skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On site daycare and clinics disturbing? Why is it disturbing for parents to be in closer proximity to their children (e.g. Marissa Meyer, Shonda Rhimes, et al). I'm not an advocate of privatizing everything. I do believe that there can be effective symbiosis between the private and public sectors - creating mutual accountability.

For example, companies could be incentivized to provide such services on site. I'm a mom. If I were a tech employee (or any other kind of employee), I would prefer to drop my child(ren) off at an on-site facility, where I could spend lunch and breaks with them, and where there is an additional bonus of them getting to know other children of people I spend 1/3 of my day / life with. It's not as if people would be obligated to use the services, but I bet it would be valued above freezing eggs and serve many more people - male and female alike. Work Place 2.0
Although itch.io doesn't explicitly have a WebGL option, their platform is basically that, a marketplace for games on the web.

I find it really easy to upload and play games.
The presence of "harassing women" has not traditionally been in the category of "things a good person does not do".
The Leap Motion thing is unrelated, from some other group, at least according to the story.

The problem of supporting realtime conversation among multiple people is different enough from voice search that there's scope to differentiate.
I swithed from chrome to IE a few weeks before. Because IE is faster. And my computer is quieter using IE.
Or better yet, don't serve any content from the default. I actually return a 403 error for the default host or any request without a Host header.
It really isn't that hard to add configurable key bindings to a game, just laziness on part of developers.
From both observation and personal experience I believe that for typical person from a western city finding a partner gets orders of magnitude more difficult the moment you finish college. In high school and at university, you're constantly exposed to hundreds of possible dates, but after that your social circle tends to shrink to your family, friends and coworkers. Expanding the circle and eventually finding someone starts to require effort.
Why would you want to date anybody with an empty okcupid inbox.
I always thought the delivery pizza business was set to be revolutionised by legal marijuana.

Friday special, two large pizzas and a dime bag...
Plus the added win of keeping everyone on their toes about open redirects!
Microsoft still lives and breathes with their old proprietary software licensing model. There would have to be some sort of major gain for them to port the browser outside of their ecosystem.

I can see them doing it with IE mobile though as they aren't the most popular player in the mobile market and they need to get people hooked.
You might consider putting a link to the app in the mobile version!
A sudden catastrophic failure means you're probably screwed, indeed. But for cases like AF447 where it's small sensor failures, it seems to me that the car should be a much easier environment to work with, because you can always write some code that goes, "if important sensor X is wonky, pull over and stop".

For example, when the airspeed data was lost, the Airbus had to fall back to an alternate behavior which is part of what confused the pilots. In a car, you could skip that fallback and just go straight to "pull over and stop," but the airplane has to keep trying somehow. Similarly, the angle of attack went beyond the range the designers had anticipated, and the computer assumed that it was a bad reading. But it kept going, because it had to. In a car, if there's a bad reading, it can again just go straight to "pull over and stop".

Big failures will always mean big problems, but what's striking about AF447 is that it was such small failures. And when it comes to small failures, I think a car is in a much better position to deal with it because it can just cut the gordian knot.
I had a bit of a meltdown about Apple and a lack of proper testing a couple of weeks ago, during the "will it bend" saga: http://blog.wislon.io/posts/2014/09/25/bent-iphones-broken-h...
This Firefox vs. Chrome thing is starting to sound an awful lot like Vim vs. Emacs.
I really enjoyed the Groupon Talk, and learning that WhatsApp charged to slow down development.
This seemed misguided:

"I have heard media reports calling for people such as me who have been treating Ebola patients to be quarantined for 21 or even 42 days. These ideas are not based on the medical facts. People only need to be quarantined if they are showing symptoms and if you do not have a fever, there is no risk of you transmitting Ebola to someone.:

What happens once you start showing symptoms? They're likely to have touched a large number of surfaces and interacted with a large number of people by the time they realize their worsening condition is the onset of Ebola. By the time I know I'm sick, I'm pretty sick. I'm damn good at trudging on until the point of no return and I'm sure healthcare workers would do the same since Ebola is contagious well before it's debilitating.
maybe other people have different experiences, but i find this article complete BS.

first off, its nearly impossible to get prescribed antibiotics for something like bronchitis. Only after 3 doctors visits and a raging fever and cough that was going on for 3 weeks did they prescribe me antibiotics. of course by that time I already had pneumonia.

more recently this may, i had a bad cough, fever, and raging sore throat. i could tell from how my body felt that everything was emanating from a single spot in the back of my throat, but of course when telling a doctor this they look at you like you have a 3rd eye, and then send you home (telling you to drink plenty of fluids and rest) after crawling there and paying a 50$ copay. its inconceivable to them that we might actually understand our bodies, but i digress. Even though I had puss nodules on the very spot (my left tonsil) I felt everything was coming from, I was not prescribed antibiotics because the strep test came back negative.

note, these are two severe cases where I was REALLY sick and not getting better. not only did doctors not prescribe antibiotics for these, but for all general colds and flues that i have ever had - I have never received that as a prescription. they simply will not do it.

lucky for me, I had a plane jane penicillin script that was never taken. within an hour of taking it, the sore throat abated as did the fever. by the next morning, I was nearly better. maybe coincidence, but i seriously doubt it.

they love to fear monger about over prescribing antibiotics, about creating super bugs, etc. but the truth is, they do help. even with viruses, because quite often these diseases wreck your immune system allowing many other things to take hold. for instance, bacterial ear infections are quite common enough with these types of infections and antibiotics totally prevents them - and the good possibility of hearing loss.

however, evidenced based medicine is often set up to prove whatever agenda they want to pass. a few people with reduced hearing is inconsequential to their idea of a greater good. especially in the agenda to reduce people receiving antibiotics - even when evidence has shown that the amount of antibiotics farm animals are given probably over shadows any lack of antibiotics given to sick humans trying to get better.
>That might make it worse.

Of course. I was just trying to give a concrete example of a change that might cause the R0 to drop below 1. It would be great if the R0 did drop below 1 on its own, but planning on this is not any wiser than hoping the small fire in the corner will go out on its own.
Don't neg me, bro.
Definitely my favourite talk so far, thanks Kevin.
Steve Jobs' Last Words? Oh, Wow
Great advice, just applied ourselves looking forward to receiving whatever feedback we get.
our company is a feminist company- it just means that feminist values are a part of the company culture.
Dr. Paul Farmer discusses Ebola: http://youtu.be/lb11QbP3tOg

After listening to the talk, I'm not as worried as this article makes me. I certainly trust the source in the video better.
How Y Combinator “ruined” my startup
If by "companies behind the card" you mean banks, the reason they send you a plastic with a new account number when there's an issue is not only to protect you (although you aren't liable for fraudulent charges it's not precisely the best use of your time to go through the process) but also to protect themselves. A non-trivial amount of the fraud claims is absorbed by the issuing banks.

I wouldn't categorize CC numbers as public information though, just ask Target or Home Depot.
Dr. Paul Farmer Discusses Ebola
I feel your frustration about the non-answer marketing talk.

To be honest, were I not in a relationship at the moment (and if I lived in SF/NYC), I'd probably sign up for this. For me, the primary value is not however their Premium Matchmakers beat random chance; it's taking away the work required to find a date.

After you finish high school, or graduate from university, finding a potential date gets incredibly more difficult. You no longer spend majority of your day with hundreds of people, many of whom could be your potential partners - you have to work to expand your social circle and meet people (most of whom are already in stable relationships anyway). I'd gladly pay Dating Ring for the sole reason of helping me meet people who are also looking for a date.
I don't know about you, but I actually have gone exploring. It turns out the bad experience on OKCupid is actually better than most dating sites.
The line from the docs that flurp quoted might be exactly why people didn't transition to using the API - it suggested that Pinboard was developing Oauth and no one wants to update their code twice.
Adam Langley from Google explained this in more details： https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/10/14/poodle.html
Ah, my apologies, that was my first time uploading to youtube, haha. It is public now I believe.
I'm starting to wonder how many other important vulnerabilities I'm missing because their discoverer didn't come up with a catchy name like Heartbleed, Shellshock, or POODLE.
No clue, but if you are just looking for another format:
Search for youtube to mp3 services.
Interesting...I tried doing machine learning for daily fantasy baseball and it just didn't work. I wrote a scraper that put Fanduel results and contest payout structures into a database, then backtested against thousands of contests to see where I would have wound up had I played in those contests using projections from the machine learning algorithm. I figured I would eventually make the algorithm profitable. Unfortunately I was wrong. I couldn't find any combination of data to feed into the algorithm that consistently put me in the green. At least I wasn't actually playing and losing money.

I finally gave up after a few months. The scraper data was fascinating though....there were a few players consistently yielding 80%+ ROI across hundreds of entries.
Dorian Nakamoto prepares to sue Newsweek
Scala: the Case for Correctness
I still find many more problems in IE than in any other current browser. Here's my last bug report.

https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedbackdetail/view/940661/...

I suppose it's an improvement

1) that there is a place to make the bug report

2) and a human actually responded
I hadn't gotten the flu for over a decade without getting flu shots. Then at age 23, I got it and couldn't leave my apartment for several days. Prior to that, I didn't really understand how someone who wasn't old and decrepit could feel too weak to go outside. I would read it in books, and it made no sense to me.
I see what you mean. I'd read through the comments at the linked page, and I'd forgotten that the linking comment here on HN didn't include those debates.

Especially, whether you can pack in a human's worth of knowledge into a 2005 HDD (of course you can if you have huge numbers of them, but seems against the spirit of the idea).

And, the estimates of human neural complexity. It's possible that the human brain isn't very efficient at intelligence alone - there's many survival functions and the historical path evolution happened to take. (as harder evidence, I also read of a guy with almost no brain, just a few millimeters coating the skull, who had normal college IQ...)

But I was really adding my own tangent, a thought I had long ago: assuming intelligence can be simulated by an algorithm, it can be done now, because of turing machine equivalence (provided we have sufficient memory). If it used too much memory, it seems likely we could still run a cut-down version, or some aspect of it. [BTW: Arguably, if a mathematical model of consciousness exists, with variations for personality, knowledge, present state of mind etc, all of them are virtually conscious and feeling at all times - just frozen in stasis at the moment].

Historically, one barrier to new algorithms is that practical people just don't entertain algorithms that are computationally infeasibile on present hardware. But when hardware is fast enough, they are more willing to. Perhaps the ability to experiment and iterate quickly is also helpful.
> I'm not sure if there are any performance issues

I also use Firefox on a MacBook Pro(2014), I don't know if this existed before or not but, under battery > Apps using significant enery, Firefox is one of em', opening the same exact tabs on Safari doesn't show safari on the list

is this because apps that come with Apple are not included in the list or is Safari better at Energy consumption?
We are Nodeists (not nudists - to the best of my knowledge) - we like to use the term "shrinkwrap."
Having trouble finding the federal government's API.. Anyone have any info?
Uncertainty is really the kicker. Ebola may turn out to be substantially less significant than malaria. But we can't rule out it being a good deal worse.
How One Man Refused to Spy for the FBI – And Then Lost Everything
How  to Save and Make Money with the Sharing Economy
You can easily protect against Malaria with various drugs.
I wonder if asm.js + the sqlite3 driver + localstorage would suffice.. it would certainly be interesting.
I think you must be doing it wrong.

I got on okcupid a few years ago after being alone for years and years b/c of depression and social anxiety and in a matter of weeks I was swimming in dates, and in a matter of months I met the woman who's now my wife.

There's a lot that's unpleasant and stressful about online dating, but with a few classes of exceptions it's not society, it's not women, it's not the site, it's not anything else but you that's keeping you back.
This is not a response to

> Given that 'feminist' and 'feminism' are used by many people to mean many different things, it would be nice to specify what being a feminist company means.

Which feminist values?
Disable SSLv2 and SSLv3

For Apache:

SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3

For Nginx:

ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;

Source: http://blog.rlove.org/2013/12/strong-ssl-crypto.html
25 Google Drive Tips You’ve Probably Never Heard Before
There's no such thing a lazy game developer. Dev time is zero sum. Sometimes devs prioritize incorrectly. It happens. Calling them lazy is itself not just lazy but also ignorant.
He likely did lie, but can you blame him? If you were faced with a question where answering truthfully meant you'd be trapped in a hellhole where what little healthcare infrastructure there was had already completely fallen apart, and lying meant access to world-class care... which would you pick?
Ebola Spread World Map and Rate
The rake is definitely unsustainable. Currently, its negative effects are masked by an influx of new players (Fanduel is growing roughly 300% per year [1]). But when that growth slows, the only people left to be ground into dust by the rake will be the longer-term player pool that once feasted on new players. One by one, they will lose their entire bankrolls, until the whole model collapses. They will eventually lower it, but it will almost certainly be too late by then.

[1] http://fanduel.com/investors
I am a novice when it comes to biology, but even in my research I had become suspicious about the fact that most probiotics have so few varieties, and that they were predominantly of the "wrong" families as compared with what the research showed.

Much of the research that has been done has been on the importance of increased bacteroidetes vs. firmicutes, the two most prevalent families of bacteria in the digestive tract. But almost all of the probiotics on the market don't contain any bacteroidetes. Most have lactobacillus (which is technically a firmicutes, but considered a "good firmicutes" I guess, and is used to make yoghurt) or bifidobacterium (like Align) which is in a completely separate family (Actinobacteria). When I saw this product on a mailing list a couple days ago, I purchased it because it was exactly what I had been looking for. So I think this has potential for informed early adopters.

There are some people that can read articles on the Internet from google searches and realize that they aren't getting the whole picture because they are obviously from the low-quality content-farmed stuff that google ranks highly on health search results, and I think this is appealing to them (us). Now, it's yet to be seen whether it's a winning move to provide clear, logical information grounded in science vs. tooting the bullshit horn that we see in naturalistic health circles.

I definitely agree that they could have more marketable messaging, but I would expect that they'll be able to develop better marketing presence by gradually accumulating pagerank, becoming well-known in serious health circles, and maybe some affiliate marketing and the like. But all that takes time and this is right out of the gate. Their core value proposition is much better than competing companies, in my opinion.
I know what you mean, "traditional" sites like eharmony and Match.com are truly awful. I haven't tried tinder yet, so I can't comment.

But is OkCupid really the best we can do? Is there no combination of computer bits and human processes that would result in fewer guys getting ignored and more getting dates?
I think a script that does this, but puts in your Pocket with an HN label would be even better - you keep track of what's read and what's not as a bonus.
Apple – Web Badges
I think the payoff would be too low. It might be more feasible however if it was already in digital format, and there was a searchable place to which a person's entire hard disk could be uploaded with a short description of who/what/when. Add crowdsourcing.

Another option would be to auction entire hard disks on Ebay with a description as per the above, not sure if this already exists. Then it's a kind of lottery, with massive potential payload for people willing to go through the data.
Well, to be more precise, it was originally developed as a hobby project by a developer who happened to be working at Mozilla at the time.

http://syntensity.blogspot.com/2010/08/emscripten.html
In the "Meeting Minutes, Progress Reports and Presentations" section of https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink it says the following:

> We no longer take meeting minutes nor make progress reports, but the meetings still happen. Brief MemShrink updates are given in the minutes of the weekly Platform meeting (wiki, blog). And nnethercote still blogs about major MemShrink occurrences.

And in the post marked "The Final Progress Report" I said this:

> I was due to write a MemShrink progress report today, but I’ve decided that after almost 2.5 years, my reserves of enthusiasm for these regular reports has been exhausted. Sorry! I do still plan to write posts when significant fixes relating to memory consumption are made. (For example, when generational GC lands, you’ll hear about it here.) I will also continue to periodically update the MemShrink “big ticket items” list. And MemShrink meetings will continue, so MemShrink-tagged bugs will still be triaged. And for those of you who read the weekly Platform meeting notes, I will continue to write MemShrink updates there. So don’t despair — good things will continue to happen, but they’ll just be marginally less visible.

Time I don't spend writing MemShrink reports is time I can spend on improving Firefox's code.
There's what, Portland, Wind River, ????? I heard intel's wrapped around clang these days.
What? Have that happened? Any links to the occurrence of this?
There is not much you can do beyond lobbying for serious action to be taken. While in the long term we need drugs and vaccines, working on these will not help us in the short term.
The Latin1 optimization is excellent. Conceptually simple, but a lot of grunt work. Strings are common in JS code :)

It was implemented by the wonderful Jan de Mooij who just last week landed another nice JS memory improvement that should be released in Firefox 35: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1073700#c7
That's a bit of faulty induction going here. Just because one site didn't work doesn't mean it will never work. There are all kinds of other variables involved, maybe it was just the execution. It is certainly insulting to say that women don't want to be in charge or make the decisions.
Mozilla is going to disable SSL 3.0 by default in Firefox 34: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/10/14/the-poodle-atta...
Device Log Douche
In my first job out of college, 2 years in or so, the amount of web work was slumping (it was the first web bust). My boss and lead developer all went on vacation the same week and my boss gave me a fairly impossible job to do without the both of them helping out in some fashion.

I was not successful. So I'm quite familiar with the technique.

Basically, if you get the vibe that you're not well-liked, you should just leave or figure out how to.
"These ideas are not based on the medical facts. People only need to be quarantined if they are showing symptoms and if you do not have a fever, there is no risk of you transmitting Ebola to someone."

Also, that above fact is wrong. "Yet the largest study of the current outbreak found that in nearly 13% of "confirmed and probable" cases in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and elsewhere, those infected did not have fevers." http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-1012-ebola-fever-2014101...

Even letting one-in-ten get through undetected is too high. Especially since any strains of the virus that are harder to detect are exactly the strains that most the most threat and must be kept out.
They most certainly do let you run Go on AppEngine!
One of the other talks made reference to it[0].

[0] http://dotgo.sourcegraph.com/post/99652344343/go-team-q-a-de...
There was a study done decades ago where code was seeded with a number of bugs. Developers were told that there were a number of bugs. They found that many, but the overlap was not total. That is to say, they found bugs that the study authors did not seed.
Yes, this. While extensions are often the cause of high memory usage, it's not always the case, and immediately blaming extensions makes people accuse Mozilla of passing the buck.

If you ever see someone complaining about Firefox's memory usage, looking at about:memory is always the first step you should tell them to take. The amount of information can be overwhelming but in extreme cases like this it's often fairly obvious what the problem is -- look for the biggest measurement! And if it's still not obvious after that, communicating with Firefox developers (e.g. by filing a bug) usually results in progress happening.
24 Quotes that I took away from Kevin's Lecture...all 140 characters or less.

https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/24-quotes-from-kev...
You don't have to wait for Firefox 34. Go to about:config and set security.tls.version.min to 1. That will force the browser to use only TLSv1 or newer.
If you can dig up the citation, I'd love to read this. That's fascinating.