skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two theories I've thought about.

I have a theory that those infected with cats promote their cats on the internet via photos, videos and social networks. More so than dogs, or other pets, for example. In terms of stories, anecdotes or praise about the animals, a cat would have less said about them, but more and more images and publicity about them. Why? Possibly because the parasite requires animals to have more contact with the cat?

The second to last paragraph in this article is fascinating to me also. Those with flu are more socially outgoing, and I have read that they are more flirtatious, wearing less etc. It leads to a theory that these viruses could actually be sexually transmitted and actually encourage more sexual activity. Slightly related perhaps: the stereotypes of "cat ladies" being single is not because they are single, but because they have cats!

I'm slowly collecting these theories - and the wilder the notions the better when it comes to brain controlling parasites. Of course in terms of behaviour, the range of human behaviour is so wide it almost encompasses the slight influences of parasites. Makes you think what else is in us that could be contributing to our behaviour.
Or petting a cat. Or allowing a cat into their bed. Or sleeping on a couch that an infections cat has climbed onto. Or the cat walks across the dinner table or kitchen counter.

You seem to have a really wrong mental model of how fecal-oral transmission happens.

If I have Norwalk (Norovirus) someone else doesn't need to literally lick my butt or eat my feces to get it. If I wandered around their apartment naked (interesting image) and sat on or walked across random pieces of furniture, they'd be very likely to get it.
Impressive, nice work!
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5579517 is pre-gatt, so it is 17 years from date of grant, which for it is Nov 26, 1996 + 17 years => Nov 26, 2013 - so already expired.

5758352 is post-gatt, so it is 20 years from earliest priority date, the earliest priority date is Apr. 1, 1993 + 20 years = Apr. 1, 2013 - so also already expired (unless it has any term extension).

6286013 is also post-gatt, also with a priority date of Apr. 1, 1993 + 20 years = Apr. 1, 2013 - so also already expired (unless it has any term extension).

5745902 is pre-gatt, it patented Apr. 28, 1998 and gets 17 years from that date, so Apr. 28, 1998 + 17 years => Apr. 28, 2015 - it expires in about six months.
It is planned for the next version.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/10/06/announ...

Right at the end "This work and the work to align with ECMAScript 6 is ongoing.".
You'll need to call a meeting of all the internet's firewall administrators who block TCP ports by default but allow 80 and 443 through. If you can get them to agree to stop breaking the internet then we can use TCP. Until then we will need to build a new internet on top of HTTP, inside encryption so they can't meddle with it.
Does anyone know what's happening to the IP behind this breakthrough? Are they forming a startup?
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I think there's a real argument to be made that the attempts by corporate america to stifle and limit the internet could prevent the amazing future internet of 2044 from looking much different than what we have now. Latency, bandwidth, reliability, data transfer caps have all been problems for decades, and ISPs are actively fighting to keep them as problems or even to make them worse (pay us extra to access netflix).
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There was an Ebola documentary on PBS a few nights ago and one of the people noted that he touched a need and that's how he contracted Ebola.

People have likened Ebola to HIV, but HIV does not transmit this easily. Even during seroconversion (which is when you might get vomiting and such with heightened viral load) I've never heard of anyone contracting HIV in a hospital.

I feel like the information on transmission has been poor. For example, is skin a barrier for the virus?
It's actually not that contagious. There is a unit of measurement for this called the Ro number (high #=more contagious). Ebola is about 1.8 currently, pandemic flu was 1.9, measles is 15-20.
I am not convinced that CLISP can be used to write another programming language which is itself completely BSD-licensed.

See here:

http://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/clisp/ci/default/tree/COPYRIG...

CLISP's licensing is somewhat confusing and appears to dictate the license to the application. So, for example, I probably wouldn't use it for a commercial, closed-source application. For the same reasons, it cannot be used for a BSD-licensed application.

(However, I did use CLISP for the licensing back-end of such an application: that back-end runs on a server and isn't redistributed. Things you don't distribute to others cannot run afoul of the GPL.)

CLISP's license lets you make compiled .fasl files, and these are not covered by its copyright (unless they rely on CLISP internal symbols). However, that is where it ends. Memory images saved with CLISP are under the GPL. (Memory images are the key to creating a stand-alone executable with CLISP!) If you have to add libraries to CLISP itself, you also run into the GPL. I believe that this would cause issues to the users of TXR, which they do not have today. For a user to be able to run the .fasl files, they need CLISP, and of course that has to be distributed to them under the GPL terms, and you can't add C libraries to that CLISP without taining them with the GPL.

You can wrap TXR entirely in a proprietary application, including all of its internals: the whole image, basically. This wouldn't be possible if some of its internals were the CLISP image.

Regarding the GPL, I do not believe in that any more. I will not use this license for any new project. It is not a free software license in my eyes. Free really means you can do anything you want; any restriction logically means "not entirely free". Proprietary products that use free code do not take away anyone's ability to use the original. The problem with the FSF people is that they regard the mere existence of something as offensive. "It's not enough that there is a free program; we must litigate to death the non-free program which is based on the same code before we can be happy."
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Head on over to the beta's github site (cramcore.github.io), click the Resources tab, and grab yourself a copy of the beta binary to beat up on! We plan to add a C version, multithreading, and powerful GPGPU computation in the weeks and months to come. We can use everyone's feedback!
That's the definition of "aerosol transmission" here.

Depending on the drop size and the viral load in those drops, depends on how far it will travel in air, how long it will be suspended in air, what potency it has, and how likely someone other can get infected when it's inhaled.

It's how the most common virus is transmitted...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Transmission

"The common cold virus is typically transmitted via airborne droplets (aerosols), direct contact with infected nasal secretions, or fomites (contaminated objects)."

A person with Ebola going through a crowded airport and sneezing could infect dozens of other people under the right circumstances (virus strain, load, etc).
Yeah, I look forward to perfect medical-introspection technology, but I don't think we're ready for what we'll find. I suspect we'll find that we're positively riddled with parasites, subclinical tumours, and all kinds of squick.
The Enlive scraping/templating library for Clojure can be used in a pretty novel way to generate templates. I guess it's a bit like transforming XML with XSLT, except without the need for an intermediary language (in favor of a DSL in Clojure).

Templating with Enlive takes regular old HTML, which could even be mockups of your ui, and a list of (selector, transform) pairs to apply to it. The selectors mostly mimic CSS, while the transforms come with a library to manipulate node attributes, contents, etc. Taking a non-functional form and setting its method and action might look like this:

[:form#my-form] (enlive/set-attr :action "." :method "POST")

My favorite part of using enlive is that it removes almost all responsibility from any frontend developers to know about the templating. They can just produce straight HTML mockups with enough CSS hooks for you to get in and change what needs changing. I even use it on projects that I don't envision anyone else working on -- it's nice not to have to context-switch between design and development all the time.
I took six months off for the OSDSM. I am very aware that it was a luxury to do so. I had to take loans, move out of my apartment, and I studied 10 hours per day.

If you weren't working 10 hours per day, 6 days per week for six months (1440 hrs), and you took 6 hours per week to do the same, it would take you more than 4 years to finish a similar curriculum.

Managing your time is still the hardest part of self-study. It always will be. Most people pay institutions to structure their lives with a workload, deadlines, time off, expectations, and consequences (positive and negative). Having the time for self-study is a luxury few people have; most people won't have the time, money, and opportunity to give up for a "classic liberal education," and by extension they won't have time for self-study, either (one such conversation on the topic: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/loud-nathan-he...). That's part of why new forms of education like The OSDSM are so necessary. Such curriculums fit exceptional cases that are less and less the exception.
The article just confirms to me the reasons that Groves chose Oppenheimer to lead the Manhattan project, Oppenheimer was able to see the bigger picture.
IIRC, Traceur compiles to es5 which is not supported in IE 8.

[edit] It's not clear to me that this project compiles to es3, but that was my assumption when reading "JavaScript that will work today".
The virus still has to be in nasal passages or perhaps lower to get in what's expelled. Here's what I said in a recent discussion in reference to the fear it would evolve to be "airborne" as the term is medically used (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8421982):

The critical distinction here is that Ebola doesn't seem to infect the outer part of the respiratory system like colds or influenza. There's not a huge mass of cells there to be shedding viri and getting into the air, and it would take more than a few mutations for that to change.

Ebola viri have been found in saliva, tears, can come from bleeding in the respiratory system, so it obviously can get airborne that way. Exactly what that means (how big are the droplets, how long do they stay in the air etc.), how significant that is as a mode of transmission (which includes iffy estimates of how many viri (virus particles) are required to make an infective dose) ... we just don't know. But with our current Ebola importation policy, it's very likely we will start to get answers to these questions....
What about bio-engineering cats that fluoresce when they're infected?
Droplets the size you sneeze out are not going to be transmitted through an air ventilation system.
You are seriously overestimating the likelihood of transfer via those methods. The odds are actually very small. Simply having a cat walking around gives you very poor odds of transmission. It is not a cold.
This. However i do play a little Dota2 from time to time, but the game frustrated me too much. Being in a game that is OVER and still have to stay in there for 10-15minutes drives me crazy.
I think we will start to see more of this in any field in the futuere. I don't know if its reached the market yet but I've heard talk of it in the automotive engineering community. Car parts not related to electronic control get embedded RFID chips to strengthen the immobilizer, you can not start the car if some piece of plastic isn't signed. Might sound attractive at first as the car gets harder to steal, just replacing a few ecus is not sufficient, but what if you yourself want to replace a spare part using a third party workshop.
Oppenheimer was probably lucky to have gone through this, long term, to be accused by these clowns instead of endorsed. He saw it as the sham it was, and the characterization of a “broken man” is misleading. Had many years of lecturing, writing books, and leading the Institute for Advanced study after this, with deep support from the scientific community. Although it was deeply hurtful.. he was a loyal man, a soldier basically during the war, and his country betrayed him.

His consulting contract to the AEC was expiring in December 1953, but as a political takedown he was officially accused instead of simply not renewing. Oppenheimer had the option to compromise and resign, but he declined writing Strauss: “Under the circumstances, this course of action would mean that I accept and concur in the view that I am not fit to serve this government, that I have now served for some twelve years. This I cannot do. If I were thus unworthy I could hardly have served our country as I have tried, or been the Director of our Institute in Princeton, or have spoken, as on more than one occasion I have found myself speaking, in the name our science and our country”.*

He was found to be absolutely loyal, he was not even accused of violating any security regulations. But was accused of not being sufficiently enthusiastic about a crash program to build a hydrogen bomb, and that this lack of enthusiasm was a sign of a character flaw.

This “trial” marked an end of extremely wide public respect for scientists. And a new era where technical and scientific achievements are to be harvested by military industrial complex, and used by right wing strategists. It put scientists in their place..

*American Prometheus - p484
A lot of work for just half of HTTP.
You'll find R resources here: https://github.com/datasciencemasters/go/blob/master/r-resou...

The OSDSM maintains a focus on python resources.
Not exactly true, see
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/deve...
Well, agreed that they don't directly work on those problems, but as far as I'm aware, these companies make no profits from "products, open source work, and research" - it's practically all from the advertising which can be integrated with, or come as a result of, those ventures.

I'm not looking to discredit the work of talented individuals at those companies - just pointing out that the driving force behind where innovative efforts are focused by senior management is likely to be what can generate the most ad revenue.

That was my interpretation of the quote - so not a literal "they all spend most of their time thinking about ads", but "they're employed by a company whose success is driven by how many ads get clicked".
Because you're console.logging it
I may be wrong that it may be an ER worker but according to the NY Times "it occurred at some point DURING or after his second visit to the hospital on Sept. 28."[1] He tested positive on Sept. 30.[2] We will have to wait to see what the facts turn out to be.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/us/texas-health-worker-tes...

[2] http://www.modbee.com/2014/10/11/3587238_timeline-for-first-...
Slightly off-topic, but have you tried Ractive? I found it's 'ideology' similar to React (reusable components, virtual dom), but less verbose.
very true.
PG articulates the "obviuosness" in his essay http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Founders tend to live in future and build the missing things.
Hence these holes appear obvious to them.
Start here: http://bit.ly/uwintrodatascience. It's the first bullet.
The link of Toxo with cats will always be there because "Cats are the only place that the parasite can reproduce sexually."
Neurosexism: Brains, Gender and Tech
Part 1 => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8428579
True, but my point is that unlike what zaptheimpaler seemed to imply, if you don't see massively parallel downloads in the network tab already, you are not going to see massively parallel downloads just because you get multiplexed streams, and the sites that do see parallel downloads are already for the most part going to do well.

So the real world impact for users is likely to be small:

Lowering the cost of multiple streams will likely give you decent percentage wise improvements on page download times that are already so good that the absolute improvements are likely to be small, and likely minimal to no improvements on the pages that are actually slow.
The important takeaway:

"Chromium OS is for consumer devices which should not need support for mounting external ext4 storage."
I gather that a number of 3 is much more likely than 1.8. Still low compare to what's medically "airborne", especially if you factor in that pandemic flu is probably undercounted.
Because pet enthusiasts are generally highly irrational when it comes to the harm pets can cause? Or more generally, we're acculturated to think of certain things as normal due to widespread exposure or lack of alternatives.

If I punch you in the face, causing you to stay home from work for a few days, but no other lasting damage, I'm a violent criminal. If I go to work while exhibiting flu symptoms because "I just can't afford to stay home", then I'm just a normal human being.

If you're raised in a culture where pet ownership is normal, then the unhygienic aspects of pets are just cleanliness-minded-people-freaking-out. If you're raised in a culture where pets are considered "unclean", then you have a different perspective on people's right to inflict their pets on others.
So this terrible NIHy Rube Goldberg contraption does actually get to see the light of day.

I'm saddened. The days of good internet protocols are clearly behind us.
That's not what HTTP/2 does. If what you want is to tunnel past a firewall, establish an SSL connection and run any number of existing VPN protocols over it, and you can continue to run TCP/IP just fine.
"is skin a barrier for the virus"

We don't know. It's strongly suspected broken skin is not a barrier.
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> Why is Internet Explorer leading with HTTP/2 implementation?

Leading? Firefox and Chrome already support HTTP/2 already (and SPDY, the basis for HTTP/2, for a long time now), just not enabled by default.
Recently, after seeing a post here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401633) about how to create a sort of modules in C, I thought it would be pretty cool to wrap popular C libraries in this way with a header-only library.

This is what I made so far. So far, I have only wrapped libc and libm, but I'd love suggestions for other libraries to wrap too.

Other than that, what do you guys think?
Not properly. I wouldn't waste your time and get a Windows machine instead which are a lot more Linux-friendly.
I don't get why you haven't been downvoted to hell yet: removing people from their positions for the views they hold is _unamerican_.

As an entirely aside if he identified a few real spies and missed hundreds doesn't that suggest he was ineffective, to the point of actual harm?
The issue is that HTTP/2 is basically working around deficiences in TCP, and doing it badly, because it appears to be easier to get buyin for that than for fixing TCP or deploying alternatives.
A person with a viral load that high in their upper airway would not be in a condition to go walking through an airport.
Am I not a consumer then in their eyes? I use ext4 on all my external media and I don't develop for Chrome OS.
"Geez, what idiot wrote this code? Oh yeah, me."

I hate that feeling.
Trust me. The only thing which will come from this is even more broken firewalls, more complex software, a gazillion of new category of bugs and more vulnerabilities than currently contained in all of a phps combined codebase.

And then we'll be back at square one, ready to make this mistake all over again.
..because the PC one has been out since 1986

http://www.syaross.org/thedraw/

http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansi/information/ansidraw.txt
I'd expect broken skin isn't, but what about intact skin? With HIV we can answer a bunch of questions about transmission. With Ebola I can answer very few. I think this increases the anxiety.
Here's my case: you made your alarmist "case", such as it is, by posting a junk article from a junk, far-right blog whose other charming entries include:

-9/11 truther articles
-racist crap about Ebola spreading over the Mexican border because of insufficient efforts to secure said border
-several other non-scientific articles about Ebola
-an article about "Obama's Ukrainian stooges"

If you want to make your case, find one cite--just one will do--from a legitimate publication of any kind.
Using words like "fact" to describe your opinion is what's going to get you down-voted.

Using uncorrelated and unrelated events to form race-baiting statements is another.
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There is either Lift (for Scala) or AngularJs - both might be something of what you are looking for.
X-37B plane can stay in space for years, power source?
"The spacecraft are able to stay in orbit for months by using a solar array to generate power."

http://news.yahoo.com/secretive-x-37b-military-space-plane-could-land-132030466.html

Why are the ground crew wearing protective gear if it just solar power? Seems like a radioactive power source with that type of protection.

Thoughts?
By all accounts Mr Duncan got the best care possible once he was diagnosed properly. He had the misfortune of not matching blood types with the earlier U.S. patients whose blood had been used to treat others.

The late diagnosis was absolutely devastating to his prognosis. I think it's quite likely he would have survived if it had been caught during his first ER visit. I think it's a stretch to chalk that up race (or a lack of insurance) though...
I don't understand your point.

80 and 443 are "well known ports"[1] which is fine.

What does this have to do with ports? TCP is connection based so a client can create as many connections as it likes to a port on a host.

If someone does indeed build a new "internet" built on top of HTTP which is tunnelled through well known ports with different services with the intention of circumventing the firewall then they will not be allowed through my firewall at all.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1700.txt
Sigvehtml[1] kind of does this (disclaimer: I made it).

[1]: https://github.com/sigvef/sigvehtml
That is a nice theory...except that that word did not appear in my original comment; only in the parenthetical edit after it was downvoted. I take exception to you describing my comments as "race-baiting"; that is offensive and uncalled for. It was also certainly not my intention. I think the way we treat the uninsured is criminal in this country, and it's also very dangerous from a public health standpoint, and this example illustrates that problem quite well.
Is my Internet generation finally coming unstuck?
> I am afraid FirefoxOS will make the same assumptions.

I'll punch myself in the face the day Mozilla stops supporting patent unencumbered free and technically better filesystems for patent encumbered proprietary Microsoft specific crap.