skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first part has an obvious profit motive. Combining vaccines into fewer shots doesn't have a clear profit motive.

I'm baffled by the "omg!" attitude towards the second part. Anyone who's had antidepressant treatment has likely experienced the need to try a couple different meds before finding the right one. Everyone seems to respond differently to different ones - the same med that works for one person may be totally ineffectual for another. If you're in the 50% that a med doesn't work for, you switch.
Why SMEs need to understand Cloud Computing (Video)
I think this problem would be significantly less if there was no"neural" in "neural network." That said that one word has probably brought a significant number of eyes to the subject that would have looked elsewhere with out it.
That's exactly the differentiation I tried to raise in my point. Is this a fine paid to the government who then pays the lawyer some percentage, or is all of this money going to the lawyer? One would be acceptable, the other would be less so.
In this case, everything should be made public because the government needs to be held accountable. Governments should serve the people, not the other way around. Without proper scrutiny, there's no way to tell if the proper balance is maintained going forward.
Ask: What about starting a new submission type on HN called "CLI: ..."?
I want start a new submission type on HN. Simple one liners for our daily Command line actions. Just to freshen up the memory muscles instead of some boring marketing posts.

Example:
CLI: How to upload a file to a server via scp?

Answer: $ scp fileName username@someIp:/target_folder

What do you think?
While proof development shares A LOT of traits with software development, it is not the same. For example, proof development also shares A LOT of traits with writing an academic paper. I think Github + package manager is definitely the baseline to beat, but I believe something much better is possible when focusing on the particular case of a collaborative theorem proving system. It might even turn out that this particular case is not that particular at all. :-)
Hyro, a real-time HTML5 editor made with node-webkit
Yes, there even was such a tool posted on HN some time ago. I can't remember its name, but basically it got its corpus from twitter data. Maybe someone else can post a link?
Siri does this in a more systematical way. It uses Multipath TCP, which is in transport layer. This is an application layer hack. This one is actually less convenient and less efficient (tunnelling in proxy adds extra headers and reduces available data space in each packet).

EDIT: typos
Nothing, in my opinion. Making protected IP easily and publicly available rails pretty hard against the copyright legal framework, it's almost incompatible.

I'd rather see a more nuanced legal approach. Ideally, a more balanced and fair system would probably lead to a greater respect for the law overall.

Off the top of my head: Running a few torrents is, and should be, ignorable. Running a huge amount of them should be a small fine, like a traffic ticket. Any kind of commercial operation or reseller should be shut down.

I'm actually fine with public trackers being outlawed, as long as search engines aren't neutered. If someone finds a tracker, and passes some kind of vetting process to gain access, it's clearly not publicly accessible so shouldn't be subject to legal investigation without a warrant.

Just my arm-chair policy on a lazy saturday :)
Yes, don't change the same variable in multiple places in the same statement in C.

In some cases the behaviors is well defined, if there are sequence points between the assignment, but I would rather keep my code simple.
So is this American English or British English?
Static Prime Editor
Years ago, I was introduced to the (simplistic) dual concepts of profit centers and cost centers.

To many in Management and accounting (and with varying degrees of pointy-haired-ness), profit centers "make money" while cost centers "spend/burn/"waste" money.

The sun shines on the former, while the inquisition perpetually stalks the latter.

Systems and systems software are often seen as a cost center. There is constant pressure to "control" these costs and to do more with less.

People are required to be over-optimistic in their communication while at the same time overly pessimistic ("frugal") in their resource allocation. Note the use of the word "pessimism". It is not so much a matter of "optimisim" thinking that "we can get it done with less"; rather, it is the pessimism of "we can't afford that".

Much of my professional life has been spent in big, "conservative" (cough), risk-averse organizations. I'm sure things are to some degree different elsewhere -- some degree.

Nonetheless, it's worth keeping in mind this (simplistic, and to varying degrees counter-productive) concept of "profit centers" and "cost centers". And if you are working for the latter, expect to be squeezed into ever more unrealistic positions.

It's something the seasoned professional stays attuned to. There will always be some squeezing; when it starts to worsen and become excessive, it's time to go. Your personal solution, as a "simple" employee, is to find another organization -- the sooner, the better.
Lisbon rises to prominence in the startup ecosystem of Europe
His job is not to be a neutral arbiter, indeed, the very definition of his job is that he not be neutral. His job is to monitor compliance.

The easiest way to do this would be to periodically interview those responsible for implementing compliance. The alternative would be for him to audit (i.e., investigate) Apple's relevant business and operational activities, which would cause a significantly greater disruption to the business.
I am not 100% sure in how they work either (haven't programmed C for 4 years), so I just avoid these kind of unnecessary complications in the code

Hear, hear. I am considered the "language lawyer" of my embedded group and often get asked questions about C minutiæ. It isn't uncommon that my answer is "I don't know how that works, because I would never write something that requires an answer to that".

Modern compilers are blind to shorthands etc.; the only useful knowledge about "C" (really C compiler & hardware) minutiæ relates to (a) how to convince the compiler to optimize certain high-level constructs (e.g. loop unrolling), (b) how to convince the compiler to emit certain low-level constructs (e.g. SIMD instructions), and (c) how the hardware behaves (e.g. the cache model). Generally anything else – you can rewrite it so you don't have to think too hard about how C works.

EDIT: Understanding type promotion is an exception to this. The integer type hierarchy is unfortunately (a) deeply baked into C and (b) mostly brain-dead – C mostly conflates physical integer width with modular arithmetic and provides no non-modular integer types, often leading to subtle software bugs (see last week's story about binary search).

EDIT: So is understanding const-ness. At least you can ignore this if you don't get it (or if C doesn't, as is the case with certain nested const types).
Did Ron Howard exaggerate the reentry scene in the movie Apollo 13?
> CDC officials are baffled why the vaccine is so ineffective in the elderly.

The elderly having a weaker immune system is hardly new knowledge. It's one of the reasons the people they come into contact need vaccinations, so the elderly and young children benefit from herd immunity.

> Influenza vaccines can provide moderate protection against virologically confirmed influenza, but such protection is greatly reduced or absent in some seasons.

Hardly surprising or new info. They put a couple strains in the vaccine based on what they think will crop up that flu season. Sometimes it's wrong and the vaccine doesn't do much good. Sometimes a new threat like H1N1 come up mid-season and they make an additional one.

> Heck, if the flu vaccine is so good for you why is it that health-care workers and doctors can't be bothered to get it?

Because there are just as many idiot doctors and nurses as in the general population? You'll find people who don't believe in evolution as doctors and nurses, too. Hell, my wife's nursing textbook had analyzing auras as a possible care component.
This is funny. Voting on generated titles is a great idea. If you allowed users to post comments, just like on HN or reddit, that would enable people to play along. Also, I would get rid of classification (Entertainment, Games, Opinion, Reddit, etc.) because it doesn't add much to the website and the categories are inaccurate anyway. Just one list is fine.
Ideally, in the future, yeah. But for now, two reasons I can think of: first, Multipath TCP doesn't cover the same use cases as dispatch. For example, having one proxy only route to low-latency connections (e.g. for gaming) and another to all connections (e.g. for downloads). Second, Multipath TCP isn't widely implemented and would require application developers to use it, whereas this can give many of the same benefits without waiting for your applications to support it.
TED: Technology, faith and human shortcomings
Reads like a hit piece. Also is anyone else somewhat disturbed by all personal details the articles goes into?
I and my friends regularly sound exactly like the output of a markov babbler.

"Hey, look, this is not encryption, we're just dumb!"
Top 20% has 75% of wealth.

We redistribute equally.

4/5ths of the people now have 4 times as much money.

If they have one car, they could have 4 cars. If they have a $10,000 car, they can have a $40,000 car. If they have a $100,000 house, they can have a $400,000 house.

Everybody gets a $40,000 car and a $400,000 house.

DO NOT COVET

God says...

C:\TAD\Text\DARWIN.TXT

s. With respect to more
ancient glacial periods, several geologists are convinced, from direct
evidence, that such occurred during the miocene and eocene formations, not
to mention still more ancient formations. But the most important result
for us, arrived at by Mr. Croll, is that whenever the northern hemisphere
passes through a cold period the temperature of the southern hemisphere is
actually raised, with the winters rendered much milder, chiefly through
changes in the direction of the ocean c
If I was running any open source Linux distro I would sell the hell out of being able to audit and build the source code, and modify it to include voice encryption on phone devices that enable access to the audio path.

There has to be a huge government market for secure phones. VoLTE will do a lot to enable secure voice by enabling implementation of more of the audio path in the smartphone CPU.

Secure phones, tablets, PCs, routers, etc. all seem like a market poised to take off, yet I don't see a move by the 1st tier Linux distros.
Why did it make you dislike him? Shouldn't you make the best of what you have?
Yep. Word just got around today that FB's feeling alienated and there aren't any other balls in the court. Evan's too arrogant to accept a lower offer.

Worst part is that everyone's feeling awkwardly trapped. I even feel bad complaining - damn golden handcuffs.
So why not just use Debian?
That seems....excessive
This is awesome, but "generater" instead of "generator" is making my OCD twitch.
Money is Material
What percent of the total money do you think the top 1% should own?
Another thing may be that for many people half-way is good enough. I took the Udacity cryptography course and really enjoyed it. I never took the exam because I didn't see the point. Presumably I'd have been marked down as "failed." But I think that's only because their model for learning still includes "we're the ones who certify you." I'd like to see a model that says "here's the knowledge - go as far as you want."
> Walgreens says about the nasal spray "It should not be used in pregnant women" which implies it is harmful in some way, does it not?

Not at all. Sometimes medicines are contraindicated simply because there isn't enough study in the population at question. If the flu shot is known to be safe and the nasal, while believed to be safe, still needs more study in pregnant women, they'll recommend the shot.

> Flu shot by injection does contain thimerosal, unless you get the special version which doesn't.

Some of it does, some of it doesn't. It's a red herring - the safety of thimerosal is long since stablished, attempts from fraudsters like Wakefield notwithstanding.

> Given that an OB confirmed the above to me

Many OBs will spout the American theory that a single glass of red wine is bad for a baby, too. I'll trust the CDC over anecdotes from individual OBs.
I went through HtDP awhile back. Mind-blowing, changed the way I approached programming, yada yada. Scheme held a special place in my heart for years after.

Back then I would have loved to have found a job where I could have used it. I settled for Ruby. After a year of using Ruby seriously, I started to wonder again about using Scheme, so I took a look at some of the available options.

Naturally, like everyone else in this situation, I ran into the brick wall of just not having the community support Ruby has, so it's very difficult to justify using it on any project except purely personal projects, and even then, it's more about exploring a domain rather than exploring a programming paradigm, so I never did get to do anything serious in Lisp. Clojure's nice and all, but the JVM is turning into quite the bit of baggage, hard to justify using it over Ruby.

That's when I took another look at Ruby and realized it did pretty much everything I needed, meta-programming-wise, why bother with continuations and macros when you can use composition and module mixins to achieve practically the same thing? (environment tracking and easy DSL creation) Sure it's not as mathematically pretty as Lisp is, but Ruby syntax is still much prettier than Lisp's.

After awhile I realized that the HtDP way of solving problems and the OO/SOLID way work equally well. You'd just use one with a language like Ruby and the other with a more functional paradigm like Lisp. OO is plenty flexible if you avoid listening to the zealots.

One focuses on the functions/data and the other focuses on the classes/objects. Screw that, I say focus on the domain. Make that logic as tight as you can, then introduce interfaces to it. With that model, Ruby works Just Fine.
I'm happy to see that gender discrimination is radioactive at a big tech company, and more than happy to grammar-nerd about "they" versus "he".

But even I think this would be a silly reason to fire someone.
Actually, usage of cryptography with computers was illegal at a point. Here in France, the strength of SSH was capped by law.

Even today, the distribution of cryptography is not totally open. Oh, and even if you used cryptography, you have to decrypt your data at the request of the justice, so it's more or less pointless against your own state.
That coincides with Jean Baptiste Queru leaving Android and subsequently leaving Google. The core of Android has a surprisingly small team, so one person can make a big difference. AOSP is low man on the totem pole, and seems to have gotten lower.
That's a great story for why the first project is slow. But next time, you say, OK, we can hike 10 miles a day, so it's 60 days, and it still comes out 2-3x of budget. Why?
Why? What reason could there possibly be that such well known, gaping holes in the standard have persisted for all these years and multiple standard revisions?
C90, C99, C11 and now C14... If performance or backward compatibility is a concern, surely an optional macro like __STDC_STRICT__ could be suggested in the standard with clear expectations that could be relied on.
He means that there is a generally understood semantic meaning for the functions as they exist in the Haskell Prelude. Replacing them under the hood with something potentially different makes the "meaning" of the basic functions not quite the same. Haskell has a history rooted in this kind of thing so it continues in the community now.
What the author said is very true. We should accept that there is no good way to estimate the schedule because each software is inherently new. Simply that it will be done when it is done.
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Where exactly was an explicit insistence on using gendered pronouns ever stated?

How would an insistence on using gendered pronouns automatically equal a belief in an inextricable link between software and masculinity?

Don't you realize that considering empathy as an engineering value is offensive to sociopathic engineers? (joking on that one)
Adding Easy SSL Client Authentication To Any Webapp
The NOS reported that at least four important political parties are outraged and want an investigation on the issue. In my opinion this is better than the american government's response.

I believe the Dutch are not being screwed by their government, but simply by inadequate control on its intelligence agencies. The government can fix this.
Duke Nuk'em Forever! :-)
I wonder if the impulse to click on some of the stories is related to linguistic techniques utilized by the sourced viral content engineers (such as Upworthy).

While we're on the topic, is it just me or has memetic engineering kicked it up a notch lately with Upworthy, ViralNova, etc? Or was it always like this?
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From "define: sentient" on google.com.

sentient
ˈsɛnʃ(ə)nt/Submit
adjective
1. able to perceive or feel things.

From the query "dear google are you sentient?

Big Brother Google becomes sentient at last | RiskHeads
www.riskheads.org/big-brother-google-becomes-sentient-at-last/‎
by Adam Bishop - in 40 Google+ circles
Oct 25, 2011 - If you try the search above you'll notice you can view the
sources from which Google gleamed the data and also let them know if
they got it right.
The commit itself, and the events around that were already discussed on another thread, but about this blog posting specifically - this is a little extreme.

I would have hoped at this point, an official posting, on the corporate pages would have a more sensible and calming approach. I guess not.

All in all, no one comes out of this looking well.
It's more to do with separation of concerns. The presentation of data should be the responsibility of the front-end (in this case, the data is a form description and the front-end is in your web browser).

This is very useful for when you have a single API that drives your web, Android, and iOS apps. Your back-end just describes the form in JSON and each front-end is responsible for how that form renders. Alpaca is just a shortcut for your web front-end.
Bonded Interfaces operate at a lower level. There are many different "bonding modes" in the Linux Kernel. None of them would allow you to present a single "bonded" interface across multiple independent network interfaces where each interface belongs to a separate network. Case in point: You cannot "bond" two interfaces where one is connected to a cable modem and the other a DSL modem. Typically (in most configurations) a bonded interface receives one IP.
It's the same justification that a corrupt government official uses, an African warlord or someone abusing the welfare system. It's one of the worst aspect of human culture and anyone who celebrates it should be derided.
Who said anything about piracy? If anything, it's Spike Lee who "pirated" the designers copyright.
This particular entry looks more like someone just read The Mythical Man-Month and decided to write something about the philosophy of software project management afterwards.

Not that it's necessarily bad, but it is formulaic.
You can disable apps (even system apps) without rooting in recent android. Open Apps in Settings, find the app, click disable.

Or did Samsung get rid of that feature?
and that an engineer that has so little empathy as to not understand why the use of gendered pronouns is a concern almost certainly makes poor technical decisions as well.

Uuuuh, yeah, except for the little bit about the English language having notoriously poor support for gender neutral pronouns in the first place. TBH, blindly substituting "them" and "they" everywhere will result in sentences that are incorrect. It doesn't take a huge lack of empathy to suggest that it's better to write in a way that's grammatically correct while asking people to accept either:

a. the generic use of "he" OR "she" as a universal singular pronon

or

b. randomly switching between the two throughout the document as way of indicating inclusiveness.
Chaffing and winnowing[1], as proposed by Rivest, can handle this. It'd be interesting to use this as a trunking mechanism to bundle many conversations together.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffing_and_winnowing
> It's not effective. If brakes only operated 9% of the time, would they be effective?

That's a shitty analogy.

If an aftermarket add-on made old people 9% less likely to get in a car accident, and the general public 56% less likely to, I'd consider that pretty awesome.

Brake failure sends you into the car in front of you. Flu shot failure means you might wind up with the flu - but if everyone else around you got their shot, you're going to be better off.
Not so sure about that. I had no opinion about Joyent before but now they sound quite positive in my book.
His job is absolutely to monitor compliance, but it is not his job to punish the company, investigate it for anything else, or to harrass the executives. If he cannot monitor for technical compliance without assuming an overreaching authority over operations, then a more competent monitor should be assigned.
ah, sorry, I'm stuck in C[whatever it was I learned in high school]
If you think Racket doesn't have a defacto unofficial BDFL, youve not met the core team, let alone Matthias Felleisen. Brilliant, nice, and loudly communicative folks all!

Racket has one of the most thoughtful, opininonated, and caring core dev groups of any language, bar none. Any implication otherwise comes from ignorance. :)
Priceonomics: The Rise of Driving to Work
Is political correctness more valuable than technical ability these days?

My personal opinion is to make "he" gender neutral again. According to Wikipedia, "he" used to be gender neutral[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neut...
yes, but on rereading I have to concede that it may be the article that is making it seem so; haven't read the actual legal docs.

Think of it this way: Is it an abuse of power for a TSA agent to be flippant about his authority to grope you, because you have very little recourse to change that authority or get him fired?
Gnome 2.
I disliked him immediately after reading the line

The note, accompanied by a plea for a new BMW 535i

Has anyone been able to find out what he studied while at Stanford?
No need to root since 4.1: http://thedroidlawyer.com/2013/05/how-to-disable-bloatware-i...
> while Isaac is a Joyent employee, Ben is not—and if he had been, he wouldn't be as of this morning: to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered would constitute a fireable offense for me and for Joyent.

Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy? And how do you square it with calling someone an asshole in the next paragraph? That passes as professionalism and empathy at Joyent?
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Contrast:

"You mean you didn't have a complete design for that bridge before you started building it??"

"You mean you waterfall designed and implemented your YC app project??"
it's not a market rate when the agent deciding the rate is the state.