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A genuine question: What do you think is utility of this reply? Have you thought about what effect this and similar comments might have (in aggregate) on the political process?
Well people do tend to spit in minuscule amounts when they speak. The person could also cough and throw spit around. It wouldn't be entirely impossible to contract it by sitting near someone for several hours.
TKMR, BCRX and SRPT are the tickers that you are looking for.
I also noticed two different frame designs, one of which looks hard to get U-lock through, and the other may be impossible. The FAQ suggests using an 'ordinary cable-lock', which doesn't sound very safe.
I'm really impressed that he set this up -- optimistic about it in the long run.
(of an action or situation) deplorable and shocking.

Now that we've gotten to quoting dictionary definitions to words, I think we've killed any good spirit that may have been left in this conversation.
Right, I don't care so much about the getUserMedia part at the moment. But what you've done is totally awesome, by the way! With that said, I was looking for "take an array of images, spit out a gif file, and, oh yeah, put this text along the bottom."
Are you suggesting an ebola sneeze is a rare or harmless thing? That is the primary means of transmission.
> don't have the necessary isolation facilities or at least not on standby.

What like a quiet room away from other patients?

That is the only "isolation facilities" you actually require alongside making the medical staff use gloves and face mask which I suspect when dealing with an Ebola patient they will remember to do..., it's fluid borne not airborne, you don't even need a negative pressure setup.
And quite many people are self-motivated/satisfaction and do not need extrinsic motivation. Even if they are shunned they will still continue to behave as the normally would have.
(Should we always add the current directory to the path in a REPL?)

Yes, of course! That was my first problem. The standard "python" always has the current directory in the module path.

Please also have a look on my suggestion for the search facility:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8391647

It would be really helpful, to just search for some keyword and have the last occurence (for example import) as template without the need for going back the history by hand.
Sorry I'm like a week late here, I don't check HN very frequently.

It's not just "people" that distinguish between copyright infringement and stealing; the law does as well. I find it extremely odd that you're asking why people feel "entitled" to make a perfectly lawful distinction.

It's my personal opinion that traditional ownership of property and the intellectual property afforded by copyright are such different concepts that all debate tends to collapse into incoherence once the concepts are taken to be the same.

For things that I personally own, there is no idea of a "public domain," and my belongings are not temporarily granted exclusively to me for the good of the public. My macbook is my macbook, full-stop. Copyright, on the other hand, is a temporary monopoly on the distribution of a creation because, at some point in time, the state deemed it beneficial to the public to incentivize artists/creators/inventors with this kind of financial benefit.

Why do we have any concept of a public domain if copyright and traditional ownership are perfectly interchangeable as ideas? Why is there no concept of "fair use" for my macbook or my car, but there is such a thing as "fair use" for any novel I might write?

My personal take: there isn't really any analogous concept of "ownership" for most things that could be considered artworks or intellectual creations. I can be credited as the original creator, and I can attempt to control the distribution of physical manifestations of my artifact, but in what sense do I actually "own," say, the dirty limerick that I wrote? The only way I can truly own it is to simply never show it to a soul. But that's not very satisfying, is it? And yet it's perfectly satisfying to keep my macbook solely to myself ...
Would the use of a chip (as is more common in Europe) cut down on this sort of theft?
Statistically, the sun is much more damaging.
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Ugh. Requires connection to a Google account.

Hopefully they will open registration.
I'm mostly familiar with ER design so I may be off, as far as what "normal" rooms are like. But from my recollection there was a push after 9/11 to move any new isolation rooms to negative pressure and there were subsidies in place to encourage that. There was also a push to redo airhandling for standard rooms to approximate negative pressure but with less stringent scrubbing.
Even if that is true, would you be happy about the unnecessary risk.

Only after it already happened they confirm if it is safe.

On a global safety issue it isn't a problem, but on an individual level, it is scary.
How is this news? Sikuli has been around for many years.
A private room is indeed able to prevent the spread of Ebola.

From the CDC website.

Yes – any U.S. hospital that is following CDC's infection control recommendations and can isolate a patient in a private room‎ is capable of safely managing a patient with EVD. CDC recommends that U.S. hospitals isolate the patient in a private room and implement standard, contact, and droplet precautions.

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/patient-management-us-hospi...
Outside of using Gulp JS and Stylus, I don't really see much of a point myself either, but where it gets interesting is the structure.

Example:
https://github.com/mozbrick/brick-menu/blob/master/index.htm...

It looks like the library is pre-pended with a bunch of brick elements, based off its Minimal-markup Web Components.

They really do a bad job of explaining this on their brick page as right now, looking at it you'd assume its just yet-another-front-end-framework. Its not compelling (yet), but still of interesting.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/08/introducing-brick-minimal-...
Why does their logo depict a full-bike?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_superstitions
Reddit CEO Yishan Wong on Giving Stock to Users: “We Have a Crazy Plan.”
Yep. If you're going to do layoffs at your startup or corporation, call a consultant, get their analysis (which is actually unnecessary), fire people, and bam, point the finger at the consultants if any backlash comes your way
You certainly wouldn't want to lock $1,000 up with a cable lock.
Don't you think its a little pretentious to imply those that browse Hacker News are somehow smarter than others in a comment on Hacker News?

If you have a legitimate criticism of any of these posts feel free to reply. Better yet, post the type of well-researched article you yearn for on here (you commented on this thread so I assume you have experience in studying disease).
Just like Java, Object Pascal, Oberon and C++ back in the old days...
What's your user agent? Maybe you set it funny and forgot.

http://www.useragentstring.com/
Would that include someone clearing their nasal passages? I saw someone doing that into their hand on a Manhattan subway last week.
>> It is the height of absurdity to think that a lowly species like us will exist in any form at all even a million years hence.

> It really is not.

You, too, can learn evolution by natural selection and such related disciplines as probability. We could not successfully mate with our forebears from a million years ago, and chances are we will not be able to mate with our descendants a million years hence.

>> and in another 200,000 years, chances are we will have been replaced by something different.

> There is no factual basis for this claim;

What? There is no "factual basis" for my saying "chances are"? I didn't make a statement about fact, I made a statement about probability, and a very good one.

In any case, were you not more interested in generating heat than light, the point I successfully made was that five billion years from now, there will be no sign of us to fret over the earth's being absorbed by the red giant star our sun will have become. You know, before you tried to change the subject?
Ello has a truly awful UX, but the most interesting thing about it is that it's proving there's a market actively looking for an alternative to Facebook.

The question now is this- Can anyone fill that demand?
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For those of us who have run online communities, there certainly is a strong inverse relationship between age & size. A big community continually fractures off disgruntled users. There certainly are some exceptions to this, and examples to follow.

If, "In several years, I think reddit could have close to a billion users" then the quality of reddit will be just that. Hell, with a billion users, the average person will not even be fluent in your language. Alternatively it becomes a system where you very explicitly follow people and topics as one would do with Twitter. If so then can reddit be changed radically to accomplish this yet through small enough iterations as to not result in an exodus? There would be the challenge.

For now reddit remains a fairly good newswire for niche topics such as oculus.
CDC Confirms First Case of Ebola in the United States
Am I one of the minorities who believe that this hype about Ebola is more sensationalism and news than an actual pandemic we should be fearful for?

Let's take a lot at what we can agree on:

* The number of cases of infected patients is fairly small.

* The vector of transmission is fluid exchange, so that reduces its ability to spread.

* The virus doesn't appear to lie dormant, and is only contagious when the patient becomes symptomatic.

The chances of contracting the disease in a western country so far is near 0. The chances of contracting the disease in AFRICA is fairly improbable too.

It really sounds like sensationalism at its finest.
You could be correct, I'm not familiar with post 9/11 IPC planning in the States, however I highly doubt that all isolation rooms in the USA are negative pressure. I assume the post 9/11 push was for all hospitals in urban settings to have at least negative pressure isolation room (very different from an isolation room).
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Of course if you implement encryption yourself you almost certainly did it wrong and are leaking data. This assumes you even know how to "do it yourself".
I honestly did not know that. I thought that for a pathogen to be communicable by sneezing made it "airborne," and that Ebola was not.

I can't immediately find a source for your claim that sneezing is the "primary means" of transmission - can you provide one?
Wow, those after-hours bumps are quite pronounced. Now wondering if I should short them, go long, or keep my sanity and stay out altogether.
Haha. They raise some good points (such as buttons and input fields looking exactly the same), but overall, I appreciated Ello and [most] of its design.

Glad to listen to a different opinion, though.
To do this effectively, you need to track clicks.

Right now, the primary thing that causes something to succeed on reddit is the rate of upvotes. Anything that takes time to upvote will be less likely to succeed, because it will receive its initial upvotes at a lower rate. (It takes at least an hour to upvote a great new yorker article vs. something that will be voted based on the title alone or a 1 second click.)

To fix this, you need to track click -> upvote interval and correct for this.

This is the main reason why subreddit quality goes down with size. Only the extreme head of the "upvote rate" distribution has an opportunity to succeed when the subreddit is large, so the "upvote rate" drowns out the "upvote ratio" as a factor.
I don't understand the Apple comparison. Do iOS apps run on OS-X?

The fact that they're consolidating the console, desktop, and tablet/phone OSs is the impressive accomplishment, not the phone/tablet consolidation.

As for consoles, a few years ago, consoles were a whole different beast from what they are now, so it wouldn't have made much sense to have the OS the same.
> Only after it already happened they confirm if it is safe.

The passengers were screened for fever before boarding the plane. On the individual level there are thousands of better things to worry about.
Be thankful the topic isn't mental illness.
You misunderstand me.

I am not saying C does things better than Go.
I am saying it is less expressive.

In the sense that there are a lot of things you simply cannot implement in C, whereas you can implement them -- in an ugly and unsafe fashion, it is true -- in C.

Generics is not the only example. You can easily get exceptions in C with setjmp and longjmp for instance. You can even get garbage collection in C (and not only talking about the conservative Boehm stuff, you can use fat pointers -- yes it's unwieldy and ugly, but it works).

As for all the niceties, yes there are there, but you can implement most of them in C also (and, in fact, people have).

You'll notice I did not even say C was better than Go.

My actual thoughts on the matter is that they're not made for the same use cases -- albeit one of my problem with Go was always figuring its use case. Apparently I'm not the only one confused, because the language creators expected to get C users, they got Python user instead. As you said yourself, it has more niceties, so maybe it is kind of a middleground when more performance or concurrency is needed, but C is deemed to tricky or unsafe. As I have learned to navigate my ways around C's pitfalls (and boy, there are some pitfalls!), I don't think I'll ever be tempted to use Go (at least, if the language doesn't change significantly).

I'm also not some kind of C fanatic, I use Java, Ruby or Python if it gets the job done; and while I don't really use them for actual work, I have a soft spot for some functional languages.
Hantavirus is sorta airborne. http://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/technical/hanta/airborne-trans...
Registration is too complicated and cumbersome.

I gave up when they couldn't call me on my phone and requested a copy of my passport, driver's licence or a bank bill...

I'll just stick with DigitalOcean...
It does not support IE9.
To the extent police work is someone's religion, I'd submit that these are exactly the police I'm talking about.
> The issue is the people, not with Reddit.

That is always true, in fact I'd go as far as to formulate Waldens Law, "if the issue is either people or X, it's people" ;).
Absolutely! That's actually already there. Even with nice expression based query syntax - looks like natural language :-) We havn't released it though since we plan to rewamp it into a more object oriented interface like in ObjC, Swift and Java. But if you really wanted to, nothing prevents you from using it (the .h files are there), except there is little documentation and the API will likely change.
But yes, definitely it will come fully supported.

The nice thing is you can then make have e.g. common C++ code shared between your mobile app platforms (as quite a few do), and share state/data easily between C++ & Java or C++ & ObjC/Swift in one app. No fuss, one API, one shared datamodel, fully threadsafe between languages.

Would that be useful?
You are sitting next to someone for 8 hours plus. They will wipe their nose, then put their hand on the arm rest. Then you will proceed to do the same, and eat food at the same time.

I'm not saying it's likely to infect you, I'm saying this would cause personal distress, even if it is unlikely or impossible.
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Blockchain transparency isn't a bug or a feature per se, but the fact that it's truly decentralized is a feature. For Chaumian ecash, anonymity is a feature, but it's centralized. Stellar (or colored bitcoins, if they ever get around to implementing that) actually provides an interesting combination of features.
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I love how you're complaining about people posting without authority, meanwhile not providing a reason that we should listen. Can you say hypocrite?
What about the ability for Mods to set karma or time based limits before someone can post? (say 7 days and 100 upvotes).

Hacker News does something like that you can't downvote till 1000 upvotes iirc.

That would stop the casual trolls at least (of course there are ways around it but then there always are).
I've visited the Downtown Project this summer part of the 2014 UP Summit. It's really a great place to be, the vibe is really good and there's ton of awesome projects. I think the project is well balanced. You have small business incubator, startups incubator, a lot of community space and education project.
But it was hard to see who really had the leadership. I thought it was Hsieh but he dismissed it. Maybe they also had too much project. Lack of focus, lack of leadership and maybe going to fast. I hope the project turn around and that someone step-up to take the leadership, because it's really a great place although I hate Vegas. Hmm maybe in this sense this project represent well Vegas... an orgy of fake.
Amateurs. We're all prisoners to ZIRP, QE, 'collectible' taxes on gold, and central banking which is all legalized counterfeiting for the .01%
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Okay.

Well let's start at the front.

What is the ideology of the Free Software movement? If we suppose that Richard Stallman can speak for the movement (and he's frequently asked to do so), then we can just look at some of his writings. [1],[2]

What is the ideology of the Mozilla foundation? Well, as I mentioned, they publish their own manifesto [3] and a spiffy video [4] (marketing, soliciting donations). The Mozilla Licensing Policy [5] links back to gnu.org for the definition of "free software".

So, I suppose it's now time to distill all this information into two lists of bullet points, one for each side, and then compare them. But meanwhile, I got sucked into the Mozilla wiki. Apparently they broadcast their internal meetings online. Neat.

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-import...

[2]: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html (I particularly like the bit about asteroid mining. What, you haven't read this recently?)

[3]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/

[4]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

[5]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/licensing/
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You must have missed the "April Fools Joke" part at the end of the article.
Do you think Segway failed because people look silly riding it, or because they feel silly for spending so much on it?
Precisely, more than 10 years have passed. And Java evolved for a reason, I think. And releasing Java without generics may not have been a smart thing even back then.
While it is tautologically true that if Ebola were to become capable of airborne transmission it would be much more dangerous, there is considerable evidence against the proposition that it is "just one mutation away" from such capability.

Ebola has been around for a long time, and by your own reckoning has had billions of opportunities to mutate into an airborne form. It has not done so. Why not?

The Ebola genome consists of about nineteen thousand base pairs, compared to three billion in the human genome. While that represents a vast amount of combinatoric complexity, biochemical capabilities are not magic. They are not conjured into existence by the wave of a mutational wand, but have to have some substrate in existing functionality, which is why species exist: they are are islands of relative genetic viability in a sea of chaos. An incremental move away from the stable centre will in general be detrimental to the organism, and it will, in the overwhelmingly most common case, require many small, fortunate steps to add a genuinely new capability.

The fact that Ebola has not yet become airborne despite its many opportunities to mutate and do so suggests that we are dealing with a typical case here: that the current genetic configuration of the virus is more than "one mutation away" from being airborne, and it may well be a case of "you can't get there from here" (at least not easily enough for anyone to very worried about in a country where cars kill tens of thousands of people a year and people with guns kill thousands).

Nor does it follow that an airborne form of Ebola would be as deadly as the current form. With such limited genetic material to play with, an airborne virus would necessarily have to change some other characteristics, any of which could reduce its ability to kill.
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The Director of the CDC just said in the press conference that the person with Ebola didn’t have any symptoms until a couple days after they arrived.

They departed on the 19th of September, arrived on the 20th, showed first symptoms on the 24th, sought care on the 26th, were admitted to the hospital and isolated on the 28th.

As the Director emphasised again and again, Ebola is only transmittable when you are showing symptoms. There is only the window between the 24th and 28th when the patient with Ebola could have realistically infected anyone, so people travelling along with them aren’t affected. Any people they did have contact with will be monitored for the next 21 days.
No kidding - Steve Jobs made Pixar possible. He had such an impressive career that "also started Pixar" is an interesting bit of trivia. Think about that for a second.
So you are saying that if you lose your device there is no way to recover your data?
Oh I remember the release, but it was a complete bluff/joke. System 9 was really just an incremental update of System 8, but it was given a new number because (a) they were still years away from finishing OS X, which we had been promised for half a decade, and (b) you can charge money if you give the OS a new number.
His presentation at Long Now was inspiring: http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/apr/22/helping-revitalize-...

(I only listened to the podcast, didn't watch the video)

It sounded like everything was coming up roses and money back then. Hoping to hear an update.
I hate it when people give this definition of feminism. Feminism supports gender equality and there are ways that benefits everyone, but that's obviously not the whole of it, and I dislike the idea that men can only be sold on feminism if they think there's something in it for them.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa448707.aspx

Windows CE has been running on MIPS for some time. It is likely that this sort of support has allowed Microsoft to run embedded solutions (such as Ford Sync, which was built on top of ARM)
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How are reddit and HN different for you?
Agreed. For people to survive on Mars, earthlings would have to build the sealed cities there using drone technology, then trial them out by first populating them with animals controlled with that same technology. Earthlings would need the experience learnt by doing it on the Moon first, with its more workable one-second response time to drone commands. The sealed cities would be built like new Chinese cities today, the drone operators having learnt their skills on actual huge building sites like Luozhangmen. If there's nuclear devastation in the Mideast or annihilation by disease in Africa in the near future, such remote drone operation skills will likely be learnt by many competing players in those places. The encryption technology used in the droning must be unbreakable, so players must design and manufacture their own chips. And the people who do inhabit such cities on the Moon and Mars will probably have been specially bred in a country not subject to the restrictive laws governing biological innovation prevalent nowadays in the U.S. and Europe.