skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's obviously a matter of probability -- not every case is going to lead to epidemic. And as long as we're separated from the outbreak by geography, it's relatively easy to say "this person has a fever and was recently in West Africa, therefore we should suspect Ebola." It's much harder when a disease becomes endemic, and suddenly everybody with a fever in St. Paul has to add Ebola to the differential diagnosis.

As for SARS: you're making my argument. It was stopped through a combination of good luck and herculean global effort. This outbreak was ignored by the West for way too long, and I don't think we do ourselves any favors by diminishing the risks of it spreading.
It is a bootstrap framework you can see it in the source code if you inspect the site.

Here is the link to the bootstrap source code they are using. https://springahead.ca/layouts/web30/css/bootstrap.min.css
I'm absolutely not anti-OSS. I personally think it is against the spirit of the GPL to copy code that is GPLed, though.

I'm just saying be careful about how you do your engineering. This seemed like an inexperienced developer and he mentioned glibc vocally along with the comment "I'll admit that originally I copied this logic from glibc's implementation without fully understanding it, but I've now taken a closer look at the Two-Way paper and understand what it does." It's certainly not good software engineering to copy implementation like that. It is good that he read the paper.

Now I regret even bringing it up. I don't feel that I deserve your ad hominem comments or characterizations of my motivations.
All of this is type-safe, if the operations check for out-or-range values and signal appropriately.
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I think it's probably more about protocol. One example is that some departments would hand off in alphabetical order by patient name. Seems logical, but if Ms. Abraham is doing just fine, but Mr. Zimmerman is in critical condition, well, you can see the flaw. They found that doing handoffs in order of severity helped decrease error rates.

The other issue is interruptions. Hospitals are busy places, and sometimes someone needs to get in and get some information from one of the doctors doing the handoff, causing a legitimate interruption. As we know, even a few seconds can derail your whole train of thought. It's definitely still an open problem.
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Thanks for taking the time to write your feedback. I appreciate it.

With PurpleRails, you will rarely be typing your password once you successfully login. It works kinda like Gmail/Facebook etc: you remain logged in for months at a time.

This page explains why password saving doesn't work yet: https://www.purplerails.com/blog/saving-passwords-why-we-hav...

I'll see if I can do something fancier than what I do now to allow saved passwords to work. I suspect that using a Javascript-based AJAX authentication system instead of a plain-old HTML form, I can achieve the privacy goals as well as ease of use.

I hope you will hang in there and use the current version until I figure out a way to fix this. Thanks!
According to TFA, "The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities"

The problem, as I see it, is that we have entire swaths of cities in Monrovia, Liberia being sealed off and turned into disease reservoirs [1]. These are precisely the conditions that we are supposed to be worried about!

[1] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/22/West-Point-Slu...
The article suggests lasers.
What is the signed value of 0-UINT_MAX?

There is no way to handle this issue on machine types, unless part of the range is reserved for overflow and checked. But performance nuts intentionally discard safety for performance.
It's only a part answer, but people who are into cars certainly do screw around in a similar way, whether just to read diagnostics codes out or going full out and remapping the ECU for extra performance/efficiency/whatever they want. There are even hacks to change throttle response now.

My microwave, on the other hand, I'm not sure there's much else I want it to do that I'd consider reprogramming it for ;-)
You can call Python packages from Julia, so not entirely starting from scratch! For example here is pandas: https://github.com/malmaud/Pandas.jl
When I try to stream from the US Netflix, chromecast blocks it. (Canada)

This restriction could be unlocked one day.
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A Dyson sphere is a very large embodiment of a simple idea -- inside the sphere you have a low-entropy high-temperature energy source. Outside the sphere you have the ultimate heat sink -- space. All you need to do is harvest the energy from the heat source, and allow the waste heat to radiate into space.

Imagine a Dyson sphere surface, every square meter of which would have more than enough potential energy available for virtually any purpose. Imagine something crude like a steam-driven power plant. A facility at the sphere surface would heat water to steam below the surface, then drive a piston or turbine, then recondense the steam to water above the surface by radiating the waste energy into space.

Or one could use a thermocouple, not very efficient, but very reliable. There's a thermocouple power supply on the moon right now, it's been there for about 45 years and it's still going strong. The Curiosity Mars rover has a thermocouple power supply also. These devices exploit a temperature difference to generate electricity. Again, not very efficient, but reliable -- no moving parts.

> Are there obvious answers I'm not thinking about for energy transmission when you don't have a physical grid of wires to move it through?

Well, there's no reason not to have wires if that's desired. Just generate electricity in one of many ways as above, then transmit it to where it's more useful. An alternative would be to live on a moon orbiting the sphere, and radiate the power up to the moon in the form of microwaves or laser beams.
Does redefining functions with dependencies in the REPL work with this release? How about deleting items from the symbol table?
You can use youtube-dl to do this:

$ youtube-dl ':ythistory' -u USER -p PWD --write-pages

Of course, you won't get your entire history since g00gle would rather mine all your personal data itself, and never share it back with you again.
It baffles me how we got from "tracking is creepy" to "please track all I do on your site" in ~10 years.

Your watch history should be stored by your browser on your machine. It is only your business and only locally it is fully in your control.
Well, then that's a flaw in Bitcoin.
My microwave is not a general purpose computing device. Unless you work on a microwave research institute, probably.
You beat me to it - when I saw the HN headline I immediately went "I should post about Abnormal Summit" :).

Let me add some interesting trivia instead, perhaps: There was another Korean talk show featuring foreign guests some years ago, Global Talk Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Talk_Show). It featured all-female guests (Abnormal Summit has an all-male cast so far). It was a more gaudy affair though and centered on the guests' experiences in South Korea. Abnormal Summit has a much more interesting hook, the focus is on exchanging opinions between citizens of different nations.

Beyond TV: I'd argue that Simon and Martina from Eat Your Kimchi (http://www.eatyourkimchi.com), Canadian YouTubers living in South Korea, are well known among the country's youth.

> [...] who are surprisingly fluent in Korean [...]

This is almost a running gag in these situations/shows by now - whenever a foreigner rolls out a few words of Korean the reaction is invariably "와 한국말 잘하시네요!~" ("wow your Korean is so good"). You can play some kind of drinking game to that :).
No doubt many researchers would agree: the food industry has contributed to the problem. Evidence points to manufacturers adding large quantities of sugars (in many forms) to convenience and fast foods as a major culprit.

Physiological effects of this intake result in greater synthesis of fatty acids which are easily stored in fat depots. Over time in vulnerable individuals the cumulative result is excessive adiposity and obesity.

There has been a push to reduce the sugar content of foods and educate the public about the risks. Consumers should learn to read nutrition labels and avoid products with high sugar content.
For fans of the Python numeric stack (NumPy, SciPy, pandas, etc.): if you ever want to give Julia a go, there's an excellent Julia-to-Python bridge called PyCall.

https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl

It allowed me to incorporate Julia into my academic work without breaking a sweat.
I don't know if you can actually take that right away however. I'm not aware of any precedent for this situation.
In the most rudimentary form, this is how:

http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photo...

More reasonable ways of utilizing a blockchain for undeletable data are emerging, though.
Sorry for self-reply, but ran out of edit time: a very valid concern about Julia is the lack of packages because it is new - a catch-22 situation that all new languages. This has been recognized by developers and Julia has now got some great inter-language interop packages and functionality, allowing it to harness a world of packages in other languages.

* Very efficient interaction with C and Fortran libraries is a core Julia feature, with the ability to pass arrays and structs directly between C and Julia.

Calling C: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/calling-c-and-for...

* Python libraries can be used through PyCall.jl, which is used most famously to call matplotlib (PyPlot.jl) but also other libraries like pandas (Pandas.jl).

PyCall.jl: https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl

PyPlot.jl: https://github.com/stevengj/PyPlot.jl

Pandas.jl: https://github.com/malmaud/Pandas.jl

* Java libraries can be used through JavaCall.jl, which is used in Taro.jl to call Apache Tika and Apache POI

JavaCall.jl: https://github.com/aviks/JavaCall.jl

Taro.jl: https://github.com/aviks/Taro.jl

* R libraries can be called through Rif.jl

Rif.jl: https://github.com/lgautier/Rif.jl
>You subtract lengths from other lengths all the time.

Indeed. Notice that all your examples are physical lengths. This is of a different type than the naturals (digital lengths). We generally consider physical lengths to be in the domain of Reals, usually defined along a particular path or dimension. This is closed under subtraction, while naturals are not.

> a problem would be if you wanted to subtract a length from a weight.

That is also a problem, not the only problem.

>assumes that a paramount goal in having types is to make function signatures like the following impossible: [vomit-inducing variadic signature]

I would sure like it if function signatures like that were impossible :)

> Infinite-dimensional vectors (in which the first element is a String) sure aren't closed under format

It's very generous to call a set of arguments to variadic function a "vector" at all, and they certainly aren't infinite-dimensional. They are practically bounded by machine memory.

>it maps them to scalars

How?

>But somehow string formatting is wildly popular.

Lots of mathematically ill-defined things are wildly popular.

>Hash tables aren't closed under access.

Not sure what you mean by this.
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Wonderful news but particularly sickening for me as I fished out £130 for the hardback volumes last year!

Absolutely great books however!

I've learned a lot already from those books.

Also, the "For the Practical Man" (algebra, geometry, trig, arithemtic) series of books on mathematics that Feynman started his career with. They are hard to get hold of and expensive but the calculus book is wonderful if incredibly dense and written in an early 1900's style!

Those, a cheap Casio calculator, a box of pencils and some school exercise books have taught me more than a university degree and years of industry experience.

Edit: found a legitimate PDF of "Calculus for the practical man" http://physsocyork.co.uk/notes/J.%20E.%20Thopmson--Calculus%...
Lunchtime doubly so.

(Sorry it took so long to post the punchline to your obvious Douglas Adams setup; I was at lunch).
Okay, I see where you're coming from now; I apologize for jumping to conclusions.
They don't know what the word "download" means. This statement is nonsense.
Anyone having a Chromecast and able to tell me what I'm missing? Currently I've got xbmc running on a Raspberry Pi. Connected via HDMI, online via wifi and I can stream more or less everything (videos, images, music) from my phone to that thing - not sure if there's a decent way to do that from my laptop running Linux.

What are Chromecasts used for? Should I buy one?
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I agree with you.

My watch history is currently in the hands of Google.

I'm trying to copy it so that I have it saved locally.
When your project gets larger than one super screenful, the story changes, though. You'll need to see how things relate in the Birds-eye view.
I never said I was trying to save my entire web cache locally. Just bookmarks.

I don't have Flash Player installed. Instead, I use youtube-dl for flash videos across many websites. I'm well aware of the storage implications of this kind of activity.
The author is not suggesting taking others content and calling it their own - he is suggesting almost keeping a backup with a bibliography. Infact, this already exists today - do you hate archive.org?
Yeah, one-handed use is one of the best things about the iPhone. I switched to Android (Moto X) several months ago from an iPhone 5s. I've been using it one-handed, but it is really painful. By the afternoon I start getting cramps in my thumb. Reaching for the home/keyboard/app menu/etc buttons is just really awkward. And the Moto X is one of the smallest screen Android phones you can get.

Part of it is that Android just isn't designed for one-handed use, but the limited width is a big part of it too.
Very cool! Let me know when you include it and I'll add a link to the page
That looks absolutely gorgeous. Working with functions like that is something I've been looking for. Is there a longer demo video? If like to see how new functions are added to existing files, how it handles a bigger code base, and how it deals with a clutter of bubbles e.g. does it remember old bubble path lists so they don't have to be expanded layer (or maybe this shouldn't be the case due to causing clutter).

I love how it has autocomplete due to VS integration. With the right keyboard shortcuts and some polish, I think your editor would be very useful. Keep us updated.
That's http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/... now.
Is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265 the issue you are referring to? If so, not fixed.

Not sure about the second part, but `workspace()` was added in 0.3 (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.3/NEWS.md, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1195)
every now and then i go into the library and read a chapter out of my hardcover set of these. my kids do the "geeez dad" thing when i make them sit with me and look at them.

classics.. to be sure....

edit: i almost feel like these shouldn't be something that gets digitized.....this knowledge and its presentation belongs in a tactile medium...
Which begs the question - why not open multiple windows and let the window manager take car of them?
That's an abuse of flagging. I wouldn't be surprised if the moderators have your flags going straight to /dev/null because you're using it to mark earnest content you disagree with.
I saw him at the wudaokou Starbucks giving an interview just before the Olympics. That guy is tall in real life. But he is not that popular anymore, most of the younger kids don't know who he is even if their parents do.
This looks like it has the potential to be a great resource! Not to mention it's coming out of one of the big name schools of deep learning (along with UToronto and Stanford).

I imagine, though, that anyone not well versed in college mathematics may have issues with the explanations. If you want a good introductory resource, but either haven't covered or have forgotten some of the math in this book, I would recommend one of two resources:

[1] MetaCademy: http://metacademy.org
[2] Neural Networks and Deep Learning (In Progress): http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com

The first will take you through all the math first through some online courses and textbooks, and the second is a good general purpose introduction that I recommend to anybody interested in neural nets.
It could also be fixed at the router by forcibly redirecting the DNS traffic to another DNS server.

Like in `iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p udp -s 192.168.1.100 --dport 53 -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.2`
I tried this earlier. The result:

[youtube:history] playlist Youtube Watch History: Collected 0 video ids (downloading 0 of them)
By transclusion. You'd cache the big, reusable chunks of content, and serve up a fresh transient little document that transcluded both the larger content chunks and the dynamically-included advertisements.
Still blocked by the great firewall, however.
Hmmmm. Giants lasers in space.
I'm interested in artists who release things under Creative Commons, or works that exist or are released into the public domain.

These tools would work fine for me, without risk of copyright infringement. Just because you don't use libre content doesn't mean that the rest of us should have a broken internet.
For me the main selling point is the low price and not sure it makes sense if you have something setup to do most of it. I do use mine a ton for netflix, hulu (via tab casting) and arbitray media files via the videostream chrome extension/app from the webstore.

It has a simple unintrusive ui which is nice.
You are definitely wrong about item 2. The speed of the language may not be the only deciding factor but it should be one of the deciding factors. Saying it has NOTHING to do with success is short-sighted and shows that you are giving bad advice again.
I wonder if it would be possible to use a similar system to make a usb hard disk read-only. This would make it easy to avoid malicious computers transferring pesky autoexec.inf files and things like that.
I'd say just use hyphens like YAML, but I guess I get the keyspace-advantage of using a dot. Still an aggravating change.
WIP limits should iron this out
You're absolutely right. Maybe it's a fool's errand to try and hold onto the past.

But many people consider those losses to be an immeasurable tragedy.
$35 and let's me use my phone as my remote for Netflix, HBO Go, and Hulu. Drop dead simple casting. Also it doesn't stream from the phone; it simply takes in commands so it might save your battery some.
We can say two things for sure - we do not currently know enough to have evidence of how they were painted, that these statues cross vast amounts of time, technology and fashion - and that so both of us could easily be right ...
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Yeah. Siberia melted. All glaciers are in retreat. Antarctic ice shelf is irretrievable melting as fresh water infiltrates the borders and seeps underneath. Whatever we've done, there's no stopping it now - the oceans WILL rise and we'll have to deal with that.
Hey - thanks for answering.
The price is about the same (and I have the Pi). So that's mostly an argument for 'why not' and 'you might waste $35, but nothing more'.

Netflix/Hulu - no user myself and I'm not sure if those services are available outside of the US/available in DE. Tab casting, as far as I understand that, is a Chrome feature. I'm a Firefox guy. Would I be able to do something useful with that device?

Right now it seems like it would be equivalent to the Pi w/ xbmc, in an arguably smaller/nicer package. I'm hoping for a killer feature that I haven't considered/noticed :)
> Make it simple and intuitive

Wish the back button worked. This whole section is comprised of good points, so it's a shame that this simple brochure site doesn't follow.
I'm not against reproduction if care is taken to preserve what can be preserved, as close to the original as possible while giving credit, compensating creators, etc. In your example, I think reproduction/conservation technology was available but the studios couldn't justify spending the time/money it would cost to preserve their entire library. Who would have paid for that? I don't know. Supposedly, half of Van Gogh's entire lifetime output was burned because he was too poor to find a place to store it. At the same time, I'd rather see a bug-eaten Van Gogh with fugitive reds long faded away, than a flat, lifeless high-def copy. I suppose it's a complex subject and each work is unique. Sometimes I'm thrilled when I can find an old page in "Wayback Machine" but what they manage to save is typically broken and low quality.
Hrm, then why offer the feature?

I'm kind of still a beginner when it comes to APIs, but it seems disingenuous to offer an API feature and then intentionally break it so that it can't be used.
My understanding is that if you prevent Chromecast form reaching Google's DNS servers it will allow you to provide an alternate address. Haven't had a need to try that myself, though.
a) 304 not modified. Too late.

b) That's not how the internet works. One has already wgot the entire thing.
It would be awesome if the 'examples' actually showed you how to get it going yourself. I don't see any sample HTML anywhere, and your main page's JavaScript is compressed.
Interesting. I (and others including Tim Ferris) was under the impression that eating protein for breakfast helps stimulate mental alertness and promotes weight loss. It seems that this small sample (still a RCT) does not support that hypothesis.

Studies have shown that smaller more frequent meals are important for general alertness and weight loss - the theory being that you're not maxing out your body's sugar or food load.
I don't disagree with your position -- I disagree with the implicit contention that calibre's non-standard UI improves its functionality. It is, at its heart, a file management and viewing application. What advantage does it get by spurning the notion of File and View menus? How is it made better by having a toolbar full of non-standard icons that literally duplicate the menu bar? Is it merely UX idealism that would lead one to argue that menus that have items twenty words long is needlessly suboptimal?

There are GUI conventions which at this point have been with us for three decades, and no matter what operating system you're using the vast majority of programs you use follow them. I would never argue that it's impossible for a program to be improved by deliberately flouting those conventions -- but I'd argue that you need a defensible rationale for doing so. A sound system for a large space has different tradeoffs and design considerations than a home theatre system does, but it's actually following a different set of well-considered conventions, right? I don't think calibre's UX design is well-considered at all; I think it was put together by someone who doesn't know much about UX design, isn't willing to learn, and whose reaction to even gentle criticism is to dig in his heels.
As I suggested there should not be a '-' that returns unsigned. If you want to cast it back to unsigned you would have to do it explicitly, and ideally a checked cast, though I am not averse to a more verbose unchecked cast.

I am not averse to binary operators with wrap around / modulo arithmetic, but they should be look different from the usual '+', '-' etc. This only applies to languages that do not allow overloading operators.
Or you can use the energy directly at the point you collect it

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