skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on your definition of trust (which I tend to agree with) you have to know the other party pretty intimately to know whether you can trust them.

The Bruce Schneier you know wouldn't compromise his own principles and beliefs but what if the Bruce Schneier you know isn't real? What if those principles and beliefs never existed?

Now we see why faith is requisite for living.
I love the idea but nnnngh, some of the screenshots of the scanned results from light pencil sketches? There's a lot of data being lost there.
Snap.svg - The JavaScript library for modern SVG graphics
Has anyone tried using this for web design? Any idea how it compares to Photoshop in that regard?

(Obviously Photoshop is not great for web design, but it's still the de-facto standard...)
> You'd have to define trust to understand and then answer the question.

Luckily there's a book that does that. Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Outliers-Enabling-Society-ebook/...
The latest data point on its own can fluctuate but it's the overall trend that showcases the growth
They sell millions of licenses a year. Their revenue per employee exceeds that of Google or Apple.

Is more explanation needed?
I'm also curious how well this will work in the long run. Apple doesn't have a good model for paid upgrades on the app store and so far they've refused to implement anything to deal with it.
Yes and no and less so when applications work by using backing services that aren't backwards compatible.

Sure my old Mac Mini will run my old copy of CS3, but I hope that Adobe is still running activation servers if I ever have need to reinstall.
I think it's the problems of the receiver. On the earth, we can build more elegant noise reduction systems, larger amplifiers and larger antennas.
As you can imagine, doctors initially got into trouble with this because there is no test that you can use in clinic that says "this patient just has a viral infection". Nevertheless, there are clinical criteria that we can use to come to the same conclusion, and the tide changed years ago with regards to inappropriate antibiotic use for routine viral illnesses.

It gets much dicier in-hospital when someone has a SIRS response and you need to presumptively treat them for sepsis.

I would be curious to know: of the antibiotic resistance burden that comes from human antibiotic use (specifically in countries where abx are physician-prescribed and not available over the counter), how much of this burden comes from broad treatment of presumed serious infections, and how much comes from treatment of presumed non-serious infections or even postsurgical prophylaxis?
How about the animals and hand-soap aficionados? Perhaps they could hold off for a bit?
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Fair enough. Originally there was quite a bit of CSS to get it to play nice with Bootstrap. Now, it should have more compatibility across the board with all frameworks.
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Does this mean that Topiary has done a Frank Abagnale?
Also once this is a real problem, hopefully there'll be enough people up there to fill up their own Battlefield servers with just moon players.
Even if they don't make it cross platform, it will probably give Adobe a run for their money. Progress on this thing had been astoundingly fast, and compared to Adobe it's practically free.
Background information: http://www.spaceflight101.com/ladee-lunar-laser-communicatio...
Code review, done properly, should provide more than just a critique of coding style. It should should also catch certain types of bugs before they get to functional testing. Yes, you can catch those same bugs in functional tests, but in the environments where I've worked, there's a lot more overhead (read: time, money) involved with bugs found in functional test than in code review. Ita can be pretty frustrating to be that far along (functional test) and find a bug that could've easily been found in code review.
I think that could be to do with some apps not being optimised yet or something. If I browse using Safari on my 15" Retina, I get ~8 hours of browsing, if I use chrome that falls massively down to ~3.5.
Correct. And it is customizable as a variable.
Finally, what we needed, another text editor. I think coders are to obsessed with text editors.

Try to solve new problems, don't copy the solution to existing problems.
Ask HN: how many unique visitors have HN and TechCrunch a day?
Hi,

Do you know maybe how many unique visitors have HN and TechCrunch a day?
More, fancier equipment on Earth to receive and perform signal analysis?

It's easier to get a new sensor online on Earth than on the moon.
Ask HN: A good C++ multi-dimensional array library?
I was working on a project which involved replacing our old numerical library back-end to some other newer alternative. I had a look at the possible options(Eigen/NT2/Armadillo/MTL4 among others) and decided to move on with Eigen. However, Eigen does not have a multi-dimensional array implementation. It can only support upto 2-D arrays. I was wondering if there are some C++ multi-dimensional libraries you folks might know of ?

Upto now, all I could find was:-

- Boost MultiArrays( specifying dimensions and size at compile time make it a no-go for me )
- Blitz++ ( same issues as above i.e. dimension needs to be specified at compile time )

It will be great if I could find something like a free version of RogueWave arrays which can be declared without specifying dimensions.

Thanks for reading through the post.
> Apple wants to drive the software cost to zero [...] Google wants to drive the software and hardware cost to zero [...] Amazon wants to drive the software and hardware cost to zero

But where does that leave Microsoft? It makes most of its profits from Windows and Office products. For enterprise, this probably isn’t a problem, as most of those customers pay Microsoft for seats, not software versions. For the consumer market however, I don’t think Microsoft can afford to charge for software upgrades much longer. Perhaps Microsoft’s strategy is to convert those users to subscribers: have them pay one annual fee to get support and the latest releases of Windows, Office, and online storage.
I think the GAAP part of it is that Apple has to be consistent with their previous revenue recognition strategies.

GAAP itself doesn't force similar companies to recognize revenues in the same fashion that Apple did with the iPhone, i.e., you can make a phone and provide software updates that provide new features for free.
If you have not heard of Kurt Vonnegut's term 'granfalloon', you may be interested in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon .

A granfalloon is a false karass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism .
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We've been seeing as high as 30% in webkit. Hoping to write the findings up. It's especially hard as pretty much every browser has killed off their CSS profiler.
> because of his “lousy phone company.”

Highly dependent on where he lives.

There are parts of the country (I'm familiar with central/western MA) where there is no cable service, ADSL requires a short distance from the local POP (and <= 1.5Mbps is arguably not 'broadband'). FTTH rollouts have pretty much stopped, and 4G service is nonexistent.

There is a good talk on telecom monopolies linked in this comment (that thread has other good discussions, as well):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124918
There are so many entrepreneurs and startups in Berlin. There are probably even more startup events there than in San Francisco, it's a very vibrant scene.

However, there is just noooo money in Berlin. The reason for that is that there are no successful tech entrepreneurs who have been successful previously to fuel the ecosystem.

So all the money you have is money from Angels that are lawyers, dentists or who have a big family business.

Also, German young entrepreneurs just can't think big. There are a few that do, but the "taking-over-the-world" mentality in Germany is just not there as in the U.S.

They more like to create a cookie delivery business. (this just got six figures in funding)
370 icons is nice, but what i really want is a tool that lets me put together a smaller subset from multiple icon fonts that only has what my app needs. A global font-icon library from which to assemble this subset would be ideal.

These collections are trying to cater to everyone by growing in size when the better solution here is a modularizer.
From now on I'm going to refer to myself as a judge.
Maybe GP didn't have the best wording, but I would classify those both as emergencies appropriate for antibiotic use -- you may only think them not because antibiotics are seen as so commonplace.

Non-emergencies:

* sore throat
* lots of chickens packed in one place
Looking forward to it , scared of Google now ! Although Android is good, but privacy is more of a concern.
Because hopefully you're part of this community by choice. I chose to move to Silicon Valley and be part of the community there precisely because I was dissatisfied with the communities I lived in prior to that; in effect, I vote with my time and taxes.

I agree that being proud of where you're born is silly; but being proud of where you chose to live is slightly different.
Man with billions invested in electric cars disparages competing technology? I am shocked.

The fact is, you don't need to have a high energy density with hydrogen, as existing gas stations can be used to quick refuel a hydrogen car (with robotic assist, perhaps), without the logistical mess that comes from swapping an extremely heavy, very expensive, potentially user-abused battery with another one. You can even burn hydrogen in an ICE engine, as BMW has demonstrated.

The Honda Clarity FCX, a hydrogen powered car, is the only other car to achieve Type V California ZEV credits besides the Model S. Perhaps that's too much competition for Musk. The range of that car is 240 miles.
Ideal uses for full screen on an external monitor: Video, presentations, photo slideshows.
Remember, it takes 8-12 years and $1,000,000,000 on average to whittle 10,000 drug candidates into 1 fully tested FDA approved drug.

If a company is going to spend a decade and a billion attempting to develop a "management" antibiotic for continual profit, I'm willing to bet the profit motive exists for another company to make a normal antibiotic... that most doctors would happily prescribe over the ridiculous multi-year option...

It's a big risk and I doubt some company will attempt to make a maintenance drug out of antibiotics.

Unless you're implying that profit motive means they simply won't try because it's not insulin or something, which is ridiculous. Profit motive... there is profit to be made in a new antibiotic, there's the motive. Not every pharma company will just let money sit on the table in favor of older drugs nearing the end of patent protection.
http://icomoon.io/app
Seems like a lot of people don't like the namespaces changes. I actually really like this! I suppose it's cumbersome even if you're building a project where you have full control. Then again - come on, we're talking about search&replace for 10 minutes here. And in more complex projects, you should have had a flexible function to handle icons anyways.

Why I really, really like it: If you're building something in a namespace polluted environment (say, a component for a popular CMS), this is a damn god-send.

I was on the fence before, from now on, it's fontawesome all the way for all my projects. They've done an amazing job so far and I'm looking forward to what they will do next.
I think as a rule people aren't as stupid as "common knowledge" would like to pretend.

My 18mo daughter has had a half dozen ear infections and two staph infections. Antibiotics each time.

Would it be better to leave a staph infection untreated with antibiotics? How? Lance and clean the infection site... and then what?

Or ear infections? I had frequent undiagnosed ear infections as a small child and now have reduced hearing to thank for it. My entire life I've had people annoyed with me asking them to repeat themselves. Some ear infections may clear up on their own. The ENT has told us this is unlikely in 12mo or younger ages since cranial structures aren't in place that allows excess fluid to drain. We can let her have a fever for a day or two, and give Tylenol, but all that's going to do is delay the necessary antibiotics. We could also have tubes inserted in her ears, but it's not like those are without risks or downsides either.

Since people don't have to play the lottery with their hearing or their lives anymore because they have access to antibiotics now sure, maybe that has some scary consequences. But it's not like people are popping them for a headache or skinned knee. And insulting people may make some feel superior, but it doesn't actually solve anything or even hint at a possible solution. You don't just "ride these things (staph) out" and hope for the best. There are consequences to going all granola "nature will take care of itself".
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Those examples both qualify as necessary and emergent.

What's been happening for decades is things like kids getting a cold and doctors wanting to appease panicked parents by prescribing an antibiotic (that's obviously going to do nothing to a virus).
Clear-headedness is the ability to account for emotional biases, not the ability to disregard them. There is a world of difference between acknowledging a fuller set of influences versus deluding yourself into believing no other influences exist.
Norway came up with their own solution to this issue, and it has apparently been working very well for them:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jan/03/norways-mrsa-so...
Although looking at these charts, it seems like right now it's only users who were already on Mountain Lion who are upgrading - the other lines are flat.
The entire domain. Reasonable use case.
Pretty cool. One minor bug: it says "repeat" for "?", but then for the number of times it says "optional". It really shouldn't say "repeat" at all for that character.
It's not a loss leader. OSX has always been supplied as a component that is integrated with the Mac. I.e. You never had to buy a Mac and then separately purchase OSX.

What they are doing here is to integrate ongoing support for OS upgrades into the cost of the computer.
I'm not arguing that HN is pro-Apple, I was just using it as an easy counter-example to the anti-Microsoft phenomenon raised by OP. It could be any stance on any issue and the mechanisms I described would still be in play.

In fact, it doesn't even need to be specifically pro- or anti-anything. Apple and Google are both companies that generate a lot of discussion on HN, with people both supporting and criticizing them. By contrast, one could argue that HN seems largely apathetic to Microsoft. If this perceived apathy on the part of the community is being amplified by the flamewar detector, then the perception is strengthened until it becomes reality: the people who want to discuss Microsoft simply go elsewhere.

I'd like to stress that this is not an issue I think is leading to the imminent demise of HN, but rather simply a potential long-term problem that should at least be recognized.
This update is about getting the CSS right. Cleaning it up, speeding it up, making it leaner. More icons in future versions.
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I think that without Steve Jobs Apple will be forever in a slow evolutionary state of advancement. He was the real engine behind the risky innovation in Apple.
... and the judicious use of antibiotics requires some kind of regulatory agency or system to make sure the users follow through.

This seems like another area where libertarianism is crashing against the rocks of reality-- as socialism, communism, and all other political ideologies have already done. I have a profound sense that all political ideologies are failed, and that we're entering a post-ideological age of pragmatism driven by either populism, oligarchy, or technocracy... take your pick.
Is there any context to this? I see some commentators here saying "that's great!" Is it? I have no idea.

Considering the Apple marketing machine is going full force, it doesn't seem like a jaw-dropping number. But, again, no context.
Snap , just read somewhere the firefox browsers also got internal backing from Google :/
Kind of, with the moleskine partnership it's still up to you to take the photos yourself.
If you're a utilitarian, you should start counting and get actual numbers of both these classes of people.
It's an insane world we live in where all the measures that should be used to control the distribution of antibiotics exist, but they are used instead for opiates.

I'm not saying opiates addiction isn't a genuine problem, but it's a largely individual one. There's no widespread negative externalities to prescribing opiates to a patient. Antibiotics on the other hand, present a classic limited pool resource allocation problem (the same species of problem as the tragedy of the commons).

It's antibiotics that should require a three part pad, with one copy sent off to the federal government and investigations into over-prescribers -- not painkillers. It's antibiotics that should be subject to intentional treaties governing their distribution and use -- not painkillers. It's antibioatics that should have criminal penalties for misuse -- not painkillers.
Someone get Vint Cerf on the line; this will make a fine RFC.
v4 And this still not really Open Source.
Valgrind and friends are great.

splint has been useful, but needs c99 (and now c11) support.

Tangential, but one thing I've recently taken to doing in my C is basically avoiding bare primitive types, preferring to wrap them in a single element struct. This means I can't pass, for instance, price where I mean quantity just because they're "both numbers".
There are three pressing concerns for hydrogen fuel cells, which can be added up to "bullshit". First, energy density. I can't speak to that in detail, but the range problem is serious. Then again, the range problem seemed insurmountable for electric cars until Tesla got within spitting distance.

Second, platinum. Traditional hydrogen cells require some platinum in the catalyst, which is fine at lab scales, but unviable at industrial scale. There have been advances in alternative catalysts recently, but until fuel cells can be built without rare and exotic raw materials, they're just a toy.

Third, power source. Hydrogen comes from cracking water, which requires energy. It's just a storage medium for energy provided during the cracking process. What's the end-to-end thermal efficiency of that process? And where does the power come from? Of course, this problem applies 100% to battery-powered cars as well.
I'm talking about writing lower level app code, especially code that interacts with the network and the filesystem and uses things like threads.

All the world is not a webapp.
Those people have just as much a right to feel placated by airport security as you do to feel terrorized by it.
Fixing multi-monitor fullscreen support was my only desired "feature" since they broke it about 4 years ago.
Seems like the dominant sentiment is that the maintainer is being defensive... I'd rather like to think he's being up-front and clear about his intentions for the project.
That's interesting, so you would say that Smalltalk is more enlightening than other languages on the ideas of OOP? Could you expand on how Smalltalk achieves that?

I have never programmed in Smalltalk before, but I found Java and Ruby taught me the most about OOP concepts, I might have to take a dive into Smalltalk now.
The anthropomorphism of bacterial evolution makes the article hard to follow for the layman (me). Can someone familiar with bacterial evolution please explain to me how the use of antibiotics leads to superbugs? I am clearly misunderstanding something.

I was under the impression that in a population of bacteria, genes express themselves in any number of random ways. If we expose the bacterial culture to antibiotics, the bacteria susceptible to the antibiotic dies, while the resistant bacteria lives on free to reproduce, leaving the descendant bacteria with resistive characteristics...

My question to the HN scientists is, doesn't this just destroy some subset of bacteria? Is new genetic information produced that did not exist before? Taking this trimming tree down the line, wouldn't the "superbug" antibiotic resistant bacteria have been created/survived and thrived anway? Or does the antibiotic exposure actually cause, "the bacteria to want to survive", in the sense that exposing them to antibiotics leads to more rapid mutation of descendants? Why wouldnt the antibiotic resistant bacteria be created with or without overuse of antibiotics? Isn't the spectrum of the genetic tree just trimmed?
I love this GUI. Gives a clear view of what can be changed, and so much more user friendly than having to remember where each of the nested (often so many times!!) options goes. "Advanced..." buttons everywhere are the worst, and don't get me started about wizards.
Clearly, everyone needs to stop washing their hands, or bacteria will develop soap immunity. And then what will we do?
Probably to avoid the `it don't work` issues
I'd give Elon Musk more credit than generic CEO spin for this. If he thought hydrogen was viable, he'd be working on it.
It's also customizable in the LESS or SCSS as a variable. Want to go back to the icon-* prefix? No problem.
What I'm saying is that we should have treated antibiotics, as a worldwide community, like a stockpile with a finite lifespan and only a limited availability. As few uses as possible, with the goal of saving lives, not making people "feel better".

What I'm imagining is something like the Department of Energy, or even the CDC here, regulating the ability to prescribe antibiotics and establishing rules that must be followed for their use. Antibiotics would not be a privately exchanged commodity, but a highly regulated resource managed for the public good.

So, would this hypothetical future involve antibiotics for your hypothetical cases? Probably? Possibly? If doctors discerned that the cause of the swelling was bacterial infection, if the bladder infection was threatening to the wife's future well-being? Then I'd suppose so.

But you wouldn't get antibiotics just for being alive like you do now. They practically hand them out like candy at doctor's offices.

Oh, you have a cough? Have a z-pak. Doesn't matter if it's a viral infection going around, who cares if giving you this drug just ensures that some day in the future we won't be able to treat someone who is actually dying with azithromycin. What's important is that taking these pills will make you feel like we're doing something to help.
An online course in preparation for future Kickstarters:

https://www.udemy.com/reaching-your-kickstarter-goals (free preview)

https://www.udemy.com/surpassing-your-kickstarter-goals ($29 course)

I backed one of the instructor's early projects; right now he's doing a GPS tracker. Take a look to verify his credibility: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/richardhaberkern/gps-coo...
> the "taking-over-the-world" mentality in Germany is just not there

The last time we've tried that, it didn't end so well…