skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically, the only reason to do this—acknowledged by researchers after more ambitious programs of this kind—is to reassure the public. It's theater, meant to calm irrational, emotional concerns. Unlike the TSA, people aren't even pretending otherwise!

To me, this is a great illustration of why we need strong, consistent rights and limitations on government action: it's not just a check on government abuse, or abuse by certain minority movements or even malicious abuse by the majority—it's also a check against popular emotional responses like this. It's a way of forcing ourselves to stop, reconsider and perhaps avoid acting poorly in a knee-jerk reaction.

(Also, thinking about it, it's a solid committment strategy: if these rights and restrictions are clear and unambiguous, we can use that when negotiating both with other countries and within our own government.)
I did read the article, so must have suffered some kind of mental failure. I don't expect any real improvement in temperatures on the central line. There is nowhere for the heat to go.

(Surely puzzlement is the appropriate response to a blatant factual error, not "wrong, wrong, wrong!". I mean, I know HN is a hangout for intolerant geeks but still...)
You can try it at https://kiwiirc.com/client/snoonet.org##bottest, if it's online just do "!ask question". Examples:

>!ask what is the largest prime number?

For primes of the form 2^n - 1 (known as [Mersenne primes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime)), a very fast primality test known as the [Lucas-Lehmer test](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%E2%80%93Lehmer_primality_...) is available. The ten largest currently known prime numbers are all Mersenne primes.

>!ask what's the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

African or European?

> !ask tell me a joke

I was eating chicken tonight last night, and got a little bone in one of the fillets. So I said "Fillet? More like fill-it with bones! Haha!" Then I looked around at the empty table and quietly sobbed into my bowl.
When I read the title, I did not think this sounded like it was an open source version of the Swift language.
But access would seem to be an important dimension to any effort to stop the spread of a pandemic, since pathogens do not discriminate by insured status.
Not really. It happens to be that most 'image viewing' tech like this is bundled with the hardware hospitals buy. Example: If you buy a GE/Fuji/etc PACS your usually stuck with their image viewer.
Little known fact, Mozilla+Netscape fixed the export restriction for open source software which ultimately led to it being eliminated all together.
Maybe a better title would be 'Shakespeare's Nonsense is Genius'

:-D
Why recording the police is so important
I cannot right click and save an MP4 video in my browser.

I cannot drag and drop it into an email.

As a regular end user, I can use approved sharing features only. As a developer, yeah, I can download it myself and rehost it somewhere that hopefully supports MP4 video.

The historical pissing match over how to best do animated PNG files is sad. An animated image format that is treated differently from videos is a nice thing to have.

People have entire folders full of appropriate reaction GIFs. With how MP4 video is treated online today, such a thing is not possble.
Ask HN: How do I get a better understanding of NoSQL databases
I have a reasonable understanding of relational databases. I am not so sure about NoSQL databases. Though I have used mongodb in the past.
Can someone point me to resources to get a deeper understanding? How do I go about learning the trade-offs of choosing say a document store over a key value store. Also CAP theorem and related trade-offs. When is NoSQL better suited than relational etc.
Shellshock still unfixed except in Debian unstable
No, but you could "squirt" a song from one device to another. I wish I was making that up.

Microsoft does manage to make some really useful products and services. Even the Zune you mentioned had a service similar to the now-popular Spotify where you paid monthly for access to a full catalog and you could even choose 10 tracks to (permanently) keep each month so it wasn't solely a rental/subscription service.

But their marketing can be some of the worst I've seen coming from a major tech company.
Auto-updating has a lot of potential but also a few usability concerns.

You'll find on other auto-updating comment systems that "x new comments" is introduced so that you don't lose the spot you were viewing and you have the choice of seeing the new comments or not.

Animations and color can be used to show the movement, appearance, and disappearance of items. This would be great for seeing how votes and positions of items are changing.
RustyCage – Eclipse Plugin for Rust-lang
That is thousands of proper native apps, that are available today.
Writing a chat application with Vibe
Policies aren't the only way nations can help push for more widespread use of strong crypto. GnuPG's docs and ports were funded by Germany initially to perpetuate more secure transmission of e-mail messages. More countries should invest in security R&D (rather than create policies). It's new technology, not policies governing existing technology, that will make them more resistant to cyber-espionage and cyber-warfare. The fact that it'd also be a boon to private citizens and corporations probably isn't as important to them, but it is definitely important.
And it has almost nothing to do with reddit.

Reddit could censor all instances of discussion featuring the phrase "hackers news" tomorrow, and it's not as if they would be brought up on freedom-of-speech charges.
>> "You can also just pop and Ibuprofen and lie your way through"

Why would anyone do that?
It could have been just for non-citizens.

The language [1] describing visa ineligibility seems much more nuanced now. The last paper form that I filled in asked whether you had been involved in transporting munitions, strong crypto was classified as a munition at the time.

[1] http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/general/inelig...
+1 for using the Firebase API for realtime notifications rather than rolling your own API polling.

Moreover, their API is consistent between the browser and Node.js clients, so almost all the application code can be shared. Just inject the appropriate client and away you go.
So what's the long term policy / law that will come out of Ebola testing via the TSA? Since these activities never go away they just become unquestionable policy.

Long term maybe it's finger print scanning, blood, saliva.
Sidewinding Snakebots Sinuously Summit Steep Sandy Slopes
That is a subsidized price, not the market price. They're buying locally manufactured bulbs for 204 rupees and selling them for 10 rupees.

Here in the USA electric utilities have previously provided subsidized CF bulbs. I haven't yet seen any subsidized LED bulbs.
It is not the oldest site, just the oldest .com domain.
Yahoo thinks it's ready for VIP status
Banyan VINES
Maybe. Spying is less invasive than piracy and less likely to dampen commerce. Is anyone not going to shop at Amazon because the government might spy on the transaction?
Url changed from https://www.medxt.com because this one contains a bit more information.
yes. Conservatives seek to restrict government influence, liberal seek to use government to bring about the common good.
Some Guy Named Ethan Made an App Called 'Ethan' That Lets Anyone Message Him
The Future of Work Is “Turking for Uber” and You Won’t Like It
Firefox/OS X uses codecs from Apple

NO
I think that's a dangerous way to think about things - not dangerous because it will get you branded a Winston Smith and arrested, but because it sets up an unnecessary and unhealthy duality between us and them. Injustice in the criminal system is, more often than not, driven by smug complacency and convenient, lazy bias rather than any real desire for injustice. That is, the "majority evil" position is to simply do nothing while good people get shredded in the machine - they aren't actively trying to sharpen the machine's teeth.

Even the police who make mistakes, I would guess, are usually doing so out of laziness. The details take too much effort to see. The circumstances are always complicated. It's much easier to be happy if you are always "just doing your job". Check the boxes, go home and watch football.

The solution here is not to cynically label the system as unrepentantly evil, but rather to offer inducements to their job properly, by for example installing ubiquitous surveillance, and allowing supervisors (people with higher intelligence and morality) to review and punish police mis-behavior, and reward exemplary behavior.
Kind of brilliant...
"This demands a more robust marketplace beyond CO2 for soda and oil wells."

The only permanent solution is sequestering the carbon deep underground (depleted oil/gas fields or saline aquifers). Most CO2 "utilization" cases (including production of biofuels) merely delay the inevitable release of the gas into the atmosphere.

Sequestering CO2 for the sake of sequestering it does not pay though. In order for this to make sense, a carbon tax would likely have to be imposed (it worked in Norway, where Statoil has stored excess CO2 geologically for almost two decades now at the Sleipner field).
Headlines are the original linkbait.
I would look at transitioning to a full time remote position that allows you to work flexible hours. Freelancing can work if you make the right client relationships to keep a steady stream of projects coming in at your desired hourly rate. Typically these clients aren't found on elance/odesk.
I believe that is fanboi'sm in general, but if you feel better you about yourself you can keep thinking it is just apple users.
>What sets you apart from the other instant and "easy to set up" checkouts?

In fact, the default product at Celery is exactly one of these "easy to set up" copy-pasted checkouts with just pasting in 2 lines of code to get a checkout. This DIY checkout offers something that none of the copy-paste checkouts, including our own, offers: Total customization over every aspect of the checkout interface and flow.

Not only could you change all the style and position of the elements, you can even insert steps afterwards, like your own survey, for example. You could even change the language to Klingon if you like. We're excited to see what people can come up with.

Branding is totally open to your own styles. Colors, logos, assets, transitions and animations - you name it.

Amazon Payments is a feature that we'll be keeping a keen eye on and prioritize it based on demand and product fit.

Thanks for the questions!
Snapchat CEO Spiegel Says Untargeted Advertising Is Coming Soon
No, I said I don't see it. I asked you to show me. You still haven't made the connection between the links you offered and free speech.

I definitely deal with less homophobia now than I did five or ten years ago, and most of it came from engaging with homophobes and changing their minds. Racism is still almost as bad as ever, but it seems like that's mostly because the instigators (racists) never interact with their targets (people visually and culturally dissimilar from them).

The only difference I see is that one improved more than the other because people engaged with bigots and changed their minds. Which goes against your (as of yet unproven) assertion that engagement makes it worse.
Gas/Coal/Oil/etc. power plants have long captured heat from exhaust to produce additional power. They typically run the exhaust through a heat exchanger that heats water to run a steam turbine.

It would be interesting to learn how this method's efficiency and cost compares for a large power plant, but it sounds like it might be practical for small power plants where traditional methods of capturing exhaust heat are uneconomical.
Google Launches Hangouts App for Chrome on Windows and Chrome OS
The Myths of Tech Interviews
I've been running the service for almost 12 months now. I know job boards have you accustomed to using a fake email to deal with all the spam but there's no need here because it's not posted anywhere publicly. If you want to learn more about how it works, go here: http://letsworkshop.com
Lol-bash-web-framework: A web framework written in bash
Well I've been running this service for 12 months now. I will literally pay you to post it elsewhere if you get a single spammy reply.
Is there like a what's new in Firefox but for Rust?
There's more configuration/management information here:

https://github.com/tildeclub/tilde.club
Mailing lists, in my experience, can feature incredible discussion. I participated on one centered around a somewhat obscure literary topic for some years. You almost develop a sense of kinship.

However, mailing lists seem to be going extinct. Even back then it had a quaint, ancient feel to it.
> We have an experimental treatment, and there are questions as to why it was used on two doctors flown back from Africa, but not on the patient in Dallas.

What are you implying?

The Dallas patient was given an experimental treatment, brincidofovir. This is the same drug that is reportedly being given to the NBC cameraman who was infected. There are other experimental treatments, including ZMapp and TKM-Ebola, that have been used.

One report[1] suggested that TKM-Ebola was not given to the Dallas patient because of concerns that it could have made his condition worse, and ZMapp wasn't an option because there are no more supplies of it[2].

Furthermore, according to this article[3], "All non-human primate work done with any of the experimental treatments from any company have never extended beyond treatment four days post-infection." The Dallas patient was apparently 19 days into his infection when he presented.

There is no evidence at this point that the experimental treatment you were referring to (ZMapp) "cured" the doctor and nurse flown back from Africa. To that point, the Spanish priest who was given ZMapp died.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/06/thomas-...

[2] http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/1007/Why-didn-t-Texas-Ebol...

[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2014/10/08/dallas-ebo...
The reddit search engine isn't very good. It's just logistic regression with a number of features, like the percent of 1, 2, and 3-gram matches, it's score, number of comments, and if it's a selfpost.
Why does #45 have a space in it? "Data IO.com" If you look up dataio.com, it says the creation date is October 10, 1997:

http://who.is/whois/dataIO.com

I assume this is a typo? Or could domains have spaces in them back then?

EDIT: I see from the wikipedia page it is actually "data-io.com"
How long until this hits Homebrew?
Build a chatroom wordcloud with d3js
Insurance companies are the absolute worse about that. I'm shopping around for insurance and get 10 quotes. Then I'll pick one company to go with and sign up. I'll either do it online or I call a rep to finish the signup.

Now 5 of the remaining 9 companies I got quotes from but decided not to pick decide I need a phonecall (or less obnoxiously but still obnoxious) email. "Hi, I saw you got a quote on our site, can I help you sign up?" "Would you like to talk about the quote you received on our website?" The best was when I replied "No, I already bought insurance" and the rep was like really confused as to why would I get an insurance quote if I already had insurance. She seemed surprised it would be a possibility to get a quote and NOT sign up. Or even to shop around. Sometimes I even get quotes once in a while to get an idea if I can get a significantly better deal somewhere else. Then I get phonecalls.

I started replying "If I wanted to talk on the phone or sign up I would have called you." and hang up. Its so rude but really, I don't want to talk to them, if I was interested after I got a quote I would call them. Do people really go "oh, yeah, I wasn't going to sign up but since you called me during dinner I changed my mind."?
As far as i'm aware, they did no such thing. They created SSL and then a library that allowed them to control what encryption was used where, as well as be able to plug in better encryption overseas. They also were the first open source crypto library to get FIPS 140 validated.

Actually it was the original openssl developers who created a fork of Mozilla just so you could use 128-bit crypto in the browser overseas.
-I would anyday recommend Raywenderwich tutorial. They are just awesome and so easy to follow.

-http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-Edition-Develo...

-Just a problem which I tried to solve. Was searcing for one but didnt found any good solution.

- Lack of research, just creating app is not enough, you have to market your app. Also, Lack of time was my another problem
I have a 50 Mbps connection. After 1 minute and 10 seconds, it has loaded 3.6 MB and is still displaying a white spinning wheel on a beautiful blue background. Amazing.
What do you do when you want to break the contract? I.e., after 6 months you decide to switch carrier? Now what?
And very low stiction compared to pistons.

FTA:

"With pneumatics and hydraulics, you can certainly get power and speed, but you often need to deal with leaks and friction and elaborate arrangements of pumps and valves and whatnot."
Maybe busy with their IPO?

PS: microsoft.com was registered May 02, 1991
Symptomatic Microsoft's domain is not on this list. Looks like they missed the internet revolution.
The real problem is: Show me you understand this basic data-structure well enough to perform a simple task.

"Collections.reverse(myLinkedList);" is the correct answer to "How would you reverse a linked list if it came up in your job?", but is not a relevant answer to the interview question.
right click -> save works in chrome canary, 39.0.2163.3 at least.

drag and drop does not, yet, but perhaps with this initiative it will be prioritized.
What's Wrong with Counterparty
how come individual police officers are allowed to keep the proceeds of any drug money they 'find'?

[Citation needed]

No, I'm not asking for cites on civil asset forfeiture. I'm asking for documentation that individual cops get to pocket the seized cash.

Otherwise, I'm calling bullshit, with prejudice.
And that site is downright embarrassing. It reminds me of the way a very different but still excellent kind of older software, Delphi, went after it lost steam and was sold off by Borland: it went to people who milked it for all it was worth while putting as little into it as possible.
Also before eCommerce and the Internet in general really took off the main application for encryption was national communications and in particular use by the military. With that view and context there's a pretty fair argument that proper strong encryption is mostly a military device, similar to the way GPS devices are limited to a certain speed and a given height. It turned out to be patently false but at the time it's not that outlandish of an assumption/view, especially in the limited world view of national security and spying agencies.
> Domain names have been actually been available for 28 years – yes, before you even knew what a computer looked like.

:grouchface:
Congrats to the MedXT team they built a beautiful DICOM viewer and had a good cap structure which makes this a win/win for them and Box. Box now has an Saas offering into the most on-premise space in enterprise IT.
Of course it won't work. It wouldn't have prevented the incident it is a reaction to. Why would anyone think it would prevent any future incident similar to the first one?
Any suggestions for helping someone when they're in that state? Or for helping them grow such that these states are less frequent?
Well, people say Microsoft didn't think internet was a big deal back on the day.
Very interesting! I'm working on a similar project at the moment, but I haven't come across Onyx at all before -- I'll start digging through.

In particular, I'm interested to know if this supports exactly-once messaging semantics, and if so, what the implementation looks like. Anyone here have experience with this?
Ask HN: What browser do you develop in?
I have used Chrome for the last couple years, mainly because Firefox's developer tools were a bit behind when I made the switch.

This was fine for awhile, but now Chrome is blocking http css/jss on an https domain (I understand this makes sense in production) but for staging it means I have to purchase multiple wildcard ssls for our distributed system.

So what are others using? Anything with strong developer tools and relaxed ssl settings?
Why Technology Isn’t Truly Wearable
I might be in the minority here, but I want to see Icahn pump-and-dump Apple. Now that Jobs is gone, there is nobody running the ship that is competent enough to stop Icahn. He'll devalue the company, and bleed it dry if allowed, just like he's trying to do with eBay right now. And this makes me happy as a clam; Now that Microsoft is steadily marching toward irrelevance, it'd be peachy keen if we could take down the usurper to that throne (Apple), and give the GNU/Linux and BSD families the attention they rightfully deserve.

Could you imagine? if Icahn bled Apple to death, Ubuntu would be the 800lb Gorilla.
How about if you are implementing a library for a new programming language?

Don't PL developers need to implement things like List.reverse() in their new languages all the time?

Rhetorical question, because I know the answer is yes.

Here's an example for Julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/DataStructures.jl/blob/master/s...

function reverse{T}(l::LinkedList{T})
l2 = nil(T)
for h in l
l2 = cons(h, l2)
end
l2
end

(Note that this algorithm is not an in-place reversal, so it wouldn't have worked for the OP's interview.)
Tough crowd, arguing whether or not this is a good open source swift (implementation) vs good open source swift (software). Or is this just how we get more... what do we call it here, karma?
Google+ launches poll today. What do you think of them?
Their figures claim they get 2.5% more energy from a power plant with this. It may not be worth the trouble. Attempts to recover the last few percent of power from a heat engine result in more equipment cost per unit of power. Steam turbines for power plants have rows of blades, each bigger than the last. This stops when cost/benefit calculations indicate another row of blades would be a lose.

This goes back all the way to reciprocating steam engines, where additional cylinders could be added to use the waste steam from the previous expansion. There were successful double-expansion and triple-expansion engines. The economic limit turned out to be triple-expansion; while 4 and 5 stage engines were built and tried, the additional cylinder cost was a net loss.

Little thermoelectric generators have their uses. It's useful to put one in a gas or oil furnace to power the controls and fans. Then you still have heat even if you lose electric power but have fuel. If these guys have a better thermoelectric component, that idea is worth reviving. See "http://www.google.com/patents/US5427086".

E = (T1-T2)/T2. That's all you can recover.