skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does have a point. From Central Africa to the west end of West Africa is over a 1000 miles, yet Ebola did not show up in the area in between.

That supposes that a carrier from an infected area is able to travel for months or weeks, whether by road or through the jungle without passing on the virus along the way.

But do all carriers necessarily leave the place where they get infected, and do all the people or animals in infected areas develop an immunity that stops the disease from flaring up again in the same areas?

Conspiracy insinuations or not how the disease arose there is a very important issue which needs to be seriously addressed. It could just as easily have travelled to a major urban area.
>They would say "Literally no people want to check in." Because that's what "literally" means. (Literally!)

"Literally" also had a second meaning of "figuratively" for the last century or two. So your attempt is, once again, ambiguous.
What's good for you might not be the best option for the majority of people.

Making things that "just work" means handling complexity for users, and leads to
somewhat complex code. Debian's static network configuration is great for
servers and okay for desktops that never move. But it's nothing that you
should put on laptops operated by enterprise users (the people that pay for
Linux desktop development). Imagine users calling support from a Starbucks,
trying the edit the wifi config files.
Property testing in JavaScript with quick_check.js
>If a massively powerful and knowledgeable AI was created by accident, it would have nothing to gain by being malevolent.

The point is that, if you create an superintelligent AI that isn't very, very highly optimized for helping us, it is very likely that it will hurt us at some point.

Or as the saying goes:

>The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
An absolutely wonderful write-up. My first contact with punch cards was in 2005. As a tradition, my alma mater uses two punch cards and magnetic tape to make the name tags for the new computer science students. Supplies are of course limited, so this is a dying tradition. I remember reading about how they worked and even, late on a Friday night, learning a bit of Fortran that could have been punched onto my name tag.

From the older professors I learned about the diagonal stripe trick and that the biggest fear they had on a cold winter day was to slip when carrying a box of cards down the long nasty stone stairs just outside the maths department, when taking their code to the computing centre. Something that I did not see mentioned in the submission that I learned from them was that at least some computers in the 60;s would make a different sound depending on which instruction that was being processed. Now, remember that this, just like in the article, was before the days of displays. So, a way to detect infinite loops was to listen to the machine. An infinite loop would of course be detectable by the same sound pattern repeating itself over and over. Auditory debugging indeed.
True, but in my experience many people keep up the weekend binges well into adulthood, and for some it progresses to (more) serious forms of alcohol dependence.

I think an article like this might do a lot of good precisely by understating this binging behavior, as it emphasizes the benefits of not binging without focusing too much on how bad binge-drinking is.
On the other hand, there's Digg.
If you have trial faces at the right angle, you can unblur faces, it's just a bit harder to generate. But nothing major is going to change in 10 or 100 years; it's just information theory as to whether you can identify the person/number or not.
Those of us that remember what they tried to do to Linux will take a bit more convincing.
The Internet could certainly be imagined 200 years ago. It's just a series of interconnected telegraph lines.
The really simple guide to z-index
you wont have to check anything, you can feel where you have to go. If I understood the shoe correct.
Duplicate submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078355

Also, that's not an apology.

Also, writing your own headline to imply that it is doesn't magically make it so.
I'd say extremism when it comes to being healthy is, by definition, healthy.

Don't get me wrong: I drink socially and I'm fine with the occasional 'all-out' experiences, both for myself and others. Even if it is unhealthy.

But quitting alcohol entirely, aside from being a life-saving practice for some people, is in no way 'unhealthy'. So even if it is extreme (which I disagree with, many people don't drink at all), why would one consider this unhealthy?

It's not like he's going for an extreme carrots-only diet or something.
I like the idea, but can I suggested also on the same note that they can create a high tech condom, which will let you know how many diseases you have avoided each time you wear it, and it might have also a pleasure indicator, so at the end both partners, will know how much the other one faked. (Obviously this message is intended as a joke, and should not offend anyone)
The un prefix means to reverse. If you have no database of people you're not going to be able to do anything in the way of reversing the mosaic. It's not a reversal as much as it is a heuristic brute force.
I like the vision. Those inserts will need to come in different varieties to allow for people who already need inserts for other reasons, e.g. arch support... odour control... (not me obviously, I'm commenting on behalf of a friend)
So adapting to change is now "an admission"?
It also needs to be useful on a relatively regular basis otherwise there's a dissonance between added value and the additional cost. For these shoes to be useful you need to be walking somewhere you don't know the way to, without someone with you who knows the way with you, for a distance that makes you not want to take your phone out to check you're going the right way occasionally. I don't think I've been in that situation for about 10 years.

If you're a courier or a messenger then these would be fantastically useful. For everyone else, they solve a problem no one really has.
The article is about securing devices, not about sharing data with the NSA.
Hi Sandy, just sent you an email. please check and let me know.
Future Of Tele Through Internet?
How practical would it be to do iHeart radio, but for Television? Being able to watch local stations around the US. Capable to pick the regional games (NFL, SEC, ACC) they air or programs they schedule? For example, I think it be awesome for people who grew up in the south on SEC sports that now live in the north or west or anywhere and they can still watch SEC football on local stations. Or in my case, pick up a station in the Midwest that broadcasts the regional Chicago Bears games, instead of the Titans and Falcons, every Sunday.
Eventually, it will be available for sports: in your car, home, and smart phones at a flick of a button. And relatively cheap, too. Radio is free at iHeart Radio around world, now! Sports will be that way in America and the rest of the world. Soccer, Cricket, Golf, etc... Sports, is only one dynamic of many with the new way of watching tv through the internet. Another example, a soldier at war, in God knows where, who's home town is doing a story on him... He will have the ability to watch it live at his local news station that is located in middle America. Or how about a teach in Georgia, who tells his/her students to watch a news station in San Diego, because they are doing a segment piece on what they are currently studying in class. All of this could be possible, right?
Also... It would work wonders for advertisers and commercials for local biz. They will be exposed to the world, rather than a little region and small market...
The production value and quality would go up in all areas of the medium, because everyone knows there is a chance that they will be discovered.
I think this is where we are headed in the media form of television through the internet. Thoughts?
What is the other person bringing to the table? Just treat them as a first hire and offer the minimum equity needed to get such a person.
Yeah because everybody knows that if Microsoft lacks something is resources to build a static landing page.
The article is dated "May 6, 2014 5:00AM ET", hardly news...

To me it seems more like the NSA wanted to make the Web giants aware of new or unmitigated threats. Here's a quote from Gen. Alexander:

“About six months ago, we began focusing on the security of mobility devices,” Alexander wrote. “A group (primarily Google, Apple and Microsoft) recently came to agreement on a set of core security principles. When we reach this point in our projects we schedule a classified briefing for the CEOs of key companies to provide them a brief on the specific threats we believe can be mitigated and to seek their commitment for their organization to move ahead … Google’s participation in refinement, engineering and deployment of the solutions will be essential.”
> Criminals can be just as deadly and corrupting to our society

I would argue that criminals are way far and away more deadly and corrupting to society (though terrorist is just a particular form of criminality, so all criminals except terrorists).

A simplistic, but telling, example of this how many people in the US were killed by terrorists last year compared to how many were killed by criminals.

Instilling a national fear of terrorists does not reduce the amount of terrorism. It does however justify vast expenditures of manpower and resources. Further by inculcating this fear, politicians and bureaucrats now need to "cover their asses" just in case something bad happens, which further feeds the need for manpower and resources.
The end of the branch? Ushering in the next generation of banking
Microsoft gives data to the NSA for specific users when they receive a court order for those users' data. That has nothing to do with this article.
That's quite an interesting point, and totally agree on the reaction of the Loser and the Clueless.

Concerning the Sociopath, it's not clear to me, because I think some of them manage to themselves to genuinely think they are doing good work, for the good of the whole company. I've seen cases where I couldn't understand if they were really good comedian (or: if I could be so easily fooled :-( ) or if they really believed what they were saying.
Even considering telegraphs only input and output was clicks? No wireless, no converting the clicks to anything but words using Morse Code. Was it really reasonable back then to imagine wires running to every house? Electronic signals all around us providing data constantly?

Today I can stand almost anywhere (ignoring cell coverage and different technologies required to use satellite phones) and talk to any other human on the planet with video chat. I can instantly access any and all information online that's being sent to me from millions of servers. It still blows my mind that it's actually been implemented in such a small amount of time, and I grew up with it.

I can barely believe we have electricity, water, sewage, internet, and phone lines running to 99+% of the houses and businesses in the country, in most countries even.
Enhanced Security Propels SMS to New Heights
I'm surprised nobody brought up the mandatory Python reference yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9mfZbTFbk
As far as I can decipher - because like most news posts, it contains a lot of words without a matching volume of content - the core of the content can be boiled down to:

* Silicon Valley CEOs and the government had meetings on protecting infastructure
* A BIOS infiltration plot was derailed, but details on it were technobabble,
according to expert : https://news.yahoo.com/60-minutes-bios-plot-may-214330769.html
* Alleged backdoor in BIOS. Linked article on Spiegel is about routers :
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html)
* Government continues to enlist company help in thwarting attacks.
Specifically targeting mobile devices. Again, details are sparse.

There's no direct evidence, and it's unlikely you'll ever find any, that Google or indeed most other companies are directly giving the government access to private data. The biggest issue is the obvious conflict of interest as noted by observers where the NSA is trying to protect infrastructure while having a means to weaken it benefits them as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7706423
A New Approach to SETI: Targeting Alien Polluters
Strangely addictive. Would be good if it gave you the ability to tweet your top score after you lose. Otherwise it is a bit of a gamble as to when you tweet.
This title is a little misleading. Microsoft Open Technologies has over 160 repos on GitHub: https://github.com/msopentech
I think one of the problems with protected is it over emphasises inheritance over composition. Swift isn't only a object based language but a functional one too with functions/blocks/closures playing a big role and potentially needing just as close access to the objects they act on as subclasses might.
فيسبوك تكشف عن نتائجها المالية بعائدات إجمالية 2.91 مليار دولار
What is WSJ upto? How does a shoe even compare to Google Glass? I live in India and I did hear any news about this...
Google to face data watchdogs over 'right to be forgotten'
This also depends somewhat on what it means for someone to leave the company. This is actually not a simple issue - e.g. as the CEO of the company, you may be entitled to fire someone, even a founder, and that stops the vesting. But usually you'll have a board of directors, and the board is allowed to overrule the CEO, and guess who else sits on the board? The co-founder.

This gets very complicated very quickly. That's why you should consult lawyers (or legal documents available online, but unless you're a lawyers you should consult one anyway).

I'm actually not sure how this gets resolved in most startups. Oftentimes there are clauses like Shotgun clauses that try to solve this in a catch-all manner, providing a way of forcing people to sell their shares.
How to make whitespace work on the Web
why not just use a solid color instead?
I haven't inspected it in detail, but it goes to show again how little you need to implement something LISP-y. My first LISP was built in C, which feels almost banal in comparison (it was longer, too).
Seems a very marginal benefit.
Inspire Yourself: Unofficial Redesign Of Major Brands
I find this very difficult to read. Just me?
Building a better DynamoDB throughput scaling tool, part 2
Hope for the best but assume the worst. It's been a scary year in aviation.

I'm hoping future generations look at me crazy when I tell them aircraft and cars used to crash. Increased transportation safety and reliability is something I really want.
Mathematical induction is not controversial, it is a formally correct method of proof. You may be thinking of the unrelated concept of empirical induction: generalizing from finite data (black & white swans etc).
The Spiegel article is not only about routers, it specifically mentions "malicious code in so-called BIOS" too.
"it is preferable to torture a single person for 50 years than for a sufficient number of people (to be fair, a lot of people) to get dust specks in their eyes."

This makes him Yudkowsky the perfect lab animal! Think of the things we can learn, the lives we can save by performing experiments (that most think are unethical) on him!

As for the box choice? Just start chopping through the alien's head, the unknown that lies beyond will create new input for the simulation. Who knows what nice benevolent digital organism named Jane might sprout from this in the future?! (Edit: This is an Enders game/Speaker for the Dead reference, Ender also find himself presented with an impossible choice in a simulation at some point.)

Anyway, worrying about this will not make your life better, nor will it make your kids' life better. What is life all about according to this guy? I hope for the people that love him that he will get his priorities straight.
To me it looks a bit like net.kook material.
Are you a professional cryptographer? Can you prove that your random shuffling is impossible to extract sensitive data from? No? Then you better stick with completely deleting the data from the image entirely.
The Rise Of Sleep-Tracking Technology
Webhook CMS is open to the public
Blasphemy it is.

However, McCarthy and his team actually tried to use Fortran as the implementation language for the first LISP compiler, but Fortran was not in the mood to cooperate. Before C, nothing could beat Assembler, I guess...
The links between Google's datacenters were unencrypted at the time so the data was just there for easy taking without needing explicit cooperation.

http://www.wired.com/2013/10/nsa-hacked-yahoo-google-cables/
Cool VMware Video – Nights  Kilby's Episode 1: Hives
Right, that's the main issue with wicd— it's a dead-end, but the usability of its curses text UI is still way nicer than connman. So you get a devil's bargain between shipping something nice-to-use that's eventually going to break everywhere vs. something faster, smaller, and newer which is user-hostile and is being actively developed (ie, has some weird bugs not really yet worked out).
“The Group of Bloggers Unearthing MH17 Intel Quicker Than U.S. Spies”
I wouldn't give any equity away in this case.

Why?

He has not done anything yet.

This sounds like you are afraid of sales/marketing/biz dev/something and you think he will solve your problems.

I warn you: he will not solve your problems, you will have more on your hands.
Introducing ScheduledJob
I don't think it would really be this dire if push came to shove. A whole country without transformers and lacking ability to import them would be like a war effort. It would certainly be a huge disaster, but it wouldn't be cataclysmic. People would come out of their regular job roles and work with rebuilding.

If you read up about e.g. the crazy efforts that went on during World War II, this would be a good example of how focused a large economy can be in times of crisis. Of course there would be less time available to make the next Instagram, but it would probably have some positive side effects too.
There are already litmus-style tests kicking around that change colour in the presence of a disease or virus. Maybe in future all condoms will warn about STDs... although you could imagine that getting depressing if you have an incurable one.
I've read it before. To me, it looks unedited, and the product of an original mind, but not a kook. A good editor could quickly turn the text into a remarkable essay.
Well, that did it. Lifetime ignore for LessWrong or anything LessWrong-related.

I want my 10 minutes back.
> although probably not C

I surely hope that in all those years developers finally learn to take security and software quality seriously, making it available in the same amount, or less, of computer systems that still run PL/* [0] nowadays.

[0] As an example for a systems programmer language family older than C.
Flatout s running on Linux for the first time as well with this announcement
how does the tax work on that I can see the IRS wanting to get their cut of the gain
Exactly! Sure it seems 'logical' at first sight that directions for the feet are directed at the feet. But since all signals need to go through the brain anyway, I don't see why you can't replace this with a bracelet or smartphone in your pocket (two vibration patterns, should be easy to learn). Especially the latter saves you a lot of recharge hassles.

Steps could be measured just as well with a clip on my shoe(s) so I can wear whatever shoes I want. I would be surprised if there is no disadvantage at all to run on these shoes (or inlays) compared to a pair of well chosen running shoes.
Ask HN: Did you receive the Oculus DK2?
I ordered Mar 19, 2014 09:21 AM PDT.

Shipping company contacted me today and they will deliver it tomorrow.

My location: Shanghai, China
SAP HTML5: In Warehouse Self Maintenance Terminal
how did this make it to the first page?
Very excited, of course :)
mm but the waiting in line wasn't fun - back in the 80's we had a dial up link to a mainframe to run CFD models,

I recall one day in our terminal room one of the engineers came in logged on - then commented with a sigh 48 jobs in the queue ahead of hers.
OT but IMO it's such a huge cost to the economy (and humanity) that marijuana is still taboo. The thought experiments that you describe, for me at least, are not only fun, but more often than not lead to practical, wealth-generating breakthroughs. I assume I'm not the only one.

I hope one day historians and economists will study the lost opportunity costs of the prohibition / taboo nature of marijuana.
Two, according to my local Finnish new source. (http://yle.fi/uutiset/israelin_yhdysvaltain-lahettilas_nobel...)
Usually for someone to lose their future vesting, they have to walk away, or be removed "for cause." A disagreement between founders is insufficient. Forming a company with partners is like a marriage. You can't dabble in it.
EMI 2014 – Conferência Internacional de Mecânica da Engenharia
Brings back nausea from arguments past, that went something like this (dramatized for your pleasure):

Me: Your protocol has a serious size-side channel that leaks all the important data as sizes. Please use a constant length encoding.

Duh: Thanks! I added RANDOM padding. Totally secure now(tm).

Me: Your random was rand(), I recovered the LCG state from a few packets with known sizes and then recovered the original sizes, its still totally insecure. /Please/ make it constant size.

Duh: I made the random better and got rid of the known length packets. Now its extra completely secure.

Me: This will just take more statistical analysis to break, please just make it constant— the overhead is negligible! This is critical and anything short of constant is leaking information. We can't make assumptions about how powerful the attacker's statistical reasoning is, so even a small leak could be fatal.

Duh: I tried for two hours and couldn't break it. You're wasting my time.

Me: Argh. After a week of analysis, I've created this sampling and averaging script which completely recovers the secret data. Please. Just. Make. The. Encoding. Constant. Length.

Duh: Oh come on, that requires the same user to use it four times in a row. But fine, I now also quantize the size to a multiple of 2. The script you gave me no longer works, so now it's secure.

Me: <jumps off building>

The adage that anyone can make a cryptosystem he himself can't break— should have a sister rule: Most people can make a cryptosystem which isn't cost effective to review by an honest party but which may be very economical to attack once it's protecting something of value.
Also great: HTML pages with sensitive passages using #000 for background and foreground. You just need to select and copy to Notepad - voila.

I think I once saw that on the site of a home security company, citing an email from customers who thanked them for burglarproofing their home in XX XXXXXXXX Street. Quite ironic.
What a cute story. A logical Chinese finger puzzle.

Seems like this argument isn't new, is it? Those folks who both believe in a watchmaker's universe and freewill at the same time are also always going on about how critical it is to only make the "correct" choices.

It's circular reasoning. If a being exists that can tell which choices you are going to make, and it is able to kill you or prevent you from making those choices ahead of time, and some of those choices involve its existence? Then you'll ever be able to make choices that cause it not to exist. Or, with a bit of finer detail, the aggregate of all the choices made will never be such that it does not exist. Since the predicate was that such a being exists, we have returned to our starting point. Yadda yadda. In short, "How can something not exist that must exist?"