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This exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university...

And it definitely helps to coordinate them through that page. Otherwise, active editors tend to just say "GAAAH why are all these new users suddenly editing on similar topics and not following the style guide at all," and sometimes they conclude it's some sort of coordinated manipulation and start reverting en masse, which is never a good thing to happen to a school assignment.
For the interested, feminism (and other social justice battles) is a big part of the #gamergate and #notyourshield movement that's been raging for 2 months in the gaming industry.
When it comes to those in poverty, minorities have an upper hand over europeans. They get food and housing more easily their entire lives, and its because of the laws that give them social assistance that europeans (especially single european males and females) don't get.

Bending racism or sexism one way too far to correct some perceived historical slight, is sexist, racist, and wrong, and you are wrong.

Answering sexism and racism with other forms of sexism and racism, is a slight against all who were not initially involved in the racism and sexism, and encourages families who have no history of being sexist or racist to become so, to correct the sexist and racist laws you've implemented on them.

Have a good day.
Isn't the virus as easy to spread as common cold? From what I read, you don't need a direct contact with someone's bodily fluids; you can proxy it through a doorknob or any other object both you and infected touch within (relatively) short period of time.
These kind of pseudo-public-feedback surveys where the solutions available are presented as a limited set of options, all funneling towards what the agency wanted to do in the first place, really bug me.

You've got an entrenched bureaucracy that's paralyzed by a dysfunctional relationship with unions and a We've Always Done Things This Way™ mentality presenting what they think are the only options for fixing a system like BART.

Not one word about eliminating waste, improving efficiency, or innovation. Just a thinly-veiled complaint about budget shortfalls and an obvious plea for a sales tax increase to fill their coffers.

It would be wonderful if BART actually solicited public feedback on ways to improve the system. We're right in the middle of the most vibrant tech corridor in the nation, if not the world. You've got innovators and entrepreneurs that ride the system every day, many of whom would leap at the chance to fix an outdated, bureaucratic culture like the Bay Area Rapid Transit.

This is just an advocacy page for a bigger BART budget.
Thanks, that explains a lot. Very interesting indeed.
How is this relevant? This just seems like trying to bring gamergate into HN which lord knows nobody here wants.
This whole site feels like pure PR to me. BART wants the problems facing them to look huge, and their current funding sources to look massively insufficient.
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How is this relevant?

I'll refer you to the parent comment, where you can see that its sole purpose was to describe the relevance.
I've been wondering whether the concept in the article could be expanded out using client auth certificates.

So instead of clicking the login button and getting an email every time you need to authenticate (or using really long sessions), you use the "email to login" method once per new device. The resulting page takes the user through creating and uploading a client auth certificate, and stores it (along with a user provided device name to allow revocation).

In-browser cert+key generation is not perfect by any means but it certainly is possible - it's how providers of S/MIME certificates [1] are able to give you a signed certificate without you manually creating a private key+csr and uploading it.

[1] e.g. https://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certif...
"Second transbay tube" and "increased capacity in core" together allow 24/7 BART service. This is a commonly requested thing, and these are the things needed to make it happen.
If we want to learn from the past maybe we should look at the Plague of Athens [1]. These were the symptoms:

"As a rule, however, there was no ostensible cause; but people in good health were all of a sudden attacked by violent heats in the head, and redness and inflammation in the eyes, the inward parts, such as the throat or tongue, becoming bloody and emitting an unnatural and fetid breath. These symptoms were followed by sneezing and hoarseness, after which the pain soon reached the chest, and produced a hard cough. When it fixed in the stomach, it upset it; and discharges of bile of every kind named by physicians ensued, accompanied by very great distress. In most cases also an ineffectual retching followed, producing violent spasms, which in some cases ceased soon after, in others much later.”

I wonder what this sounds like? The good news was it only killed between 1/3 and 2/3rds of the population.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens
It's obviously not the truth. If someone stricken with Ebola makes it into a crowded location, then the chances of several people getting it will be high. This is obvious given the fact that a single Ebola patient infected a trained worker with protective gear. Extrapolate that out to an Ebola victim in the middle of Times Square, puking, coughing, sweating, etc.

Right now we can trace people back to those that traveled in West Africa so it make identification relatively easy.

But once the disease spreads to the point where people who haven't been to West Africa start getting it, then what are we going to do? Quarantine everyone who starts showing the most basic Ebola symptoms, which are high fever and abdominal pains?

And if Ebola starts spreading, what will we do with people with suspected Ebola? Put them in the same facility as those with Ebola? That will drive people to not report their symptoms, increasing their chances of spreading it to others. It's the exact same thing that happened in Africa, and Americans will behave the same way because it's simple Game Theory. If I have Ebola symptoms, and that means I'm going to get stuck into a facility where other Ebola people are, I'd rather just pretend I don't have it because "chances of infection are so low, I probably don't have it."
In regards to Bacon.js, tel had a very interesting response discussing transducers in relation to FRP/Reactive Programming in another thread [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8447046
Just noticed that as well. Didn't realize hovering would reveal more info at first. Awesome!
I really like the way TranferWise (transferwise.com) automatically signs me in when I load the page. It's a way to transfer money online so has to be secure, but uses my email authentication to verify it's me. I don't even have to click a sign-in button! I'm surprised this hasn't caught on more...

https://transferwise.com/support/customer/portal/articles/16...
Symbols are not a syntactic issue. They are an optimization issue. They do not have the creation overhead of objects and they exist across the application in memory without the lookup overhead of a constant (PHP's closest cousin to a symbol).

Lisp, Erlang, and Prolog (sure some other languages I've missed) have direct equivalents to Ruby symbols; they are sometimes referred to as symbols other times as atoms.

Saying they are a trivial syntactic issue just means you don't understand what symbols are.
In academia the situation is arguably worse.

There are gender-based quotas forcing us to favor less capable women over more capable men (capability is objectively measured by education and publication history).

Now, I don't care what the gender of a grad student is at all. What I care is I want to get projects done. And I need capable people for that, and such regulations pushed by "successful" feminist agendas are actually hurting the academia as a whole.
The european union (EU) banned lead gasoline in 2000 (~ 2005 "lead free"), USA already in 1978.

Many airplanes can still legally use lead fuel.

source (german): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorenbenzin#Verbleites_Benzin
Santa Clara county voted not to be part of BART, so BART has no real authority to run transit there. It was supposed to be around the bay, it sucks. Talk to the voters in Santa Clara county! Put something on the ballot! Change it! Please!

(Santa Clara decided to spend that money on those silly expressways instead.)
This led me down a rabbit hole of various Wikipedia pages, including obscure discussions of Ebert's edits & uploads (like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/...). Reading through these, I was yet again impressed with how much Wikipedia manages to maintain decorum and sanity on the internet despite millions of users.
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Never was a fan of Yii myself. The one PHP framework I really do like though is the Fat-Free Framework.
I'm coming back to JS development after several years away and my first impressions of Angular are that it seems very complicated and over-engineered, with a lot of fairly abstract concepts to digest to get even simple things working. React.js seems so much simpler but there does seem to be a lot of community support for Angular.

Should I invest the time and learn Angular or go with React instead? Web components seem likely to change the whole web development landscape but my impression is that they're not quite ready for prime time yet.
You can play a more complex version of that game using video of the vibrating strings on a musical instrument. Here's an especially good example: http://vimeo.com/4041788
If your namespaces are all lowercase after adopting PSR standards, you haven't really adopted the PSR standards.
>It's obviously not the truth. If someone stricken with Ebola makes it into a crowded location, then the chances of several people getting it will be high. This is obvious given the fact that a single Ebola patient infected a trained worker with protective gear. Extrapolate that out to an Ebola victim in the middle of Times Square, puking, coughing, sweating, etc.

Think for one second here. If someone makes it into a crowded location and starts puking, do you think people are going to move towards the puking person or get the hell away? Whereas in a hospital if a patient starts puking is a nurse going to move towards the puking patient, or away?

But at the end of the day this is 100% speculation. You are not qualified to have an opinion on the matter and neither am I. This is why I trust the doctors and scientists who are far more qualified to have an opinion when they say there is - for the time being - nothing to worry about.
I think trying to input text on a wearable or other small device using a touchscreen is a fundamentally flawed concept. There are ways to do certain things well, but this just seems like it would become boringly slow terribly fast.

With wearables such as watches, we need to think of different ways to input text and interact with content on the screen and with other people using similar devices. The future of text input is not swiping at letters on a screen because it's a cumbersome hack that misses the point of wearables altogether.

Wearables are for fundamentally different types of communication than phones are. Obviously I'll get flamed for this but I think Apple is the only company thus far to have realized that. People are not going to want to be manually texting others from their watch. It's unnatural and impractical. Watches are going to be for informal communication, like quickly sending pictures, emoticons, or heuristically generated predictive text snippets.

This is cool and all but they go into this project with the assumption that manual text input on small devices is important, which to me at least, it's pretty clearly not.
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Same here. I love reading the pages of these super-creative types of people.
Yeah, it's also fun that you can do it in a multiple function head pattern matchy way

defmodule FizzBuzz do
def fizzbuzz(x), do: fizzbuzz(x, {rem(x, 3), rem(x, 5)})
def fizzbuzz(_x, {0, 0}), do: IO.puts "fizzbuzz"
def fizzbuzz(_x, {0, _}), do: IO.puts "fizz"
def fizzbuzz(_x, {_, 0}), do: IO.puts "buzz"
def fizzbuzz(x, {_, _}), do: IO.puts x
end

Enum.each Range.new(1, 100), &FizzBuzz.fizzbuzz/1

or in a more ruby-esque fashion

(1..100) |> Enum.each fn(x) ->
cond do
rem(x, 3) == 0 and rem(x, 5) == 0 ->
IO.puts "fizzbuzz"
rem(x,5) == 0 ->
IO.puts "buzz"
rem(x,3) == 0 ->
IO.puts "fizz"
true ->
IO.puts x
end
end
Don't forget San Mateo County also voted to not have BART, due to their shortsighted belief that people from other counties would "steal" their jobs.
Nice! I love little focused Python libraries like this. Will have to keep it in mind if I ever do audio stuff in the future.
Actually, it is San Mateo County that is the real problem. Most of the people live in the East Bay and most of the jobs are in San Mateo County.
Maybe (2011, 2014) then, or something similar?
It's a bit silly to worry about the overhead of strings over symbols when the PHP environment itself is not persistent across requests.
San Jose station and 24x7 service. Not having either of these makes BART nearly worthless to me. If they had these things, I would use BART probably a few times a week to go to SF from SJ. Right now, I drive instead (1x on average every other week) to night clubs / bars / dinner in SF / Berkeley. I can park at Millbrae and take BART into the city, but doing so is only useful if I'm going to be back before ~midnight.

Caltrain is not an option because the service isn't 24x7, it's terribly slow, the train doesn't come often enough, and the station isn't close to where I live. The last 2 are just personal annoyances, but I think the first 2 are enough to make it a much-less-desirable option vs driving for people who would otherwise take it. That the cars are ridiculously over-built because they technically share tracks with freight trains (from what I've read, this is also what makes them so horribly loud and inefficient [which also makes the system much more expensive to run]) and do lots of PR damage by having very loud horns (my speculation: is that also related to the shares-tracks-with-freight-trains thing?) are just rotten cherries on top.

Public transit isn't easy, but it's also not impossible. I know that even the Bay Area doesn't have the population density of places with their public transit
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I'm glad you guys are branching out as I can imagine having to charge GST will really hurt your bitcoin sales.

Is there any chance you'll be forced to pay GST retroactively?
I have seen some speculation that the further the disease progresses, the higher the viral load will be, and the more likely it is to spread.
So when you are still up and about, you aren't as big a threat as when you are dying in a hospital.
I couldn't agree more. I really don't think very many people in management understand how the programming world has changed and what is happening at a code level in their companies and how big of a maintenance problem they are going to have on their hands.
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The link describes something very common.

The only difference I can see is that they ask you the email to figure if you are coming from yahoo or Google while the most common pattern is to show two buttons.

I don't think asking your email is a good idea, email is a something they should ask to the identity provider instead.
It works because they aggressively monitor for session stealing attempts and immediately shut them down. So it's long lived but with an impressive amount of monitoring that really isn't within reach for non-Google companies.
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The loud horn thing is a federal requirement because the tracks are at the same level (the same "grade") as roads and paths. One reason to support grade separation for Caltrain.
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I wonder why governments haven't dictated a 21+ day quarantine on any population center where someone is positive for Ebola. That should stop propagation on its tracks.
It adds up. One request may produce millions of such strings. Ruby and especially RoR without cheap symbol lookups would be as fast as a dead fish.
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Thanks for your reply. I'm aware of what the FBI was asking for (Val Caproni is no longer there, FYI) four years ago. My reporting before I founded recent.io was the first to disclose some elements of the bureau's demands and strategy, in fact.

You're right that it's unreasonable to place blind trust in a closed encryption system, even Apple's, that we're unable to review or audit. Even if their intentions are pure, it could be poorly implemented.

But my point is simply this: there is no U.S. law mandating key escrow for Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. One was proposed in the 1990s. It didn't pass. One was proposed in the Going Dark era 4-5 years ago. It didn't pass. One is being quasi-proposed now. It hasn't passed.

I actually think I'll agree with you on a lot of issues based on your post above -- but it is nevertheless a conspiracy theory to claim that Silicon Valley companies somehow engage in key escrow for the NSA or that there is a legal requirement for them to do so. As I said before, if you claim otherwise, URL, please.

>NSA currently requires companies (like Microsoft, Apple) to provide encryption keys corresponding to devices

PS: ^^^ I'm still waiting for the link that backs up this claim too.
It's a dynamic check for correctness, which you'd probably want to avoid in a rocket or an airplane.
Let's not jump to conclusions. I was talking about real events, not a "jab."

The event I was referencing turns out to have taken place in Denmark, not Holland, and was auctioning sugar beets, not tulips. They are using secure multiparty computation algorithms to auction sugar beet growing rights to farmers.

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/aliaga/cs197-10/papers/boget...
I couldn't agree more. But I think many VCs use this line as an easy, soft no. There are always those who truly mean what they say when they say "we love blockchain technology but we don't believe in bitcoin," but those people don't know what they're talking about
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The reason why is the countries where the outbreak has occurred do not have the policing or military capacity to do this. A couple of the countries tried to enforce 3 days quarantines to slow down the spread but the population just ignored it, either through lack of care or lack of ability (when you are living day to day you don’t have much choice about working or not - don’t work, don’t eat).
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I use FreeBSD at TransIP but their virtualisation engine is not suitable for running Ruby applications[1]. Other than that, I didn't had any other issues. They are a bit expensive though (12 EUR/month for 1GB Ram 50 GB SSD).

[1] https://gist.github.com/atmosx/14efea27eb2c1e38af09
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Yes that's exactly what docker is about.
An express caltrain is faster than driving (unless you encounter no traffic, in which case the drive would be 9 mins faster) and you don't have to worry about parking. It's not quite as bad as you say. No 24/7 service is really annoying though.
If you look at the EFF's list of patent troll litigation, it turns out that only three small law firms send out most than a few demand letters, and one firm is the big threat generator.

Also, if the patent holder wins in court, they weren't a troll. They really did have strong patent rights.
Can you explain why more track is needed for a service that doesn't run 24/7 to allow it to run 24/7?
That seems to be missing the whole point of symbols/atoms. They are uniquely identified with an O(1) lookup time and persist in memory after the initial creation. Symbols persist across multiple requests; this is a big part of why they are so beneficial.
According to National Review it was Epic. This makes sense given their market share but keep in mind that National Review have an axe to grind as Epic is a big Obama/Obamacare supporter. Best to find additional confirmation.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389817/ebola-electroni...

BTW - Epic has my local hospital chain by the balls after a few failed attempts to build alternatives. It looks like something from the 1990s - super modal interface in a remote desktop.
The incremental GC came later. The initial release offered only a full mark-and-sweep GC over all of memory, some of which was paged out to disk. That's why it was so slow. Eventually Symbolics got a generational GC working, and the thing became usable. But you always had to GC; you couldn't just exit a program.
Cut the pay to the BART board, do away with life time "free access" passes, and run for longer hours.
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On behalf of the silent majority, we really appreciate work in this area! We all depend on systems written in memory-unsafe languages and the idea that exploit mitigation techniques are just a compile away is very heartening.
I also like headings, tables of contents, and super and subscript.

LaTeX equation input is also something that's creeping up my "must have" list.
Ebola evolves. Each outbreak carries a number of distinct genetic changes [1] and there is a risk of a mutation (or a chain of mutations) that would accelerate transmission in unpredictable ways by interacting with new hosts.

This happened in the past with Yersinia Pestis that wiped out half of the world population through fleas.

I'm not sure sure why there is no centralized effort to accelerate research but rather top virologists focus on logistics of moving dead bodies.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6202/1369.full
I've heard it stated that one reason BART doesn't run 24/7 is that they regularly need to be able to shut down a track to do maintenance. More track provides redundancy that allows them to redirect traffic from one track to the other when doing maintenance on it.

There is more information about this on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-does-BART-need-to-do-nightly-mainte...
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