skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QuickClot however is a powder

It's confusing because the brand name has remained the same, but QuikClot is no longer offered as a powder. Instead is sold as a pre-impregnated gauze: http://www.quikclot.com/Products

In addition to changing from powder to gauze, the active ingredient was also changed. Contrary to the parent, it was the earlier zeolite that could cause burns. The current kaolin formulation is (advertised as?) non-exothermic.
Thinking too highly of higher ed
They should just write a gnome/metacity theme and call it a day. There is no point in having a new OS/distribution just to feature a new UI.
There was an article about computers optimizing a card trick earlier this week, and it was using Gray code.
This is EXACTLY my complaint.
I clicked the link thinking, it can't be that bad. I take it back. The 19 second page load time was a bit grating too...
yeah, I had never visited that site until that discussion was making the rounds on twitter, so, no clue. I could see an argument for "this is a site where you can install hangouts as an app". There's nothing particularly wrong with using Chrome as a runtime (imagine if Mozilla's old Prism project had stuck around and people made "native" apps with it...requiring Firefox to run it would be just that: a requirement to run the app because that's how Prism worked), but if your motivation was to get users to use hangouts, I don't know why you wouldn't also mention that you probably already have it if you use gmail, so just open it up in there.

My only claim is that if you open up a chat window in gmail and hit the video button it works in other browsers and that using hangouts that way was never broken.
Bringing Sous Vide to the Home Cook
FYI, this issue exists in PC-BSD too. I tend to use Chromium anyway and Firefox as a backup, so it doesn't bite me as much when I'm in that OS. But it's definitely a big one.
I use gray code to generate sobol sequences, which are psuedo random number sequences that help you approximate a distribution more quickly than purely random sequences.
Material Design is well-regarded on mobile devices

It is? Wasn't it shipped just last week?
16 adults is quite good.
If you polled them well (that is randomly) and you obtained some result in all of them then it's significant evidence that that the result is true for very significant part of the population.

Sure, you can't show that it's true for everybody but having a result like: "only 0.1% chance that it occurred by random if 2/3 of the population reacts this way and way less if it's half of the population" is very nice result to have.

If something occurs for 16 randomly chosen people (or even 15/16 or 14/16) you are virtually certain it occurs for very significant part of the population which is often the goal of the study - to justify further research.
I would love to get some feedback on the technical details.

Why did they have to create a data model in Java and then cross compile that into other languages for their various platforms?

Why not just create a RESTful API on top of Gmail, and then just build clients to consume that API?

What's the difference between the two approaches? What is the benefit to doing it the way they did it?

It feels like sending JSON down the wire, would be quicker than waiting for some real-time compilation to be done and sent to the client.

Am I missing something?
Interesting question. I know there is a lot of links between the core Windows OS and IE, so there would be certain parts that would need to be kept open source. Mind you, Chrome has the same issue (Chrome is not open source, Chromium is, which Chrome is based on.) Some parts of Chrome are closed and possibly not even owned by Google (Flash is one i can think of).
How do you aim to tackle news about Russia & Ukraine?

How do you aim to tackle lengthy bike-shedding over trivial nonsense? (for example, there are at least a million words about hyphens, dashes, endashes and em dashes).
View-specific Sidebars in AngularJS
Are you controlling for blood sugar?
Sounds like a nice idea but isn't Google News already doing a decent job on this? It's going to be hard to beat the speed of Twitter or Google News in my opinion but I'll be curious to see where this goes.
I think that caches work where you have a vast imbalance of requests for a particular bit of content - they seem to me to define centralization.

In terms of generate revenue - I mean provide a service that people are willing to pay for at a level that will fund a network that enables the use case and decentralization. Current services are tending to deep reach from the datacentre, because that's cheap. If all services that people are willing to pay for are suited to that model that's what everyone will get. To have a different infrastructure model you need a service that people will pay for that is not well served by deepreach from the datacentre.

It's not the moving of the bits that is at issue, it's the how the bits are moved, where and who by.
AI tries to defend with siege tanks against airborne mutalisks??
تحميل واتساب بلس اخر اصدار تحديث تشفير الرسائل تنزيل واتس اب www.whatsapp.com
> "Won" implies the war is over

It also implies that there was actually a war, and that there is now not. Did gtk+ suddenly stop being developed because Qt won some imaginary war dreamed up by people who don't develop either toolkit?
> Most desktops today are arguably variations of the desktops we were introduced to in windows95

That's simply because win95 was really that good. I, for one, think that there's no need to change what already works quite well.
I know a lot of zombie startups that make little to no money, yet they raised seed rounds that will last them 2 years.

I know a handful of other startups that were "acqui-hired" but the founders did not see any returns (and the VCs didn't even get their initial investment back). Even in the case that the returns were 1.2x the initial investment, these are not the winners that investors are looking for.

I would love to see a more in-depth analysis of these situations, but unfortunately, many of them are not publicized.
They haven't exited, but prominent companies are: DigitalOcean, SendGrid, Orbotix/Sphero, DataRobot. (They've ask raised pretty significant rounds)
What makes you think Excelerate was 'bought'?
I found that zooming out the Inbox page on the laptop doesn't make it perfect, but more pleasant to use. (90% or 75%)
Wow. This stuff should be in an emergency kit in every home.
sorry, OT --

at smaller screen sizes something in your formatting is breaking words apart. I first noticed on Chrome Android, and then I checked on Chrome on my MBP, and yes, when the window is too narrow, the words get broken but not hyphenated.

"How does lazy Ev" new line "aluation work?"
We've known for a while the risk factor for heart disease is serum SFA levels, not necessarily SFA consumption. What has never been shown is that consuming SFA raises serum SFA; instead, it's been an understood truism held in place by policy and demagoguery. This study is small, but evidence convicting saturated fats was extremely weak to begin with, and we are now seeing positive evidence exonerating it.

If you are interested in learning more about the history of nutrition, I highly recommend Nina Teicholz book The Big Fat Surprise. As others have mentioned, Phinney and Volek's books are a great overview off the science as of a few years ago. Phinney has been doing research on this for 40 years, quite an accomplishment, given how hard it has been to get funding for research that contradicts the policy line of "carbs are critical to survival and fat must be avoided".
Other than the recent open sourcing of .NET?
Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Game-Graphics [YouTube]
A guy complained about you spamming him and then you spam him on HN to promote your conference? You really don't understand your demographic.
At Spain’s Door, a Welcome Mat for Entrepreneurs
The imbalance was mostly on the management side. Even then, it wasn't almost an order of magnitude like that silly blog post suggested.
Silicon Valley Sells the Illusion of Security
Exactly.

Is Gnome an Operating System? Is Unity? Then why is "Quantum OS" one?
I've read one draft paper that does exactly that... Try to compare companies that have gone through accelerators to counterparts that haven't. I would hope it gets published sometime next year. I can't share the content (I agreed to keep it confidential), but I found it intriguing. (I'm the founder of http://www.Seed-DB.com so that's how I'm in touch with some researchers in the area)
The Inescapability of Ambient Computing
Debian does have some support for GNU/kFreeBSD. It was an official port of the last stable release. There are also good reasons to want to use it:

https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_why
Not really. Google doesn't summarize facts. It aggregates articles into clusters, which is useful, but it doesn't save us much time. Google also does a rather poor job of ranking the importance of stories, and often has old news for a long time and breaking news relatively late (or later than a motivated community, like Twitter, can have it).
I don't think you are correct here - pkg upgrade most certainly pulls down updated versions of packages, complete with security patches. In fact, the default freebsd daily job will send you an email listing which packages have security vulnerabilities, so you can go update them.
These charts aren't great. A single survival curve could display all of that data, and account for the different starting times of the startups[1]. But it looks like Datawrapper can't do survival curves. Also, a 3 section pie chart is a waste of space.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier_estimator
It's not only feasible, we are already doing it! [1] I have also written extensively on why Wikipedia is not a newspaper [2] and the many flaws of Wikipedia for news-based content [2]

Larry's attempt to break down the news into bits is an interesting experiment (and I wish him the best of luck as he goes forward). I'm not sure he will be able to attract the user base he needs to make it work though. We pay our writers, and are moving to implementing a revenue-share model to reward our writers. I'm not sure if the "work-for-free-while-the-owners-get-rich model works any more.

[1]http://newslines.org
[2]http://newslines.org/blog/wikipedia-is-not-a-newspaper/
[3]http://newslines.org/blog/wikipedias-13-deadly-sins/
Jordan Hubbard only recently left Apple. I suspect he is trying to avoid suggesting only Apple solutions for FreeBSD problems.
Labour aren't really social democratic any more - they've basically isolated themselves from the Labour Movement and are fully committed to US-style Corporatist capitalism. In that regard, I agree, they're roughly equivalent to the US Democratic party and doesn't really represent a leftist movement.

The Lib Dems are ineffective, where's the US comparison to the SNP, the Greens, the SSP, actual parties of the left?
I use it regularly on a desktop in the context of Google Play Music, and it works great there. I'm looking forward to see where this goes.
It's democratic, like Hacker News. We'll ask people not to include value judgments/obvious bias, but when it comes to relative ranking of facts, and how facts are worded (a matter for contests), we'll have to trust in the moderating influence of a wide variety of contributors.

In the fullness of time, at scale, we'll have features permitting us to filter/weight the news presented to us according to our preferences. Breaking news into small pieces makes this possible.
While they are worried about performance their core business is increasingly exposed: http://newslines.org/blog/googles-black-hole/
Yes (kind of) - http://stackoverflow.com/q/25802698/5188
Plastic paper
The really bright color should only be on the app who has focus I think, the other one could be dimmed when not on focus.

On Mobile you see only one app at a time so it's fine, but it would be tiring quick to have all these bright colors everywhere, plus when you get back to your desktop you would have no idea on which app you are.
European parliament set to call for break-up of Google in antitrust case
Agreed. Passing around channels (they are values anyway) makes a lot of concurrency problems simpler.
It has been forked [1].

> uselessd (the useless daemon, or the daemon that uses less... depending on your viewpoint) is a project to reduce systemd to a base initd, process supervisor and transactional dependency system, while minimizing intrusiveness and isolationism. Basically, it’s systemd with the superfluous stuff cut out, a (relatively) coherent idea of what it wants to be, support for non-glibc platforms and an approach that aims to minimize complicated design

He could use better marketing, but I think removing the kitchen sink aspect of systemd and keeping the service file syntax is a step in the right direction.

[1] http://uselessd.darknedgy.net
Sega and/or Nintendo tried to require games to display their trademarks before their system would run them, courts ruled that third parties could use the trademarks to overcome such systems.
It's not just a meme. There have been multiple articles and papers the last few years on how a great number of clinical trials are statistically underpowered and therefore suspect; this includes a 2005 paper entitled "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False", which analyzes "49 of the most highly regarded research findings in medicine over the previous 13 years" and finds that a worrying number of them hasn't stand replication.

And when people talk about underpowered studies, it's mentioned less than 100 individuals, not less than 20.
I don't know when this was fixed, but I have no longer had any problems with btrfs on root with ubuntu. I don't remember when it started working well, but I do remember those bad old days. I don't know if dpkg changed or if btrfs changed.
Read the article, thought Eureka. I moved to SLC to train as an adaptive ski instructor and immediately had those altitude affects, loss of appetite and sleep, irritability etc, that were familiar from lots of time spent sleeping at mountain altitudes (7-8k feet above sea level, generally). Being at about 4300 feet above sea level or so on the east side affected me heavily, tho i figured the native population just got used to it.

(Aside from that, I love Utah
Undoubtedly. I read the first paragraph and thought "this is a DHL advert".
Was always my assumption that's what "join forces" meant:

1) http://www.techstars.com/announcing-techstars-in-chicago/

2) http://technori.com/2013/02/3147-excelerate-labs-to-become-t...
> quicker to prototype with due to dynamic typing.

> optional types

etc.
Others will know more, but at very least, they hired Guido for ~7 years and let him spend half of his time working on improving python.
The next area to look, then, would be the native peoples of the Andes. They have a different set of high-altitude adaptations, which aren't as good as the Himalayan ones.
Hmm. HN likes substantive articles and dislikes sketchy tactics. Those two almost never conflict. When they do, though, we tend to favor the substantive article, which this one clearly is. It's an elementary tutorial, yes, but an unusually well-crafted one, and had it appeared on the author's website (http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/blog.html), there'd be no question.

Perhaps the positive reinforcement of seeing what actually works to get on the HN front page—solid content—will combine with earlier negative reinforcement—prior sketchy tactics have gotten this site penalized—to induce a change in behavior. I know that sounds unicorny, but the last time something like this came up on HN, a different site actually cleaned up its ways. Maybe lightning will strike twice.
there are books on the topic. libraries, bookstores, Google and Wikipedia are useful
I remember someone (but not whom or where: maybe on HN or maybe a blog post) saying that all digital systems that accept and quantize analog input will have some analog input conditions with consequences that persist and extend arbitrarily far into the digital part of the system (so that theoretically you could cause an OS on a digital computer to crash just by pressing a key on the keyboard at the exact right time). Does anyone remember where this observation appeared, and is anyone's familiarity with metastability enough to clarify how accurate or inaccurate this description is?
I don't see what the big deal is here. The web is the end all be all of the future. The more people that wake up and realize that, the better.
This is why OpenBSD is the superior desktop operating system. Fixed months ago. :)
I appreciate the feedback and the connection! Clearly, the content creation models are quite different; our focus is pretty exclusively on hard news (for now); we summarize (and can rearrange) individual facts from many sources instead of making one narrative per story written by one person; and you don't rank the news in any meaningful way, as far as I can tell (do correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see how).

We've got quite a few very motivated writers who find writing bitts to be fun, and they know they're working on a site that will be open content (complete with API) and thus a potentially forkable public resource. We're considering doing a profit-sharing system, but I'm worried about the effect that will have on the community. We haven't even hard-launched (the content is still behind a login), we have had minimal publicity, and yet we've got enough regular participants to have a decent evening edition. Relying exclusively on paid writers will prove a drain on resources and might pose a significant roadblock to allowing the site to scale. It's a good thing we didn't do that with Wikipedia...
I guess self-XSS also works with bookmarklet?
C4A Blog – Frustration with Govt Software
Resolved dilemma between two methods of functional evaluation
I would rather this scientist travel to all of these high-desert westen counties and live there for a year before making his claims. I've spent a lot of time in many of these areas, and this paper seems tone-deaf to common sense. These are harsh environments that are not hospitable to human habitation. Its not rocket science that these are tough places to live. Altitude is about a 3rd order issue.

http://nepalitimes.com/news.php?id=2905

Its pretty irresponsible to extrapolate that the Nth order element of the environment is the "key issue", however. Thats a vast oversimplification.

On the fip side, saying "people living in harsh environments on the edge of society, and with low pay, have sub-average mortality expectations" has so many caveats and banalities it doesn't make for a good Academic paper.

I can't blame the governor on that one. I'm pretty sure there is an xckd about this topic somewher.
>Nobody is against progress

You'd be surprised. Just listen to the arguments against giving Linux a more logical directory setup (somewhat like OS X's).
Confusion is the measure used when trademarks aren't registered and is much harder to prove. When considering registered trademarks it's not necessary for confusion to be actually present at all - 100% of customers can know that your product isn't an iPad but if you advertise it as an iPad then you're infringing: it doesn't say "AppleWebKit compatible" in that string and the string is not required to make the browser function at all.

If, for example, people offer alternative services to people with an Apple UA string (BBC iPlayer did this) then you're impersonating such tech use via the trademark - it might be now for example that people need to turn off specific iPad enhancements as they break IE11 - that's commercial interference using a trademark. The trademark isn't needed in any technical way for IE to operate as it should, so it's not a compatibility issue.

Website content owners can choose to cut out certain browsers if they wish, impersonating another browser is fine .. but if you do that as a company utilising someone else's trademark to do so .. it just has feeling for me of not sitting quite right with what I know of TM law.
The reasons listed to use it over FreeBSD are:

1. If you like the Debian package system (or its package set) more than FreeBSD ports (just a matter of preference).

2. If you like GNU userland more than BSDish one (again, just a matter of preference).

3. If you don't have anything against GPL or other copylefted free software licenses, you'll appreciate that useful kernel modules like ext2fs driver, the upcoming reiserfs and xfs, or the upcoming ethernet driver for Xbox are (or will be) compiled in on the default kernel.

4. If you're concerned about running a 100% free system, our commitment to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) guarantees that Debian GNU/kFreeBSD doesn't contain any non-free software. In fact, we have removed some non-free binary-only drivers that are contained in the upstream FreeBSD tree (see 903_disable_non-free_drivers.diff in kernel sources for a list).

Of which 1, 2 are just "you prefer it", 3 you can compile those drivers into FreeBSD if you want them. 4 is reasonable, but overall the reasons to use it over the better supported FreeBSD are weak.
Indeed. It would be interesting to know the distance between two AZs, provided 2ms is the RTT. And considering many factors including - switching and network latency including encryption / decryption on cross AZ traffic (if they do)
It's more than Bob's personal epistemic state that doesn't change. The physical state of his photon doesn't change either. The change from "fully mixed" to "pure" is a change in the mathematical representation of the situation, not a change in Bob's local physical reality. There is no experiment Bob can perform on his photon that will reveal to him whether or not Alice has measured her photon or not (note that this remains true EVEN AFTER he has received Alice's bits).

The difference between a mixed and a pure state is simply a difference in mathematical perspective, not a difference in the underlying physical reality.
> I just wish [pf] were more actively maintained and kept at least vaguely in-sync with upstream.

As much as I would love to have the newest OpenBSD pf config syntax available in FreeBSD I do appreciate them not breaking my firewall config as part of an OS update.
TED video: http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_landolina_this_gel_can_make_you...
Does anyone know who had this sous vide stick design first, this (Anova) or the nomiku(http://www.nomiku.com/)? It is possible that they both were designed in parallel but I would bet one came out before the other.
That is so fucking great.
At Uber, the inmates are running the asylum
> Under a regular user account?

Yep. Only special factors I can think of are VirtualBox guest additions and passphraseless sudo - though I don't recall any similar problems when I last had it on my laptop which had neither.

Also starting from console and not a display manager, because they're vile things that are almost as bad as splash/boot screens.

> I know their team is much smaller so it's just not feasible, but it's definitely something that would be greatly appreciated.

Very much so - the biggest thing I miss from the Debian world is unattended-upgrades. Maybe with some more commercial support..

> Is OpenBSD's MP-safe yet? I believe that's partly related to why FreeBSD's has ALTQ disabled

It's still under a big giant lock as far as I'm aware. They're also removing ALTQ in favour of a simpler framework: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140419151959