skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the breach in protocol using anything under BSL 4? The problem is there is no way to ensure BSL 4 outside of a couple specialist labs. So the protocols are basically dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.

"Only 15 BSL-4 facilities were identified in the U.S. in 2007, including nine at federal labs."
We could trick a Theban from the Sacred Band in to touching the portkey.
Because this is actually a fairly well defined area of research. Sneezing absolutely does produce particles that small. Ebola cannot be transmitted by those particles. The larger droplets that can transmit Ebola are too large to make it through a ventilation system.
Garnish their wages until they're just above the poverty line. And you could also repo/liquidate their house/cars/other assets.

pstuart's pension fund idea is also a good idea. If really you want to grab the cops by their balls, just threaten to take their retirement savings.

The downside is that you'd probably lose a lot of cops by instituting policies like this, so then you'd have to raise salaries or something to make the profession more lucrative. Otherwise, you'll just keep getting bottom-of-the-barrel candidates, just like now, but they'd end up quitting or getting fired under the stricter rules.
If We Build IoT, They Will Come. Right?
Just because some members of the American Communist party were working for the Soviets, does not mean that every member was. Guilt by association is generally not a crime under common law.

I don't know what 'unamerican' means, I know how it was used, but I don't think anyone really knows what it means. Therefore I'm bringing up common law. Whether something is unamerican or not is irrelevant. We're supposed to live in a nation of laws, not arbitrary standards.
these seizures infuriate me, but i do think it is interesting that the slant on a lot of the coverage falls along the lines: 'and look at this stupid shit they bought with it!'

which leaves me to wonder.. what would be appropriate, or publicly acceptable, use of the seized funds?

perhaps donating directly to services that hope to solve the problems that the seizure was made in claim against?
Well, with Starcraft i belive any smart person can get in to Diamond with decent execution speed and a good knowledge of standard builds. But for Master league and above it really is all about extremly fast decision making and very good execution speed.

Anyway, Counterstrike is very different from RTS/MOBAS so i can really say.
No, not really. Not ever.
“We will sell you this microwave under the following conditions”
Can be hacked. Still vulnerable to viruses.
I think that could be a reasonable trade-off for some things (especially if it's opt-in!), but in the current environment I more or less expect the NSA to have bugs and/or moles at 40 of those 40 separate organizations. At which point, it devolves to regular "hand your key to the govt" key escrow.
It's a lot bigger than these little communities. The Internet in general is supersaturated by cheap snark and other kinds of dumb, shallow, mean culture.
How much do you pay to host your own proxy?

How many proxy do you run? Often, the movie you want to watch is hosted in another county than the US, do you then setup a proxy in each country when Netflix is?
On the one hand, Eliezer is not your bitch. Eliezer will write when Eliezer feels so inclined.

On the other hand...

PLEASE CAN YOU WRITE SOME MORE ELIEZER OH PLEASE KTHX BAI

Now, here's the good news, from http://hpmor.com/chapter/102

> The current schedule calls for HPMOR to complete in early 2015. I am still writing the final arc so that I can post it without delays. As of Oct 1st I am 65,000 words in and working on Ch. 116. I will post Ch. 103, a brief one-shot, to announce when I have a definite schedule for posting the final arc.

w00t!
Nah. Lies are not terminal.
Months are not a particularly long duration for spacecraft, and solar arrays are not at all unusual as power sources for spacecraft in the inner solar system.

Some data on satellite lifetimes:

* http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/status.html

* http://noaasis.noaa.gov/NOAASIS/ml/life_expectancy.html

* http://noaasis.noaa.gov/NOAASIS/pubs/life%20expectancy.pdf (2009)

As for the protective equipment being used in that Yahoo photo, that's probably due to the use of hypergolic fuel:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergolic_propellant

Notice nearly-identical protective equipment being used in the Wikipedia entry.

As for protective equipment for radioisotope thermoelectric generators, here's an example from Cassini:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...

This being the Internet, there's far more information on related topics available:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._RecSat_Big_Picture.jp...

Hmmm. Wonder what other and far more familiar satellite that KH-11 Kennan looks like.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HST-SM4.jpeg
Not too sure about the quote based on it's other implications - and I don't think it's exactly the appropriate analogy here...

As an aside the NSA keeps secrets between tens of thousands of employees (although I hear it's Orwellian and depressing to work there). You can keep secrets between small and even large groups of people. You just have to have the right processes and leverages.

'Punishing' companies that collaborate with the government has a few parallel goals:

1.) Wanting to use something that has not yet been purposefully subverted.

2.) Give the companies a real argument for resisting programs.

3.) Speak out against the practices (since it isn't on a ballot anywhere).

Yes, ultimately it isn't the companies' faults (however the complicit few with blinders on for profit motive should be shunned for not putting up a fight).
Not to mention HCWs are the ones treating patients at their most infectious stage. As the viral load increases, so do the odds of transmission. Unfortunately it sounds like this was probably the result of improper PPE doffing :(

It depends when she became infected though - was it Duncan's first visit or after they admitted him as an Ebola patient? I'm not sure if this has been established yet or if so, can't find a good source.

One thing is for sure, that hospital is going to get the SHIT sued out of it.
"You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time"

I think a lack of focus in development, with the purpose of trying to please everyone, is a huge novice mistake when it comes to development.
Manipulate audio with a simple Python library
"Just choose a key strength that costs about $10,000,000 to brute force it, and keep increasing key strength as more efficient methods are found."

Wasn't that the approach in the early days of computer crypto? Where keys bigger than X were verboten?
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That doesn't make any sense. "Some people said before that Gamergate was about harassing women, I guess this woman must've been harassed by Gamergate as well, although there is no proof, and Gamergate supporters decried the threat and reported it, which is all they could do."
Oh, Gods, 3-4 full seconds, perish the thought. That's really not that long a time at all.
> I do know that these kinds of classrooms did exist
> in post-war Germany still (mostly because obviously
> no one was really investing a lot into schools)

Actually it's not only not obvious, but the opposite: there was a heavy investment in schools allied-occupied Germany as part of the denazification program. It is weird to look at some textbooks from that period that look like 1950s US books but are in German with typically German scenes (e.g. der Bäker) -- and copyright notices in English with the copyright belonging to the Allied Control Commission.

This was a patchy process; my mother in law who started school shortly after the war, was in a very poor region and her handwriting was still the old Sütterlin style so I think some of her elementary school books were still from the 30s and 40s. But contemporaries of hers who grew up in Berlin have the same handwriting as my wife or our kid.

(Sorry to have strayed from the also-interesting medieval topic.)
What? You do realize that a RO can actually grow in size which is exactly what this is doing right?

When the outbreak began in Guinea it was RO = 1.5 Early July, the RO in Sierra Leone was 2.5. Today in Liberia, the virus has been spreading so fast that the RO hasn't been computed (and we won't officially know since Liberia has been acting shady and is not reporting all of their statistics).

I think you probably saw some infographic floating around and are citing that, but that RO is a variable number.
Completely right! As was theorized since the first modern recorded index case was recorded in Africa (a Dutch coffee farm owner?), several healthcare providers were infected who had not even touched the patient or any of the patient's secretions.

However, note in the paper I cited:

"However, the isolation of EBOV from only 1 saliva specimen, in contrast to the 8 that were RT-PCR positive, could suggest that the virus is rapidly inactivated by salivary enzymes or other factors in the oral cavity that are unfavorable to virus persistence and replication."

That plus the fact that standard precaution PPE for diseases with high rates of transmission (at least in CA) calls for goggles and a mask makes this story all the more interesting.
Hello jsaxton86, we love challenges! So we'll be starting here in a few moments and post the results when we're done. Also, I'm sorry to hear you can't try if for yourself, but we wanted to point out the compressor is readily available from our site, it's only the decompressor we've been asked to hold back at the request of an expert. We wanted to share our primary concern with you. Simply put: Piracy.

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Thanks for answering. I might give SCII a try. I've played RTS games casually on a few occasions, just never long enough to get good at them. I just want to play a game where I can feel like I'm making progress.

I have a follow-up. What would you say your APM rate is as a master league player?
To that end, I wonder if the virtual DOM aspect of React could/should be broken out into its own library. You could have different templating languages up front to suit different use cases/programming styles, but each would be converted to DOM in the fastest way possible by React's renderer.

There are so many awesome things that React's model enables (like live editing with react-hot-loader). It would be awesome if the next generation of templating languages could inherit them for effectively free.
GTK+ works on Mac, but is pretty poor. I can't comment on Qt though, but in principle, yes I believe it is suitable.

An xterm-based[0] version of this would be very cool! Though the surface tool wouldn't work well in that situation.

[0]: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#Mouse...
>there isn't enough there to the spittle-flecked, cheeto-dusting link...

Why, exactly, did you use this particular choice of words?
The guide has a whole section on this: http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html#testing

And we even have a full guide on testing, though I haven't checked it lately: http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide-testing.html (it's on the todo list)
Actually, what Mr Duncan did was help his neighbors drive a woman who was 7 months pregnant to the hospital. The woman was presenting symptoms that are not unique to Ebola (fever & convulsions). The woman was not hemorrhagic. The group was turned away at the hospital and so they drove her back home. Mr Duncan then assisted in helping the woman back into the house. This is almost certainly the point at which he was exposed. The woman was not tested for Ebola until after her death, so Mr Duncan could not have known but he could have suspected.

Thus the possibility that Mr. Duncan thought he was only helping a pregnant woman get to the hospital to help with a troubled birth. At that point, the most information he could provide is that he cared for a sick pregnant woman.

Relying on the fact that Liberia would prosecute him is a bad idea, due to the precarious nature of justice in that country. I would imagine that Liberia would say just about anything to prevent public opinion in the US from going sour. Liberia is facing an existential crisis and are in desperate need of all the help the US can give.

Mr Duncan's trip to the US was planned weeks in advance, so he was not fleeing the country in response to his exposure.
Hey, don't look so down... Poettering might be shipping an HTTP/2.0 library soon!

And yeah, I'm with you--I think that a lot of this tail-wags-dog stuff is going to come back and haunt us, but we as an industry fucking suck at being conservative when it makes sense.
I love that feeling! It always gives me insight into my own thought process to see it as someone else would, and I always learn something from it.
So we should be doing our part to tamp down the insanity, in part by pointing out that it's the insanity that is most likely to do us harm.
> removing people from their positions for the views they hold is _unamerican_.

If you're going to argue about a hiring preference being "unamerican" or not instead of its inherent morality, I don't know what game you're playing. Did you get your posting techniques from the Simple Sabotage Field Manual?
No, it really doesn't have to happen. Some people are just pushing it through because ~reasons~.
Depends on how many people are developing on the code base. If every morning is a full build with a few spread throughout the day for integration it is pretty awful. Additionally, I think submit queues are the way to go for committing code to master and if that takes an hour before you know your change is good I'm pretty unhappy. As far as incremental compiles go, just developing in IDEA does a pretty good job.
I might take you up on this.
If I recall correctly, a literal translation is used ("reticulando os splines"). But it's been years since the last alien invasion.
Is it really? Try: "Nobody wants to buy the app" vs "Ppl on X OS wants to buy your app".
There have been cases that have gone all the way to the supreme court, including a decision in February of this year:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/02/ci...
I'll give it a try. If I stick with it for long enough, I'll let you know how I'm doing.
You should be able to scroll the div horizontally
You make it sound like we're talking about a few false positives and a few false negatives.

>94% false positive rate (9/159)
>95% false negative rate ((200-9)/200)

If it's unreasonable to call this a shit screening process, what would you consider reasonable?!

In any case, it seems virtually certain that McCarthy's accusations were far more effective as political tools rather than as filters against soviet subversion, in accordance with the traditional narrative.
NSA doing CIA's job, FBI doing NSA's job (spying and hacking into foreign nations), DHS doing FBI's job, NYPD doing DHS and FBI's job (counter-terrorism and intelligence) - seems like a lot of mission creep to me. Maybe we should get rid of half of these.
I'm told that a number of developers have had luck with using GNUstep to port Mac apps to other platforms.
Civil Forfeiture and the Supreme Court
> 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?

Yes, that's abolsutely true. Ebola spreads through contact with bodily fluids. Someone who not syptomatic (or in the early stages of their symptoms) does not produce much in the way of 'extra' bodily fluids, so the risk is quite small in terms of casual contacts. It's only when they become quite sick that they start produce massive amounts of infectious fluids, and that's when healthcare workers are most likely to come into contact with them. In fact, the sicker they become, the more fluids they produce, and the more care they need...

> 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.

The third option (and the most likely one) is that people make mistakes. The protective measures work if used properly, but they have to be used properly _every time_. With half a dozen cases being treated in the US, I'm somewhat surprised we've only had one lapse leading to an infection so far. However, as long as the average number of healthcare workers infected per patient stays well below 1, we've got nothing to worry about.
This article on lead http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29568505 just showed up on the BBC. While I absolutely dislike the post-'60s attitude of kneejerk hostility to technology and industry, the article's a sensible corrective to the opposing attitude that things were great in the good old days when everyone trusted in technology and didn't worry about risks.
I sympathize with the general sentiment, but it misses the point.

Linux + ext kernel modules + e2fsprogs is tested daily by developers of many Linux distributions. There's really no problem with verifying that some module works. Furthermore, Google tests this system implicitly by haveing ChromeOS use ext4 as its root file system. So everyone is right to be confident it works correctly.

However, testing whether or not something works is totally different from testing whether it is secure. Many people testing whether OpenSSL works correctly (which happens every single day) would not have shown Heartbleed at all.
Nothing is wrong with it.

But as we have to repeatedly point out, there is nothing that competes with the Keurig on convenience and speed. That's their advantage.

Their customers don't want a messy, time consuming French press.
We're talking about security risks, not guilt.
Yes. In a sense.

According to several sources, it may take up to an hour for the virus to be invalidated by UV light. That makes it not really practical for the patient or the HCP involved.

Not only that, but I suspect at the energies required, the amount of UV radiation would be quite harmful to the patient as well.

"Inactivation of virus stocks.Virus stocks were inactivated by exposure to UV light for 1 h. Proper inactivation was controlled by the incubation of Vero E6 cells with the inactivated virus particles and subsequent screening for the presence of viral proteins (immunofluorescence) and viral RNA (reverse transcription [RT]-PCR targeting virus-specific transcripts). The UV-inactivated stocks were used at the same dilutions as the noninactivated stocks."

http://jvi.asm.org/content/75/22/11025.full
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00705-010-0847-1
This has the original title, but I propose these alternative titles, trying to follow the original title / don't editorialize guideline:

* You walk into a store to buy a microwave ...

* Three guys walk into a microwave store ...
Honestly I think we need that anyways. The average police officer salary is massively lower than the average systems administrator salary (or at least that's what some cursory google research tells me).

I'm no fan of police, but there is no way that's an acceptable situation.
Those are labs, and there's some surge capability, that count of 15 either includes some that can move to BSL4, or there are a few that can do that.

There are 4 hospitals in the nation that have a total of less than 20 beds that are set up for diseases like this. Emory (CDC), the NIH in Bethesda, the biggest with 10 beds is in Omaha, Nebraska, and there's one in Missoula, Montana, not far from one of those BSL4 labs.
Your second paragraph is exactly what I'm getting at - companies do not need to know your data, and analysis should be run locally with software under your control. You would then be free to choose from various non-exclusive analysis options via informed consent. However, I think it's deluding oneself to sign up for today's proprietary share-everything services, and expect them to magically transform into privacy respecting ones as time goes on. For these type of applications, mentioning homomorphic encryption comes from that same wishful thinking that a third party will work to preserve your privacy more than you will.
I would be greatly surprised if more than 1% of UK respondants had any idea of the use of "fag end" as anything other than cigarettes and the metaphor.
Why Mac and not Linux/Windows.
You should look into homebrew[1] if you haven't already. It installs everything in /usr/local and does not mess with the base install. To migrate between machines you can do something as simple as brew list > brew.txt

[1] http://brew.sh
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When Whites Just Don't Get It Part 3
How is the better than Ascii Pumper (http://www.findbestopensource.com/product/asciipumper) ?
As a Canadian I would often take what people from the US say about police with a grain of salt but recently it's seems to have become much worse, even my own government has warned Canadians.

I have to wonder though is this not just policy but also a cultural thing on the far-left side there's the 20-something Occupy 1%, pro-weed crowd is this the same thing only on the far-right?

As far back as 1999 my first time to the US by myself I was held at the border for no reason other than I was traveling alone, I was going to visit a friend for US Thanksgiving. My car was searched, my suitcase torn apart, held for an hour. Now I wonder if that means I will be flagged on the system as someone who was searched even though it was for no good reason.
>Because when OSX n+1 is released, it's immediately impossible to get any work done on OSX n?

No, but as a developer, I can do much more on OS X n+1. And you're not even on n, you're on something like n-4.

Curious though, is it hardware holding you back, or do you simply not like the direction Apple is going with OS X atm?
"Every object has a toString() method that is automatically called when the object is to be represented as a text value or when an object is referred to in a manner in which a string is expected."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Apple knows what you are thinking even before you do
This is the kind of tool I've been wishing for for years. I can think of lots of uses for it, both practical and fun.

I'm particularly happy to see that you're building it as a native application rather than a Web app, so I can trust that I'll be able to use it for years to come, even if the product pivots, gets acquired, or changes for other reasons.

Thank you for making something that users can actually own, rather than just access.