skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
/r/nba is also awesome, along with literally every individual NFL and NBA team sub I have ever visited. Most are quick to ban opposing team fans for anything resembling trolling though. Tread lightly.
> which he immediately lifted up due to the intense heat.

Had he not made this instinctive move, everyone present would have perished and the area would have remained deadly until some other poor soul came upon the tragedy to stop the reaction.

The first-hand accounts of those present are in the thorough official report, which just happens to be collected in John Coster-Mullen's Atom Bombs book.
The US recently announced a commitment to building 1,700 beds over an undefined time period. (They got on the ground and started fairly quickly. They're totally moving fast, but it's still hard and it takes time.)

The WHO report as of Sept 24th estimates that Liberia alone is 1,550 short of what is needed for treating patients.

That was last week. What do you think it's going to look like in a month?

I think if you look at the numbers you'll see this massive scaling up the CDC is referencing isn't getting ahead of things, it's barely keeping up. The numbers are really quite bad and the CDC estimates shouldn't be taken lightly.

Basically the problem is with an epidemic that is growing exponentially, you have to scale your response exponentially just to keep your current rate of growth. To actually make it go down? You have to scale even faster.
Coincidence. This is the FOIA activist:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/foia-ryan-shapir...
They normally charge outrageous amounts for long distance calls, which is basically all their calls. Last year the FCC limited the max rate of calls to 25 cents a minute, or 3.75 for a 15 minute call. Still outrageous, but at least not as insane. They usually charge much less for local calls, and there are a lot of services that will set up a number local to the prison and forward calls to cell phones. It's easy enough to set a number yourself with twilio if you're technically inclined, but most people with family in prisons are unfamiliar with things like twilio or google voice.

[1]http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-reduces-high-long-distance-c...
It needs disruption indeed, but not cheaper weapons. I can't imagine how much damage we'd do if it were cheap.
I'm sure you're trying to make a point here. But the fact is upwards of 80 THOUSAND people died immediately. Not sure what this hair splitting accomplishes.
I like /r/funny =/
That opera house looks like an interesting place for people in wheelchairs.

On the one hand, it's pretty much all ramps so they should be able to get around easily.

On the other hand, those ramps have a pretty straight shot down to the water, which could get annoying if your brakes failed.
Haters gonna hate. That is the second time today a Windows 10 story was knocked off the front page even though it had enough karma to stay on.
IANAL

You should first talk to your HR about how your company treats side projects. In some companies, any work that you do automatically belongs to the company (even if the work is done during weekends). This also depends on your local laws. A large company should definitely have policies around this.

It's very hard to talk to your market in an anonymous fashion. Especially when you are just starting out. However, you can gauge some preliminary interest by setting up a good landing page and buying some targeted traffic from Facebook/Adwords. Describe what problem you are trying to solve, and have an email sign up form. Find out how many people sign up. Send follow up emails to these people. For this to work, your landing page has to be informative and should have a clear value proposition. You can have a great idea, but if you can't communicate that to your visitors within their first few seconds, then you're not going to be successful with this approach.
Two things that come to my mind: 1) General concurrency/parallelism ease of use. It would be nice to have Async/Await a la C#, as well as some easier to use channels and synchronization primitives/functions along the lines of Go or Core.Async. And 2) use of <> for type annotations instead of [], which is much easier to parse when nested.
It does not matter if they were pre-mined. The point still stands, this does not appeal to most of the Reddit users who can care less about digital currency.

How are you going to cash it out? Is Reddit going to be focusing on all of this bullshit? Trading? Cashing out? Safe guards? Etc?

Come on. That sounds like a disaster.
I rarely have to do anything as low-level as rust would demand. More often than not I find myself using Python, but I had the same feelings when I started looking into rust a few weeks ago. It was exciting seeing the full pattern-matching, especially.

I have a desire to get some experience in the area, but the problem is what to make. Does anyone have any ideas for some smallish libraries that would benefit the community? I'm certainly not a networking or concurrency expert, so it's difficult to come up with ideas.
It's sad that nobody reads AUPs, not even the people who write (or rather, copy/paste) them.
In my experience the people who have strongly negative opinions specifically about the STL have it rooted in one of these two things:

- They haven't used it much in a very long time and have very bad memories of tracing through the completely opaque SGI STL implementation and its derivatives.

- They include std::string and/or std::iostreams as part of the STL, neither of which are part of the original STL and have all sorts of weird warts and poor interactions with the generic algorithm-focused core parts.

Not to say there aren't other reasons people dislike it, but these are big ones.
Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments System
The ACM paywall is pretty horrible. How about a version that people can actually read:

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd...
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>Reddit is one of the most anti-racist/sexist communities on the internet.

We most subscribe to very different subs. I've never been a part of a community that had so much tolerance for racism. Some subs have rules against but most do not, and users take advantage of that. On most forums and other communities I've been a part of, you get instabanned for any whif of racism in your posts. On reddit you can pretty much say what you want (in most subs).
I'm so glad that Aaron is on the core team, focusing specifically on API design and ergonomics, rather than just the language. He has definitely been applying much needed polish that we need for a slick 1.0 release.
making profit out of prisons, in all shape and forms, is a such unbelievable conflict of interests. It is the ultimate monopoly - monopoly of force and violence - that is being abused by existence of any revenue stream associated with prison system.
No, we didn't sign non-competes and in any case, it is not a competing product. We work on it during nights and weekends. However, the culture around here isn't used to side-projects. If others at the company find out about our side-project, the assumption will be that we are doing it on company time. We are less worried about the legal implications but more cultural - especially if this doesn't take off and we end up staying.
This guy is an idiot. The "smart" cards that the government uses aren't intended to help government officials hide incriminating information from the public.

The media has a habit of seeking out young, naive Soldiers and soliciting their opinions on a wide variety of issues. When unsuspecting Soldiers comment on these issues, the media will then present that individual Soldier's opinion on the topic as the United States Military's official opinion. In the worst cases, they will actually edit the interview to take the Soldier's statements out of their original context in order to give his words whatever meaning the media finds most interesting.

They particularly enjoy asking very awkward, politically charged questions, even though they are aware of the fact that Soldiers aren't allowed to be seen promoting any sort of political viewpoint. For example, they might ask a Soldier what his opinion is on the United States' drone warfare program. While there's a good chance that the Soldier agrees that the program is out of control, if he says as much on camera he's probably going to end up getting demoted for damaging the state of "good order and discipline" of the U.S. Military. To a civilian, all the Soldier did was express an idea, yet when you analyze the situation from the viewpoint of the military, what he actually did was call into question the decisions made my our military and political leaders, which violates military law.

The bottom line is that the smart cards exist to keep Soldiers that are inexperienced in dealing with journalists from getting themselves into trouble. There isn't anything nefarious about it at all.

Its important to note that not all journalists conduct themselves in a dishonest manner, but the practice is prevalent enough to warrant attention from the military.
"There is one drug simply listed as 'KNEES' and another as 'Foot and Ankle.'"

"The database includes three varieties of Clinpro 5000 toothpaste: bubble gum, spearmint and vanilla mint. One drug, CimziaCD, includes the notation "do not use" after its name."
I don't have a job offer for you, but I hope you are getting professional help for your depression. It's a terrible disease, so don't let it sneak up on you.

There is a freelance hiring thread [1] on HN that's posted every month. Take the last 3 months of postings and send a personalized email to every one of them. Companies are constantly looking for good people. Describe what you bring to the table and offer to send some samples of your work. All the best, and do let us know how it goes.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
The fuckers have no shame to begin with, and as far as much of the public is concerned, if you're in jail your very life is expendable, and most people don't give a flying fuck about inmate's families, either.
People can be exposed to Ebola virus from direct physical contact with body fluids like blood, saliva, stool, urine, sweat etc. of an infected person and soiled linen used by a patient.

--WHO
I love the quote about Target. SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE BREACH, THE COMPANY HAD INSTALLED A $1.6 MILLION MALWARE DETECTION SYSTEM THAT WORKED AS DESIGNED AND ISSUED MULTIPLE ALERTS THAT GOT PASSED TO TARGET’S SECURITY STAFF, WHO SUMMARILY IGNORED THEM.
Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit (2013)
Sounds like you are a banned spammer?
Probably true. I wasn't much of a fan either when I first used it in 1996. It was extremely verbose, slow to compile, and tended to generate compilation error messages that filled the screen.

But the experience of using the STL today with the niceties of C++11 and a good compiler like Clang is vastly better. I can now write code almost as concise as Ruby that runs 100x faster, without usually having to worry about memory management. I avoid using the streams stuff though. That chunk of the library could use a serious overhaul.

I'm rooting for Rust because it's designed to address the problem spaces I care about most but C++ has improved by leaps and bounds in the last few years.
> Rust is one of those languages where I need to work to make the compiler happy, but once I manage that, the code generally works on the first try.

I can confirm this. I have a CSV parser[1] that is maybe twice as fast as Python's CSV parser (which is written in C)+. There's nothing magical going on: with Rust, I can expose a safe iterator over fields in a record without allocating.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv

The docs explain the different access patterns (start with convenience and move toward performance): http://burntsushi.net/rustdoc/csv/#iteratoring-over-records

+ - Still working on gathering evidence...
Here's a review of sorts: http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/64/6/531.full

And one study: http://www.ias.sdsmt.edu/staff/sundareshwar/Reprints/Sundare...

Abstract from the second paper:

In recent decades, the diatom Didymosphenia geminata has emerged as nuisance species in river systems around the world. This periphytic alga forms large “blooms” in temperate streams, presenting a counterintuitive result: the blooms occur primarily in oligotrophic streams and rivers, where phosphorus (P) availability typically limits primary production. The goal of this study is to examine how high algal biomass is formed under low P conditions. We reveal a biogeochemical process by which D. geminata mats concentrate P from flowing waters. First, the mucopolysaccaride stalks of D. geminata adsorb both iron (Fe) and P. Second, enzymatic and bacterial processes interact with Fe to increase the biological availability of P. We propose that a positive feedback between total stalk biomass and high growth rate is created, which results in abundant P for cell division. The affinity of stalks for Fe in association with iron-phosphorus biogeochemistry suggest a resolution to the paradox of algal blooms in oliogotrophic streams and rivers.
Servo is definitely demanding a wide variety of approaches to both concurrency and parallelism, so I expect the facilities for such in Rust to mature very quickly (but faster with more help and feedback!). It's a very important issue that is seeing work from full-time developers as we speak.

As for the second point, we've gone beyond the bikeshed (<> and [] are both exactly as ambiguous to the grammar, so it's just an argument of preference by this point) and addressed the root issue with `where` clauses, which prevent you from needing to nest <> at all for a majority (or perhaps plurality, I haven't measured) of function signatures where you previously needed to.
Supreme Court Made It Easier to Buy Elections, Makes It Harder to Vote in Them
I keep fantasizing about some sort of inception-like system where you could go "deeper" below each subreddit when you chose to, finding a smaller subset of people who'd also gone deeper out of dissatisfaction with convo quality. Maybe it would be one-way gate where you couldn't go back to participate on upper levela. Maybe you comments would still show up above, but the votes in the deeper level would be tallied relative to its users... I keep posting this when quality comes up in discussion, but no one ever bites :)
I'm a heavy user of both and never made a connection between them. Them are very different I think.

However one thing Quora does way, way, way, way better is your feed (home page on reddit). It's really smart and accurate and unearths lots of great content. Not all of it fresh. Some of it even really old.

reddit should copy that.

Yishan Wong is the biggest power user Quora has ever had, so he surely knows and understands this.
Hello Karterk; I am receiving/maintaining my depression; my (ex?) step-father is a doctor. I wont thank you; :-) its sure had its days though.

Sounds good i really appreciate you helping me out; means more than ever the support from the HN community.
Even-numbered Windows releases tend to suck, and odd-numbered ones tend to be good. Looks like they're aiming for two bad ones in a row!
Tony Hsieh statement regarding today's Downtown Project news
He hasn't, beyond his 'reddit is city-state' thing.
For any struggling to understand Ruby's metaprogramming, the rather short and succinct Metaprogramming Ruby is an excellent read. There's a method to the madness of define_method, method_missing, the various eval methods, the difference between Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas. Most of it revolves around manipulating scopes.

It also shows how you can iterate from the ugliest, most powerful, most dangerous eval method by pulling out the functionality you need into less-powerful, safer manipulations. It's all Ruby code until it's actually executed, so it can all be manipulated at runtime.

http://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Pros...
Ask HN: Is it common for VCs to ask entrepreneurs for resumes?
I am participating in a pitch trek organized by a top MBA program, and I am being asked to supply a resume for the VCs who I will be meeting. This strikes me as a bit strange. Is it common for VCs to ask to see CVs, or is this an MBA thing?
The actions by the doctor in the oil hub of Port Harcourt are a sobering counterpoint to the above. He secretly treated another Liberian diplomat, presumably infected by the index case, in a hotel room. The diplomat recovered, the doctor died, but not before infecting others because he did not take the necessary precautions when he become symptomatic.

People can know which end is up and still act very irresponsibly in the face of such a lethal threat.
Outside of the northeast, train travel isn't that feasible, and Japan had the right population densities before they built the first shinkansen (it helps that the country is mostly mountainous with limited areas for population that are quite close to each other). And even the northeast lacks much of the population concentrations of Japan. The density problem could be much worse in Australia.

Even in a place like China the benefits are dubious. It is still often more cost effective to fly from Beijing to Shanghai than take the bullet train.
> I believe most people would not do lines in front of preteens. What people do in private is another thing entirely.

This has been my impression of work parties as well.

I think I omitted it, but the context to my reply was more of a late-evening-with-drinks party than a good-for-the-family party/event.
That's a great writeup, well done.

Along the same lines, here's the ever-entertaining Rich Kilmer talking about DSL experiences on some government projects:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/kilmer-ruby-dsls
Yahoo Mail XSS by just sending an E-mail
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If there is a rise in reported crime in a certain area, a good police department will increase patrol around there. Sure, you can say that it won't always happen but it actually does happen.

Call the police to report a crime. Pick another method of protest.
FWIW, I use a Flame as my day-to-day phone and I haven't had any problems with dropped calls or random reboots or other bad behaviour. It's a fairly solid phone, in my experience.

(I'm not saying your aren't having these problems; I'm just saying that not everyone has these problems.)
Does anybody know of a sub where stuff like this link would make the front page? And techmeme type stuff (fundraising etc)? I can't find anything like that. It certainly isn't /r/technology or /r/startups
This guy is the worst columnist in the world. Using 'Mongo' as a counterpoint to AWS just demonstrates he has no experience in anything he is writing about.
I worry a lot that the lionizing of Binney and the too-perfectly-named THINTHREAD is a kind of retconning, and that very few of us would be comfortable with the implications of a fully-realized Binney-designed THINTHREAD either.

From what I've read, THINTHREAD is also a system that involves widespread and intrusive monitoring of US communications. THINTHREAD purports to use "encryption" to solve the privacy problems that arise from retaining information about US citizens. I am not reassured.
So I'm not very knowledgeable about WebSec stuff. Why aren't more servers getting pounded by this, if it's such a big vulnerability? I expected reports of massive password and SSN reveals all over, but I haven't heard of any major spills. Am I just not in the right circles, or is there a reason an outbreak hasn't occurred?
Sure thing. I was an intern at Adobe working on a new programming language. The office has a cafeteria, and I would often buy lunch there and get a brownie to save for later.

I like brownies better when they're warm, so I came up with a few ways to warm the pre-packaged treats while still sitting in my office. I first tried sitting the brownie atop my laptop charger: http://images.reclipse.net/warmed_brownie.jpg

This worked fairly well, but the charger was less hot when my laptop was at 100% charge, so I sought alternate methods for heating up the brownie. For some reason, I had stumbled across some recent WebGL demos at the time, and noticed that the fan on my laptop would spin up on that particular demo. (http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/)

This provided a more consistent heat than the charger, since usually my laptops would be completely charged by the end of lunchtime. I had my own laptop and a company-provided laptop, so it wasn't hard to set one of them aside as a brownie warmer.
Do you want to learn how CPython internals work or do you want to learn how to bind C code with Python? If it's the latter, I can point you to the excellent CFFI library[0], the documentation is pretty clear and it's pretty easy to get going.

[0]: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/release-0.8/
Yup this is great stuff, just be sure to get the 2nd edition which just came out:

http://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Face...

It focuses on modern Rubies, so it talks about Module#prepend and such. Nice to keep moving forwards.
So the only proposed benefit of calling the police when you're mugged is that they have another source of information about where muggings are happening, to compliment others and help inform their police distribution?

That seems a) unnecessary because they have other channels for the same information, and b) easily replaceable by a one-way interaction, eg, throwing the fact at them without providing an official statement.

Mugging statements are used to create suspect profiles that often target people of the same race who only happen to have a passing resemblance (eg, being black with the same color shirt), and can lead to violence or death when the police chase the wrong person.

That you want the police to distribute themselves different is a pretty weak excuse to send them chasing off after potentially innocent people.

Your comment might me more meaningful if police didn't routinely chase, injure, and kill the wrong person because they got confused about a description.
Angular and Rails are frameworks that leave the decision of authentication up to you.

You can do token authentication, basic authentication, OAuth, OAuth2, or even roll your own. For a rails api <-> angular combo, I usually stick to token or OAuth 1/2 authentication.

I have open sourced an angular application (technically ionic but it uses angular under the hood) and the rails api that it uses as a backend which uses token authentication.
https://github.com/johnkelly/mojave
https://github.com/johnkelly/kalahari
Boy, I must be really stupid, since I subjected myself to this nonsense not in a glorious company like Apple, but in a go-nowhere fail-everytime startup...
The visual language grammar starting on page 40 is fascinating.
i think the distinction in UX is important

downvote sounds like the opposite of upvote

flagging sounds like a reporting mechanism

they actually do the same thing, but they give totally different impressions to new users.
The Medium Is the Message, 50 Years Later
Yeah, Clang has really improved the ecosystem as a whole, as has this decade's updates to the language and libraries. But unfortunately they are all band-aids over some very deep foundational problems that were decided decades ago (I don't blame Bjarne by the way - he didn't have the benefit of hindsight).

I am glad we have a new language that takes the best from C++ and sets in on reasonably solid theoretical foundation inspired by languages like ML and Haskell. It's not watertight yet (unlike the formally verified ML), but it is damn better than the current status quo.