skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be great if you could remove your guess, as I did not know it would publicly add my twitter handle.
We're dealing with a living thing. Ebola has never been in a large enough human population to evolve much, but perhaps now it will. We've already underestimated the transmission rates.

Keep in mind how many medical professionals have become infected. These people have a lot more knowledge than somebody who just "googled" some safety tips.

There's a good chance that the active strains are more transmissible than we assume, and might become worse through natural selection.
Stack Exchange has decided to shut down the Vi/Vim proposal
Thanks, I stand corrected! I was hoping for an actual fluid dynamics person to comment (I'm just a sailor), and your comment above is excellent.

Your explanation of the keels lift countering drift, but not heeling, makes perfect sense, and resolves a long-time confusion of mine.

As for "pull", I have a question: Assuming the flow is attached on the leeward side, does that side also turn flow and generate force?

FWIW the words pull and push are used in sailing training to emphasize the importance of keeping the leeward flow attached when going to weather.
HDFS is used to store intermediate files for building cubes.

HBase is used to store data cube and execute the query. HBase co-processor is also used for query processing.
One thing that this report didn't really take into account is the ratio of car travel time to metro travel time. Sure, you can get to most places in San Jose on the VTA in under 2 hours, but you can also drive there in under 30 minutes.
"This might seem pedantically trivial"... you were right ;)
Antumbra|Glow an open-source hackable ambient backlight
What happens when over-30s find out how Millennials handle their money
TLS isn't required. The updates only need to be signed.
I reported that issue to Slack 6 months ago. Their response was "This is an intentional part of the product design.".
I think you're missing the forest for the trees on this one. Whether the guy is an experienced murderer or an expert chef isn't the point here.
Complain About Comcast, Get Fired from Your Job
It is possible to block JS execution using generators or an eval hack, see my showModalDialog polyfill: https://github.com/niutech/showModalDialog
I am from Venezuela.

In case you are wondering how terrible the Venezuelan economy is right now, think about this: Our biggest denomination bill (100 Bolivares) is not enough to buy $1 USD [1]; in january 2013 you could buy $14 USD for the same amount. Also think about the fact that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world [2].

I'm not even going to try to explain the currency exchange and control mechanisms (CADIVI and SICAD), they are basically operating like a lottery to select people who will be allowed to buy dollars at the official government rate. Everyone turns to the black market, but the demand is extremely high, and the supply barely exists.

Bitcoin won't solve our problems because no one will want to sell for Bolivares. The bolivar has been devaluated twice in the past two years, which has decreased it's value by more than 50% when compared to 2013.

Sources:

[1] https://dolartoday.com/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil...
Very true. We're finishing up a redesign that will hopefully make things clearer.
We need $1B to tackle Ebola and we are $600M short
Discussion on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/2iniu2/stack_exchange_h...
Sure sounds like the Clustering Illusion[1] to me. Just another Erin Brockovich-style failure[2] to understand statistics.

[1] http://www.skepdic.com/clustering.html

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
Isn't your account number on the check?
You don't need to break things with good regression testing.
Deploying NPM packages with the Nix package manager
would they sell "things" for bitcoins?
And although this makes collusion more difficult, how does your plan prevent it? How can I, with my password and keys in my own controls, prevent rogue FBI agents colluding with corporate employees (through brides, blackmail, intimidation) and frightened judges ("can't let the terrorists win!" even though no one's convicted yet) from accessing my data that ultimately they have no business accessing?

We've seen law enforcement abuse every form of power they've been handed (see National Security Letters for one example), so I don't trust them to Do What's Right. Ever.
I've found I usually only notice this state in retrospect. I look at the clock and notice that hours have passed. It's an exhilarating feeling, and I think if I was able to recognize it in the moment it would probably ruin it.
tl;dr: We don't need moon shots to inspire us, we need to believe in progress, believe that the present is better than the past.
So it's already obsolete? This is for the 5s.

Also, honestly, anyone who plays music on their phone in public is kind of a dickhead.
... and treatment for AIDS has improved phenomenally.
How Microsoft picked the new CEO
In the wikileaks era, when large governments cannot keep safe even their most private documents, you rely on multiple entities keeping their key private, including manufacturers (which we know are routinely compromised by governments, as demonstrated in the DigiNotar case and elsewhere). Good luck with that.

Also, what happens once a key is leaked? Are we supposed to throw away every phone and every computer?
Hey, this looks really good!

I'd like to make a suggestion for a cool feature: being able to clone someone else's recipe and put my own 'twist' on it. Almost like a git fork, if you want to use that analogy. You could also submit pull requests... you get the idea.
Thiel builds one future, Musk - another. I root for Musk, yet realistically expect to end my days in Thiel's, while some minor portion of our species will go on to live the Musk's.
Humankind has great ideas for the future. We need people to carry them out
Tangential, but does anyone know what Github uses to match their css and html classes in the integration suite? I often find that I don't clean up my css as the free as I should because I'm scared of breaking another page by mistake, so something that tells me "you're really not using this anywhere anymore" would be great.
I called it DNS ping because it essentially serves the same function as "ping" command but on slightly different level - by checking if DNS functions.

1. This is true, but most routers check for firmware updates anyway, so there you go. Not to mention online warranty registrations, etc. which would get you into their DB anyway.

2. Unlikely, unless you have a RCE bug in your DNS implementation, in which case the router is toast without the DNS querying.

3. One query is not "traffic". It is pretty easy to distinguish between one query on boot and constant communication. Again, it is only relevant if you already have malware in your router.
Show HN: Beam – See your friends type, and respond in True Real Time texting app
Nicely done, I'm a bit surprised there isn't more of this. When you see several people there with their phones and only one has the content everyone wants to see, it makes a lot of sense to be able to "cast" it to everyone's screen.
Detailed version:

https://github.com/ellisonleao/magictools
Prime number spirals
Can Google's search engine find profits? (1999)
This would be sound logic if existing desktop operating systems had actual good security models.

In the real world, if someone exploits your PDF reader, they don't have to circumvent your OS: your OS hands over everything you can access, by design. One could argue that a better security model baked into the OS would make more sense than a virtualization hack, but the latter has the advantage of actually existing.
The Manual for Verizon’s Next Flagship Droid Phone Just Leaked
Debugging Dating: Explaining dating with HTTP status codes
This document[1] talks about that risk and what they've done to mitigate it at the bottom of page 10.

[1] http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2014/Software_co...
Until I add this, feel free to email me (busterbenson at gmail) and I can delete stuff.
Office’s Place in the New Microsoft
Perhaps, but when it's applied companywide, it's a bad idea.
Yes. My concern is not of security for my account number. But if I have to supply someone with my account number before they can give me money, then that is not the most ideal thing, IMO. They should just be able to give me the money without knowing my account number.
Dock – Shell Scripts for Setting Up a Mac
Twilio follows a similar model for large scale changes, but at a distributed service level using a shadow proxy (https://github.com/twilio/shadow) rather than having parallel code paths.
It's true. Try and find an online exchange willing to exchange Bolivars (VEF) to USD. If you are a bitcoin seller, what can you do with Bolivars other than spend them in Venezuela?

Xe.com exchange rate is currently 1 USD = 6.29 VEF

So you would expect 1 BTC to be worth around 350*6.29 = 2,201 VEF.

Yet on localbitcoins Caracas they sell for more than 20 times that much:

https://localbitcoins.com/places/570916/caracas-ve/

It seems like a tremendous arbitrage opportunity, if only there was a way to sell Bolivars.

Anyways, if I am ever to travel to Venezuela, I will come with Bitcoins.
I understand the point and am no stranger to wu wei and Taoism . I also found the article quite interesting in the science behind it. However, this admittedly off-topic reaction was the first I had to reading the introduction of a philosophy that one usually looks up to. I was wondering if others had the same thoughts.
> If the US government wants to enforce a backdoor on US products, that's going to do tremendous damage to their companies ability to compete in the global market.

Nah, they'll just go "f*ck this" and share the backdoor with other governments (who will be extremely grateful). And then all these golden keys will magically show up on Iranian and Pakistani servers, Kim Jong-un will parade them, etc etc.
I'd love to see a study testing the hypothesis that exposure to lots of anger in early childhood leads a person to poor impulse control or greater susceptibility to addiction. Im not sure how you actually would test this hypothesis without actually measuring something else like the correlation with certain state child welfare laws.
We had a feature – “create a variation”. Unfortunately the feature did not work well in the real world and we had to pull the plug.

Literature cannot be forked the way we think about it in code. My variation of the potpie isn’t simply a fork of the ingredients and editing lines. It’s “likely” a different style altogether and in most cases required the new author to write something ground up. We tried fixing this but the edge cases became too complex to handle.
that would make sense but they keep more control when they use the cloud instead of a built-in web server
If both projects share a source control system, you can commit a change and update its downstream usages all at once, with no breakage even temporarily. However, this requires source control that scales company-wide. (Git doesn't qualify.)
"PhD is for people who want to push forward the state of the art" - that statement alone is more than enough to forget all other items you've mentioned as 'things to consider' :) that's what drives people (well outcome can be different)
>>The problem with the Golden Key suggestion here is that once your data is compromise it is game over forever. There's no do-overs as there is with DRM systems.

For the game consoles there aren't really feasible do-overs either if the keys at ring 0(the earliest security event) are revealed. As in, the only path to recovery is to physically replace every game console out there.

http://www.ps3hax.net/2012/10/marcan-fail0verflow-about-lv0/
>>The effect of this is essentially the same that the metldr key release had: all existing and future firmwares can be decrypted, except Sony no longer has the lv0 trick up their sleeve. What this means is that there is no way for Sony to wrap future firmware to hide it from anyone, because old PS3s must be able to use all future firmware (assuming Sony doesn’t just decide to brick them all…), and those old PS3s now have no remaining seeds of security that aren’t known.
Good point.

So rather than saying "we have a totes sweet fusion reactor design, if you pay us we'll show you the schematics", UW publishes it to the world and if somebody thinks it looks good, they pay UW some money to use the design outlined in the patent, which is theoretically sufficient to reproduce the reactor.
> If somebody exploits your PDF reader, they still have to circumvent the OS.

That is correct. This is probably why privesc exploits are much more expensive than adobe reader exploits.

You are kind of arguing against yourself here.
The delectable AskHistorians subreddit has a fascinating in-depth thread on this topic, with posts from bona fide Historians: http://np.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/23o92d/on_cosm...

> "So to sum up: the ancient Romans knew about lead poisoning, they didn't use lead vessels if they could avoid it, and we have no reason to believe acute lead poisoning was endemic among them, let alone a cause for the fall of the empire."

Of course if OP turns up a significant amount of skeletal evidence then all bets are off.
Tesla - Started with electric cars only for rich and tech savvy people
Instagram - Instead of doing everything related to photos, they focused only on Filtering - which at that point was considered a very niche market
Snapchat - Started for teenagers to send disappearing pics to each other. Again not a huge/world changing sector
So we should expect a similar security theater in the next few years?
hahaha, I like working on this, but researching each individual publication sounds like something that I wouldn't be able to do. What I'll probably end up doing is open sourcing the database + website and allowing others to contribute. Again, thanks for your help.
Actually we had the print version, which was more readable, and attention focused. That didn’t make it in the current iteration. Point noted.
> because no one will want to sell for Bolivares

What about tourists? You should encourage tourists to bring bitcoins.
> through brides

Russian brides I suppose, in the context of this discussion?
Unluckily, e.g. support for ARM or x86-64 is missing from the free version (while I have no problem with the disallowance of commercial use - if I really made money with it, of course I'd pay).
the web is available everywhere unlike the apps... (the app could even be web based)
You know, the previous time he copy-pasted this same comment on a different article, the footnotes were in there. If it happens again, we'll know where to look.
His company has consulted for Comcast previously. So I'd imagine out of anger he said something to the effect "I've done work for you!". After all, he says he didn't even mention his employer by name, which means an angry Comcast rep took the time to look up his name and locate where he worked.

In the end, it is absolutely besides the point. His home connection has nothing to do with his job. Comcast went out of their way to call his workplace (a senior partner even!), and purposefully set out to ruin his career.

Can't wait for Comcast to double in size!
We don’t have an explicit button but if you need the data we can export it for you.

Alternatively all the content is in hrecipe format. It shouldn’t be much work to take a dump.
A backdoor is nothing more than a second means of accessing a system. We're already used to having secondary measures in place to access our accounts for our own use (i.e.: password recovery). There is no 100% solution - our own primary passwords are sometimes stolen, and password recovery measures are regularly abused as well. The issue really boils down to allowing authorized users to access the systems and reducing the risk of unauthorized users to get in. Like it or not, law enforcement officers with a valid warrant to search your device are authorized users. It's in the constitution. Once you get past that, the thing to look at is how do reduce the risk of 3rd parties or law enforcement officials without valid warrants gaining access.
FSF: Join us in creating an Internet that's safer from surveillance
That episode probably (hopefully?) hasn't much to do with the Ebola thing. Apparently it has been a huge problem for the polio eradication effort in Pakistan. A very, very serious error by the CIA.
All this story tells us is that what we have known since the mid 70s that if you can get and keep patients in a proper infection control facility that you can stop Ebola.

The problem we have right now is that we don’t have anywhere near enough functioning infection control facilities in the affect countries and we are not doing anywhere near enough to put them in place. The scale required is beyond anything ever attempted outside of a war setting.
The first world had problems with the single patient in Texas. He was not quarantined white showing symptoms and came in contact with many people. Then those people were not immediately quarantined.

All it takes to get a pandemic going is to lose track of a few dozen infected people. That is easy to do.

You'll probably be very disappointed in the "first" world when you see how it responds if this outbreak spreads further. No one will give out hazmat suits in time, even if we have such an industry.
Is there lack of computers? Everyone has a smartphone these days. And bitcoin works over SMS, so you don't even need a smartphone.
We want to build this as a platform exposing the data where you can write an app on top of this and do this calculations. Think FB apps on FB.
The possible break in this is: "Since then, Griffin has compiled a list of 38 American soccer players -- 34 of them goalies". This at least seems to correlate something goalie related, provided Griffin was not drawing from a data-pool that was biased towards goalies.

It might correlate something else that goalies do, or some mental desire to be a goalie with a weird genetic variant, and so on, but it seems interesting that the position is a factor.
Interface Builder was impossible in the C++s of the day. It is merely extremely difficult today. Remember that what IB did was build the UI using the actual elements, so you could play with it even without the logic hooked up, serialized that entire object tree, and then deserialized it at runtime.
Here's why Google will acquire Uber
This is a very good crystallization of my thoughts when I first heard Thiel's argument. At the end of the day, it's always been about incremental steps, we just look back and see the leaps and bounds that they enabled.
Really distasteful slogan. I think every engineer who has worked in corp. America is used to management asking for mutually exclusive things due to ignorance.
HubSpot goes public a week after Wayfair, raises $125M
Additional excellent analysis by transit planner Jarrett Walker: http://www.humantransit.org/2014/10/access-across-america.ht...
Why Qubes OS is more than just a random collection of VMs [pdf]
Structural Design of the Tall Tower
The fantastic transit in NYC, along with a very large population, makes for significantly increased labor market liquidity.

As in any market, increased liquidity translates to reduced risk. For this reason I think that within 5-10 years NYC will overtake SF / Bay Area as the optimal startup economy/environment in the US.
Of course this is only my personal experience, your mileage may vary, but I just checked my credit report and the loan I defaulted on less than 5 years ago is not on it. At all. The single blemish is a department store credit card payment marked 30 days late in 2012.

This is after 3+ years of daily collections calls from half a dozen companies pursuing a high five-figure debt.

The takeaway being: debt is a business phenomenon and discussions about it are a negotiation. I negotiated hard; when my offers of partial repayment were refused I never answered their calls again. In fact I created a special, looong outgoing voicemail message that sounded like I was answering the phone ("Hello? What? Hello? Are you there? Okay, a large pizza? We don't do gluten free!") and forwarded any unrecognized number to it straightaway. Just maybe that made someone laugh and they decided to toss my file.

Had I gotten a summons, I was advised by a lawyer to demand a witness. I never tested that tactic, but I do suspect that if someone had the means to extract money from me they would have, and they did not.
Well, unless you prefer semantic arguments to meaningful discussions.
The dollar is around 99% down off its peak. So?

Yo just chose some arbitrary timeline that bitcoin looks bad at. That's bad logic.
Borrow someone else's phone to make a call. Carry some amount of cash on you. Credit cards don't displace the need for cash anyway. Curl up in a ball and hope someone pities your total helplessness?

>you can't pay for a new phone
You can if there is a computer you can use there or on the way. Most companies allow you to pick up in store.

>You can't go home.
Again, locking yourself out is a problem whether you have a physical key or your phone is the key. Have a backup key, or better yet a lock that can accept a password or something.

Like I was saying, consolidating doesn't eliminate the need for backup options... it actually increases that need somewhat. But it does make remote wiping and recovery considerably easier and reduces the number of things I have to carry/remember.

I think I would be able to handle most situations, but maybe it wouldn't be for everyone. Not saying I'd want to be in the middle of Harlem at 3AM without my phone that is also my wallet and keys, but I think if that were the scenario I would take the proper steps to not get myself into that situation. Tap to pay NFC tag? Pebble vibrates when you move more than 50 feet from your phone? Dunno, but I bet, given more time and thought than a HN thread, there would be solutions almost any scenario that would be as good or better than today.

That said, seems like this kinda thing would be optional and not mandatory for quite some time...
Ebola Vaccine Trials May Give Placebo to Those at Risk
There are lot's of known cancer clusters because disease clusters refers to groupings not just by location.

It's a little more complex than what you linked to as the background cancer rate varies on a regional basis. But more importantly Cancer is a group of more than 100 different diseases. If an area get's 10% more cancer than expected but twice the breast cancer then there is probably a local cause.

But, again the statistics get's far more complex than just X expected rate of any type of cancer vs X observed rate. So, "Blood cancers like lymphoma and leukemia dominate the list." is by far the most important part. And more importantly there is lot's of precedence for occupational links to cancer mesotheliomas being the most well known. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelioma Though Tobacco is responsible for far more total cancer than asbestos the occupational links are less well known.
A blazing fast web server
This scheme is only broken if all entities fail to keep their keys secure. In the event of a key compromise, updated keys could be pushed out and used to reencrypt. Of course that presents another weakness. (Who signs the update? What if their key is compromised).
http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/are-we-done-yet-with-new-york-...
Combust–peek at what people are sharing, before they've hit submit
Firejail anyone?

http://l3net.wordpress.com/projects/firejail/
One use for Bitcoin is "Paypal replacement". There are situations where that use being traceable is not a problem; for instance, I have no problem making public the fact that I pay for a LWN.net subscription, and in fact, the LWN.net site itself reveals it every time I post a comment there.

Therefore, if what you are saying is valid, Bitcoin's natural value is above zero.
You might want to check out Fork the Cookbook: http://forkthecookbook.com

It does just that :D