skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we should remember that this guy had already been willfully deceptive in order to get to the US with Ebola in the first place. We don't know what or how "slyly" he might have mentioned his "travels in Africa".

He probably didn't march in and say "I'm pretty sure I've got Ebola because I hung out with Ebola victims and then lied to airport screeners to get here."
It's a very interesting perspective to think of "creative destruction" [1] in terms of acceleration/virality coefficients. If the net multiplier coefficient on jobs per [technological advance/new business based on technology] is below 1, then the economic system is unstable, as it could trend towards long-term unemployment and revolution (if Marx is to be believed). Of course, due to regulation and human nature, it's a damped system - not all jobs will be eliminated.

But if that coefficient is above 1, then the system will stabilize. The relevant question here is how, as technology entrepreneurs, we can both (a) create resilient, scalable businesses that individually have a coefficient above 1, and (b) create resilient, scalable systems that promote the creation of those businesses in (a).

The difficulty is tying these coefficients to the bottom lines of each of these businesses. I'm co-founding a startup now that, without delving into specifics, aims to link the value of its core consumer brand with its ability to generate jobs and income. Time (and lots of effort) will tell whether we can (a) make this successful, and (b) whether it can lead our industry as a whole towards seeing the viability of this trend. But I'm confident that we have a fighting chance to do as much as any single business can to promote the sustainability of human society.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction#Joseph_Sc...
The women who insist they can't make ends meet on £100,000 a year
I'm a sucker for inspirational quotes and have, throughout the years, saved several hundred of them in Evernote.

Take a look, I'm sure you'll find quite a lot that you like:

https://www.evernote.com/pub/kristofferr/inspiringQuotes
Where Was He During the Shooting? Cameras Prove Fickle in This Tale
There are plenty of custom-built VTOL models. Most are for fun (as is the case for the entire RC hobby), but I'm sure practical commercial ones could be built if there was really a market for them. Of course, small RC planes can have such ridiculous power to weight ratios and flight envelopes that the distances required for takeoff and landing can be very small.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d9Eg2s54PM (from this extensive build log: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1816216)

A production example: http://www.birdseyeview.aero/

One demonstrating autonomous flight with a 3D Robotics flight controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEL1gQpDO28
Here's a tinier, also fast one:
https://github.com/stealth/lophttpd
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free | If you are good at something, never do it for free.
Amazon will accept your credit card payment and won't accept your Bitcoins, which is a pretty good indication of which payment method they feel is more hassle than it's worth.
A completely unnecessary one. This is just progress for the sake of progress.
Show HN: Links – Just focus on reading and leave it on us to find links
Next up: m2w trans pregnancies, then just male pregnancies.

Stem cells-derived gametes (of both types, regardless of the sex of the donor) are also around the corner.

Exciting times :-)
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free" | "if you are good at something, never do it for free"
Thanks! Good point, I'll look into adding that.

"versions" tells you all the software versions which match, based on the context derived from the exception. For example, if you're unsure what version of Hadoop you're running, it'll tell you.
Why does TAI start with an offset of 10 seconds? 1972-01-01 is before any leap seconds.

Edit: I can see it matches the right value but I can't figure out why. There have been 25 leap seconds but there's a 35 second offset...

Edit 2: Apparently the clocks ran at different speeds for a decade, and the difference got rounded to 10 in 1972.
Not about C, but IMO the way that Go handles time is very convenient. Time zones are pretty well-encapsulated in the Time struct and that makes for really nice function interfaces. Also, there's this gem:

`
These three considerations—choose an epoch as early as possible, that
uses a year equal to 1 mod 400, and that is no more than 2^63 seconds
earlier than 1970—bring us to the year -292277022399. We refer to
this year as the absolute zero year, and to times measured as a uint64
seconds since this year as absolute times.
`

https://golang.org/src/pkg/time/time.go
Not to suggest any sort of conspiracy, but why is it that this link has (as of 4:21 EDT) 103 points, 43 comments, and was posted one hour ago, and yet is ranked 33rd on the HN homepage — meanwhile, the #1 ranked link, also from an hour ago, has only 20 points? And an 11-hour-old 13-point link is #13?
Does it have to do with the poster's karma or recently-joined status, or the linked site? I'm genuinely curious what goes into this ranking.
Women outnumber men in grad schools 137.5 to 100 for 5th year
Canis lupus familiaris only exists through millennia of domestication. They literally would not exist if not for "pet ownership."
Having children of their own is life goal number 1 for many people. Asking them to be rational about it is disregarding just how primal this drive is.
OverlayFS’s speedup comes in part “by allowing the kernel to include only a single copy of a file read from multiple containers in it’s page cache.” I’m concerned that this could be a source of information leaks across containers.

Suppose container A reads a page from a file whose contents are shared with container B’s image. Container B can use the shared page cache to deduce when container A has read the file (and deduce which pages) by periodically reading the corresponding file in its root FS and recording how fast the kernel can serve it the page in question. Moreover, if the cache implementation is content addressable (i.e. the kernel determines a cache hit based on the hash of the page’s contents), B can guess the contents of A’s secret files’ pages by writing its guesses to a file and then reading them and recording how quickly the kernel serves them back.

Does OverlayFS (or some other system, like SELinux) mitigate these concerns?
I will try to be still more clear: For 14 years,
that is, grades 1-12 and the first two years of
college, English, nearly all just fictional
literature, was required, and math and science got
nowhere near as much time and mostly were just
optional. I took all the math and science that was
available, but that was just six years of math, two
of chemistry, and two of physics. Moreover, the
math and science were too simple.

You mentioned history: There I saw too little in
detail and attention to causality to take the
content seriously. Also the history courses spent
far too much time on the really old stuff, including
2000+ years ago, and not nearly enough time after
1800. And for the old stuff, they neglected the
roles of domestic animals, masonry, military
technology, metals, open ocean sailing and trade, the
longitude problem, coal, steel, and steam. For
after 1900, eventually I learned that from TV, e.g.,
the series Victory at Sea.

So, I was effectively blocked from anything
significant in non-fiction until math and physics
in my last two years of college; there I was a
double major in math and physics but at the last
moment dropped physics as a major and was only a
math major.

From grade 5 on, I very much wanted the math and
science. Being force fed fictional literature for
14 years was a really big bummer -- I was torqued
and still am.

During those bad 14 years, at one point I did push
ahead: My last three years in college were in a
relatively good school with, actually, a quite good
math department. But, to save money, my freshman
year in college was in a state school I could walk
to. There they wouldn't let me take calculus but
forced me to take a math course beneath what I'd
already covered in high school. So, I got a
respected calculus book, dug in, and learned
freshman calculus on my own. Then, in my sophomore
year in the better college, I started with their
sophomore calculus, using the same text as Harvard,
and did well. So, I taught myself freshman calculus
and, actually, never took it or got course credit
for it.

Bad high school? Not comparatively: It was by a
wide margin the best public high school in the city
and, really, better than the few, small private
schools. MIT came recruiting, and the year before
me three guys went to Princeton and ran against each
other for President of the Freshman Class.

I see a problem: English, as essentially just
fictional literature, was required and got pushed
hard for 14 years with nothing else even comparable.
I was and remain torqued.

Now, here on HN, fictional literature is very much
not the source of "the books we talk about". Good.
On top of this, grades are an imperfect indicator for whether a doctor is detail-oriented when dealing with patients. Just because they ace all the tests doesn't make them a great doctor.
> Never in human history

I'm curious, when did Inuits stop being human?
The counterargument is of course that transplants and immunosuppressant drugs are also artificial, and even more recent. Also, adoption has always been possible. I guess the main point is that it feels closest to the natural method.
Seemingly unnecessary progress might inadvertently lead to important discoveries and useful knowledge.
No mention of HIV which is a fairly important factor, given some of these countries' adult populations are up to 1% infected.

Would be horrible to replace something acute with something equally deadly that just takes longer.
Offer to code MVPs for a bunch of people. Spend two weeks on each. Do your best.

After 2 months, you will have been exposed to plenty of ideas. Worst case, you'll have a great portfolio to show and will have learned a bunch of different technical approaches. Best case, you'll fall in love with one project and will have solved your boredom.
i think the first time i experienced it was with robert jordan's "wheel of time" novels. before that, my friends and i used to wait eagerly for each new discworld book, but that was mostly a matter of "yay, new pratchett". with wheel of time, we were suddenly waiting to see what happened next, which is a very different feeling.
I hope the U.S. Navy incorporates this into their nautical charts, but, sadly, I doubt they will. I wonder if this data would have prevented the 2004 undersea collision of the USS San Francisco. see, e.g.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)
You are missing the point. See my comment above.
A Student Tried Using “Jesus” as a Test Answer and It Was an Epic Fail
HackCampus Internship: A programme built by students for students in the UK
When the author mentioned musl libc I was rather expecting them to say they switched. It seems rather more patches are required for uclibc support than for musl, while musl has the advantage of an active community. uclibc on the other hand hasn't seen a release for years (prompting someone to start up http://www.uclibc-ng.org/). Projects such as buildroot and openwrt maintain patches both to uclibc and to applications they wish to compile.
If you want to use the feature in Eclipse, it's been around for at least a decade:
http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse....
Rise of the Robots: On Peter Thiel's argument about robots and low wages
Pot has an image problem. Are you unwilling to accept that?

Realistically, it can't be BOTH the property of countercultural rebels, AND completely legal. Pick your poison.
> It strikes me as rather bizarre to oppose eating octopus because they are "too smart", but to continue to eat other animals because they "aren't smart enough". That's a really arbitrary line to draw.

Especially when you consider that plants are also organisms, many of which exhibit complex reactions to stimuli, signalling among individuals, memory, etc.

Besides, I don't know of a compelling ethical argument for why it's worse for one to eat things that are perceived to be more similar to oneself. There seem to be obvious evolutionary arguments for why such taboos would develop, but that's not a sufficient argument in my opinion.

> Basically, the only reason we eat animals today is because we've always done things this way.

That's a bit oversimplified, because it implies that the genesis of humans (or their ancestors) eating animals is simply arbitrary, an accident of history. But it's pretty clear that eating animals provided some massive advantages over not doing so, and later domesticating animals for consumption even more so.
For epubs from the same source, epubcfi[1] can be used to point to a passage. It is somewhat resilient to editing, as long as the gross structure of the document remains the same. (Parent tags, file name, ids.) iBooks uses this standard for annotations, but doesn't expose it anywhere.[2] I don't know if any other book readers use epubcfi for annotations.

I think mobi files loose enough structure in translation that it wouldn't be possible to locate an epubcfi pointer within them. However, it might work with the newer "format 8" files, if they are converted from an epub. (I haven't investigated how much structure is lost.)

[1]: http://www.idpf.org/epub/linking/cfi/epub-cfi.html

[2]: some records in my database don't have an epubcfi, but I haven't investigated whether they're user-created annotations or internal ones. (e.g. current location)
There are some comments downthread about how new technologies (3d printing etc) might disrupt international shipping. I think that they are grossly underestimating just how cheap sea freight actually is.

Sending a 20ft container on a typical China to Western Europe route costs about $1400. The journey by sea adds less than one cent to the wholesale cost of a small plastic widget, or about $1.50 to the cost of a desktop PC. There isn't a particularly great environmental footprint either - fuel is the biggest single cost in shipping, so low costs depend on astonishing levels of fuel efficiency.

Shipping is so cheap that all sorts of superficially absurd business practices make economic sense. Some British companies send locally-caught seafood to Thailand for processing, then ship it back to the UK to be sold domestically. It takes only a relatively small difference in labour costs to offset the cost of shipping.
> I'd agree that the line in this case seems to be quite arbitrary but I'd respectfully suggest that it's not fair to say individuals whom eat meat having not given it much thought.

It's fair to say that giving this issue much thought strongly correlates with thinking that eating animals is immoral. But thinking it's immoral doesn't necessarily imply you are a vegetarian.
I can't find the statistics right now, but there was a study that compared philosophers' position on eating meat to the general population's and found that philosophers (particularly ethicists) usually thought eating meat was wrong, even though their rate of vegetarianism didn't really reflect that.
Fuck those people.
How a company is reinventing vending machine technology
Geeky Talkies Build: Pre-wiring the Basement
Not entirely helpful, but I'll bite.

I'm more than willing to pay higher than "standard" rates, I just can't afford to do so here. The numbers I hard from the Philippines, for instance, meant that I could pay a yearly salary of between $5000 and $10000 (USD) and that would be an amazing wage (I haven't verified that, however).

The issue is not necessarily how MUCH to pay, but how to find the developers in a place I can afford to begin with.
To use a contrived but parallel example, if I were to suggest that "we should not use walking as a method of moving around" I'd expect the onus to be put on me to explain why this was a good suggestion.

So if accept that from an evolutionary perspective it's "natural" for human beings to eat meat and therefore the onus tends to be one people suggesting we shouldn't to demonstrate a solid argument against it then I don't think that's a bad thing. If of course you don't agree with the evolutionary part then that's a fascinating argument in itself!

I could not agree more that people should question norms. The more "obvious" a viewpoint is considered by most people, the more important it is to question it and the bigger the potential benefits from doing so.

But my intuition would be that whether or not to eat meat is actually one which is questioned fairly often, at least in western society. It's a friendly debate which I'd estimate I encounter at least every month or so between either myself or friends with other friends who are vegetarians. But having heard a multitude of arguments against eating meat, I've not yet heard one which (ethically/ subjectively or economically) in my opinion stood up to scrutiny.

Now people working 8 - 8 in jobs they hate, that's a norm I'd like to see questioned more!
Not exactly. Exponential curves have exponential derivatives.
Thanks! I'll give oDesk another look.

I'd just always heard about the difficulty finding an actually talented contractor, but I like your approach.
I like the higher resolution of Windows' FILETIME epoch better (microseconds since 1601, positive and negative, or about 30000 years in each direction). I'd rather have the resolution than be able to reference years the universe didn't even exist in and only be able to do it in seconds.
Microsoft’s Windows 10: The Return of the Start Menu
“There is a huge untapped market here,” said Ashley Picillo, a 26-year-old former teacher who runs a cannabis events agency and was the fair’s co-organizer. “It’s about reaching nonconsumers. Women. Young people. Business professionals. Grandmothers and soccer moms. People like me.”

Leave no leaf unturned, I suppose.

All that hard work and all those jail sentences for this for decades, just so some admen and adwomen can turn a buck. Fucking disgusting.
Add to that DVRs even for broadcast shows and, generally, much more fragmented audiences in general. To a first approximation, there is no longer the equivalent of the ability to have a general shared cultural experience the morning after a network broadcast airs to the degree it was in the days of Seinfeld, for example.

There are some exceptions. Something like Game of Thrones comes close--at least among certain subcultures and groups. But it's much more diffuse and less immediate.
I'm a dirty commie atheist, I just feel like the energy put into hating religion by people like Dawkins would be much better spent elsewhere.

I've met plenty of at least nominally religious people whom I've been happy to associate with, and whom are the some of the smartest people I've met. I've also met plenty of the Dawkins-type anti-theists whose company I've evacuated post haste.
A bit of a rambling, since I'm basically just thinking out loud.

We'd all obviously find issue with being eaten not because we think it's unethical that the alien wants to eat us (it's unlikely that the ethics question would even come up), but because we don't want to die, as an individual and as a species (I'm trying to say that it's NOT obvious that the issue we would have with such a scenario would have anything to do with ethics, not to make a judgement whether it's ethical or not). And so your argument looks like it's saying "we don't want it to happen to us, therefore it's unethical (for anyone to do that to us, or for us to do that to others)". I know you probably doesn't mean it that way.

Now, whether it's ethical to eat meat itself. As someone else have mentioned, I've always wondered where do you draw the line? Pigs and cows seem obviously out of the questions, but how about cockroach, caterpillar, corepod, hydra[0]? Event certain plants do sense distress signals when they're being attacked.

Do we actually know that it's possible for us, as a society as a whole to survive entirely on non-animal products, food or otherwise? Additionally, even if it might be just historical accident that we have a heavy meat-eating society, and another society that starts out without ever using animal products can advance to where we are right now and have a perfectly functioning society, it doesn't mean that it's ever feasible to actually switch to such a no-animal product society. In our terms, that would be a switch from not just from one programming language to another, but probably from silicon-based chips to germanium-bases chips.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(genus)
uClibc seems to cover a lot more of the GNU extensions, so it probably is more convenient from that point of view (seeing as gnulib is somewhat incomplete), but otherwise I agree. musl quickly seems to be becoming the premier libc out there, and Felker's leadership has been stellar thus far.
I am the dog owner you are talking to. So I have to ask: do you think being owned by me is terrible for my dogs?

See, I can't do anything about "pet ownership", whatever that is. I can't do anything about over-breeding. I can't do anything about the thousands of dogs killed or living in pounds.

Oh wait! Yes I can! I rescued three of them. They have happy lives with us and our friends and each other now. A big safe yard with squirrels to chase, good food (not the squirrels!), soft beds (they're all on my bed right now), laps to sit on, baths and teeth brushed, no fleas (usually), and not getting eaten by raccoons or caged and killed in a pound.

Fucking terrible, isn't it?
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I don't think it is safe to say. I think pet ownership is tremendously good for dogs overall.

Now that opinions are out of the way, I would love to see unbiased information on the percentage of dogs that live under unkind ownership vs kind ownership.

Tens of thousands of dogs out of tens of millions, isn't a persuasive argument. That's like claiming humans should stop having children - in which for 18 years those children essentially belong to the parents as a form of property - all because some percentage of children get abused very terribly or even abandoned.
Are you a member of the necessity committee?
How marketing is evolving in the digital age
I'm currently working on a UI library similar to what you describe. When you've got a situation where "everything just ends up in IO" you probably just have an early design iteration on that space of possible libraries.
>And people will eat it up too, who can resist the opportunity to signal that you're better than some other group of people?

The first part of this sentence makes the second part ironic.
It's a real shame that there's no comparison with aufs as a baseline. They discount it for not being in mainline, but of course neither is overlayfs. The overlayfs author has been trying for upstream inclusion for years, maybe he'll see luck with his request for inclusion in 3.18: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/29/350
Genes of the baby are 100% determined by the fertilized egg. The genes will be from whoever donated the egg. This is usually the mother in practice, but since you need to do In-Vitro Fertilization anyways, there's no fundamental reason it couldn't be someone who is genetically unrelated to either the mom or womb-donor.

Note that genetics are not 100% in control, and the conditions of the pregnancy affect the outcome of the pregnancy. We don't know the full effects of this, and we certainly don't know which aspects of it are from the womb specifically vs other biological aspects of the mother (e.g. blood chemistry). Health of the mother certainly has correlations with birth weight and developmental progress, but the extent & mechanisms are still pretty opaque.
No. Saturn Wouldn’t Float in Water (2013)