skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the fact that most direct democracies, aside from making representative democracy look practical, all failed when confronted with the real world ?

Besides, having read the history of Athens, direct democracy can be described as mob rule, and there the problem of 51% of the population votes to kill off the 49% others was a very real problem. Every American probably can imagine the problems guilds created in medieval Europe, right ? Athens was a state where the equivalent of guilds could literally and legally decide to kill the competition (which they did, several times).

Besides, let's not lose sight of reality here. America would be a near-theocracy if it was a direct democracy.
I have a C hobby project I worked on during a couple flights the other week, but if I flew again I'd probably bring this:

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Abstract-Algebra-Edition-Mathemat...

. . . along with paper for working the exercises.
Your opinions border on panic.

It is clear that the CDC and other agencies have procedures in place to deal with the outbreak of infectious disease, and that you are 1) unaware of these, and how they work, and 2) prepared to agitate for a wholescale overhaul without understanding how disease is both spread and controlled.

In the present situation, the only obvious failure of the system to contain a disease outbreak is the fact that Amber Vinson traveled while infected. Note that she did not have symptoms of Ebola when she traveled.

The only rational alternative to her traveling would have been to quarantine every single person who had been in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, a possibility that does not require radical overhaul of any existing systems.

Keep calm and carry on.
The picture you've derived from these hearings matches what I've independently arrived at. As for Dr. Lurie, the point I left out was what brought her to my attention, the fact that despite all the things I mentioned, putting as good a face on them as I could, people are asking where the bleep is she?

Are you sure about the number of beds at the NIH? The word up to now is that they have 7, but that ward, or maybe there's more than one, has multiple uses, including things like live virus vaccine tests. So maybe they can only dedicate 2 to this sort of thing, which means the national capacity is under 20 as I first heard, a total of 18.

4 of which are in use, because the first nurse, Pham, is being moved from the ex-Dallas Ebola Magnet Hospital of Excellence to the NIH. (Emory got nurse #2 Amber, and is handling another medevac, and Omaha has the NBC cameraman.)

Per the always energetic Daily News (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795480/texas-presby...) that might be because even after Duncan, Dallas Presbyterian did not have proper PPE (e.g. a big gap below the chin), and I've heard rumors its ER is shut down by a walkout, with the ICU almost to that point. Which these nurses' reports buttress.

And don't forget Dallas Presbyterian is an above average hospital, everything I'm hearing is that normal ones are just not architecturally, let alone culturally or equipment wise set up for pathogens this bad. Emory's lessons learned from their first two patients shows even they had to improvise and adapt, but not with PPE and the like.

Ah, I should mention I got some experience at one of my local ERs when my father got sick in the spring of last year. They were very good, but he was non-contagious (anemia).

As for "twenty or fifty cities", do you believe Duncan is the last Ebola tourist we'll receive on our shores?

"A really brutal performance review" indeed. I'll close by noting that it sure looks to me like the heads of the CDC and NIH are acting like politicians, and not doctors or researchers.
Shame it took 10 minutes to complete it for me. Not sure it was value for money but it looked and felt good.
Yes, I fully understand and agree with all of that. However, I think it is still not accurate to say that apps run operating systems. More accurate to say that apps embed operating systems or are themselves bundled with operating systems (such that they can run on bare metal). And, MirageOS (http://www.openmirage.org/) takes this concept to its logical conclusion.
Ask HN: Setup celery, built dashboard and website, but what to compute?
So I've built up an entire SaaS platform. There's a website, dashboard section where user can login and submit jobs, celery backend to queue jobs and process long running jobs, billing page where stripe handles payments and automatically updates their account.

So the car is ready to be driven but it's missing the driver. The driver being the value proposition. The jobs that will run on celery that ends up providing value to my users.

How did I end up in this situation, well I built up the whole infrastructure for a project which did not gain enough traction, so I'm trying to salvage the generic parts to launch another idea.

I would like some suggestions on what jobs I should be processing. Video transcoding? Plenty of SaaS based on that idea. NLP processing? Done.
Apple Built a SIM Card That Lets You Switch Between AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441055
I wonder how much the twitpic domain is worth? That's a lot of dangling link juice.

It would be great for them to get a copy of everything to the Internet Archive.
whoever comes to hacker news and upvotes all and any minor apple launches should be ashamed.
Speaking of normal distributions, in order for someone to have an IQ of 1,000, wouldn't there have to be trillions and trillions of people?
I bet you are right. It would have made no sense for them to release a brand new Macbook Air with improved "everything" but with a last year's CPU.
First, it's my data and the service should keep it instead of deleting it. If I put some stuff in a storage locker, the locker's owner can't just toss it in the garbage, even with 10 day's notice. Second, there's a loss to our culture when a huge trove of media gets trashed like that. It's like a museum deciding it's too expensive to maintain some artwork and just pitching it.
> In these days, however, no one will deny that most enterprises fail. That means that a large amount of human labor, which might have been devoted to producing something that could be enjoyed, was expended on producing machines which, when produced, lay idle and did no good to anyone. The man who invests his savings in a concern that goes bankrupt is therefore injuring others as well as himself. If he spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon laying down rails for surface cars in some place where surface cars turn out not to be wanted, he has diverted a mass of labor into channels where it gives pleasure to no one. Nevertheless, when he becomes poor through failure of his investment he will be regarded as a victim of undeserved misfortune, whereas the gay spendthrift, who has spent his money philanthropically, will be despised as a fool and a frivolous person.

--Bertrand Russell, [In Praise of Idleness](http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html)
Apple's new iPads let you switch wireless carriers without changing SIM cards
Doubt you're going to see much about crashing since I presume that most MBP owners, like myself, never experience crashes.
You should be getting zero crashes before your upgrade. How many crashes are you seeing? What are you doing near the crash?
Obviously, it could be useful if Android finds its way onto more "desktop-like" devices, with keyboards, mice, large displays, etc.
Find a competent tax guy that understands both US and NL tax law. I can recommend someone that I used and liked. Msg me if interested.

The Belastingdienst doesn't recognize Roth IRA's as retirement accounts, but one trick is to own an REIT ETF in it which they'll count as foreign real estate which is non-taxable. There are many tricks, find a competent guy who can help you. Don't try and do it yourself.
> I have ever confidence that the TOR developers are trying to do something about it.

The basic architecture of TOR is limited theoretically with regards to some types of attacks it can handle.TOR developers probably cannot do anything about that.

And in some sense , supporting TOR is taking funding and attention from better anonimity technologies , that might be able to do the job , with enough development. That's another reason why the US government is investing in TOR.
escrotum? Was there a competition for worst open source project name that I did not hear about?
TC is less predictive than HDL:Triglyceride ratio by a significant margin. people with "high" TC of 200-220 and a good HDL:Trig ratio outlive those with "excellent" TC levels.

There are cases where BP matters less as well. For example the cochrane review on sodium consumption indicated that while lowering sodium intake aggressively did successfully lower BP, it resulted in worse mortality.
Despite the HDMI port and 2xThunderbolt ports, still maxes out at two monitors rather than three... guess Iris Pro would have been required for triple-head support.
Still SSL problems. I remember reporting them last announcement, even emailing back and forth with docker... still not fixed. I sent another email.
Don't forget that SCTP is also multihomed, providing the extra redundancy (though not extra performance) of MPTCP as well.
On the internet, no one knows you're a dog...
5% isn't all that small either, it's 1/20. On a population basis it would be the equivalent of 1/20 people being pure Neanderthal.
why would that be the last update ever for the mini?
That people care about something that you can't relate to more than their own lives isn't a sign of stupidity, it's a sign of other people having different values than you.
> Apple has a pretty poor track record in recent years on perf

Apple has a bigger problem where they're popular enough that every release has a ton of people who post subjective problem reports but rarely provide repeatable benchmarks or failures. They're definitely not perfect but if you see a report which doesn't have a specific test with the exact steps needed to duplicate it, it's wise to assume it's an urban legend.
Let me start out by saying I do not claim the current binspector grammar can cover all the cases you've described. Yes, at some point binary formats can get so unwieldy the only way to read them is with some kind of Turing-complete system.

What I have discovered, however, is that there are still a vast array of binary formats that can be well described with the format language as it stands. I have tried to devise workarounds to skip past the parts of formats that cannot be handled well. I hope to double-back on those limitations and extend the feature set of the language, but I hope what's in there is enough to get people started.

Of the issues you mentioned, Binspector's language can handle dynamic field endianness, dynamic field size, terminators and delimiters, absolute/relative/dynamic offsets, tag-discriminated unions, and lambda calculations. It doesn't do everything, but it does allow a lot.
SuperBenchmarker, a command line web stress test tool on Windows
I wonder if apple will prevent rendering at full resolution like the retina macbook pros because the max font/icon size for many apps is too small.
This would mean you are paying for a screen that can't render at the new fancy resolution because the resulting info would be too small to resolve by most people.

Many computer users suffer from eye strain because they have to stare to resolve the information; their eyes dry and then each blink causes tiny scratches which over time causes serious damage.
Apple's position in the mobile device market will only benefit long-term by offering this capability across operators, especially at the international level.
I'm not the OP, but my (new) MBP crashes twice a month when surfing or coding (Sublime, Typescript, Node).

It crashes daily if I use Parallels and regularly when using Spotify.
That sounds positively diabolical. I'll have to think through this one some more, but off hand I wonder if something can be done with Binspector's slot/signal mechanism to detect when all the necessary pieces are in place. Something to ponder.
thanks but that's not the issue. I have that.
Well then why bother discussing pre-homo sapien speciation at all?

EDIT: To put it another way, you wouldn't compare a modern european to a neanderthal and call them part of the same people. The neanderthals still had large differences with other populations.
What's more shocking to me is the dearth of PC laptops using high resolution

Wat?

* Toshiba Kirabook
* Lenovo Y50 4K
* HP EliteBook (2560)
* Dell XPS 11 (2560)
* Samsung Series 9 (2560)

You can buy laptops well above 1080p today... if you so desire. Hell, you could have bought them 2 years ago.
With Multipath TCP across multiple LTE networks, this could enable substantial improvement in network performance.

Edit: I meant it as a future possibility
> The basic architecture of TOR is limited theoretically with regards to some types of attacks it can handle.

Would you mind providing some links on this topic? This is the first I have heard of this particular assertion and I would be interested to read more.
There wasn't a real update other than the TouchID, why would they update the iPad Air but not the Mini, in terms of chips and cameras?
It's been a while since I played with GPU stuff but it seems like OpenCL just hasn't gotten as much love/development as CUDA.

Lest people think OpenCL is somehow at odds with NVIDIA:
"The OpenCL standard was developed on NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA was the first company to demonstrate OpenCL code running on a GPU," [1]

The Vice President of NVIDIA is (was?) the chair of the OpenCL working group (and president of the Kronos group).

[1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1240224603372.html
I'm not equivocating at all. People use the term punish when they feel like they've been punished. I'm trying to figure out why people immediately think they are being punished by taxation somehow completely forgetting the police and fire protection, nice roads, pretty parks, clean water, etc. that comes along with it. Taxes are not a punishment, they are an admission ticket to society.
I'll check it out, but in his past reviews, I've had the impression that the author really likes showing off his background knowledge of all things Apple. A lot of the text is irrelevant to the review, and therefore shouldn't be there. Also, the endless, endless links. He really needs to learn when something should be linked and when it shouldn't -- it really affects the reading experience on the web. You're constantly alternating between black and orange text, and being tempted to hover over them to see "what does this one go to?"

His attention to detail is great, though, no doubt about that.
that probably overrides/ignores the SIM card and use hardcoded GSM ids from the device. as if it has a sim slot plus 3 hardcoded sim, that you can select which one to use on software.

so i doubt you will be able to activate those hardcoded sims with any plan that easily. i doubt you will even be able to activate it without apple help.

but of course, im just guessing. have no idea if that is the case.
The site is going to be limited to the US anyway. The data is calculated from a US population for US lifestyles. And the racial information is US-centric. Does 'Asian' mean Korean, Indian, or Palestinian? Is an African African-American? Even if they're Moroccan? The medical term for that genotype is 'negro', but that word has far too much baggage to be used with a primarily US audience.
from the screen shot you can only have one active.
That's why many people were expecting the iMac to come first. Since it's an integrated machine the panel can be connected directly to the graphics card via LVDS (or whatever the current version is) instead of the limitations of the external cabling the Mac Pro or (for an external monitor) MacBook Pro have.
Religion a "mental parasite?" I doubt you've known very many intelligent people in your life. I know some very successful, top-of-the-bell-curve people who are religious. Get real.

Also, Flynn effect.
I'll the share the comment here that I posted on the article page.

OP, you should have done latency tests as well. Whether packets arriving out-of-order is unacceptable to an application or not depends on the time distribution of packet delays. If, for example, 99.9% of packets arrive in-order within, say, 10 ms, then that is perfectly acceptable to use for video streaming, for example. Even if that means a packet is 1000 packets late, this just requires a bigger buffer on the receiving end. As long as it's below a certain duration, out-of-order packets aren't necessarily a problem even for live content.

The grouping of 5 packets together and thus checking whether a packet arrive out-of-order more than six places seems arbitrary. If, for example, a packet arrives out-of-order 50 packets late, but it's actually only 1 ms late, then it's not a problem. If it comes along 1 second too late, then it is a problem.
I was experiencing the GPU panics as well and it turned out to be a hardware issue. Did it only happen when you were using the NVidia GPU and not when using the on-board?
It's a minor thing, but I've been using it for a month or so and couldn't live without it. :-)
Apple pay on the iPad is the online purchases only version, so I don't see why the older models wouldn't also include this
Open-source solar-powered 3D printers can go almost anywhere
8 steps to move Rails view to Marionette
Yep that's a definition. I'm not sure why you quoted it?

You can make all kinds of arguments to remove any number, but which one leaves a sequence with minimal kolmogorov complexity? Which one leaves a sequence where you can predict the next number?
Well, that was a) dumb and b) likely something Apple support can fix if you're unable to just switch back.
Welp that's about the only thing worth watching on CBS...
God, that's confusing. I thought this was the EVE development blog, i.e. http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/. Eve is, frankly, a terrible name for a tool. It sounds like a brand name and gives ZERO indication as to its utility.

At the very least, the post (edit: post title) could give some indication as to what the hell Eve is and why I should care—it looks like a spreadsheet meets a repl.
The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place
A large glass of water, exactly 435 cubic centimeters of it.
It is true that by taxing something you usually discourage it, but that's a simplified view that's not always the case. It assumes normal goods and a particular relationship between taxation and interest rates that doesn't necessarily bear out.

In particular, in a discussion of wealth tax vs. consumption tax, you can't rely on the naive assumption that elasticity of consumption has a significant bearing on the net effect of a consumption tax.

See, e.g. http://ntj.tax.org/wwtax/ntjrec.nsf/4E562450B2F268D985256AFC...
From what I can tell, it's ONLY those US and UK carriers. So, for example, don't come travelling up to Canada :(
"it should be illegal" is very different from "it should not happen."

if anything, i'd bet that law would just make a bunch more data disappear, as hosting any data for anyone else would now become extremely risky; you open yourself up to permanent liability by taking anything anyone uploads. who wants that?
Join a Start-up or Go Big Tech?
"...If Retina desktop Macs still haven’t been announced by the time you read this, Apple had better hurry up."

Near the bottom of page 3, just thought it was funny considering today's 5K iMac announcement.
"So stop explaing it."

Okay, I'll let someone else do it then...

"those measurements can be reproduced with statistical significance"

http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/200910/int...

"How much can these scores change over a person's lifetime, and how limiting are a person's scores for obtaining what they want out of life?

For groups of individuals, IQs are fairly stable between childhood and adulthood, but for specific individuals within a group, IQs can--and do--vary greatly over a lifetime. The IQs will vary as a result of specific interventions (such as preschool enrichment programs), quality education (or the lack of it), injuries that affect brain functioning, and other aspects of the environment that either enhance or diminish one's cognitive ability. In addition, errors of measurement are much larger than people tend to think, and, therefore, an individual's IQs will vary from time to time--sometimes substantially--simply due to the chance fluctuations that accompany any repeated measurement. And, there is more to life success than the ability to score high on IQ tests. People can be successful based on their creativity, street smarts, and personality variables."
At the same time, there's a tendency for people of similar environments to have higher intelligence of people in other environments (the achievement gap).
I believe in evolution but one question has always bothered me - when a social animal is born with a mutation (even one that is unquestionably superior), wouldn't the other members of e group kill or shun her?

This question may sound far-fetched unless you're non-white or a ginger.
Easier to track for whom? If you think Apple doesn't already have a way of uniquely identifying a device, regardless of location and connection, you're out of it.
When apple updates their products, they won't upgrade every-single-item-they-sell. They may refresh the item, but a robust upgrade may come next year.

The mini has proven to be wildly popular, so they will certainly upgrade it next year.

IMO, the mini 2 is already pretty awesome, I can't see any reason for stuffing it with a faster processor when that wasn't a bottleneck for most people
Jobs which are "under review" are now shown as such on the site.
That's highly unusual. You should ask yourself what peripherals/kernel extensions/weird software you have installed that maybe contributing to this. And I would definitely bring it in to Apple for service if the answer is "none."
The second drive was useful because you could RAID the boot volume using Disk Utility, and then use 3rd party software to RAID external USB drives. Cheaper than what appears to be their new plan for data reliability: Buy an expensive Thunderbolt RAID enclosure.
Sizing Up Apple's October 16 Event: More Than Meets the Eye
There are attacks that can be done by making sure that you own enough of the nodes on the network. Similar to the attacks against the Bitcoin network if you controler >50% of the miners.
Android v.5 (Lollipop)
Pot itself has no known health detriments. Smoking marihuana, however, does impart some of the risks of smoking, but not nearly the same. I don't know if it's possible to reach the same level of damage to your lungs with pot as you would with cigarettes.
Why would they NOT talk about this today?

It baffles me.
I have an 8GB Nexus 7 tablet (although, soon won't...), and maybe it is just me, but despite the improvements on the last release, if you come anywhere near the storage maximum it slows WAY down. Or, maybe it is just bad bit rot, and all Nexus 7 tablets end up like this. Last time I had an iPad (years ago...) they didn't seem to suffer anywhere near as bad in terms of eventual slowdown.
Cmon guys, I literally learned this is Psychology 101.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority