skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Artificial Spleen Removes Ebola, HIV Viruses and Toxins From Blood

The reservoir for HIV isn't the blood; it's the brain, lymph nodes & bone marrow. So cleaning blood isn't a cure (it's been tried many times).

> able to clear toxins, fungi and deadly pathogens such as Ebola from human blood

Except when it can't. Like how does it pick active virus out of a living T-cell without destroying all the non-infected T-cells?

> When antibiotics are used to kill them, dying viruses release toxins

Antibiotics don't kill viruses.

> dying viruses release toxins in the blood that begin to multiply quickly

Toxins aren't alive and don't multiply.

> rats that had been infected by toxins and viruses such as E. coli

E.coli isn't a virus or a toxin.

It's almost as if someone wanted to create and Onion-esque parody of breathless "wonder medicine" articles that shamefully misrepresent the research. I wonder if the researchers can sue IBT for damaging their professional reputation.
I mostly create new accounts anytime I make a set of posts from one of the various computers I control around the world. This one happened to be available still, so I'm using it.

You missed my point entirely, though. I'm not on anyone's side. I think it's obvious that the U.S. government has some purpose in allowing/planning these leaks, it's just not evident yet. Basically, there's more to the story than what we're being exposed to through the media.
Worth watching again, the introduction to the Wolfram language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik
> I thought they were all phased out in favor of the radio-wave types.

They are.
Google wants you to use https but feedburner doesn't accept it
Well, according to the news, Apple paid $100 million for the rights of "giving away" those copies.
We reimplemented the TeX formatting algorithms in JavaScript. Most of them are in https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX/blob/master/src/buildTree.js (there are references to the pages from the TeXbook that the algorithms are on).

Also, we attempt to have relatively good error handling! If you open up the javascript console on the main page and type in a bad expression, you can see what the errors we throw look like. We're not planning on supporting anything other than LaTeX syntax for now though, unfortunately.
a pump-and-dump scheme is not a ponzi scheme
I can't get it to work, hope this helps:

Firefox 32:

ICE failed, see about:webrtc for more details

Nightly 35a1:

Mandatory/optional in createOffer options is deprecated! Use {} instead (note the case difference)!

setLocalDescription called without success/failure callbacks. This is deprecated, and will be an error in the future.

ICE failed, see about:webrtc for more details

this._pc is null bundle.js:25705

Chrome 37:

Uncaught, unspecified "error" event. bundle.js:9134
I used to describe my preferred family of languages as:

- C when I absolutely had to (kernel/modules/plumbing).

- Python for scripting and broad accessibility.

- Haskell when I had the choice and I knew everybody who would work on the project.

I was skeptical of Rust when it first came out, due in large part to the many different kinds of pointers it originally had, many of which involved significant manual memory management. But now, with a strong static type system, garbage collection, pattern matching, associated types, and many other features, Rust is looking like a serious contender to replace all three of those languages for me.

Still waiting to see if it develops a strong following, community, and batteries-included library ecosystem, but I need to start doing more experiments with Rust.

Disappointing to see yet another language-specific package management system (Cargo), though.
You have redefined a word to be entirely useless and then get upset when other people don't subscribe to your new definition of the word.
Please don't post purely political articles to HN, i.e. stories that cover the ins and outs of daily politics.
HN stories need to have some intellectually interesting quality beyond this.
Why not pick up some web development skills yourself?

This will allow the project to advance and make you more attractive to programmers because it shows a willingness to do whatever it takes to make the idea a reality.

This could be important because programmers often encounter people who value the idea over its execution.
Microsoft announces 'Windows 9' event in San Francisco on September 30th
Could you expand or provide a link?
No. The way most people use the term it has a meaning. It's the redefinition that is meaningless, and should thus be rejected as useless. That doesn't mean that people always reason correctly about it, but that should be confronted directly not by playing semantic games.
> No one, not even Steve Jobs sits down and says "My life mission is to benefit humanity".

Musk might be considered a counter-example here. In fact, part of his mission is literally to "make a better battery". Of course in depends on how much you buy into his mythology. Certainly he could have comfortably retired after Paypal though. (Rather than moving on to run two groundbreaking companies - something I'm not sure how one person manages to successfully do.)
Rust does not have any garbage collection, to be clear. All your other features are correct though :)

(We have previously said "opt-in GC" but that was a lie. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312327 for more.)
What if "obsession" isn't the right word? What if you used the word "passion" instead?
New restaurant tech lets servers order, swipe, print from iPod
Why should someone self-immolate in the name of a cause to which he disclaims being a leader when he has a chance to sell his for-profit business on optimal terms with no strings and with an immediate ticket to full independence free of the headaches of having to bear entrepreneurial and ideological burdens that he felt himself unfit to carry?

The question answers itself. There is no earthly reason why he should have. None whatever.

Of course, the price of being a cult figure is many who follow you do not really care who you are but care a great deal about who they think you are. If you are a vital symbol for the cause, then all that you do must conform to the symbol or you become a betrayer, a hypocrite, or both. And that is unforgivable.

And so we arrive at the world of caricature where symbols rule the day, even at the expense of facts. Buck and kick all you want, there is no winning in that world once you fail to conform.

That, I think, is the point of this piece. In effect, it says: "You have made me larger than life. Well, I'm not. I am who I am and I love what I do. If you have made me out to be something more, I can't help that. I am just like the rest of you. No more and no less. If you want me to shape my life by what you think, you will be disappointed. I will shape my own life regardless of your expectations."

Who knows if this really is betrayal or hypocrisy? Usually the reality is much more complex than the caricatures make it out to be but no one really knows except those directly connected with the events.

As for me, I have no ideological axe to grind and can simply stand back and say, as many people likely feel, "that is one helluva ride for one so young to make."
I'm pretty sure that you'd be able to glide some distance without power. A human powered helicopter, on the other hand, seems particularly dangerous.
Yeah, I should have said that more clearly. Automatic memory management (never having to call free), not garbage collection. Which is arguably more awesome: whenever the compiler can figure out at compile time when you'll stop using memory, it can statically decide to reclaim it there.
Modding is a very popular part of Minecraft.

TO mod Minecraft you have to:-

i) find the right mod - it has to be for the correct version of Minecraft

ii) Locate the Minecraft jar; expand it.

iii) Copy the mod into the correct folder

iv) Delete a file (if you haven't already)

v) recompress

vi) test

vii) do all this again for the next mod you want to apply

A better mod interface would be lovely.
The Infinity Machine (2006)
I honestly have no idea what your problem is with my comment anymore. Are you unhappy that I didn't mention the other things needed for success under "talent"?
Ask HN: Does anyone have experience with WrapBootstrap?
I submitted a few themes a couple of weeks ago, but they seem to be 'accepted/still pending'. Does anyone know how long they typically take to get reviewed and/or accepted or rejected?

I appreciate any answers here.
Seems broken, can't sign up. Account Creation error.
This is kind of sad. Poor cold kitties.
How the next version of IE, codenamed 'Spartan,' might support extensions
CoffeeShop – The World's First HTML5 Shell
CoffeeShop, the world's first HTML5 shell, is now online.

-- "That's pretty bad ass." -- Jeremy Ashkenas

HTML5 Shell
Everything you can do in a browser. In a shell.

Fully Varnished
Use CoffeeScript and Markdown for everything.

CoffeeScript Tracebacks
You never need to debug compiled JavaScript.

Built on Ace
Supports multiline input, syntax highlighting and everything
else that Ace does.

Hackable
Edit scripts in local storage, including a config file that gets
executed each time the shell loads.

Gist Integration
Publish, push and clone scripts through GitHub. All published
scripts can be cloned by every user.

Show Off
There's a special version of the shell you can share by URL. It
allows anyone to wrap published gists as little, standalone web
scripts. You can share example code, like JSFiddle, or just do
Astroids again.

Shell Foo
Cosh defines a small collection of functions that use Coffee's
optional brackets, providing an API that's like shell scripting,
but more ninja.

Sweet Runtime
The SugarJS Library is applied wholesale, so native types all
have awesome methods out the box. You also have jQuery
and a ton of other stuff available.

Documented
Built in, interactive documentation.

Self Compiling
Cosh is able to build itself from source on page load, so you
can hack on it without installing any dependencies, even on
Windows.

Free and Free
Free to use and GPL licensed.

shell: https://shell-cosh.appspot.com/
project: https://github.com/carlsmith/coffeeshop
Infrared Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy Supplies
> Green threading: We are removing support from green threading from the standard library and moving it out into an external package.

I only ever looked at Rust from a 500 foot view while toying with it at a Hackathon, but I had no clue it had so many different types of threading models. This seems like a step in the right direction, indeed. If Task is going to your unit of concurrent execution, as much transparency around that as possible is a good thing.
Not to be mixed up with the 1989 North Sea Black Triangle aircraft sighting by Chris Gibson.
Another parent here. This summer, we took the kids to Paris. 10 y.o. son is wearing a Minecraft t-shirt on the street. A group of Chinese kids in a tourist group walked by. They saw his shirt, and I understood one word they said: "Minecraft".
I run Windows 8.1 through Parallels with Visual Studio 2013 and I have not had any issues on my 15" 2012 rMBP.

I do need to point out that I had been using VMWare Fusion for Windows and everything was a bit "fuzzy" like you describe. But once I switched to using Parallels everything (especially text) was incredibly sharper.

I can't really give any recommendation for using Bootcamp. The last time I tried it the touch pad driver was horrible compared to using a vm within OSX. If that has improved since 2011(I think) someone let me know.
This post was penalized by the voting ring detector.

All: getting people to upvote your post in most cases causes penalties to kick in. Please don't do this. Let your work speak for itself.
Is there ay way to jump to levels or replay the demo on the tutorial pages?
What Google’s first enterprise product manager can teach about product roadmaps
Fligoo – Personalized Recommendation Engine
I'm pretty sure that if it is a cash deal that he will convert to Euros to get rid of the $ exchange rate risk. If the deal contains a stock component that's a double risk.
Your error is that people don't study physics to get their understanding of physical laws. We learn, from trial and error.

Jobs was clearly talking about studying theoretical physics from a textbook.
You'd be essentially wilfully ignoring a massive security hole which would allow complete "pwnage" of the box.
Chef's Adam Jacob on Configuration Management and Company Culture
I was pleasantly surprised when this wasn't a bot unleashed on the 'cloud' to recognize human faces.

The resulting images do make an interesting exhibit of modern techno-art.
I am also a subscriber. It's just always been there in my library. tons of crap from kanye, john mayer, xzibit etc.. I think I've finally got most of it cleared out. It's taken me two hours to delete everything they added via the web interface.
> Built by mpgarate with the Readability API.

Is noted in the footer.
This gets much harder if you have a family and all want to opt out. Of course, a crying or annoyed kid usually provides sufficient motivation to TSA to not keep you waiting as long as you stay courteous (as much as possible given the conditions).
>The farmers apparently take the drug themselves, at pretty high dosages, saying that it allows them to work without getting tiree.

That's insane. Tramadol is among the worst painkillers to use recreationally, which is why it's often the next line of analgesic therapy after NSAIDs and before hydrocodone.

It is a comparatively weak mu-opioid agonist, so the dose a person would have to take to get a prototypical opioid high, likely quadruple a normal prescribed dose at minimum, is pushing the margin of safety.

I am not advocating drug use here, but if you're dead set on getting high, please use something else- namely something with a higher mu-affinity that would require a lower dose, and ideally something that's not combined with acetaminophen or other NSAIDs.
I'm definitely an idea guy, but after years of careful observation, I've learned there are two types of idea guys: The vast majority have shitty ideas that aren't thought through very well. Yes, they come up with lots of ideas, but these ideas seem to be loose ideas not connected to a "bigger picture".

When I come up with new business ideas, I don't consider them ideas until I've strategized a realistic monetization plan along with initial traction ideas.

Oftentimes, the main idea cannot be worked on right away. You need to gain traction on a smaller subset of the idea and strategize your growth until you reach your original plan.
Break Out from the Comfort Zone – Networking for Designers
I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm saying it's well within MS' way of doing things. It could be fun...
Presidential Innovation Fellows announced
Show HN: The Little Book
Bangladesh bans Bitcoin transactions
> …in Notch's case, it happened with EULA and 3rd party server support.

What, you don't think that people who have paid for a game client and server have the right to run that client and server? That's Freedom 0, and it's fundamental. Attempting to violate it with any sort of EULA is simply wrong.
Mobile App Development – Complete Approach
It's not about the difficulty, it's about the invasion of what is considered personal space. Even if people realize that your iCloud is on Apple's machines, they expect to be managed and viewed by them alone.

To the pissed off, this was like your landlord entering your home while you were away and leaving a CD as a gift. And your landlord is a multinational company, not exactly an intimate friend.
Why the Govtech Fund Is a Really Big Deal
I suspect it is also true that comments are more of a liability than an asset.

"He has no comments, he must have been busy doing something else interesting." vs "He has 500 comments, and shows he isn't interested in considering other approaches"
Yes, that's correct. However, the difference in damage that that will do is still not clear. It's possible that skin tissue is more susceptible to damage than other kinds of tissue. (Or perhaps it's less susceptible.) Moreover, low-energy X-rays may do different kinds of damage than relatively high-energy X-rays or cosmic rays. Just looking at rem ignores a lot of variables about the long-term biological effects of the ionizing radiation.
Believe in the gift of vision: Glass app converts images to speech for blind
Hoops are good, yes, and I don't disagree with the decision to reclassify it. The extra time and expense of new doctor appointments, urine tests, pill counting, questioning, etc. for someone who has been on the drug responsibly for a long time can just be aggravating.
MIT Made a Smartphone Control a Computer with a Simple Touch
Great article - worth reading.
Notch has said that he wants to continue working but that he finds the millstone of Minecraft too weighty.

He is getting away from Minecraft and Mojang precisely so that he can perfect his craft and continue to work.

He's not leaving Mojang so that he can go and kick puppies or club seals. I find the calls on him to do something noble to be deeply unpleasant.
Wow, that's really weird to hear. Google's never done that to me.
The idea that schizophrenia is a collection of different diseases is not new at all. When I did my neuropsych degree in the early 90s, the lecturers commented that schizophrenia was likely to be at least four different things (this article suggests eight). Their commentary was that schizophrenia was a sort of dumping ground where people got put if they didn't fit into a different diagnosis, and I remember the run-down of frequency of symptoms - the most common symptom exhibited by schizophrenics, auditory hallucinations, was only seen in 69% of patients.

The idea of the four broad groups at the time (from very rusty memory here) stemmed from plus/minus showing cognitive/perceptual disturbances (like auditory hallucinations) and plus/minus showing social withdrawal symptoms, along with a couple of other things I can't recall.

It's not to cast aspersions on the article - mental health research is always good - just to say that this idea has been bouncing around for quite a while.
> I loved it when I saw it and will try it for sure.

Thanks!

> <input> actually has some light validation

I toyed around with the idea of putting this in Min but I figured that with :valid's low browser support and the fact that it's invalid CSS I decided not to put it in Min and rather in a plugin.

> Forms are more consistent

In Chromium on Linux at least there are actually visual bugs with forms - the black dot in the radiobutton is misaligned and the <select> looks messed up in some browser/OS combos.

> Responsive grid (mobile first)

Actually, Min also has a responsive, mobile-first grid.

> Built on top of Normalize, so many of the elements have actually a lot of intensive external testing

Min is tested on several times as many browser combos as Normalize is.

> Default <select> that looks nice

Min 2.0 will likely have a <select> that matches the text field styling.

> in most other frameworks you have to be constantly checking the documentation to see what class names to use.

With Min the class names are extremely simple - .table for tables, .btn for buttons, etc. Fairly standard stuff (same as Bootstrap uses) I think invasiveness is useful for some contexts but I don't think it's the right choice for Min.

> The style in general looks more personalized with Picnic

With Min you have to override substantially fewer styles so I'd say that Min is substantially more personalizable.

Some of Min's cons:

* No Javascript plugins (which I consciously decided against, but many people like them)

* Unprescriptive design - bad if you're lazy, but something I chose to do to avoid the "yet another BS site" phenomenon

* Another commenter made an interesting point about the grid system, I'll have to find it.

I can't edit my comment now but thanks for letting me know the real size.

Anyway, great work for only a week. The invasive perspective is really interesting and I'll have to think about that more.
Watch 'The Daily Show' review a camera phone in 2004
Ah. The most useful reply by some distance. And now what I just read makes more sense.
WiFi + NFC = New Relic's FutureStack14 Conference Badges
I upgraded a couple when it was first released but a few basic features not supported so had to abandon the attempt.

I've tried copying a problem sheet to a new file and first impressions are positive. Thanks.
Not in C. Rust is, as you say, intended to be memory safe.

That means it has the hope of getting it right.
He was already really rich (see: PayPal).
What gave you that impression? I did not get that vibe at all. What is best for the overall country seemed like his primary concern.
I've flown in New Zealand where you don't need to talk to anyone or go through even a metal detector before boarding. I felt safer and happier than flying in the US.
Ask HN: Do people still read the web in F-Shaped patterns?
Simple question...
Are people still paying attention web pages in f-shaped patterns? http://www.nngroup.com/articles/f-shaped-pattern-reading-web-content/

Has the shape changed with the ubiquity of smart phones and tablets?

Anyone run a high traffic site and have data or can share an insight?

Has new research been done? Most articles I read still cite Nielsen and use Nielsen's graphics...
Artificial Intelligence and Oversight at the Bleeding Technical Edges
Have you seen the size of a Moto360? It is thick!

Both the OMAP3 and OMAP4 are 12mmx12mm BGA packages, with pop-memory (package on package). This does add to the height, but the alternative is to put the SDRAM on the board which chews up a lot of board real estate.

OMAP3 isn't the best processor to use for a watch. ... I don't thin Motorola should be skimping on the processor for their first watch,...

You still haven't explained what the OMAP3 watch doesn't do now, that it could do with an OMAP4.

There's already enough competition in the plastic trashy wrist-wear segment.

That's actually likely to be a problem with the Apple watch too. If it doesn't prove to be too popular, then will future versions of iOS support it? Sure, 8 will, and possibly 9. But after that? In a couple years there will be a watch with some other whiz-bang feature and everyone will want to upgrade to that.

These tiny wearable computers will suffer just as much obsolescence as our phones do. A Seiko mostly just tells time, and the standards for don't change much.
Got a software design problem? Call a philosopher
Well, a PR firm with cups of tea and hugs.
And, presumably, get cartoon-style dollar signs in their eyes seconds afterwards.
I give my aging lab Tramadol. It is easier on his liver than other painkillers. Vets routinely proscribe Tremadol as a painkiller to animals after surgery, as it's not hard on their organs.

But that doesn't mean you should take it. Stick to beer.
Rust looks fantastic, and has a lot of things I wish I could do while in a higher level language like F#.

I just wish Rust was a bit less verbose. Requiring, for instance, type annotations on function arguments because it's sometimes helpful is such a weird decision. Let the programmer decide when an annotation is needed. This gets annoying when you get into functions with complex arguments. Especially for local functions where the signature could be messy, but the limited scope means annotations just clutter things. I'm not sure why Rust forces us to compromise here.
Looks like something I'd be interested in reading. I would really appreciate a sample chapter as it helps me to determine if I'll benefit from the book.
thanks for this! cleared so many clouds around applying.
Why are employers linked to healthcare? The idea is clearly insane, if you consider the recent court cases about christian companies (an oxymoron in itself) denying to pay for contraception (as part of the health plan, which contents are increasingly regulated).

This isn't how it works in countries with functioning public healthcare systems.
Government could have fined Yahoo trillions of dollars