skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't Show HN if you have nothing to show. At least put a description of something that would peak our interest, get a discussion going, or something.

A launchrock page with a 'networks without infrastructure' tagline is fairly pointless. Are you just trying to get e-mail addresses? or do you actually want to start a discussion on the topic?
>Anonymous profiles

You just defeated the purpose of anonymity
Any movement under 1% is noise. And if there is a broad selloff, you'd expect Lockheed Martin shares to drop.
I did something similar (without macros, with a bit more type safety since the keywords have an associated type, and with a shortcut for boolean arguments):

https://github.com/CaptainCrowbar/kwargs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8357406

(I searched for "long wait" in comments from the last month since I remembered that that symptom was mentioned.)
You can use that line of reasoning to impose any restriction you want on other people. I have no problem with insurance companies charging the non-seatbelt-wearers more, but if you're going to force people into a universal health care system you have to live with their lifestyles.
If I read the changes and commit message correctly, this removes SSLv3 support from the experimental new API that LibreSSL is creating. It does not remove support for the protocol under the existing OpenSSL-compatible API.
1) In my comment, I was referring to the index patient who wanted to be discharged but the hospital refused to.

2) The person referred to in the article was one of the nurses who attended to the index patient. After it was confirmed that the index patient had Ebola, all those who came into contact with him (including the medical personnel who treated him) were isolated. One of them (the nurse in the article)'broke off' and went to another city. When the Government found out, they brought her back to Lagos in a 'special vehicle'. Some of the other medical personnel (who were in isolation) later tested positive for the virus and some of them died.
It seems like we just got the Nexus 5, the Nexus One is still fun to pull out and mess with. The One was the perfect size. I'm not even sure the 6 would fit in my pants pocket? Seems like it would jab into my groin when driving. Storage isn't even listed or Chrome's Ctrl+F can't find it? Does it have external storage or expandable storage? The 5 messed this up.
I reckon they should have just gone with HTC for both tablet and phone.. it would have resulted in a much better outcome on the latter.
That sounds like building an ISP to take customers from Comcast. If you could get all the customers at once it would work, but otherwise the lack of scale would be hard to overcome.

Maybe we should convince Icahn to buy some Netflix stock...
As an iOS-related subreddit, we have few readers using Android devices. There are of course people who don't read the sidebar even when it's very visible (such as in the standard website view), but we also had a real pattern of people saying "Sorry, I didn't see that part of the FAQ/rules, I'm using Alien Blue." (This is better now that Reddit added the sticky feature and we put up an Alien Blue info sticky.)
Keep in mind that the author is Farhad "Stop Calling Me a Troll" Manjoo. He's sort of a junior version of John C Dvorak, albeit less experienced and less amusing.
There are still some serious basic physics issues to be worked out.

They dismiss the concerns of the scientific community. Why shouldn't they? They're getting rich off of the ignorance of generals and venture capitalists.
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Why can't we be using client certificates generated and stored and synced this same way instead of passwords?! Imagine a world without cookies...
Michael Eisen is a genetics professor at Berkeley, and started PLos (a group of open access journals). He's very eloquent on the subject, and it's great to hear that Harvard is supporting open access so publicly - as he says,

'In most scientists’ minds, a publication in an elite journal like Nature or Science is as good as gold – a ticket to a job, grants and tenure.'[0]

So knowing that publishing in PLoS (as opposed to Nature) might not exclude you from a position at Harvard is really great for the future of open access publishing.

[0] http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1346
I'm not sure. In my case I just alerted the sender and he went in person to his bank. The money was in my account less than an hour later, no idea how they made it happen.
This is unfortunate. Corporate taxation is double taxation in the first place, and silly. Corporate profits are already taxed (in the form of dividends/capital gains to shareholders, and income tax to employees), there is no reason to tax them twice. Further, Corporate taxes make up a pittance of the total revenue by the federal US government. America wastes too much time worrying over the relatively tiny amount of corporate tax dodging when it spends trillions elsewhere.

America would be much better off without corporate taxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_tax#Arguments_against
I don't want some honking monstrosity on my wrist pretending to be a watch. I want my Nexus One back with expandable storage and more than 200 Megs space for apps and a camera as good as in my 5. You know...a phone, smart, one each.
Someone just made me aware of www.cotap.com - It's probably using a different middleware, but I think a perfect example of where passwordless login makes great sense!
I'm a bit surprised by the negative feedback this is receiving -- it seems like this is a nice perk that gives women more flexibility in balancing work and family.
You seem to be talking about airport screening for everyone boarding planes.

I'm talking about a nurse who already knew she had spent days treating a patient who died from Ebola and who made several telephone calls to the CDC advising them that she felt feverish, who at a hospital that had already screwed up badly when that patient first presented, and whose administrators changed their story about this multiple times.

How you manage to ignore these additional risk factors and conclude that I was talking about screen all fliers is just beyond me. I believe I made the context abundantly clear: When dealing with the limited subset of people who had contact with known Ebola carrier at the Texas hospital (a total of 76 medical personnel AFAIK), the slight economic cost of limiting travel and monitoring all of them for a few weeks seems low compared to the new situation.
Double taxation of corporate taxes exists in the US but it's not the case in every country. For example in Australia you get a personal tax credit for any corporate taxes that you pay.

This is the reason why a lot of people choose an LLC in the US.
It's straightforward to handle this in a WebView. If PhoneGap doesn't handle it, file a bug with them. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebChr..., boolean, boolean, android.os.Message)

In this particular case, PhoneGap should integrate with AccountManager and not force users to enter their login credentials.
Strange fact: Google's headquarters in Mountain View is the old campus of Silicon Graphics. When i was there in 2007, you could still see traces of the old SGI logo in certain places.
Why tax people's labor instead?
> You can't arbitrarily go back in time and remove content that existed at the time, otherwise it's not a historical record.

With all due respect, the previous line is just your opinion. Court transcripts and other historical records get redacted all the time.

The Archive's stance might be reasonable, but so is Quora's. I object to the idea that Quora is "selfish" for letting people control their own content. Read that guy's original post:

> What Quora is asking for from the Internet Archive — and really, since the Archive has no public competition, from the Internet — is unreasonable, short-sighted, and selfish. Quora is simply being a shark about "their" content, at the public's expense.

The post is nothing more than an attempt to shame Quora into opening up their data. There are many people that don't want everything they post on the internet going into permanent and searchable databases.
It sounded pretty matter-of-fact to me, based on my interactions with people of this mindset. They're not exactly firing on all cylinders.
http://hipaacow.org/ is another good resource for anyone in this field. In the top nav select Resources, Documents and then the subgroup you want information for. Right now the site has Privacy & Security, EDI and Risk Toolkit.

Disclaimer: I am involved with HIPAA-COW on the Security, Risk and soon the Technical Security working groups; we release a lot of information to help people.
The U.S. is great in certain areas of Healthcare, but we
have to look at our system with open eyes? What's surprised
me for a long time is our hospitals are hotspots
for the MRSA bacteria. Physicians, and nurses are still
allowed to wear jewelry, and street clothes in most hospitals? I have seen doctors examining patients in three piece suits, with tie clips, wedding rings, watches, and that filthy iphone? I don't care how prestigious the Doctor is--change clothes. Personally, I think all hospital workers should be required to wear light weight disposable coveralls that are incinerated daily, or sooner? Plus, they should not wear their scrubs outside of the hospital. I have worn those disposable coveralls(like Painters, and Asbestos workers wear), and they are not as uncomfortable as they look. They are light weight and you forget you have it on.
As to mucosal membrane protection, I wear a surgical mask while raking leafs--allergies. I wouldn't be offended if everyone entering a hospital was required to wear a surgical mask--including doctors, administration, janitors, and all visitors--Everyone--until they leave property grounds.
I think the CDC wouldn't even let it get to that point and if they had to we would have a bunch of soldiers in hazmat suits going door to door to find the people we need.
Sure.. I think yours is called Matrix AI right? "orchestrate massive distributed infrastructure so that they become self-healing, self-organising, and self-adaptable"

It sounds like Docker is going to eventually put something out that touches on some of this stuff (although not necessarily self-healing etc.), just wondering how we can take advantage of that or avoid duplicating functionality.
Back in the 90's, I would do screen captures of the free USGS topos from Microsoft TerraServer to use as location maps for our architectural sets.
>would be more convincing if US corporate tax policy was more in line with international norm

Ok, just as soon as we tax the wealthy at the same rate as international norms.
I'll mention that I found that by digging though older schedules from the archives of pgcon: http://www.pgcon.org
As well you should.

The mainstream magnetic confinement community has been very cautious about overhyping lately. Unfortunately, the over zealousness of groups like this and NIF saps credibility from them anyway.
Congratulations to the developer.
A slightly less unpalatable solution might be a compulsory license where anyone could stream any movie [1] as long as they pay 70% of $5 to the studio.

[1] Any movie that has been released more than 90 days ago, etc.
I follow a bunch of niche interest groups, such as r/nycbike which keep me up to date on major news that may affect my daily commute. Just from that subreddit, I've learned a few better routes to bike, been warned when the police are changing tactics, gotten some tips on winter biking in the city, and kept up to date on the latest injury and accident statistics.
Galaxy S5 Mini, 131.1 x 64.8 x 9.1 ?
> I find it perplexing anyone thinks legalized recreational substance use would actually cause more harm than drug enforcement does

A building maintenance guy once told me the following story. He went in for a maintenance call. A couple were sitting on the couch, high out of their mind. He heard a baby screaming. Went over, and saw the baby screaming. Figured it had a wet diaper. Found the diaper stuck to the baby's skin, and a cockroach crawled out. The skin had grown onto the diaper. He immediately called the police and the parents were arrested.

People on HN pretend like every drug user is a high functioning recreational user. In reality, drugs are addictive and destroy tons of lives, including those of many people who are around the drug users.

Now, I agree that the costs of enforcement outweigh the social cost of drug use. But it's not totally irrational to feel otherwise.
Shave, a video editor for OS X.

http://shave.rocks/
Seems similar to unseen. They are doing very well last I heard but they had a very tight niche target of universities.
Fun nugget of info: Christian Bale also replaced Leonardo DiCaprio as the lead role in American Psycho.
This is exactly why I like the Objective-C method call syntax. Instead of "mystery argument soup"

rectangle->set(10,10,20,20,true,false)

you get something that can be understood without taking a trip to the API docs:

[rectangle setX:10 y:10 width:20 height:20 updateBSP:YES clipToParent:NO]

It's a pity they are moving away from this syntax in Swift. It's the right move -- I hear nothing but hate for it from those who don't actually use it (i.e. the people who should be Swift's target audience) -- but it's still a pity.
It's the new message board for many people. You can go join subreddits for any hobby you can think of. You can use subreddits to research new interests and meet others that share your interests. Once you get off the front page, there is a lot of great content.
Curation (reviewing) is already done on a volunteer basis in most fields. What you actually pay for is distribution, which arguably harkens back to pre-web times when paper had to be printed. Those people are still around, and have to be paid for their pointless input (your formatting is off, oh, and don't use type 2 fonts).

Conferences and journals that have turned into tenure-case circle jerks are also not very valuable outside of those circles.
Hopefully HBO will be starting a trend [0] by allowing access to content without cable access.

0 - http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/15/6982049/hbo-go-will-offer...
I was a day-trader for 15 years so I know how to find that info. I'll say it again, after the market closes, the professionals go home. Anything you see after that is by amateurs.
If I only wanted to use the core functions of the phone (browsing, calls, etc.), I would definitely buy a Windows Phone. It's just lacking a lot of fun, useful apps.
Isn't that how the Linux kernel evolved? Linus filling the role as benevolent dictator?
Stanford lecture on the current state of machine learning applications in law
Show HN: Microbiome of urban spaces
Can you say Vermel? VRML? That's Virtual Reality Markup Language. SGI was the champion of VRML, with Sony a somewhat distant second. It was really cool. Imagine 3D multi-media environments in a web browser. You could download 3D clip art for free. :D While SGI optimized VRML for the O2, it worked acceptably on a cough Windows machine. For a while, each week SGI produced 2 VRML animations with "Floops".

I was into VRML. It was great. We even had a couple SGI reps visit our company, demonstrating VRML and the O2.

Then one day they dropped support of VRML. That was the day I walked.
In bootcamp I once had a temperature around 97 something. The doctor took it with two different thermometers not believing it. I felt fine. Apparently that temperature's not considered abnormal: http://www.webmd.boots.com/a-to-z-guides/normal-body-tempera...
My company (Neoprospecta, a start-up focused on microbiome analysis) was contacted by a local news channel to analyse the micro-organisms found in common urban spaces, (such as bus stops, credit card machines, public gyms etc). The city is Florianópolis, a city that lies in a big island and is the capital of the state of Santa Catarina, in the south of Brasil.
At the bottom of the page is a link to the full results that can be visualized in a system we are developing in Angular and D3.
The depth of Anarcho-Capitalist or strong Libertarian pessimism astounds me.

> because paying more taxes to the US government is never a good thing.

> not everybody wants to fund the US's empire building overseas wars, torture camps, surveillance infrastructure, propaganda machine, and massive money-wasting bureaucracy.

Do you really think this is what the bulk of our taxes in the US go to? What about taking care of our sick? Funding projects that are too risky for our current quarter to quarter ROI business culture? Keeping people from starving? Taking care of the disabled? Education? I could go on and on. Even our 'Imperial military' does a lot of humanitarian good across the world and responds to disasters like no other organization on Earth.

I'm not saying it is all sunshine and lollipops. Obviously there are things that I'd rather our government not do, but, when it comes to living in a Democratic Republic, sometimes you have to accept the will of the majority even if you don't agree with it. And sometimes there is enough room for bad actors to do things that range from unethical to appalling. It is a process of constant reform. It always will be.

But calling for a dismantling, to toss away the collected, hard earned, wisdom of the last 250 years codified into laws and hundreds of years of Common Law before that because parts are lousy? Honestly, that just seems like a lazy approach. Not to mention an approach that lacks imagination when it comes to really mentally modelling what such a system would look like without resorting to near utopian wishful thinking.

I mean, really, laws, like sysadmins, are doing their job well when you hardly notice they are there. The stuff you are noticing is horrible, but it is just the surface oil slick on a much calmer and more important sea.
> Take a look,at the footprint of ITER

Or any other power plant for that matter.

"If it sounds too good to be true..."
I have used http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.html a few times on my phone to show my location on
high-res topographic maps. It works offline which is awesome for saving battery on a long trek
I'm pretty interested in Terraform, but have a hard time to draw the line between this and a config management + orchestration tool like Ansible.

Ansible has a nice declarative syntax in YAML to describe your infrastructure+services and you can manage reusable components with roles.

How do they compare?
It's not just the nominal rate.

The average effective corporate tax rate is also quite a bit higher for the US than other developed countries; according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Bank, 27.9% versus an OECD average of 15.9%. [1 citing 2] The right wing think-tank AEI reported a smaller disparity of about 9% a few years earlier. [3] For what it's worth, these rates are fairly variable over the years.

So "huge numbers" seems like quite a stretch.

Moreover, I used the broader term "policies" rather than "rates" for a reason. The US's worldwide taxation scheme, for instance, is in itself problematic.

[1] http://barbwire.com/2014/10/15/analysis-are-us-corporate-tax...

[2] http://www.doingbusiness.org/~/media/GIAWB/Doing%20Business/...

[3] http://www.aei.org/article/economics/fiscal-policy/taxes/rep...
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New Particle Is Both Matter and Antimatter: The Majorana Fermion
There's a naturally destructive boundary which can automatically limit arbitrarily redundant "information" in a subset of certain types of derived objects.

Until a visible event recurs frequently, such that it reaches the pre-defined boundary, an undisclosed entity is able to take advantage of destructive entropy in order to simplify the situation, when deriving an interpretted expression for these sorts of objects. (in other words, virtual recreations are deliberately created with poor quality in seemingly repetitive situations like this) When a collection of objects is particularly repetitive for some reason, beyond the previously described limits of repetitiveness, an undisclosed entity might permit even more repititions than usual, which obviously begets even more replicas of this peculiar set of objects (continuity). This suggests that repetitive loops (and interest?) become the appealing part of a pretend virtual model that an undisclosed entity might choose to observe.

All of this is similar to the circumstances described in the following novels:

- Blood Music by Greg Bear

- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

- Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson
Simulations are way easier to write than almost anything else (I'm a nuclear physicist who did this professionally for many years.) The reason why: physics. Or more specifically: conservation laws.

Conservation laws are the book-keeping of physics, and they act as global checks on correctness. If your code conserves energy, mass, particle number, charge, momentum, etc it is probably correct in the ways that matter, because it's incredibly hard to get bugs that get the physics wrong in materially interesting ways while still obeying conservation laws.

I once wrote a rarefied gas dynamics simulator (modelling a few thousand interacting particles--I was curious about some non-equilibrium thermodynamics questions) that conserved energy to +/-1 bit in double-precision (and which exercised the weird feature of some x86 processors that had something like 80-bit internal registers but did 64 bit double precision computations, and which allowed the garbage in the extra bits to contaminate the LSB, resulting in very slightly different behaviour in debug and release mode, which gave me fits for weeks.) It is just incredibly hard to get that level of conservation and still get the physics wrong.

And then there's semi-analytic solutions: to check that gas dynamics code I wrote a super-simple analog of the system in Perl based on approximate equations of motion, and got the same results. Because the underlying physics admits of different computational representations that are guaranteed to be the same if they are both correct and extremely unlikely to suffer from the same bugs you can have a very high degree of confidence in their correctness.

So no: the results of simulation are not wrong 97% of the time. I've worked on one experiment where the modelling was wrong, and which took three different computational approaches to sort out, but it's a rarity.

My feeling, based on experience, is these guys are onto something very interesting.
http://gocomics.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5f3053ef017ee581976...
In many states, newborns are legally required to receive antibiotic or silver eye drops, which protect them from conjunctivitis and blindness. Or more dramatically, mandatory vaccination laws: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts .
Piddling?

9% of the 2010 tax revenues is about 1.5% of the 2010 GDP. US capital gains taxes that year were about 0.3% of GDP, with a top tax rate of about 15%[1]. To make up the lost revenue from eliminating corporate taxes, you would need to raise the long term capital gains tax rate six-fold, to 90%.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/09/09/to-raise-the...
There is a streaming service called NFL Rewind that you can get for ~$40 per year. The drawback is that all games are blacked out until after SNF is over. So I live in a bubble and ignore football until I can watch my team play at 9pm Pacific.

There is also a service called NFL GamePass which lets you watch games live if you live outside the North American market. I think the geographic restriction can be gotten around using VPNs & other geo-location defeating measures, but I've never tried.

The games for both NFL Rewind & GamePass are streamed via their website, and there is an official Android app, as well as a Plex app, and an XBMC plugin. The quality is not great, but it is better than nothing.
It's not mentioned because it's tired, played out, and has no intellectual merit.
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