skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can't stop satellite access or dialup to modems outside Syria (unless they spike the 'phone network), or TCP over HAM radio, or anything else like that. More than likely there are people getting access like this. However, anyone using any of those methods won't have an IP Address from the block assigned to Syria, they'll have an IP address associated with the Internet access provider they are using (Satellite, dialup to another country, etc).
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Google exec rips Facebook as social net of the past
I didn't know much about the KDE e.v. but now I feel like supporting the community :). Awesome work these guys did. Is there the same kind of organization for other main open source projects/communities? I highlighted the sentences I found the most interesting here http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b86deeada40f08170009f3.
Its OK, an innocent process is born too.

And the address space gets recycled.
Was this created using Unity3D and exported to Flash or was it written with the usual Flash methods in the first place?
Yep, we use D3 for most of our graph widgets (maps, time series, bar charts). The rest are plain html/css so everything is nice and scalable.
With scanning electron microscopes so cheap, materials science is moving very quickly lately, e.g. Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC). I think that makes it that much harder to predict disruptive products, which not uncommonly include a convergence of new(ish) technologies. (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528786.100-why-wood-... )

But that said, form factor seems to be the most unresolved issue.

Each newly popular size (Samsung Tab, iPad mini, etc.) between the original iPhone and iPad sizes is hailed in some corners as changing the way users look at their devices ("I've stopped using my ___ because this new form factor does everything I want"-style comments).

It seems to me that "highly portable" and "can use with a keyboard" are two camps that seem will never converge...but IF they could, it would very disruptive to other form factors.

A folding tablet with available keyboard could be one possibility to converge those two form factors (which I posted about on HN quite awhile back at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3422295).

But since the next disruption may rely on convergence between technologies that aren't yet with us, who knows? And even things that look great (video phones and flying cars famously having been around for a loooong time) who knows if it will be something like Google Glasses or not? Hard to predict what will be adopted, and what it will be competing with to get users to adopt it.
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The lack of certain emotional responses isn't the same as the lack of all emotion.
If you have the hardware to handle it, KDE is quite nice these days: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/KDE_4.png

It has come a long way since the disastrous release of KDE 4.0.
I should see live examples, before I sign up...
moj.io works in all major urban centers with coverage for
95% of the Canadian and US population

I think this should be near the top. Kickstarter-like projects always forget to account for international backers, which is getting seriously annoying.
AT&T loses points with the rest of the bunch for charging a "one time upgrade fee" of $36. But they do gain points by refunding it to me without too much hassle when I complained.
The interesting question is...How did they know which buttons to push (KWS) in order to make him like the browser?
Here's a quote:

"The bacteria made headlines this summer after a CRE strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae battered the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center outside Washington, D.C. Seven died, including a 16-year-old boy. (Hospitals don't reveal victims' names in keeping with medical privacy rules.) But that case was neither the first nor the worst of the CRE attacks."

I'm curious, were new patients notified before admittance that they had a resistant outbreak in their hospital ?

Were existing patients notified that this was happening while they were there ?

I'll bet no, and no.

Another quote:

""We were really frustrated; we hadn't seen anything like this in the literature," says Costi Sifri, the hospital epidemiologist. "The fact that we had different bacteria told us these cases were not related, but the shoe leather epidemiology suggested to us that all these (infections) came from the same patient. ... We realized we might be seeing a mobile genetic event.""

... all the while continuing to admit new patients ...
I agree. Anyway, if you sign up you can play with sample data.

It looks completely amazing.
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come home and spend time working on your pet project using technology that you're learning or want to learn!
I think if this page demonstrates one thing, then how bad his music is, when i am correct in presuming it's his music that can be heard throughout the game.

Here we have a modern artist, heard by millions, being swamped with prices, yet his music when in the context with a game which even was especially designed with the music in mind, can't hold up to the old classics in any way.

Basically:
Soundtrack of most N64/SNES Games >>> Skrillex :D

To all downvoters: i personally am annoyed by the music after 2 minutes of playing, can't deal with this
If I'm interested in learning more about cognition, should I study neuroscience, or some other field, or is it basically hopeless because no one knows anything important about it?

Would love to hear more of what you say on the subject. I couldn't find your email in your profile but my email is in my profile so if you have time I would definitely hear more about neuroscience over email!
Actually... I have a lot more luck with Linux than OS X in actually working with printers. Even though Apple employs the CUPS maintainer.
Agree. Since the 4.8 release, KDE is getting faster and better. Here is my desktop - http://i.imgur.com/fBQCQ.jpg. A big thank you to the KDE community for creating this awesome desktop environment.
It can be very difficult here to get by without knowing chinese unless you live in a foreigner-friendly area (i.e. a tourist area or near a university).

I'd suggest using a tour company if you want to travel more widely. Having a translator at least would be very valuable.
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I really hope that this will be a consumer thing only. Enterprise IT will not like having to upgrade & test all their systems each year.
Credit to nyt for separating the top 1% from the top 20%, but they still failed to separate the top 0.1% who have substantially different income/tax situation.

Also, in many or most places, property tax is a function of the levy target, not housing prices. The "rate" is derived from the levy amount, not vice versa. Prices only affect relative burden (alpha) not the total amount collected (beta)
Merge between health monitoring devices and mobile phones.
> flagged, which is meant for spam and offtopic links

It's meant for bad links. Spam and off-topic articles are included, but that is not its exclusive use. For example, a post about how much the author hates gay startup founders is more on-topic than a lot of stuff that gets posted here, but is nonetheless inappropriate on numerous levels.

I don't know if I would flag a news story about a Microsoft ad campaign, but I'd probably at least consider it, because those are not generally very intellectually stimulating.
Check out Haxe and the library NME, which is pretty much what you describe.
Not precisely. 4 in 10 chance that if they notice you're infected, you'll die - doesn't count all the countless people who are infected but not immunocompromised, so their bodies keep the infections in check or actively destroy them.
You're probably aware of it, but anyway... Put

HISTCONTROL='ignoreboth:erasedups'

In your .bashrc - now duplicate commands (two consecutive commands that were the same) are not included in HISTFILE, and also if you type " some-sensitive-command username password host" (note the extra space at the beginning), they too won't be include in HISTFILE.

http://serverfault.com/q/48769

http://serverfault.com/q/241154
> Is there any form of TCP over Ham radio?

Yes, there is AX-25 packet radio and there is TCP over that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AX.25
I agree. It definitely looks like Sword and Sworcery.
I also spend most of my time in the terminal, but actually quit little in the shell.

Most of my time I'm in Vim, editing code, so most of the configuration is there (though I keep it down to ~ 50 lines), minor tweaks now and then.

my vimrc: http://ubuntuone.com/4wmrwsU64KEgj9S0zEH3Ct

My latest configuration add-on is syncing my config files when they change. I just do a hardlink (same inode) to my Ubuntu One folder (on system setup). Now if I change a configuration, it get's synced to my all my other devices when they are next online.

I found that quite useful. Syncing vimrc, gitconfig, vimprojects and some other. Basically only use my machines as cache. With this I can get up to be productive with a new installation very quickly and work with several machines without configuration miss-match headache.

For sources I use git push to a remote server (+ U1 for convenience, but it's inconsistent while syncing multiple files, so bad for push target).
Yeah I knew it was on steam, but not everything on steam is available for mac. Haven't played my copy in a while to look and see what OSes it is on (plus I own nothing made by apple)
That's exactly what I didn't like. Maybe I had the worst possible time to "experiment" with OS X (it was the moment they changed from their power mac CPUs to the Intel CPUs) and it sucked. Three years later no new software ran on the Mac. I would have to update to OS X 10.5 or 10.6 and the performance sucked.

This made me really prefer the Microsoft way of doing business. But this seems to change now.

I really wished they didn't try to copy the bad parts of Apple too. My only hope is that they try to cater a little bit more to business customers who prefer stability.

Hopefully they bounce back from the way their headed with Windows 8, where it looks like they completely forgot their business customers.
> If I combine tmux with urxvt, I can have 3 tmux tabs in a urxvt tab, and another 3 tmux tabs in second urxvt tab, and I can switch context just by pressit shift+left/right, I can also easily realign context with ctrl+left/right.

I see what you mean. Generally I open a new urxvt/terminator for a new grouping. A rails project is in its own terminal, a django project in another.

> I need to move to the 4th tab either by switching tab few times, or knowing the index of the tab to get a faster shortcut. Both, in my opinion, are not simple.

I have this in my conf:

unbind '"'
bind '"' choose-window

I generally have more than 10 tmux windows open. Either I know which index is which(rails project - 0 is vim, 1 is server, 2 is console, 3 is dbconsole, 4 is tail logs, 5 is for running tests...), or I select the windows. Switching tabs few times isn't an ideal way to switch to the desired window.

> which is why I combined it with urxvt.

urxvt has tabs? Mine doesn't. Anyway I have moved to terminator. I find it easier to configure(the pains I took to configure urxvt for copy-paste), performant and standard compliant.
Games like X-Type[0] make me think things are getting there. The making-of is interesting[1].

[0]: http://phoboslab.org/xtype/

[1]: http://phoboslab.org/log/2012/06/x-type-making-of
What's the sample size behind that? Because it doesn't seem like there have been that many CRE cases yet, and we don't know the condition of patients before CRE infection.
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Oh, I know the background. But the leadership of the public broadcasters is full of party people, so it's not too different from the government in terms of who are the people in charge.
You should wait. I don't work in neuroscience per se, but I am a biologist and I have some friends who are (or have been) neuroscientists. The long and short of it is that the technology and underlying theoretical framework for understanding cognition just aren't in place yet. There's plenty of interesting research being done but the field hasn't had its "quantum leap" yet, as it were. (Examples of this from other fields are Newton's Principia, discovery of DNA structure/Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, etc.).

EDIT: I realized this sounds very discouraging to laymen trying to learn more about science. This was not my intention! By all means, go forth and learn! :) My point was simply that press releases / news often make it seem like science advances at a breakneck pace all the time, whereas reality is that it's fits and starts and often we haven't the slightest clue what we're doing.
I'm maniac with this so called system configuration. Just take a look on my _.vimrc_, for example. :)

https://github.com/daGrevis/Dotfiles

P.S. If you start to change dotfiles yourself, you won't be able to stop.
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> Its not so much about others as I don't want to spend 3 hours setting up e very machine I touch,

Most of the configurations just need to be copied. Just copy your .vim folder and you are setup with everything. Copy your .screenrc and that's that. I sync my dotfiles and then run a small script to set symlinks. That hardly takes 2 minutes.
You can't objectively say that one language is better than another, but you can't deny that a language such as Haskell has a level of consistency and mathematical rigour that PHP will now never attain. Top developers who Facebook target (normally top CS students from top colleges and PhD programs) strive to be consistent and mathematically rigorous themselves, and poor design and math annoy them.
Awesome! Going to give this a try and see how good it'll be for my usage.. which will probably save me so much time.

Thanks!
Is Google Analytics on the roadmap?
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> You don't do much work in large corporations I guess.

I used to work for one. I still do but now I use my own laptop. But that's not the point. The point is if you have a machine, you don't need special privileges to write to your own home directory. If your org stops you from pulling things from the internet, well, that's a different story.
this isn't anything new... hospital acquired infections (HAIs) are the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S.

nearly 1 in 20 hospitalized patients will acquire a HAI killing 270 people/day

hospitals... scary place
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Using Amazon Web services, we'll setup a CloudFormation template that will get setup in the cloud with a load-balanced auto scaling solution.
Yes, definitely. The biggest issue with importing data from Google Analytics is that they have a pretty low quota for data export, so it is hard/slow to get all historical data out from GA.
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I don't think that the problem was that Firefox or the OS weren't secure enough. Afaik the problem was that FireGPG worked inline with the original page, and thus a hostile JS on the page could intercept the plaintext.

I think something like the "It's all text!"[1] addon with GPG enabled editor should be reasonably secure.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
The text of the legislation in question

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66A. Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.

Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device,—

(a) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; or

(b) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device,

(c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages,

shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.

Explanation.— For the purpose of this section, terms “electronic mail” and “electronic mail message” means a message or information created or transmitted or received on a computer, computer system, computer resource or communication device including attachments in text, images, audio, video and any other electronic record, which may be transmitted with the message.

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In case anyone is interested, I've extended this code and put it up on GitHub as a script called 'samp':

https://github.com/taltman/scripts
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China's hockey stick growth is remarkable
>your argument is that you have gained enough experience in this area to give subjective life advice

Nowhere do I use my "authority" to try and support any of my statements. I give a list of what I thought are his mistakes and then I go off into giving some advice (the snippet) based on my own (successful) experience doing phone screens.

> In my experience if you also use that confidence and directness to preemptively address potential weaknesses in your argument

I think that is very sound advice. But one my motivating factors is to stir up a conversation. If I leave some of the thorns on, I tend to get more replies as people inevitably find themselves caught up in them and feeling the need to reply :)
Pretty good point. Jeff Hawkins makes the same point in his book "On Intelligence", which I highly recommend.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=on+intelligence+book&#...
Please don't spread the myth of Mother Teresa as an altruistic person, she was anything but.

She cared a lot about her missionary work, but not about the poor. In fact she believed that the suffering of the poor was a good thing and denied painkillers to be administered for that reason (while she was always receiving painkillers for her own medical issues). Sure, she funded a lot of what she called "houses of the dying" where people were left to die instead of often easily treated with antibiotics, but she only really cared about her missionary work.
Maybe this isn't the interview you are seeking, but I had no trouble getting to this version on the Academy of Achievement site.

Direct Link: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/sal0int-1

PDF of the Same Page: http://db.tt/IMuv6KWo
Yeah, I read that Objective-C got it's ARC feature after static analyzer was integrated to Xcode. No more manual reference counting is definitely a plus.
I started the search for a non-religious meditation technique four years ago. In July 2009, I did my first course of Vipassana - http://www.dhamma.org/ . Since then I am doing it.

My life has changed a lot since then. I would really recommend you to try it out. You don't have to believe in anything to start with.

The basic course is of 10 days spent learning the meditation in a centre. You will get the details on the website.
"something as incidental as the color of paint on the walls can dramatically influence the way we think" - and there were banner ads cramped on either side, restricting me all round.

I'm not sure if it's deliberate, but reading just the text on it's own was much, much easier. Good old Readability. :)
Not enough robot battle space. :) http://xkcd.com/335/
It is amazing how this bacteria interchanges genes with ease. Could it be possible to use this strength as a weakness? Inoculating a modified bacteria to act as a trojan horse?.

edit: missing letters.
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Sounds great. It really says something about you that your product is able to stand out amongst all the billion analytics services out there.

It'd be like coming out with the best To-Do or Markdown editor app for iOS. :)

If I could make a suggestion, at some point you should create an analytics "gizmo" (or whatever you want to call it) gallery similar to http://bl.ocks.org/. You could even just parse the gist examples in Python and convert them to HTML/CSS/JS yourselves.

It would make it much easier to use and understand what can be done with your service. Not that I'm saying you aren't planning something like that. You already seem to encourage a pluggable approach, and what's easier than just going through a gallery and pressing an "install" button. Suddenly, you don't have to know any Python.
Depends on what you mean by "usability" ..

For me, LInux/BSD is much more usable than Windows 7 & Mac OSX for some tasks. Windows wins some as well. I cant think of, at the top of my head, anything OSX does best usability wise for me. But it's also the OS i use the least.
I really hope it's an enterprise thing. Enterprise need to get better at upgrading and testing systems, otherwise as developers we are stuck accommodating the lowest common denominator. cough IE6 cough
If they pull this properly I suppose either each release will be supported for the usual five years, or some releases will be picked as LTS. Either way, if support is long enough nobody forces anyone to upgrade on each release (it's not like enterprises upgrade on each release anyway).
Hehe - I'm just de opposite :) Not a fan of electronic music at all - but can't stop listening to Skrillex :-) So I guess they're not that related after all :-p
I've seen this idea before, and it does look like it would solve the problem nicely.

Hard to lug around a mattress when you're moving house (if you're renting), though.
Looks great. Some feedback:

+ Setup a live demo (allow users to fiddle with a demo and visualize the possibilities).

+ The entry plan of $49 seems a bit steep. Would a $29 plan be financially possible?

+ Personally, I am not a fan of trial periods. Either I find value in a product and am excited or not.

Great work though guys. Where in San Francisco are you located at?
Thought I seen that somewhere.. Googling it [1] shows results as far back as 2008. So unless he is the inventor himself, he is just blatantly lying when he states "... the solution I came up with is the Cuddle Mattress."

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=cuddle+mattress
While this is a really cute idea, beds are not something to joke about, and I'd really like to see some good evidence that long-term sleeping on this bed doesn't do any damage.

I usually dislike people how just insult other people's ideas, but in this case there is a genuine chance of people causing themselves serious damage. Does anyone know of any evidence of this actually helping people sleep better?

If a few years down the line this has revolutionised people's sleeping, I'll be all for one. If instead people have trapped nerves by sinking slightly into gaps, then I'll be glad I let someone else test it first!
> feedback was _not at all achieved_

To be more precise, _market_ feedback was achieved. A small, pizzling drip of market feedback. When you hand out devices, you're looking for _product_ feedback.

That said, if someone offered me a free laptop, I probably would keep it because I don't own nearly enough laptops.
Please please please do not make links with just the word "here" linked. That's usability and SEO horror.
I bet this one is easier than others, since it looks like most of it breaks apart into slices.
It's unfortunate that regulatory environment in the US is not more favorable for advancing phage therapy. It could be a promising alternative to antibiotics for treating infections caused by multi-drug resistant organisms.