skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are fairly basic steps to prevent HIV or Hep C. The worry has been if Ebola really gets loose and how quickly that could utterly fuck the world up.
It seems that they have chosen a default (internal, though I don't know how to interpret how "most of the time" works) which is similar to the default modifier in Java. It seems, though, that java's default modifier was maybe ill-chosen, as private and public modifiers seem far more prevalent than no modifier (which means that the default modifier is used) in java code.
Of course, the US government themselves would never hurt anyones property or try and influence government policy.
The people that use western union/moneygram etc do so because they need their family on the other side to be able to stop by a location near their house and get the money and they probably need the same on their side too.

Bitcoin isn't going to help those people at all at any lower costs. Since it is the person on the other side with a shop that is the reason for the higher fees not the transmission of funds.

Edit: and the people on this side. Bitcoin ATMs average around 5% at the moment. LBC is the same or worse depending on supply in your area.
Outside the atmosphere there is no scattering so the laser will stay as focused as it was at the start
How a Jewish Doctor Duped the Nazis (fake Typhus vaccines)
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> This may be especially useful for satellite-to-ground links in less than perfect atmospheric conditions.

Seems to me that the ionosphere would get in the way of this kind of technique. This relys on creating a plasma in air with controlled properties to function as a waveguide, so I imagine that having a high-energy space plasma in the way would make that sort of thing very difficult.
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Pong was never supposed to be released publicly
None of it is funny
They should really try to recruit the survivors to do some of this work. They very likely have immunity now.
Yes, but they seem to focus on customer research and qualifying leads, not actually closing.

The analogy would be hiring a product manager / tech lead to help define your MVP requirements, identify necessary integrations and help choose a software development platform, but not actually writing any code.

I'm looking for a way to find a commissions salesperson. Maybe I'm looking for http://timetohire.com ?

P.S. Huge fan of wefunder
Writing QBasic in LISP?
Thinking about some more in strategic terms, I think you'd get the most strategic difference by having a lot of weapons in roughly the same orbit. That would give you the ability to conduct an extremely rapid first strike, but only at the time that they happened to be in the right orbit. The downside is that they'd be a terrible second strike weapon, since it would be obvious where they were and they couldn't do much in the way of armoring them or having them avoid enemy weapons. So yeah, it would be pretty damn destabilizing to build a weapon system so massively good at first strike and so bad at second strike. It would tend to tempt the builder to use it or risk losing it in a tense situation, and the opposing nation would know this and perhaps be tempted to make their own first strike or build their own system.

It's probably better/more stabilizing to do what we did, which is to deploy lots of SSBNs - just okay at first strike, great at second strike since it's almost impossible to destroy them all at once. You're less likely to want to pull the trigger on your own first strike when you know you have a nearly unstoppable second strike capability. The enemy nation is less likely to make a first strike if they believe they can't stop your second strike.
Sure wish I could get some response to this idea. Many distinguished scientists are on our advisory board, and all agree this venture is extremely valuable to health in our nation.
So no more homebrew osxfuse then :(
> they claimed that this offer is in 75th percentile of comparable companies.

Empirical data is the best data: https://angel.co/salaries

Bummed OP had the original offer rescinded, but for anyone reading this in the future, a quick Google search for "startup salary survey" should bring up a few additional resources. I've filled a number of these out in the past and the data is always awesome. Lots of 'em are behind paywalls though, so beware.
Are developers based in a specific Guardian office, or spread throughout all of them? Similarly, where are the job openings? I see no mention of office location.
So...you're a dick. Got it.
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I always thought the issue with Ebola was how quickly the host dies. If there were a period of about a week where no symptoms arose, then the virus would become significantly more deadly.

Until then, it doesn't seem probable that the host lives long enough to spread the virus.

Then again, my info is based off of what I researched in school around the mid 90s (fresh off of reading The Hot Zone).
"21 December 2012" was the proposed date of the Mayan Apocalypse. So the end of the world would have been a few month early.
It would be great to see OAuth added to OwnCloud. Currently, the external API only supports Basic auth [1], which is not ideal. It would make integrating it with https://kloudless.com (single cloud storage API) easier and more secure.

I am happy to see web hooks in this release though! Definitely a useful feature.

[1] http://doc.owncloud.org/server/7.0/developer_manual/core/ext...
How predictable are these storm events?
Other than the breathless headline, WaPo adds nothing to the original reporting. Suggest to change the link to http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23... and use that article's title (“Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012”).
Well.. I have been using ValueTag- It supports US and India

Demonstration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNKgNsU4kxo
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/valuetag/jfmdbmmnl...

Good thing is they also have android application which does much more.
Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-8HNe-UOok
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.copperpix....
Total world oil production has been decreasing since 2005, despite all the good news you hear. With the Iraqi production, the curve is going down but is nearly flat. That lead to oil prices of $100/barrel not going down. It hasn't gone up due to wars in the middle east, sadly. I realize people keep bringing that up, but it's not true. A few spikes, yes, the actual rise, no.

Without Iraq that would have been 2.5-3 mbbl/day less, or a 3.5% drop instead of a 0.3% drop.

I seem to remember from my economics class that oil demand is very inelastic. So if a 0.3% drop in supply leads to a price doubling/tripling (depending on the basis for that), what would a 3.5% drop have done ?

So while I do not pretend to know the intentions of America, I'm scared to think what would have happened without it. If oil was the target, the war was a success (for the world as a whole, America only really profited by not seeing the world go down), and lack of success would have meant total disaster. The timing was near-perfect as well.

But fact is, the only thing the Iraq war brought was a delay, or 2-3, maybe 5 years. The US shale boom is another maybe 5 year delay. Given that we're very close to the end of the second delay, we need to come up with something quick. Unless of course you'd like to see Russia take outright control of Western Europe, and have more middle eastern resource wars.
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Much appreciated tip, thanks. I've known some atheros chips had really good drivers, but this is more specific than my vague impressions.

I suppose a major cause of the situation is that hardly anyone buys a laptop with the wifi chip as the first concern. Most laptops for sale don't clearly show the wifi chip, unless you go into the online configurator where you might be able to pay for an upgrade (yes I'm one of the weird people who considers the wifi chip, having once worked at a wifi ap vendor). I also doubt it's possible to replace the wifi chip on a macbook air or retina. So it's rare to have "cult favorite" chips of this type that enthusiasts can gravitate to, usually we just deal with whatever we end up with.
I've stumbled across this before, its a very good read. Highly recommended! There are some great videos on YouTube about the subject, left over from that era. I really like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaVwzYN6BP4 (produced in 1969)

Its interesting how little programming has changed since these days. The way we program has changed significantly, put what we produce is almost identical. Each punch card represents a single instruction, equivalent to a line of code in our modern text editors.

I wrote a small punch card toy in JavaScript not too long ago to get a feel for what programming with punch cards may have been like. That's here if your curious: http://tyleregeto.com/article/punch-card-emulator
The Gaza Bombardment, What You're Not Being Told
You aren't really ignorant and entitled enough to think a doctor in an impoverished clinic in sub-Saharan Africa has the money for all the basic supplies they need, much less a positive pressure environment suit, are you?
Oh dear god, no. People might actually use it.

Better to make protocols fast.
Fun about unit test
Open Wireless Diagnostics in /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications, then click Window -> Utilities. Gives lots of detailed info, frame capture, logging, etc.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ndc35q0gxynffl/Screenshot%202014-...
I previously did research forecasting solar storms.

original comment:
Highly unlikely, they compare it to the Carrington storm of 1859, which didn't destroy any life (or even life as we know it), so even if it were more powerful, it probably wouldn't have destroyed all life. It may have interfered with a lot of satellites and communications systems though.

edit:
Any damage from a Carrington level event would likely have been localized and temporary. For life as we know it to be destroyed, it would be irrecoverable or permanent, which is why I am arguing against the statement "life as we know it would be destroyed."

Many satellites are exposed to the open solar wind all the time, and ones in low Earth orbit, though shielded to some degree by the magnetosphere are designed to deal with large solar flares either by baffling sensitive instruments or shutting down temporarily (some may even change their orbit).
I think its pretty unfortunate Apple chose the name used by OpenStack's Object Storage (Swift)...
The phrasing is "life as we know it", which is much less severe than actual life.

Though I imagine hospitals and other medical facilities might encounter serious issues, including inpatient deaths, were such a big solar storm to occur.
The incoming “revolution in startups that don’t scale”
I really need to get busy building that Faraday cage in the basement.
Thanks. Did not know Freakonomics had a radio show :D
> So, if you wanted to only allow recursion via tail-calls, you easily could

To be fair, we're talking about a language designed in 1959, where a compiler had to run in 4KB of memory or so. At that point you're barely optimizing anything, just doing the simplest transformation you can.

Doing tail-call elimination isn't quite as simple as just doing a "JMP" instead of a "CALL" since you also need to replace the currently in-use activation record. Consider the C fragment:

int f(int a, int b)
{
if (a > b)
return f(b, a);
// ...
}

Now imagine you're trying to compile this for an ancient register-less machine. We have to replace "a,b" in the activation record with "b,a" but if we just naively copy the values one by one we'll step on "a" before we read it and end up with "b,b".

These problems certainly aren't insurmountable, but if it takes a few hundred instructions you've already blown a lot of your budget on one little feature. You could see why a language designer in 1959 would want to leave it out.
There are different factors that make some things predictable and some not. Many models use the solar rotation as a baseline, so some structure that was there in one rotation will likely be there in the next one (this is similar to persistence modeling in climate).

Sudden, large CMEs are not necessarily predictable, but they may be to some degree, most of the solar wind modeling efforts are aimed at determining the time of arrival of a structure on the Sun at Earth (or whether it will arrive) rather than determining if such a structure will happen or not, though as I said, there are some ways to make educated guesses.

Once you think a CME will be Earth directed, the important factors are how strong it is (magnetic field and proton density) and how soon it will arrive. Steady solar wind takes about four days to make the journey but huge solar flares may take less than 24 hours, all told, this is still plenty of time for most satellite operators to prepare their satellites by baffling them or taking other precautionary measures.
Wow. So many people in this thread are missing the point. «I use Linux at home with card X and it works great when I custom-configure wpa_supplicant» or «Just buy a MBP».
This is a nice, clean, simple idea. I like this kind of business model, where dev time and technical overhead is minimal, and the focus is on operations. It seems to me that operations based businesses are more defensible, create more jobs, and in general are more fun to run/optimize.

My question: who is your target market? Seems like you want enterprise customers, but specifically I'm wondering which industries?

Do companies interested in this service already employ somebody to do it? And is it a matter as simple as wiping, magnetizing, and drilling the drives? It seems like that would take < 5 minutes per drive of unskilled labor, so I'm wondering exactly how willing companies will be to dump their in-house (probably cheap) labor already performing this service, in a seemingly safer environment.
Yes, you are. Read the source if you're really that concerned.
Destroyed life as we know it means that it would've broken satellites and the power grid. It does not mean that there would've been a direct loss of life from it. Just that our lives without GPS and power would've been radically different than today with those things.
I've also heard of Mother Teresa

Feel free to youtube Christopher Hitchen's round up of her.
I appreciate the transparency.
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I still don't think this is accurate. I say this as someone who used to study solar physics and worked with people on the STEREO team.

We've seen lots of powerful solar events strike the Earth and so far, even the ones that have struck in times of modern technology have only caused localized issues, and those localized issues were usually a result of some level of poor design.
I understand, I'll edit to make myself clear.
I note that the bufferbloat.net project is looking for new hardware, and sponsors. The main foci of the project are apolitical in nature - just trying to build a faster, better internet. Most of cerowrt's original goals have been met, except the mandate to seriously improve wifi, which is next on the list.
Well, this another stuff for people who will then make stuff for people that will make stuff (if you're lucky, because probably this people will only make an iOS game where the one who pays more wins).
It's complete bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
And with that impetus, I've just set up ye olde /etc/network/interfaces configuration, and I've got a WPA2 connection running. One less cord to trip over.

Why I could never get network manager nor wicd to work ... I don't know.
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Let's see: Say that one of these storms arrives at a point in time. Then over time, these storms form a stochastic point process.

Now it should be fairly clear intuitively that at least roughly increments, that is, arrivals of points, are stationary in time and independent.

Presto: It follows that the stochastic point process is a Poisson process about which we know a lot.

So, we'd like the arrival rate of this Poisson process, say, in arrivals per year. Okay, we can get a good estimate just by dividing the number of arrivals we have observed over the number of years we have been observing. Then with this estimate of the arrival rate, we can
calculate the probability of an arrival in, say, the
next 10 years.

Since, when was it, 18?? or some such, we've actually had
no arrivals at all that hit Earth, the arrival rate is low
and the chances of an arrival in the next 10
years is low.

Relax! Good news, right? I mean, the sky is not
really falling this time after all!
I suspected that some of the "goods" may not have been "household".
This language feels very unfinished... I've seen 0.8 languages being far more polished. Maybe I'm just biased? Swift looks good though. But it's only as good as the Cocoa framework bindings really.
How on earth does it follow it's not news worthy? I can not even comprehend that logic? I know I upped the story.

But perhaps the fact 3 nurses died before this and it didn't rate as high as this important news (Or OP's comments) you should at least look internally to what exactly the news is and what it means.
I think its because historically mercenaries would fight less strenuously, and break at the first sign of real trouble as dead men can't collect their pay.

On a more contemporary note, research has shown that if you replace an intrinsic rationale (e.g. patriotism) for an action with an extrinisc one (e.g. money), its impossible to go back. I imagine its a lot easier to create patriotism than money, so people want to stick with that solution.
It's like "protected" access, in Java's terms. Subclasses can't access the default members in Java. That is why it is so rarely used. It was oddly restrictive, and didn't seem like it made much sense in most cases. I don't find this as a bad decision, in Swift. Since you don't normally want to expose the internals of your classes, this was a good choice.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/accesscon...
Same here - I didn't know that Linux copy-paste still had problems, but that could be just because of how we're using it.
I don't regard cerowrt so much as "my" project. There's a couple hundred people on the mailing list - it's the "reference router project" for the bufferbloat-fighting community,

And: cerowrt is much closer to a "branch" of openwrt than a fork. It's synced with openwrt on a nearly weekly basis, and the net delta between it and openwrt at this point is a few dozen patches (most code under test), and a bunch of test tools maintained in the ceropackages feed. We have always collaborated closely with the openwrt folk (several help out on a regular basis). A core difference between openwrt and cerowrt is process - by focusing on one router only (where they focus on hundreds), we were able to spin up and prove out new ideas faster in some cases than they, and maybe get "Stabler", faster - (that said, see bug 442)

Unfortunately - as so many have noted, that router is EOL, and we'e been trying to find a replacement platform for over a year now.
We place a strong emphasis on usability and interface in crawl. For example, we actively avoid putting items in the inventory slot corresponding to using them: potions shouldn't land on 'q', food on 'e', etc. Another advantage is that we're dealing with a simpler game. Brogue takes this one step further and I think does a fabulous job. For example, there are no inventory stacks on the floor. Either there's an item or there isn't. Adding stacks would impose a complexity cost without improving gameplay.

Back in 2009-2010 on DCSS we were very fortunate to have one of our developers organized a usability study. The usability study ran over several months and produced a ton of feedback. Since the core team is around 30, we actually had the throughput to act on these recommendations.
Hi, I'm Alex Nucci, founder of Destroyer.io. Sorry for the late response, I was just tipped about this HN thread. I had posted one, and had been answering questions, here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8074934

HIPPA typo:

Thanks for pointing out the typo, it has been fixed. We just opened up the site today, I expect to find a few extra mistakes and bugs that we'll have to fix.

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"Easiest way to destroy a drive":

DBAN is not physical destruction, which is what we do. We do it this way because it's the only way to guarantee that your data will disappear, forever.

Taking a hammer to the drive, disassembling it and burning it might do the trick. We're not here to serve hardcore DIYers, we're here to serve people that need a guaranteed, quick and inexpensive service that does it for them.

Like any other service business, there's a group of potential customers that will want to wash their own car, cook their own meal, paint their own nails, clean their own house, cut their own hair, etc. We believe that we're offering great value for the service being provided, at just $19 (and $10 for extra drives).

We also believe that paying $19, checking out in under 60 seconds, getting a box delivered to you, dropping the drive inside the box and then just dropping off the package at a drop box (or scheduling a pick up) is the easiest way to go about this.

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NSA wording:

When we say we use the same methods recommended by the NSA, we're trying to say that we use the same methods that the government uses to destroy their drives.

Having said that, I'm by now certain that the NSA wording will be changed. Just seeing those words makes people uncomfortable, and after a lot of feedback it seems that it's doing our company a disservice.

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Drop box:

This option is not for everyone, and we realize that. You can also schedule a free pickup or drop it off yourself at any of their facilities.

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Locking mechanism, etc.:

These are upgrades that we've though about. Some seem more possible than others, but we can definitely improve on the choices being offered (currently just one). Improvements across the board will be implemented as we grow and get more feedback, that's for sure.

--

In conclusion, thanks for taking the time to detail your pain points. We shouldn't be leaving so many unanswered questions, our messaging should be clearer and leave nothing to doubt. I'll take all of your feedback, along with the rest that I've gotten today, and improve our message and service.

Let me know if there's anything else that I can answer for you. Cheers!
I wish the article spent some time discussing how we can defend against the effects of storms like this. It mentions a 12% chance of getting hit by one in the next 10 years (and I assume that percentage is much higher for a probability space of the next 50 or 100), but makes no mention of potential mitigation strategies.

Can you imagine how disastrous this would be? People would likely wake up without power, and think little of it at first. "Oh, it's a power outage. Better light some candles and wait it out." Then hours, days would pass. There would be no internet, television, or even newspapers to report what happened. We would be reduced to hearing the news from Shakespearian harriers!

I wonder if this would cause mass revolt. What happens when you completely disable modern technology on all of earth? If this is as likely as they say it is, there needs to be some serious research into mitigation strategies not only of the immediate technological effects, but also of the sociological effects.

Edit: maybe not all of earth, as the NASA page compares this to a localized blackout in Quebec. Can anyone comment on the geographical range of damage?