skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative is a about a 40% chance of survival without the drug. With the drug, maybe it will be higher, but maybe it will be lower. We don't actually know (though this new trial is very encouraging).

A bad drug could also cause suffering beyond what Ebola causes: even if the patient was going to die anyway, it could make their death even more painful.
I have mixed feelings about this.

On one hand, I'm enthused that Rust, arguably the only serious contender to C++'s throne, is gaining traction.

On the other hand, I'm scared that respectable projects like Qt (~6M lines of C++, man-millenia of work!) will be considered "obsolete" by the coming generation and another cyle of wheel reinvention will begin, tossing away man-centuries worth of polished, working code on the sole ground that it's C++.

It's not like C++ is going anywhere anytime soon, (Some serious infrastructure reportedly still runs on COBOL after all!) but what if we could finally settle down on a technology for a certain kind of problem and focus all our energy on building new stuff? Wouldn't that be grand?

I wonder whether there's another industry that keeps reinventing itself every 20 to 30 years and still gets away with it.
>According to Pravda, stocks always go up.

I don't remember saying that.
US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Passes 600 Days in Orbit
The silent disco app, Lysn in, supports various audio sources including Spotify for synchronized playback between devices. Other audio sources include SoundCloud, media library and the ability to connect an external audio source like DJ equipment. www.Lysn.in
Even the heavy frameworks (Angular, Ember) are significantly lighter than YUI.
Visual Studio or Notepad++. Lua for us is mostly for testing, so it doesn't take much.
s/Scheduled cash bonuses/Raises/ and I don't think you'd take the same critical tone.

I work for Google, and a significant chunk of my comp is in stock. I was awarded an additional $N of stock over four years this year, and I just considered it a raise of $N/4.
That's a troublesome definition of "wanting" something. I don't want to rent a Honda Civic, in the sense that I would much rather rent a Ferrari if that were an economically feasible option. But I do want to rent a Honda Civic in the sense that it's the best option that is economically feasible for me.
I was just about to suggest Daniel Pink's book [1] when I clicked through and saw that a talk from him is a segment on the podcast.

In any case, the book is worth a read. I had a copy forced on me years and didn't crack it open for ages - I wish I'd started reading it sooner.

1: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594484805
My point is that the React marketing is "top down unidirectional data flow", and that you quickly reach the end of what you can do with that before needing to add a another perpendicular uni-directional data flow (which is Flux or one of its variants), which breaks the vanilla React paradigm and many of the simplifying assumptions implied within such a simplified system. Two flows, both uni-directional, but in different directions, and the top-down flow no longer has anywhere near the same degree of control once you've added Flux to your system.
Because only humans are made in God's image. Therefore it's ethical to test drugs on enslaved non-human sentients incapable of acknowledging consent.

EDIT: Very curious whether the downvoters (a) don't get the sarcasm, (b) get the sarcasm and are offended that I question their religious tenets, (c) think animal testing is justifiable beyond reproach, (d) disagree that monkeys are sentient, (e) think that monkeys consent to testing, or (f) just don't like how I worded things.
Not really. I use Angular. A lot. I'm not so convinced that it is an "easy opt-out".
If by "component library" you mean a library of components, then Polymer is not a component library. Polymer is just a library that helps you write custom elements.

The Polymer project has created two separate component libraries of elements made with Polymer - core-elements and paper-elements - but Polymer itself doesn't contain any components.
Which is still not what you want as floating point numbers do not cover all possible rationals. When the input is done correctly sympy can deal with arbitrary rationals as well.
You can't "evict my tenant any time I darn well like because it's my fricking property)", as you have to give "a reasonable amount of notice (60 days in any case where I haven't done anything wrong)".
Good. They should be handling my money, not skimming it.
The treatment in question (Zmapp) are heavily funded supported by various DoD entities. Weaponized ebola (along with smallpox) were always something of a bogey-man that received perhaps outsized attention from various sources.

Secondly, if it weren't for this outbreak, all of these treatments and vaccines would likely sit around in clinical trial hell for quite a while.

Cynically speaking, since clinical trials are so risky and expensive, its best if the developers can off-load some of that risk and expense. Picking something like Ebola, surviving on government funding (because its seen as strategic), and waiting for an emergency to allow you to skip a lot of red tape, and get dollops of support, isn't really a terrible choice.

Oh, and antibiotics are hard. For an overview of the current state of antibiotic development, you can take a look here:

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-brie...

Note that 43 drugs are in the pipeline.
> The first article reports the "copious" justification given by other sources

Which isn't done when it is the enemy. Here is a media analysis of the Iranian downing with the downing of a Korean airliner by Russia during the same period.
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/kal-007-and-iran-air-6...

Here are examples for MH17 after cursory searches (imagine swapping Russia/US in the sentences).

https://twitter.com/fstonenyt/status/489926529619476480

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/opinion/malaysia-airlines-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/opinion/roger-cohen-malays...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/opinion/masha-gessen-does-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/opinion/Putins-Unconvincin...

This isn't to equate Russian and American propaganda, only pointing out the material and serious distortions of western media.
They are different projects with different goals, but some of the sympy team do try to employ sympy's capabilities in order to help theano generate better optimized code.
All of these things are designed to only live as long as the companies they are used at... ducks.
The real question is: how much does it really cost to clear a transaction? And how much of that cost is being hidden via being subsidized through a speculative mining frenzy? What happens to real-world TX costs when mining isn't a hot thing anymore?
I thought YUI was obtrusive when I saw a line of code that looked like this:

YUI.util.Event.addListener('el', 'click'...);
That article was from 2010. I hear this place is pretty impressive:

http://nctm.tamu.edu/facilities.html
winter days are long and painful to get through at work.

??? Winter's the best time to be employed, at least in moderate climates. It's freezing outside, and inside there's the glow of a warm terminal.

Summer's when I can barely keep myself working. You can actually get outside and enjoy life.
"Isomorphic". I do not think it means what Yahoo thinks it means.
I'm not trying to start an argument here, but wouldn't "assuming what they should be proving" be the same as "hypothesizing?" That's a critical point of the scientific method. You don't really design experiments that can both confirm and refute a theory. When an "open-minded" scientist attempts to perform an experiment to test theory, they aren't personally responsible for subsequent theories and experiments that could disprove their results.
I think a better plan for retention and performance would be ownership plans of some sort. Equity, options, stock purchasing plans, employee ownership plans, etc.
AT&T Sues Cox Communications for Patent Infringement
Chrome rendering quirk when using 3D transforms
To be fair, Facebook and other recent social IPOs are grossly overvalued.
I guess I figured copper wire would also required amplification.
The short days of winter make some of us gloomy unfortunately.
Exorcising a Phobia, One Stroke at a Time
Though it was it was not the first (or second, or third) such example.
Don't really agree that Facebook pivoted, unless you consider what Google is now as having pivoted away from search. They are still an online directory, but now for the entire world rather than just for college students.

What you arguably call their 2 main features: newsfeed and photo-tagging don't necessarily deviate from their goal of being an online directory.
So if someone can cut them with their clippers by accident, certainly a malicious actor could wreak tons of havoc? Why does this not seem to occur? Even from a juvenile "hey I turned off the Internet lol" kind of level?
Yes, the point being that if you started to hate your job there's a good chance you'd stick around to the next vesting period. The same happens with an annual bonus, no one wants to leave before the bonus checks come out. The Valley likes stock, Wall Street likes bonuses (funny in a way).

Update: it also means you can stay at the job all year for the bonus/stock and then get laid off right before the end of the year. It's deplorable.
That's a huge "assuming".
I guess I figured copper wire would also required amplification.

Interesting on the return path. Where does the source connect i.e. one side of the "battery" goes to the amplifier (which returns to the sea, not the battery) and the other side of the battery goes to where? the sea?
That's essentially the idea behind Georgism, which has slightly influenced more mainstream political economic thought. In Georgism, natural resources (namely, land) are the only thing that is taxed, because natural resources are not created by human effort or ingenuity and thus should be taxed to avoid the land holders earning economic rent. Proponents argue that it is the only tax that is economically efficient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Psychiatrists with reading habits aren't medicinal chemists or pharmacologists.
GWT is still being maintained, and I hear GWT 3.0 is on they way with a lot of great features.

The problem with GWT is that newer Google-associated projects are perceived by some people as better (and the comparison is not always apt): Web Components, Polymer, Dart, Angular, etc.

But that doesn't somehow make GWT any _worse_ than it was before, and it's still improving. The compiler is faster, they're adding Java 8 features like lambdas, the JS interop is better, they're tracking web APIs closer, and I think they have a even plan for web components integration.

I used to use GWT extensively, and I would be one of the ones to argue that it's approach was great at one time, and probably a bit outdated now, but it's not abandoned and it's evolving to fit better with today's modern browsers. I might not choose it today, but I wouldn't regret choosing it a few years back, or be in a huge rush to move off of it if I had a large codebase.
Collisions for arbitrary hashes? If I give you an MD5 hash, you can find a collision within hours?
Most of the current systems appear to use manual rebalancing - if bikes aren't evenly distributed someone from the company operation the bike share program manually distributes bikes from one station to another station.

I wonder how well an "economic" approach to this problem would work: Dynamically price the cost of a bike based on the station where the bike is taken and on the station where the bike is returned too. Then, if you want to distribute bikes from one station to another station you could assign a negative price for these routes, and thereby increase the traffic in that opposite direction.

Assuming that the traffic behavior is relatively stable you don't even need dynamic pricing, but instead might be able to announce the pricing for a particular route weeks in advance.
There are probably some quite old versions of JQuery running happily. The wonderful thing is that you can Google "jquery <insert problem here>" and get a good answer. This property would be useful for a long time to come even if better libraries evolved.
It's about time tobacco paid us back in the health department.
Thanks for the links. I am really interested in functional programming in Rust and Scala as well as some systems level stuff with Go and Rust again. I will check these out.
Can levitating appliances take off?
I've been waiting for his answer impatiently. He's been active on other threads but completely ignored your post. Says a lot.
Surely WF's needs with YUI-fork (or any other similar library) will be limited enough that they'll need to hire just one or two developers. I don't see how they'll need to spend hundreds (or even tens) of millions of dollars to build a solid library. I don't think even Yahoo has spent that much on YUI in total.
Upon further reading I agree. But seeing as how Lua, LuaJIT, libuv are all cross-platform, there is hope that such a tool can be as well.
"Finally, Coinbase being insured against the value of the bitcoin loss doesn't translate in to you being covered"

Additionally I'm very curious why they never disclosed this publicly before. It's a decent marketing and selling point so there must be some reason they decided (or were required) to keep it under wraps for so long.
Happy to accept downvotes for making the minor comment of saying I'm happy to see Lfyt's years of efforts in improving transportation paying off. This is so much better to hear than Uber's tale of one-upmanship.
The Cyber-Terror Bailout
Message on that page: "http://qbix.com/EGreg/Q doesn't point to anything."
Maybe the real solution is social rather than technical?

How many move around to different places for the sake of internet points? Seemingly lots of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(game)

Can we just convince them to balance our bike shares instead?
How does London handle that rebalancing then? Physically moving bikes with a lorry?
Having compensation be arbitrarily controlled by management makes it easy to tweak your numbers in a hurry. End of the quarter approaching and sales are still soft? Sorry "team member", no bonus this time. Just working on "proving yourself" and you'll be getting a bonus in no time!
In what sometimes feels like a Linux world, it is good to be reminded of some of the excellent quality projects and codebases in the BSD projects. We still have a few Open and Free BSD servers running, as they are basically rock solid, and have a much slower rate of evolution, and decent stability, unlike some of the Linux distros we run, where constant rejiggling of the underpinnings, init system etc, were a bit painful.
Is there a way to use Qt from Rust? It has C binding, but not C++ as far as I know.
And inline JSX instead of separate template files. React is just very good at turning state into DOM elements.
Not to mention IE10 is already Old.

I lost a little more respect for Zynga today.
Any system that incentivizes having coworker under deliver is a bad idea. There is no reason bonuses have to fall in that category and in my personal experience they never have. Where I have worked bonuses we bases on a combination of personal performance, team performance and company performance so you got a bigger bonus if your coworkers did well.
To get the best performance out of HHVM, you have to let it "warm up" (JIT the functions you're using), and compile the bytecode ahead of time. Otherwise it assumes you could include new files it hasn't seen before, and has to skip out on some optimizations to accommodate that. So he can't claim he's faster when he's running it like this: @exec('hhvm ' . __FILE__ . " $test");

It's also worth noting that Facebook is actually pursuing this same approach with Hack (making the language more optimizable). And they've tried the AOT approach, and it turned out to be a huge pain for several reasons.
That's because wealth, particularly land and other limited resources that provide a benefit to the owner without any effort on their part, should be taxed. If you don't tax it, that's what leads to monied elites that sit on their asses without providing any benefit to society. Untaxed property leads to property owners that mooch their existence off the rest of society.

I've seen excellent arguments for taxing only those specific types of wealth because it maximizes the amount of productivity that each member of society is contributing to the group whereas taxing income has the effect of deterring productivity...granted, at the levels that we currently tax income, the deterrence factor is very small, but it's still there.
I like to think of it as giving a quick 'not in this basket' with 100% accuracy sort of tool :-)
It's possible to use Qt from Python, so I would think Rust could do it in one way or another.
I think the parent has a fair argument, and I don't think blueskin_ was really off either. Do you know -- actually know -- the current state of the science behind cryonics? If so, good on you, but if not (more likely), how do you know exactly what the probability of being revived later is?

People (even not-so-rich people) spend upwards of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars just to prolong their own life a couple months. How is the cost of that expense more justifiable than even a small probability of being revived in the future and becoming healthy and possibly immortal?

In the end, it's a judgment call as to what you do with your money. Unfortunately, fear of mortality and death is a very strong motivator for a lot of people, so we don't necessarily spend money related to death in a particularly optimal way. It's the height of arrogance to suggest that your way is better, or, even if it is objectively better, to impose your views on someone else's use of their money.
Yes you can use parts of Angular with React, I don't think that's optimal, but you can do it.
Papers We Love – Toronto Chapter
Project Gutenberg? http://gutenberg.net.au/ https://gitenberg.github.io/
bhyve has been in FreeBSD 10.0 for a while now. The link to the frontpage of bhyve.org contains no hint of why this was just posted. Is there some news?

Further, it [sounds][1] like things may be starting to migrate from bhyve.org to the freebsd wiki.

[1]: https://twitter.com/michaeldexter/status/504044404424716288
It's been said before, but I'll say it again:

The USPTO does not and will not look at nor use an end-user forums like "Ask Patents" for the basis of any decision.
I can't find any details about Protocol Buffers supporting versioning. Can you point me in the right direction?
Thorn: A dynamically-typed concurrent language
Ah OK. I forgot about Seasonal Affective Disorder. I wonder what causes humans to have such polar-opposite reactions to the seasons?
I think you should tax the fuck out of people's wealth so that it doesn't accumulate vampire-like.
The real question is: how much does it really cost to clear a transaction?

Anywhere from a fraction of a cent to millions of dollars. Bitcoin transactions don't have a fixed cost, it depends on how many people are mining. More miners => increased difficult => higher costs.
It would appear they are talking about CA [0]

[0] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc22651_07.htm
How are maintenance and support revenue streams factored into this business model? I understand that revenue generated by the project/product is split among the partners, but I'm not sure how a (potentially) part-time core team is capable of building out and sustaining a basic 9-5 support team on an on-going basis.

Is this something that would require a potentially large amount of App Coins to be set aside at the beginning of a project (similar to how employee equity pools of 5-20% might be 'reserved' up front for retention)?

Perhaps for a wildly successful product full-time core team members would step up to the plate, presumably to be compensated with more App Coins from what is left of the dwindling 9.5M initial pool.

I read the FAQ and can't help but think I simply misread or didn't pick up on this aspect of Assembly.
They would naturally follow the same mathematics, since the formula for gravitational attraction and the formula for electrical attraction are both following the inverse square law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
I don't know what would need 300, but if I'm in the middle of working on a project, I might [open link in new tab] dozens of tutorials, docs and other resources as I gradually become more familiar with the domain and the gaps in my knowledge.

Sure, they should get pruned to bookmarks, but you can't argue if a person's method of staying in the "zone" works for them, I suppose.
It's funny because although I regret using it to deliver products, I don't regret having been exposed to it as a developer. I learnt a lot about how to build well structured front end code by using it.

I still believe it's doomed though just because I don't believe they can match the pace of the JS world.
Ask HN: What does a 'stealth' startup mean?
I have seen the term but am not quite sure what it means about the startup.
I appreciate bonuses for what they are, but salary is always more important to me than a bonus. An offer of $x/yr salary and $b/yr bonus is less valuable to me than $x+n/yr salary, even if n<b and the bonus is characterized as a sure thing.

My budgeting has to be based on my salary, not my bonus, and my monthly budget defines my standard of living. What I can spend on housing, food, and entertainment depends on salary, as does how much I can expect to put in savings every month.

Over the long term, sure, bonuses can contribute to that baseline. They can go into discretionary expenses like vacations, home improvements, new furniture and gadgets, and they can help bolster savings and investments. But depending on bonuses when making long-term financial commitments is more of a risk than I'm willing to make.

And don't even get me started on equity/stock options/etc. That stuff is usually granted in terms that are heavily weighted toward the employer's benefit. Work should be compensated with money, not investment opportunities.
Any packaging system worth using will have support for semver extensions; it pains me that too many systems (including this one) don't appear to.

For example, "1.2.3+myfix1" should be valid, and "1.2.3+myfix2" should be considered a later version than "1.2.3" -- and both should pass any dependency declaration against which version 1.2.3 would pass.

If anyone can think of other workable solutions that lessen the pain of parallel development and local branching, I'd love to hear them.
In low orbit, sure, but if you're coming from outside the SOI, you can burn retrograde at periapsis just enough to be captured, then make a very inexpensive inclination change at apoapsis (my usual procedure for deploying a kethane scanner).
Relevant: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-defining-decade/2012...