skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something else that's scary is drug-resistant gonorrhea, which has been found in Japan. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/us-gonorrhoea-supe...)

I've posted this clip before, but in case you missed it:

(http://v6.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=24goih4&s=6)

Here's a short snippet from a BBC Television programme (Horizon - 'defeating the superbugs') (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ms5c6).

It shows E.Coli developing anti-biotic resistance. There's a tray of nutrient jelly. The jelly is divided into sections. It starts with no antibiotic. Then there's a normal dose. Then there's a 10x dose, followed by 100x dose, followed by 1000x dose. The limits of solubility are reached - they cannot dissolve any more antibiotic into the jelly.

Then they drop E.Coli onto the normal jelly, and use a time lapse camera to show the growth.

After just two weeks the bacteria is able to live on the 1000x dosed jelly.

It's pretty impressive demonstration.

(Apologies for the suboptimal hosting site. YouTube's contentID blocks this video worldwide.)
I usually find nested functions and closures to be more pleasant to use than Matlab's class system. A sad state of affairs, really.
> mass, routine, and suspicion-less basis.

That is not at all how drones are being used according to this article. Until then, plant some trees in your yard and keep calm. There are enough real transgressions going on that we don't need to whip ourselves into a frenzy over hyped stories like this one.
Part of my daily internet routine, for the past 4 months, has been to check up on Time. Well, I guess it's back to work now!

(I also feel like I've missed something in the story. The wikis say that the story takes place far into the future. How do they know? Are there other references I've missed? Is this... a larger allegory, or something, that I am missing out on?)
just implemented -secure option for this purpose; https://github.com/azer/boxcars/blob/master/secure.go

usage example; http://github.com/azer/boxcars#security

thanks for the helpful comment!
Huge costs and virtually no gain.
A good antibiotic is used during a short term.
Furthermore if things go on like today it will probably be destroyed within years by short-sighted, irresponsible use like fattening cattle.
Any pharmaceutical company suicidal enough to start development with those odds will probably have put itself out of business long ago already.

This is an existential threat in many ways. Infections we shrug at today are going back to being life-threatening. And it isn't just infectious medicine that's losing power by this. Surgery, for example, get vastly more dangerous, difficult and expensive if there isn't effective antibiotics; in some cases downright impossible.

I think you are right about public funding to the research and expect to see it rise. Where I would really like intergovernmental cooperation is in making sure the new antibiotics are used in a responsible, sustainable way.
Routine use like an agricultural food additive should be a felony as far as I'm concerned, and even when used for curing serious disease it should be high priority making sure cures are completed and risk of transmitting resistant bacteria is minimal. We have to protect antibiotics effectively if there is to be much point in developing new ones.
Cool. Here's the fall 1979 Lisp issue: http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08
Ask HN: Eventbrite competitor with a more robust API
Happy wknd all,

Wanted to see if anyone had a recommendation on an eventbrite competitor that has a more robust api than eventbrite. eventbrite's api seems more concerned with account management/functionality, than platform integration. Can't blame them, since I'm sure they'd like to be a destination site as opposed to a plugin.
I was curious if now, 5 years later, if the latest Android phone still is unable to scroll smoothly and animate smoothly between apps, at 60 fps, with no lag, and respond instantaneously to touches. These are key things the iPhone has done since it's first release since it's crucial to maintaining the illusion you are manipulating things on the screen. Every time I try the latest Android device in the store I just laugh in disbelief because inevitably it is laggy and slightly unresponsive, and feels like I am interacting with a computer.

Googling around, it looks like the S4 still has animation lag in all sorts of places. Amazing.

I mean, hats off to Samsung for getting as far as they have. They've basically exploited Google's engineering resources brilliantly and have been ruthlessly competitive. Their design skills seemed to have gotten slightly better, and bigger screens and every-feature-but-the-kitchen-sink moves phones when they are compared to the iPhone, especially at a lower price point.

But the bottom line is they still don't really have the design chops and the attention to detail. Their "innovations" on the S4 are pretty gimmicky. They haven't built up a large economic moat around their ecosystem. I feel Apple can pretty easily leapfrog them by introducing a device that is a reasonable leap forward from where we are now. The iPhone 4, 4S, and 5 are all in the same design family. I expect the iPhone 6 will be pretty different than any phone we've ever seen before. I think Apple might even surprise us with an iPhone 6 this year. Who knows though.
VAT rate is a tunable parameter in a tax system. It could, in principle, be set high enough to discourage all consumption (which would of course not be desirable). This implies that there is some rate that it could be set to that would offset any added consumption incentive caused by wealth taxation (assuming such an incentive exists, which I think might not actually be the case under most wealth tax schemes).

Indeed, whether there is an immediate consumption incentive or not depends on how good someone is at investing. If the person is able to generate a return far in excess of the periodic wealth tax, that person has no added incentive to spend whatsoever (spending would decrease future income and wealth). If the person isn't a particularly good investor, then spending becomes more attractive. Which seems to me exactly like the outcome we want.

Furthermore, a wealth tax tends to hit most those individuals who as a group already spend a much smaller proportion of their income (the highest earners tend to save the most). Indeed, since most middle- and low-income earners would only be taxed on their consumption, such a tax scheme would incentivize those with little to increase their rate of saving.
They just shipped support for Mountain Lion, which was released one year ago. I hope there is not as big a delay for Mavericks. I understand that it's a volunteer project, but a kickstarter could surely help them muster the $100 for a Mac developer subscription and access to the developer previews of 10.9.
I think you might have misread. There is no mention of a mobile app.
Bitcoin activists propose "Bitcoin 2", a currency that encourages anonymity
GPGMail is nicely integrated into Mail.app. It plays well with s/mime, so you can have both installed, and use either one that is appropriate.

For easy steps on how to do this see here:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/10/secure-your-e-mail-unde....

You can get a free cert from COMODO:

http://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certifi....
It's easier to prevent it from getting there than it is to stop it once it has. It's more economical to expend the effort now than wait.

If drones are physically visible I worry that an "implied consent" will develop and the issue becomes unwinnable.
Hushmail implements GPG, though perhaps it does not pass your definition of 'popular'.

Any current implementation of GPG by _web email_ is probably insecure as it would rely on JavaScript cryptography. Perhaps when the W3C passes the browser cryptography draft, and browsers start adding that in, we might see this. But the economics aren't aligned, because popular web email services want to see what you read and write, so they're not particularly motivated to give you strong encryption.
it takes 300 pages for him to get to the point of developing simple algorithms of the type you meet in the first chapter of an algorithm textbook

That's impossible; Discipline of Programming has only 217 pages of text. Surely you've been so enthralled by your reading that you didn't notice skipping through the covers to the book laying below!
Would you use it if it were free?
I use StartCom https://cert.startcom.org/
If you eat less (below maintenance) and move more, you'll lose weight. That's just biological reality. I did that and have lost 15lbs in the past two months. Any psychological factors don't alter this basic fact.
You got a point. Added that!
You can solve 2 with a computer by enumerating all possible questions. The gods can be in 3! = 6 configurations, and either da means yes or da means no. So there are 12 configurations in total. A question you can pose to a god will, as far as I can tell, always be of the form "are we in configuration A or configuration B or configuration C ...". So there are 2^12 questions you can pose. You can enumerate all of those and find a question strategy that works.
10.9 is being actively tested internally and we've already released two hacked together preview versions for it. Doing everything we can to be on time this time for real.
For 35 degrees, you don't need 3D; a ring of 72 35-degree angles is a cycle (with a star pattern, rather than a polygon). There is a similar solution for any rational fraction of a full revolution (equivalently, any angle which is rational when measured in degrees (or gradians), but not radians).

However, the article said “about 35 degrees” so the actual number is probably something 34.5 ≤ x ≤ 35.5 but not actually 35.

My geometric intuition says that in 3D you can always construct a cycle but I don't know how to formalize it. Imagine a flat zig-zag chain of alternating bends; you can reshape it to a curve of arbitrary radius (around the axis of the width of the chain) by turning each bend slightly relative to its neighbors (about the axis of the beam), in alternating directions. Then you can choose a radius which makes the ends meet exactly.
"Furthermore if things go on like today it will probably be destroyed within years by short-sighted, irresponsible use like fattening cattle."

Which of course explains the widespread use of vancomycin for that purpose.

Seriously, while this use of antibiotics is problematic, there's no evidence it's a big problem today---if there was it would be written in flaming letters across the sky.

"Where I would really like intergovernmental cooperation is in making sure the new antibiotics are used in a responsible, sustainable way."

How does this work? What happens to a bad actor who doesn't care or just can't get its act together?
Police eats and keeps cakes all the time because they are allowed to use guns and violence much wider than any regular person. Almost every time when a cop is "unnecessarily" brutal, he gets away with it while non-cop for the same action would serve a jail time. Just check the news.

After all, the whole government idea is a double standard. Some people can be legally violent, while others must obey.
The iPhone 4 unlocked costs £319 in the Uk, or around $490 USD. To claim that this is an "ultra-discount device" is preposterous. I'm sure you can get it free with an expensive contract, but the costs remains decidedly non-cheap. To put that in perspective a quick google shows an £80 no contract Android phone. I'm sure its terrible, but that is an "ultra discount device".
> Britain's infamous and ancient Antisemitism

I'm British and it's not infamous enough for me to have heard of it.
It's "self-contained" in /usr/local/MacGPG2.
Only creates symlinks into /usr/local/bin but will avoid that if it recognizes another gpg already being linked there.
Also, linking warnings when using homebrew's GPG are resolved.
Cython is a runtime Python-to-C compiler.

The speed improvements are worth it given how easy it is to use, I have seen literally a 1000x speedup on a time-series data analysis script from adding about 10 lines of static type annotations.

The functionality I like best about it are:

* It can be used transparently without any makefiles or compilation steps. Add "import pyximport; pyximport.install()" at the top of your main script, and now every imported Cython-capable module is compiled on the fly at runtime.

* You can start out with no changes to your python modules. All libraries and features still work within compiled modules. Then you can slowly start adding static types to a few variables at a time. The annotated variables become very fast native C integers/doubles/functions, instead of Python objects.
there's a book called The Truth Machine that thinks about what the world might look like if we had a 100% accurate lie detector.

Fun book.
Which private browsing are you using? Some (such as Chrome's 'incognito' mode) share cookies among all incognito windows until the last is closed. So I was baffled when my fresh 'incognito' window was sending cookies on a 1st request somewhere... until I found the older window I'd forgotten about.
To be fair, the profit Samsung is reporting isn't limited to their Android phones. From the article:

> Samsung's estimated $5.2bn haul from both its basic models and smartphones in the same period.

I don't thing profits on just their smartphones beat Apple's iPhone profits, even though their global marketshare is over twice that of Apple's, according to the same article. It may happen, and probably will, given time, it just hasn't happened yet.
The NSA announcement is here: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2013/2013_sos_comp...
I think it is the right direction. You can add bezels, shadows and more, anyways.
America’s public finances: The Unsteady States of America
The predicted 1/6 death rate for routine surgeries made a big impression on me. A literal roll of the dice. Think of everyone you know who's had a surgery, and it's obviously a radically bigger problem than terrorism. I'd like to see a comparison to death rates from common cancers or heart disease that some people actually worry about.
This is a hard problem, as the article states. One of the biggest problems is that the "maintenance" level is a) extremely difficult to pin down on a good day, b) is different for everyone, and c) it moves every day. Let alone people who have other confounding medical issues like hypo- or hyper-thyroidism, diabetes, etc. Throw all that in and yes, the biological fact of "eat less move more" is true, it's also almost completely worthless for a very large percentage of the population.
To try to give you a different answer than the other comments here, let's try working backward from the goal. You want money. Who has money to give in this scenario? It's not the people fixing their own modems; if they did, they'd pay someone else to fix their modem, or they'd buy a new modem, or what-have-you. You probably won't see much in donations from them, if you go that route. No, the people with really ridiculous amounts of money in this scenario are AT&T.

So, next step: how can you cause AT&T to give you money? Well, what do you have that they want? They certainly might be depending on your documentation internally. They might not even know how much they make use of it (which means they have to assume the worst.) So "continued access to your documentation" can be something you can provide them in exchange for money.

Conclusion: revoke access to your documentation from AT&T's IP block (or just be lazy and take down the site entirely), and send them a legal notice requesting that they purchase a license (one-time or recurring, whatever suits you) for continued use of the documentation. Hold your documentation hostage, in other words.

Large companies deal with IP licensing all the time; for them, this is just one more thing to expense. For you, though, this will probably outweigh all the donations the page would ever make you. And you'll be making it from the people who made the crap modem, instead of the people who unknowingly purchased a crap modem. :)
Well, the main story point is the flooding of the Mediterranean (revealed recently when the protagonists are shown a map of the projected sea level). We know that happened in the past and might happen again. People in the past had no way to produce such accurate maps. Also, the sand castle built in the beginning looks medieval, not prehistoric.

Update: the blurred dialog of the woman in the castle has been partially deciphered and also places the story in the future pretty clearly: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190:_Time:_...
So the line is in fact one of scale? I agree, if the FBI had anything even remotely close to pervasive surveillance, we'd have a problem. But we'd have a problem no matter how they did it. The article says they used drones maybe once a year. That's probably less than the LAPD uses one of their helicopter in a week.
Big finance is strangling innovation
If you can't see it in your country's current actions, I don't know what to say.

For the historical, start with e.g. this in 1144 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel#Middle_Ages and for more recent, read up on how at almost every turn Churchill's efforts to help Jews during WWII were thwarted by those under him.
I don't know much about 4chan's moderation processes.

All I know is that 4chan is the only place I've stumbled on kiddie porn, and I stumbled on it there at least 3 times.
please forgive my humble input, but wtf?
Mainstream media? I occasionally cringe at some of the discussion here on subjects I know something about, seeing how badly wrong smart people can get it. (Thankfully most of the discussion on HN is on subjects I know little about, or are that are way over my head! :-) )
I agree it's bad if the world depends on the largesse of its highest elites.

But we can turn the article's logic on us too. What if we US citizens bear some responsibility for Haiti's suffering, because our elites/government attack and overthrow every attempt they make to solve their own problems?

Fortunately, all we need is to accept the simplest moral "innovation". Get off their backs; and if we're particularly noble, pay reparations. (Just as we'd hope a future China did if they successfully dominated us and turned us into a basketcase.)

If anyone's understandably skeptical, simply look to opposition/dissident media. Because it's rational to seriously consider the possibility that an attacking country's media may be a component in those attacks. In the US, Democracy Now and Noam Chomsky are reasonable sources, which you can then fact-check to your heart's content.
The real problem is not with drones, or spying. It's the monopoly of violence that people think is okay. Government = violent agency that achieves any of its goals using threats with a gun. Taxation, regulations and border controls - all of it is a gun pointed at you if you disobey.

If you dislike what any group of people are doing:

1. They are typically funding themselves.
2. You can boycott them peacefully. Not pay them, discourage others from paying them, ostracize people who you disagree with etc. Without violence, absolutely voluntarily. (Everyone does that every day on the market by choosing what to buy and where to go and what NOT to buy and where NOT to go.)

So with the government it's a different story. You, for instance, not against drones. That's fine, I will not advocate any violent action against you. But if I am against drones, I cannot withdraw my participation. Taxman will point a gun at my face if I refuse to pay taxes, or try to use alternative currency (to bypass inflation) where it's not "allowed". So people who dislike some gov activity cannot do anything about it. And that's the real source of anger. They can do all the talking, but cannot vote their money out of what they dislike.
You generally seem pretty sharp, but your viewpoint here (and elsewhere) seems to be me to be (to use your occasional bluntness) simple contrarian idiocy.

What you say is true but irrelevant. More than that, if you paid attention to the actual issue at hand instead of performing, I dunno, some basic cost-efficiency exercise, you'd see that "Manned aircraft are prohibitively expensive" is a source of pressure in the system.

Manned aircraft are increasingly flown largely by machine. The recent San Francisco crash may have been prevented if a computer had been more active (if not in full control).

Cost-efficiency might indicate we should push for such a thing, but we're comforted by the thought of a man at the helm.

Why's that? Because that means a man has oversight of the automatic system.

But we're going to want our planes to be fully automated at some point.

So a drone flown by a man elsewhere may well be replaced by a drone flown by a drone elsewhere.

And cost-efficiency means that there can be a great many of these drones in play.

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All of this would be fine if it were an earnest conversation about the role of government in society. This is not the case.

The rule of law is being violated and it is an affront.

Now I'm not exhorting you to share my viewpoint. I'm quite honestly just contemptuous of what I see as your waffling grey in a situation that is increasingly black and white.
On the one hand, you have people who are not trying to sell you anything telling you the simple (but difficult) truth:

Eat less and burn more calories, you'll lose weight.

On the other hand you have people who are trying to sell you something tell you all manner of complicated ways of losing weight that basically amount to being what overweight people want to hear.

In this case, you have a company called Fitocracy telling you:

Willpower will not bring you success.

It's a great statement that absolves overweight people of much of their responsibility for keeping themselves healthy. Fitocracy should sell well with this technique.
Go read the source code and decide for yourself.

Even if we didn't "trust" SELinux it is irrelevant as SELinux is primarily used as a secondary security layer, with the primary being things like firewalls and internal software functionality.

The majority of the people who are concerned about SELinux literally don't understand what SELinux is or does. You couldn't understand SELinux and at the same time be concerned that it was a backdoor into the Linux OS.

And if you are technically literate enough to understand SELinux and are still concerned then go literally inspect the code yourself and find the backdoors.
Be patient. It will go.
I used to live in a city with cops everywhere, where you'd get pulled over for doing 38 mph in a 35 zone. This city is surely intent on using drones to auto-fine all such criminals, making the place even safer by narrowing it to 35.01 mph.
What I did was stop eating until I'm full, and start eating just enough to feel not hungry. Found it to be a pretty good rough guideline. Never bothered counting calories or anything like that. Nice thing about this method (I figure) is that it solves the problem of not knowing quantitatively where that maintenance level lies on any given day.
I tend not to sign up to many cloud based solutions as I prefer to host my own solutions (partly out of paranoia and partly because I have the server capacity to run my own solutions so it seems to make sense to use my servers where I can).

With github, it's very rare when I have anything worth contributing to other peoples gits so I've never really missed it. But I'm sure I'll end up on there at some point in the future.
I may be bad at reading facial expressions and may be assuming the best scenario (...) but that person seems a bit sad to me. Maybe to feel connected to others?
Seeing the hits/sec on the count down is pretty impressive