skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will work in the same way the TSA works: It will make people FEEL like the government is taking action. Which is really what it aims to do and nothing more...

Aside from that it will likely pick up more false positives than it will actual Ebola cases (e.g. common flu, someone getting too hot after running from the aircraft with a heavy bag to beat the queues, etc), Ebola can go asymptomatic for over a week within which time it will be undetectable.

Keep in mind that several African states are already checking people as they leave. So for this US measure to work someone would have to go from asymptomatic to symptomatic within the time it takes from flying out of an Ebola infected area and arriving at their destination (e.g. 12 hr period).

I already feel bad for all of the people who will be incorrectly quarantined under this scheme just because they have regular flue. They will be caught up in a state overreaction similar to "shoe inspections" and "no liquids above 150mm" nonsense of the past ten years.
Because neither party wants to write off the coal states.

There is still a Coasean way out: offer those states money to not burn their coal.
Very good idea these release notes [1]. In a perfect world it should be even more detailed a bit like What's new in Python x.x notes.

Maybe by giving the gist of an RFC through an example or an high-level description before linking to it, because there are some RFCs a bit overwhelming I think, more theoritical than illustrated with examples.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Doc-detailed-release-...
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The Taipei metro began operating in 1996, whereas the London Underground began operating in 1863. You can't really compare the two. The newest parts of the Underground, such as the Jubilee Line Extension that opened in 1999 are very clean, modern and spacious, but it's impossible to retroactively improve the rest of the network to the same standards while it's being constantly used by millions of people every day.
Generally you can control for this statistically; the study yields information of the sort you need, but you're correct that it's not totally causal.

But there aren't experiments for most things we'd like to know anyway. Experiments are a nice thing to have, but they're not necessary to gather information and update your beliefs rationally.
Thank you for the response. I'll keep that in mind in the future.
The US was, of course, not unique in this regard. The UK seriously explored mandatory key escrow, and their equivalent of PATRIOT (ie: their statutory reaction to 2000s terrorism) makes it a felony under some circumstances not to provide requested keys to investigators.

It would be interesting to see people do the legwork for crypto policies in other European countries. I'd be particularly interested in Germany's policies, and Poland's.
The atmosphere water content is self-regulating, since it works as a cycle (water evaporating, condensing and raining down, with the atmospheric content mainly regulated by how much vapor the air can hold). Not so with CO2. There is no similar "excess" threshold for CO2 after which it would "rain down".
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I think it is the efficiency that I didn't consider. As far as I know, gas is roughly 5 cents a gallon.
I never imagined I'd run into you here, in all of places! Thanks for all the kind words and, having experienced something of a sort before, I really feel sorry for your situation with the app. I have skimmed through your websites and I see you have greatly improved in a multitude of aspects since I last saw any word from you. Keep striving for greatness, and if you wanna talk, drop me a line (email is in my profile) :)
> Biggest challenge: programming is hard

Just one thing, don't be disappointed - it's not you, it's iOS SDK and Obj-C - these are a real crap. If you want to enjoy, try Qt.
Thanks for clarifying, everybody.
Screening for temperatures is a good first step but since a person might not be symptomatic at the time the temperature is being taken, temperature taking won't be enough.

I think the Government should go further and embark on enlightenment campaigns. These campaigns would involve listing the symptoms of Ebola, advising people who exhibit such symptoms to visit the nearest hospital, explaining in very clear terms how people can contact Ebola (there is a shocking amount of misinformation about how Ebola is contracted out there) and also listing some of the basic ways people can help prevent the spread of the disease (like washing of hands with sanitizers).

Basically, borrow a leaf from what the Nigerian Government did which brought Ebola to a halt after a Liberian brought Ebola to Lagos, a city whose population is more than the entire population of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone combined (those are the 3 countries hardest hit by Ebola).
This. And this combined with no words whatsoever about the Bezos' other big venture in the Snowden files.
Can we please discuss this acquisition and its impact instead of a thread at the top - and several below - about the reference to the "incredible journey" and the acquainted Tumblr on the topic?

It's well known that anyone a bit into SV and its surroundings is aware of this "meme" and founders are often placing bets whether they will include it in their end-of-product-PR or not.
More straightforward: buy up exclusive coal rights, and then leave it in the ground.
Then how do I search my GMail?
"Fears resulting from surveillance" more precise than "fears of surveillance"
My understanding was:
* engineers have to apply and have their idea approved
* performance reviews are based on primary tasks, and 20% is not included

so if doing a 20% project reduces production elsewhere (and how could it not unless you work 20% more?), it would seem to be a negative
I suppose this sort of thing sadly isn't surprising but I'd hate for it to overshadow the good and important things coming out of the Grace Hopper Conference. Hoping more of that comes to light.
Depends. What was the source of CO2 that you displaced? If they were also capturing it as the exhaust from another industrial process, then you're right. On the margin, though, there might be people producing CO2 just to have the CO2.
This is not true. My work, written three years ago, showed that VP8 was inferior to H.264[1] at the time. A more recent paper showed that both VP8 and VP9 are inferior to both H.264 and HEVC[2].

[1]: http://blog.seancassidy.me/h264-and-vp8-compared.html

[2]: http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X26...
Hello! Michael Drogalis, the developer, here.

I talked a little bit about why I wrote Onyx on the Clojure mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/OmHzAEfYe9U/33e0a0l3...

It's mostly driven by the need to use data structures in places where I didn't have them - I only had things like macros and functional composition.
The CO2 content of the exhaust from a coal-fired power plant is (fortunately) many orders of magnitude higher than what's found in the atmosphere. It would be much cheaper to capture it at the source. But even that is still considered too expensive, which is part of the reason we don't see many large-scale carbon capture and storage operations popping up.

But there are some encouraging news from Canada these days:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/07/...
Reconsider because the producers add "flavor packets"? Why would this scare me? Because of the sugar? It's no mystery there's sugar in there, otherwise the beverage wouldn't be sweet.

I'll continue to drink my "fresh-squeezed" juice. Thanks anyway for the promo-scare piece.
It's just as much security theater as TSA checkpoints. IR thermometers are pretty inaccurate[0] and not good at catching Ebola.[1] You can also just pop and Ibuprofen an lie your way through.[2]

[0]http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2008/06/25/why-fever-s...

[1]https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/08/theres-really-...

[2]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/03/ebola-airport-scree...
This was my exact thinking too.
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thanks Zura! we're seeing some signups for the HN post, the realtime analytics screen shows arround 50-70 users coming from HN.
Honestly that sounds like a very constructive suggestion. However it might be a little bit too early for it given the few cases outside of Africa.

There's a thin line between sewing panic and providing the public with constructive information. If they released that kind of stuff right now, people would become super paranoid and expect an outbreak any day.

You'd see people going to the hospital with every single flu, cold, or similar that they have.
> Reducing unemployment will increase demand but will also increase supply. So no.

That's just the same fallacy. Why can you assume the thing the employee is producing won't have less price elasticity than the thing the employee buys with the income, but I can't?

> the rich have a higher marginal propensity for consumption

Your argument is that the rich have a much lower marginal propensity for consumption, enough to really matter. And that may even be true if you're talking about a matter of $2, which a poor person would almost certainly use to buy lunch or the like but would have no effect on a rich person's level of consumption. But if you give a poor person $20,000, now you have to ask whether they aren't going use it to attend college or start a business. It's an entirely different dynamic.

Also, if the money is raised using a consumption tax then it can inherently never come from someone making an investment regardless of their income level, which kind of destroys your entire argument, since it is based on where the money comes from as much as who gets it.

> Giffen goods are common

Nobody is even talking about Giffen goods, that's the demand side. And goods whose total cost is dominated by fixed costs are extremely common.

> scarcity isn't real

Scarcity is often not relevant. The market price of a computer or pharmaceuticals or recorded music is completely divorced from the cost of the scarce materials necessary to manufacture it. There is no realistic volume of DVDs that could be produced that would materially affect the market price of plastic.

> If that is the case then the usefulness of a BI will also constantly be in flux.

Whether and to what degree it causes inflation or deflation would constantly be in flux. That it might possibly cause a small amount of inflation is hardly a condemnation, and it is unlikely to cause a large amount of inflation for the reasons I've already mentioned -- its tendency to increase prices in some products is offset by its tendency to reduce prices in other products.
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How many? A lot. And in the mean time, if imgur started to do that, then it will soon start to have a "pdf link warning" in short order as masses of ios/safari/ie users basically segment themselves out of the loop.

In the meantime then the alternative sites will pick up in use because they aren't being dicks about a video format.

Additionally, what about devices that only have mpeg decoding? Basically you're saying screw you non webm supporting people and your battery life. We don't like your kind around here.

Its a great way to kill your site in short. Unless everyone does it at once and upgrades happen to support things, its at best a slow burn like firefox. But at this point webm doesn't have half the use cases as firefox did.
The checkout can be added to any page that allows you insert your own HTML/JS.
Anecdotal I know, but it's strange that so many responses in this thread find Siri more useful than Google. I use an iPad and a Galaxy S3, and when I ask Siri questions, more of than not, she fails to give me an answer or provide meaningful search results. I can ask Google to find me any retail business locally and get proper results, call them with voice commands, etc. Siri chokes on a lot of those requests.
What is it about being a westerner that limits you from making food like this? And if you have an intense desire why don't you act on it? As you pointed out, just plan ahead a bit.

There's no special guide needed, just a knife, cutting board, spatula and a couple pots and pans. You can make a great meal in one cast iron pan (maybe a couple if you're feeding a family) in half an hour. Make sure there's more green/other colors than beige and you're good to go.
We can also criticize Reddit for that choice. Freedom of speech, and all. It sounds like you're upset that we choose to criticize Reddit for this.

The difference between what a business allows and what a state allows are so different as to not really be illuminative here.

I could decide that no one watches animated cartoons in my house, and no one is really harmed by that in any significant way. A state that declares that no one shall watch animated cartoons, however, is quite a different thing.
Because it's easy to miss, note that there is a longer list of summarized changes below the links in the OP, also reproduced in this file: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md
I appreciate your explanation. I'm a sailor, not a PhD in fluid mechanics. All I know about the physics of sailing I learned in the first couple of chapters in the book I cited, which I think my post succinctly summarizes.

So, if I understand you correctly, to put it into one sentence for my friends at the club, air flows along the curved sail which, through pressure differences or momentum, turns the direction of the wind, and the opposing force of the turn causes lift?

My other question is, how does a symmetrical keel then cause lift? Thanks.
I hate attitudes like this because it alienates people more than it helps.

Yes, men have little idea of what women go through. It's frustrating explaining the same shit over and over again. But how does it help to criticize without offering any encouragement or explanation?

Did MLK jr say something like "our goal is not to humiliate the white men"?
I've retested the microwave, using a 4th gen ipod touch, with 2.4 ghz wifi only.

Just outside the oven, Speedtest is giving me 25ms ping, 10Mbps dl.
Inside, with the door closed, it's getting 44ms ping, 1Mbps dl.
Disappointed that the oldest site ever can hire a decent frontend guy, slow and buggy on chrome on my mbp.
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Given that this list spans a little over two years, I'm surprised to see no microsoft.com, all the other tech giants at the time are pretty much in here.
Since when did legitimately clever headlines, once a source of pride for any editor, become "obviously linkbait"?
I love this. I absolutely love this.

This project hits that sweet spot where "old timers" who remember the lo-fi social web have a place to call their own while also being appealing to the "young guns" who have only ever known the social web in the age of Facebook/Twitter and are looking for an alternative where not everything is easy and beautiful.
Is it?

I have no solid idea, but my impression from glancing at solutions for healthcare years ago wasn't that Hospitals are choosing Big Co so much as they have little choice.

As I understand it, smaller companies don't try / give up on keeping up wit the costs of required certifications (possibly the wrong term) and the like.

This also seemed to help explain the slow pace of advances and updates to such systems as patches and changes have their own onerous process.
Unfortunately the original was much more hacker friendly and awesome. Lisp Machines! They sold it off several years ago and now live here: http://www.symbolics-dks.com/
As a fairly frequent downvoter, I should probably explain my rationale so that others may retaliate accordingly. These are the main types of comments I tend to downvote:

1. "This." Unless you're adding something substantive, please don't say it.

2. Piling on. If you're saying exactly the same thing that your only sibling comment said 2 hours ago in a single sentence, please don't say it.

3. This website's design sucks. Not everyone on HN is a web developer. If you don't like the font choice on a blog about Galois theory, kindly inform the author directly.

4. Useless side-tracking from the main point. Some side-tracking is interesting. If you teach me something about 14th century linguistics while commenting on an article about peanuts, I'll probably upvote you. But if you want make a snarky aside about Americans buying too much bottled water when the article is about life in Egypt, please consider not saying it.

5. Unnecessarily rude or dismissive. "Your design fails on so many levels."

Even though this describes a lot of comments, I'd estimate my upvote/downvote ratio at about 5:1. Finally, I don't view a downvote as necessarily a negative thing. It simply means, "This particular comment does not contribute to this particular discussion." I've been downvoted before, usually rightly so. I still manage to feel warm and fuzzy inside and you should too.
> I don't understand why people would go through the trouble of re-pointing /bin/bash to something else (along with auditing their scripts), vs. just updating bash to the patched version. Patches for the most serious of the vulnerabilities were available on day 1, and by day 2 or 3 we had Red Hat's patches (putting exported variables in their own name space) which should mitigate all possible variant vulnerabilities.

I think you misunderstood/misread my comment. Please re-read it: You'll notice that I'm advocating pointing /bin/sh to something else. This is what Debian and Ubuntu both do (/bin/sh is a symlink to dash). I'm not advocating molesting /bin/bash in any way, shape, or form. It is my opinion (and opinions can be wrong) that /bin/sh should be explicitly understood to be a minimal POSIX-compliant shell. If a script wants /bin/bash, it should specifically ask for such. Curiously, using something other than bash for the /bin/sh symlink sidelines some of the attack surface (APR if it hasn't been changed from its default configuration, some syscalls, etc.).

So, two other things remain that I feel warrant pointing /bin/sh elsewhere:

1) We're assuming the last 3 or so patches have corrected all of the low-hanging fruit in bash. The fact the initial shellshock vulnerability went undiscovered for so long until it was audited should be worrisome.

2) Not all systems (most, but not all) may have bash installed by default. Targeting a minimum POSIX-compliant shell mostly guarantees a script will work on these systems (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, most nearly all Linux flavors). If you need anything more complicated, ask for bash specifically or do something else (Python, Perl, etc are usually installed on most systems these days, save for embedded platforms).
Thanks. Can you share your app's name? Any lessons for somebody who's thinking of starting?
Why should we trust you with our information?
It seems like from this it would only take a few minutes to put this on an existing site. What sets you apart from the other instant and "easy to set up" checkouts I could use? Is there a lot of customizability that one can easily add to the checkout, like size and quantity and color?

I'd also like to style some of the checkout to be more branded - is it possible to change the colors or logos?

Good job on clean styling of the checkout. Also, will there be support for Amazon Payments in the future?
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Everyone I know just buys phones outright and is on giffgaff at around £12 a month... Different demographics I guess.
Unfortunately it is part of their push to lock down the web. Lock it down to legacy languages - JavaScript and HTML. Transpilation is of course not an answer, because it is not nearly same development experience. I hope mainstream platform providers and democratic solution providers such as Xamarin will keep on their good work in letting us use the languages we love, be it Scala, F#, C# on any other as beautiful.
This appears to be a Swift wrapper for SQLite 3, not some sort of open source version of the Swift language, as the title implies.
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Apparently the company sold it to some guy. Here is the story - http://symbolics.com/about-symbolics/

Can't comment on how true it is.
Probably better to call it "intentionally inflammatory." I feel, and I think this is shared by others, that these are typically not on high quality stories.
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This is more accurately the 100 oldest .com domains - Wikipedia's list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_re...) includes the list for the other TLDs. For example, it looks like 5 .edu domains were added at the same time as bbn.com was on April 24, 1985.
44, Department head. Still write some code, but mostly work on budget issues, staffing, project planning, vision, target architectures, etc.
all those "less laws" and don't "tell me what to do" has its consequences.

you will find out it works both ways.
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I was surprised by that too, but then later in the video it shows the other arm that was being controlled by a human hand. It appears to mirror that arms movement, which is why it looked so human.
"just top freelance design and developers replying straight to your email."

That sounds terrible, sorry.

Are you at least masking/relaying the email? Can I remove the request? How do I know they're "wonderful"?

I'm sorry, I assume this is an MVP or validation experiment of some sort but this just isn't working for me. And, yes, I do have projects I could use a freelancer for.
It's not that difficult to test for bashisms (most such scripts fail immediately if run from anything other than bash, often with a syntax error), and honestly, most of the scripts I've encountered in the wild that specific /bin/sh work well with a sh-compatible shell. This is especially true if they target systems that don't ship with bash by default (*BSD).

I think the objective here is that the script authors should request bash when using bash syntax extensions and sh otherwise.
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Personally I find the predominant brand of humor at Reddit to be annoying too. An interesting conversation devolves into five trailing one-liners circling around a pop culture reference ... ugh.
A sub-3.0s 0-60 time would be phenomenal, but it's important to note that the Tesla is AWD. An AWD car gets to 60 MPH in a way that is very different than some of the other cars mentioned. The additional traction of AWD reduces the time required to get to 30 MPH by a half-second (or more), which is substantial at this level of performance. This tends to be the area where quick AWD cars make up ground on the otherwise superior performing competition.

I don't mean to diminish the accomplishment, but more to provide context. Judging a car's acceleration performance by 0-60 time is a very limited means of evaluation. The least, you'd want to look at is 0-60 MPH as well as quarter mile elapsed time and trap speed.
I'm curious why this was down voted? I meant it as a legitimate question. I don't know much about carbon credits but I'd imagine anyone taking CO2 out of the atmosphere would be able to sell them?
6months or a year. the owner even did a HN AMA of sorts.
Sorry, simply meant to say that it was excellent open source swift project.
> Even testing it multiple posix-compatible and userland environments, you never really know whether your script actually is cross-platform.

I think that's true for most software, though. Presumption is no replacement for testing...
even 4chan does that.

whish tumblr implements it with standards and do a huge campaign calling imgur BS