skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with a huge ebola epidemic is that the more people infected, the more of a chance the virus has to mutate.
If the virus becomes airborne, rather than infectious via body fluids, the world has an extremely serious problem on its hands.
Cute, I just watched the first episode again. The iPhone 6+ can also be bent by humans though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM
> You can also offload your logging to a dedicated thread and then use a lock free queue to increase your performance even more.

Or use syslog() like a sane person, and let that "extra thread" live inside the OS IPC mechanism.

(Or stdout/stderr like a modern sane person, and let upstart/systemd/docker/etc. push your logs to syslog if that's where it feels like pushing them.)
You paint too simple a picture. And, if you go back to before the (successful and on-going) attempt to ethnically purge Palestine by European Jewish immigrants, you will see that Jews, and Christians were not persecuted when that land was under Muslim rule.

In Israel, only 7% of the land was owned by Jews when the state of Israel was created. The rest was stolen. Homes were stolen at gunpoint. The Israelis repeatedly engage in massacres of the Palestinian and Lebanese civilians to this day. Resistance should be expected. And, with the level of violence perpetrated by Israelis, a violent resistance is understandable.

The death toll for civilians is pretty lopsided. In just the massacre of operation cast lead, the Israelis murdered nearly 1500 people, nearly 450 children. Israel suffered 3 civilian deaths in retribution. Again and again, the Israelis call for evacuation to U.N. schools, then bomb the schools. Once a mistake, twice maybe a mistake, but we are well beyond twice. IDF soldiers wear t-shirts with a picture of a pregnant woman in cross-hairs with (in Hebrew), "one bullet two kills" Israel recently even apologized (therefore admitted to) harvesting organs from Palestinian prisoners for transplant into Jews. The Israelis even use their massacre of civilians as a selling point for their weapons exports, "battle tested in Gaza." The Israelis are the terrorists by any objective measure.

There was a poll in Haaretz that showed overwhelming support by Israelis of the cast lead massacre. The percentage in support of the massacre was exactly the Jewish population of Israel. So, complete justification to paint in a very broad brush.

The Israelis have Jewish only roads. And there are around 30 laws that give special treatment to Jews over other citizens. And, if you want to be truly disgusted, visit some of the Palestinian villages neighboring Jewish settler towns-- you will see things like the Jewish settlers directing their raw sewage into the Palestinian village below (well what is left of the Palestinian village with the constant raids by Jewish terrorist settlers, and Israeli military). Jewish settlers walk around everywhere with powerful weapons intimidating the Palestinians who are not permitted to do the same.

Ugliest place I have ever been (Every Arab I met there was kind and generous, and even in refugee camps, I never heard a hateful word about the Israeli Jews, the other way, I only met two Israeli Jews [out of 10s] who did not make some sort of slur). Only place I have zero desire to ever return to.
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Last I checked, the target users for consumer products were consumers, not engineers...
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I feel the same way. Gnome 3's ideas are interesting, but execution leaves a bit to be desired; When I use it, it feels like I'm fighting it to get it work nicely, and as a developer I don't want to spend my time doing that.

Funnily enough, Unity and Elementary OS's DE have the same "sane defaults and 'intuitive' interface" idea, but both of them have executed it better in my opinion.
I watched a few minutes and was really impressed. I don't feel like I have the time to watch all of it, but I totally would have if this was an assignment in a film class (I remember watching a single film 5 times in a row or one scene 30 times).

I made a short film in college and it's terribly embarrassing as an artifact, but I just rewatched it without sound and it's quite awesome that way. :)
1. I cook mainly for convenience, but also because I enjoy it. Due to where I live and the kinds of products I buy, I wouldn't say I'm saving much if any money cooking at home as opposed to eating out. Quality and organic/local groceries are expensive in SF, and there are thousands of delicious and affordable restaurants and delivery services.

2. I rarely if ever plan ahead. Maybe if I have guests coming over for dinner I'll plan a day in advance. I typically have a rotation of staple dishes which I go through, but it's very flexible, and I come up with random new things when inspiration or boredom strikes.

3. All sorts of things, but typically Italian, French, Tex/Cal-Mex, some Thai/Chinese style and the odd curry.

4. Nothing strict, but I'm very low carb, low sugar, high protein and fat with tons of veggies.

5. I use cooking as an escape, and thus don't care too much about my productivity. That said, I can get stressed if things look like they aren't going to turn out well, or when I feel like I'm scrambling to maintain my timing. One tip: it typically pays off to do most or all of your prep work before you start cooking. A little prep+cook multitasking is manageable but I find cooking a lot more fun when I have everything prepped and ready and can focus all of my attention on the composition.
Making sure your logging data gets written is relatively important.

Say, if you hit a bug somewhere that causes the server itself to crash.
The dilution you'll get from Series B onward is maybe 30% total. That's not "massive" IMO. (Obviously much higher dilution in a down round, if you're a founder who gets kicked out and crammed down, or if the company has a marginal exit, you're not part of the retention, and they choose to put all the acquisition into retention...)

Being a senior-ish employee at a Pre-IPO (i.e. Series C/D company, on a great trajectory, and an obvious winner) is probably the optimal outcome for total compensation; for cash, consulting, if you can find the right niche.

(Startup founder MAY actually be superior to Seed/Series A startup employee, though, especially due to both tax issues and what happens when the company does anything less than stellar. OTOH, you can jump ship as a Series A employee, even manager, with no real negatives; if you're a founder, you're pretty much committed until the end, or at least until some serious inflection point, especially in a suboptimal outcome.)
True enough, but that's no excuse for the thousands of films which have been available on Netflix and no longer are, due to whatever rolling window system seems to be in place for availability. The deliverables costs have been long since paid.
Interesting. I've used Ubuntu for years before Unity, switched between Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu with Unity, Linux Mint Cinnamon, Linux Mint MATE... and finally, as of last week, I've been using Ubuntu Gnome.

It was, of all the above mentioned, the first to give me a fluid desktop performance with decent aesthetics and all functionality I have grown accostumed to. I'm particularly fond of:

* Alt + drag work really well, specially dragging into borders with automatic resize. The lack of this feature in MATE was a daily pain for me.

* Login screen actually has useful information (even HipChat notifications!) and is really accessible - it opens up whether I scroll or simply start typing my password.

* The search box is, for a change (from Unity), actually smart. When I say "home", it knows precisely what I mean.

* All my tools work perfectly. IntelliJ WebStorm, HipChat, Chrome, the terminal... Even Spotify Linux Preview works like a charm.

I have had TWO minor hiccups:

* Bluetooth needed some extra modules installed. After that, everything worked fine.

* Workspaces would not behave appropriately with external monitor. One command solved that.

So, for now, Ubuntu Gnome is definitely my distro of choice.

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Hey - I work on this. The main areas of the BBC that are using our Linked Data Platform at the moment are News, Sport and Music, which would explain the results you get for "Queen". As more teams in the organisation start using our system, you should see a wider variety of data accessible through the site.

We know the search isn't the greatest, and that's something we'd like to improve.

There's a blog post that might explain a bit more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Opening-up-the-BBC...
Back catalog is likely even more expensive to clear than new releases are.
Nothing could make me less interested in BitPay. PayPal is just such a negative connotation in my mind that it turns me off of a business partner just to know they are collaborating.
> It should just ignore unknown hash functions, not fail. If the integrity attribute only had one hash function and it was unsupported then the entire attribute should be discarded.

Your proposal would make the hash attribute advisory. If I put a hash attribute on there, should I be able to count on it, and know that browsers won't load unless they can verify it? Or is it just advisory, and browsers may choose to ignore it, and I can't actually count on browsers only loading if hash matches?

Of course, I guess the fact that older browsers will always exist that ignore it (and that all browsers are essentially untrusted software, as far as the developer is concerned) may point to "you'd best consider it advisory only" anyway, I suppose.
I can understand your outrage at such a comment - it is a very western response.

But have you lived in an Arab country, specifically a Muslim one? Or even an Arab neighborhood? Have you been a part of an Arab community for a prolonged period? I have.

These ideals of pluralism and equality work wonderfully in novellas about utopian human co-existance, but they simply aren't reality. The Arabs think differently to American liberal arts students - they have a different ethical code.

That is one of the main reasons that the US was completely unsuccessful in their political endeavors in the Middle East, and which everything from Lebanon to Iran looks like a well-cooked pot of shit-stew right now.

If westerners better understood the Arab mindset, as it applies in countries in the middle east, we would live in a more peaceful world.
Because it's social.

It's not a particularly compelling argument in 2014.
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I agree. It strikes me as a very inefficient use of an enterpeneur's time who wants to launch a business to first watch a series of 20 lectures about all aspects of starting a business.

Just start doing it, and whenever you get stuck or need feedback ask someone whose expertise you trust for advice on a particular issue you're dealing with at that moment.
It's pretty inconvenient and financially unreasonable, yes.
Or Lost Weekend, which is still a going concern, and I can guarantee has a copy of Sweet Sweetback.
BuildZoom (YC W13) is looking for a head of content marketing, media relations
BuildZoom is a remodeling marketplace that is improving the transparency and predictability of the remodeling and construction industry. Through Big Data, we're able to provide unprecedented insights to a enormous, broken sector of the economy.

We’re looking for a talented communications professional to lead our communications efforts, develop our network of journalists and media outlets and generate visibility for our brand.

This is an opportunity for someone interested in the following:

1. Leading content/communications for a rapidly growing early stage start-up.
2. Understanding how Big Data is transforming consumer attitudes and behaviors.
3. Being part of a start-up that is solving an enormous, real world problem.

A typical day will involve the following:

1. Cultivating and developing relationships with media stakeholders, including journalists, analysts and publishers.
2. Collaborating with our chief economist to share findings and analysis with the media and develop new story ideas.
3. Share content through our existing distribution network and look for opportunities to extend the network.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

1. First-rate written and verbal communication ability.
2. Experience and enthusiasm for media relations & PR.
3. The creativity to develop compelling story ideas and discipline to see them through.
4. Ability to tell stories around numbers - proficiency with statistics and/or econometrics is a plus.
5. Passion for improving the way people think about real estate and personal investments.

If you're interested in learning more, please e-mail me directly (jiyan@buildzoom.com) with your CV and whatever you think will help me understand why you'd be the perfect fit for this role.
Sometimes I feel like a negative nancy, but seriously, what the crap. A rewards program? Really?
@2:22: "You may still fail. The outcome is something like Idea x Product x Execution x Team x Luck, where Luck is a random number between 0 and 10,000, literally that much."

What does that mean? I'm not trying to rip on the video or anything like that, but am genuinely curious as to how much luck Sam Altman thinks is involved in a startup.
> Why not just have just a single, highly extensible desktop environment instead?

I'll likely get flak for this but that's what KDE is (or could be). KParts¹ is great. Just press F4 in Dolphin. Drag And Drop works quite well. It's the only DE where i managed to get a unified look between GTK2/3 and QT.

It's sane² and build on Qt/C++. No crazy gobject or GTK3 problems.

The only problem is that Plasma/Oxygen is just terrible and scares users away². Once you configure it away KDE is great². Also they did not a favour to themselves by including Akonadi and that semantic desktop stuff in a way that will hog memory and kill latency when using a disk³. You can scare away the friendliest Linux user when you start an MySQL instance in userspace on logon and feed that with a invasive disk-indexer.

Maybe I'm just a disgruntled KDE user.. it could really be a fine default desktop system.

1: https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Architecture/KDE4/KPart...

2: YMMV

3: Hi there! I'm nepomuk/bamboo! I'm doing millions of seeks on your disk and crash randomly on the documents I've found. Don't worry. I'm not slow! Must be your fault! It's still slow? Really? (...)
We learned Logo using the turtle robot at primary school (this is going back over 20 years) and thinking about it, that was actually my first exposure to programming.

Does anyone know if you can still get those turtle robots now? I'm guessing they'd be long out of manufacture, but would love to own one and would love to introduce programming to my kids using it.
No secure hash function has collisions, so it's not necessary.
Though it is noted they intentionally fail:

> The Intel 335 Series is designed to check out voluntarily after a predetermined number of writes. That drive dutifully bricked itself after 750TB
I had an SSD totally brick on me. Not fail to write but just brick. No idea how to recover it
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I'd be interested to see what a graph of percentage remaining versus time since installation looks like for these. Might give a better picture of what's going on.
DVD production for non-mainstream films was an iffy business at the best of times. Sales figures for even a company like Criterion were MUCH lower than you might expect. It didn't take much piracy to destroy what was already a marginal business.

Source- Friends who went out of business as the market died. And industry sales report data that showed the small size of the market to start with.
I'm red/green colorblind and blue/purple is the worst combination for me. I colored all my skies purple in elementary school because I couldn't tell the difference.
> US dollar-denominated ...

Right because the USD is relatively more fungible for the time being.

> regulate Bitcoin into near irrlevance

That will just make dollars less fungible.

The Russian oligarchs go to Bitcoin coferences. It's on their radar.
This was propaganda from a karma 9 account. I'll touch some points but I think that there are too many fanatics on this subject, it doesn't work on HN.

(I got a couple of comments first upvoted and then down voted a bunch of points, so I guess this will go the same way.)

>>In Israel, only 7% of the land was owned by Jews when the state of Israel was created.

More Jews were thrown out of the Muslim countries than Palestinians fled. (And not in a burning civil war, but from cold blooded racism.)

The possessions stolen from those Jews included land area multiple times the size of Israel.

Most of those Jews fled to Israel. So how about a reasonable view -- do a swap and call it even? The Palestinians get some of the resources stolen by their allied Muslim countries?

Why is that bad?

>>Jews, and Christians were not persecuted when that land was under Muslim rule.

This is in fact true now... Since most every Jew were thrown out of the Muslim world because of what some other Jews did, there are none to persecute..

Worth reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world#...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism#Mohammad...

It is easy to find more.

>> IDF soldiers wear t-shirts with a picture of a pregnant woman in cross-hairs [...]

You demonise a country for what some individuals do.

What do you then say about about officially sanctioned racist hatred, copied from the Nazis?! Like the Arab countries... In state controlled media.

The previous Egyptian president spoke about the importance of teaching your children to hate Jews... And so on.

So how many hundreds of times worse is that? You're not a dishonest hypocrite with different standards for different sides, are you?

>> [Latest Gaza war]

- Started by Hamas, which also gave murderers of three children a hero status. (Note that some Israelis did a revenge murder -- and will end up in jail.)

- Shooting from civilian areas -- at civilians. (There are empty areas in Gaza: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4580/gaza-population-densi... )

- http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/09/hamas-quietly-admits-i...

- Ah... No. Waste of time and damaging HN. :-(

(Also worth mentioning is how the Muslim world kept the Palestinians in camps and refused to integrate them for generations. Just to keep the hatred going. Smart, since most every other land loss from WWII is forgotten. Just a pity they destroyed so many lives to do it. Arguably, much worse than anything the Israelis ever did to the Palestinians, even in your description...)
It's almost like film consumers don't realize there are transaction and frictional costs to the licensing and distribution of a film, even for streaming, and many films are not popular enough to earn back those costs in the foreseeable future.

Gee, that sounds a lot like somebody else's problem.
Scott Huddleston and Kurt Mehlhorn's 1982 paper "A New Data Structure for Representing Sorted Lists" addresses this question.

http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn/ftp/Huddleston-Mehlho...

The answer is that each modification costs O(1)	amortized time when you have a 4.

It even gives a little anecdote in the acknowledgements on the last page:

"On October 29, 1979, Mehlhorn presented the results of [4] in Zurich. Ed McCreight was in the
audience and asked, 'Is a similar result true for 2-3 trees?' The counterexample shown in Fig. 3
was described. He then asked, 'How about 10-50 trees?'"

(Ed McCreight co-invented the B-tree)

([4] is Blum, N., Mehlhorn, K.: On the average number of rebalancing steps in weight-balanced trees.
Theor. Comput. Sci. 11, 303-320 (1980))

However, you don't actually have to understand all of this to get the
gist of why 2-3 trees don't have constant-amortized-time
modifications. You can see that from a simple little experiment on
binary numbers.

Imagine that you had to implement binary arithmetic on your own. The
first thing you implement is a binary counter with only increment. It
starts at 0, you can add 1 as many times as you like. That's it.

Note that a counter with n bits may require n bit flips to
increment 11111...1. However, by assigning a binary number a potential of the
number of 1 bits, you can see that incrementing takes O(1) amortized
bit flips using the physicist's method.

This doesn't work when you can also subtract one from your counter,
since subtracting one can turn a lot of 0s into 1s. Adding one again
turns them back, and you're back where you started, having spent no
potential yet requiring a bunch of bit flips in each operation.

However, if you allow each digit to be 0, 1, or 2, you can assign a
positive potential to the 0 and 2 digits and zero potential to the 1
bits to show that both increment and decrement use O(1) amortized bit
flips.

The same thing happens with 2-3 trees vs. 2-3-4 trees. I believe 2-3 trees have amortized O(1) insert if deletion is not permitted, but 2-3-4 trees permit both.

Number systems have some deep connections to data structure design like this. One place you can read more is in Okasaki's book, "Purely Functional Data Structures", through plenty of free resources exist on the topic as well - Amr Elmasry tends to publish about it a lot. Once you get it, you start to see the pattern in many other places.
If all three machines had the same logging code, and one machine was fsync'ing slowly, isn't turning off fsync just a bandaid that hides the true problem?

When they discover the actual problem is some issue with the raid controller, I promise not to say "I told you so".
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Does Gnome get more backing from companies like RedHat, where XFCE is all / mostly volunteer?
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Hey, non-Clinkle engineer here. I don't blame you for trying to defend the pivot, even when you can't possibly have much confidence in the offering -- who would? But personal attacks really aren't going to help you make your case.
Enclosed log evaluation is really nice and I'd have some trouble going back. It's older than Elixir, too; Commons.Logging in C# has supported it for a long time and most logging frameworks in Scala take a call-by-name parameter rather than an evaluated arg.
"Swipe like your normal debit card to buy everyday stuff, like an espresso"

like... I still have absolutely no idea what's going on here.
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Neither of us are lawyers (as far as I know), and I assume you have legal counsel for a business like this, and I wish you luck in your business and hope it doesn't come to anything legal.

Actually I hope even more it does come to something legal and you win, because I'd love to expand and make concrete fair use rights for scraping. I like scraping, scraping is both fun and very useful for the business domain I work in, and very frustrating when content providers don't allow it by either terms of service (which may or may not be legally enforceable if you haven't agreed to them, it's unclear, but scary enough with all the CFAA over-enforcement) or technological protections.

But I think you're being disingenous about the difference between a bot and an interactive web browser, I think it's pretty straightforward to most people and will be to the courts if it comes to that.

Interestingly, the latest enhanced Amazon anti-bot protections I ran into say "To discuss automated access to Amazon data please contact...", but don't explicitly try to say "you are forbidden from automated access."