skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Parceler (https://github.com/johncarl81/parceler) with gson. So gson for network data, then parceler for passing parcels around between activities/fragments.
I would like to see a Reddit about box, at least.
Right, so you end up with these subreddits full of people reaffirming each other's viewpoints. Nobody wants to hear anything challenging their views, but at the same time they stomp their feet and whine without a hint of irony, "why doesn't the other side just get it?" This also leads to schisms resulting in vicious infighting. It's pretty much the complete opposite of an environment conducive to intellectual development.
It's not a lot different, in fact, they've just remade our X-Tag components into heavier, less DRY, less modular copies that range from 40-60% larger than their equivalent X-Tag originals, while at the same time managing to reduce browser compat and feature coverage (for ex: Brick Deck lacks the transition support X-Tag's provides, and it's actually larger!)

Compare it for yourself:

Brick Flipbox: https://github.com/mozbrick/brick-flipbox/blob/master/src/br....

vs

X-Tag Flipbox: https://github.com/x-tag/flipbox/blob/master/src/flipbox.js

-----

Brick Deck: https://github.com/mozbrick/brick-deck/blob/master/src/deck..... AND https://github.com/mozbrick/brick-deck/blob/master/src/card.....

vs

X-Tag Deck: https://github.com/x-tag/deck/blob/master/src/deck.js
I vaguely remember reading recently that that had actually never happened to any virus that wasn't airborne transmitted to begin with.
A long time ago I helped a company get their payment terminal up and running after their first consultant had spent 9 months and $30,000 not getting anything done. The code I got was astonishingly bad and I realized that these folks had no way of evaluating good or bad code, and it depressed me that this was more the 'normal' situation rather than the 'unusual' sort of situation. I hope that in today's target rich environment folks are investing a bit more care into these things but I worry that isn't the case.
I get this: https://ichef.bbc.co.uk/wwfeatures/304_171/images/live/p0/27...

Probably this isn't worth a whole lot of work; I guess it thinks I'm on a phone (I'm not).
I'd love to try one. I've had California Chariots and RipSticks and Turtles and a bunch of other things like this. Looks weird, but could be fun. Won't know until I try.
Yes. According to documents from Roosevelt's office, the Japanese had previously offered surrender on roughly the same terms that the U.S. ultimately accepted after the bombings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8390436
Perhaps we are speaking of costs on different scales. Uber is valued at 18 Billion. Millions of dollars per city sounds like a low barrier of entry to me. If almost any small start-up can afford to compete with Uber in one city and a well funded one could compete in dozens, yeah I call that a low barrier to entry.
You're being myopic on purpose.

> The drumbeat since Reagan has been that private companies

Companies! Plural! The free market cannot exist when there is One True Company that the government let operate and Oh! See! The One True Company is charging too much so clearly free markets don't work.

Please.
There is a market for a $4,000 bike, but what's interesting is that there's a market for paying $1,000 for half of a $200 bike. ;)

Basically, you can get a lot more bike for $1,000. If I'd asked for something like this growing up, my grandfather would have used it as an opportunity to show me how to use tools and pick through a junk yard.
Light shed on this phenomenon is certainly good.

Yet it almost seems unfair to only show pharmaceuticals ties. Drug company corruption of doctors is on the "retail" level of individually giving favors. A full picture would involve retail and wholesale ties between doctors, drug makers, medical device makers, hospitals, insurance companies, regulators, professional associations and so-on.

And even such a picture would only be a start to keeping regulation from being a division of spoils rather than real cost cutting.
That web is a legacy platform that hinders innovation.
Has anyone written about this extensively?
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Folks

What's your primary way of security AWS/Digital-Ocean machines? Could you please share your thoughts on how you manage multiple VMs from security perspective?

- IPTables
- Virtual Firewall (Cisco/Juniper/Checkpoint)
- AWS Security Groups

Any of you hosting on your private cloud infrastructure as well? If so, I'd love to hear how to secure your machines as well..

Thanks
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By transparency, I mean for example Reddit manipulating the ledger if it was on a central database. They could take away someone's shares, or give someone extra shares, and the community would have no way of knowing. If they issued someone more shares on the blockchain, everyone could see it happening and prove it. Anonymity isn't a factor here.

The point I was making on KYC is that with blockchain-based shares the government doesn't even have an idea of how to regulate it yet, and Reddit can probably sidestep the KYC entirely. Anyway it's not them managing the books, it's the Bitcoin network doing it for them.
Or phasing that another way: It depends how willing you are to ignore the facts and invent unsupported "worst case scenario" scenarios.

There is no factual reason why we should expect the transmission mechanism to suddenly evolve before our eyes. That's raw fear mongering. While Ebola is more deadly than Bird Flu, that kind of wild unsupported speculation is why so many people thought Bird Flu was far more dangerous than it actually was.
I'm a mod of quite a few subs. We have to submit spammers to /r/spam. It is a bot run sub that basically does link counts from your history, if you hit a threshold, you will get shadowbanned. Submitting a user there who has been around for say 1 year with 250/250 karma, they probably will not get shadowbanned as they don't fit the algorithm. Mod a sub for long enough and you can instantly look at an account and tell whether or not they would get shadowbanned. There are tons of egregious spammers on the site who will never get banned because they don't fit the mold.
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Part of the problem there is the perception that those diseases aren't serious (and in cases like chicken pox, this can even be somewhat true). No such perception exists with Ebola, I'd say.
Really? Where? I've been a chase customer since they bought BankOne in ~2006 and haven't seen this.
Love the price. Shame they haven't got an EU presence :(
> Linux is hard

This is a bit patronizing. I'm a Windows/OS X user who used Linux as a daily driver OS longer than he's used Windows or OS X. I came to (Soft Landing) Linux from Minix on Amiga, and AmigaOS before that.

It's not that Linux is hard, I feel more comfortable with it than I do in either Windows or Linux, but I'm tired of messing with things and not having available common apps I desire. And yeah, there's OSS alternatives, but I find them almost always awful (GIMP and Wireshark are exceptions, though).

It's not that I find KDE too hard, it's that it's hideous (just my opinion) and it too closely emulates the stuff I like least about Windows. And yeah, you can change its appearance but I'm tired of messing with things, or having to tweak UIs to look right because they were designed to function with the default theme.

Every year or so, I take another look at desktop Linux to see if it will meet my needs. I want to go back, but there's just not enough there for me to pull the trigger.

But God, I want to.
A mark 84 bomb, one of the largest conventional munitions in frequent use, costs about 3k a piece. The mark 84's smaller cousins are cheaper. JDAM kits costs about 27k a piece. How am I making things up?
With a monetary incentive, how will this affect behavior?
I am a victim of these ridiculous fees. I thought about how someone was getting rich and I justified the fees because of the convenience. It most certainly cut back how much I sent and how frequently I used it. This directly affects the incarcerated person.

Side note: PayPal allows you to send money to friends and family for free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9
I used to do work in this space and personally diligenced JPay for investment purposes. Their profit margins are low for the same reason most successful startups have no profit - growth. They're growing incredibly fast, investing in sales and marketing efforts (as well as the 'commissions'). Take out the growth aspects, you have a company with very high gross margins.
Not using ghostery.

> I was seeing something similar ....

Well, then it isn't just me. Something about the BBC site's resolution handling is borked, I guess.
It's a pretty interesting case study of interface design that because DO's website looks so much nicer, their servers feel like a good deal, while Atlantic.net's old-fashioned branding makes it just feel fly by night, even though I'm sure they're objectively pretty similar.
> Nonsense. There are plenty of cheap hosts that don't do that sort of validation.

And then their users run warez hosts and botnet slaves, which then get DDoSed, saturating their neighbors' links. No matter how well you virtualize and manage your provisions, if one user has caused your incoming 10G to be saturated on layer 2, there's not much you can do at layer 3 to QoS that.

Personally, the combination of "nearly free" and "personally identifiable such that there won't be people translating 'cheap' into 'good for one-off masks for illicit activity'" is a real selling point to me.
From the article:

"The patient developed symptoms days after returning to Texas from West Africa and was admitted into isolation on Sunday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas."
After the first time you view all eleventy-nine images, they are preloaded. ;)
...the single, vertical handle-bar...

That dude on the track is clutching it in a vaguely obscene way. Fortunately the handlebars in the video are horizontal.
Yes the GP comment is totally off base as far as its attacking Donahoe is concerned (if that was even the intention). He's a very long time eBay exec, and Meg Whitman was nearly with eBay from the beginning. From all outward appearances Donahoe and his colleagues only made this decision after a lot of careful consideration.
Hope they use existing systems to issue their currency and don't try to create a new currency. Stellar could do the job perfectly IMHO!
AWS or www.dominoup.com if it's with Python, R, Matlab or julia
Yup :) We only really open sourced it so it was easy to see we weren't being malicious.
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I'd love to try one, especially with the size and weight it looks like a nice way to get around in a city, at least for the "last mile" from and to public transport.

However unless you are using it for fun, any trip longer than 5-10min is probably more convenient on an actual bicycle and the price is way too high.
Was thinking about going to the state fair...nope nope nope.
They should have just gone with Windows 11.
It would have been better to show the first one for longer, so the rest could have been preloaded the first time through.
It is worse than that - even if her idiotic claims were true it would still be better to vaccinate. Penn & Teller ably explain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo
There isn't "one company." Different departments of corrections have contracted to hire companies to handle deposits, just as your business might contract with a company to outsource some service.

More generally, I'm not saying that the free market doesn't work. I do think market solutions are merely tools to be used in appropriate situations. And when the potential for abuse is high, as with prisons and other traditional functions of government, private organizations are not appropriate, because private industry has the wrong values and the wrong culture for the situation.
There's a difference between adding nouns and verbs, and changing the very structure of the language. If I say "I like to flargle my pofdin in a huffalop" you can still pick out the verb and the nouns, but if I say "#&_35( bar mdfsgh" you can't even tell if what I wrote is valid English.
Is realm planning to make a c++ interface version, seeing how it's made in C++? A lot of cross platform cores use C++ since it Works Everywhere(tm) as an FFI to other languages & platforms.
If Reddit had the moderators that HN had (and the proportional quantity), there simply would be no problem. HN mods are a group of people selected specifically for the task of moderation. They were appointed.

But Reddit doesn't have those kinds of moderators, because the moderation system is alarmingly broken on Reddit.

The folks who moderate the various reddits are there by no virtue other than the fact that they were either there first, or have some relationship to the person who was there first.

It keeps sounding like there's a crisis of identity happening over at Reddit HQ, and I really hope they come out the other side of it with an understanding of how damaging moderators have been to the website, as currently implemented.
Attach a desk and it becomes a productivity mobility platform.
> That's a huge enabler of selective enforcement and limitless corruption

I don't think anyone will argue with you on that one.
The rest of his points are spot on, though, as is Bane's reply.
It sounds like they may at least be trying to work on the command prompt: http://withinrafael.com/new-experimental-console-features-in...
No Theora, FLAC, or Opus?

Wierd.
It would not. Of course, they still have to pay the SR2 commission on all the turnover. There have been a lot of complaints on the SR2 forums over the past year that a lot of feedback is untrustworthy compared to SR1, among many other complaints about the poor operator performance.
Windows 10 ... more like Windows 7.5
That's neat. I'll have to keep that in mind for the future.

I wish Java would take a hint from C# properties through :(
Yes, there is a difference between embedding and extending. Extending means your app is just a module that lives in the language's interpreter. Embedding means the language interpreter lives in your app.

One advocate[-1] of extending prefers it simply because he got bitten by his own poor design.

Another advocate[undefined] prefers it simply because he prefers JavaScript and the easiest way to embed it is to write your app as C plugins that hook into V8[NaN].

The Python community[2] will unfailingly tell you to choose extending over embedding, delegating their reasoning to this highly questionable rant[2].

[-1]: https://julien.danjou.info/blog/2011/why-not-lua

[undefined]: Zhivago in ##c on freenode; please go say hi to him and make sure 2 use abbvs and dont use punctatng or spell thngs rite b4 him

[NaN]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6334618/experience-embedd...

[2]: aka #python on freenode

[2]: http://twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/rant/extendit.html
The one I posted is (mine and) amateur, don't use it.

It will probably be around for 5 years, but is not undergoing active development, and it was a side project I worked on for funsies (I may come back to it one day, and it's kind of a leave-it-be project, especially without 100s of users).

Please refer to the other ones for a serious (or at least more well thought out) solution.
Live feed: http://feed.matthewkeys.net/cbs-newspath/
The person left Liberia on 19 Sept and arrived here on 20 and had no symptoms when entering the country. On the 24th he developed symptoms, on the 26th he sought care and the 28th was admitted to the hospital.

This is from the CDC briefing happening now.
At least it's less ridiculous than a recumbent.

b^)
To a certain extent, yes. We obviously have much better equipment but I say this only extends to handling a few "single" cases of Ebola in specific hospitals across the nation. However, now that Ebola is actually in the US, what precautionary measures do hospitals and healthcare workers take?

If I show up to a hospital in Texas right now with symptoms such as a high fever, sore throat, and diarrhea, do you treat me as as a normal patient or assume Ebola since it's now appeared within the US? These are extremely commons symptoms and once Ebola is here, which it is, handling patients is going to be much different which affects its likelihood to be contained.
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I agree mostly, which is why I mentioned I don't think that would play out with Ebola.

OTOH pancreatic cancer is pretty serious (though not communicable) and we still live in a culture where someone widely lauded as a once-in-an-era genius (and who had ample monetary resources to seek the absolute best medical health care in spite of how bad the economics of our health care system are) thought new age-y solutions were the way to go during the critical early stages.

I guess my basic point is that you don't have to be poverty stricken and living in the third world to make really poor decisions on health issues with severe consequences to yourself and sometimes others.

EDIT: I don't mind the multiple downvotes this post has got, I have plenty of karma to burn and it isn't worth anything, but please respond as well with some sort of rebuttal. No amount of undefended downvotes are going to change the fact that Steve Jobs made a really bad decision that any unbiased oncologist will tell you statistically killed him while he would otherwise still likely be alive (or at the very least, not dead from his cancer) today.
Maybe they can use an existing coin like Karma...

http://karmacoin.me/
You forgot no indication that anything is loading. (At least for me.) So I get a blank black screen with some navigation scattered around for a few seconds, then a picture flashes on the screen, then back to black.
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I see your point, but the difference between ISIS and WMDs [in Saddam Hussein's Iraq] would be. . . ISIS is unquestionably real.
> why so many people thought Bird Flu was far more dangerous than it actually was.

Indeed and when something genuinely lethal comes along lots of people will ignore it because of the scare mongering.

This isn't the wolf but one of them might be.
I started reading "Louder Than Words: The New Science of Meaning" which is based on embodiment. Instead of making up these grand hypotheses like Lakoff tends to do (not necessarily a bad thing) Bergen ties embodiment and more specifically simulation to new empirical research. I think that we could probably benefit from cross-pollination between cognitive linguistics/psychology and more technical AI.
Pretty much "diddly squat".
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I don't understand this. How does "the reddit community" own shares in a company? What does that even mean? Are board votes going to be held on reddit posts or something?
Jesus, a thousand bucks. I can't believe anyone would buy one of these for two hundred. It looks unstable, difficult to maneuver, and even dorkier than a recumbent. The basic mechanical principles that make bikes worth having seem to have been left behind.
Well, no it is important. The first review from the University of Stirling is a review of the literature showing that plain packaging helps makes warnings more clear, packs were less appealing, and expose the reality of smoking - all causal factors to reduce smoking rates - especially amongst younger people.

The BMJ study, "Introduction effects of the Australian plain packaging policy on adult smokers: a cross-sectional study", found that plain packaging helped increase the urgency for smokers to quit. That's a causal link to reduced smoking levels.

The BMJ study "How does increasingly plainer cigarette packaging influence adult smokers’ perceptions about brand image? An experimental study" found that plain packaging helped reduce brand interest, helping reduce uptake by younger people. Again, a causal link to reducing the rates of smoking.
I assume they're going after the manufacturers of safes, paper shredders and burn barrels, next?
I disagree, though I note your adherence to the dictionary definition of the word criminal.
This is already #1 on the front page.
This story is already #1 on the front page. Also you misspelled it.
Your big risks in going to the state fair are mostly related to fried grease products.
Hi Everyone:

Thanks for the thumbs up on this.

Firstly, we are a 20-year old startup! Everyone laughed at us when we talked about doing the original Internet startup -- dialup Internet. Over time, we adapted and rode the booms and busts that went on in our industry, all the while staying cash flow positive and learning to GRIND.

We are thinking there is going to be a explosion in startups globally, that will lead to the next big things, not just in the web but material sciences, biotech, etc.

Our goal is to build out a global compute infrastructure and get it in the hands of tomorrows Einsteins.. wherever they are born. We want to see the future happen faster, and see more of it in our lifetimes. Thats not going to happen if we wait around for today's dominant players, who for whatever reason are moving extremely slow.

Thats our over-reaching goal. You can read about it here:

https://www.atlantic.net/blog/2014/09/30/atlantic-net-launch...

Doing a startup is really, really hard. We're trying to make it less so. We're also ready to provide an alternative narrative to AWS conquering the world -- but we have to be aggressive and go FAST!

So, bottom line is we're trying to do something new,take some risks,be bold, and take on the giants of the industry.

AWS's margin is our opportunity :)

Wish us luck! We're going for it!
Or because they can't sign an NDA without their lawyer looking at it and their lawyer doesn't like Mondays, or because your idea sounds like an interesting one for the next strategy meeting which just got postponed until November, or it's Bob's job to deal with that stuff and Bob's on holiday, or it's Bob's job to deal with that stuff and Bob doesn't particularly care for your idea.
Or even, in an ideal world, because your idea sounds utterly amazing and they want to spend a lot of time discussing it internally but simply have other things going on right now, or want to research before calling you on Skype.

Trust me, it's often difficult enough to get a reply when the other company has a long term client relationship and is financially incentivised to reply on a particular date...

That doesn't mean they won't care to follow up with you at some point, and it doesn't mean don't chase at the end of the week if you haven't heard from them, but 36 hours is a very short time in business unless you're top of the list of priorities. And if you were their only priority then you should be more worried about where they'd get the money to support the partnership from ;-)
> Could we have a solution which would keep ints unboxed but have fast arithmetic operations?

Wait, is the answer not floating point? Using 64-bit IEEE 754 means the lower 52 bits (51-0) are significand, and bit 52 is implicitly 1, so setting bit 0 to keep track of GC stuff only introduces an error of ~1/2^52.

Floating-point multiplication isn't as fast as integer ALUs, perhaps, and you're now limited to 52-bit integers, but that's what Lua does and it gets by fine.
Isn't this an integral problem to the reddit model though, that you can point to half a million communities and say "Look, so many people doing so much good" while what many will point to is "look, you've made thousands of dollars from celebrity leaks" and "You've got huge communities of people sharing images of underage girls.

I guess my commentary would be that there's a lot of places for people to be pleasant to each other and to discuss their shared interests - be it enthusiasts forums or facebook. The risk is being the place people go to be abusive and share their degradation of other people, and it's difficult to just take the rough with the smooth in that respect, when other communities are held to account for that sort of behaviour.