skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is the lingering problem: it's terribly ineffective if you go to the doctor with flu symptoms. Seriously. Tamiflu blocks the channels used to multiply the influenza virus. By the time you recognise you have the flu Tamiflu looks to be completely and utterly ineffective.

I haven't seen a societal study to say it's better or worse as a group of individuals. I would be really interested in that.
> How Musk pulls this off is something I still don't understand

Honesty, openness, lack of bullshit-bingo, the knowledge that he's in it for idealistic reasons first. It's not a reality distortion field if it's reality.

Of course I realize that to you, this sounds like I'm caught in his "reality distortion field".
This is the second or third time I have seen {endo|ecto|meso}morph come up on HN in the past week. I thought that the {endo|ecto|meso}morph theory was rejected by modern science and medicine. Has something changed or was I wrong to begin with? Is there any explanation for the recent occurrences: new fad diet or prominent blogger appropriating the term?
Famo.us announced two things at the launch event tonight:

- github repo is now public

- they're letting in the first 75k devs to famo.us community website tonight

The first 75k devs will get 3 invites.

The website contains what they're calling Famo.us University. Tutorials, forums, IRC, etc.

The explanation for letting in 75k devs at a time is to not overwhelm the community with new devs. They want to be responsive to the first batch and train them so the first batch can support other batches. It's pretty brilliant community management and a sane approach to being able to actually deliver on the hype over time.
this is a crowded space my friend. I've been working on job boards for 15 years and you need to ask yourself where are you doing to get a deep enough talent pool to interest paying employers.
Well, the experts they somehow get to donate their time, effort and knowledge for free are certainly creating value for the Quora execs.
OK, he phrased this incredibly poorly, but he's referring to an acknowledged linguistic phenomenon.

further reading:

http://linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-1106.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonestheme
There are many people with a medical degree practicing it. UK's NHS supports it. Holy water is much cheaper than the drug industry's offerings. It's a placebo or alternative treatment for a lot of light ailments. Just like folk remedies, most of the time it "works" and you come out alive and well so it's not hard to believe.

Of course it's offensive to science on ideological grounds.

And if someone were to recommend it for a definite diagnosis of cancer that would be irresponsible.

As for Steve Jobs, rationality was not his key to success.
That's my best guess. That and/or moms with their secret crushes on Ethan Hawke.
Regarding firefox -- Are you speaking of the fact that Mozilla refused our Firefox updates for over a year?

We're happy you found a tool that works for you -- that's what we want everyone to do -- it doesn't need to be LastPass but people need to use something -- reusing passwords constantly is just painful.
I do know I'd be "orange" or more when negotiating with Google in general, based on this kind of thing. It really is down to the CEO to make sure the whole team gets a fair deal in an exit (not necessarily the same deal, but something as far as possible for each of them).

Where it will really hurt Google is not so much acquihires (where you're doomed otherwise, especially without other options), but when there's any competition. Taking 75% as much money overall but having a great work outcome for everyone for the next 2-6 years is probably worth it, especially if you ever plan to do a startup again.

Which is sad, because Google sounds like an amazing place to work (your concerns for early-career people might be valid, but for senior people, people in infosec, or people at Google Labs, it sounds awesome).
The debate is really happening, because it is impossible to provide a browser-client cloud data service without also creating a massive collection of people's private information. And this entire ecosystem has been largely unregulated to date.

In daily life the debate looks like this: "that service could make my life better, and it's free. But do I feel comfortable sharing my info with this company?" Remember the big news cycle about Gmail's ad targeting technology? But since then millions of people have signed up to use Gmail anyway. So I would not agree that society as a whole has deemed this sort of thing to be wholly bad.
Should we really be branding vulnerabilities? I found this to be very odd.

First of all its a bit inflammatory even for a severe vulnerability. Even if the entire internet ONLY used openSSL (which it doesnt), it only affected one version which most people are not on.

Second, its misleading to think that because bug is "branded", that it wont be forgotten about it surely will be like every other CVE out there. We can all post rants til we are blue in the face, unless there is automated testing for its presence (or you perfectly manage all your internal dependencies), this bug (on the large) will probably never go away 100%.

Third, if not for Snowden, nobody would even be talking about this.
Such a strange "launch" presentation; 3d is an obvious center piece and 40 minutes in, zero real demonstrations of the actual tech. No, the simple examples in "famo.us school" don't count. It looked similar jquery easing.

No visuals, just a bunch of beta devs talking about how great everything looks..
it sounds likely to be someone trying to reset the password for username "mattm". possibly malicious, though given its its "very common first name + first letter" format, it strikes as very possibly a confused user thinking it was theirs.
Beverly was the one that shocked me. It's partly since I grew up with an Aunt Beverly, and partly because I'm used to names ending in -ly being feminine.
*for some definition of "can be cracked"
Hi William,

I'm sorry to hear about your situation. One thing I've learned in life is that people will ask all kinds of unreasonable things of you. There's no need to get upset with them. A simple "No, I can't do that" is a perfectly acceptable answer.

While your point was valid, I suspect it was the way you said it that lead to you getting fired. You said you mentioned it was "maddening and silly." There's no need to get mad. You can't control what other people will say. You can only control your reaction to it. If you had just suggested that the program might be more efficient if employees shared in the monetary savings and left it at that, I would guess that there would have been some discussion and maybe something positive would have come out of it. Instead, you insulted people who had probably put a lot of thought into this program so of course they felt humiliated and used their power to get revenge.

Yes, I know it's petty but many people are like that.

I was presented with something similar at work once. I won't go into the details but basically the company was hoping we would use our free time to create something that they would basically take ownership of. When the manager got done explaining it and asked me what I thought, I just said "I'll think about it" but I knew I would never do it.

It was never brought up again.

The same thing probably would have happened with this program. In a week, all the managers would have forgotten about it and moved on to one of their other hair-brained ideas.

I know you're in a difficult situation right now. I don't know your area but you could probably get an $8/hr job just walking down the street. I hope this turns into a blessing in disguise for you. It's a good lesson to learn. Better to be fired from an $8/hr job for this than an $80/hr job.
An assortment of IPs? Seems like a botnet.
Yes, that is not good enough, and it was already over a day into their complete lack of communication. Just because you don't agree with it, doesn't mean it is not an argument. I would expect a company of amazon's size to give customers precise and useful info. Not a vague "should be done in a few hours" after a day of silence.
The choice of character for unidirectional patterns isn't the greatest, I'll agree.

The PatternSynonyms extension enables two new top-level declarations, both declared with "pattern".

pattern NestedJust x = Just (Just x)
pattern NestedNothing = Just Nothing

That's the easier syntax of a bidirectional pattern synonym. They can be used both as patterns and as expressions.

foo :: Maybe (Maybe Int) -> Bool
foo (NestedJust 7) = True
foo (NestedNothing) = False
foo _ = False

bar :: Maybe (Maybe String)
bar = NestedJust "hello"

There are a couple terrible examples. Bidirectional pattern synonyms must be valid as both expressions and pattern matches, or you get a compile error

My example was using unidirectional pattern synonyms. They allow any pattern match whatsoever as the body; the expression restriction is dropped because they aren't allowed to be used in expression contexts. They are defined using <- instead of =.

pattern MinView x m <- (minView -> Just (x, m))

That's functionally the same as the :< example above, but possibly a bit simpler to read, because the precedence of the symbols is more obvious. It defines a pattern synonym named MinView that is translated to the view pattern in parens.

It's quite possible you were conflating view pattern syntax with pattern guard syntax as the source of your confusion.
Nobody ever seems to go for the general solution:

words = (
(3, 'Fizz'),
(5, 'Buzz')
)

def fizzbuzz(num):
for value, word in words:
if i % value == 0:
yield word

for i in range(1, 101):
print ''.join(fizzbuzz(i)) or i
This is not particularly compatible - hardcoded --prefix. Use your distro package manager.
But there's like, no way for a customer to verify that. It's good practise, but a customer should not rely on that as part of their security model.
Out of curiosity, what were their reasons for refusing the updates? I have my own gripes with the AMO team, but I've never had an extension update refused
maybe, but I think you are assuming that we can, scientifically or otherwise, distinguish (categorize) everything that is real. I'm inclined to believe that this is not possible. In that case indistinguishability becomes equivalent to saying nothing at all in scientific terms. The arguments in these kinds of articles have no choice but to become very tedious, mainly focusing on how people are getting ripped off, they cannot determine why homeopathic cures operate the same way as placebos--or not, which is the crux of the homeopathic argument.
The second episode won't air until April 13th.
This is a cross-vendor, cross-platform vulnerability that requires one to assume that almost any password used over https, any SSL session, or almost any SSL certificate used in the last year, hell, anything in server memory in the last year is compromised. I'm quite confident there are many systems that relied solely on SSL to gate immediate, root access, and some of those are still right now, as we speak, exploitable.

If that's not "burned down the internet" nothing possibly qualifies.
Who wants to file the bug for removal from Mozilla?

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secur...

Section 2, dot 2.

CAs must revoke Certificates that they have issued upon the occurrence of any of the following events:

the CA obtains reasonable evidence that the subscriber’s private key (corresponding to the public key in the certificate) has been compromised or is suspected of compromise (e.g. Debian weak keys), or that the certificate has otherwise been misused;
Yeah there are no lack of examples of "consulting->product". I was wondering if there were many that were just consulting for a long length of time.

I don't remember you talking much about your product efforts (as opposed to the consultancy). I'd love to hear more about it if you can share.
It's hard for me to square your assertion that the article was not a hit piece with the verbiage of the article. For example, the reporter used heavily loaded language to convey the idea (without saying so explicitly, because that would be a lie) that he had to turn off the heater and drive dangerously slow in order to reach the next charger. When called out on it, the Times' ombudsman wrote it off as sloppy note-taking. There were a series of such small 'mistakes.'

> However, no one ever apologized for essentially calling the journalist's entire professional reputation into question.

And why should they? It's true that unusually cold weather causes unusually high battery drain, but the fundamental reason the reporter ran of out charge is simply that he tried to. At his last "supercharger" stop, he unplugged the car about 30 minutes before it would have finished charging. Had he waited even an additional 5 minutes, there would have been more than enough charge to return to New York at a comfortable speed, even allowing for the cold weather overnight.

The reporter has nobody but himself to blame for his soiled reputation. Frankly, I think there was an interesting angle about the limitations of electric vehicles, but he tried to push the envelope a little too far. The cold weather limitations of the battery would have made for good reading. The need to plug in overnight and the amount of time required to charge in cold weather could have also been interesting points. Lost in the noise is the fact that he wasn't able to gain charge on a 120V outlet in cold weather (the battery heater used more power than the outlet provided).

But, no, he tried to shoot for the moon with a story about how you just can't trust these newfangled contraptions, and he burned his fingers. Boo hoo.
Hello new mods, just wondering why this story is only 2 hours old, has 43 votes but has already fallen to the third page, whereas https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7560756 has the same number of votes, is 11 hours old, and is ranked slightly higher? Thanks.
Thanks for the clarification.

Reading through the list of just first names, the only phonetic pattern that sticks out is that there aren't any female names that start with K. But otherwise I would agree, I doubt most non-Chinese would be able to differentiate Chinese names by gender.

www.ourbabynames.co.uk/chineseboys.php
www.ourbabynames.co.uk/chinesegirls.php
Show HN: My Basic Book Reader
I love Cappuccino ! i really wish it'd take off, but the objective-J thing is a bit hard.Why not provide a pure JS interface?
Didn't someone say Neel Mehta found it through a code audit?
> Best insight: "Every square inch of the fucking planet is covered in advertising and these schmucks are telling us it's dead."

Brilliant insight from an advertising tool. A more accurate statement: "Every square inch of the fucking planet is covered in advertising by these schmucks, and now they're trying to add a second coat."
Thich Nhat Hanh: is mindfulness being corrupted by business and finance?
I recently went over this and went with KeePass. It's open source, although apparently not with a public repo (just source zips). I'm in the process of verifying it and building it for myself. I used to use PasswordSafe, but I think I have a higher chance of missing a backdoor in C than in C#. (I removed all the native stuff from my copy of KeePass.)

For critical stuff, I want to minimize the amount of proprietary stuff. I already have Windows (as a VM host), Lenovo and VMware to trust - but at least that's not directly connected to the Internet[1]. Why add a third party that could suffer a remote compromise or worse?

1: Host runs VMs, has no protocols bound to NIC but passes it through to a gateway VM which acts as a router for the other VMs. KeePass can run on the host, so a VM compromise is somewhat limited.
Full Disclosure: It seems that Brenden is the owner and creator of plantdietlife. Five of the nine comments mightybrenden has made on HN are links to PDL.
Have Tesla sales topped out? Automaker needs a cheaper model
Done,

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=994478
In .vimrc:

set nowrap
Tested positive for the flu? I've never heard of anyone getting tested for it given it lasts for such a short period of time.

Is this a common thing?

Possibly relevant: Australian.
Similar bug(s) to the OpenSSL ‪#‎HeartBleed‬ issue in other SSL implementations
The actual blog post is here
http://b.capitolhillconsultants.com/2014/04/blues-for-ssl-even-if-youve-been-hiding.html
Microsoft affiche l’ambition d’être incontournable dans les automobiles
Comprenez pourquoi Microsoft veut s’imposer à l’intérieur des automobiles en proposant une série de technologies innovantes sans distraire le conducteur.
Ford S-Max Vignale : un monospace premium prévu pour 2015 en Europe
Retrouvez la Ford S-Max Vignale au Salon du Mobilier de Milan. Ce concept de monospace haut de gamme devrait arriver sur les routes d’Europe en 2015.
Thought others might also enjoy watching the series instead of reading it -- I personally greatly enjoyed the lectures, and they serve very well as an overview before a deep dive into the book (at the very least).

Always amazes me how slowly computer science moves, despite how fast technology is moving
Closure Composition In Groovy
You could look at it in other ways:

- politicians control the media (more or less true).

- media create the panic

- people panic and ask for drugs

- politicians buy the drugs and take massive kick backs in the process (certainly not unheard of), working with a single pharma company

- people later discover it was all a scam
We need similar things to help us get through TAOCP, Hacker's Delight and Programming Pearls. (God so much to do... so little energy/time :( )
By that logic, no one should write anything in idiomatic French because anyone who isn't fluent in French wouldn't be able to read it.
This is a countdown? I haven't seen the number change at all; I was under the impression it was just your fixed user number. Then again mine is lower (758xx) and I only just signed up... I could've really used some hints here.

EDIT: The "mystery" over a lot of this is just making me less interested at this point. Sorry, marketers.
Tamiflu is made by Gilead. Donald Rumsfeld was on the board. Mexico (among other countries) borrowed millions from the world bank to buy Tamiflu during the H1N1 craze.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/dec/22/world-b...

I say all this to suggest that it's not a waste of taxpayer money by uninformed politicians... no - the politicians are very well informed.
My comment may be lost into the aether. But if anyone is out there, I think Hacker News could really use a story merge feature. That would significantly reduce noise around "major" events, and likely prevent second order noise as people try to piggy back on with tangentially related "analysis".
Is procrastination killing your startup?
Is Paracetamol safer than weak opiates like codeine? Actually, I'd be surprised if it's a whole ton safer than hydrocodone. Max dose of APAP used to be 4g, and what, 3 or 4 times that can cause acute liver toxicity? Whereas an intolerant person will probably be knocked back pretty hard with 5mg of hydrocodone, yet 20mg wouldn't really hurt.

Hydrocodone is schedule II, unless mixed with APAP at which point it drops to S III. I'm not sure there's any way to view that except as anti-human. And ironically enough, restrictions on pharmaceutical grade opiates makes the prices so high people end up using impure heroin instead. It's unlikely this is an unknown effect to regulators.
Yes, and it doesn't fall into either of the categories that Apple's slide says are in demand.
Fortunately there are plenty of better options than github's overpriced remote storage with RoundRects.
Yes, then things are hidden. Brilliant.
Sam, you're repeatedly making an absolutely
huge, gigantic mistake. You are making this
mistake every time you say "most", "normally",
"usually". Huge.

Because the world of ambitious, information technology (IT)
start ups is necessarily looking for something exceptional which, necessarily has next to nothing to do with "most", "normally", or "usually". What happened in the past, that is empirical probabilities, even for the successful start ups, is next to irrelevant for what will be powerful, valuable, and new tomorrow. Did I mention "new"? New can very much mean different and not part of most, what is normal, or what is usual.

Or, take a famous seccess story, e.g., Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Google, Facebook, etc., review
the environment when they were getting started, and, then,
find for each of those successful companies how much they
looked like most, normal, or usual. Answer: Not much, and
where they were "most", etc., it was essentially
irrelevant.

Or, the SR-71 was nothing like most, normal, or usual.
So, how to evaluate the project? Sure: The evaluation
was no doubt quite technical and thorough but also
quite accurate. No doubt in this evaluation most,
normal, and usual played no role.

Sam, looking at most, normal, and usual in the past
will tell you next to nothing about what will be
successful in the future; still for a wide class of
start ups, there are ways to tell.

Sam, more simply, clearly you are looking at
most, normal, and usual as guidance for what
should look for or do for the future, but, especially
for the criteria you are considering, this is
poor and will throw out a larger fraction of
good babies than bath water.
How your feedback is shaping .NET
Agreed, this will almost certainly cause library problems.
It's all very nice, but there's a very large elephant conspicuously absent from the room: encryption.

Not present in any of the 114 comments here so far, either.

Might be a problem.
I also feel like they could have deduced they needed to put the tape on the fuse without the logs. If they keep repeatedly fixing what seems like a problem that shouldn't be happening it would seem to make sense to take that precaution without having access to such logs.
Pipeline your generator through a logging generator :)
I can certainly see those as the next texts that we add!
Clinically, Aspirin is not prescribed to those under 19. While the link has not been proven, often in medicine it is best to err on the side of caution when safe(r) alternatives like ibuprofen and acetaminophen are available (I understand acetaminophen is controversial here but it is considered to be safer than Aspirin for the use in under-19s. see ref).

While this is a much lower risk for 20 year olds and up, which may in fact make Aspirin safer than acetaminophen it is not the case for pediatrics.

Considering this site has a not insignificant number of under-19s and many who have kids it is important not to spread misinformation and as always consult with a physician or pharmacist.

[1] http://www.aafp.org/afp/2009/1215/p1472.html
[2] http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/reye.htm
[3] http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/reyes-syndrome...
As recent events have clearly demonstrated, FOSS is by no means immune to security holes. Is paid, closed-source software less secure? On one hand, it does lack community oversight of the code base. (Although clearly with a sufficiently complex code base, backdoors can exist for years without anyone noticing anyway, and it could be argued that intentional back doors would be more easily installed in open source projects.) On the other hand though, paid software is operated by a team whose job it is to keep the service secure.

All that aside though, I certainly can't see any logical argument for the statement "Free software is a prerequisite for digital security." It could be argued that open source software is such a prerequisite (although I wouldn't necessarily agree), but if anything I expect that paying for software would ultimately tend to make it more secure.