for convince, who knows what they are logging?
Since the live stream is sadly not working for most people, we downweighted this post. Somebody let me know if it starts working again! In the meantime, an HN user has been keeping live notes at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8442712.
Counting by number of languages is quite useless, not least because the definition of language is so fluid. How many languages are spoken in Spain? Are British English and American English the same language? What about the "English" spoken in San Francisco vs. Alabama?

A more useful number would be the percentage of people whose primary language has gendered pronouns.
Not every cat carries it and not everyone having a cat gets it.

Source? Two cats, a wife that gave me two perfect kids and mandatory 'Do you have that condition' tests during both pregnancies.

So .. she didn't get it. I assume I didn't either. And really, don't fall into any kind of panic mode. Consult your doctor if you want/must, but .. don't treat random articles on the net as medical advice (that includes this very post).
This has never really been my impression of Internet of Things. The examples you've mentioned seem far too obvious and simplistic. To me, it's far more than scrambling to find the nth device to make smartphone-connected.

I've always looked at IoT as a mesh network of many specialized devices talking to each other to provide an overall context. For instance, speaking from my background: imagine a location sensor on a patient's wrist detecting an iBeacon in a particular ICU room indicating the patient has been upgraded, then triggering their vitals sensors to set to continuous monitoring, then upgrading the alert level for the patient's notifications in a physician's EMR, so on and so forth. In other words, these "Things" act more as specialized sensors, like our ears and eyes, that relay signals onto a digital thalamus/cerebrum where signals are integrated, a context is created, and actions are then taken.

I may be totally off-base here, and perhaps this isn't what Internet of Things is really about. But I hope it is.
Nice. But where do you get these photos? Do you pay to get them? Not sure about the copyright implication here, especially you are offering paid version.
Thanks for the feedback!
Next in the development pipeline I have few of these issues.
Basically this was evolved out of a small project (read Failed ).
Next version will include
* Clean database layer
* Packaging
* Template engine
* xss protection (thanks to you!)

I have to consider your thoughts on extensions, in any case its the second priority.
If you have got an half competent designer, building an UI that works well from 3 to 10" screens is a bit more work than doing it once for a 4" screen, but I have never found it difficult.
I agree, but if your coworkers is anything like mine and you asked him if there is a fundamental problem with web development as a platform choice for internal apps, I expect he would suddenly forget all the pain he goes through on a regular basis. I've watched my company burn about a million dollars unnecessarily in the last two years because of choosing a 100% web interface for an entirely internal project (of dubious value in the first place).

The zealotry in this field is getting close to unsustainable in my opinion. Companies thought the proliferation of ms access apps was bad, wait until they try to do something with the proliferation of overarchitected web apps based on a wide assortment of fashionable at the time but now unpopular languages and frameworks that hardly anyone has experience on and is most certainly not interested in working on.
Certainly the case. My comment was an aside directed at its parent, not deeply relevant to the article itself.
A little less "we are changing the world", a little more "we offer a JavaScript SDK for file storage accross many services".

That's the short version. I initially wrote a long comment with a list of things I don't like, but I decided I was being too harsh so I removed it. If you're still interested, I can mail it to you.
Have you watched Apple's patent war with Samsung? They rely heavily on patents to attack competitors. If they distributed something under the GPLv3, then there's the chance that Samsung could have looked at that, said "hey, that GPLed package implements something that your patent license covered, that means that we now have a license to that patent."

Or there's all of the patents that the license from other parties, like the H.264 patent portfolio. Those patents they can't relicense; so if any of those apply to any of the GPLv3 software they tried to distribute, they would be in violation of one or both of the licenses.

Also, the post I responded to is talking about "Apple and
other proprietary software publishers."

Well, this thread is about Apple, and the one you were responding to was comparing Apple with Microsoft. The part about "other proprietary software vendors" was in there, but I'm not trying to back that up since that's too broad a category to discuss as a whole. There are several different kind of proprietary software vendors, that sell software in many different ways, and so discussing them as a category is likely not to be useful.

For example, vendors who sell closed-source, proprietary applications could never use any GPLed code, as linking to it would mean they were required to release the code of the whole application under the GPL. So there there's really no different between GPLv2 and v3.

Vendors who sell bundled software hardware combos could ship GPLed software, and embedded Linux is common there. However, some of them like to lock down their hardware, not allowing it to be upgraded or modified by end users. The anti-Tivoization clause specifically forbids that, so they may avoid GPLv3 software in order to avoid the anti-Tivoization clause. One example here is Android, where they even avoid GPLv2, for software that ships on phones, almost everywhere except for the kernel.

There are also some proprietary software vendors who do ship GPLv3 software. For example, Oracle, one of the biggest and most notorious proprietary software vendors, actually does ship Oracle Linux, a distro which contains an awful lot of GPLv3 software. So its clear that not every company has made the same decision; some avoid it like the plague (Microsoft and Apple), some avoid it in certain products but not others (Google avoids it Android, but ships GPLv3 code in Chrome OS), and some are fine with shipping it. You can't really make any blanket statements about all proprietary software companies.

But anyhow, as I said, for cases such as Apple, it's very obvious that they are fine shipping GPLv2 software, but very clear from their actions that they won't ship GPLv3. There are three major additional restrictions in the GPLv3, and we can speculate which one was the tipping point for Apple. My money is on patents, but I think that the anti-Tivoization may play a role too. However, unless they publicly say something, or someone leaks some internal communication about it, we will just be left speculating as to why.
This is blatant SJW psyops that has nothing to do with the nature of this website.
Given that it's on the front page it's interesting to enough people, apparently.
How would you generate this key in the first place? I'd just write a program that looks like the Snapchat, generating the per-device key.
Chinese and Japanese are both languages that only recently gained gendered third-person pronouns because of Western influences and the gender-neutral pronouns are still at least somewhat popular.

Especially in Chinese; the spoken language (Mandarin) does not have a gendered pronoun; only the written language has an optional gendered pronoun.

But really, the main conclusion to draw from this is that the Indo-European language family invented grammatical gender, which made it straightforward to assign gender to words that had no business being gendered (like "actor/actress"). Gendered pronouns are pretty rare outside of Indo-European languages.
Oh it is, is it? What does that make you? An insensitive nobody?
It's become a source of amusement over the years to watch just how useless most punditry is, in this field as in every field: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691128715/sociapsych...

I've followed P6 for 14 years, tracked it very closely for the last 2. For those interested, I document some of what's going on at http://www.reddit.com/r/perl6/
MSR had a neat little thing that allowed some sort of "snap to UI element" functionality. That way, targeting a 16x16px thing like "close tab" wouldn't be so difficult.

Or they could have some sort of gesture that lets me go into a high accuracy mode. Or really, anything at all to make it easy to deal with. But nope, your finger becomes the new cursor and that's that.
Ask HN: Never physically met your co-founder?
Hi all,

I'm about to submit a YC application but after getting a couple of people to take a look, they both found it problematic that I've never physically met my co-founder.

My co-founder and I have a healthier relationship than probably most people we both know physically. We've spoken every other day for at least the last 3 years, his neighbor has (quite literally) fallen in love with me and his other neighbor contacts me for life advice. My co-founder and I have worked together on large projects (albeit not technical) and have exchanged money for services (that's actually how we got to know one another-- I hired him to tutor me over Skype). Our personalities don't clash at all-- we even both have the same obscure interests (Jamaican Patois anyone?). Even when I consider all of the people I know, physically or otherwise, I cannot think of a person who would be better suited to act as a co-founder.

But still: I'm in Sydney, Australia, and he's in Florida, USA. I emailed PG about this and he said it would be a problem.

Has anyone been in this situation for YC? What does HN suggest I do? Should we bring in a third co-founder that one of us has met physically (there are a few people who have contributed and we'd eventually hire but we don't expressly consider them founders)-- would it remedy things?

Advice on this would be extremely appreciated.
Right, which makes Ballmer's "I didn't put great people on the team" history re-write just laughably wrong.
I think they could do much more for players to help them.

- Weight limits in the NFL. I know linemen need to get big but the average weight of linemen is way too high.

- The padding is almost too good, concussions will go up as they have with better equipment. Players feel too safe to unleash a hit. There needs to be more alerting/warning systems on collisions. i.e. if a player is about to get blindsided, alert them inside the helmet. Give them eyes all around.

- All linemen should use knee braces all the time or improved support. Players remove padding because others do to stay competitive. There needs to be more support for knees/ankles that is required. (smaller linemen will help this)

- Testing for HGH is finally in, this will help some.

- Allow players to use marijuana, for pain and for calming rather than DUIs. They treat players like children so they end up lashing out.

- Provide drivers free of charge for all NFL players for all activities. Require that they use the drivers (they can personally hire them) if they are having fun but DUIs should not be allowed.
Unless they are getting advice from developers. Do you know any developers who would say "why don't you just use Access, it will take a week" when the alternative is a fun new 3 month web based project where they get to choose and try out the latest languages and frameworks? I certainly don't.
Thank you for doing that, I (and probably others) really appreciate.
Theo de Raadt and Bill Gates don't much care for GPLv3
either.

Right, and so like Linus and the Linux kernel, that's why they don't ship code under the GPLv3.

I'm sure Linus does have GPLv3 running on his machine. He doesn't mind using the license, as it doesn't constrain him as a user in any way that he objects to. But he doesn't ship his own software under that license.

I wasn't saying anything about the relevance of his opinion, to anything other than the kernel license himself. You had asserted that the kernel hadn't moved to the GPLv3 because of lack of copyright assignment; and I was just pointing out that in addition to that, the lead developer of the kernel personally dislikes the GPLv3, so even if he had the ability to change license, he probably would not have.

Personally, I'm pretty happy with the GPLv3. I wish more developers would release code under it, instead of more liberal licenses, to help defeat things that I find unpleasant like Tivoization and software patents. But not everyone shares my opinion, and Linus's opinion carries a lot more weight than mine as the leader of the kernel project.
This was precisely the point I came here to make.

Saying the third person singular pronoun is gendered in Mandarin isn't quite right (the 3 characters all sound the same) -- it's gendered in Chinese characters, which is why (I assume) they didn't break things out by dialect.

Also, given how much wackiness is in French, I would assume something similar to be true -- that the male/female shows up when you write it but not when you speak it. Can we get a confirmation on that?
Makes me wonder why those bittorrent-for-streaming-video startups never were able to take off.

By the way, it's working now. Just have to keep refreshing.
was good for 10 mins.. oh well. looking forward to the recorded videos
> Are British English and American English the same language? What about the "English" spoken in San Francisco vs. Alabama?

Not even different dialects, let alone languages. There are English dialects, but slightly different pronunciation and vocabulary isn't enough. If you're going to pick out anything from the US, Canada, and England as being distinct from all the rest, it would have to be AAVE.
What's going on with the live stream? . It sucks that it had to happen when the whatsapp founder is talking.
In both written and spoken French it doesn't really change. French is one of the most gendered languages in existence. Every noun has a gender. I'm not exactly sure of the syntax of your question but gendered pronouns are definitely both spoken and written.
How are your precious bodily fluids doing.
I really don't understand what is meant by "consciousness", or how you imagine an animal could not be "conscious", yet still function fine. What "trick", what "elaborate video game"?
Semitic languages also have gendered pronouns (and gender more generally throughout the language). I am not close to being a linguist, but I thought that the historical relationship between Semitic and Indo-European languages is still unclear.
Firechat really isn't the best counter-example as it is closed source and uses (afaik) a proprietary protocol. Additionally, it's only available in the walled ios and android gardens, meaning google/apple and the developers are both in a position to push updates. I'm not sure a profiliation of propietary networks is a good solution to the centralization of the Internet.
As an example, I have a small VoIP company. At one point, we were processing about a billion calls a week. A malicious employee could probably setup a trace and collect call records or record calls. I'd have no real defense against hiring someone that worked for the NSA.

An employee at a hosting company could do huge amounts of damage. Consider SSL certs can be issued just by checking email to prove "ownership". At some large ISPs/datacenters, it'd be "fairly easy" to intercept the confirmation email and get SSL issued in a company's name "legitimately" (that is, no bad effects to the CA and not traceable to the NSA).

Subverted employees is a huge threat and we should really consider that when looking at security in general.
I see this system as a force that compels people to work longer hours than is neccesary. Public access to this data will make people name and shame particular individuals in the bureaucracy who might consistently clock in a little bit late, even though the reason behind the lateness might be legitimate (caring for others in family or long term illness). This is not transparency it just makes bureaucracy worse.
> ...er...yes? I mean, that's why social media sites are popular.

They don't have time to think about how that person thinks, but they do have time to search social media sites.

> Should society just acclimate itself to be less reactionary to social media quips?

I don't know? I am not sure what you mean by 'reactionary'.

> Social media networks are so strong because they can cause such emotional reaction for such little energy input.

I find that social networks require a moderate amount of energy input to maintain a position I do not find disagreeable, but additionally find somewhat insightful or valuable to offer (and here I must make some assumptions about any reader, so I apologize).

> You and I want both the same thing: patience and empathy in civic discourse.

Yes. I just think discourse is very complicated.

> But you have more faith than I do that it can/should happen even when the scales are so lopsided:

It's not so much faith, as it is questioning inwardly.

> physically, it gets easier and easier to make and disseminate our thoughts but our ability to physically process such information does not scale as well.

I can't say I experience this position either. In the past I may have agreed with you, so I am sure there is truth to your sentiment.
The drivers already have a number to call for a free ride home at any time. There is no excuse for them to get DUIs
Fast-tracked ebola vaccine is now being tested in West Africa
In French, the he/she (il/elle) pronouns are pronounced when spoken.