skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harlem Shake Getting Viral in Indian IT Employees
NSW Police caught using spyware
One thing I like to do with Chrome is open the web inspector and set "max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto" to the root html tag on sites like this.
Kim Dotcom is doing a live event in Auckland, NZ, that starts in 20 minutes, which is supposedly going to touch on a lot of this.
Genetic algorithms for modelling and optimisation (2005)
that was CIA time and they since learned that plain money works best even with the most zealot radical
I doubt its advanced, their customer list doesn't include well established players like China, Russia and the USA. In fact, this might be the cheapest militarized malware you can get. The only way to go cheaper is to use a TeamViewer RAT.
I fully agree with you. This is the rational decision to make, and the best one, considering the fallibility of humans.

At the same time though, we need to realize that this is primarily about protecting the health professionals and care givers, and only indirectly the sick. (The sick will of course indirectly profit from professionals being just that - professional, but only in the "long term".)

We should have no delusions about willingly letting people die, in the name of professionalism, just to have a clean concience and the ability to claim to have done nothing wrong.
Every winter in England there are reports of the "winter vomiting bug" aka norovirus, and people have a fair (double digits) chance of getting it. From memory over the last ten years I've caught that unpleasant virus a handful of times.

It is easily spread by sick people touching things (eg handle bars in the tube) which you then touch, before touching something that goes into your mouth. If Ebola came to the uk without major changes in behaviour it would likely infect millions of active, young people via London.
The file in question was a PDF - can it detect that?
Machine code duplication is spending a few extra megabytes on perfectly valid, if duplicate, machine code.

Source code duplication is a risk of spending an hour, or maybe a day, of developer's time to detect the duplication, change it in concert in several places, with an occasional need of detecting and fixing a subtle discrepancy between the copies.

RAM is $0.015 per megabyte. Developer time is $50 per hour.
Live where? Is there a link? Thanks!
I think the "Dark Ages" of the desktop was inconsequential due to adoption of the internet.
It might not be the most advanced out there, but I wouldn't belittle the surveillance ability of countries like Pakistan, Qatar, Bahrain, and South Africa.

Surprised to see Italy on there, though.

https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles4/customers.html
These predictions were very commonplace by then. In 1983, TCP/IP came along and MILNET was split off. This is commonly considered to mark the start of the Internet. First .com domain was registered in 1985.
Mathematical auction for a stand-up mathematician's new book
http://kim.com/
> How exactly can one do market research and arrive at something like the Mac?

I guess you could get a bunch of different people to come in and try to use it, and do different stuff? See how they react to it, survey them afterwards?
This seems to be the usual knee jerk military can solve everything response you would expect from Americans, and also African governments who are always eager for handouts from Western governments.

So you want to send the military in? Do you have any idea of the size of the area in which you would have to deploy them, coupled with the panic their presence might cause, together with the issues which would be caused by militia factions which would inevitably arise to tackle what they would rightfully see as an invasion of their countries?

What did the UN manage to do after the Haitian earthquake that the Haitians couldn't have done themselves, besides introducing cholera to the region and nearby countries?

What African countries need to do is what they would have to do if there was no possibility of outside support. In this case it is not even a question of central government intervention when it is more a question of dealing with Ebola at the local level or county / village level.

Moving infected people to centralized locations for treatment means more travel and the possibly infected relatives and carers for the ill spreading the disease more, unless they are transported by specialist units. The process of travelling to report an infection and calling for a specialist unit itself carries the risk of the traveller spreading the disease let alone the person with the symptoms.

The only way to contain Ebola is to give the families or communities of infected people the knowledge, the drugs, the equipment and the protective clothing to they need to treat themselves and the economic support they will need when they are isolated, which needs to be done at a local level. That means sustained public education via television and video, protective clothing for carers and disease detection kits.
You didn't get the point of the argument.

What do you do when something with 51% mortality in 15 days comes up? And then something with 49% in 13 days .. where do you draw the line? And what do you do when people continue to cry out?
This is sort of the crux of the problem though. Top ten kitten lists of the kind Buzzfeed specializes in, are a much better deal in terms of eyeballs/dollar although they have a much lower social utility than say, a well reported piece about the war in Syria or the spread of Ebola.

The NYT and the Guardian are trying a bunch of different approaches to improve their income. Honestly, a world where even a world class newspaper like the NYT struggles to be profitable is a scary place.
The certificate authority can issue certificates for absolutely anything (any domain) they want and your software will happily claim it's valid if the CA is trusted.

That is why the CA-system is a joke, you only need to compromise any of the CA's that are trusted by default to fool all certificate users.
> no evidence, no indication that the Liberian state would resist UN or US aid

It is not official action that the parent commenter is referring to. Individuals themselves could treat actions they see as counter to their religion and belief as very hostile.
Huh, I had used MP3fs or something like it years ago. I see this project's code dates back to 2006, so maybe this was it? Glad to see it lives on :)
So why not just use JavaScript to begin with?
My main gripe is with "static" dashboards, i.e. dashboards that don't let you drill down (e.g. to investigate an interesting spike), and has disconnected widgets (i.e. applying a filter to one widget doesn't affect the other widgets).
Not sure what I think of this. In particular, it seems to be hard-coding effects instead of deriving them from quantum-like rules.

This is particularly obvious if you watch the tutorial video for "quantum teleportation" [2]. Although there is a layout to building the teleporter, it doesn't seem to be related to how actual quantum teleportation is implemented. And the final effect is just a location changer, as opposed to the dual of superdense coding that can be used for fun things like "storing" quantum bandwidth [3].

To be fair, the video and the site[1] both mention this fact:

> qCraft is not a simulation of quantum physics, but it does provide ‘analogies’ that attempt to show how quantum behaviors are different from everyday experience.

I guess I'm just not sure what the goal is. It's a cool mod, but I feel like it will just contribute to the general confusion over what quantum mechanics is. People who use it will learn the names of some quantum things, but have only a vague or even misleading idea of what those things really are unless they go looking elsewhere.

1: http://qcraft.org/about/

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cebxtWnKx5k&index=4&list=PLU...

3: http://strilanc.com/quantum/2014/05/11/Storing-Bandwidth-wit...
SignalR is not really baked into Asp.Net, it's only a gem (=Nuget Package) away though.
This article confuses success with raising money.

And you're confusing a single event with the entire process of running a project. The fact is raising money is a success, because a success is simply a positive event. You need a lot of them to successfully complete a project. Equally, failure is an event - you can have lots of failures and still succeed.
Technically the entangled particles should be showing INVERSE states of each other, not the same state. But this looks amazing and makes me really happy, quantum needs to become mainstream.
Plus all those dynamically typed languages which are intrinsically built on the concept of generics (JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby). /sarcasm Nobody uses them because nobody needs generics.
The one application I know for 4D collision detection is 3D continuous collision detection. If two 3D objects are moving, you can parameterize their movement through time to obtain a 4D shape. If those movements are only translational, and the two shapes are convex and have a support function, then testing for contact is easy (e.g. using GJK). However if those movements contain rotations, the resulting 4D shape will be concave so interference detection may be hard.

I do not think anybody actually uses this method though.
If I were to download this, I'd do it with some masking tape over my webcam, booted from Kali Linux, inside a Windows VM from a library or coffee shop.
I'm sure you probably know most of this but as a brief refresher for other viewers, here's the basic process. So when you want to buy a SSL cert for yourdomain.com you first generate your private key yourself securely on your computer and don't share this private key with any third party ever. You then need to prove that you really are the owner of yourdomain.com and that the new key you just made really is the legitimate key for your site. The way you do this is by creating a certificate signing request that includes your public key and the domain that you want to use that key with. You then need to get a certificate authority to sign a certificate that says that anyone going to yourdomain.com can use your new public key until 2016.

The big problem with this is that even though nobody knows your private key, they don't know your public key either, they have to rely on knowing the CA's public key and accept whatever public key they get when they connect so long as the CA says that the key is kosher. So let's say the NSA wants to track what you're doing on yourdomain.com, they just send a secret court order to VeriSign saying that they must turn over their private key that they use to sign certificates because computer security is a terrorist threat. Now they just use their own public key and send you a cert signed by VeriSign saying that the NSA key is the correct key to use. Because the NSA has more or less priviledged network access they can intercept traffic going to the IP address for yourdomain.com and just do a standard MITM but replacing the good SSL cert with their bad one.

What complicates things further is that there are tons and tons of CAs out there that are trusted by default and there's no isolation (AFAIK) such as "only these 10 CAs can sign certs for .com" so when the Iranian government wants to dish out some Orwellian justice on it's citizens they now have that huge mountain of targets to choose from because getting into one CA in the world (like DigiNotar) means that they can essentially break vanilla SSL until that CA's public key is blacklisted and all of the clients are aware of the revocation.

Just as a disclaimer, this was rather simplified but I feel like that's close enough to get the point across.
Ukraine War Military: Russian Offensive Against Mariupol Thwarted
This would probably be a very large factor in the score. I scored a 7 on a calibrated Dell UltraSharp (IPS) monitor at work. If I were to do this same test on my cheap uncalibrated Acer at home, I don't believe my score would be nearly as good. Even the difference between a calibrated and an uncalibrated cheaper LCD should be noticeable to most people.
> break out of the VM

I wonder if this has happened yet?
Yes, the man was starving, but thats also another thing the military forces are good at, supply chains. Also, the idea of having armed security forces, is less about shooting people with regular ebola, I do try to point out in my other comment that I'm in favour of armed forces when talking about a hypothetical airborne ebola strain.
No, I meant it. There are quite a lot of VC's and angel investors throwing money around (gold rush), so instead of being the companies trying to get investment (digging for gold), product hunt is connecting investors to products (selling pickaxes), though I guess they must be successful enough to be invested in, so that sort of spoils the metaphor I guess.
Congrats on passing CFA Level 1, however I would politely ask that you consider that valuation is an art and not a science. I have done lots of work valuing illiquid shares, for example series A in tech companies, as well as established SME businesses. Of course this is a whole different game to valuing publicly listed liquid stocks and their options--which I trade. I also respectfully reject that the best answer to "what is something worth?" is "whatever someone will pay". I know it sounds similarly cryptic but my answer is, "it depends". Therefore IMHO it's best not to get stuck in one point of view but to try different methods and techniques for estimating value. Some people might say, "build it top down and bottom up" but I say, "build it from all sides". By doing this you get a 'range of value'. There would be valid arguments for the price within the range and different buyers will sit on the continuum. I know this is obvious, but if you are an entrepreneur your job would be to convince a buyer to give you the highest premium possible.

Relating all this back to the post, I'd say that this entrepreneur is trying to do just that... Basically trying to give arguments for as high a valuation as possible.

This is why I believe comments giving an exact figure of $x are invalid insomuch that your method for answering "what something is worth" is not the optimal approach.
Any examples of great dashboards that people love?
Theoretically, if there is trust between the founders and the VC's shouldn't both of them have one seat?
Show HN: App to Phone Calling Using JavaScript
Just don't forget to wear gloves.
About the Common Lisp section:

Using fresh symbols is not enough. GENSYM creates uninterned symbols - those are not interned in a package. Thus referencing them in user code is not possible.

Shadowing 'SETF' in Common Lisp would be non-conforming. SBCL for example detects it and gives an error. The ANSI CL Standard, Section 11.1.2.1.2.
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/11_aba...
Still for user code in macro expansions it can be a problem.

If the SWAP macro really should work with places in a semantic compatible way, then it needs to do more. Compare with the built-in ROTATEF macro. It makes sure that place subforms are only evaluated once.

? (let ((a (vector 1 2)))
(swap (aref a (print 0)) (aref a (print 1)))
a)

0
0
1
1
#(2 1)

Note that it prints 0 and 1 twice.

The built-in ROTATEF does it better: it prints them only once. This shows that the subforms are only evaluated once.

? (let ((a (vector 1 2)))
(rotatef (aref a (print 0)) (aref a (print 1)))
a)

0
1
#(2 1)

The EACH-IT macro has a bug: the body needs to be put into a PROGN. Otherwise the LOOP macro might think that parts of the body are LOOP clauses.

(defmacro each-it (list &rest body)
`(loop for it in ,list
do (progn ,@body)))

For the purposes as an example, DOTIMES would be more idiomatic, since it provides the basic stuff like declarations and goto tags. It is also the traditional iteration macro for lists.

An alternative to PROGN would be LOCALLY, which also allows declarations. Thus one could declare IT to be of a certain type, for example.
The Macintosh was just a computer.
3D Printed Car Has Taken Its First Test Drive
And they all use gmail?!?!?!
At the risk of stating obvious - typeof is a gcc-ism, not a part of the C standard.
Github: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
Circles are the worst shape if you want to minimize width and height.
Growth hacking as a book publisher
fwiw, people have been saying that about electric cars for literally decades. perhaps this time really is different. if tesla ever makes a care normal people can afford it might happen.

the battery tech is still a ways off though. right now they are only really good for commuting, and lots of people still like to travel, or at least have the option to.
So, it seems the NSW police here in Australia are a customer and use this.

Ignore for a moment whether it's a good or bad thing that police use tools like these. What I want to know is, what happens once they "get their guy", so to speak.

Does the malware stay on that computer forever, violating the privacy of family members, or other users of the computer should it be sold on and not wiped correctly? What happens if it's not the correct person?

Basically, why are the police spying? To me, that raises some ethical questions and makes me feel that the police will handle things like this in a very ham-fisted way, like they usually do with technology. Worrying.
I really like this, and am considering incorporating it in quite a few sites at this particular moment; so far so good implementation-wise.

A huge plus that makes up for the lack of pre-IE9 Internet Explorer support is the fact that this seems to fail gracefully; since it's "invasive", it leaves behind a relatively-normal-looking site should it not load (tested on lynx and Firefox). This makes me less nervous about deploying it on sites where the target demographic is more likely to use old IE versions (like my own hometown, unfortunately...).

A couple oddities:

* It would be really nice if the hamburger-mode menu pulled its background colors from the non-hamburger-mode menu and/or navbar; that was a bit of a hiccup when trying to change the navigation colors.

* I still can't figure out how to change the color of the hamburger icon. Where is that defined so I can override it and match the rest of a page's text? With a dark navbar background, it's kind of hard to see.

* The thresholds for hamburger v. non-hamburger seem too low; while my testing in Firefox resulted in proper responsiveness to the window width, the page loads as if it's a desktop site on my phone (HTC One M8, any browser), probably because of the high (1080x1920) screen resolution. I ended up manually editing picnic.css in order to adjust the thresholds accordingly (to 1100px for phones and 1200px for whatever's supposed to be the next one; the narrowest desktop monitor width in somewhat-common use nowadays is 1280, so I don't expect there to be very many issues caused by this...).

* Weirdness with font sizes on actual phones (as opposed to resized desktop windows) when font-size is set to 1em (probably a mobile browser quirk, not necessarily something wrong with Picnic); I added a max-width conditional to set these bigger on phone widths (while leaving them at 1em for desktops/laptops, where the screens are bigger and can handle the smaller text).

All in all, not bad. It's already likely going to see use in a couple of my own sites. For someone like me who cringes at the thought of trying to wrangle Bootstrap into doing something useful, this is a breath of fresh air.
Any quantum state that doesn't factor is "entangled". That includes both matching, inverse-matching, and more complicated states with more qubits like "last two qubits contain binary count of how many of the first three qubits are ON".

The state |00> + |01> + |10> + |11> factors into (|0> + |1>)(|0> + |1>) so it is not entangled. The state |00> + |11> doesn't, so it is entangled (in this particular basis).
Kim Dotcom and the NZ govt. deal
> How is it a success if he burns through the money and fails to bring the product to market in a meaningful way?

A lot of regular people "burn through money" and fail to deliver any sort of value in the process of their daily job. We consider them successful to some extent, right?

How is raising funds but failing to deliver any different compared to one of those more conventional members of society? And having raised $13m allows you to be one of those "less productive" workers for the rest of your live.

> unless the inventor runs away with the money

Well, he doesn't need to literally run away. There are more nuanced ways of failing to deliver, without being a criminal. After all, there's no guarantee on this sort of investement right?

At the same time, this is money that'll be flowing into the economy one way or the other. So it's not all bad.
Also some further details on the instant.io + whiteboard app

https://botbot.me/freenode/webtorrent/2014-09-11/
can anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of programming not shun those texts as the most idiotic kind of hog wash?

it all sounds like a propaganda to make the lay man think that military drones can have morals or something.
you sell your game.
now I should quit
LIVE NOW: Glenn Greenwald, Assange, and Kim Dot Com in NZ
The light is ridiculous. It should read the code in models that have a text display, instead of needing to go to Autozone and rent an OBD code reader. It's bullshit. Tell me the error up front so I can Google it.
This crashes my shockwave flash plugin - should I start to be paranoid?
Wealthfront Betterment – fighting wrong war as Modern Portfolio Theory is flawed
So... don't look up while standing on the bridge, lest someone else look at it and cause it to disappear.
While not necessarily technically impossible, it's not plausible due to the asymmetric nature of blanket defense vs a targeted attack. It will always be difficult to protect against motivated targeted attacks.
Related; an example of efficient government action: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_outbreak_of_smallpox_in_Yu...

Somehow I don't believe that an action like this is possible in a democracy :/
Agree. I have an esky that I use a few times a year. I have never wished for compartments, a blender, a speaker or anything like that. I just wish it could fit a bottle of champagne standing vertically.
Refreshing to see Rust being used in graphics intensive projects. Would be great if the author could share his experience using Rust.
"Debt" includes the Treasury securities held by Social Security and Medicare trust funds, I believe.
Lol, supposedly mine wasn't of the same origin. To be fair, you just broke my whole idea of the two groups of people, which indeed was a very poor attempt that by itself will fall into another group. I am going to asume codehero is a nice guy and walk away from this incredibly amusing discussion. Thank you, dbaupp, for pointing this out.
That you have been downvoted is very telling of the crowd that CS people are. We pretend to be all rational professionals on our high horses, decorated with degrees and what not..

And yet, when something manages to hit us on an emotional level we falter.

What Afforess said is a statement of fact and relevant to the discusssion. Thus it's a valid counterpoint.

You may not like it and you may not agree with it .. you may even discard sprituality as a whole .. but none of it makes the satement any less true.
My AV deleted it as soon as it was extracted.
Someone should tell EA about this. They already claimed to be working on bringing game apps to the watch...

The first thing I thought was, other than tic tac toe, what game could you possibly display on a display that small?

I also think, a watch like that is good first and foremost as a quick check on what going on regarding your phone in our pocket.

But for this usecase, I think the price point of this watch is a bit much. I would love to have my watch buzz when getting a new text on my phone. And with a quick glance I can see if it is important or not without having to take my phone out of my pocket. This would be neat. But I don't think I would spend 350 dollars for this convenience.