skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Scottish Independence Vote
How do you open doors without touching them?
You haven't so much out-pedanted me as refuted me. :)
While I've heard this argument over and over again that H1Bs are cheap labor, there is little hard evidence to support this. And while I agree, that there are cases of US visas (any visa, not just H1s) that are abused, generalizing the H1Bs as cheap labor is going too far. I speak from my own personal experience.
This phone is a joke. It has a custom version of Android (that won't let you go to the google play store) that has Amazon plastered all over it for you to purchase more from their site.

With all of the data they are mining from you, they should be paying you to use the phone.
I had to deal with my dad going in and out of hospitals for the last month now, and one of the facilities is a ~2 month old beauty (Kaiser in San Leandro).

I have never in my life seen so many motion sensor things from doors to sinks, so many sanitizer dispensers, reminders to sanitize things like keyboards/mice, and reminders/opportunities to get personal protective equipment. Like, not even at other hospitals. While he was in the ICU especially, you could tell: there was a bin for soiled linens, a bin for trash.... then a bin that was basically only used for dirty paper towels right after washing your hands because it's right next to the sink right next to the door (and sometimes there were multiple sinks in a single private room...), and usually another bin for used gowns/masks/gloves next to that since one trash bin generally wasn't enough even if it was emptied 2-3 times a day.

The dispensers especially were all over the place in your face at regular intervals in every area and at all room entrances/exits and then some, so you had no excuse not to use it (hello random visitor who told me to not push elevator buttons with my fingers because "it's a hospital and ewww germs!") While I know part of the reason for this door handle design was because people forget to use sanitizer even though they know better... even super harried ED and ICU staff were using them because it was so fast and stick-your-arm-out-in-a-second-while-leaving convenient. I don't think I saw someone _not_ do that.

I think the solution to this problem is not a door handle, but to design a hospital around this idea in the first place with the assumption that we forget - a lot of this can be retrofitted with great success.
You could always try for the O-1 visa. When everything else failed me, that's the route I went. I've now obtained an O-1 twice. It costs more, and the requirements are more stringent; but if you are able to get it, it's extremely efficient. The entire process only takes ~a month.
Cool, I'll check out the sorting issue some more.

That's great feedback as well. We'd debated whether we needed to put a heading above the celebrity carousel and decided to leave it out. I guess we might want to add that in.

Totally agree that the meat of it is down in those datatables. One of our top priorities is to figure out a way to better visualize that. It'll also make the page load much quicker since all that raw data is a lot of HTML to render and send across the wire.

We're still trying to figure out pricing and at this point just want people to use it for free so we can get feedback and iterate and improve before we think about charging. Thanks again for the great feedback.
The _DEFAULT_SOURCE change is annoying. Well maintained C codebases that use -Werror combined with _BSD_SOURCE are now broken until they add the additional _DEFAULT_SOURCE define to their build, like Go: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=c8059ac4e0ec
That's What. The headline hints at Why, but never delivers.
there are so many articles and studies out there suggesting that we are over sanitizing ourselves.

Gels and hand washing are one things, but how about actually wearing gloves and changing them when you are about to touch a patient?
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Well, I can't say much about the reality of the FBI approach, y'all seems to have that better covered.

Instead, I'm led to ask at what point will people stop using "myself" as a formal version of "me"? It isn't, it actually has a completely different usage.

In this case: "the SR Server was located by myself and another member of the CY-2". Here 'by myself' means 'on my own', not 'by me', so it directly confuses the meaning of this sentence. To me the obvious meaning is that they both work independently and found the same thing.

About the only other time you can use '-self' is in the reflexive, as in "I did this to myself", "you do this to yourself". I will never do something to yourself, and you will never do something to myself.

So, I know this is completely out of place, but if I can get one person to not do this in the future, I will make my life a bit happier. Also if I can persuade that small group of nameless people (you know who you are) that "could care less" actually means the opposite of what they think it does; and that "alot" is not a word.

I'm all for the English language evolving and expanding, but let's weed out the bad ideas which only increase confusion and bring nothing good. And seriously, "alot"? "Lot" is a three letter word, it's not hard to spell. As for "a" ...
An alternative viewpoint: everything's easy after it's been done, but it's hard up until then.

> after centuries of science as a profession, pretty much all the easy stuff has already been done.

But with the benefit of all that has already been done, shouldn't we be able to do things now that were previously impossible? In other words, "easy in 2014" != "easy in 1200".

> It's actually an argument for more cojones in science-- being willing to do bold stuff and explore "crazy" hypotheses.

Maybe doing whatever's easy is the most efficient (by time, money) way to make progress?
I get the sense that while well intentioned, the designer has not adequately observed a full range of health care activities typical in many modern hospitals. Those big swinging doors are big and swinging so that beds can pushed through quickly in an emergency.

Because emergencies can occur anywhere, [e.g. a few years ago my sister-in-law was a code blue in the CT-room -- and that's how the staff remembered her following her recovery], doors and walls and everything below a certain height must be designed for impact by a fast moving fully loaded hospital bed.

One of the reasons door handles are so big and bulky to begin with is that's where they get hit, and they get hit to prevent damaging the door. Hospitals place scrub sinks in alcoves and up high. Same with the typical hand-sanitizer stations.

The other concern with the design is that it creates places for bacteria to 'hide' from cleaning - the seams and hinges of the door handle that allow access for refills and that operate the dispensing mechanism. Of more concern is that these are places where a health-care worker will place their hands and that by incorporating these into an architectural specialty, they are not disposable and require ongoing cleaning.

Monolithic is good. Anything that requires manipulation should fit in an autoclave or be disposable.
I use TiddlyWiki (http://tiddlywiki.com/) for research notes and daily work logs. At home, I track productive time (e.g., studying, reading books) using a timer, listing the amount of time devoted to each subject/book (per day) in a tab-separated file. I have not needed any sort of organizer for scheduling or for remembering good ideas.
Precisely. This reminds me of my childhood days when I would wash my hands thoroughly with soap liquid before I ate and would close the (unclean) tap with the same hands. I was actually following this routine until one day my neighbor observed me and explained what I was doing wrong. This just seems like an improvised version of my (wrong) routine.
That is a needed piece, then you can play as it downloads instead of having to preload the entire file. Cool!
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Show HN: Juicer – Create Social Media Feeds for Your Website
Hey this is Harry - one of the founders. Not sure where you are seeing $15 to send a letter to the UK. It actually only starts $1.61 and drops w/ volume. Shortly we'll also have a fulfillment center right out of London to make it even cheaper/faster.
He has to have worked at the overseas company for one year out of the last three years for an L-1.
"Free forever or pay for extra features"

It's always annoying when you signup for free stuff and then a year later they remove free completely, basically a bait and switch.
a) This is great. Also, a friend linked me to Expedited SSL yesterday and I link to it in the bottom of this post.

b) I think its SHA-1 scanner is mistaken - it flags my site as using SHA-1, but it's SHA-2 in every cert in its chain: https://www.expeditedssl.com/simple-ssl-scanner/scan?target_...
The point is that it used to be $200 w/ 2-year contract, which is a huge price decrease.
A High-Degree Algebraic-Resistant Variant of AES [pdf]
I always feel like a curmudgeon when the topic of manned space travel comes up or really space exploration in general.

From my perspective I see literally thousands of ambitious projects yearly that go unfunded that would do mankind magnitudes more good than sending people into space or generally peering upward.

I have heard the arguments ad-nausea for why investment in space exploration has a positive ROI and find none of them compelling. No, the handful of "dreamers" that it produces is not worth the billions of dollars, No, the handful of technologies [1] that we can find terrestrial use for as a byproduct are not worth the billions of dollars spent.

If invisible braces were that big of a need we likely could have found the solution through much cheaper means.

We should be putting our money into Fusion, AGI and longevity research. Not walkabouts on the moon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
This is cool, and I'm a sucker for gravity/space simulators (as my hours logged on Celestia would prove), but it should be noted that in terms of "galaxy" it's inaccurate. Specifically, this inaccuracy (the galaxy rotation problem) is the driving force behind the hypothesis of dark matter [0].

I don't mean to be pedantic or anything. I just think it's interesting.

[0] http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/cosmo/lectures/lec17.html
Plex however relies on you either have 1) a good home connection (with no caps) or 2) a server "in the cloud(tm)". Dropbox provides the backend hosting, which makes providing the data files easier.
Implement Client-side Bug Reporting
You're absolutely right, my evidence is anecdotal. But I'm 36 years old now, and I've been in and out of hospital probably thousands of times and had medical care each day in one form or another.

So yes, anecdotes for sure. But that's one hell of a lot of anecdotes. :-)
That's exactly the reason I don't use Jetbrains' products (font rendering looks like crap in them on Linux) and stick with Eclipse. I installed the non-official patched JVM to get the font rendering to look good but I'm not going to depend on a product that requires me to tweak the JVM just to make the product look good. My ability to tweak the JVM might go away at any point since I can only patch OpenJDK and Jetbrains recommends the Oracle JDK. Then what? Suck it up and look at the ugly fonts? No, thanks! I'd rather use apps that use SWT and render fonts natively.
The couple of Swing apps I use are open source and if I'm sufficiently motivated to continue using them I can port them to SWT or find some other compromise. I wish more people would feel the same, then, maybe, Jetbrains would find a solution, but ,alas, it seems too few people care for Jetbrains to take notice.
The main point of interest is "what's on the dark side of the moon?"
I think that the way you handle malicious actors now is that people know that they have a laser in their eyes. This would be more like "what if someone could just make another car or obstacle invisible to you, and you have no way of knowing it."

I agree it is a very rare event, and will always continue to be. But it would need to be handled, and handled in ways other than, "Hi, here's a 100 car pile-up."

Similarly, and probably less rarely, you'd need to handle scenarios in which another actor wasn't malicious per se, but faulty to a degree that it was functionally malicious. Of course, we've always had to handle the idea that somebody might be driving a car with bad brakes, and that's dangerous enough, but before now a car with bad brakes wouldn't also make the brakes bad for ten cars around them. I think that's worthy of some contemplation.
> > Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.

> And there was much rejoicing.

Could you explain why?
Java programmers aren't too lazy to think about resource usage. They have just chosen to devote their intellectual resources to solving problems on a larger scale than memory management. This is a perfectly appropriate decision for a very large number of problem domains.

This is what good tools allow people to do.
Did you miss the visual part?
It's time to split Linux in two
Android (Stock) Browser: cross-domain cookie/response extraction module
Thanks for the feedback! I actually did notice that issue you mentioned on an iPad this morning (adding a new link to the top yesterday broke it).

In terms of the data collection, currently it's a mix of manual and automated. We're pushing to get is all automated so it'll be easier to maintain and expand.
better ensure it is indeed your music, because Dropbox will likely report infringements of copyright
The first release since eglibc merged back to glibc, cool.
Shout – A web IRC client
Probably Synthetic Aperature Radar - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_aperture_radar

RF is probably radio frequency

INS is probably inertial navigation system - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system
You use a hash function (e.g. SHA256) to make the hash of the page and a signature algorithm (like RSA 4096) to sign it.
Which three? I only see SAR and INS, which I also don't know.
Email me for a MacBook Pro for only $0.99! (plus a $100 per month espresso beans subscription)
1. Has anyone ever audited a non-trivial computer program and found it to be free of errors? (I'm sure I've created trivial spreadsheets with no errors.)

2. What if spreadsheets started with 0s in every cell, would this "solve" the problem? I don't think so, and yet it would address this argument.
Could this be a hint at a larger business move? Such as, unique pricing by customer?
Ask HN: Is the CL hunchentoot still a toy?
http://weitz.de/hunchentoot/
How to encrypt cookies in hunchentoot? I can't find any code about that.

Which web server is the best for production use?
Longevity is a great way for billions of people to witness the impact of the next Dinosaur Killer. Not so much for making sure the species survives.
Sorry. TrueCrypt.org has been excluded from the Wayback Machine
These handles wont qualify under the Americans with disabilities act. It needs to be a lever now for the disabled.
A simple and easy jQuery plugin used to add page transition on css animations
Devs never test on Firefox :(

http://cl.ly/XRtZ

a {
outline: 0;
}
If You Only Do One Thing – Part 7
> Emacs AFAIK can do all those things, with different degrees of integration depending on the language.

Did you miss the visual and semantic adjectives?

I know UNIX since Xenix and DG-UX days, before Linux was a thing and Emacs was my editor to go up to 2005.

Unless it has changed radically, no it cannot do all these features. Half of them, yes.

Sure you can program them yourself, to get as end result some text interface to ELisp functions.

But I no longer want to spend time doing that.

> For Lisp languages there is simply no other option.

Only if you don't want to pay for proper Common Lisp environments. They can do so much more.
Haha, success!!!

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Connected to 10.153.218.24.
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You have mail.

Value of TERM has been set to "xterm".
WARNING: YOU ARE SUPERUSER !!

# mail
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> Another way to think about SHA2 and SHA3 is that it's entirely possible that SHA3 could fall before SHA2 does. They are unrelated algorithms.

Very good point, though I would expect SHA2 to see far more research on weakening it. It's been around a lot longer, and its wider deployment makes it a much higher value target. (Is SHA-3 supported anywhere right now?)
Now that we're sadly past the era of "Big Science", we need to rely on business models to get anything done. This includes trips to the moon.

I would argue though, that even if Big Science were to make a comeback, manned Moon or Mars missions would not be an efficient use of those precious dollars. There is much more pressing and productive research that is starved for funding at the moment. Robotic space exploration is cheap and effective, and scientifically far more useful.

I say this as one of the biggest space nuts I know. Let SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace do their thing and develop commercial space. We'll get our Moon bases eventually, it'll just take time to grow the economic infrastructure.
I haven't seen that paper but in my experience with thousands of Xen servers, the CPU overhead is less than 5% (typically about 3% or so), not sure what parameters are discussed when talking about how badly VM behave (obv. there's I/O contention for several VMs on a server etc)
Good for Jekyll and Pelican sites.
Ha! Indeed - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission#Extraterrito...
Dropped almost as fast as the HTC First/Facebook phone! (which was actually a great phone, by the way)
Thanks for the note guys. Anything for our valuable customers.
Don't they only do that when placed in shared folders?

Some of my Dead could maybe cause a problem (though it was all once freely available on archive.org).
SearchNWork launches public beta
Key problem solved for customers:
People currently employed may want to look for another job, and they would like to avoid jeopardizing their current job situation while doing it.

Recruiters are trying to fill in positions and contact anyone whose profile may fit the job description they are recruiting for, regardless if they are looking for a job or not. This process takes a long time and yields low conversion rates (in terms of candidates actually answering the recruiter’s inquiry).

Products / Services:
SearchNWork™ has developed a unique patent-pending recruiting platform in which a job seeker can create an anonymous profile with his or her skills that is searchable by recruiters accessing the same platform. The candidates can be messaged and contacted anonymously through the platform for potential fits into different roles until he or she decides to reveal their identity to the recruiter once they find it appropriate.

This system lets candidates confidentially “raise their hand” and convey to the world in an anonymous way that they are interested / considering and/or open to other job opportunities minimizing the risk of their current employer finding out.
Using SVG to Shrink a PNG by over 400%
This entire article is about Why. Read the "An attack on SHA-1 feels plenty viable to me" section for the most info.
Fixed (YC S14) is hiring Rails engineer #1 – help create “Justice as a Service”
still not worth it
Show HN: Air-Control.com makes instant changes to native apps iOS Android
The difference between anecdote and systematically gathered data to resolve a question isn't one of how extensive the anecdote is, its about how representative it is. (And, of course, there's other issues with anecdote about what other people think, since what that really is is is one persons inferences about what lots of other people think.)
Somehow I feel saddened that "paper-friendliness" can be a head-line feature for (relatively) static documents.

Of course that commentary is more directed at the state of web tech than Creddle specifically.
Your point was being harassed by updates.

As for spyware, oh it is so easy to convince Joe user to install it, even on UNIX systems. Social engineering makes wonders.
A well-written face-to-face interview with Snowden published recently: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/

He seems very resigned to his fate of hiding - I hope in his future he may safely walk outside again.
I added links to both papers to the bottom, and removed the "we'll probably need to upgrade" to SHA-3 sentence fragment.
New Paypal video could hint about definitive Bitcoin integration
Asynchronous JavaScript and Promises
Meals equipped with GPS
Ask HN: Do you use oDesk/ elance / Fiverr?
We are trying to solve some pain points that exist with using these marketplaces. What can be fixed?

Contractor selection...are there too many choices?
Contractor accountability...do you worry about getting poor work?
Does it take too long to receive back finished work?
Is it too hard to post on multiple marketplaces?
Sounds good. If I didn't get coffee for free at work, I'd probably spend more than $3.33 a day on it.
The lisp internet is horrific
Was glibc the project with the super-toxic guy involved?
I imagine this is to offload some inventory before the iPhone 6 announcement. My bet is Amazon will sell very few phones after tomorrow.