skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My university classes aren't over for the day, so I can't yet discuss this at length with you, but I find it very odd how you and others in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8406257) are using the same

>Please, no simplified propaganda on HN.

line. Are you sure that you're a real person?
Again with my facts:

http://gazadeaths.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-un-says-...

My point was you do not even have to trust the UN's estimate that nearly 75% were civilians. You can use logical deduction to come to a number of more than %50 when you consider the number of women and children killed in comparison to the total, any total you find.
Based on a long history of putting people in jail for similar offenses.
That doesn't really pass the sniff test. Drug spending accounts for ~10% of all healthcare spending in the US.

The US pay about 10-30% more for drugs than the US. If the US was paying EU prices, it would reduce the total healthcare expenditure by 1-2%?

Right now the US spends almost 50% more than other OECD countries.
I think it was such a ubiquitous pattern in tutorials and apps early on that it became a norm people didn't question. As the author mentioned, it isn't really something that matters too much until you really start to build a complex app.

In my own experience, I've found taking such a modular approach too early on can actually hinder productivity as I find myself spending too much time on boilerplate and figuring out if, for example, this service REALLY belongs with feature X or feature Y.
Sounds to me more like an argument against leaving basic medical and pharmaceutical research up to the private sector. All of humanity benefits from this research, so all of humanity should fund it... and no subset of humanity should be permitted to monopolize it, much less be encouraged to do so.

He took his Ivy-league physics PhD to Wall Street, because you're never going to get rich working in a research lab.

Probably the right choice. I doubt he'll miss out any Nobel Prizes as a result.
I was talking about the WiFi bandwidth not your 3G/4G bandwidth

Spectrum is spectrum. Convention centers don't own WiFi spectrum any more than they own cell phone spectrum.
I see this behavior too on SPDY-using sites, including ones on CloudFlare. Everyone is constantly going on about the benefits of parallel requests that SPDY / HTTP/2 brings, but I'm not seeing it. Can anyone explain? I'm about to go back to domain-sharding resources to solve this for some of my work even though CloudFlare says that it's not recommended with SPDY.
I see. I expressed myself in a very absolute way, which I realize might not be the best way of communicating.

Of course there should be a room for caution and thought. Maybe this exec and his company really weren't aware of the implications of what they were doing. Nevertheless, there needs to be back pressure. In this case giving feedback may be enough - I'm in favour of being as nice to people by default - but in others such methods should be denounced.
one of their complaints is that there's an overabundance of cars on the road

This one sentence contradicts everything else in the article. If driving for Lyft is such a bad deal, why are too many people doing it?
you must be 12
Sure, but my point is that we're nowhere near Snowden. I wouldn't want to be him, but to be the guy who gets put on some list with a million other people for reading and discussing an article that's critical of the NSA? Bring it on.
Also, what kind of hit does this have on performance?
You seem much more methodic than me. I use tabs like Haskell uses memory. (the implication that my tabs are immutable is intentional)

I would quite like to be able to group tabs together, collapse groups, move them between instances, tile 'em, bookmark a group to open it later...
Yes that was in the lengthy contract.

They weren't using a radio jammer, but using techniques just like were described in the article. We tried getting our gear setup and couldn't get anything working, even trying to use Internet connection sharing over Wifi between a Macbook and an iPad right next to each other wouldn't work. Until we got a hold of the network engineer for the convention and got him to whitelist our MAC addresses on their own APs. Then all of a sudden all our gear sprang to life. He told us they were looking for rogue APs and were sending frames to their clients to disassociate. If you were an attendee and not an exhibitor you could use the free public WiFi that was available. But we were warned that was far too flaky to use for product demos and would require re-registration every hour.

We also had to use commercial grade APs (like Cisco, Aruba, etc.) that could have the signal strength turned way down so it wouldn't bleed too far out of our booth. The WiFi APs at your local Staples don't usually have this option; they only boost the signals, not lower them.
The profit motive is scary too though. It's a disincentive to finding a cure for something rather than a perpetual treatment.
These are great suggestions!

I really enjoy 1, 9 and 10. Learn something new everyday.
Great that you're seeing the performance in your testing! Sorry about the unscheduled video appearance -- unfortunately I didn't have the time to apply the "blur" brush exactly everywhere. Let me know if you'd like that done and I'll take care of that for the final version :)
> And if you decry patents, you remove one of the few ways it is possible for researchers to get rich from their work.

I doubt that more patents make it directly easier for researchers' salaries to increase, and increase their participation in the field.

A lot of drugs these days seem to be sold as consumer products anyway, from what I see on television (“Ask your doctor if Newdrugplexastin is for you. Side effect might include death.”) Perhaps encouraging companies to redirect some of those costs to hiring better researchers could be the solution?
Heh. Yeah, a lot of the actual PhD-types I know are amateur coders on a mission, and their code matches that.

I'm sure you get it, but just for the record, by math-professor I meant "very focused on things that to most people seem incredibly abstract", with a side of "passionate about solving intellectual challenges for their own sake".
Your intuition is nice for figuring out the directions, but not so nice for explaining the numbers. By which I mean, I can understand why it's real, but I can't explain why i^i = e^(-pi/2)... I would expect it to be a nicer number instead (like 1/2, or 1/e, or something like that). I can't really explain why both pi and e end up int he formula.
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Systemd to the rescue
Only if you hold a monopoly or participate in a cartel. If GSK has a perpetual treatment Merck has every incentive to release a cure to cut them out.
Tell it to the Teamsters...
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Amusingly, many of the design decisions of HTTP/2 were made the same way in Macromedia Flash. Binary representation and multiplexing of streams to improve the user experience are both used in Flash.
Diana Kander has an interesting view about that in her book "All in startup". She mentions that it is not enough to find a "headache" the people have (problems they can live with), you have to find a "migraine problem" (problem they'll do anything to get rid of).
Obviously, you still need to get the people to know about your product.
yes, I meant: keeping full frequency could have been avoided to save space/memory but having two classes high/low could be a good tradeoff.
Net neutrality is already "failed", thanks to binopolies in service areas such as Comcast/Verizon and Verizon/At&T. What happens next? You really don't know? America has the slowest internet speeds, slowest download speeds and is the most expensive in the world. You can thank the FCC and our corrupt, corporations-over-people government. What to do? cut off cable service - it is the only thing that will hurt them, and hurt them we must because reason and fairness mean nothing to corporations - they are bottomless pits of greed and will never stop squeezing until we squeeze back.
If I am eating dinner, and I want to add salt to the meal, then I try to reach the salt container, using my shoulder and arm and hand, and using my muscles and tendons and nervous system. How much of my body is involved in bringing food to my mouth? You can define this in slightly different ways, but you end up with the same result: some parts of my body allow me to bring food to my mouth. In those moments, it is entirely appropriate to say that the system is trying to bring food to my mouth. And yes, that increases my chances of having children. It is possible that something else, unknown to me, is also happening, emergent, and in 2 million years that emergent quality will be more obvious. But in the short term, it is altogether reasonable to say that parts of my body were working as a system to bring food to my mouth.
The issue of IP or patent bothers me a lot less than the fact that vaccine makers have legal immunity against any potential patient injuries or deaths.
Pokémons.

You can group servers by Pokémon type. Servers named Bulbasaur, Chicorita and Bellsprout probably have similar purposes, since they are all leaf Pokémons.

Another example, Charmander and Charizard. They both have the same purpose (since it's the same Pokémon 'species') but Charizard is a better server (because Charizard is Charmander's last evolution).
Nice work. Can it return confidence scores? Say I want to load 3 commands in my page:
1. Click blue button
2. Scroll down in the yellow text area
3. Expand image of man
I feed those to the engine, and when somebody speaks, I get a confidence score on each word so I can determine with a level of configurable certainty that the user is using the command:
{click: 0.9878 confidence,
blue: 0.8789 confidence,
button: 0.1889 confidence)

Something like that...
You're supposed to tip everyone unless they treated you like garbage. People who accept tips don't make a living wage without them.
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The trains on the Seattle/Portland route are really exceptionally nice too.

I rode Rochester/NYC a few times, and while still nice it wasn't quite as nice.
Exactly. This is the whole reason for the FCC's existence. It's only a popular misconception that their primary job is preventing the display of unwanted nipples on TV.
Most of these I already have. I use GNU/Linux at home and it's what I'm most comfortable using, but at work I need OS X for compatibility with Adobe products. Any software that makes OS X feel a little bit more like home is a good thing.
Fascinating... wouldn't this be illegal? It falls into laws regarding hacking and network disruption. They're joining another network, and interfering with its activity.

If the reverse was happening, say a hacker was going through and deauthentication jamming THEIR network you can bet they would call the FBI.
CSS is like an old Alfa Romeo. There's only one mechanic within a 100 miles who actually knows how to properly fix it. The other mechanics can't be bothered to figure it out and just keep slapping more duct tape on top of the old stuff to keep it running.
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Slight correction, CDMA can be on any frequency. Verizon uses lower ones because they could afford to outbid everybody else for the licenses from the FCC.
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We haven't heard much from Reddit employees on this situation. DHH has been the vocal one. Before we jump to any conclusions we should ask how Reddit's remote employees really feel.
What if an employee does not reply ? Is there a timeout that gets the digest sent anyway ?
Ebola hospital statement blaming earlier missed diagnosis on software
Well, he's ALLEGED to have done that.

People are becoming increasingly interested in the case because it's looking probable that enforcement/prosecution has done something untoward.

Everybody has an interest in law enforcement operating under the rules that supposed to constrain its behavior.

If the prosecution can straight up lie to the court about how evidence is gathered with impunity, then at the very least it may be an effective strategy to raise the cost of effective defense.

More scarily, it may be used to cover up useful lines of defense.

In every case, you should imagine an innocent man accused, and consider whether the tactics used against him are designed to demonstrate the truth, to cast artifacts in a false light, or to raise the odds of conviction regardless of the truth.

We should never convict on the strength of the information that someone has been charged.
"Protocols were followed by both the physician and the nurses. However, we have identified a flaw in the way the physician and nursing portions of our electronic health records (EHR) interacted in this specific case. In our electronic health records, there are separate physician and nursing workflows."
The FCC governs communications, not just radio waves. We just happen to be most familiar with them in the context of radio.
Sad that there is no ruby vehicle, a little newer than php, a lot better trailer hitch.
"This is unlikely to have happened under a system of legal drugs. I've never heard of Walmart -- where legal products are sold -- putting out hits on people."

Take a look into the dirty underside of the distribution (of legal goods) industry and you will find intimidation and violence used.
http://xkcd.com/910/
Well they detected it my company when we did it. We had little lua mini-games that you could download, and they rejected the app for it.

If you work really hard to hide it, then you could do it possibly. Like most private API calls are not detected by their tool if you execute it with a composed string based peformSelector: style action for example. And they can't really detect private view manipulation either.

But they can also use plain deduction in using your app. As in, 'this wouldn't be possible unless they are downloading code'. They also don't like finding out about hidden shit that is only revealed once the app is approved.
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Interesting that sending de-auth packets to shut down rogue (from Marriott's viewpoint) wireless access points resulted in this fine. I mean, this is a standard feature of your average wireless intrusion prevention system. We have something similar set up to control unauthorized or inappropriate network access, because end users attaching their own networking equipment (and breaking our network as a result) is a real problem for us.
What bugs me is the developer hadn't touched Mou in a year and was trying to sell it at one point [1]. Then some developers decided to make an open source version of it called MacDown [2], which rubbed the Mou developer the wrong way, and he and his friends were bashing it as a blatant rip off of Mou [3]. The renewed interest in the project only seemed to come about when MacDown started getting traction.

I've used Mou and I think it's pretty stable. I don't see a problem with simply charging for it now. It seems unnecessary to raise money and bring on a whole team.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7948079

[2]: https://github.com/uranusjr/macdown

[3]: https://twitter.com/remaerd/status/484914820408279040
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AT&T’s congestion magically disappears when it’s signing up new customers
I understand the grouping of the JS files by feature. But I have a hard time including the partials/HTMLs with that. Because when building (concat, minify etc) the project, they will then need to be copied around and all template-references updated.

It's easier instead to just dump all of them into one place and copy that folder, no need to update references etc. then.

Any ideas on how to solve this?
Here is your second incident:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Johnson_and_Andrew_Gol...

Here's your third: #59 in your first link.
Here's your fourth: #67 in your first link.

We know of the incidents stopped, but so many of those in your links ended by the killers' own hand. In almost all of the cases, however, these are mass murderers with guns.
I think Jesus was up to something when he said that serving God and Mammon are two incompatible goals. Pursuing things like public health is desirable - it increases general wellbeing - but you can't earn money doing so. Consider the Ebola case in Dallas: black guy, likely uninsured turns up at the hospital, and they give him antibiotics and send him on his merry way, spreading the virus for two days more. It shows why the Libertarian approach of paying for public services through fees instead of taxes frankly doesn't work.
Google X working on seamless, modular large-format displays
Hey I'm the author of the article. I created a library of modules that were reused across single page apps. For individual libraries I agree it doesn't make sense, but not enough people take advantage of the module system
Thanks, that's really interesting, especially the report of how it looked from your end. I imagine if I was staying at a hotel that was doing this, I'd be driven absolutely mad when my stuff didn't work and I couldn't figure out why.
No - that is blatantly illegal.
Point 3 about "Dependency injection" is often not needed. Just use ng-annotate before minify/uglify, and it will convert the code to the array syntax for you. It handles most of the cases, leaving your code without the ugly array stuff.

It doesn't work for everything, though, so suddenly it blows up. So if you want to be 100% sure your code works as intended do it manually.
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Lets think about this.... if they can spend maybe $10 million to be able to say to their customers... "We had a breach but your personal data was encrypted with the latest technology and is safe" vs "We had a data breach and 76 million house holds now have personally identifiable information up for sale across the black market."

Do you think that the goodwill from the first statement would save them $10 million? My bet is that a bank actually being able to say that a breach was a non issue because they had actually taken all possible measures to protect your data with them because they actually might care about their customers just a tiny bit would easily drive them in a positive direction both in the short term and the long term.
I take the train between NYC, Boston and Providence very frequently (dozens to hundreds of times a year), and to DC occasionally (MBTA between Providence and Boston, usually). When I worked in NYC, I could leave Providence on an early train and know I'd make it to Midtown in time for work. Boston and NYC (and DC) both have good public transit, so I can hop on a bus or a train on either end to get around the city. The northeast corridor has decent trains, at least compared to the rest of the country from what I can gather.

tl;dr I live in the Northeast without owning a car and it's OK

Our shitty rail infrastructure might have to do with the interests of the automotive industry [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...
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Yeah I think that's a fair point. It's easy enough to write a grunt or gulp task that does the copy. Not too hard to copy all the *.html files from the app directory. The time savings for development are worth it to me
Well, that's the downside of using an unlicensed band. Nothing says you can't get a license for a restricted band and set up shop there, then the FCC will help you shut down interlopers instead of smacking you down when you try to do it yourself. Of course, getting the appropriate equipment will be highly troublesome, but so it goes when you want to control what people transmit.
Therefore we need to heavily incentivize researchers in the public sphere (who don't necessarily have the same type of perpetual treatment motive), along with allowing the free market researchers to operate according to their own goals.

It would be irrelevant that pharma companies benefit more from perpetual treatment if public research was a more effective balance against that. If pharma doesn't pursue a cure, and a cure is conceivable, then it would behoove academics to pursue it (as the acclaim, and hopefully financial incentive they'd receive would easily motivate them). However, due to the competition for public funding, people are less likely to go down an expensive and time consuming path like that. They're much more likely to pursue incremental discoveries that lead to continued funding rather than bet the farm on a longshot.

The main problem, in my opinion, is that there simply isn't enough science funding.
I agree that one of the main problems of science today is the brain drain from academic research to for-profit entities. If we're being honest, they both need each other; the academics need industry to produce instruments and perform speculative engineering projects, and the industry needs the academics to train fresh scientists and buy their products. A big problem is that academics are constantly reminded by the palpable superiority of their private sector brethren; the private sector people dress better (not ratty), drive better cars (not broken shitboxes), have larger apartments (not holes in the ground), flashier parties, shorter hours, and upward potential.

Here's a solution which doesn't disrupt the good aspects of the status quo: get the government and grant-giving entities to provide more money (read: 65-140k instead of 18-50k) specifically for researcher salaries.

That way, research that is created via public money is still completely open to the public and other researchers, and there isn't an incentive to leave research in order to make more money by leaving. The private sector can still try to poach academics with higher salaries, but now they'll have a harder time.

The alternative is a continuation down the current path of patent trolling and progress-halting intellectual property law. When you're blocked from making progress on an idea for many years because someone else thought of it first, there are real consequences... namely that a lot of the important fleshing-out of an initial idea isn't subjected to any kind of rigorous external criticism and refinement. It creates weird gaps where ideas that have been around for a long time are only recently free to explore, leading to realizations of potential past-applications lost.

Scientific progress is a network of nodes which moves forward through the dimensions of sophistication and time based on how many connections there are between nodes; enough blocked connections leads to big slowdowns across an entire field. For this reason, I am against intellectual property.
Great suggestion, I will surely add a timeout after 48 hours!
Note that you can still see the answers live on the dashboard even if half the people filled the form.
Sure, maybe it belongs in the public sector. But with current estimates of $1-5B R&D per successful new drug, it's not exactly chump change. The US gov't doesn't have a couple spare hundred billion kicking around, ready to point at drug research. So that will be a long time coming...
I know a few people who do fundamental drugs research. They aren't poor, but they sure as hell aren't rich and don't seem to be trying to become rich either.

Obviously, if you got rid of patents, there is a question of funding, but I don't really think the laboratories can tell where the dollars came from to keep them going, they just need enough of them to function, so presumably there are other methods that would work to keep the funding levels up.
This is pretty cool. I expect that even if the code is open source, that the real value is in the dataset used. Does anyone know the licensing information ?
To be fair, this is an entirely retrospective analysis. I'd never thought about it until today.