skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The follow-up article ( http://www.scmagazine.com/professor-says-google-search-not-h... ) has the most ironic line in it:

> At press time, Sam Bowne had not responded to a Thursday email and Friday phone call from SCMagazine.com for comment.
so why don't you socialise the healthcare at the state level?
Most EU countries have social healthcare which is working.
Solar and wind energy are perfectly predictable: www.energymeteo.com

There are fluktuations every day due to the differend demand and loads in any case. Thats why you link many sources together in a Virtual Power Plant. Works quite well. The biggest Virtual Power Plant in Germany is the one of Statkraft (a Norwegian Company); it has about 8GW capacity.
There is also demand side management, where you power a system on and of based on the availablity of energy. Cooling Houses are an example of that.
You would think they would have been grateful for the head's up. I guess some people would rather shift blame then accept they made a configuration or security mistake.
You... can't imagine embezzlement happening in the private sector?

That's bold.
Even with Subsidies and everything taken out, Wind and solar Power are now cheaper in Germany than other forms of energy.
Thank you!

TLDR: JSX transformer makes the following ES6 features compatible with old browsers (IE8+)
* arrow functions [http://tc39wiki.calculist.org/es6/arrow-functions/]
* classes [https://github.com/esnext/es6-class]
* destructuring [http://fitzgeraldnick.com/weblog/50/]
* object concise methods [http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2013/03/es6-and-method-definitions....]
* rest parameters [http://tc39wiki.calculist.org/es6/rest-parameters/]
* template strings [http://tc39wiki.calculist.org/es6/template-strings/]
* object literal property shorthand [http://tc39wiki.calculist.org/es6/object-literal-enhancement...]

Notably absent: default parameter values and block scoping ("let")
> In Thailand pornography and sex toys and prostitution are all illegal, but visibly sold on the main tourist streets. In Thailand driving without a license will get you a small fine ($6 to $12)

It's different. You've just listed laws that the Thais do not enforce. The no-work-permit for a foreigner is a law that would be enforced should you be caught.
I'll put your question into more concrete terms. I've tried this sort of software before. I didn't cheat at it. However, every time I've tried it, after the first month, I usually have several bright red messages indicating how badly I'm failing at life. I then stop using the app, because it doesn't tell me anything I don't know.

The apps all seem to be based on the idea of not breaking the streak. While that's great when you have a streak of successes, it's frustrating when you have a streak of failures.
What is this absolute trash doing on HN?

HN posting guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Please stop trying to drag SJW issues onto HN, there are enough outlets online for that as it is.
Just bought Commit and I'm very disappointed. It's way too oversimplified.
>As it turns out just this week the Thai government decided it's OK for digital nomads to work in Thailand

That was one officer in Chiang Mai and he's been corrected since.
Its a mistake airing your side of the story in legal proceedings before trial. At this point the professor is guilty until proven innocent by people who don't know the difference between a browser and an internet.

The prosecution is going to have the benefit of knowing the defense before the trial, and the defense will not have the benefit of knowing the cards of the prosecutor before the trial.

"Hacking" is a villianized word like witchcraft was back in the Salem witch trials. The law has no idea what it is, doesn't know what should be legal or illegal, and fear is drummed up to maximum. Its a recipe for some innocents to get cooked. The ones accused of being a witch better play their cards right, or else the judicial system is going to punish the good actors, and reward the bad actors.

Don't talk to police: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I don't think the US ever "rushed in" to attack Russian forces; even in the heated 1960s, people thought long and hard before pushing those nuclear buttons. There are many ways to provide military aid, not all of them involving your own troops; and with the rise of a strongly anti-Russian EU Commission, I bet all these options will be considered sooner rather than later. At the end of the day, it took years for NATO to intervene in Yugoslavia, a situation far less problematic than Ukraine (from the point of view of Russian engagement); but then they did intervene, twice.

In the grand scheme of things, EU defense relies immensely on US forces and there are no signs that this is going to change anytime soon. The UK is struggling to just maintain capability, let alone expand it to replace allied resources. The French are now 100% integrated in NATO and have enough on their plate by caring for their African ex-colonies anyway. Italy and Spain can't pay state pensions, let alone expanding their military. The only country with some spare capacity would be Germany, which cannot do it for historical and political reasons.

In fact, what the Ukraine crisis is showing is how Europe still cannot say no to the US in security matters: it was the US administration that pushed for escalating Maidan (remember "fuck the EU"?), it was the US administration that pushed for sanctions (with Europeans going along grudgingly) and it's the closest US allies (UK, Poland) who are now leading the charge for further escalation... and finding no formal opposition, despite plenty of grumbling across the continent. Because in practice, nobody can afford to lose their US umbrella.
Next time send the newspaper an anonymous tip.

The guys with the open FTP server clearly don't give 2 fucks about your privacy, but in a sue-happy atmosphere they're trying to place the blame on someone else.
Docker is built on linux containers (lxc)
> It's not picky customers, it's everyone. It's literally the first discussion that occurs.

In my experience that often wasn't the case until Snowden came about, but I guess it might depend on specific sectors.

I agree that now it's absolutely everyone.
Ooooh. I never knew that there was this model of these different types of vision! I am a congenitally blind person who can (occasionally) find a way to make myself see a tiny bit better, and a lot of what I do is allow my eyes to wander up and down different surfaces. I basically pretend that they are fingertips. I am much less good at the other types of vision, but I've played around with them a bit; it's like I am hurling my body through space. I can't access the New Yorker article but I suspect my experience is different because I have always felt sighted even though I've never had vision. I really suck at being a blind person and thus am incredibly motivated to figure out how sight works, because I can already tell that I'm a visual learner (and an artist) and sight makes so much intrinsic sense to me.
African Americans are just over 12% of the population. The average adult has how many "friends" and how many of those are spouses of other friends and friends of family? I think that even if we there was zero racism people would still tend towards marrying those similar to ourselves. On a back of the napkin calculation this means any group might have less friends of other groups based on the overwhelming influence of family and friends of siblings and such alone. I think we have to look deeper than this stat.
Process Is King
I think the scary parts come when we have to define the "max risk" threshold of the self-driving car.

No matter how good a self-driving car is at estimating risk, it is only able to do that: estimate risk. It cannot know, beforehand, if an accident will happen. So the question becomes: if the car estimates a 0.001% risk of accidents happening at 40 mph on a certain stretch of road, and a 0.01% risk of an accident happening at 60 mph, how fast do we drive?

Or do we just make the person who sets the risk tolerance of the self-driving car liable for any accidents that might happen, and let them set whichever risk tolerance they prefer?
Insightful comment, thanks for giving a perspective from a completely different profession. :)

There is however something i need to point out to you: Chording is not for fast typing. In fact, since you must hit multiple keys either sequentially or together, just to produce a single signal to the computer, it is guaranteed to be slower. However chorded keyboards would make it possible to type in restricted situations, such as people who are hospitalized, missing limbs, working on something where the other hand is occupied or where body motions are limited, on the go, or heck, simply while lying back and relaxing; while still maintaining a useful speed.
How to take great pictures of your #icebucketchallenge
Show HN: Vpython – easier virtualenv
"It is outrageous for a journalist to write such lies, accusing me of serious crimes, without even contacting me to find out what happened."

There is little to nothing that can be done about this. It's all about narratives, sensationalism, and agendas today.

Just take a look at the media stories about Ukraine where everyone (in US media) just makes shit up and presents it as the truth. No one questions anything.

Or the Michael Brown shooting. Where the media (CNN, MSNBC) pushed their narrative once more, completely ignoring all facts surrounding the event.

It goes on and on and on, with almost every major story being so biased, misleading, and twisted, that it might as well be seen as a complete fabrication...

Here is another good example of security related stories being "misleading" - http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/02/that-nbc-story-100-fraudul...
Author here.

I know i have a few naming clashes, but i havn't been able to come up with a better one.
Suggestions welcome.

Also, i did a blog post on this tool http://www.tudb.org/articles/2014/03/31/vpython/
wow hard. But addictive.
Concrete without rebar? I am in doubt about longevity of this structure.
Wow, I am blind, and I am very very not good at this way of thinking, as evidenced by the fact that it is very difficult for me to learn routes from point a to point b based on this type of info. What's more helpful to me is imagining my line of travel and focusing how my body aligns with different landmarks.
I'm not sure Fresh Prince is a good example. Fresh prince had a huge following amongst all types of people and was specifically created to show another type of African american social exprience much like the Cosby Show. Both show an aspect of reality though, people tend to have friends that look like themselves.
One can only hope our friends at UHC are undergoing a proper procto-scoping by the regulators at this point.

As for the reporting side of this (note I did not use the word 'Journalism'...)..this is the quality level that has become the standard in the world of junk news. One must have the sensationalism in the title to get the click...that's it. The actual quality of the content is pretty much irrelevant..
If everyone in SF rented, and everyone had to pay market rates, then there
would be the political backing for changes that would make housing more
affordable.

This is demonstrably not true in London where rent just keeps on going up and hardly any new housing is being built. For example, an MP has just resigned his £130k+ (total remuneration, that's $215'000) job because he can't afford to rent a 4 bedroom house anywhere near Westminster [1].

Sometimes the state just needs to step in and actually help people (by directly building high quality housing and selling it to people below market value). Currently if you buy a new build in London it is priced so high that you can expect it to be under water for a few years (the builders provide special mortgages because banks refuse to do them directly in many cases - the flats are not worth what they are being sold for).

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/11/tory-foreign...
I do think that's true, but if you're like me and never identified with blindness or fully adapted to it, I think your potential for sight restoration is still good. (I'm 28).
"really horrible, angry, violent, and generally racist people"

Seek help.
Here's the 64k dollar question. If Snowden hadn't dropped the dime on the douchebaggery going on not just at NSA, but also w.r.t. the complicity/cooperation by all the biggies(Google, FB, MS, etc), would MS be doing this?

I assert that the answer is clearly a big No....anyone else agree with me??
> It just seems like an unnecessary abstraction of willpower

So is every video game that has cheat codes. Though I don't use these apps, it seems like the same thing. If you play by the rules, it makes the game more fun. In this case the game is chores, which is not supposed to be fun.
I guess we found whom the article was targeting.
You're a couple of abstraction levels lower than where I aimed my post :-)

You're absolutely right that everything breaks down after a measurement. However, I'd begun my hypothetical by assuming that we had some magical technique for getting the complete wave function. If our measurements again give us the complete wave function, then we just use the time evolution operator on that again.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that we should be okay after N-1 measurements, as long as we're allowed to see the result of that final measurement. You're right, though, that we rapidly lose the ability to make any predictions if some jerk keeps measuring the system. I think that there's also an Everettian argument that, if you haven't given me the complete wave function for the jerk making the measurements, then you didn't really give me the the complete wave function of the system. However, that's pushing outside my area of expertise.
Try your nearest university classifieds or used book store
> The author had the professors name

No, as far as we know the articles were based on the University Health legal notice http://www.uhsystem.com/Conway/FINAL%20Conway%20-%20Press%20..., which does NOT contain Sam's name.

Can you accuse someone of libel if the accused is unnamed?

This doesn't take away from the fact that the claims in the report are false, of course.
It looks to me like the case where this is required is actually screaming out for a new event type, not fixed dependency order. B shouldn't be listening for the same event as A is if B depends on A getting something done. A should be firing a new event which B can listen for.

Is there some subtlety I've missed here?
Indeed. There were 5 classified types prior to this outbreak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebolavirus#Classification

With the Zaire strain, now just called plain Ebola virus, normally with an observed fatality rate of 83% or 76% (two figures from different Wikipedia articles) and up to 90%, and at the other end a Reston ebolavirus with no fatalities among exposed lab workers.

This West African outbreak has been sequenced and is a Zaire strain with plenty of mutations that perhaps have significantly dropped its fatality rate, see this section and the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_virus_o...
"50 separate state governments"

I'm not understanding the problem here. Run "git clone" on the Canadian model fifty times. All done.

Furthermore we seem to have "no problem" scaling up central federal control of seemingly everything other than health care, so a comparative explanation would seem necessary, as to why federal social security is possible or federal OSHA or federal EPA or federal militarized police or the federal military itself, but for no provided reason federal health care would be impossible to scale.
How do you know this method isn't more efficient without looking at prices? It might be especially relevant in countries where a large part of the cost of building a new house is labor costs.

For my part, I can't tell if this new method is more efficient without this team selling or leasing their printer, so we can know how much it costs to build a house with their machine vs laying bricks manually (for various countries).
Not accurate at all. The vast majority of stock photos, tv show cast of characters, hypothetical situations, etc, all feature "diversity"; race, ethnicity, religion, whatever.

It's done to be politically correct and to protect yourself from accusations of racism, and it's laughably obvious.

It's the reason why the black kid on South Park is named "Token"- the shows creators needed at least 1 black kid, so he's the "token" black character.
You can add Cha Am and Hua Hin to that list also. Much nicer places to live in Thailand than the list above.
It's open source, too https://github.com/HabitRPG/habitrpg
Ask HN: Hacker forum or IRC?
Is there a forum or irc channel aimed at all hackers? I have never managed to find a good one
>Wasn't the whole problem with "spying" that there wasn't judicial oversight ?

There was judical oversight... the FISC... aka the rubber stamp

That is the problem with the judiciary today, they have abandoned their responsibility to be a check on government power and instead take the government at their word and rubber stamp everything unless there some defense (which is often not even allowed as these orders are given ex parte in many cases) proves they should be denied
That's pretty much the norm in IT. After 15 years or so, I've seen pretty much everyone shift blame or blatantly lie their ass off to cover their own shortcomings...including a very senior person "invent" a completely fictitious rootkit to excuse the fact that the business lost critical data due to his negligence. It doesn't pay off to blow the whistle on this behavior either and provides a blackmail opportunity that I've seen people capitalize on.

Most everyone looks the other way in this business and there's a large amount of lying about credentials & experience to land jobs.
Node, Grunt, Bower and Yeoman – A Modern Web Dev's Toolkit
There's no indication in the article whether it was conducted with e-paper Kindles or the Kindle Fire. It's already well known that reading on computer screens decreases retention, so it seems like that might factor into a test with tablets too.
Focusing on the 99% of roads Google cars don't serve is unnecessarily ridiculing the technology, in my view.

Alternatively, had the article said that 99% of US work commutes can't yet be served by Google cars, then it's something to mention. But the 1% of roads that Google cars cover could very well be enough for the majority of US commutes (assuming it were to cover most metropolitan areas).

It's as if someone saying cellphones aren't yet ready for primetime since they don't work over most of the world's surface area. It may be true but irrelevant for the average consumer.
Two points - someone has to maintain the network; holes need digging, kit needs buying, upgrading and monitoring. This cannot be free. It could be a government utility, but paying for it would then come out of taxes and the choice would be between paying for that, aircraft carriers or incubators.

Second, networks are designed to deliver different things at different price points. Running a web service at the end of a residential connection does not make economic sense compared to running it in a datacentre connected directly to a peering point on 40gig-e.
Can you share the url for Commit? I am curious to see what it is...
Experienced project managers multiply by pi ;)

http://alistair.cockburn.us/The+magic+of+pi+for+project+mana...

I think people should start using confidence intervals. Then the upper bounds become more realistic. If you need to estimate roughly with 90% condifence intervals, then a developer can communicate the uncertainity: I think task A will take about a week. At least 2 days. And no more than 3 months.

You can immediately see that it's probably best to either a) work with this tasks a few days and make a new estimate based on the acquired knowledge b) or if that's not possible, try to split the task to smaller subtasks to identify which parts are the most uncertain.
Playboy's guide to catcalling is actually great (Probably safe for work)
Minor note: I have seen Shapiro's work in at least two major museums and one minor one. The latter was actually featuring Rodin's work at the time.
"Anyone bright enough to do medicine would do far better in another profession."

Just as a point of reference, I'm in the U.S. and not a doctor. But I've always seen careers in medicine as a kind of social scam. Not necessarily a bad one, but there is or was something funny going on.

A person smart enough to be a doctor could be many things and earn a lot more money doing one of those things. The only thing society can really offer doctors is independence and respect. That's why -- for the longest time in this country -- doctors often owned and ran their own practices. That's why we addressed doctors with the honorific "Doctor." But the first is all but dead in this country and the second, because of some kind of unwashed, egalitarian ethic that only gets worse and worse, is starting to die out too.

We've really fucked up, as a society. No one in his or her right mind is going to want to spend life kow-towing to pervasive regulations and third-party bureaucrats second guessing them and tying their hands, while rushing to and fro like a retail clerk in an understaffed big box store, and all the while having to protect the egos of patients by introducing oneself as Bob or Sally.

Doctors need prestige and independence. Without those, the lure of "doing good" just isn't enough to convince anyone to become one -- at least, not anyone I'd want to have to trust as a patient.
Any hints at what filesystem you are moving Strongspace over to? Assuming that you will be moving off SmartOS as well?
I love the "road train" ideas some manufacturers are doing.

Here's one video but there are enty of others. https://youtube.com/watch?v=tQnVGOoVvVk
Dinner Lab Brings the Wisdom of Crowds to Haute Cuisine
This is exactly was has been happening to reports about Israel / Gaza. Same problem. Outright lies.
> estimating aspects

Use the classic limit theorems, especially just the weak law of large numbers, i.e., take an average.
I don't think so. Back to what you actually said: "no cop". You didn't say "most cops".
You have to consider the full sentence and the context.

He has not said;

"committing libel is a common thing for them"

He has said;

"My comments on the SC Magazine article were deleted. The "journalist" who invented the article has not altered it or contacted me in any way.

The two CEOs have also remained silent.

Apparently, committing libel is a common thing for them, and they are comfotable completely ignoring the protests of their victims."

The word "Apparently" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

It is essentially saying "In light of this stated behaviour, it would seem reasonable to assume that...".

He is not making a statement of bald fact however, which is what you are presenting it as by removing the context. Amusingly, you are possibly being slightly libellous here by suggesting that he is.