skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, these places have treatable diseases running rampant for a variety of reasons. There is no one principle cause of ongoing survival problems in various parts of the world today, and no one solution to it either.

Endemic poverty is a complicated social and political phenomena which is maintained due to a variety of causes. Even if tomorrow you eliminated malaria, it's very doubtful the conditions in any country where it's a problem would improve. A case in point is famine - we have more then enough food today to feed a population of 10 billion or more people on the planet fully. But people still starve to death every day. And even when we give food aid for free, we still keep having the same issue - even when we're actively giving it.

When you start trying to order your problems by perceived importance, we get nothing done. Sure you think, I'd hate to die of malaria. But you live in a first world country - if you don't die of malaria, you don't then imagine that you'll still have nothing to eat tomorrow, or that you lack all of the education you take forgranted. Or that there'll be no jobs, or that even if you work hard you'll still be paying bribes just to get a driver's license. Or come the local elections if you don't guess the right side to be seen supporting you'll be murdered or raped, or both.
ThinkPad X touch series are great, as they're ThinkPads (which still seem to be the highest quality, despite Lenovo's efforts). The X series are laptops first, convertible tablets second. There's also a ton of convertible tablets made by plenty of vendors. In 2005, Toshiba made some nice ones. A few years ago Fuji had some neat ones. Nowadays it seems everyone has some lightweight convertible available. On the low end, I've heard great things about the new ~$400 Asus Transformer.
yeah, that does seem 'unfair,' but anything involving any sort of metric could also be gamed (whereas simple commit count is less likely to be easily manipulable on most projects).
The copy at the top seems a bit wordy to me.

How about this? http://i.imgur.com/whD4yWh.png
Noticed this message the other day - about time! IMO this should have always been the default Git push behaviour.
Got to wave 8 on expert and quit out of boredom. The enemies didn't even make it past the first 1/16th of the screen.

Needs to be waaayyy harder imo.
A close account of how the world/nations/family/people would look only 50 years from now? - post oil, post-anything that's supposed to die and with whatever that's supposed to be adopted.
It is 120K years AD. Humanity has suffered 53 nuclear holocausts (this was made possible by advanced recovery methods researched over time). Peace for 18000 years is being upheld by an artificial intelligence which governs a flying city, eradicating advanced human settlements which threaten to develop into nuclear threats.
A group of cavern dwelling humans aim to destroy this flying city by detonating a hydrogen bomb at the right place at the right time.
Yeah, expert mode. Before my hand injury (too much pinky stress), my sustained maximum was 153wpm on QWERTY. I can still get ~120wpm with the new layout and my Kinesis keyboard though.

The only trouble I have is if I have to take a break and they advance a bit. My gun seems to lock on things I don't expect it to (missiles). Otherwise, they can barely make it on to the screen.
My bustling city (one of those "top US cities to move to that isn't the Bay Area or NYC") has tons of first-floor commercial, second floor residential developments, including a fair number of "row houses" zoned commercial first floor residential second and third floors where both the commercial space and residential areas are owned by the same owner. There's a huge push to build high density in this city that was formerly pretty much all low-density ten years ago.

These are all new builds in the past 8 years.
I read the NY Times, via the Android app. I pay for that, and read other sources from Reddit, HN, Digg, etc.
Take care to add the hyphen between experts and exchange, or it becomes a different set of words! ;)

(I never realized that till someone pointed it out. I always wondered why they had the ugly hyphen.)
You may want to consider standard WASD for directions, moving back to Q, select to E and special functions to ZXC. The WASD habit is strong, for me at least.

Not that it will matter as much for the end app, of course.
Wave 35, score of 4098. Needed to get harder faster. Waves ~25+ were difficult.

Criticism: Overlapping words make it hard to read. The font makes it hard to distinguish i, t, l, j, which is bad when you need to determine which to type quickly.

Accidentally mistyping the first letter of the wrong word locks you on to some rando object; my own failing, but, an unlock button (backspace?) would be nice.
Amazingly, these aren't even password hashes.. they're encrypted versions of the password. Ars wrote an article on this yesterday [1]. Basically if anyone has the encryption key, they'd be able to decrypt ALL passwords in the list.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/how-an-epic-blunder-...
I've always been drawn to a world in which neural implants are so widespread that they begin to attract malware developers. Seems to me that when humanity's age old enemy (the virus) crosses the human/machine divide, some interesting (and not entirely pleasant) things will happen.

* edited for more inclusive language.
This sounds absolutely hysterical! I think your main character(s) should be demons who work for the Hell SEC, who are trying to fight their way through corruption and bureaucracy to stop the bubble before it's too late and a huge quantity of souls are lost to the vile clutches of God in Heaven.
This is a really great solution.
Fahrenheit 451
/pun
But the kids ARE an excuse. The kids will take every ounce of energy from you. The kids will take focus from you. The kids will change you. Kids is a valid excuse for sucking at everything.
The smartest kids already knows that there are better places. Most kids knows that. Yet there's still lots of kids that do get the opportunity to go somewhee else, that still goes back to make things better.
I think Surface Pro would be a lot more interesting with Bay Trail at a much lower price point.
Just show up.

I am continually baffled by how few people can be bothered to look at a company, and send a decent email and resume asking for an interview. It's so easy, and 99% of people never do it.
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Aldous Huxley beat you to it.
> A huge company like Adobe behaving like a beginner in programming? WTF.

You are aware that Flash and Acrobat Reader are the attack vectors for something like 50% of all Windows malware, yeah?
That would be called "convention".
Why redesign the watches? This problem doesn't exist in the places that use the 24h format (like most of the world around North America). We can use both time formats. I can either say 9 in the evening or 21 and everybody gets it.
> Can this easily be done from any Linux distribution?

Let's see...

> Network boot, using PXE (i386 or amd64) or diskless(8) (other platforms).

Red Hat and Fedora had this for ages. Also the installa media can be on a FTP, HTTP or NFS server.

> External USB CD-ROM or USB floppy, if your machine can boot from one.

This should work with most Linux distributions, too.

> USB Flash disk or hard disk

The same.

> Worst case, if none of the above is suitable, you can usually pull the disk out of the target system, use suitable adapters to install it in a "normal" computer, install OpenBSD, then replace the disk back in the target system.

Again this should be possible with most Linux distributions.

Now does OpenBSD have an automated installer?
Does it at least stop, when you tweet?
This is extremely laggy for me in Safari 7.
I'm really pleased by this change. In my early days of git usage the asymmetry of git pull and git push confused me on several occasions, and I'm glad to see that git is willing to make breaking changes towards a cleaner interface.
Did level 18. This is hacker news - people type for a living!

Really like the animation and the sound effects. Would be awesome if there were more surprises, because the novelty (and difficulty) was reduced once I realized that there were always a set of words that I needed to target first, and the manner in which they appear didn't really change much as I progressed.

great job!
How are the safety aspects with steel or carbon fibers, considering that it will be close to roads and lots of people will have close access?

Could the (near) vacuum be compromised by any idiot with a hunting rifle and bullets optimized for piercing body armour? (At a minimum repairs and off time for a day or more.)

Can a kg of explosives put shrapnel through it and create a big crash? What is the safety distance for one of those Iranian self-fusing penetrators used in Iraq?
Ask HN:Does the Android Facebook app has access to Chrome search terms?
I went to 7/11 to get something. I saw this beer they have for sale named SAPPORO. I was intrigue with the size of the can (650ML) and wanted to read some reviews so I opened Chrome on my Android phone and searched. After I wen't back home, I opened Facebook on my desktop... lo and behold a SAPPORO Facebook ad (LIKE page) was shown on my stream.

Does it mean Facebook has access to search terms I typed in Chrome on my mobile? Or facebook is buying it from Google? I always thought the latter is not allowed as per Google's privacy policy.
I think you're confusing "tip" with "paycheck". That said, I would like to hope that the tip amounts will rise as the site gains traction.
Well, how can you be sure that all around the world, people go home at 7pm in all seasons, and in all latitudes?

Heck, if you happened to call someone in France in the afternoon you might disturb them from their siesta!
I think you could do better on the name. Coin4Commit :)
Or strap a $1 central A/C filter to a $10 box fan.
Same - I like how he solved this 'problem'
An analysis of the C#/.NET platform
Couldn't find the word in expert mode, that i was "accidently" starting to type and lost valuable time :(

Final score: 2914, accuracy 92,9 and words per minute: 62,4.

Fun game for a moment though ;)
I think it's more a matter of hardware and compilers usually being widely-used and well-tested. You're just not very likely to discover a bug in an Intel CPU or GCC, while you're newly-written code, being newly-written code hasn't been well-tested yet.

If you're using one-off hardware or a brand new compiler, it isn't so unreasonable to suspect those pieces of having bugs.
My first buffer overflow exploit: pretty easy
Nice! I had read something similar for a wood workshop here: http://woodgears.ca/dust/air_cleaner.html

Seems to be quite effective.

Also, if you're into woodworking, woodgears is probably one of the best, if not the best on the net.
Funny thing is: the didn't always have that!
The other half is a good RPG story/interaction design. What are the good mobile-device RPGs? Anything better than playing FF6 again?
"use branches with atomic commits and then get paid for based on each commit in the branch" model will likely fix this
Write it in the second person about the reader, who is crowdfunding said book, a la "If on a winter's night a traveler".
I have the same issue, but I think PG swears that up/down voting is the thing, just because reddit does it too. Thank you for the link!
$30 came from me!! ha
I've been looking at the Asus Transformer t100 for just this reason. If it only had 4 gigs of RAM instead of 2, I'd have jumped on it.
> The fence is coming down. Hotels are doomed.

doubt it.

1. Corporate business and negotiated rates (a large % of business)
2. Groups (unless you cram 20 - 40 people in an airbnb room?) - this includes conferences, conventions, aircrew, functions, tour groups) (another large % of the business)

This assumes we're talking about city hotels with a normal(ish) business mix, but individual travellers often don't make up the largest portion of business for the hotel (this really does vary, but outside of pure tourist and transit areas it's roughly accurate). Add into the mix the zoning and health & safety requirements, and I'm not sure you could call "doomed" just yet.

There is scope for (ahem) disruption in booking and distribution, which we already see - but the physical product is probably going to be around for some time. Sometimes, you just need a big building with lots of rooms...
Randi Zuckerberg: ‘I Really Put Myself Out There’
This is great, but you need a leader board for motivation! I'll resist humblebragging about how easy it was and what level I reached :)

It'd be nice when you got to more advanced levels if it did something like require you to type entire sentences, use punctuation, things like that.

It'd be a great way to learn how to type for people who are learning, much better than mavis beacon if you could somehow work in typing in sentences.
Open source needs to clean up its language
Obviously the solution is for Beijing to clean up its act; literally. But it will take them awhile, and we need to worry about this now. As a foreigner in Beijing, I actually have no political rights, though I'm proud of the American embassy for reporting crazy bad pollution in the first place and getting the Chinese government to admit that there was a huge problem more quickly.
Four Dutch men create Bitcoin exchange to launder stolen money
This is a brilliant concept — the combination of improving typing skills and playing a game is perfect for those wanting to learn to type, e.g. school kids.
Choice of production locations is generally driven by actual selfishness rather than nationalism or racism. But actual selfishness can produce good results if things are set up properly. Not so for nationalism or racism.
Nit: If we eradicate timezones, lets also get rid of this am/pm nonsense. New York wouldn't start at 1am, they would start at 1h00 (or 01:00, or 01h00, or however you want to notate it).
Too choppy and can't keep up with the typing speed.
@Qom How do you quit?

EDIT: ok, he just changed the password to something random.. :/ Dumb question, asking someone who left for how he left...oh man.. Sometimes I don't know where my mind is

@pg
Please add a "disable account and delete my posts" button. Almost every site has that feature. It's disrespectful to assume somebody should not be ever able to leave. There is no way to disable your account, or delete all your posts. (I agree that submissions don't need to be deletable btw.)
ditto, i switched to firefox and the experience was fine.
The Morris Worm: Internet malware turns 25
No your problem is you believe your completely unsupported opinion is more valuable then the breadth and depth of scientific literature on the subject, and to that end have elected to do no in-depth reading on the matter.

It is an attitude that can only come from someone who's been vaccinated and lives in a country where such programs have practically eradicated common fatal diseases, and will be completely unaffected by whether or not they're dangerously wrong.
I found myself doing ~45 wpm in this, but in a normal typing test I do ~80 wpm. The non-linear word list is definitely lowering speed.
Collection of Less Commonly Used Linux/Unix Commands
A group of scientists find undeniable proof that multiple deities exist in the universe, a story of what becomes of all the worlds religions as a result. I find it interesting to think how the worlds religions would react to such a discovery . Would they throw away their previous believe systems?
Re-re-visited in a more number-crunching way? :-)
A bullet hole probably doesn't matter much. Air will be leaking inside anywhere and air has to be pumped out all the time in any case.

I think you can create a big train crash with a kg of explosives, so that scenario is already possible.
Love git, but am also glad to see that changes are being considered to make its behavior more intuitive.

Relevant: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
As someone in still in early days of git usage (< 1 yr), I've found it quite confusing that pull doesn't pull every matching branch. I'm now sufficiently familiar with git to understand why, but it's sure been frustrating.
> I'm never going to meet anyone who has had malaria

You likely have done so, many times. For many countries malaria is so endemic that most people have had it once or more (malaria is not very lethal if you have access to the right medicines; the problem is a lot of people don't). Except for people living in places with extremely low immigration levels, it is unlikely that you'll go very long before coming across someone who have had malaria.

> , or even anyone who knows someone who has had maleria.

Yeah, right.
Not quite. Say user "fortunate_sonar" uses "arkansas" for a password, and "fortunate_son" uses "kansas" as a password. You can use a delimiter to reduce the chances of that happening, but it's not strictly unique.
Ah man this brings back memories. I have the book + cdrom sitting here on my bookshelf. I was 14 and just started learning to program with Turbo Pascal and assembler by reading Denthor's Tutorials on how to program Demos. My dad happened to be going on a business trip to the U.S. (we didn't have nice books like that in South Africa) and when he asked what I wanted I said "the Graphics Programming Black Book" not knowing how big and heavy that thing was and he had to lug it around with him.

At the time I didn't understand much of it but I remember the evolution of him optimizing Boyer Moore string search left quite an impact. That and the anecdotes of him working with John Carmack at the time they were coding Quake I. Just browsing through the chapters makes me want to read the whole thing again.
Creating a simple and fast packet sniffer in C++
haha, yep!
There's also this easy to understand youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QnD2c4Xovk
I'm asking myself what the minimum system requirements for those web tech demos are. Until some time ago I had an old Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro from 2009 and whenever I tried running something like this the browser came to a halt.

I assumed that it was because of my ancient hardware. But now I got a new Haswell i5 quadcore system and the game still locks up my browser.

So where's the secret to being able to enjoy these tech demos?
People are the problem
This isn't just a human problem, it is one that exists throughout nature. Cheaters, free riders, parasites; just a few names for the same idea: beings that benefit at the cost of others. The problem is that natural selection favours these cheaters.

The best we can hope for is to mitigate the effects of cheating. Attempts to completely stamp out cheating (such as the patent system) are doomed to failure.
The Google AI challenges had the bots communicate over stdin and stdout with the game server meaning they could be programmed in any language.
He's being realistic. How many of us are donating even percent of our income towards malaria eradication? Eradicating malaria has been possible for decades. It has not happened because people amongst others continues to prioritize luxuries over other peoples lives.

We can pretend we're not amongst "those people", but the fact we're spending time on HN debating this matter instead of doing something about it pretty much demonstrate that most of us are.
Parkinson's Patient Uses Second Life Game to relearn Motor Skills
Creations For Parkinson's Barbie Alchemi and Fran Serenade. These ladies dedicate their time to raising money to help Team Fox, the Michael J Fox Foundation. Fran is 86, she plays Second Life which helps her relearn her motor skills!
Add an option to return to main menu from the game. Also, I found random single letters the only hard part. And reading stacked up words (or finding the active word from a stack).
This is why I love zipcar. I use it just for the odd times when I need a car. Which is rare.
Agreed. It’s in pretty bad shape. I’ve thought of making a landing page and putting forth some effort in collecting emails, all while setting up a weekly newsletter about the company, behind-the-brand of salsa brands we endorse, and recipes. That way I can get the logistics and whatnot figured out too.
> What’s rare is finding deposits that can be mined profitably, in part because most contain radioactive thorium. (from the linked older article)

Sounds a bit weird: Would mining a thorium rich deposit have higher environmentally related costs? Isn't the thorium itself valuable as well?
I just discovered experts mode :)
Great job to the author - I just found it and posted the link after losing some time there ;)
Are particles the whole story when it comes to air pollution, or do you have to worry about gases, too?

Also, what would be a good source for obtaining HEPA or carbon filters in Canada/USA?
Glad to hear someone else think the same. I believe that it won't change in here though. Someone said: "If you don't like it, fork it" and this is probably true in this case. Maybe even a business opportunity.

However, I somehow lost the hope that bringing this topic would do any change. I even emailed pg, asking to delete my account including all my posts, but got no response ever. idk..
that is fun :)
was fine in mine, in firefox.
See http://iphone.bjair.info/

The air pollution ATM is at 366 PM 2.5 when this post was made. The chart now tops out at 300 with the hazardous description; the US embassy got rid of the crazy bad description given that the Chinese government wasn't so happy about that.

We went all the way up to 800 and 900 last January; we got up to 424 just last week. 0-50 is considered clean air, Salt Lake City institutes burn bans whenever their AQI goes above...35. There was a scandal when it got to 55 or so last year.
I was thinking more along the lines of..

"And therefore I want to announce a policy of investing back into the business to phht" New CEO stands up "My policy, lay everyone off and pay massive dividends and worry about the next quarter next quarter".
Your pinky stress is actually a recognized phenomenon...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Emacs_Pinky

discussed here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2610467
$30 is a bit steep for most salsas, although the thought here is that the salsa we buy is top of the line. I don’t see a reason for subscribing to Tostito’s salsa when you can buy it anywhere, so we’re aiming for family owned, authentic salsas.

Jars are a bit larger than your average salsa jar. Examples of companies we’ve bought from: MyBrothersSalsa.com is where out first shipment came from. 3 jars + shippings was $26, so not much margin for us there. I’m also looking at GreenMountainGringo.com so I could potentially widen the margin a bit without skimping on quality. Lots of salsa brands to be scouted, and the salsa taste testing process is well underway!
Browser? It's perfectly playable for me on a mid-2007 Macbook w/ Snow Leopard and latest Chrome.
I've got a Core 2 Duo from 2006 and it runs great on Firefox 25.

Until you get stuck in the middle of a word that's off-screen (or something) and you can't tell what letter it's demanding you must type next and you die on level 22 (normal).

Needs a better font, especially for the single letters. And a better way of seeing what character is next when you miss one.
Surface Pro 2 is aimed almost entirely at businesses - but that marketing doesn't take place out in the open.
Guys at http://aaaiiirrr.com/ are doing the same thing, but Open source.
Seeing all keywords is another cool idea. I'd love to try it.

People don't ask enough the question 'what do you want'.
Great advice. I’ll see what I can do on my ultra-basic GoDaddy site that costed me a whopping $1.17. I may even setup a landing page, or just take the existing site and put some more work behind it. This may be too minimal even for an MVP, especially when offering a more luxurious service.
It's worth following Junio Hamano's Git Blame blog[1] to keep up with changes in git of this ilk. This particular item is old news in that regard, and a very welcome change at that.

[1] http://git-blame.blogspot.com/
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