skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been diggin on VS Code myself.. which is a bit surprising, it uses the electron base too, but imho the UI is slightly better in a lot of ways, haven't tried Atom in a while though. Hoping to see a floobits extension for VS Code, but I think MS is still working on the plugin model for it. :-(

I'm glad you guys have created Floobits, it's something I've wanted in something more like an IDE since first seeing something similar in an ANSI editor called PabloDraw. It allowed you to run in a "host" mode where other users could connect to you... Seeing something like this as an extension for multiple editors is pretty great.
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I'm not sure about that. There have been plenty of mistakes made by astro/cosmonaughts over the years. They are human. If "any mistake" is lethal, then we should have seen many more deaths.
Side note: Did anyone else find the writing for this article absolutely horrendous?

“They were never able to produce them,” she says.
Ms. King says the company did show detailed
testing-accuracy data to the nurse.

I would have flunked freshman-english if I wrote papers like this. There was zero effort to link thoughts together all-throughout the piece. I thought the point of a pay-wall was to promote and support good content?
The paper mentioned in the article shows how a few complex steps reduces to very large polynomial time, most of which can be precomputed given "45 million computer-years", the rest computed on a per-session basis very quickly.
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey critically ill
I disagree; I think sandworm nailed an essential issue.

At the top of this subthread, Zikes claimed that Google's cars are a "proven technology." Not even Google claims that now, and legality is indeed part of that.

Driverless elevators are an example of an actual proven technology. There's no human operator standing by to jump on the manual brake in case the automation fails. And if a driverless elevator does fail and causes harm, the elevator's manufacturer can be sued for damages.

Now, the idea of a "driverless" elevator seems like a silly name for just a regular elevator, but I chose that for a reason. Elevators used to have drivers, and people are already drawing the comparisons to cars:

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427990392/remembering-when-dri...

Is Google willing to assume the same type of liability for their self-driving cars? Certainly not right now, so it's hard to call their technology fully proven.
I'm not the individual you're responding to, but probably a mix of time, money, and interest. You don't need to make a better version of something for your criticism to be valid.
"While there have been reports of the virus lingering in the eyes, spinal fluid and brain of survivors and of transmission through semen, Cafferkey is the first person known to have a life-threatening illness caused by a resurgence of Ebola from some reservoir in her body. It is possible other survivors in west Africa may have fallen ill in the same way without coming to public attention. "

New strain?
Ah, I see that you are referring to a scenario in which the vexation and stopping are not both products of some external stimulus (e.g. [1]) or malfunction but something else altogether. For example, parents who pull their perfectly working car to the side of the road to discipline their vexatious children. It certainly seems possible that a self-driving car might occasionally get itself into a situation requiring a reboot, but that seems like an awfully low price to pay for the convenience of autonomous driving.

[1] http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2007/0811...
Assuming they are using an index-calculus attack, the output is the discrete logarithms of a set of small primes. (But who knows, they may have much better attacks.)

This is how that attack works. You generate a set of small primes called the base primes:

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ...

Then you generate powers of p which all factor in only the base primes. This creates a set of linear equations, which can be solved to find the discrete logarithm of all base primes.

This was all pre-computation. After this, to find the discrete logarithm of x, you generate powers of x until it factors in the set of base primes. Once that is found, calculating the logarithm is easy.

This requires a trade-off: the larger the set of base primes, the longer the first step takes, but the faster the second step is.
A critical opinion piece on Theranos from the journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine:

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cclm.2015.53.issue-7/cclm-20...
Facebook is fighting back. The drag queens didn't like Facebook's "real names" policy. So Facebook is showing that it can infer the connections anyway.
shadier collusion has happened in the past amongst large tech firms http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/3/9256097/apple-google-415-mi...
Edit: If I am honest, you should downvote this post.
Universal basic income?: A mapped community argument
This subthread was about zdw's option b) of Dropbox having to support both the OS protocol implementation and its own. In which case Dropbox would not control both sides of the protocol.

I think the protocol fairly complex and simultaneously underspecified (if by ZeroConf you mean mDNS and DNS-SD). Mash up multicast, DNS, dynamic DNS updates, and DNS-SD so that every node is running in effect both a DNS server and client... what could possibly go wrong ;)
I don't like double posting, but I read this again and ran accross this statement towards the end of the OP:

>But the frantic pace of the “space race” ensured that you had to sacrifice thorough ground testing in favor of debugging the technology in space. This means that you automatically increase the risk to human subjects on board spaceships.

By my memory, the US lost most astros to ground testing than to flight, the Apollo fire being top of the list. Training and testing are safer than flight, but are not absolutely safe. There is a balance point where the risks presented by ever more training outweigh any further reduction in risk during flight.
Show HN: WebGL app that shows 9,100+ storms from 1850 to today
Sitting for long periods is no worse for your health than standing, study claims
It's also worth noting that even when they do get JS delivered content, it updates much less frequently...

Then again, I really like react+redux+koa (r3k) for client-server rendering.... Hoping to do something more serious with it in the next few months at work.
AFAICT, it is mathematically sound and internally consistent, and very interesting.
It was so snarky. Every paragraph was more damning than the last.
This is irrelevant.

You will still be tied to a unique identifier and tracked all over the web because your browser fingerprint (yes, it's probably unique: test here https://panopticlick.eff.org/) will be reported back for every site affiliated with an advertising network affiliated with Facebook.
Channels don't exactly exist, but you can programmatically create topics within streams. Sometimes it gets to be overwhelming, like out GitHub bot that posts every PR for every repo under its own topic within the GitHub stream. It's definitely a new way of thinking about chat, and there's a learning curve of about a week, but so far it's been fantastic.

I've used Slack and HipChat previously, and AFAIK the integration methods are all roughly equivalent - post a message to a URL with a token.
Thank you! Page 26 if anyone else was wondering.
I think this is far less mysterious than people suppose.

Hypothesis - if someone on facebook views your profile then facebook is more likely to suggest them as a friend. Increase the probability if the person is a low degree of separation from you.

Obviously people on dating apps are often going to be searching each other out on facebook to see more info.

I guessed this was how facebook did it because I saw an ex of mine once on the street (I don't have the fb app on my phone or anything like that - so I doubt it was using location data). We never spoke - but made eye contact. Later that day she appeared as a friend suggestion for the first time. My guess is that she viewed my profile out of curiosity.
But my point is that still nobody is watching! The idea that there is a "somebody" there is a projection. Google isn't going to make fun of you because you pick your nose.
> difference is cars have a clear, visual grid of where they can travel and where they cannot travel.

Visual grid for people to look at. All those cues and signs were not designed to be read and processed by robots. And there are crazy pedestrians, crazy drivers, maybe cattle crossing the street, an accident, ice, fog, ice and fog and cattle, unpaved roads, etc.

I would think an airplane's environment when in the air seems more predictable and stable, than an environment for car on the streets. Same thing for underwater vehicles. There might be crazy pranksters playing games with the vehicle 100 feet under water, but probably not a high probability.
What on earth did Lawrence Summers do for his +1M shares? HT Felix Salmon.
A common idea was "any single system fault shouldn't make catastrophe by itself". Nowadays it's "any single fault shouldn't jeopardize the mission and any two faults should still allow for safe return of the crew". The redundancies are designed in accordance to this.

From this perspective Gagarin would die if both accelerating stage worked longer and retrorockets failed. Only one of this two systems malfunctioned - so, barely, he managed to return unscathed.
WWI
Thanks for the article, this quote hit me
>> Details of the Theranos technology have not been disclosed to scientific journals and for this reason it is not possible to comment. <<
So they have handful of tests that are FDA approved and then their protocols or technology never went through scientific scrutiny, but the whole company is valued $9billion? This is disconcerting.
Impressed that this happened in Melbourne as opposed to the Bay Area. ZenDesk has done a good job of publicising their ability to move comparatively quickly around here, but this goes over and above.
>>Theranos claims that the usual delay of testing in centralized laboratories is approximately 3 days and that they will generate and deliver their data much faster (e.g., within 4 h). The 3-day delay claim is not accurate. The bulk of laboratory testing in centralized laboratories is completed within an hour or two (calculated from time of sample collection to time of results posting for physician review). For example, in our laboratory, more than 90% of creatinine and troponin requests from all wards are completed in <1 h and more than 97% in <2 h. It is thus questionable that Theranos’s technology will be able to deliver faster results than the ones mentioned... Consequently, faster analysis will not have a major impact on patient outcomes.

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cclm.2015.53.issue-7/cclm-20...

This is the same kind of bullshit I see in academia, where a new technology is promised to replace an old technology that works fine, but now they have a 9 billion dollar valuation!
In what way is this threatened under current conditions? It seems your biggest risk would be i.e. compromise of your email account by hackers, not surveillance by intelligence agencies.
I think I saw that option before. I know I definitely can delete messages and they don't appear in the download.
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don't like it? don't use it.

It's not that hard. No big dilemma. This kind of complaint all boils down to "I wish that company was doing it MY way. I want ALL the free benefits and services they offer me but I want them to make it EASIER for me to do X Y and Z"

Well, sorry. Don't use it if you don't like it.
Thanks. Makes a bunch of sense.
Aren't you down to appointreminder.org and Starfighter now? How's the alpha going?
In startup-world, this is known as "faking it until you make it." Well done Theranos, keep at it!
> Again, so? If there is a "huge dent" across the board, it ends up as no dent at all.

The issue is that there's no way to have a huge dent across the board because we now live in a global economy. Advertising-based businesses would have to be dismantled globally. Frankly, I think this is unrealistic and not really worth speculating about.
Mercury is an incredible spacecraft. Incredibly small and light - less than 1400 kilogram, comparing to more than 4000 kilogram of Vostok. As an astronaut (Grissom?) put it, "you don't enter Mercury - you carefully put the spacecraft on you like gloves".
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You ain't gonna need it
I can say that Bing definitely does do JS interpretation as part of some of their renderings... I switched the URL routing in a relatively large site (about 300k routes, including navigatable search urls), so that they were all consistent, and all pointing to the new routes via permanent redirect... previously the project was supporting all of their older routing schemes over time, and it was troublesome wrt SEO (duplicated content on many pages, or the same because search parameters were the same, but different structure, same for individual content pages). When the change happened, we saw a huge uptick in google analytics hits (one page, no clickthroughs) coming from two locations... both turned out to be MS data centers. It was a relatively common problem.

It was always just a little white noise in the past, but when suddenly a couple hundred thousand pages permanently redirect... it was interesting.
Too bad if they are undergoing troubles as I'm really hopeful they become more widely available in California. I'm using WellnessFX [0] and InsideTracker [1], but they are expensive and draw too much blood (which could be a good thing, actually).

[0] https://wwws.wellnessfx.com/

[1] https://www.insidetracker.com/
This is a good analogy in one sense, but I think the probabilities in your example are reversed from the startup case: for high-risk startups, only a few survive, but they're the winners.

And of course, that's what makes them better on average for investors (who spread risk across their portfolio) than for founders, who have all their eggs in one basket.

As pg says here, as a founder, you want to survive.
Mathematicians find 'magic key' to drive Ramanujan's taxi-cab number
I take it you haven't driven a motorcycle. I can ride one, at speed and around corners, without touching the controls. Remember that the rider may represent 30+% of the vehicle mass. Moving your weight around on the bike has as much control over direction as the handlebars. Unless you are going to strap the rider into a seat (ie make it a car) attach him to a hydraulic arm, or install a 200lb gyro, no machine can take directional control.

This all comes to a head at the transition point of countersteering, where the controls reverse around 20ish mph. The rider's balance controls whether turning the handlebars right means right or left. If the rider isn't in sync with the autodrive, everyone is in the ditch.
BuiltWith:
http://www.startupdaily.net/2015/09/builtwith-is-perhaps-one...
In a Universal basic income system, will the government give extra money (or provide extra free service) to people who need more money?
That's psychotic.

I don't rope rescue, but I sure do rock climb. You can rock climb with ropes or without. Ropes = a large safety margin, and the majority of people who climb, utilize them, as part of their safety system. Unless you're pushing your own grade level, the actual safety system isn't actuated - you're just using it "just in case" (like, "just in case you fall from a cliff, 500 feet up - gee it's nice I'm tied to something).

There are also those who climb without ropes. Perhaps you've heard of some of them [0], and most likely, because they actually climb without a rope. High Risk. Your idea of startups, let's say.

But that's just what the public sees. The free soloist has to be absolutely comfortable to go without the safety margin of a rope. Because of that, the majority of their climbing is done, still with a rope. When they go ropeless, the climbs they do are much, much easier. Yes, the risk is there, but also there is the understanding, clearly, what the risk is really about.

The death rate of climbers that are unwilling to ever use a rope, because they find that high risk = high reward would be close to 100%. But those who do survive are not going to be doing too well - they're never going to progress.

So, perhaps startups have this illusion of high risk, but maybe also they're also kidding themselves. They're burning through their lives, and offloading the real risk onto their safety systems - whoever is putting up the money. And they can do that (the investors), as they've diversified their portfolio enough that risk is spread around.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1jwwagtaQ
This has been my experience as well. I'm sure there're sensible things to tweak on a "regular" web site to make it more mobile friendly. The web development community just went to the extreme with gimmickry and the web suffers for it, desktop or mobile.
I'm missing something. What's hard to follow here? I mean, it's not Hemingway, but the previous paragraphs describe the difficulty of the situation, in which Theranos -- according to the WSJ -- asked its employees to recant their statements to the WSJ (pre-publication).

In the part that you excerpt, the WSJ reports the nurse saying that the company failed to produce data that would prove the accuracy of the test. The company (Ms. King) says that it did produce the data.

...How would you word that and the surrounding paragraphs?
Why do you think aiming a gun at someone and pulling the trigger is attempted murder rather than assault with a deadly weapon? Attempted murder requires the intention to kill.
Landing on the moon is to physics what car traffic is to chaos theory.
> Perhaps: don't think there's a rope backing you up if it isn't there.

If you use the metaphor of rock climbing, you'd actually rehearse your route with ropes/safety system, before you would ever try the route without. When the stakes are so high that it's you're life you're gambling with, is it really worth it for most to go so blind out there?

It's either that, or you go without a rope, when the difficulty is far below your limit (in other words, you have amassed a lot of experience)
In the world of industrial rope-access, it'd be illegal in most jurisdictions to use any rope system that wasn't 100% safe to fall in to at any given time.
Needless to say, that kind of strategy works for tech and apps, but not when people's lives are potentially at stake.
Most of that data flow, barring user interaction is much more limited compared to the initial load of controls, iframes, images, etc... you can visibly see the drop off..

If you look at the network tab in chrome dev tools, you can see when the dom ready event fires, the window load event, and when it really feels the content was done loading. That final load time is when the data flow lulls out for a bit.
I've driven a volvo with this feature and it has two modes, one is below 50km/h where it will fully control the car and can do quite hard turns to follow the lanes and cars in front of it. Another is above 50km/h which requires hands on the wheel but the actions are not as strong, it is more like driving on a very concave road which automatically directs your wheels towards the center of the lane, if you don't resist the motion of the wheel it will keep you in the lane. Not keeping the hands on the wheel in the second mode will trigger a warning after a few seconds and later disengages the system.

Essentially you just need to hold your hands on the wheel and relax your arms. Before you've driven with this feature you might not realize but all the time when you are driving you are constantly doing minor adjustments to the steering wheel which takes quite much effort, both attention and physically, this takes away all that but still keeps your brain in the "i am in control of the car"-mode. If you were to keep your hands off i think it's easy to zone out and if something happens there might be too much context switch for you to handle the situation fast enough.

Is there any video of the tesla doing this at highway speed? I can only find city driving.
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Taken to some extreme, people realized that safer roads, no trees on the sides, aren't that safer, they just make people lazier and keep crashing even when trees have been removed, faster.
True. But that's where http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/ comes in
Same goes for user agent spoofing (to some extent). You can imagine most of the stuff when you use the chrome dev tools being done without actual user interaction.
> Please guide me if this is not the right forum.

This is not the right forum. HN is for posts that gratify intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I now love to drive
They will (eventually have to) recognize hand signals from construction workers and police officers. Current generation, they won't run over the person, but you should probably take over and follow their instructions.
Besides, your actual risk of dying in a terrorist attack is nowhere close to 1% / year.

It's actually 0% per lifetime, rounded to many decimal places.

Statists and authoritarians like to overstate external threats as an excuse to consolidate & expand state authority internally. It's an old and common tactic.
Just like a software project, it will just not be perfect on first release. If they had waited to fix the comms module, to test the strap on the survival pack, and so on, they'd still be working on it today and other country (probably US) would have beat them into space.

Overal their program probably killed about the same number of cosmonauts as US killed astronauts, or maybe even less.

You can play some games with numbers maybe if you want to include unmanned rockets exploding on launchpads or not -- China killed maybe around 500 people with an a satelite launch in the 90's. Russians killed 50 launchpad personnel during a failed Vostok lunch in the 60's.
Richest 1% own 53% of India’s wealth
Considering the problems people occasionally have spending $2 bills, I could only imagine the reaction you'd get trying to use one of these.
Will removing this 350ms delay really make user feel faster response?
iOS supports zooming the entire screen as part of its accessibility feature set. Though you have to turn it on, and the gesture is three-finger-tap and drag instead of pinch.
Now that's a great idea. LinkedInTeam.com - in fact one could build that as a seperate "profile" page where each Dev points from their profile to the "meta" page, and selects certain comments (is this team is great, as opposed to this person is great)

One could build a profile page quickly from the links and use only LinkedIn quotes - is quotes that are "trustable".