skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do. We have disinfectant sprays, chlorhexidine, bleach, UV radiation shot by Cylon looking robots, and surfaces made of copper and patterned after shark skin.

Bacteria are just bloody durable, and people are shedding new bacteria into the environment at really absurd rates.
36MB to download the full app. It takes up 66MB on my disk. Photoshop CC takes up 1.1GB, that’s 20 times as much – quite a contrast.
Misogyny is a bit of a stretch. Everything is misogynistic these days. It's just plain sexist and dumb, get over it.
I avoided Windows like crazy until Windows 2000 came out because prior to that release the idea of using an OS where one process could crash the system at any time seemed ridiculous (post my Amiga days), and running NT was only for "enterprises" (at that time).

Ah, the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco, though my favorite limitation of Win9x is actually how it depended on DOS which allowed Caldera to continue the lawsuit against MS.
Well said. Thanks for your thoughts.
Amazing bullcrap. It's hilarious to see the views of folks living in the Silicon Valley echo chamber.
This was done in Paris 1 or 2 years ago. Some folks found the map and broke in those places to steal computers and stuffs.
I've got to say, I'd hate your setup as a user. I've got a thousand different things to respond to/pay/deal with every month. I'd much rather have a service I use just autorenew than have to explicitly pay for it over and over again each month.

Provided...that the service had an easy and obvious way to cancel when I wanted to.
I use it for iOS design. It beats Sketch and Photoshop.
Man, the worst part is that Intellectual Ventures Lab works on some really cool stuff. Maybe a little impractical, but really cool and innovative nonetheless.

I'd totally go work for them if they weren't backed by one of the worst corporations on the planet.
If this doesn't catch pg's flamewar filter I don't know what will.
Probably not: http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-h...
This actually looks shady. If you're not going to charge me, then why the hell do you want my CC number?
Yes, I would never want them (or virtually any third party) to have the ability to access my inbox, much less stand in between my mail provider and myself.
I think the problem with this kind of idea is that there are so many bacteria all over the world and you'll never reach all of them.

Recall the very mechanism that makes bacteria resistant over time: an antibiotic is deployed over a population of bacteria that have largely the same genotype but there are lots of mutations thrown in because they divide so fast. If any of the bacteria are resistant to the antibiotic, they survive and create a new population, again with largely the same genotype with lots of mutations thrown in, but this new population is entirely resistant to that antibiotic.

Now you've probably been visualizing a human body or a petri dish when I talk about "a population of bacteria", but consider the entire Earth. You'll never deploy an antibiotic across all the nooks and crannies of the entire Earth, and even if you were to, you'd just get an ~evenly spread population of bacteria, resistant to that antibiotic.

I guess you could _try_, if you were a supervillain or something.
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Yeah... it's not the most beautiful place I've ever seen... I personally wouldn't want to work there, it's about 2 steps down from working in my own home.
Idaho court confiscates software developer’s computer because he ‘likes hacking’
You can be proud of anything or anyone who you can identify with or somehow are connected with, without any accomplishment on your part.

You can be proud of your kids because they belong to you. You can be proud of your family because you belong to it.
You can be proud of your favorite sports team because you root for them.

BUT if you can be proud of it for its accomplishments, you also should be ashamed of it because of its errors.

Nationalists are people who love to claim the accomplishments of their country, but deny its errors.

EDIT: This is not to say that one has to mention all errors everytime one expresses pride.
Wow, layer styles! This was the only major thing missing compared to Photoshop. Everything else was already far better than Photoshop for my use.
I'm glad he approves of it. Generally if he doesn't approve of something like this then it triggers a string of "Torvalds says" articles that do nothing for nix. Then someone brings up a RMS angle and then it all devolves into an artificially created shtstorm which keeps the entire FOSS scene in this constant paralyzed state.

Personally I think Valve - as great as they are - will step on a pile of RMS flavored toes. So be it. They bring raw power to the (desktop) nix world like never before. nix hasn't really moved an inch on the desktop front anyway...whats the worse that could happen? The risk is acceptable given the massive potential progress.

I think it'll also provide much needed focus to the nix world. Sure variety has its benefit...but at some point it becomes fragmentation not variety. A central vocal point like valve will go a long way to fixing that.
I'll give you #1, but from digging into the topic #2 is very much up in the air long term and I would be very wary of starting any new project with it #3 doesn't count as it is through Xamarin as I was explicitly talking about Microsoft plans.
Many hospitals have rather elaborate approval mechanisms for the use of "the good stuff" in terms of antibiotics. Just FYI.
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> Would you go to a Hackers & Hookers Costume Party?

Yes.
Have you tried Acorn?
Have you tried Acorn? http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/
What made you decide to use Plivo over Twilio? Just curious.
Antibiotics are routinely included in animal feed as a prophylactic.
I have no experience with self publishing, but as an author with No Starch Press (http://nostarch.com/masteryourmac), I can tell you that publishers probably put more work into the books than the authors themselves.

Publishers hire people to design the cover, copy edit the manuscript, provide a tech review, lay out the book, and market it. The amount of work that goes into a traditional book is astounding, so it doesn't surprise me that some people here are complaining about the quality of self-published books. In my opinion, the logistics are simply too much for one person to handle.

And let's be honest here. The real work of an author should be to write. Should they really have to worry about marketing, layout, and copy editing? I think not.

I'll go with a traditional publisher again. My book looks beautiful, reads well, and is on the shelf at the local Barnes and Noble. Sure, I don't get all of the revenue, but I do have a wider audience and steady passive income.
The particular nit that I'd like to pick is blaming only misuse of antibiotics for the problem. The only way to distinguish use and misuse is in retrospect, and it's hard to say last-line antibiotics like vancomycin and meropenem have been abused.
Definitely like that you guys have your own hardware termination vs where Twilio is just terminating to Level3's gear.
Exactly. There seems to exist a strange, crazy fetishization of the WWW, as if it's by its nature unquestionably superior to other delivery methods. Even morally superior in some sense (i.e. if you make a native application instead of a web based one, you're a horrible, sinister person). It's just nonsense.
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Hackers & Hookers | Costume Party
I think it's an appropriate response to life and death issues, when, on one side of the scale are the potential deaths of millions.

My ex-girlfriend's dad died of an infection, quite possibly a superbug. I was there with her and her mom the second he stopped breathing. Go and be there at the moment of death by infection of someone you know, then tell me how you feel about people who needlessly weaken antibiotics.
Except the third party that actually is your inbox?
Despite the privacy concern everyone is warring about, it is a beautiful integration. Technology is supposed to make life easier, not harder. Since Apple didn't open the door, someone else will ended up doing it. I am sure an open source solution with own proxy + LinkedIn api will work as well. That should take away the privacy concern.
the very office space that Microsoft vacated a few years earlier when the NT/OS/2 collaboration broke down

After MS has already sent the original OS/2 2.0 SDKs to developers. I wrote a blog post about this entire fiasco you should read: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...
The latest version of Sketch pretty reliably accepts clipboard input from Illustrator. It's not as nice as being able to import .ai files directly, but at least it's a hint of where they might be heading.
Theoretically, non-resistant bacteria should have a competitive advantage over resistant bacteria in an environment without antibiotics - they don't have to spend energy producing useless resistance enzymes, and instead can grow better.

That means, in theory, with no antibiotics, you should have very few resistant organisms.

The problem is that's all "in theory". Right now, the level of evidence for community-acquired MRSA and the competitive advantages of susceptible versus resistant S. aureus has thrown that all into question.
i was actually trying to use sketchbookX from autodesk to take quick notes and draw schema diagrams.

the lack of boundaries will make me continue to use your app! it is how i ever felt those apps should work in the first place. you nailed it.

only critic i have now: the fake width of the traces are ok for testing out the app. do a few swipes and something similar to a brush drawing appears. nice. but using speed for that is completely unintuitive and impossible to "use".. no way to make a thin straight line (have to do it slow, so it ends up jittered) and no way to do a short bold line (no way to get to speed). either find a way to get finger pressure or just leave it flat.

and a feature request: add simple text tool so my schema designs are easier to do :)
A wait list for BBM? Is it because people are just dying to use it?
wow, something like this and no one points out two fantastic FOSS alternatives: krita and mypaint
We use Font Awesome and have been incredibly happy. We augment the set with our own SVGs and appropriately attributed ones from The Noun Project. There are a variety of scripts and web sites available for packaging SVGs up so that they can be used as a font.
On the topic of Bacteriophages, I seem to recall reading in Biology class a long time ago, that the reason the water of the Ganges can be stored for a long time without getting spoilt is because of the presence of Bacteriophages! Certainly useful to humans!
Thanks for linking that article. The most interesting takeaway from that personally was that an alcohol-based rinse (hand sanitizer) is effective against nearly all kinds of infectious agents except for Gram-positive bacteria (which have a lipid cell envelope), without the threat of the emergence of resistance.
C++ is not bad. Code backend in c++ and use a scripting library for your game logic.
I think Leafly is already dominating in the review space:

http://www.leafly.com/
I think the Firefox OS actually allows multiple stores and is far less locked down than, say iOS.
It's no secret that if you defy the authorities they escalate the amount of coercion they use. You just need to follow the progression far enough to get to the violence.

They start with a polite court summons, then send a police officer to your home, and if you don't come quietly they'll physically force you. If you manage to resist that, well now you're resisting arrest so it doesn't even matter what the original summons was for. They'll escalate to tasers, nightsticks, maybe tear gas. You probably need guns on your side to resist past that point, which means the police get their guns out, and they've got more guys and more guns than you. You most likely end up dead, but definitely not resisting anymore. At no point will they say "Gee guys, this is just too much effort, guess we better let him do whatever he wants."

There is implied violence in every government directive. You don't usually see it because almost nobody has the will and the means to push it that far, but it's still there. I think people would do well to remember that when casually calling for things to be made illegal.

That said, I actually agree with the idea of banning antibiotics in agriculture. It's quite important, and a classic market failure/tragedy of the commons situation that you sadly do need government to solve.
The people behind this really come across as childish, immature, and unprofessional, both in their decision to host the party in question and also in the copy they use on their website:

- "We're a coworking space, but we won't tell you where we are until you leave us a comment."

- "Sign up... or else!"

- "ecosocialtechnological (yes we made this up and are calling dibs on it)"

- "The Coworking Experience..." "Is Cool"

- "No one can do anything without energy, so we provide substance while a good brew as well as water, juice, and other drinks of substances more than just sugar."

- "Then again…Some of us just hang out"

etc.
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I get NEGATIVE royalty statements from Manning. My experience with OReilly had been much better, but I'll never publish through a traditional publisher again.
Even if we disregard the privacy concerns and trust the third party with our inbox, I can't help imagining the consequences of a quiet compromise of their proxy service.
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At this point there isn't one language for game devs. Even companies that strictly develop for PC tend to do their engine in C++ and then extend the ide with a scripting language like lua or python. Civilization 4 is a great example of it because they put the python api out as the user-moddable part of the game and it spawned this huge community. Other platforms like android (with its giant installed base) are basically java. So C++ isn't really the only answer to begin with.

Based on what I've been messing around with lately I'd look at go for maybe being a good complement or replacement for C++. Most of the time I'm making something with two major loops: game logic and rendering. Because of the way go interacts with C++ it's not hard to do the game logic in go, where I get massive benefit from "free" concurrency and pretty nice execution speed and then render in C++ where you can get back down to pointer arithmetic if you have to. This is outside of supporting any kind of scripting api/ide which I typically don't deal with but just for familiarity's sake and expecting others to use it later I would probably do in python.
There is definitely not much value here for risk involved (handing out your credentials to a 3rd party). Although interesting, the hack seems pretty straight forward. I wonder if they had to do something more complex for 2-face authentication enabled accounts (gmail) or that is not supported?
Yes, average people are dying in the streets. Hospital infections, many of which are caused by resistant organisms, are a major cause of death in the United States.

Beyond that, you now have things like extensively resistant Gonorrhea, which has taken a disease that is fairly common, but easy to treat if caught and thus embarrassing without being dangerous, and turned it into a serious problem, especially for women.

The answer for "How do we tell" is that epidemiologists (like me) do a lot of surveillance for antibiotic resistance. We ask why hospital patients died, and what organism killed them - and what is was susceptible to.

And the answer is this is a rather serious problem.
Sorry, but your comment reads out as Google PR about Dalvik. Even with your published books I am not buying it.

The only thing you are right about is that bytecode is more space efficient than native code.

Everything else is easily done in native code as well, it is just a matter of the OS providing support for it, there is nothing special about having to be a VM.
Couldn't we set-up a laser system to detect asteroids from farther away? Or would that be pretty inefficient?
The interesting thing is that sometimes, interpreted bytecode is faster than native instructions. First of all, bytecode isn't usually interpreted but rather Just In Time (JIT) compiled. This means that it's a little bit slower the first time you call a function as it's being compiled. The compilation times aren't huge however as the bytecode has already been optimized and it maps fairly straightforwardly to machine code. In a game, most of the time is spent in a few functions called by the game loop. After these functions are called once, they are usually as fast as the compiled version.

The area in which bytecode can gain an edge is with sse instructions and aggressive inlining. When you compile your game for the i386, you can't assume that the processor you target has all the new SIMD (single instruction multiple dispatch) available. Now this isn't a problem on consoles since you know your target but it is on the PC. The JIT compilation can take advantage of these instructions since they can detect their availability at runtime (which is also compile time).

The other neat trick that JIT compilation can do is profile the code as it is running (less costly than it sounds) and inline hot functions. You can't do this with c++ because you can't unlink the code easily. A good example of this technique is found in the V8 javascript engine.

This isn't to say that bytecode is always faster but rather to point out that using intermediate bytecode doesn't always carry a high performance penalty. What kills C# are the GC pauses. Also keep in mind that nothing can ever beat well optimized assembly for a target processor but the people who can do this are rare and valuable.
OS X Mavericks: How to Move the Dock to a Second Display
I’d rather it not be acquired, but if it were, I’d much rather that it be acquired by Apple. That company doesn’t currently have a full-fledged image editor in its software lineup and probably wouldn’t cancel or cripple the product. As Adobe already ships several full-fledged image editing tools, I don’t have much faith they would leave this product intact.

I use Adobe products for much of my day, but I still hate them for what they did to GoLive CyberStudio.
Pretty sure it will, if not we can def make it do that. I am so looking forward to this.
If all the heavy lifting in your studio is being done in hardware, why do you need a high-end workstation?
No, I asked a question. Maybe an implicit one: What value would you ascribe to placating the ignorant? Or, more fundamentally, is there any utility at all in that?

Or, if there is nothing to the placating, do we have to reach lower still, to asking about the utility of providing sinecures to the self-important and otherwise unproductive?

The cost numbers are in the federal budget. What do you think the numbers are for the value of "placating?"
> Evolution is actually a really crappy optimization algorithm...Bacteria work on a faster time scale than animals in terms of evolution, but five orders of magnitude? Somehow, I think we'll win in the long run.

However, it's one that doesn't need an agency to implement it. It just happens. A lot. Especially in the case of bacteria. You have a slow, crappy algorithm, but it's constantly running relentlessly in parallel in many trillions of instances. It doesn't need human attention. It doesn't need investment. It doesn't need society to be aware of its importance.

On the other hand, progress in antibiotics needs all of the above. If one of those things flags a bit, bacteria gain the upper hand. This is the problem.
My favourite part, "… come with full versions of Office 2013, including Outlook, not a non-standard, non-cross-patform, imitation apps that can't share docs with the rest of the world"
He shouldn't have included "including Outlook". Outlook is the worst email program to conform to standards. ;)
The gov't is already looking at something similar. If an antibiotic is approved by the FDA, the company would be guaranteed at least $100M in revenue per year, going up to $350M in the fifth and final year.
Is there a similar service for Computer Science?
File it under Analysis; which is exactly what you are doing.
The author actually just gave a talk (actually finishing it) and he explained: he did not like the code style (svg.js does not use semicolons at the end of the lines).

Well that is what he said. But I believe having created Raphael.js in 2008, much before svg.js existed, also influenced his decision.
I think his reference was to the debacle at Knight, where what that level of rigor did NOT happen. Or, it happened, but was insufficient.
I'm certainly not a "gamer" any longer, but I still have a pretty healthy Steam library.

I've been very happy with the increasing options on Mac OS X and I hope they keep improving.

I'm way more excited about slower, turn-based games, and Civ V, Europa Universalis, and FTL have been enough to keep me from searching for anything else.

Despite this, I know I've been missing out on games I would probably love. I think I see a SteamOS device in my future.
If they help sort out some decent graphics driver code I will love them forever and send them cake on their birthday.
My time is more valuable than being a pre-compile/pre-deploy sanity check or human lint.

When I review code I review all of it, not just the easy parts.

If I was going to do a 1/2 ass job of it I wouldn't do it in the first place.
PPMOs: Glimmer Of Hope In Superbug Crisis?
This is a play on the pimp and hooker balls that some places hold. I was going to say this was merely as misogynistic (or not) as those. I.e. that the change from pimp to hacker was merely done for topicality and alliteration and that depending on what gender role mapped to what, it might be ok. But if you look at the flier, its clear that the artist 1) meant for the programers to be the hackers and the girls to be the hookers and 2) badly conflated the school girl and hooker stereotypes.
Isn't that the whole point of Rapportive? They're the only company I can think of that has successfully solved the "social profile matching" problem that I can think of off the top of my head.
And use Postgres as the database. If you use MySQL you will get sick of South telling you to use Postgres whenever a migration doesn´t go smoothly.
If one does enough regression in analysis, even your contributions and works can be traced to genes and environment you didn't exactly choose.

Why wouldn't personal beauty, health or intelligence be considered part of that civilization - and if I procreate, I am furthering it :)
Are PPMOs the Next Generation of Antibiotics?
Case Study: using images in emails to encourage clicks