skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author is overestimating how prepared the US healthcare system is to handle a real threat if one arises:

- The U.S. has been advertising that we're the ones with the cure for ebola, so where is anyone with money going to go as soon as they get exposed? And while most of the victims are among the urban poor, there will be more wealthy people who become infected as the epidemic increases in scale.

- Even if we have better technology, the cost of treating each victim here is exponentially higher. The cost for each patient could easily be close to a million dollars if you count 2+ weeks in the ER, licensed biohazard disposal and decontamination, network tracing, quarantining exposed contacts, etc.

- Nearly 50M Americans don't have health insurance. If going into the ER risked you getting kept there while waiting for test results, possibly losing your job, and getting getting stuck with a bill for tens of thousands of dollars even if you don't have ebola, it's hard to imagine that many of those people aren't going to just wait a few extra days.

- In the US healthcare workers are generally paid well enough that they can just leave their jobs, maybe not comfortably, but with enough money to at least feed themselves and get by. It's hard to imagine that we won't have large numbers of healthcare workers just taking off if this ever gets serious. Especially since US healthcare workers aren't trained to deal with ebola, and largely aren't interested -- notice how most of the people going to west Africa to volunteer in this crisis are missionaries, not doctors.

- We have all sorts of religious fundamentalists in the US who think it's god's will that the US be destroyed for condoning homosexuality or whatever who would be more than happy to help the process along, and more than enough people abroad who would gladly sacrifice their own lives to disrupt our foreign/domestic policy.
I'd be interested to know if they limited themselves to 4K ROM (standard size of a 2600 cartridge).
One thing for business travel is that you can almost always work on the train. For me, that means when I have to deal with some disaster or meeting, I don't lose a weekend with my kids.

That's a northeast centric viewpoint though... Outside of there, many/most businesses are no longer in urban centers, and getting to the office park in the burbs is a pain.
There is no mention of an employee password in this story, contrary to the headline.
I'm not suggesting that systemd and/or journald is responsible for the corruption of the logs; it could be, but this bug report doesn't really suggest anything about the original source of the corruption.

The source doesn't matter, because corruption happens. Bugs happen, hardware fails, attackers try to cover their tracks. The bug I (and the original reporter in this bug report) are referring to is journald's behavior when corruption happens: shove the log aside and start from scratch. Even worse, the attitude that ignoring corruption is "not a bug" is insane.

Yes, fixing a corrupt binary database (even a simple one) is going to be very hard. What they fail to mention is that the reason they are face with this difficult problem was their decision to use that kind of format in the first place. When faced with the realities of their bad design choices, pretending there isn't a problem is not the correct answer. The correct way to handle that bug report should have been either fixing the bug (make journalctl able to handle corrupt logs), changing previous bad designs (drop the format that makes this a problem), or at a bare minimum recognize that this is a serious problem for some people and leaving the report open if it cannot be fixed right now.

Given that this kind of external corruption has a very good chance of being the very reason you have to search the logs, how a logger acts in that kind of situation is of key importance.
I'll hold on for now and monitor how this suggested team performs over the course of the month and then make a decision. I've already thrown away my wildcard so...
A manager's main job is to make crunch time not happen. Crunch time is management failure to plan.
Because you may want to chain weather_for with some other methods and have this same "if nil don't break!" strategy. We would end up putting `rescue NoMethodError` everywhere and end up right where we started.

Instead, he later changes weather_for to accept and return this new `Optional` construct, making it chainable, and dealing with this "if nil don't break!" in one spot and one spot only.
When I talk about this and people ask why, and when people comment "why", this is my response.

The space elevator is the Panama Canal of our time.

People dreamed of building it for close to a hundred years before it was finally achieved. Multiple companies and countries tried and failed. Once it was achieved, it changed the world.

This is so much more important. Instead of just linking two hemispheres, the space elevator opens up all of space to us. It's like the Bering land bridge 20k years ago or first cheap ships that could reliably cross the Atlantic. It's all of those things a thousand fold.
I have no information about this case other than the source. However, most human errors like this one are due to unexpected similitude and shared affordances: two things that should not be mixed have the same size, shape, color.

There was a case of a nurse who injected the wrong compound in a baby and killed it a decade ago (in a military hospital in France, one with a stellar reputation): two viles were strikingly similar (one containing vaccine, the other Potassium) even after being told what those were, you would confuse them.

In this case, I'm assuming concentrated virus is not meant to be near water release, therefore no one noticed until yesterday that there were stored in vats that look like possibly fat-digesting bacteria, or chlorine. 40L is a large quantity: the only container I can think of for those is either a metallic oil drum, or that omnipresent industrial blue plastic barrel (the one you see in that infamous scene in Breaking Bad).
I think there's an important difference between saying Haskell uses monads to do IO and we use rings to do arithmetic. In Haskell, understanding monads helps you do lots of tasks more effectively, since so many data types are monads: IO, Maybe, lists, ...

In math, there are other uses for rings, but if you're using them, it helps to know a little ring theory. Similarly, if you want to use any of the other Haskell monads, it helps to know how monads work.
The Human Body, According to Venture Capitalists
Ask HN: Any webdev opportunities for interns which turn into PPO's?
Hello Everyone!
I'm looking for firms which take in interns for web development ( preferably django based ) and offer a PPO (Pre-placement offer) too.

Thanks :)
Amazingly well written and well argued. It's worth the time to turn off your tldr impulse and read this piece.
Usually, the big biotech production plants look a lot like breweries. Giant bioreactors that look like fermentors are hooked up to complex control valves moving fluid from one to the other in the various steps of a complicated process.

My best guess is that a technician accidentally hit the "dump waste" button before the vessel was decontaminated/when it had the wrong solution in it/before the virus was deactivated, etc.

This incident is especially worrisome, but having seen the control boards for one of those giant reactors, I'm not surprised that mistakes are made on occasion.
cool, now intel can be like IBM during the holocaust and pretend they had no idea what they were supporting decades after the fact.
1 megabyte is 0x100000

Also, as the article mentions, other OSes like WinNT are capable of mapping executables within the first 1mb. Virtual memory and paging can hide the BIOS area away. I think your statement about "original 32bit operating systems" is inaccurate. The limitations given in win95 appears to be mostly due to win3.x legacy backwards compability.

In fact, the main article explains everything accurately. Your summary is more confusing than helping.
I've worked in labs with far less threatening (but still deadly) microorganisms and I could never imagine making a mistake with such a giant flask. It had to have been mislabelled or maybe someone used used autoclave tape to seal something on the top? Only a idiot would pour an unlabelled solution of that size down the drain...
But where will that extra downward traffic come from? The total weight of all space debris is only around 6000 tons[0] so that'll get exhausted within a matter of years (assuming we're even capable of collecting said debris). The only other alternative seems to be pulling near-Earth asteroids into geosynchronous orbit and using that.

[0] http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/comment-space-debris-consta...
PossibleDB 0.1-6
I sighed at the title, but was glad that I read the first paragraph. Very well put!

I guess that I've got to read the rest of the article now too...
That and much much more is discussed here by the authors:

http://xayax.net/bang!/
Bang – An Atari 2600 VCS Demo
The 96% number refers to the orange fuel tank. Once you factor in the shuttle, the payload, and rocket engines, it's more like... 94% fuel. Some rockets are 88% fuel, but still only ~2-3% payload. A lighter rocket could mean 10% payload.
I wonder if there's a library that will be able to categorize things like company name, people's name, brand name, etc.

Or some way to train a process that will be able to predict what category an entity falls into.
Concealed carry is in general not allowed in CA without a permit, but you are allowed to carry a handgun in a locked case in your trunk. That limitation is only for handguns by the way, you can keep a shotgun and other rifles with you in the car.
Snapchat Wanted MessageMe Before Yahoo Bought It for Over $30M
The Mobile Content Mandate
If that does what it looks like, then Optional is better than that in one respect: begin/rescue will catch all NoMethodErrors, including unrelated ones. But you probably do want an error to be thrown if you typo and write "project.creator.adress" by mistake.
While this is obviously a perversion of justice, I'm not shedding many tears over shady domain landgrabbers losing their 'property'. It's unfortunate (and clearly shouldn't have been filed under seal) but the histrionic comments on anigbrowl's link about how this is going to kill the domain squatting 'business' just make me think "good."
Hackers’ Attack Cracked 10 Financial Institutions in Major Assault
why, it is just an ADT which could be implemented in almost any language. Something like tagging a value with a type-tag and then define whole bunch of constructors and selectors, and then procedures which removes the tag, applies a given procedure and sticks the the tag to the result.

(cons 'safe x)

OK, In Haskell this stuff could be type-checked, which means only that the arguments to functions and its return values are of correct type (tags are present).

But calling this a "safety" is a silly meme.)
> Had any of the balls gone past to the right, that would have been a serve we couldn't return. Try that, Federer!

I do see a few balls going to the right -- what happened with those?
It's a brilliant idea!
Undoing/Fixing bad git commits, “choose-your-adventure” style
Polarr Lookbook: A database of crowd-sourced photo filters
I would like to know if electromagnetic flux pinning is strong enough to use instead of a cable. I'm imagining a scenario where pairs of rotating superconductor panels in orbit lift a giant solenoid into space by flux pinning its magnetic field as they rotate upwards.
research.facebook.com
No because the product is still labelled as Trader Joe's. So when a public health inspector calls you to say, what have you eaten? and you say "Trader Joe's brand X". And they find 15 people with the same symptoms and same food, it is likely that the food will get recalled.
This is why, despite all the flak that MBAs/managers/product managers take around here, you need to have people who can and will take the time communicate clearly, set expectations, and iterate on a result.
I'm sure that we've got other means of transporting coconut that are less seasonally dependent.
I couldn't figure out how to link to the transcript, but that is the meaty part of the content.
I'm pretty certain fair use doesn't apply when you're making money off the trademark you're using in "fair use".
Careful - you're dangerously close to allowing the end to justify the means there.
Let's not conflate the implications of this with prejudices against the victims.

If a startup had snagged one of these domains and had built a community or SEO with it, could you imagine that being taken away from them without any sort of due process?
Nobody really "wants" to learn JS. It's a hateful little language and the sooner it gets nuked from orbit or at least abstracted away to become merely the "assembly language of the web", the better.

While I don't agree WebSharper is monolithic - it's anything but that. I do agree that it is a bear trap. They could go bust at any moment and leave you with a big headache.

Even as a F# dev I have deliberately avoided using it because yes I agree with some of the sentiment here that the licensing model is a bit odd, but also the thought of needing to write a Binding for basically any JS library it doesn't support out of the box is quite a burden that will never go away. And can really slow down a new project that wants to iterate fast.

I firmly believe in using the best tools for the job at hand. So that means a F# back-end and a AngularJS front-end. It's a PITA maintaining two domain models in each, and similar validation logic etc, but such is life sometimes. What I lose in the domain model side, I gain back in a rich and vibrant set of available AngularJS modules and JS libraries.
The Psychology Behind Costco's Free Samples
Thank you. Url changed from http://www.internetcommerce.org/undue-process/.
Who owns work related yet external accounts?
If I create an account for use with my job on a social network or a service provider using my personal ID information but, work e-mail address, does my employer have any rights to it when I leave the company?
PAE came ~20 years later, so it's not related to the OP
Yeah, this was more of a draft than a finished article. I didn't realize anyone was following my blog :P. It's a working title at best—it doesn't really reflect what I wanted to talk about... but then, I'm not sure the second half or so does either.
If only there was a category for investment in the promotion of health awareness, and healthy lifestyle education.
It means telling me what I need to do to get to the next level on my career path.

Step 1 is asking what your subordinate's next position will be. Are the looking to stay technical? Are they looking to transition to a more managerial role? Do they not know? If they don't know or are uncertain, take a step back and ask them about what they enjoy doing, present them with options and then let them decide what their goal state is.

Step 2 is figuring out what you and they need to do in order to move to that goal.

Also, like the original article states, a lot of engineers are really bad at selling themselves. They won't ask for a promotion. They won't ask, "Okay, what am I missing that's preventing me from getting an acknowledgement for my skills and experience." If they're anything like me, they'll just look around after a while and jump ship when they find a position somewhere else that does give them what they want.

Finally, I should note that I am not a manager, nor do I have any desire to be one. But I've dealt with a fair number of managers, and the ones I've been most comfortable with have been the ones who've been direct about asking me (after 4-6 months) where I want to go in the organization. The worst feeling is going to one-on-ones week after week, and just rehashing the same points you go over in your daily stand-ups. Weekly one-on-ones should be about the developer and the manager figuring out where the developer wants to go in the organization and what needs to be done to get them there.
Evercookie used by NSA to track TOR users across browsers
This is a great site for audio recording of his writing and interviews: http://www.dfwaudioproject.org/
It's first to market?
Good catch. It might have something to do with the Palm Lifedrive[1] and its 4gb limit or the NVFS[2] of the Palm 650 and other models. Who knows? It seems like it could be used by a software services company to make a thin client with an encrypted operating system that could detect tampering or cloning. I'm guessing that what the Guardian Project[3] does and why it gets mentioned along with SQLCipher.

[1] http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/Howto_replace_microdrive_with_c...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Volatile_File_System

[3] https://guardianproject.info/
> What exactly is illicit about it?

That it's unauthorized. Let's not pretend this is your average importing operation. (Not a condemnation; I well know the hardship of having to do without Trader Joe's in Canada.)

> all of these terms explicitly suggest illegal avoidance of tariffs

"Illicit" does not imply that, which is why I used it.
ELI5: Why are there so many MEAN stacks?
Evernote Aims to Bring All the Loose Bits Together
Setting up the few basic ones is already as easy as it can get.
If one in a million people called emergency services on any given day, hundreds of people would be calling every day. (This is a woefully low number: the greater Los Angeles would get a total of 18 calls a day; the greater Seattle area would get a total of 3-4.)

Even using this really low number, your "dozens" or "hundreds" would less <1% in under a year. That is, even using artificially low numbers, "dozens" or "hundreds" of cases are no more than freak events.
Furthermore, at scale, interference sucks.
That edit was made a year ago. It's not news. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evercookie&diff=5...
Their marketing copy lists many things that are just "postgresql". Postgresql already gives you "clustered read scalable deployments in minutes with no special skills". Setting up a read-only replication slave is trivial.
Who wins old or new media?
It's worth mentioning that now that National have won the election in New Zealand, it's likely they'll sign onto the TPPA which will effectively ban parallel importing.
is all of the code meant to be invisible? :)
You're welcome! I appreciate your saying so.
I'm glad the front seat has something black in front of it, so a woman driving in a short skirt can sit comfortably without flashing everyone. But the back window into the back seat looks transparent all the way down, which could be awkward for whoever's sitting there.
>which could be implemented in almost any language.

You need HKTs to have type-checked generic monads. Almost no languages have them.
Congrats! I met with the team in their YC days, and can say they are all quite sharp, and the market is overdue for this kind of automation/service.

They might want to partner with my buddies at http://TheOrangeChef.com, who sell (among other inventions) iPad sleeves to keep them clean in the kitchen. Maybe send a batch of sleeves with every new restaurant that signs up?
Everyone who enters will be carpet bombed with "incredible savings" on crappy business cards and other low quality swag until the end of time. Score!
Offline-first is people-first
They could make special containers with solar panels integrated into their roofs (and place them carefully on top of course), and find a way to route cables cheaply. Given solars area power density, I'd guess completely uneconomical.
>In practice you'd want to validate phone number formats etc

Uh huh? That's what check constraints are for.
Why is it silly? Haskell libraries derive a lot of safety benefit out of being able to type-check different kinds of effects. One example is the STM library which uses this property to prohibit IO within an atomic transaction. Since transactions may be aborted and/or repeated, it's important to ensure no interaction with the outside world takes place within them lest these effects be repeated.
I believe lifting cargo outside orbit is not the greatest strength of an orbital elevator, instead it most useful feature would be on gathering sun rays which have not been diminished by the atmosphere. But there are many challenges to achieve that: http://io9.com/5984371/why-well-probably-never-build-a-space...
Sure, but many of the ships out there today were not built so recently.
Ask HN: What side project are you currently working on?
It's a grey market import.

While some people hate the concept it has been enforced in some courts - the Tesco vs Levi Jeans case is one example from England.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1261829.stm
This isn't a Show HN. Can someone flag this as spam?
It doesn't really happen that way and blame isn't just a wild guess and who's responsible.
I really wanted to like Amtrak. I live in Palatka, FL. I've thought about getting a job in Jacksonville. That's an hour commute both ways by my car. There is an Amtrak station just a few blocks from me. I thought, "Hey, I could commute into work while working."

Unfortunately, it's a nonstarter. They cost $20 bucks to go one way. They have limited times that make no sense from a job perspective unless I worked second shift. And Jacksonville doesn't have DC/NYC style local light rail. Finally, the times the same. So if I were to go that way, I'm driving.
Link to Paid2Save Tech Team's blog:
http://paid2savelabs.com
Kim Jong-Un's sister takes control in North Korea
Oh, that's a weird bug with the fonts... which I thought I had fixed. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it locally, so I'm not sure I can do much about it right now.
This is hilarious! They're already using coconuts in ITER (the fusion reactor)
http://hplusmagazine.com/2009/10/27/coconut-futures-and-ther...
It seems coconuts are the hi-tech fruit of the future!
An alternative to a full space elevator is the rotovator or rotating sky hook. Instead of building a single tethered cable that reaches up to geostationary orbit, you instead build shorter, untethered cables that rotate end over end in their orbit.

These structures can then be used to assist conventional rockets. Place a rotovator in low orbit, then send up a suborbital rocket to hook onto the end of the cable when at its lowest point. Detach half a rotation later, and the rocket is flung into a higher orbit.

There's a more detailed discussion here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2h07ku/japanese...
Perhaps someone who never wants to work at those companies. I presently am trying to start my own company. I make $0 a year. Still, I'd rather work at Liberty Mutual than at Google/MSFT/FB. There is an ethos for those companies that I just don't like. I'd feel slimy working there. I know they make some interesting products, and employ smart people, but they feel like they are exploitive even at their salaries, especially with the H1B visa shit they're pulling.
Where did I say it wasn't encryption? I said I'd like to submit it to my PCI auditor as _my_ method of encryption, much easier than proper applied crypto.
If you're going to read this (or really any DFW) don't skip the footnotes. Yes it's tedious flipping back and forth, but it's so very worth it.
Caeser cipher _is_ a shift cipher, which is exactly what I said it was...