skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, if the virus has already been created, the antidote has to be found ASAP. For this to happen, a large number of scientists have to know how to make it first before knowing how to destroy it.

How you decide who should have access to this information is now the problem. If they are not careful, the censoring could piss of some crazy scientist who would now announce such discoveries with a blogpost and allow anyone have access to it than through a sort of regulated process that would at least give the 'right people' a lead on the info; so they can start working on an anti-dote before is gets to the mass market.

As to what kind of research should be allowed, I have no comment.
You could always try cracking whatever DRM those streaming services use; instead of an FPGA all you'd need is a Norwegian teenager, a six-pack of Mountain Dew, and a cracked copy of SoftICE.
50% is an understatement according to wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1 ].

As an aside there's something about the article saying that it required 10 generations of breeding that makes me think that this development is alarmingly low hanging fruit. Could this article be enough for someone to figure out how to recreate the strain?
How did I not know about that board before? Ever since HD displaced SD, I've always wanted an FPGA platform to experiment with custom video processing a la tvtime and DScaler. Now I know what to save up for.
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The article is published on Cult of Mac. The blogs audience is most likely only interested in Apple related news and events. For its target audience it is perfectly acceptable to present Apples role, even being a minor player.
I really enjoyed this review, it came off very honest and you didn't try to be very pro or con, just what you ran into over the past year.

You mention no reasonable Scala client exists, why not create and release your own? I know Riak talks about offering fulltext search, but one thing I've learned over the years is using a specifically designed search engine (such as lucene/solr/indextank) is typically far more performant/scalable plus easier to implement then a generic datastore. I've never used riak for search so I have a few questions. Did you ever attempt to use a different datastore for search? If you did, at first did riak perform just as well, if not why not?
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Because the people are outside the U.S. and thus outside the U.S. government's jurisdiction.

The domain name is registered through a U.S.-based registrar so it is subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
That's what surprised me most about this article: they crow that it's a CPU-only technology... why?

Because they don't know where raytracing research has gotten to with GPGPUs. Indeed if a few years ago you had told me that GPGPUs would be handling the insanely branching search of raytracing I'd have told you you were mad. Now we have iray. Bottom line: yes, its a staggeringly inefficient algorithm compared to a CPU, but I've got 480 cores!!!

I'll place money that this technique is just raytracing with a nice, hierarchical voxel tree. Plenty of work being/been done on combining such spatial subdivisions with SIMD. Usually the search ends on a polygon with a collision test. The idea here, which I havent come across (but I've not read every paper) is to store the subdivision down to sub-poly level so that you can skip the collision test. I hope they still share surface information between voxels, but maybe not. Essentially there are plenty of researchers who could implement their algorithm right now by adding "return true" for their poly hit test and increasing the subdivision threshold.

As Carmack said 114 days ago, "Nice idea. Be a few years till its viable."

But I'd be surprised if its this team that delivers the goods. They seem woefully uninterested in the wealth of research in the area.
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There was an article that went over exactly this in Discover magazine a month or two ago. Summary is that it's harder than you might think. To quote:

"You would need more than a garage; you would need a great
garage and a lot of money. And it's not trivial. You need
the oligonucleotides to stitch genes together, and as far
as I know, most companies will check the order if the
sequence represents that of a dangerous virus."

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/21-dawn-of-the-biohacke...
Let's be real here. Do 99.9999...% of users need or deserve this kind of support? It's easy to have sour grapes and say "oh the big shots get attention but I don't! Not fair!". But then you have to remember that people like PG worked their ass off to get a site like this to become so valuable and popular. We're not talking about some guy's blog about his cat that no one cares about, we're talking about HN here. Is it equal treatment? Of course not but is it fair? I say it is fair.

If fairness is treating people based on merit then it's totally fine. Matt isn't in here saying he's going to manually manipulate the result or change anything on Google's end (save for maybe correcting a flaw that would benefit everyone who's in a similar situation as HN). All he's doing is suggesting possible causes, trying to make a diagnosis, and just troubleshooting.

Most people who want this attention don't deserve it. They're the type of people who won't use the resources available like the google help documents or even learning how to administrate a site for best results in search engines. Plus, most people's website just aren't worthy of this attention.

I could go on but lets look at the reality here. We're all knowledgeable of how the web works here so let's just admit that HN is a damn popular site and it definitely seems like a fluke to have it rank as it was when this was submitted.
Nigeria (which I didn't mention), Turkey and Russia have a disproportionate number.
The ones that helped me the most were:

Universal Principles of Design

Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life -- this is not related to design that much, but it's a staple life drawing book and once you can draw a person's face well, everything else becomes easier to draw.
In that case animals should be smarter than humans!
I can't help thinking that your average user is much less likely to write an extension at all. Also, I suspect a disproportionate number of GNU program users sufficiently invested in them to write extensions are either Emacs users already (it is Gnu Emacs, after all) or at least fairly familiar with Lisp.

The sort of person who doesn't go out of his way to learn a new tool is also the sort of person who probably doesn't go out of his way to extend an existing tool either. I think targeting advanced users for writing extensions is completely reasonable.

Plenty of "average" (by your definition) programmers who use Eclipse know Java well enough to write Eclispe plugins. How many of them do? I suspect a large portion of those who do would have written the plugins in Guile as well.
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It's just not seeing, but also knowing. That's why some art schools have dissection labs where art students learn how human body is structured. And when you know anatomy, you can draw from imagination which is really a lot more valuable skill than copying a person's photo using a grid method :P
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This strikes me as strange. I'll bet at least half of Ableton's customers use Macs.
Fairness is what it's all about. I like yiur choice of wording. A lot of people have a problem with Matt Cutts jumping in because they feel it's not fair. They're mistaking equality for fairness. This is perfectly fair but not equal. Equality sucks. Fairness is better. Fairness is treatment based on merit and equality is just equal treatment no matter what the situation. Equality can really screw you if you're on the wrong side of it.
Don't miss the backstory:

"And it soon becomes apparent that this issue goes a lot broader. Their course is designed to churn out mini-art directors, mini-account people, mini-planners for a world that increasingly just wants creative generalists."

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/building_c...

I was an art student at UO at the time, briefly participating in the journalism department's advertising club that brought Russell Davies to visit. So far, generalism is working out.
I found this article on the same topic more informative and less sensational:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21195-bioterror-fears-...
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It seems like the United States should invest in a dream team, atom bomb, go to the moon type of operation to deal with this. It's hard to see why this information even got out in the first place.
People complaining about high prices and factory working conditions at the same time always baffles me.

You do realize that the cheaper some product is, the less these people are going to be paid, right?

Of course the reverse is not a given, but at least it gives more wiggle room to everybody.
Thanks, I am a developer and doing good with services. I just wanted to start learning about sales and I thought I can start with this script. Visitors come from Google to my blog with keywords like "Draw with jquery" or "Drawing on Canvas with jQuery" ect. (Here is the post http://motyar.blogspot.com/2010/04/drawing-on-web-with-canva... )
and from this post they come to this demo page, they can buy if they want to use the code in their own application.

Targeting a user group is good practice, and I think most of the visitors are developers.
Thanks again.
I feel the same way!!
But one who is going to code his/her own drawing application with canvas. Its a good code base.
A lot of things to improve in code.

Thanks
If by "cat and mouse" you mean "the cat takes a day or two to learn how to find and eat each new type of mouse but having done so immediately eats such mice the instant it appears almost as if the mouse is teleported into the cats mouth" then yes it is. The reality is that the cat always catches the mouse, and engineering new types of mice costs money, so most blurays don't even bother. Its amazing that they bother at all.

But if you meant, "a contrived action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes." then, no, I'd completely disagree. Its a pretty straightforward, routine process, guaranteed to end only one way.
Any reason why we can't cripple the virus and start testing vaccines now? Publish it and immunize against it.
Yes, But is a good code base to write your own drawing application with canvas and jQuery.
Thank you
I have used riak in a production app. Just recently switched to redis.

Riak was great for the most part. There were three nodes running on three different machines. Setting up a new node is a breeze. Eventually there become a data inconsitancy between the nodes that couldn't get resolved, and would happen intermittently.

When this happened, any sort of map reduce operation would fall. Individual keys could be requested, but only from a node that had the item.

In addition, removing a node in this inconsitant state was a no go. The other nodes would stay in the inconsitant state for good.

Interestingly enough, this only happened on certain buckets. There was a logger bucket that had keys updating and being created all the time that never had an issue.

Perhaps it was a bad configuration on our end...
Thank you! I ll try that.
Your comment doesn't make sense to me. He's pointing out high prices not complaining about working conditions. Of course it's baffling to complain about high prices and expect perfect working conditions. Common sense.
Some of us actually care about interoperability, maintainability and writing good code in general as opposed to just cowboying stuff together as quickly as possible
Looking at that listing the more amazing stat is that twitter bootstrap is #3. That was just released a few months ago and is "simply" an html ui framework. I think this highlights that over anything else, what most developers really need is a solid web ui to get started with.
First and foremost, I should say I'm partnered to a Turk and have spent a few months there; I am not a specialist. While there, I did talk to a few people about the IT climate. So take what I say with a grain of salt.

First and foremost, Turkey is a country of 80 million people. There is a significant amount of variety from person to person, but the tax codes and business rules are not IT friendly relative to other businesses. There is still a non-trivial tariff on computers and electronics, making supplies more expensive than in other countries. From what I vaguely understand it is easier for other companies to evade taxes than IT services, all of which increases the cost of business and makes outsourcing less economical compared to other Eastern European nations. (AKP, the ruling party, is thought of as business-friendly, but I haven't seen any work to really tackle their tax issues.)

Second, Turkey's government is censorship-happy. Nothing like hacker news or reddit would work there, much less something like yelp. (every comment would have to be read, lest someone gets trialed for "insulting Turkishness."

Finally, they don't have a great way for capitalization of projects. Also, the people with money seem risk-averse to new ideas.

Turks themselves are very entrepreneurial, and the few of them that I've known who were developers are generally rather sharp. I wouldn't try to outsource there, however, at this point in time. (Unless I end up there for a few years with a bit of cash and can poke at loopholes. Then, watch out for my new product! :)
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Thank for the link!!
Reminds me of the moving photos from the Harry Potter movies.
This is almost certainly not approved by Apple PR, and is one of the rare instances where any information about Apple's internal operations are released to the public.

I would guess that Diego is about to be out of a job before Christmas :[
Agree!!
I guess I should have mentioned that. Ralink is a starting point, not a finished product. Everyone manufacturer who uses them messes with the driver in their own way. The generics are the worst.

Simply using the built-in drivers in ubuntu or a prebuilt module from ralink yields an almost unusable link.

You have to be on your toes and willing to compile your own drivers (and even learn about the source and make tweaks) to really get ralinks to sing. The good news is that ralink makes this source freely available.

Atheros's work great but they cost more (like $15 or $20 instead of $7) and you still have to be careful to get the right "mad-wifi" drivers. There are less of them though and most versions work out of the box at least acceptably.

Your advice is sound though if you're just looking to get your one ras-pi on the air with minimum fuss you probably want this : http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WN821N-Wireless-Adapter-WPA...

If you're preparing your robot army for world domination on a budget, its probably worth putting in the time to figure out a ralink. I've had great luck with this sub $7 beauty http://www.amazon.com/150mbps-Wireless-Adapter-Wifi-802-11b/... but it did take considerable effort to hack the driver into shape.
Yes anyone (Who know JavaScript) can steal the front end code, but there is also a back-end script (php) no one can!!
A friend did something similar. For every programming puzzle he solved, he would try to find 5 alternative solutions.
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This has more info also, with moderate sensationalism: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/11/scientists...
I am agree with you "Getting people to pay you money is an achievement in itself".
And if I can sell such a code ( someone said "terrible") I think I can do good in sales.

Thank you!!
Here's an interesting experiment done by indie game developer SoS for Black Friday: he released a bundle of 13 indie games for 1$, available for just one day. He got some traction thanks to Notch, who tweeted that the games were interesting and easily worth 1/13th of a dollar each.

The bundle is (was?) accessible from http://sos.gd/bundle/

The transaction takes place in 3 steps:

1. download
2. purchase - this step is optional
3. play
unspecified 4: purchase if you haven't, still optional

I personally didn't even download them so I can't say anything about the quality of the product, I just thought it was somewhat relevant to the discussion, since SoS published real time stats during the operation. That's pretty much ideal conditions in my book for indie publishing, so the stats are actually worth something:

4207 downloads and $276 earnings within a single day. 6.5% of the downloaders purchased the product, regardless of whether they liked what they saw.
What a fantastic comment. You've inspired me to research the evolution of virii, and their place in the world.
Yes. I think a long copy can help me on this point.
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Why would you want to spend lots of of money on developing a vaccine against a virus that only exists in a lab?
The work hours are weird. 7-11:30 then 6-12pm? Why not have a full days work like 8-5 with one hour break ? What does splitting the day like that offer?
Interesting to consider this as a type of approach to 'the problem of metadata'.

That is, obtaining rich metadata about some domain (here, books) and finding a practical use to put this metadata to.
To be entirely fair, there's a huge pile of science fiction written about almost anything. That's probably one of the reasons it's my favorite genre.
I don't get how a US body has to decide whether Dutch and Japanese research papers are allowed to be published.
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Soo if a university group can do it, then it's too difficult for North Korea to do?
It's a wrapper around the Kinect SDK, so not in its current form. But being OSS & Python, anyone can take it & massage it into something similar for Linux/Mac Kinect libraries.
The article doesn't actually draw any connection between business success and being "interesting". This is just taken for granted by the author, but not supported.

The article's advice isn't so much about how to be "interesting", as it is about how to "repeatedly put yourself out there in a public way".

Being able to fail publicly is a useful business skill, mind you. There was an interview on HN a while back, can't find it know, where a super-rich fellow explains that willingness to fail publicly was the key factor in him outperforming more skilled competitors. But this is distinct from being interesting.
And suddenly, I find that I have not lost all hope for humanity.
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It may not feel like it, but that is pretty much what languages like Java do. At run time, the type of the receiver is evaluated and the correct method is selected based on that. So we have the dispatch function, and a way to map results of that dispatch function to action functions. The only difference is that because of static typing, we cannot extend the <dispatch value, action function> map at run time, because we cannot create types at run time.
Another great (WWI) story along those lines:
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Science is an American publication. If this were submitted to Nature, I suspect we'd be hearing about some British committee fretting over this...or perhaps not since Americans seem particularly prone to sensationalism.
Producing biological agents is trivial. Weaponizing them is a far, far, far more daunting task. See here for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare#Offensive
Just to show how Github watchers correlate to real-world popularity, my now-defunct programming language Reia is the #3 most watched Erlang project on Github, ahead of projects like Riak and RabbitMQ:

https://github.com/languages/erlang
Thank you, I really appreciated this read.

Viruses that kill quickly and efficiently do not spread as well as those that cause some disease but allow their host to continue functioning more or less normally (all the while exposing many more to the virus).

While this perspective is sound and less alarming than the source, viruses like influenza can still spread relatively far, can't they? They are believed to be contagious one or two days before the onset of symptoms [1], leaving a quite big window open for contagion.

[1]
When is a person with influenza contagious? A person is most likely to pass on the virus during the period beginning one to two days before the onset of symptoms and ending four to five days after the onset.
http://www.vaccineinformation.org/flu/qandadis.asp
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