skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading of such articles makes me wonder about the reports/ranks given by transparency international ...etc on corruption. Comment by @icantthinkofone in this thread indicates this problem can be seen in other organizations too. If that is true, then corruption is there across all public organizations in US. In India too, we hear stories of corruption but scale is different. I conclude, it is explicit in some sectors/countries and implicit/polished/organized in other sectors/countries i.e. indices such as corruption,human life quality are just instruments to point out at emerging countries and show them in negative shades while pushing similar issues in developed countries silently under carpet and showing them in positive shades (at least during preparation of ranks). After consistent media focus, damage will be done and countries will be forever labeled as negative and leaders,future generations will forever live in that pseudo bubble thinking that they are inferior/corrupt ...etc to developed ones. (Many Indians think America/Europe is heaven with no issues like drought/crime...etc).

I included human life quality because as long as systems are working, west including Europe and America appear good(seeing from very far) but once in a while catastrophe occurs(due to nature or man-made), then we will see ugly side (e.g: looting during katrina[1], London riots[2], riots in sweden[3] ...etc) as if that ugly side is suppressed under the weight of systems/rules rather than genuine intrinsic goodness of people living there[4].

My intention is not to show any one in bad light but to give the conclusion or correct the myth that just because a country is materially wealthy i.e. developed, does not mean that there will be no daily issues. If emerging countries like BRICS understand that, then they pursue all round development rather than blindly becoming photo copies of west in pursuit of material wealth and harming themselves like pollution in china[5].

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9131493/ns/us_news-katrina_the_lon...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Stockholm_riots
[4]http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/15/why-is-there-no...
[5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_in_China
The WaPo headline is rather sensationalist.

Of course he was wearing protective gear (it would have been news if he hadn't).

He may have worn it, but what procedures did he follow for removing it? That's where infections are likely to occur - the article even notes at the very end that the nurse in Spain who was infected was probably infected this way.
I thought they were dumping Radio active contaminated water every day into the pacific ocean.

And yet no other country actually care about it.
I'm firmly in the "hell no" camp. I realize how these devices can benefit me. As an embedded designer, I eagerly thought about these types of devices 15 years ago.

The problem is that we, the technical community, got hoodwinked away from open protocols into thinking that closed systems based on dumping data to someone else's server is an acceptable basis for much of anything. Manufacturers are quite happy to foist these proprietary solutions on us because it lets them create lock in, differentiate on superficial features, keep hiding sloppy development, and derive licensing fees for any third parties that think they can help analyze your data (with your consent, or not). The "average" user sees no difference because it's all magic boxen to them, and we've done them a great disservice by shirking our professional duty and being "yes men" for this backwards environment.

My rejection doesn't come from "fear" of "risks" - it comes from the rational assessment that once this data is out there, especially in such collated form, you've lost control of how it is used against your interests. The only way to brush that off as "fear" is to say the future where cloud-big-brother knows more about me than I do is inevitable. So rather than being scared, I should learn to love the rats on my face. I am hoping this is wrong.

Furthermore, reliance upon any technology makes it de facto mandatory which becomes much harder to extricate yourself from to switch to something with a less hostile architecture. Especially as more open architectures will be less polished due to less funding as creating freedom isn't lucrative.

And it's not just the NSA - there's the much larger and better poised threat from the commercial side as well, via insurance / background check companies. How long until "I have to do 500 more steps today so I don't have to pay $50 extra on my health insurance" ?

(PS Never mind getting on the upgrade treadmill for fixtures who's lifetime has traditionally been decades, just for software bugfixes and upgrades. And the input response time on many of these products - looking at you Nest - show that it's amateur hour)
Like in JavE: http://www.jave.de/docs/formula2/formula2.html?
I think AngularJS is going to be the next WebForms for enterprise 5 years down the road.
Steampunk has never interested me...but monkpunk? Me want bookwheel.
I guess because then you can view it in any editor later. Or view it in a simple terminal.
Until fourth grade I had these desks with pitched top that was also the "door": we kept the books and notebooks inside.

I somewhat resent the association with a museum. It was in the seventies!

And yes, the purpose of the flat tables that came afterwards was possibly what you say.
Lwan: Experimental, scalable, high performance HTTP server
I've been using http://adfreetime.com for it as well, costs $2/month/ip. Doesn't work with Amazon Prime anymore though.
It's a pass through entity. The money goes to the teams, and the teams pay taxes on it. It's not hard.
It's quite easy for me to support arbitrary character sets, so if there's enough demand, I can definitely implement it. If you can just drop us an email (see "How do I provide feedback" section at the bottom), that'd be great - thanks.

But it won't be supported in the initial public beta build, as we have to prioritise other areas (sorry!).
As an aside:

>In 1953, a former congressional aide charged in a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that the celebrated physicist was a Soviet spy.

The congressional aide's name was William Liscum Borden. If Borden's views had been adopted by the US Government, it is likely that we would have had a nuclear world war[0], instead the US built its strategy on the views of Brodie[1].

[0]: Borden's strategic views http://ethanheilman.tumblr.com/post/29405762446/there-will-b...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Brodie_(military_strate...
FWIW, we're on a paid plan, too, and haven't (yet?) seen this issue.
As far as I know, I didn't cause any harm. From what I heard, the sysadmins didn't like the floppy drives making noises on their Solaris x86 server.
Looks really promising. Do you already know what the price of the application will be once it's finished?
They should be held to a higher standard, as they have power granted to them by the public to use in the public interest.
Hi there,

Your ticket about jadopado was responded to within a couple of minutes of it being raised - can you write into us again with the details of the output from https://news.ycombinator.com/cdn-cgi/trace please?

Cheers
In fairness to the parent to your post, single serving coffee machines make nearly zero mess. IF your break room hasn't got a sink and running water (your water comes from a water cooler), THEN a single serving machine is better than nothing. Even a super-automatic is going to get messy from cleaning out the grounds.

But if you do have a sink, there's no excuse.
Yeah, I think for me Kvothe's flawlessness was balanced by the unreliable narrator, who demonstrated that Kvothe in the present/future is not all-powerful anymore (if he ever was). The premise of the book thus appearing to be an inversion of the standard "weak hero becomes strong hero" plot, instead intriguing you from the start with wondering how a strong hero becomes so decrepit.

That's why I found it quite frustrating reading the 2nd book, as the present/future feels like where the "real" story lies, but it made absolutely no advancement in that direction. So I definitely agree with you there, the focus on the super-powered young Kvothe does detract from the main story as I see it.
My first Game + my first angular project
McCarthy identified several agents actively engaged in espionage. KGB records identify hundreds more that he missed.

McCarthy identified many more people in sensitive positions who were security risks, many with Communist associations. Even if those people were not actively engaged in espionage, they should not have held sensitive positions.

KGB/NKVD archives reveal they had hundreds of agents in the executive branch in the 1940s. McCarthy spurred the removal of Soviet moles, Communist sympathizers, and other security risks from sensitive positions. In this, he did the US a great service, as regrettable as false accusations are.

Edit: In response to your questions, it's as if you didn't read what I just wrote. Regarding the Soviet records of infiltration, several books have been written on these records and their revelations.
Three Startup Founders Reveal Why They Left San Francisco for Portland
Android (at least the Cyanogenmod variety on my phone) works around it with a small fuse-shim that fixes user-visible permissions on the fly, for all FS, including ext4.

That layer comes from AOSP, yes - unfortunately, it also screws up symlink support, which is bad for some cross-platform applications. You can still use the underlying fs directly if you have root, though.
Considering that Indiecade 2013 took place well in advance of any sexual contact between Robin and Zoe? It's very easy to believe that no influence is in play.

And this is why I don't think I'm too quick to accuse. You're not thinking. You're not applying any rationality to this at all. There's something else going on in your thoughts, and I think it's toxic anger generated by the meme bubble you're currently living in -- not maliciousness.

Demanding that Robin Arnott develop a time machine and retroactively undo Indiecade choices after he started a relationship with Zoe Quinn isn't "better standards." It's insanity. Gamergate is being treated as you'd expect from a bunch of people insisting that something that happened in 2013 was caused by something that happened in 2014.

I'm truly sorry you can't see that.
This is a good point, and one I've wondered about since using LastPass. Having a segmented password safe would be nice for more secure accounts you use less often. I definitely wouldn't like to leave my password safe open in, say, a library.
Except YC also funds nonprofits[0].

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/
The kook here is you, and I can prove it: you have a bizarre view that developers should be divided into political parties based on programming language, and code strictly to the party lines. Bizarre views make the kook.

TXR does need its own dialect of Lisp because Common Lisp isn't suitable for slick data munging: not "out of the box", without layering your own tools on top of it.

This is a separate question from what TXR is written in. Even if TXR were written using SBCL, it would still have that dialect; it wouldn't just expose Common Lisp.

That dialect is sufficiently incompatible that it would still require writing a reader and printer from scratch, and a complete code walker to implement the evaluation rules of the dialect. Not to mention a reimplementation of most of the library. The dialect has two kinds of cons cells, so we couldn't use the host implementation's functions that understand only one kind of cons cell. So, whereas some things in TXR Lisp could be syntactic sugar on top of Common Lisp, with others it is not so.

Using SBCL would have many advantages in spite of all this, but it would also reduce many opportunities for me to do various low-level things from scratch. I don't have to justify to anyone that I feel like make a garbage collector or regex engine from scratch.

So, the reasons for not using "SBCL" have nothing to do with "good enough". It's simply about "not mine".

TXR is a form of Lisp advocacy.

TXR is also (modest) Lisp research; for instance I discovered a clean, workable way to have Lisp-1 and Lisp-2 in the same dialect, so any Lispers who are paying attention can stop squabbling over that once and for all.

It pays to read this:

http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf

Why we have Lisp today with all the features we take for granted is that there was a golden era of experimentation involving different groups working in different locations on their own dialects. For example, the MacLisp people hacked on MacLisp, and it wasn't because Interlisp wasn't good enough for them. Or vice versa.

That experimentation should continue.
I dunno about the specific story but after perusing Amazon I have concluded that something is seriously wrong with the publishing system. The prices on Lafferty's works are outrageous.

So here's the torrent. R. A. Lafferty - Science Fiction Novels and Stories (13 books)

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10671370/R._A._Lafferty_-_Sci...
> Could you give a short explanation of the differences to BrowserId?

DSSID pre-dates BrowserID. The underlying protocols are essentially the same, except that in BrowserID you have multiple keys and they are bound to email addresses. In the current implementation of DSSID you only have one key (though that could easily be changed) and it isn't bound to anything. You establish the identity of your key simply by using it to sign things.

> Are the keys tied to origins?

No, but again, that could be changed.

> If so, how is that enforced?

That depends on what you mean by "enforced", but the answer is probably that they keys would be stored in a dictionary whose keys are origins.

> If not, how do you address the privacy issue of origins tracking you through your key?

The current implementation is just a proof-of-concept prototype that I put out there several years ago to see if there was any interest in it. There wasn't. But since BrowserID hasn't really caught on I bring it up every now and again. It's a plausible theory that BrowserID hasn't caught on because it's too complicated to deploy, and that DSSID might turn out to be closer to the Right Thing. Its pretty clear that passwords must die sooner or later, preferably sooner.
Creator here. Surprised to see this on HN. This was about a morning's work, intended as a joke incremental game. Please don't judge it too seriously.
No, we haven't settled on a price yet (I don't know what it should be). If you have any thoughts on the subject, I'm all ears :)

Our top priority currently is to create tool that we're proud of and which ours users love. The financial side is only secondary (although very important). When we get close to releasing v1, we'll put more thought into it. The beta will be free to use for everyone (and that should last quite a while).

The development of Monodraw will be very open from now on, I'll be writing about my thought process about all aspects, if you're interested make sure you follow our blog.
Really? Where are these reviews?
This is the critical question. She probably dons and doffs protective gear a few dozen times per day, as do most of us who work in a hospital, but we rarely practice doing so correctly. The topological distinction between in and out becomes totally blurred when most people remove their gowns. Therefore, it is probable that many people would think they are correctly removing full protective gear, but have never or rarely correctly removed such gear and therefore got themselves contaminated in the process. Less likely, we don't understand the transmission vector and some fomite is at play. Ideally, in an unusual situation such as this, there should be observers closely eying all contact including de-gowning.
I'll be glad if ext* support is removed from Files.app. I once had it corrupt my externally mounted ext3 hard disk and lost a ton of data. I never should have been doing that kind of thing with Files.app in the first place. It's really only designed to be used with your "Downloads" folder where there's a warning that all your files might be auto-deleted anyway.
Cool. I may try that out. I would like to use LaTeX notation though : $\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} \sin 2\pi i/3$
How is this different than the already well established Traceur compiler? https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler
So far this hospital has completely screwed up both in providing medical services and explaining what happened. Does it really make sense that an apparent emergency room worker would be wearing full protective gear including a face shield before they had even diagnosed Ebola? And if so how did the virus get through? Magic? No somebody, most likely the infected person, screwed up. All it takes is a touch of your comtaminated gloved hand to your unprotected face.

Like when they blamed the computer system then later denied it was a problem or when they said the initial patient's fever was 101 and it later turned out to be 104 we may have to wait for the truth to come out, if it ever does.
This happens to be about once a year. I always find it equally funny each time though.
I posted the following in the now killed thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8444976):

As many commentators undoubtedly will say, additional cases are to be expected. However, it's a problem that both in Texas and Spain, the people infected have been health workers. Health workers that are supposedly well-protected and well-informed about Ebola specifically (at least the spanish nurse was, it's not clear in this case yet).

Now it's true that there are more bodily fluids in a hospital than outside, but given all the protection and procedures, is the difference so big that a health worker is at a much bigger risk than a person who happen to sit next to someone infected on a bus?

There are two cases as I see it. Either it's likely that other people, non-health workers, have been infected. We just don't know about it yet, or it has been decided that it's not in the public's interest to know. Or the protective measures are so bad, the disease so misunderstood or hard to protect against, that health workers effectively can't protect themselves against the risk.

Either case, it's a big problem. In the west too.

In that thread people were saying the health worker was infected before they knew Duncan had Ebola. In this thread, when it turns out that the health worker did know Duncan had Ebola, people are saying that it's obvious. Funny how these things work.

No one except mainstream US media is advocating panic. That doesn't mean it's not a serious issue that requires our attention. Saying "Ebola is overrated, more people die of X every year, don't panic ffs" doesn't add anything to the debate - it's neither controversial nor insightful.

To guide the discussion, here's a suggestion for people who disagree with me. Either argue why there are more than the two cases that I outlined, or argue for why either of the two cases aren't a problem in the coming weeks and months.
Why not Typescript? To many, it's better than Dart, not as volatile as the ES6 draft and not as seemingly illogical as Coffeescript.

Plus, it comes from Microsoft and there are literally millions of devs out there who only want to use what Microsoft is pushing because they know that if Microsoft gets it right, they will reap the benefits of robust hiqh-quality tools and components as history has shown them. So far it looks to a lot of us like they're getting it right.

There's obviously no true measuring stick here. If you don't like Microsoft's style, which I'm betting most folks here don't, then it's probably not for you.
Original Samsung ARM chromebook doesn't have any write protect screw, this is a device about which I have zero complaints so far. (I've owned it for only a few weeks so far.)

I wish it came with a newer kernel, but all for reasons that "you can compile your own kernel" are really a valid response.
Friv games
That's what I want to know. There are dozens of es6 transpilers.
That's why I added: ...and under Linux.

I'm well aware of NTFS permissions, and use them daily, both in UI and programmatically. Under Windows, though.
Don't you avoid needing to work on a fully parsed node graph if you proccess data using streams/events? Kind of like how SAX parsers avoid creating a DOM tree in memory.

I think Genshi does something similar to this but I'm not 100% sure.
Technology isn't science. Technology is embodied in commercial products. There's nothing sad about rejecting products tainted by surveillance. They are poisoning freedom.

Individuals and organizations outside the US who want any political autonomy at all are better off avoiding US technology products.
I have zero sympathy for the view that people who disagree with current social/economic/espionage policy should be removed from office on that basis alone. On the contrary, such disagreement is central to how democracy works and those who would threaten it are the true threats to our society.

That said, we continue to disagree about the numbers, and I would like to know the resolution. Could you expand on your claim that "KGB/NKVD archives reveal they had hundreds of agents in the executive branch in the 1940s"? Did McCarthy have a very high false negative rate (thereby finding only 9 of the hundreds of spies)? Are you counting "security risks" as "agents"? What gives?
This article is a distraction from the real issue. Most of the spending (including the oft-repeated $225 for "Sparkles the clown") is legitimate. The process of civil forfeiture, on the other hand, is a clear violation of the constitution.
Paying the legal fees of claimants who win would not be out of order.
https://www.atlantic.net/vps/vps-hosting/ Is $1, but haven't tried it
At the time you posted this, there were 1 or 3 other comments. Yet you still summarize, In this thread, when it turns out that the health worker did know Duncan had Ebola, people are saying that it's obvious.

Going one step further, none of the comments that were posted at the time you made that summary really said much about whether the worker knew that Duncan had Ebola.
The big question is whether or not this is faster than the implementation of Arc on top of racket. Arcueid, which is an Arc interpreter written in C actually wound up to be "about an order of magnitude slower" than the racket version[0].

[0] http://arcueid-arc.org/2013/05/22/three-implementation-model...
The Linux partition and all the data will also be wiped if the battery runs out while the Chromebook is in sleep mode.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261156

https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/4nkSEmGo...
This is pretty spot on.

You generally always have a running estimate in your head, "I ate two tacos, took three units of Humolog, needed to correct down an extra 50 points with the extra unit (because I undershot last meal), etc."

But there are factors that you have a more difficult time predicting your levels with, like exercise, illness, the type of carb your eating (some carbs take longer than others to hit your system, but if you treat all the same, you insulin will hit you faster than your carbs and you're now hypoglycemic).

Truly staying on top of your numbers and this disease means constantly checking. You can always make a guess, but when the risk of serious short-term and long-term complications hang in the balance, you tend to want to know for sure.
And forces you to fund them at the same time.
Somewhere I read that if you're really serious about this, you get yourself sprayed with something that glows in ultraviolet light, remove the protective gear, and then look for spots where the agent made its way onto you.
Nice work. I really like the simplicity of it.

The best strategy I've been able to come up with grows the exponent roughly every 50s: 47s to get to 100, 51s to 1415, and so on. I wonder if there's a way to do it faster.