skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the threshold was set too low, then the screening process would have too many false positives and potentially overburden it beyond being effective at all.

While I completely understand where you are coming from, I have to completely disagree on the grounds that we are talking about a single person here. We literally only care about this single person at this point time, and their actions could significantly affect the entire US prognosis in the immediate term. When we are so laser focused, there is no excuse for not being absolutely 100% careful for 21 days.
I find this an interesting departure by the trend which has been set by the previous phones in the Nexus program. Prior phones followed an average lower price that what is most likely to be seen here. Given that the Nexus program has stood as the pinnacle of the Android environment more so than just simply being "reference" hardware it does seem logical to me that Google would want to escalate the quality and produce a true flagship. That being said, this is also atypical and as much as it plays into the trend of higher quality for the entire ecosystem, it also undermines their tenant of simply finding hardware which promotes the qualities that the OS does. In the end it is most likely I will still buy the phone, but still, on morals, I dislike the anticipated pricing.
I'm reluctant to support the expenditure of trillions of dollars because of "unknown reasons". If we want to find something out we can do so far more easily and cheaply using unmanned probes.

And what "humanity sustaining environment"? That's a pipe dream - if you had the technology to colonize mars you could do better by building a bunker complex on the earth.
You're forgetting alcohol. You can't argue that society considers drug use immoral when the drug alcohol is legal and widely used.

Sure, it's a legal drug, but it's certainly a drug. If it's the illegality of the other drugs that makes society consider it immoral then that's a completely irrational circular argument.

"Illegal drugs are bad because they are illegal, therefore they are immoral and that's why they should be illegal" is basically what they think, without realizing it. It's not "reasonably sensible within their framework" at all, it's insane.
I think C++ should use notation similar to designated initializers (that C++ adapted from C99) for names arguments, i.e. rectangle->set(.x = 10, .y = 20, .width = 20, .height = 20)

Otherwise, it would be very confusing that two different syntax are used for similar purpose.
Addicted to Chess – Feature – Chicago Reader
In high school, my team invested our fake money in our Economics class in Amazon.com, right before the stock split. The three of us couldn't have been bigger slackers (we all read and watched movies), but we won the trip to NYC to do all the things you do in an Economics Class. The World Trade Center was nice to visit, in hindsight.
Looks like it's back up now, but for 15 minutes or so I was seeing >95% packet loss to every CloudFlare IP address that I tested.
> Cost of a false positive here would have been a nurse who was inconvenienced. Cost of a false negative is at a minimum the time and expense of contact-tracking 132 people who flew with her, the cost to the airline of taking the plane out of service (which they've already done), and a severe drop of public confidence in the CDC.

Perhaps the cost of allowing a lot of personal discretion from the CDC workers who make these decisions would be even higher than either.
If you don't mind a little math, I found this paper by one of the principals in the area (Deift) to provide more background:

http://www.icm2006.org/proceedings/Vol_I/11.pdf
These look seriously awesome! Glad to see a company finally making use of iBeacons.
From what I saw as a humble member of technical staff, the place was packed with really smart technical people, some of the sharpest people I ever worked with. One thing the management did well was to recruit and retain a very high proportion of really good people in technical staff and the first line of management. The result was some awesome (for its time) hardware and great software (IRIX).

Top management was apparently locked-in to their original winning formula, to build high-end equipment and sell it to the "professional" market that needed its capacities. It was apparent to anyone technically aware that the narrow-margin PC hardware was rapidly eroding the performance difference that justified the higher-margin SGI gear.

I seem to recall that an in-house project to build an SGI graphics card for the PCI bus was scuttled, with the result that several of the people who had worked on it left to form a PC graphics card company.
This is the second time in two weeks, makes it hard to keep trusting them.
Torvalds is amazingly good at what he does, and if someone doesn't like his direction, the code is all there for the forking.

So, yes, a dictatorial model can accomplish good things, if the dictator, like Torvalds, is smart enough to delegate as much as possible and actively avoid making decisions. Torvalds being smart enough to pick smart underlings is the second half of that puzzle.
IDEs vs. Build Tools: How Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeans
We did find the mobile bio labs. They just happen to be fakes. Complete with crews, hoses, and NOS to give the appearance of cooling. Saddam was playing one serious game of RR.
It's certainly not cross-platform, but in practice you can call C libraries on a given platform the same way, regardless of which compiler generated them.
This is absolutely true. SGI was trying to decide between shutting down Cray BSD entirely or shunting it off to Sun -- who was really the only possible buyer (their product was based on SPARC and Solaris, even when at Cray). So SGI wasn't going to make a nickel off of that product, and as such, it remains one of the best acquisitions in the history of the industry: purchased for less than $10M (I'm not sure the exact figure was ever disclosed), that product line did $1.2B in top line in its first year at Sun -- and it's hard not to have fond memories of that year. (Speaking personally, debugging a nasty performance problem on an E10K in December of 1997 helped to directly inspire DTrace[1]; I will always remember that machine fondly, despite its many quirks.)

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1117401
Many states try to heavily regulate alcohol. Where and when you can buy it is often frustration and varies from state to state.
I was an early adopter of Quora and consume a lot of content on it. I think it is a great place to get curated answers for questions I think are interesting. I have taken a lot of care in cutting out the noise in Quora and that has helped me a lot in getting some high quality content in my inbox.
How do they carry these bricks? There is a research paper [1] that says 60% of men prefers to carry phone in their pocket and 13% with belt clip. This was old however and may be it's changed now?

[1] http://research.nokia.com/sites/default/files/45590483.pdf
> You're forgetting alcohol. You can't argue that society considers drug use immoral when the drug alcohol is legal and widely used.

And you're forgetting that they did, in fact, try to ban it for those very reasons...
Probably some neutron fan
Fair share, there is no reason for your silly quotes, means that if an individual's marginal tax rate is 35% then a corporations should never be zero. There's nothing rhetorical about it. Where and how a government allocates that tax revenue is completely irrelevant to the responsibility of meeting ones tax obligations which are very clearly defined in the US tax code. You sound like a dingbat.
Old Blackberry phones are renowned for their battery life. If that's truly your chief concern then I would look into buying one.
Michelle Obama Dances with Turnip
^^same^^

Their digest is one of the best emails I receive.

One thing they need to improve is the amount of duplicate questions; so many questions that are the same but worded slightly differently.
E-Urdu: How one man’s plea for Nastaleeq was heard by Apple
A proposal for C++ to stop being such a moving target.
Yeah. I acknowledged that storyboard is easier and faster for simple to moderate UI, but merging using git/vcs is horrible. Plus, it's difficult to build cool animations with those.
Thomas Duncan didn't have health insurance: http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20141014-jo...
I don't get it. I don't know what your app does. The app may be interesting and compelling. But there's nothing on the iTunes page that explains what the app does. Why is Katy Perry on the app page? What does she have to do with it? How does a well-known celebrity jive with an anonymous app? Did you get permission to use her likeness? I'm so confused.

Okay? So, just by looking at the box of pizza, you're going to judge that the pizza tastes bad? Jesus Christ man...

Actually, yes, people judge pizza all the time based on factors unrelated to the quality of the product. Why do you think Papa John's, Dominoes, Pizza Hut, etc. spend so much money on advertising?

To extend the analogy, I don't even know what's in the box. Your app could be pizza. Or it could be tuna fish. I have no idea what I'm getting.
>>"this can happen"

Among people who have a common mindset, yes. But in general people don't like to take risks or expend insane efforts to make something happen. When they see others doing it, they like to stop them. Generally its because they don't want the regret 'They tried and got it, If I had ...' Or they are plainly jealous and can't stand some one else do progress.
I'm all for anything that can remove ambiguity from code where it is very likely. I notice this problem especially when I'm doing game stuff like collision detection and whatnot.
How do you do animations with autolayout? Isn't it kinda hard compared to frames?
Every dollar is effectively taxed an infinite number of times; I don't understand why corporation/shareholder double taxation is a special case.

A 0% corporate income tax rate would just allow unlimited tax deferment.
Like many others here, I agree on the screen size issue. I'm actually at a bit of a loss as to what phone to use next. I want something that's future proof for several versions of Android, runs smoothly, runs vanilla android by default, and doesn't exceed the screen size of the galaxy nexus (the one that's currently stuck without a stable upgrade to kit kat due to firmware issues), and has a great resolution. I'd gladly pay good money for a device like that.
Fighting Racism with Drones
Much of the international media coverage of the violence in the Partizan Belgrade stadium has focused on the stunt of a drone flying an Albanian banner, the ensuing brawl and pitch invasion by angry Serb fans. There were additional elements to the violence that are either not being reported by international media or being under-reported. Here are some of them:

1. Albanian fans were not allowed to attend the match. Serb authorities said they would arrest anyone who showed any symbol of the visiting team in the stadium.

2. The Serb crowd chanted, “Ubij, Ubij Siptar” – “Kill, Kill the Albanians,” throughout the 40 minutes the game was played.

3. The stadium was filled with Serb nationalistic political banners, like “Kosovo is Serbia” and other slogans relating to Bosnia and Croatia. The Serb fans loudly booed the Albanian national anthem.

4. Hard objects and fireworks were thrown on Albanian players well before the drone started flying.

5. More than half of Albania’s national team has roots in Kosovo, which split from Serbia in the late 90s in a violent conflict that ended through a NATO intervention 15 years go. The alliance’s flag was also burned in Belgrade last night. (Albania has been a NATO member since 2009. Serbia is officially EU-minded, but also Russia-friendly.)

6. Despite the harsh political atmosphere in the stadium, the Albanian national team went to play football, and it managed to overcome a shaky first few minutes, moving to gain the upper hand in the field when the interruption happened.
This might sound negative, but I'm really curious why this is needed if you have an IDE that tells your the parameter names as you're typing and in a mouseover. If you need it to be more visible, make that a feature in the IDE to show you the parameter names all the time. Why change the language?

Not only that, but why are you passing so many parameters like top, bottom, left, right? At least put them in a struct if you can't make them fields of the object itself.

This feature seems like "too little, too late". Maybe 30 years about it would have been helpful.
I use qPDF Notes (there's also a qPDF Viewer, which I think is their free app) on my Samsung Note Pro (12.2")

I think you can import PDF's into Lecture Notes also, and annotate around them there, but I haven't bothered trying that, and I /expect/ it'd feel sluggish.
> I go on reddit every once in a while to read a few silly posts

I don't find reddit "silly" in the slightest, but it probably depends on the sub-reedits you follow. I'm following arduino, raspberry_pi, python, R, Prolog, MachineLearning, Clojure, board gaming, gamedesign ... you get the picture. I find the information posted to be extremely useful and illuminating, but it depends on the sub-reedits you follow.

As an aside, I also follow /r/minecraft and my kids love to look at minecraft screenshots and imagine the things we could do in-game. This is probably my most invaluable use of reddit, identifying and commuting with my children :)
The compliance toolkit is going well though as I'm sure you know from working on payroll, it isn't easy to get users to embrace something related to an area that they usually associate with pain (even if it reduces that pain). For now it's just focused on New York but we plan to open source it for other states later in the year. We are also looking at some of the trouble spots in accounting and payroll such as automating the allocation of expenses/payroll across programs and projects, which is essential for nonprofits but time consuming and error prone. I'd be interested to see you expand your idea of allocation-based payroll to the employer side as well. No one does this but every nonprofit needs it.
I just feel like so many sites have just slowed down today. It's apparent how much of an impact cloudflare has on the internet.
See also: the iPhone vs Android phones.
Ask HN: Is gandi.net really this bad?
So I have heard a lot of very good reviews of gandi.net here at HN. I tried it today for registering a domain. The experience has been outright horrendous.

- The UI is clunky and I would ignore this if it was atleast functional.

- Any updates to the DNS records take atleast 30 minutes. Note that I checked my TLD's name server directly. It just look that long for gandi.net to even get to inform the TLD registry.

- The free SSL cert provided for every domain first asks you to accept that you pay 16 USD! This amount will apparently will become 0 at checkout. WTF?

- I chose the DNS method for SSL cert validation. You just have to keep pressing refresh and sit there. It says nothing other than 'verification pending'. AFAICT, the domain records that it wants and that one my name server match completely and it has propagated as well. Even after a hour, I am just sitting there and nothing happens.

- So, I decide to setup email. It doens't go past the account screen. It keeps saying 'The password that you chose is too short and/or too easy to guess. Please add special characters for more security.'. Out of frustration, I generated a password out of https://strongpasswordgenerator.com/ and used 'e*B8[3~3^~e9'2b' as the password. Nope, that is still not strong enough!

So... Long story short, gandi.net is terrible. I would avoid at all costs. I am somewhat amazed that route53 uses it.
Race Condition: When Sync Goes Wrong
You're right. I must have misunderstood something I read.
Indeed. Here's a physical comparison: http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Apple-iPh...

Using screen-size as a measure of physical size let Apple pull off a pretty epic PR coup. The iPhone 6 is essentially the same size as modern 5" Android phones, but has a significantly smaller screen.
Thank you! I'm excited to share libraries!
Right, but the reason that labor is done on a volunteer basis has something to do with the inherent prestige of the legacy journals. In my field, anyone would gladly referee an article or review a book for the flagship journals, because they confer legitimacy on those involved with them. I can say from personal experience that new, more experimental journals don't have the same draw.

The big issue is who pays lead editors, though. Typically (at least in my field) the major journals have an institutional affiliation with a university, and the editors are professors at the university who receive a stipend and reduced teaching load in return for putting in a stint of a few years on the journal masthead. I've never asked too closely about the funding for these arrangements, but I have to imagine it comes from the universities themselves.

The question is: how do you convince the universities to do something similar, but not for a journal with a hundred year history in the field, but for one that is beginning right now and which follows a different format like the one espoused in the link? The two solutions are major institutional change among the administrators who fund this stuff, or finding a new model for paying editors. Based on my experiences in academia, I think the latter has a better shot, but it's still unclear how things will go.
There's plenty of innovation with the Raspberry Pi.
It isn't about the Republic of Ireland, it's about the US government and its excessive level of influence. My feelings would be the same if the other party had been Russia, Malaysia, Turkmenistan or Canada.

It's not like this is the first time the US has thrown its weight around in a way that's detrimental to individual freedom. Look, for example, at how they made the Swiss cave in on reporting financial transactions in a way that the Swiss historically never did.
I like my Nexus 5, but after using it for many months, it's just a little to big for my tastes. My ideal size would be the 1st gen Moto X.
Why would you launch without Eclipse?
I have never met a great jvm programmer who codes on anything but intellij.
iPhone 6 Plus generally fits in to US size 38 or larger jeans. However the word "fits" here begs a fine print. Once you put that in pocket, you can't put anything else. Also it really "sticks" out and whenever you sit or stand up, you will fill its presence. Even if you solved pocket issue somehow, the fact is that human hands are not made for this kind of size. You really can't type with one hand. On a long phone calls, it's pain to hold on.

The big screen craze is mainly because of people who want to have one device and avoid buying tablets. They are willing to take on pain in exchange of savings for extra money on tablet. However people who can afford having both, iPhone 6 is really the max size where "world in your pocket" ends and "requires a purse or carry bag" starts.
One thing I like about having different passwords and logins for each site is that I don't have to worry about cascading failures.

This seems like it isn't getting rid of user/pass authentication, it's just pushing it onto someone else, in this case your cell or email provider.

Other users have correctly stated that this doesn't increase the attack surface, however it does increase the value of a single vector.

Please correct me if I've missed a key point in the OP, I didn't spend lots of time reading the finer points of the implementation.
Flight simulators. Back in the 1990s, McDonnell-Douglas in St. Louis made the local sales rep the top salesman for SGI with one purchase in one year.
You can do that with C++ too -- assuming they are conforming to the platform ABI. On Linux, for example, all C++ compilers can call each other's code just fine.

You may be thinking of the funny situation on Windows where GCC has historically flagrantly disregarded the platform C++ ABI and implemented its own instead. I assume this decision was made as a matter of practicality: The Cygwin people didn't have the resources to try to implement Microsoft's ABI, whereas porting over the existing code for the Linux C++ ABI was a lot easier. Also, MSVC tends to take much longer to implement new C++ language features than GCC does which means its ABI could often be missing things GCC needs.

FWIW, Clang's port to Windows is taking the correct approach: they're implementing Microsoft's ABI, and will thus be able to link against MSVC-built C++ library. http://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html
I go through this regularly and wish there were a real solution; I mod a subreddit with >100k subscribers, and we also have subreddit rules link, ongoing consolidated threads, etc. in our sidebar and get the "but I'm on MOBILE! How was I supposed to KNOW that was against the rules" defense all the time.
You know, as far as mindless technologization goes, this is squarely in the category of products like Vessyl, but this is the first time I feel like it's actually done somewhat right.

It's unobtrusive, and unless you actually leave them somewhere, they're unrecognizable from ordinary sunglasses. My only concern was being pestered about "forgetting" my sunglasses when I leave home into a rainy, overcast day, but they seem to have taken care of that too. The range display feature is just a cherry on top, I'd kill for something like that when I'm trying to find something.

I like this!
> America would be much better off without corporate taxes.

In 1952, 33% of the federal tax revenue came from corporate taxes.

This figure was down to about 10% in 2013.

So the corporations already have it very good.
That looks very good but I may never be productive again if I could endlessly scroll HN.
You are being downvoted because iAlien and their (alleged scam) has nothing to do with the discussion of the topic, which is Alien blue getting acquired.
Backtrace – James Dempsey and the Breakpoints
As some of the others have said, it's important to note that I select subreddits well.

Reddit is a vital product in two main ways:

- Information on topics that interest me (e.g. fitness, startups - I use it like hacker news, or twitter)

- Information on problems (I treat reddit like the "stack overflow, for life". I often google "xyz reddit", because I seek a reddit page of answers, where I know the users are more similar to me than many other sites, and also where I can see which answers have the most votes. For example - "replacement desert boots laces reddit" Or, "best comedy movies reddit". Both recent google searches of mine)
Italian Scientists Appeal Absurd Conviction for Quake Deaths
Your email is already a single vector. Most sites have a "forget my password" link and all you need is the email account to reset the password and access the account.
Terminally Ill Boy Is Hyderabad Police Chief for a Day
A minor bit of the story that postdates this 1997 article: in the late '90s, SGI's strategy to recapture the high-end workstation market was to hitch their horse to Intel's new Itanium architecture, which they thought would allow them to position their boxes as a cut above the performance of commodity x86 workstations. That strategy may or may not have worked if the Itanium actually had x86-beating performance, but since Intel never delivered a performant Itanium it definitely didn't work.
To me quora has always been and will be the company that n Ed not exist. There might be some very niche need it fills but does not warrant the funding and hype. It could of cours b justifiable as a hobby project.
Compact Fusion Research and Development at Lockheed Martin
I should've dug it up originally. My bad:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-small-business/post/i...
Don't Fly Drones Here (map)
Save someone else the trouble of Googling it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Pidgin