skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A really good source for both lay public and health care providers is the CDC (perhaps not a surprise). They do a good job of explaining what we know and importantly what we don't know.
See for example:

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/pregnancy/question-answers.html
It's still being squatted. I own other TLDs for it we can operate the site off of. I'm hoping eventually they abandon the domain, since it's unlikely anyone else will want it.
> Do you mean destructive interference? because the photons don't go anywhere, they don't disappear, the energy of the wave function and hence the photons remains the same.

Not quite. If both waves are plane waves, the interference could be destructive everywhere or, depending on the setup, destructive everywhere except between your sources. If you calculate the time-averaged power needed to source the waves, it'll sum to zero. And there are no photons in the far field.
My home-brew 68K machine just recently reached the same level of completeness except for the particular BASIC implementation (Tiny vs. Microsoft). Guess I should get it written up as a blog post or three.
Really, what can i say other than a good piece of writing that essentially matches my own conclusions and experience (and of course, I'm biased because I have the philosophy degree like the author and, now having worked for government and a big private corp, though I've not had the "pleasure" for working for a consulting firm, I have had the "pleasure" of working with them when hired by senior executives). I feel I need to comment just so this article generates some discussion/anecdotes.

All I can really conclude is that it seems to me to be common practice to look to consultancy either when you:

-don't know what you're doing and from a merit point of view probably shouldn't be in the job you're in

-you just need temporary labor without the problems/responsibilities of permanent employees

-you need to hide/cover-up/massage something

-you have a friend at the consultancy and you just continually hire/swap jobs while managing other people's money/resources and funnel it to each other

-or...possibly combined with all of the above, you need to hide your work/non-work behind a veneer of social prestige and acceptability: if profits increase, you take credit, if it fails (and if you actually measure whether it fails you'll be in the minority), well, you can't be blamed, I mean you hired the best consultancy...i mean...they have letters next to their names and everything (well, more commonly everything except experience in the business they're consulting about).

But in this sense, the management class and consultancy are beginning to blend together: its just all about image, project confidence, never introspect or question or measure anything properly, don't hold them to account, and remember...and the end of the day its about networks, how much you get paid in fees and bonuses, and your next job. No one's going to investigate your claims of past success anyway since its all behind NDA's and corporate veils.

Unfortunately, I don't know what kind of legal position I will be in if I actually talk about some of the...err..."interesting" experiences I've had, and the people in these industries obviously have to protect their reputations (since that's about all they have) so I'll just take a quick quote from the article:

"As I plowed through my shelfload of bad management books, I beheld a discipline that consists mainly of unverifiable propositions and cryptic anecdotes, is rarely if ever held accountable, and produces an inordinate number of catastrophically bad writers. It was all too familiar. There are, however, at least two crucial differences between philosophers and their wayward cousins. The first and most important is that philosophers are much better at knowing what they don’t know. The second is money. In a sense, management theory is what happens to philosophers when you pay them too much."
Right. My point was more that they're willing to go to some fairly extreme measures to try insuring their market dominance.
That's pretty awesome.
> This is a flamewar comment, which makes it bad for HN regardless of anyone's politics. But you particularly have no right to do this in the context of a personal blog post by someone whose intention to improve society could hardly be clearer.

> Large institutions are complex, neither completely good nor completely evil. I don't think that's too much to ask users of an internet forum intended for intellectually substantive discourse to understand.

Except you did not intellectually substantiated anything, but your own/company's opinions.

Nor it makes sense for you or anybody else to arbitrarily mark the parent as a flamewar comment.

You are very free to have and express your own opinions, you should others have and express their own, though.
Take a look at this 1969 paper: http://penguin.ewu.edu/~trolfe/QueenLasVegas/Hoffman.pdf

For a 2n x 2n grid, the queens can be placed on (k, 2k) and (2n+1-k, 2n+1-2k), k=1..n. For a (2n+1) x (2n+1) grid, an additional queen is placed on (2n+1, 2n+1).
Your comment made me laugh, thank you.
Marketing.

Think about how everybody felt taking part in "the biggest crowdfund ever". Think how the VCs felt, investing in the future.

Now think how the VCs feel when some peers maybe take a swipe at them: "so you invested in that DAO thing?". This (and money at stake) will create powerful forces towards a resolution. This can already be seen in the smart PR campaign to rollback the hack by forking.
Obviously, this is not one of the insoluble problems in my life (and the weather has been completely bonkers this year anyway) :-)
Some people learn a new language or learn about a different culture to get some understanding of a different perspective on life.

There is very little interesting or informative about learning diverse unit systems.

Now, history of unit systems is interesting, but that's more like learning an aspect of other cultures than about measurement systems.
Do Chinese people have different biological needs? Do they require less food, less transportation, less shelter? Then why the hell should they have less carbon than you or I?

Pick a per-capita number and stick to it. Anything else is hypocrisy.
I'd definitely like to think so - and in practice, I've done more of running my own infrastructure recently. But what about those who're stuck under capped internet plans? What about the people whose interest in computing begins and ends with owning a smartphone?
Because you can set Secure and HttpOnly flags on cookies? This merely brings them up to the same level of security you get with Local Storage. http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/05/web-storage-lesser-evil-...
There's many reasons to hire firms besides the one you defend. From the OP:

> In one episode, when I got involved in winding up the failed subsidiary of a large European bank, I noticed on the expense ledger that a rival consulting firm had racked up $5 million in fees from the same subsidiary. “They were supposed to save the business,” said one client manager, rolling his eyes. “Actually,” he corrected himself, “they were supposed to keep the illusion going long enough for the boss to find a new job.”
I would not be surprised if this is related to the Gawker debacle.
For the last 4 years I have worked for the first time in my career as employee of a big corporation. The "managing class" of MBAs reminds me of the way a communist state like East Germany was run. Centralized decision making, information withholding, the desire to plan out everything for years, saying one thing while meaning the opposite, hanging up motivational posters "we are innovative" while squashing innovation, ignoring of inconvenient facts and so on. All that comes with the appearance of "management science" and its own insider language.
A better idea to stop when you encounter a bug that you know or expect will be easy to fix. That way, you start with a sense of achievement first thing in the morning, which is exactly what you're looking for. Fixing a syntax error doesn't give me that sense of satisfaction, especially one I deliberately introduced.
It's a complete aberration that the Ethereum Foundation is even considering pushing a fork (hard or soft). There will be a fork, that is people leaving "Ethereum" for its new shiny successor.

If you want the protection of a big brother, why not invest in the regular stock market? Lots of neophytes trying to get rich quick are now crying for help after realizing they made a mistake. It's really touching.
Kotlin also compiles to JS then
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Management is sort of like dating, in that there are so many complexities and hidden variables that you have to go by instinct and experience. I don't see how it can be taught well in school. Try to use empathy and don't make enemies, I guess. Be careful about what you say to both your manager and underlings.
Yes, it was doctors and lawyers. Get out of school, declare banktupcy on $100+k of debt (abnormal at the time except for those degrees) and then in 7 years, start over with all the money you saved as a Junior doctor/lawyer.
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Jason Fried: Saying No to Big-Money Customers
No installer needed? Just copy the files somewehre? That would be nice.
Could this be built in Minecraft using redstone?
Also, doesn't the headline seem a little misleading? Had I not clicked the link, I would have thought that Palantir was maliciously compromised by mercenary hackers.
I don't think it is so much not trying to earn, but being rich allows you to take advantage of investments that normal people wouldn't or couldn't consider. If you are not rich then you need ready access to your investments. You might need the money one day. A rich person can instead invest in less liquid concepts such as private equity or offshore havens.
I don't understand how arbitration would work. Say "A" buys something from "B". Later "A" complains what was shipped isn't what he ordered. How do you solve this with a blockchain and votes?
> if you ask them for an A record for news.ycombinator.com, they give you the NS records for com.

Why does it have to go to the .com registry? Why can't the NS servers of the registrar (GoDaddy/Namecheap/etc.) themselves provide that resolution (ycombinator.com == xx.xx.xx.xx IP) ? After all the registrars are assigned for that specific purpose, aren't they?

Looks like a centralized bureaucracy to me if each request has to go to the root com/org/net DNS servers.
workflowy.com is pretty good
Fahrenheit does have smaller units, but nobody uses them. When was the last time you heard somebody distinguish between 72 and 73 degrees Fahrenheit? People use "low 70s", "mid 70s", "high 70s". With that in mind, I would say that the size of a single degree in Fahrenheit is too small of a unit.
I don't think OP is saying it's not an accomplishment, just not that it was a viral accomplishment.
Stringed musical instruments also typically increase in value as they are routinely played. A trained musician, as I understand it, can readily identify an instrument that has lain idle.
Is there any reason why something shouldn't be abstracted?

At least in a functional or procedural realm, I don't think that this would be a detriment.
Did you try complaining to ICANN about it via any means? An alternative is to throw a DMCA on them through Google, that's much faster (though its intended use is reporting of copyright violations, not sure how it'll work for reporting of squatting of domain names).
I'd suggest you look beyond Manhttan and PR stories probably sourced from developers... Look especially for local papers in the outer boroughs.

Plenty of neighborhoods that were 1-2 family houses in Queens as recently as the early 90s are 50%+ 4+ unit condos and apartments. My childhood home in Queens (a 19th century farmhouse) is now two 6 unit condos. Google about development in Forest Hills Queens and Staten Island. Plenty of stuff going on.

Even in Manhattan... It isn't turning into a playground for the rich because of zoning laws... It's a rich man's playground because there are lots of uber rich people who want it that way. Remember the current Mayor's crusade for horse rights? His care for equine welfare was motivated solely by his rich donors who want to redevelop the horse stables.
Planetary Resources [1] (that asteroid mining company) might be interested in this bit of news. Hope it's minable!

[1] http://planetaryresources.com/
From what I understand Kotlin is the language that was designed to be used in house by JetBrains to simplify their Java code. It wasn't born to be the revolutionary, just practical for Java developers.
The fact that people are making Ponzi schemes and calling them Ponzi schemes tells you everything you need to know about the gullibility of the cryptocurrency community.
It's cyclical and this should be obvious to anyone in technology. We move between eras of centralisation and decentralisation. The internet started as a decentralised network in which we then built high capacity centralised systems at an accelerated rate. We're now about to shift back into a new era of decentralisation fuelled by edge/fog computing, IoT and p2p networks all on top of the existing infrastructure.

The point is that it only occurs when we have a specific need and a niche vertical to initially leverage it in. In one form it's bitcoin for payments. In another form its IoT and essentially sensor networks. You can imagine autonomous vehicles being a huge p2p network for speed as opposed to feeding all the data back to the cloud.
That doesn't really apply here. The code and runtime is correct as in: no coins were generated or disappeared, nobody directly reassigned coins, etc. This was simply a logic error - the code followed the legal/known path all the time. Rust can be great for many things, but it can't tell you "this code does not do what you think you wanted".
I've seen no controlled research that any "ergonomic" keyboard is any better or worse than any other keyboard. Taste-wise, of course, some are clearly better than others, but different people can have different taste.

Is there any science behind this? I don't count "studies" paid for by keyboard makers to be legit --I mean controlled third party studies.
The you don't need a law, just enforcement of a private contract.

People who live in apartment buildings have no say in who lives mext to them and no guarantee how long they will stay
Even if we're not 100% certain that it is a bad thing, I don't want to bet on behalf of future humanity that it is not. Do you?
Patent trolls, innovation and Brexit: What the FT won't tell you
> This doesn't need to be a legal issue. It's simply a rule of the building. People violating it are violating their contract with their building just like when they violate any other rule.

This sounds good in writing, but in practice, is nearly unenforceable. The mechanisms for landlords to stay on top of this are either unrealistic or draconian. eg, monitoring everyone that enters and leaves and analyzing it, asking tenants to do the same and then snitch on their neighbors, or doing door to door checks.

AirB&B is banned by the contract in the building I live in, and while I respect that because I happen not to be interested, it's virtually unenforceable and I have no way of knowing whether others in my building adhere to it.

IMO, legislation that forces services like airb&b to do only what's on the tin, short term, limited scope, infrequent rentals of residential spaces by people who occupy them the majority of the time, is both reasonable and necessary. Without those checks, which airb&b is totally uninterested in enforcing themselves, the service basically becomes a black market hotel market for property hoarders.
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I'm partial to TDD because it's great for that "simple task"/error-fixing mentality. About 30 minutes before leaving, I make sure I have a couple failing tests and leave them that way when I leave.

Whenever I get back to work, I can just jump in... any kind of work interruption benefits the same way.
This is just a form of gambling. Post-modern Ponzi schemes are gambling games that some people enjoy. The people who play them aren't necessarily stupid, they value the entertainment more than the expected reward.
If you know you're giving money to a ponzi scheme and see all the rules of it, is it really a ponzi scheme/gullibility? It sounds just as interesting as betting on sports / stockmarket / ...

People still play roulette or blackjack, even though they know they're guaranteed to lose in a long run / on average.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, because you're absolutely right. Most human architecture is highly procedural, with many tradesmen specializing in highly repetitive, focused tasks, that have predictable, reliable outcomes, in order to produce safe structures based on well-understood principles.

As for the VR thing, I think that will gain less traction because the idea of sleeping one's life away, strapped into goggles and headphones, is only so attractive.
You're downvoted because you violated political correctness of foreign affairs.

Political Correctness = Fine tuned reports from the media leading some topics + Lazy and emotional followers with little first-hand experience + Political groups representing a few radical protestors.

These politically correct people never reflect on their worldview despite repeat messup, because thinking like that makes them feel good and it's morally correct!

However, the realities are more complicated than the reported 'facts' with purposefully tuned spectrum.
I love that the ships look more like "skyscrapers in space" then airplane like spaceships

(than!)

To be really realistic, the planes of the floors should be oriented perpendicular to the axis, or there should be a centrifuge incorporated. If ships are going to float around like ocean going ships floating on top of an invisible ocean, with all of the ship floors somehow aligned, then this is the "space is an ocean" trope.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceIsAnOcean
Play isn't built for Kotlin and SBT is kind of a tire fire in general. I would suggest something more like Dropwizard for use with non-Scala JVM languages.
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Sure. Plenty of Java-based games do this.
A trick is to set yourself multiple tasks that are not exciting, so that you do at least one. If I tell myself, "I will edit all the photos I have been taking for almost a decade", I may not get around to it.

So, I tell myself, "I will either edit photos, vacuum the house or read the iOS Human Interface Guidelines." Then I may bounce from task to task, but I will finish at least one. After a while, the irritation of leaving a task half-done drives me to complete the other tasks as well.
Yeah, Sam Thayer's comments about racism with respect to eating native plants are what made me want to post this. I hadn't heard that before.

In terms of the allergy, I agree that it's most likely either the latex or something else that's present when they're not fully cooked. I'd also be curious as to whether either the person digging them up or the person cooking them is more likely to have an allergic reaction than the people merely eating them.
Maybe this is my "old man" moment, but the magical world of 3D printed self driving cars that cost nothing really sounds like the flying car articles that you find in a circa 1960 Popular Mechanics.
Please, laws are made by people to serve whatever side they want to favor.

It's just politicians taking from all to favor the few.

I'm referring to this brand new law that infringes on apartment owners rights to rent their apartment to whoever they please.

If the building rules don't prohibit it already I don't see why another law is needed.
Dependently Typed Ethereum Contracts in Idris [pdf]
The method described in what you linked will give you one solution (as in: one valid placement), not enumerate all of them, which is what is done in the submitted paper (although that information is needlessly buried for whatever reason).
There is no such provision. You can transfer the "balance" of a contract to another, but not any of it's internal state. This is left up to the programmer and AFAICT, they didn't implement this feature in the DAO contract(s).
Kotlin reminds me of coffescript to JavaScript.
We are now in another part of the hype cycle for the web.
oh, they do. Capacitors in modern switching circuits should be treated as perishable.
East Cleveland has a tenuous relationship with financial solvency and if GE ever shuts down the facility at Nela Park the municipality will probably be taken into receivership by the state.

Source: Grew up in Cleveland.
I agree that most procedural generation is underwhelming. Merely remixed/varied things isn't exciting. However, things that have some sort of function -- things that have evolved or have been curated and tweaked -- these things are often very interesting. Procedural generation needs to be attached to such mechanisms and provide tool towards a goal to be interesting.
If I have a magic rock that keeps tigers away, and then tigers arrive despite the rock, would you keep paying for the rock?
There are tools that do this, though of course they analyze the source, not the binaries like what's done here (binaries can legitimately contain lots of duplicate code, introduced by the compiler for optimization).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_static_code_...
Universities and Hospitals are infected with them. Like full blown infestation.
Used by developers? Last time I checked they didn't even ship debuginfo packages in their repos (makepkg can handle it, but you'll have to do everything yourself; someone will need to step up and volunteer until this can happen distro-wide I'd wager)...
People should make more 6809 kit computers..

So for example, then you can run OS-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9 and emulate an 8080 to run CP/M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiwmUnLTcjY
Online telephone book old style looks just like the phone book
Most human architecture is highly procedural, with many tradesmen specializing in highly repetitive, focused tasks, that have predictable, reliable outcomes

Yes, but human architecture is shaped by forces following from function. (As in Alexander's Pattern Language of Design.) That's why it becomes interesting, because we can relate to how the architecture relates to human needs and perceptions.
Did you read the article? It specifically cited a costly NASA error due to mixing measurement systems:

The use of two different systems was the root cause
in the loss of the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter.
NASA specified metric units in the contract. NASA and
other organizations worked in metric units, but one
subcontractor, Lockheed Martin, provided thruster
performance data to the team in pound force seconds
instead of newton seconds. The spacecraft was intended
to orbit Mars at about 150 kilometers altitude, but
the incorrect data meant that it probably descended
instead to about 57 kilometers, burning up in the thin
Martian atmosphere.
“I like the FedEx guy, 'cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it! And he's always on time.” - Mitch Hedberg
The product looks very appealing but I'm not willing to entrust any company with that level of personal data.

I'd be willing to pay to have a self-hosted version of Gyroscope. Curious if it's on the roadmap.
You're thinking of Qwest's Nacchio and his insider-trading conviction. WorldCom was a few years earlier and an unambiguous case of massive financial fraud on the heels of Enron. Bernie and his cronies deserved every bit of what they got, and more besides.
A 6502 backplane homebrew: http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=680. Especially impressive because Quinn etched the PCBs at home.

Fast-forward to the finished (and resurrected) project so you can see the backplane: http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=2644
In the west, the state interferes with every aspect of your life