skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Woz's statements were pretty innocuous and the article is implying more significance to his statements than are warranted. All he said was they dont meet my specific use case and kept it moving. Realistically apple has been in a slow evolutionary state of advancement for a while.

I think the last few generations have been 'upgrade if my current gen device breaks' but not 'replace my current gen device with new gen device' as far as it goes.
There are ten new icons, but still no database icon :(

http://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/139
I love Font Awesome though I do not understand why they have to claim "The iconic font designed for Bootstrap" --- I have managed to use Font Aweome with Zurb Foundation and SASS and it works just fine.
I think you're going a bit too far there.

I could agree (or at least agree to disagree) if you were talking solely about agricultural use of antibiotics or just-in-case prescriptions, but it's a bit tone deaf to complain about people using antibiotics to treat non-emergency diseases (like strep throat and gonorrhea).
>"Party A has the wallet and therefore only they can spend what's in it"

When the private key is gone, the coins are gone.

Might be forgetting a brain-wallet, might be forgetting the password or losing the keys to the encrypted drive the keys are in, or it could be as simple as losing or destroying the physical media the keys are on.

We can quibble about the precise technical details of how DPR specifically might have those coins secured, but it's mostly moot at this point; that address likely won't be changed any time soon.

Surely removing 1% of the current circulation must have a few effects.
You mean supersonic airplanes? I don't think hypersonic airplanes have ever been seriously considered for passenger travel.
Almost made this exact post... I was looking for a Photoshop clone for Mac and stumbled on Pixelmator years ago, it's definitely not as full-featured as PS but it's a fraction of the cost and it does what I need it to do 98% of the time. For $30 it's a steal, especially if they're upgrading it like this.
Templates are a horrid syntax for an okay functional, compile-time language. They can be useful - in quite a few ways an improvement on C macros. I say this as someone who's done quite a bit of C and C++, and am currently working mostly happily in C at work and Haskell on my side project.
I won't be surprised if we get to the point where OS updates can be done seamlessly in the background without user prompting. I also won't be surprised if Apple will be the first vendor to sell us on it.
I considered it, but decided it would be more noise than substance in this particular list. I do like that pun, though.
So actually we're complementing each other: access to school is free for every one, but school isn't free for the citizen.
My point was to say that "free school" should not be mentioned, instead we should speak of "school paid by taxed citizens for everyone" which is more accurate.

Well, you've already understood: I'm french too ;)
More political spin from Schneier, whose politics are forever fixed. He wants to distract from the clear implication here--that if dry ice bombs could be detonated so easily, other types of more dangerous devices could as well. This is because he wants less and different airport security, not more, but his approach is disingenuous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid

"In nature, plasmids carry genes that may benefit survival of the organism (e.g. antibiotic resistance),"

Plasmids cost energy, they are dropped in the course of natural selection if they stop conferring an advantage.

More quickly than you might think, too.

If we stop using antibiotics, the bacteria will become less resistant.
On the Plane
My understanding from a different question I asked on KS is that it's because their scanning partner is setup for scanning business documents and the process builds in proper disposal of the papers afterword (which if you don't want your papers back is a good thing, I wouldn't want my private thoughts floating around for anyone there to read).
I upgraded last night and haven't had any kinks. The only thing I had to do was re-set my maven environment variables for some reason (and was prompted to install a Java runtime when I opened IntelliJ, but that was an automatic process).

Other than that...no kinks. It's been a pretty smooth transition...just trying to get used to having menus on both monitors (which is AWESOME)
Water isn't the issue, explosives or components thereof are, as well as not having to individually check the contents of millions of bottles every day.

You'd have a point if airport restaurants commonly sold nitroglycerine. Which they don't.
"You keep dismissing the incentives that Bitcoin gives, which should also be considering part of its security"

We do not speak of "incentives" in other contexts. When we talk about encryption, we do not spend our time pondering the "incentives" for not attacking our cryptosystems -- we create encryption systems that cannot be feasibly attacked regardless of what motivates the attacker. When we talk about secure multiparty computation, we do not talk about what might motivate the attacker, we only talk about how to prevent attacks.

There are historical counterexamples to the idea that we can analyze a cryptosystem's security in terms of the attacker's "incentives." A famous and well-known example is the German Enigma cipher from WWII. After the war, German cryptographers were captured and interrogated (the TICOM operation), and one of the things they revealed was that they knew that Enigma could be attacked, but did not believe that it would be worth the effort. Even the assumption that the attacker will act rationally is bad -- we should be secure against irrational attackers too.

"We can't know what will happen until it happens"

We can, however, design systems that maintain their security properties regardless of what happens (at least under standard cryptographic hardness assumptions, though sometimes we can even get information theoretic security). ElGamal encryption is secure against any polynomial-time chosen-plaintext attack -- provably so. The GMR signature system is secure against any polynomial-time adaptive chosen-message attack. For a very strange construction that illustrates how we can defend against attack strategies we cannot even imagine, consider this work on non-malleable commitments (the construction is on page 13; it is very strange, but the strangeness is key to the security proof, or in other words there are possible attack methods that nobody is aware of that the construction prevents):

http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/483.pdf

"The field that you want to use to model everything is too narrow for Bitcoin."

Yes, things are very easy when you have no clearly-specified goals, requirements, or constraints. How can there be any technical criticism of Bitcoin if this sort of response is considered valid? Anything anyone says is wrong with Bitcoin could always be dismissed as being "too narrow."
Elon Musk Calls Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars ‘Bullshit’
But musical literacy does require that you produce music on some instrument or with your voice, and it is rare that any level of musical training would advance very far without a basic understanding of how to use a piano to pick out some notes for reference. You could decide to learn music without ever learning the piano, but you would have to take great pains to avoid it.

Being able to use a computer but having no understanding of how to program it is like being able to operate a record player. Certainly, some people can do masterful work operating a record player -- to the point of an art. You may even learn to operate it in such a way that you could express your own musical ideas. But learning how to operate a record player does not make you musically literate.

I do not think that everyone needs to be a programmer, but I do think that computer education in our schools needs to at least introduce the basics of programming to every child. Even if they do not program for the rest of their life, it will give them a foundation for solving problems and improve their ability to use software others have written.
Do doctors over-use antibiotics to save from being sued by patients in the case of an infection?
$ hk 47
Statement: Greetings, meatbag
Trying to derive C from its postulates is like trying to derive 70s television from its postulates. Most of C is an accident of history.
An explosive cyberweapon, no doubt.
It's not about tricks, it's about precisely understanding the mechanics of the language. This can be exploited to craft tricks, which is occasionally important. It can also be exploited to avoid gotchas, which is usually important. It can also be exploited to better and more quickly understand what some behavior means when things aren't working as expected, which is always important.
"C programming is a craft that takes years to perfect. A reasonably sharp person can learn the basics of
C quite quickly. But it takes much longer to master the nuances of the language and to write enough
programs, and enough different programs, to become an expert. In natural language terms, this is the
difference between being able to order a cup of coffee in Paris, and (on the Metro) being able to tell a
native Parisienne where to get off." The behaviour of this quote from the beginning of Linden's book is, strictly speaking, undefined. I interpreted it as being able to give instructions to a native Parisian, in order to find the nearest red-light district.
BS in Industrial Engineering, also known as "imaginary" engineering to the other engineering majors.
Hell, why do so many people put up with taking jobs that require them to go to an office?

B/c remote workers are expected to be more productive. They have fewer opportunities for advancement + networking at the coffee pot or over lunch.
> we're helpless and the world is again going to be a scary place

Whoa there. According to the article, we have few new antibiotics precisely because the old ones have been so effective:

>Infections are not that common compared to other types of conditions like high blood pressure or high cholesterol. [...] They have to develop drugs that will make money, and that’s not an antibiotic.

When we had lots of development effort put into antibiotics, there were lots of new antibiotics discovered. Expect that level of development to come back if / when infections again become a bigger problem than high cholesterol.
So, you firmly believe that people's minds can't be changed? By logic and reason, that is, of course.
Ah, someone points out the disconnect between belief and action. So many friends and acquaintances I knew in California supported this or that policy because the theory was good, or it synced with their moral compass, but if it came down to anything more than a vote, or climbing the moral high horse before espousing an opinion over a glass of wine, it would ring hollow. Similar to this article, there was a mentality of 'here' vs. 'there' which I think we all share. It's how we compartmentalize and make our lives easier. The problem is other schools, not this school, the problem is about other people, not my people, the war isn't here, it's there. Despite the great the exposure we all receive to the problems of far distant and removed neighbors, seldom do we seem to act on the problems in our immediate vicinity. If we throw money at a charity, or a government entitlement program, ego and sense of guilt from success is assuaged, but shit, but does anything really get done, does anything change for the better? I don't have any complete solutions and I am guilty of this mentality as well, but I am a firm believer of there being a different better way to resolving this socio-economic issue, though as I stated earlier, belief doesn't seem to be enough.
I wish the color selectors were better. The pallets need work imho. Otherwise, love the update!
I suspect Virgin Galactic will do better, even at over double this cost. Virgin is going to give the feel of a rocket launch, like everyone has been watching on TV since they were kids. Also, weightlessness.
Meanwhile tons of antibiotics are used in factory farming. I'm not sure why it has ever been legal to use massive amounts of antibiotics on animals that aren't sick yet.
And they'll be absolutely necessary. The infrastructure exists now. As an example, if you contract XDR tuberculosis you will be quarantined under orders from the CDC, by force if necessary, until the infection is cleared, which can currently be done reliably only with surgery.
Working remotely (as absolutely amazing as it is) is only barely getting traction in some fields at this point. I generally agree with you and the ability to work remotely is incredibly important to me as far as picking a position goes but unfortunately many employers aren't as thrilled about it as I am. To varying degrees, depending on the field you're discussing, there's still the notion that you have to put in your 8 hours in the office.
I've noticed that the internet contains information about various assembly languages. I would suggest googling for their manuals.
"Zients will provide short-term advice, assessments and recommendations to a Department of Health and Human Services team that officials say has been working around the clock to fix www.healthcare.gov since it went live Oct. 1."

Damn, a classic failure (this decision, not the guy). After a demonstration he has no juice (passed over for promotion and left the government), he's been assigned the role of a management consultant, while the HHS CMS managers who abjectly failed in their role as integrator are still going to be, at best, learning on the job. Without any apparent authority, I see no reason he'll make a big enough difference. I mean, it's not like CMS isn't already overwhelmed with advice et. al. ... that when it came from those under them like CGI Federal they seem to have ignored. Heck, they took the system live after their own testing showed 200 simultaneous login attempts would seize it up.
Well, none of those (if you replace Y2K with Y2038!) are down for the count yet.
Inkscape which uses SVG as it's "internal" format often chokes on seemingly "simple" svg files (which when you look into it have thousands of points on a simple curve).

Often these have been generated by another SVG tool, support another tools idiocy for whatever marginal gain he might make is maybe why he doesn't want to do it.
Deploy BitTorrent Sync with Docker
I do see your point that parity much be reached first, and do personally appreciate the open source model for a number of reasons.

Perhaps my viewpoint stems from the description of the project.
The entire opening section talks about how Sublime Text has become slower and less communicative about releases. There's nothing mentioning surpassing the app, missing functionality, or items the developer wants to change. Simply that it's not moving fast enough for the developer of Lime to appreciate, so another must be built.

If there had been a specific statement saying "I want to implement X and Sublime doesn't" or "I want to have an editor do Z and none of the others do" then yes, I would see value in a project that starts off by imitating others. As it stands though, the project describes itself like a recreation of what's already out there without mentioning any intent to build on it.

This strikes me as the typical developer time-sink "I'll build this because I can". Sure it can be fun and educational and maybe help out a handful of people...but the real question that should be asked is "what sets my project apart from the rest". In this case, there's no sign of it aside from using GO and making it open source.
I don't see how that's relevant -- once something is scientifically validated, it's no longer proper medicine unless it's in a pill?
Barack Obama worked for the CIA in the early 1980s
80% of the antibiotics we use are given to animals.[1] That seems like a good place to cut back.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/health/use-of-antibiotics-...
Wow, I just checked all the tutorial videos. I've never seen such delightful Demos in my life, makes me want to buy the thing. I wonder how effective would it be to create UI's for Mobile apps in Pixelmator, I'm donwloading the Trial.
Yeah, supersonic. My mistake.
Reminded again about the value of creating relationships with top influencers in a niche.

Writing a book and publishing it doesn't guarantee success, but having a network of influencers review and recommend is the closest thing you can get to a sure bet.
Yeah, new languages will probably attract their fair share of hipsters and "rock stars".

They might not be the best, but you can be sure they are able to code. They would get exposed pretty quickly in small communities, if not.
Here again we see the pain of trying to sell software to open source enthusiasts: the temptation to destroy the author's livelihood by copying their work is too great. By releasing a clone as open source, the copier gets to bask in the reflected glory of the original work. It's like trying to sell original oil paintings to master forgers. BitKeeper is the canonical example, but there are countless others.
I still worry about the profit motive getting in the way. You'll buy antibiotics for days or maybe weeks; you'll buy drugs for high cholesterol the rest of your life.
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I was anxious while updating from SL yesterday. I'll have to wait before judging the product, but from the moment it booted I felt like I made the right choice.

One caveat: SL provided me with ~6 hours of browsing battery life while M predicts I'll manage only 4.5 on a 2009 15" MBP.
west coast can be hard to get into. They really like to know someone that knows you before pulling the trigger.

Show up at a few meetings (ther's various hacker stuff going on) and get some names on your LinkedIn. I bet that'll fix it.
> What Apple has done is combined the hardware and software in to a single SKU.

When you buy an off-the-shelf PC, you have the same experience. The Windows licence is included in the price of the computer, for which the OEM pays Microsoft. However, subsequent major releases of Windows aren’t included in the price. Given the trend, that might change. I can imagine Microsoft making all future consumer OS releases free for those with a valid Windows 8 licence. For enterprises, little is likely to change, as they already pay for seats, not specific OS versions.
Seems like it is mostly taking share from Mountain Lion, which only ever got to 55% or so.
I don't know enough about the Apple ecosystem to have an opinion, but I wonder whether and how much Apple expects to save on support for older versions of the OS, over time.

In addition to being "nice", "free" may have payoffs that at least partially offset supposedly lost revenue from charging for the upgrade.
How do you capitalize "iPhone" or "iPad"?
HealthCare.gov's New Pricing Feature Can Be Off the Mark
I remember reading on reddit or maybe it was here on HN that a laser is not a thing it's a method i.e. LASER, we use LASER not a laser.
It's pretty decent too. Keep considering moving back to it. Haven't paid for ST3 yet so we'll see.
Show HN: Aether, a distributed network app that creates anonymous public spaces
Sorry dmak - I guess quotes are easily misunderstandable for us programmer types. Maybe we need a comments quoting system:

- 'string literal quotes'
- "inexact quotes which ${evaluate things}"
- `ticked off sarcastic quotes (quoting someone back at themselves)`
- << EOF quotes about shell gurus EOF
- ''' string literals with 'subquotes' which aren't escaped '''
- > quoted comments by oldschool BBS junkies

:-)
I hoped for more than 10 icons :-(
Any advice on how to "add" some other SVG icons to the mix and generate the whole font package?
If you file the issues yourself, you can show to everyone else that you're working on them. That's exactly the kind of communication ST is lacking. Plus, you'll learn about bugs you didnt encounter, so they can be fixed (by you or others) before you have to hit them yourself.
Nowadays Windows upgrades are much easier than all that. Mac OS X may still be better (haven't had to perform an upgrade myself since 10.6, since I turned in my work MBP for a Linux laptop), but Windows ain't bad compared to the old days, recent bricking issues aside.
Sure, see http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162369606/piecing-together-the...

You don't even need computers to piece together shredded work. Iran pieced together the shredded US Embassy documents by hand, and China pieced together shredded Soviet atomic bomb documents. You just need time and lots of people. Shredded material is often not well-mixed, so there is a great deal of spatial locality.

The thing that distinguishes the Stasi case is that they produced a lot more records, and German workers cost more than Iranian or Chinese workers. That's where the computers came in.

These days, with cross-cut and confetti shredders, the computers would become even more important.
Besides, the speeds mentioned here would be more than enough for multi-player twitch FPS too.
Can you elaborate on pain of porting to Windows? Have you tried programming C#/JavaScript/Java? AFAIK all those languages are portable to various extent. If you want to use non-platform-idiomatic GUI then you can use something like Awesomium and reuse HTML5.
Of those, though, two of the threats were real and mitigated before the impact could be realized (nuclear war and Y2K), and one of them is a fairly recent scientific theory that is still trying to be understood (climate change).
Stream 3 SD movies and there goes your 5GB.

EDGE is not remotely useful in the context of this conversation, I have no idea why you keep bringing it up. The only thing you might possibly hope to stream at EDGE speeds is audio, video is simply not an option. And (re-)installing apps of any substantive size is likewise impractical.

I am in no way ignorant of the mobile data options available to me in the United States. I simply know them to be an utterly inadequate to substitute for adequate local storage, and I can't even begin to understand how you consider them to be otherwise. Feels like you're just here to shill for T-Mobile.
It seems way too noisy to me. Like a data point can swing from 4.59% to 2.66% in a minute interval. That's nearly doubling, so how can you interpret either value?
That's why you open-source your software if you're selling to open source enthusiasts. I'd be just as happy to pay for an upgrade to a commercial version as I would be to upgrade from the "free trial" version.
Its funny how hard it is to really promote yourself in an authentic way. Enjoyed reading this one.
Antibiotic resistance shows up among the unhealthiest communities first. They act as the necessary incubators that resistance needs to develop. In a person with a working immune system, the time frame of antibiotic and pathogen contact is very small compared to the time frame of antibiotic and pathogen contact in an immunocompromised patient.

To put the above into simple English: Our problem isn't that we give antibiotics out like candy, it's that we give them to the elderly, people with AIDS, the poor, etc. This massively increases the chance of antibiotic resistance developing.

What can we do about it? To start with, run the numbers, make some cost-benefit calculations, and think about the problem. There may be technical as well as social solutions.

Not thinking about the problem, making it harder for the healthiest people to get antibiotics, and pretending that you are doing something is also a viable option. It's what we're doing now.