skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was quite a bit of reportage (both in this article and in the wider news media). For reference:

"If something went wrong with the drug, there was no intensive-care unit in Kailahun. The population of Sierra Leone would be furious if the West was seen to have killed Khan, an African scientist and a national hero, with an experimental drug. But if he wasn’t given the ZMapp, and he died, people might say that the West had withheld a miracle drug from him. “I was making sure my tone of voice stayed neutral,” Kobinger recalled. The debate and the calls went on for three days."
Slightly off topic, I've noticed recently Gmail is getting quite aggressive in inserting ads into my emails (over the last month or so). They seem to have decided direct monitisation trumps user experience. It's pushing the jump ship point for me.
Which part of this was immoral?

"A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord."
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This is not entirely correct. There is a lot of evidence that action potentials backpropagate into the dendrites [1]. On a local level, this allows synapses on the dendrites to "be aware" of the activity of the post-synaptic neuron. However, I do not think this accomplishes/implements the ANN backpropagation algorithm (although a few statements and a citation in [1] alludes to this being possible).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_backpropagation
In the context from which I speak, all injustices are righted in the end. So yes, it should be said even to children, to the dying, to anyone who is suffering even severe injustices for seemingly no reason.
Does Yosemite have a privacy problem? Not exactly
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> logically taking someone you shoot out of the war altogether, by killing or maiming them, is vastly superior to their coming back after convalescence.

Strongly disagree, as do at least a few military strategists throughout history.

I suppose it depends on who you're fighting (if you're fighting a ruthless Ghengis Khan all bets are probably off), but for Hague convention signees in general they will put a high priority on taking care of their wounded.

In fact anti-personnel landmines are generally designed to maim, not kill, for this reason.

It costs far more to take care of that soldier who got his leg blown off from the knee below, than it does to bury him. Both in time, material, logistics, and possibly morale.

So yes - if I'm in an all-out war, I'm going to want to significantly maim (as in make them incapable of fighting for an extended period of time and require extensive logistics to keep alive) a large portion of the enemy. This soaks up even more resources on their side to take care of them and only a certain percentage of those will return to the fight.
I don't know who is buying all these tablets Gartner is reporting. Tablet traffic to my website (Alexa top 10K) has stagnated at under 10% for over a year now. Apple is not wrong to look at usage share rather than simply at units shipped. 78% of visits to my website from tablets in the last 30 days were from iPad.
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Filenames do not contain nulls: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...
I was referring to the well-known controversy over stem cell research, specifically embryonic stem cell research, mentioned by the person I replied to.
Microsoft (hearts) Linux, for Azure's sake
Expense reimbursement is always tax-free for the employee and fully deductible for the company, whereas any increase in compensation from $100k-$150k can carry an effective tax rate over 50% due to progressive marginal rates and phase-outs.

Particularly for these types of ambiguous use items, I would expect savvy companies to be maximizing this benefit, not minimizing it.
Too bad. But thanks for your reply anyway :)
Following the link through to the Politico article:

> Never mind that, reading the fine print, it’s clear the CBO was talking about workers voluntarily reducing their hours in response to the law—not getting laid off or seeing their shifts scaled back. [0]

I don't mean to take a position on how the changes in health care law will affect employment; but I think it's clear that the article is talking just about the forecast of voluntary reductions, along with the corresponding press.

[0]: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/jobs-leisure-...
It can be deduced that the vast majority of the community are rationalists who are not sympathetic to expressions of faith in this context.
This is 100% incorrect; you've entirely misunderstood the discussion in this thread, the OP Chronicle article, and the Politico article that _that_ is referencing. You're confusing that discussion with an entirely different concern about the ACA (the mandate causing fulltime jobs to be cut to part-time jobs) that is completely irrelevant to this discussion.

From the OP article:

> In February he published an article in Politico celebrating a projection that the Affordable Care Act might result in millions of workers’ scaling back from full-time to part-time jobs.

From the article referenced by that passage (and linked directly from it):

> This week, America’s political class has been consumed by an intense, vitriolic debate over a single number: 2.5 million. That’s the amount by which, according to the Congressional Budget Office, President Obama’s signature health care law will effectively reduce the U.S. work force over the next decade. The initial Republican reaction was predictable: Pundits filled the airwaves, Cassandra-like, to paint Obamacare as the ultimate job killer. Never mind that, reading the fine print, it’s clear the CBO was talking about workers voluntarily reducing their hours in response to the law—not getting laid off or seeing their shifts scaled back.
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Another consideration is for 'person 3+'. It's one thing to work between the 2 of you, but if your bringing a third (or more) into this environment it may be difficult for them. When they disagree/debate/argue with your partner this might cross into your relationship with them. I wouldn't say this cant work, but it should be considered to avoid issues.
That must be a great comfort to them. But what an empty context to speak from that reduces all ills to events that will be 'righted in the end.'
Frankly I never even understood why would you want to write any performance-critical code and leave memory management to someone else. It's like it's bound to be slower.

Yet Java becomes more and more popular everywhere, sadly. Used for anything and far from best for anything.
How much of his left arm did he lose? (eg, is there a stump with enough motion that a rig could be devised for d-pad control?)

What type of games does he play?
...which has nothing whatsoever to do with this case.

EDIT: Your ninja edit doesn't make stem cells, let alone embryonic stem cells, any more relevant to the article, or the discussion this breakthrough warrants.
So why not share the names and reasoning the doctors had which perceptibly led to withholding (rather taking it away) from Dr. Khan?

Public perception makes it hard I can understand, but not giving the drug simply to manage public perception is incredibly selfish and stupid no matter how you choose to see or read all the reportage.

> Debates and the call went on for three days?

Lol, sure. Does that even make any sense? Groupthink as a proxy for effort? Seen that before!
The advantage of doing it from a user perspective is that people in practice don't tag their images, but others want to find e.g. CC licensed pictures of blue jays in flight.
A summary of a Minecraft developer's responses on Reddit:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/min...
A system's growth rate and its long term interest rate are identical. [That doesn't necessarily mean getting a long from a bank, or from relying on a currency.] The return on capital is the cost of capital when accounted for system-wide. A very simple lens that is rarely understood.
I worked at LivingSocial while Hungry Academy was happening. I believe there were about 15-20 students and they were promised jobs with the company if they successfully completed the program.

Most of what I heard about it was second-hand, so my information may not be entirely accurate. That said, I believe the outcome was pretty mixed. Some of the students did very well and ended up becoming respected members of the engineering org. Others were just OK. A few left for other companies shortly after completing the program -- pretty tacky stuff, since LivingSocial PAID them the entire time they were students. I also heard one or two of them didn't pan out at all and were eventually let go.

I think the primary reason LivingSocial chose not to continue the program was because they started running out of money. The first class finished around the time it became clear that daily deals were not going to be the cash cow that everyone expected. LivingSocial saw their valuation drop dramatically, and started being much more careful about how they were spending money.

I left the company about a year after Hungry Academy ended, so I have no idea where these folks are now.
>When I served in the military, it was common understanding that Hague convention required use of "ball ammunition" was desirable because you want to inflict casualties on your opposition, not necessarily to kill them.

It was also probably common understanding that the Sergeant Major ate misbehaving enlisted men for breakfast.

That is just a barracks room tale, similar to the one that .50 BMG can only legally be used on material and not personnel (which you can allegedly get around by aiming at the enemies web gear or helmet).

The Hague convention banned hollow points because they were thought to be cruel and unnecessary. The convention continues to largely be obeyed because in general military use ball ammunition is better (eg it can shoot through light cover without deforming) and cheaper.
Wolfram can handle it: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2nd+biggest+city+in+Cal...
True, but the comment he originally replied to specifically mentioned stem cell research. So it's not like he's off on some random tangent.
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First of all - lots of turn-based or slower games can be played with mouse only. That might not be his interest, however.

Something like a Razer Naga[1], a mouse with a ton of side buttons, could allow him to play other games with one hand. Probably not FPS though[2]. Other manufacturers will sell similar mice, I just thought of that one first and have no idea if it's the best.

You could get an IPAC[3] or other arcade control board (I've used X-Arcade kits[4] with success for other projects) and build some kind of custom control surface, maybe using a trackball or joystick and some big arcade buttons.

Final idea, if you're crazy: Bolt WASD onto a mouse, and wire in as extra mouse buttons or to a keyboard controller.

[1] http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga-epic

[2] Maybe sensors or pedals for movement? Seems like it would be hard to WASD with the side buttons on the mouse. That way you could get good enough mouse fidelity for aiming and still have enough buttons to do stuff.

[3] http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html

[4] http://www.xgaming.com/store/arcade-parts-and-accessories/pr...
Have you looked at the Stinky Board? http://stinkyboard.com/
Should be able to map standard WSAD keys to it, then use mouse for aiming.
Depends what he wants to play. Sim racing could work, as it's mostly foot control with some arm movement for the wheel. Can be done with one arm and one leg if need be.
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>Swift tuples store 2 values and each...

I believe it's zero or more values, with two or more being typical, but definitely not limited to two.
That misses the key qualifier: "near a river". The challenge there is what is "near", and what is a "river"?
IMO, this is an anti-pattern. It's violates the principle of least surprise. (How come I see X when I run the command, but I can't grep for X in its output? How come it works when I run it from my interactive shell, but it's broken when I run it from a script? And things like that.)
Nursery gc on my machine (Macbook Air 2013) is 10ms.
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There are a lot of really good previous examples of gamers needing alternate configurations that have been popular on the Internet over the years. From gamers that use their head for controls[1], to folks in the same position of having the use of only one hand[2]. Whether it be customized controllers, or just having to re-map a lot of keys or buttons, there doesn't seem to be a barrier to enjoy gaming.

You should let your friend know that they are not alone and they almost certainly can still have plenty of enjoyable gaming ahead of them.

[1] - http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/disabled-gamer-shows...

[2] - http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/120per/ama_...
A coworker in a different department is missing his left arm above the elbow, and one of his team built him a set of foot switches both to do his job as well as to participate in gaming nights. A gamer mouse with lots of buttons is also included. Then, macros to change the contexts of what the different buttons and foot switches do, and he's able to recover a significant amount of functionality.
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It is absurd and conspiratorial to think that someone would volunteer or work with MSF at great personal cost and risk and then do something so terrible because of racism.

Had you tried to research it, you might have found some of your answer articles like http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/dying-sierra-leone-dr-sheik-um... that talk about some of the details behind the decision.

You make a really vile accusation with very poor reasoning against people doing very good, noble work (and calling for them to be named publicly). I didn't downvote you, but I don't have any sympathy.
I've always been bearish on China's long term because of a few realities people interested tend to gloss over. Ten years ago, China was a nation of 900 million rural peasants who were essentially subsistence farmers, with no money at all. Then there was a cohort of about 100 million agricultural farm workers. These were people who _occasionally_ had money. The remaining 300 million consisted of a largely poor underclass, a tiny "middle class" consisting of people with the buying power of less than the American minimum wage worker. Finally an "elite" class of workers who made more than an American burger flipper. Of those who had money, they saved 40% of their income in fear of hard times.

Things have changed somewhat, but this heavily uneven and stratified society (of which we Americans increasingly resemble, sadly) continues unabated. I just don't see good economic outcomes from that.
Uh, no, that's just "the second biggest city" Wolfram can't even handle "What is the second biggest city in California near a river" - IE, can't do something one step beyond the trivial.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+second+bigg...

Can't even handle
"What is the second biggest city in northern California"
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+second+bigg...
I'm sorry to hear what happened to your friend.

I have no special knowledge on the subject, but I did a quick Google search. I'm sure you might have run across some of these before, but I wanted to share them since I'm pleasantly surprised by the depth of things that are out there.

* http://www.gamespot.com/articles/modder-creates-single-hande...

* http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/1/AGS/AGS-bespoke.htm

* http://kotaku.com/he-built-a-custom-controller-to-help-disab...

* http://www.game-accessibility.com/index.php?pagefile=motoric
Doesn't compare. The LoE for brewing beer and this machine are on the same order of magnitude.
Like the author of the article, I've been making the switch to programming by voice. At first, the delay was really jarring, but you get used to it.

You're also completely correct about how when you speak a chain of commands, one of the commands in the middle getting messed up can invalidate the rest. That happens a lot. You learn to speak in shorter chains, and also to make the commands phonetically distinct.

That said, both the delay and the inaccuracy problems can be greatly ameliorated by a fast CPU and a good sound card. I don't have any benchmarks, but I have noticed the difference since upgrading.
I think it depends what sort of things you use it for. I often use it to switch on or off ANSI colourization, which doesn't really violate the principle of least surprise.

When used sparingly and thoughtfully, I've never personally had an issue with it.
Lots of great points here, but as always, these can be taken too far. Header lines are really useful for human-readable output, and can be easily skipped with an optional flag. (-H is common for this).

The "portable output" thing is especially subjective. I buy that it probably makes sense for compilers to print full paths. But it's nice that tools like ls(1) and find(1) use paths in the same form you gave them on the command-line (i.e., absolute pathnames in output if given absolute paths, but relative pathnames if given relative paths). For one, it means that when you provide instructions to someone (e.g., a command to run on a cloned git repo), and you want to include sample output, the output matches exactly what they'd see. Similarly, it makes it easier to write test suites that check for expected stdout contents. And if you want absolute paths in the output, you can specify the input that way.
Looks like a great product, but what a terrible name
Activating Apple Pay over the phone
For me, the performance has been getting worse with every new release, and I'm not even on weak hardware, I have an ASUS gaming laptop that I bought in 2012.
If he likes PC gaming, there are a few mice that have several extra buttons that you can bind to keyboard input.

I recommend the Razer Naga, or Razer Naga Hex. The hex has 6 extra buttons while the original Naga has 12 I believe. Both mice are in the $60-$70 dollar range but are well worth the purchase.

I stopped in to comment ( my first comment actually ) because games are a big part of my life, and I couldn't imagine a world without games. I'm a game developer by day and player by night. My best wishes go out to him and I hope he continues to keep playing games!
The best part of home brewing is making the beer you want. Years ago I perfected a honey chamomile kolsch. That beer was for me, no one else.
Maybe the Razer Orbweaver[1] can help. Best of luck.

[1] http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-orbw...
I accepted a good job offer in San Francisco, starting when I graduate next June. It seems like everything I've read about the Bay Area has has been the same: "The expenses are insane. They are getting worse. Turn back now."

Articles like this make me wonder what I've gotten myself into.
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It is rather more absurd to withhold the medicine from a dying patient simply to manage "public perception" sir. You can go ahead and give a negative vote too, it wouldn't mean a thing.

Yes, people are doing very good, noble work -- Dr Khan was one of them too -- I seek to know the thoughts and names of those who chose to withhold the medicine from him, and give it to others the very next day.

The world should know. And thanks for the article, I did read it before and therefore, I ask for reasons that led to their unfortunate decision.
China is a special case. For most of human history, it was a major power. In a sense, their recent growth is just catching up to the long-term historical norm.

It is also different in that the US basically shipped them manufacturing capability (in some cases literally shipping the machines from Ohio). I don't think that has happened before at anything close to this scale. This is the first industrialization period without a major destructive war at the end (so far...)

What happens if China shifts from a nation of producers to a nation of consumers like the US did in the 1950s? What happens if nuclear weapons or the example of the US keep their rulers from getting into costly wars? What happens if they control energy production in 25 years because they force all their producers to convert to solar early and dominate the industry.

Overall, I am skeptical that a historical study really generates much insight -- we are in uncharted territory.

Finally, I can't read anything by Larry Summers without thinking about this article from Naked Capitalism. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/07/why-larry-summers-sho...
True, I didn't find any notes on what key to use and the key I typed in is the one the signature itself said was missing (so it is in fact a bad choice). Your criticism is valid. Sorry if I misled anyone, I meant to fix that but I didn't find much guidance on the gnu site as to what signatures to load to bootstrap trust.
Not sure if its what you had in mind for Windows and tabs but I've found ConsoleZ [1] quite nice and allows powershell, cmd and others to have tabs.

[1] https://github.com/cbucher/console
EVERYONE who suffers from RSI should read this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269951

I read it about a year ago, and it was probably the single most important article I've read in my entire life.

Some background: I've been using computers since I was a little kid. Used to play videos games a whole ton. Around the age of 15, I started having severe RSI-related pain in my hands. Even after I stopped gaming, I could never get away from the keyboard and mouse, because I was a technology professional.

Fast forward 15 years. I'd been dealing with constant pain every day for as long as I could remember. My hands hurt even when I wasn't typing. It was bad enough that I was considering changing my line of work.

I'd tried every type of medical remedy under the sun. I'd seen (many) doctors, physical therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, etc., but I couldn't find any sort of treatment that provided anything but temporary pain relief.

Through some stroke of incredible luck, I stumbled across this article randomly while looking for something else. I read it and found Aaron's experience closely mirrored mine in a lot of ways. I immediately bought the book he recommended, started reading it on my Kindle, and began following the advice contained within.

Two weeks later, I was almost entirely pain-free. Now a year out, I can type all day without even the slightest twinge of pain. Seem too good to be true? I probably would've said the same thing if it hadn't happened to me.

I will say one thing -- I've recommended this book to a number of people at this point, but not all of them have had the same kind of result I have. I've noticed the ones who really buy into it and become convinced that their pain has a psychosomatic basis see their pain disappear. The ones who still stick to the idea their pain is caused by an previous injury or old age -- those folks don't seem to get much benefit.
In India, people are being arrested for voicing disagreement with politicians and influential people on social media. You could even be arrested for liking a Facebook post criticizing a politician.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/19/indian-woman-arrested-ov...
Speaking of CV + birds, I knew the guys behind a small company called Ornicept.

Basically, wind turbines kill birds. To protect birds, you have to collect data on birds in the area. The standard way of doing this was literally putting a guy in a lawn chair for a few hours each day counting birds, and then extrapolate the numbers.

They put some cameras in the field and run CV on the footage to count the birds instead. Cameras are cheaper than people in lawn chairs, apparently. I don't know if they still do this, but it was their initial product.