skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has never been an epidemic that didn't pass, otherwise none of us would be here. The question, of course, is how many Ebola will take before it dies out. His article didn't mention any figures along those lines.
It's pretty well established that lead was a factor, by multiple studies. I'm guessing it wasn't quite as sound a debunking as you remember?
>When something has been far too bent over in one direction, you often need to push it over the other way to eventually correct it. Holding it in the middle and thinking it will stay put over generations is wishful at best.

I disagree, once it is held at the middle for a generation, it will stay there (barring some unrelated event pushing it back), because people will have grown up with it there, and all of the inertia has shifted to holding it in the middle.

In fact, even without any holding, I would expect it to tend towards the middle (albeit very slowly). In my mind, all that movements such as feminism are doing is (greatly) accelerating the rate we get there (which I am in favor of).
I can see it now. Soon Adobe will include some tool or setting in Photoshop that will automagically "fix" rolling shutter.
Why do people keep saying it's a fairly difficult disease to spread, when a health worker in the US contracted Ebola, even while wearing protective gear.

If a health worker with protective gear can contract Ebola, imagine how easy it is for someone infected with Ebola to transmit the disease on an airplane or a restaurant. If they start vomiting around people, and splatter the people around them, will those people not get infected? Will the workers who try to clean up the mess not get exposed as well?

The symptoms are obvious, but they are obvious symptoms for much more innocuous diseases as well, so it's easy to miss.
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I disagree with 2.

If the app is not willing to function when being denied SMS access it should simply not be allowed on the app store. I have yet to meet an app on my iPhone that shuts down unrelated function because I denied it access to my calendar, SMS or phonebook.
First thing I looked for was, "Bart around the Bay" - nothing there. It's beyond me why nobody has made getting Bart circling the bay a priority, and really is a blight on "Bay Area" transit.
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Currently i'm working with Yii 1. Its good to know that Yii 2 is released.
Thanks to all Yii Team!!
We could be heading towards an age where trivial things are automated and we're free to use our brains and bodies for more interesting pursuits.

Do you really think your mind will get weaker now that you don't have to start Spotify manually?
Past performance may not be indicative of future results.

Obviously, we should heed the lessons of the past, but a virus like Ebola is not a static phenomenon and it's concerning that so many seem to have developed strongly-held assumptions. The number of medical personnel infected in this current outbreak is particularly worrisome and we don't yet understand the exact causes of this.

We do know that the strain in the current outbreak is different from those seen before, and that it's mutating[1]. Filoviruses have a rapid rate of mutation, and the longer the outbreak lasts, the more opportunity the virus has to mutate into a form that makes it harder to defeat. The speed with which Ebola kills those it infects is actually disadvantageous to the virus. Natural selection would logically favor a strain of the virus that didn't kill its hosts so quickly.

While a lot of speculation revolves around the possibility that the virus could become more easily transmissible, it would be just as worrisome if there were mutations that affected incubation time or the onset symptoms. These types of mutations could significantly complicate some the strategies we're relying on today, if not render them useless.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-...
Not plain timestamps, but there is such as thing as a trusted Time Stamping Authority which will sign a document hash + timestamp to prove that information existed before a certain date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
Caltrain runs a screeching loud horn and rumbling noise everywhere it runs. I stayed at a hotel recently (Sequoia Inn, 526 El Camino) - and I was forced to use ear plugs to get any sleep while the Caltrain was running. And I'm a heavy sleeper.
If the tracks were deep underground it would be fine.

Of course that would be super expensive though.
Caja is something you can do server-side to filter JavaScript. COWL is a modification to the browser security architecture. Hence, unlike Caja, a web site cannot unilaterally deploy COWL. On the other hand, if COWL or something like it makes it through the standardization process, it would have a far more significant impact on web security than Caja.
> it's not unthinkable that certain satellites are simply not tracked or published by NASA.

Which is indeed true[0], but due to the attention of amateur observers there is very little in orbit that goes untracked

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html

Its members compile many elements from direct observation, including those for the 'unmentioned' satellites.

[0] actually they're not tracked by NASA but by USSPACECOM, and to use their elements one has to accept a restrictive non-dissemination agreement. Many observers do not, and use community-calculated elements instead
Becase that thing is built-in in Android since 4.2, which is fairly recent. People needed flashlight apps even two years ago.
That is survivorship bias. Just because the human race hasn't yet been completely wiped out by a pandemic doesn't mean that there is no possibility that a pandemic can kill every single human on Earth. The Black Death killed half of all Europeans, which is pretty horrifying.
This is not medieval but for those interested in these 'multi-monitor' bookstands, I was immediately reminded of a forefather of the United States, good ole Thomas Jefferson. He had swivel bookstand and here's a PBS woodwright workshop video on how you can make one. http://video.pbs.org/video/2365004559/
FBI Director: “Americans Should Be Deeply Skeptical of Government Power”
+1 for Vultr: They offer FreeBSD and CoreOS.
> What do you do when your data is shared among others laptops that aren't currently connected to the internet?

My understanding is that this can be mitigated by giving nodes a financial incentive to regularly be online and able to provide proof they still possess the data.
Very cool to see so many python music projects here! I suppose I'll add mine, which is also sorely lacking in documentation and is very much in a pre-release state: https://github.com/hecanjog/pippi

I've been dogfooding it for my own music since I started working on it, here's a recent-ish album made with it: http://music.hecanjog.com/album/solos-for-unattended-compute...
And I expect virtually all of the methods on slice to be available on String before long. I think it's a bug that this isn't the case today.

It's already possible to have a function take "either a String or slice" generically:

def print_me<T>(me: T) where T: Str {
println!("I am '{:s}'", me.as_slice());
}

The overall ergonomics of this (or at least, the well-documented idioms) will certainly improve in the coming months.
I think it is already in the plans to extend to San Jose and then to Santa Clara.
> That's why campaigning often takes on an aggressive bent, and why affirmative action is called for. Current generations steeped in sexism (I mean, much as I'm a feminist, I see many of my ingrained sexist biases) need to prop up this scaffold to make sure the changes are institutionalized and carry over and next generations are raised with less biases by means of institutions, as opposed to "just keep in mind everybody is equal, yay!"

If you fight one injustice with an even bigger one, the war just continues forever. Counteracting sexism against women this generation using affirmative action (giving women more rights than men) just means that next generation men will see themselves as abused and exploited and ask for affirmative action in their favor. This will simply keep escalating more and more. The only solution is to treat everyone the same.
"You appear to want something secretive to be uncovered here"

Not exactly, just wanted to know more. I know satellites and spacecraft in the past have used nuclear/radioactive energy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens
Rust was first conceived by an avid Ocamler, and it was originally implemented in Ocaml too. Although the pot has been stirred quite a bit since those early days, the influence still remains, including the expression heavy programming style, pattern matching, 'let's, HM inference, and `var: T` declaration syntax. Whilst Rust is quite procedural and (you rarely use recursion), it often feels quite functional due to those things.
LaTeX. Here are some custom latex classes I uses for different purpose. Some are created by me, some are I get from elsewhere:
https://github.com/malloc82/latex_classes
I've seen it quite frequently and kindof like it because it doesn't introduce any state that could leak out or get mutated from somewhere else. Although the ternary operator doesn't make as much sense in python as in other languages since there is no const keyword, otherwise that's what the ternary operator is usually used for.
Yeah, this needs to happen. It need to start somewhere so if someone here works at a college it should start the movement. WaS = Wikipedia as Assignment.
At least you can now do: foo[].some_slice_method()
The deadly disease that killed more people than WW1
This is different how from all the chat aggregators that existed since the 90s except for the fact that it supports SMS type apps and chat?

Not only that but not working for iOS and being solely at the mercy of so many integrations seems like a difficult model to sustain.
The intention isn't that you would carry the patch forward long-term - it's a short-term, throwaway fix that is only intended to fix the problem whilst not breaking your application in your specific use case.

You'd still apply the proper patch from upstream when it's available and throw away the machine-generated one.
The health worker was working directly with Ebola patients, something went wrong there and should be investigated but, this is still better than a dozen random people contracting it because it actually does spread easily.

Health workers contracting it means that their needs to be either more protective measures or better training to help prevent mistakes.
However, this is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack, still. A malicious man-in-the-middle could simply send an old timestamp which was already validated. The best alternative would be to require the time server to return a signed timestamp plus challenge to prove that it was sent by the actual server. Unfortunately, this would incur computational cost on the part of the time server, which may make such a scheme impractical.
It is, in a way. The current objective is to get BART to reach San Jose (and maybe Santa Clara) so that you can make a loop with Caltrain. It's hard to see BART ever replacing Caltrain (and eventually the high speed rail line) up the south bay/lower peninsula.
This is correct, the affluent communities have consistently shot Bart down. Caltrain is just as noisy but has the advantage of existing long before any of the housing tracts. San Francisco and San Jose Railroad service started in 1863.
Pretty much.

It's used extensively in code signing and document signing. If a code signed file has a signed timestamp, it will continue to be treated as valid after expiration so long as the CA doesn't mark your certificate for lifetime signing (really only StartCom Class 2).

If you open Adobe Reader, you can sign PDF files. Just click the second tab on the right, Certificates and then Timestamp. You can use http://timestamp.digicert.com/ as the TSA (time stamping authority) for free.
Thanks, also is the "try it" link on rust playpen linking to the wrong code?
One of the best article series on the Linux kernel (and operating systems in general) I've ever read.
NTP does take integrity checking into account [0], though due to export restrictions and regulations the methods have varied over the years and are non-ideal. Specifically, the risk of MITM attacks/abuse is acknowledged as is the risk of DoS via the increased computational overhead of crypto [1].

[0] http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo-crypt.htm

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Securit...
Some TSAs (GeoTrust) support TLS which solves this problem. Surprisingly (given they sell the product to do that) it doesn't seem many others do...
Indeed. I feel like learning Rust has helped me grok C and Java much more, because the different forms of allocation is much are visible.
Caltrain is already pretty good on the Peninsula. Since the various towns on the Peninsula were founded in the railroad era, the Caltrain stops conveniently in each downtown.

Where would a BART line run on the Peninsula? Down 101 from Millbrae? Such a route would cost billions over some of the most expensive real estate in the country, yet wouldn't serve the denser parts of the peninsula well.

Modernizing the Caltrain seems like a much better use of money. It's clear from the website that this stuff is very expensive!

If we want to dream, a BART extension from Milpitas through Santa Clara (and the new stadium) to link up with the light rail and Caltrain in downtown Mountain View would be awesome, though!
Yahoo Finance is getting worse and it is so simple to fix
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> Why do people keep saying it's a fairly difficult disease to spread

Because that is the truth.

When someone is working in close quarters to the disease they are substantially more likely to catch it, no? You can wear all the protective gear you want, if protocol for taking off the gear is not followed 100% every single time, you open yourself up to infection. Combine that with fatigue, mistakes happen unfortunately often.

If you are just out walking around coming into normal contact with people, it is incredibly difficult to spread.
If HSR completes, we'll have faster Caltrain, which is probably Good Enough.
I'm going to sound like a dick here, but my karma is already low, so fuck it.

You're falling into the common trap of the technologically skilled, rational, intelligent, male. You see yourself as a meritocratic person and you believe that people should be judged based on their merits.

Fair enough. It would be nice if the world worked that way. Unbiased meritocratic decision is impossible when the subject in question is to known to their interviewer by anything but their merits. As far as we know, it's simply not possible to make meritocratic decisions when you know anything other than the subject's merits. It doesn't matter if you're racist or sexist, everyone inevitably makes assumptions about other races and other genders. Not being racist and sexist is about realizing those assumptions are incorrect and suppressing them.

Take the case of professional orchestras for example. Before the 1970s and 80s, most professional orchestras were 5% women. In the 70s and 80s when blind auditions became the standard, that number rose to 25%. You don't need to tell me that correlation doesn't imply causation but if the data doesn't say that to you I'm not sure what can.

People are awesome solely based on their merits, but acting like you have the capability to thusly judge them in such a perfect manner is silly. It's simply not possible.
No, that’s the code that is supposed to be there. It’s indicating that there is nothing that you can put as the lifetime there.
I've looked into this, but I'm torn. In my mind the most compelling arguments against lead-free are: of the studies of factory workers who work every day with lead/tin solder, they couldn't find elevated blood lead levels; and that the fluxes in lead-free solders are both more exotic (i.e. less studied for adverse health effects) and a greater proportion of the solder.

The danger of absorbed lead is clear, but it's not a straight line from there to lead-free solder. Furthermore, the process that resulted in the EU (mostly) banning lead solder seems to be based more on the precautionary principle than any evidence of health or environmental damage from solder specifically. Added to that is some definite PR misinformation floating around - it's been hard for me to come to any conclusions.
> If you fight one injustice with an even bigger one, the war just continues forever.

Except equality isn't a possibility in the current "climate". There aren't 50% women in tech, politics, etc. Unless you make a strong stance that we need more women, to the tune of more money spent or more outreach, it will never get there, because the status quo is easier to maintain.

> Counteracting sexism against women this generation using affirmative action (giving women more rights than men) just means that next generation men will see themselves as abused and exploited and ask for affirmative action in their favor.

But that's not true historically, or logically. White people aren't the minority asking for affirmative action now. Once we get to 50% there might be a slight overcorrection of a few %, but fear of a future in which men need affirmative action shouldn't be an excuse for why we shouldn't provide for women in tech (~14%).

> The only solution is to treat everyone the same.

Exactly, we need to have 50% women in tech, and the only way to do that is by applying a force to increase the number of women in tech tomorrow.
Ignore the haters, I thought it was quite a fun project. Definitely creative.
I seem to recall that Adobe Premiere Pro and/or Adobe After Effects contain a tool for mitigating rolling shutter artifacts, though I am not certain if it uses the method described in the article.
I've only ever seen it non-nested.
Well, for one, the first sentence references a file that has since been decrypted (IIRC). so it is useful for the reader to understand at what point in the timeline of events this piece was initially written, even if the technical aspects are consistently updated.
Something like this make the burden of annotating lifetime like someone would do in Rust, to avoid the insecure parts of C and C++ kind of a complete productivity lost, unless you are fan of metaprogramming...

This can make those languages king again, given they are still unbeatable when someone needs performance and fine tunning..

I wonder if this could really meant, we can use those languages for rockets, cars and airplanes, without worrying, the human lives lost or burning large sums of money because of dangling pointers family of bugs..
Wouldn't it be possible to fool this by forking the blockchain immediately after the first difficulty adjustment after the last remembered block, and then forging timestamps to force the difficulty to go down? You'd need a pretty substantial amount of hashing power to generate the next 2016 blocks, but it doesn't need to be a 51% attack. Over a long enough time scale it ought to be feasible to fool this.

Of course, if you're syncing back up on a reasonably regular basis this won't be practical. But for 'time capsule' applications this ought to work.
>Why do people keep saying it's a fairly difficult disease to spread, when a health worker in the US contracted Ebola, even while wearing protective gear.

When has any public official ever told the truth when the news is grim. Lets think what Bagdad Bob would say.
I’ve certainly written `a if b else c if d else e` before, and it reads perfectly naturally—but you do want to be careful doing such things. They’re very easy to overuse.
> I'm not sure what to think with the data I have available.

That usually means find more data!

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle - but for someone in the US who doesn't work in a hospital, at least for now, you have nothing to worry about. If it starts spreading in the US, that is the time to start worrying (as an individual who doesn't work in the industry)

I'm not saying doctors and scientists in this field shouldn't be worrying or doing anything about it - what I'm saying is if you are not one of those people and you're not traveling internationally, there is no logical reason for you to even think about it for the time being - things may change for the worse, but until then it is unnecessary worry for something you have absolutely no control over.
Judging from the cloudflare references in that screenshot you might be looking for this: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170566-M...
FYI, former BART Director Robert S. Allen made Internet comments railing against transit-oriented development. [0] One of the underlying attitudes that drives today's transit situation is this notion of segregation via restricted transit access.

[0] http://systemicfailure.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/ex-bart-dire...
This was poorly written. I'm still not sure why the author dislikes feminism. He jumped from one topic to another, without supporting facts anywhere.

The biggest thing I have an issue with is this paragraph-

>I happen to believe that many well meaning people of many causes damage their cause by basically forcing people to deal with their "diversity" first, instead of of being able to deal with people as people on their own merit.

If you feel like you're being 'forced' to deal with others diversity you should rethink being in the tech industry. Being in the tech industry means being able to deal with change and new ideas. Part of everyones merit is their different backgrounds, value sets and experiences. Equality/fairness is not treating everyone the exact same. It's absurd to be how undervalued diversity is in the tech world, it makes it's hard to believe that sexism/racism isn't at the heart of it.

Diverse teams make better decisions: http://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/better_decis...

Diversity increases creative:
http://www.eidi-results.org/pdfs/EIDARTICLE1-17-12.pdf

Diverse teams produce better results:
http://www.inc.com/welcome.html?destination=http://www.inc.c...

Diversity makes for greater success in venture:
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_26086229/tech-workforc...
Where is the option for "24 hour service on Fridays and Saturdays?"
If I remember correctly, legislation was passed in 2007 requiring trains everywhere in the US to blast their horn four times (length unspecified) before every crossing. The only exceptions are quad-gated crossing (I believe that means a gate covering each lane of traffic on both sides) or in specified "quiet zones".

In my area, the trains only get active at around 11:30pm, an continue their racket through the entire night. I'm regularly awakened by needlessly long honking around 4am. It's awful.
And that was before people lived together in a hyperconnected global urban society that eats petroleum and breathes electricity. A virus doesn't have to kill half of the Europe or US to kicks the western civilization back to medieval.
I dont think it would be an accurate translation in that case. the rebimboca is a fictional object while spline reticulation is a fictional action.
There are three large differences with this outbreak than all previous outbreaks

1. The size and the number of people infected.

2. The geographical scale. No outbreak has ever been anything other than localised.

3. It is spreading in urban areas. All previous outbreaks of Ebola have been rural.

If any of these differences are important then we can’t really look to past outbreaks to know what is going to happen.
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How does this compare to Bacon.js or higland ?