skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, having been exposed/infected with Lyme disease 3 times, any vaccine would be welcome. Really. I can't stress that enough.

Due to a variety of factors, including deer overpopulation(1), the Lyme disease infection rate in Deer Ticks in New England is ridiculously high. While I was undergoing treatment for the 3rd time, my doctor indicated that probably 25% of ticks in that region carry the disease.

I'd be all for a vaccine. It would be even better if we could vaccinate the deer agains being hosts somehow...maybe in a salt lick?

(1) http://www.ct.gov/caes/lib/caes/documents/publications/fact_...
I don't understand why they don't use Tizen, FirefoxOS, Sailfish, Ubuntu, etc if they dislike google so much. The reality is they need google for all the services they can't or won't implement. They don't want to build their own mapping software, browser, etc.

Its all moot anyhow. Google has shoved all the newest APIs into its google play services and without a google license for those items, those apps won't run. This was a play to stop fragmentation like the one you're predicting.

I suspect the 30% of phones are Xiaomi phones, which solely exist because the CCP won't let Chinese citizens access google mobile services as they're blocked by their national firewall. If this block didn't exist, Xiaomi would be using all the Google services everyone else does.
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I'll let you alpha test, I'll sign up for the beta.
I know it's difficult to figure out an unusual illness of any kind, but there are far too many cases where physicians insist on one diagnosis even when it does not fit the symptoms. I've seen it first hand with family members, where a cancer diagnosis could've been made far quicker if they hadn't wasted time with useless bullshit that was just treating side effects, not the major symptoms.

This baffles me, and makes me very eager for computerized systems which hopefully won't just ignore important facts about the case.
This isn't innovation. AC-3 is almost 20 years old, and wasn't very good even for the time (it was designed for high-bandwidth optical discs). Dolby Digital Plus is an extension whose primary purpose is to extend their patent licensing regime.

Innovation would have been using Opus (full disclosure: I'm one of the authors of Opus).
By contracting with the US military Musk has explicitly joined the military industrial complex, an arrangement akin to Mussolini's corporate-fascism, little different from a nationalized company in practice except there isn't even the facade that profits are shared. Profits are privatized once Musk has sucked off enough public wealth through government by building various machines designed in aid in the killing of people.

Maybe that is just the world we live in, at least except it and stop trying to glorify the killing of women and children for profit.
As a professional iOS dev and a golang tickerer, I've heard nothing about this, but I'm curious; any projects you can point me at?
Only some vaccines are covered however: http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/84521booklet.pdf

The focus is on compulsory childhood vaccines although the government can add others at its discretion.
Sending ice to Antarctica
Dental, Pharma, and Mental Health are the obvious holes in Ontario's (and Canada's) "Universal" Health Care.

Do you want to deal with a person's psych problems or pay for their psych care?
Hitler might have made that order, but that doesn't mean that WWII bombers were actually able to bomb with such precision that they could deliberately avoid hitting specific buildings. Especially since the bombings happened at night! The blitz was "strategic bombing" which basically means a large area is bombed in order to destroy and and kill as much as possible - not target specific buildings.
The thought has recently occurred to me that we should all be working on the "aging problem", until it's solved, and then spending all our extra time on other pursuits.
SourceForge made a blog post about the GIMP project here:
http://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-...

It appears they switched the GIMP project on SF back to directly downloading the standard GIMP installer, at least that's what I see right now in Firefox at 3:30pm NYC time.
What if they get stuck on the train? There are other, non-lazy reasons for being late.

If I'd taken a 30 minute train ride to come and see you, been delayed by 10 minutes, then find you're gone when I arrive I don't think our friendship would last very long.
Those interested in both mind fusion and science fiction would probably enjoy Ramez Naam's Nexus trilogy, which was just completed this month.
Google Maps will help locate lost travelers
As someone with experience only in Python, is Rust a decent place for me to learn lower-level concepts or should I go with C/C++?
The one other thing that might tail into that is working on the "sleeping problem."
The fact that you find this hard to grasp says a lot more about your intelligence than it does of the average Facebook user. It's not exactly a mystery.
I agree. But the further implication is that for the same reasons, if your brain is plasticised and later scanned and turned into an uploaded whole-brain emulation, you'd still be dead. Uploading is not a pathway to personal longevity, or whatever you want to call continuation-of-me-not-just-my-memories.
You may wish to consider your sour taste to be less targeted at Sales and SEs and more around (broken) company-wide processes and (lack of) clout the implementation teams wield.

I'm also on the implementation side (sometimes referred to as professional services), and two immediate thoughts jump to mind:

1) Unless you're a practice manager directly responsible for maintaining a targeted book-to-bill ratio or other quota metric (which usually entails account and long-term customer relationship management), your management should not be throwing you under the bus and exposing you to break that news to the customer. Nothing destroys a booking pipeline faster than customers with mismanaged expectations.

2) This type of behaviour from Sales teams is usually indicative of misaligned incentives. A concrete example of this type of situation could be company in an early "hyper-growth" phase where they only comp on new bookings, and don't comp Sales on contract renewals.
I had Lyme disease several years ago and it was quickly cleared up with antibiotics, but not until after a week of intense fever and migraines, joint pain (as in, all my joints), extreme lethargy, and finally the breakout of ring shaped marks all over my body.

I was one of the lucky ones because it was so easily treatable and I have not had any reoccurring systems, something that is pretty common with Lyme disease.

I don' think that everyone needs to be vaccinated, but I really wish I had been given the choice since I live in a area with lots of ticks and spend a lot of time doing outdoor stuff.
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"Those fears were not in the slightest irrational. People had really really bad reactions to the regular pertussis to the point that people routinely advised new parents not to get it for their children."

Simply not true. You can easily find my citations (including CDC). Please provide yours.

"So what's better a vaccine that doesn't work as well, that people are willing to take? Or a vaccine that works well, but far fewer people are willing to take it?"

The risk from Pertussis is greater than that of DTAP by a lot. This is like suggesting we take away seat belts because some people believe they'll trap them in a burning vehicle.
I think that demonstration was to show that the laser system can be useful against very cheap home-made mortars and rockets. The military would rather use a laser that costs tens or hundreds of dollars per shot to defend against mortars that cost perhaps several hundred dollars, rather than the current conventional methods that cost tens of thousands of dollars per shot.
Question from Githubbers:

Have considered using cluster file systems such as GlusterFS or Ceph?
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> WTF8 exists solely as an internal encoding (in-memory representation)

Today.

Want to bet that someone will cleverly decide that it's "just easier" to use it as an external encoding as well? This kind of cat always gets out of the bag eventually.
Here is a simple example I just threw together of calling a Rust function from within Cython:
https://github.com/synapticarbors/rust-cython-test

I use cython extensively in my work and it's super productive for me as well, but I could see maybe toying with Rust more in the future for some really specialized things.
Are you signed up for cryonics?
yes but most of the mortars this will be facing will be diy ones or at best ww2 era 80 or 120 mm fired by insurgent's who wont have these exotic rounds.
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That is not quite true, in the sense that more of the standard library has been made unicode-aware, and implicit conversions between unicode and bytestrings have been removed. So if you're working in either domain you get a coherent view, the problem being when you're interacting with systems or concepts which straddle the divide or (even worse) may be in either domain depending on the platform. Filesystem paths is the latter, it's text on OSX and Windows — although possibly ill-formed in Windows — but it's bag-o-bytes in most unices. There Python 2 is only "better" in that issues will probably fly under the radar if you don't prod things too much.
Thanks! UI/css/js people might not use it as often, but this is much better than hard coding the stringbuffers with <> tags for my internal tools, it works great for what I needed it for.
I stopped at 'disrupting'
Just to make the farce complete, FIFA and Qatar donated to the Clinton Foundation
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%245...

as well as this:
http://www.fifa.com/sustainability/news/y=2010/m=9/news=fifa...
http://sportanddev.org/en/connect/userprofile.cfm?894/FIFA-J...
That's the crux of it all, isn't it? Is your self any more than your personality and memories? If so, then you'll have to resort to a soul or some such. If not, then the upload is really 'you', or a copy anyway.

And who's to say a soul wouldn't attach to a copy anyway? Souls are not that well understood. Perhaps it would be fooled by the copy, or have an affinity for it, or some such. As long as we're speculating.
For just simple API stuff, CherryPy is another good option.
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Not a secret now of course. I'm saying because it was kept secret at that time, not good records were kept.
Good Luck Daniel
The article states that the firm MBDA in Germany had helped to show that reflective armour, at least with mirrors, is not a good defense against lasers, as

>any dust on the mirrored surface would get burned in, and lead to the destruction of the target even faster than with a non-reflective surface.
I suppose we'll be seeing a bunch of libgen.org proxies soon?
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This is a very common question, and there's two camps:

1. Learn C, then learn some C++. You won't appreciate Rust until you've felt the pain that it solves.

2. Learn Rust. Why bother going through all that trouble on your own when you can have the compiler help guide you.

and a third position:

3. Rust is still new enough that you'll find way more information with C, so you should just learn that even if Rust is better in a vacuum. Learning is easier with copious help and tutorials.

I personally fall in camp 2, and sometimes 3.
Unfortunately, that's not the case in all areas where Lyme is prevalent. On top of that, the standard Lyme test is not very reliable. Living in New Jersey (filled with deer, mice, and ticks) you would think that doctors would be more aware. But it took several different doctors, emergency visits, hospitalizations, and, yes, a negative Lyme test before my wife was finally diagnosed.

The standard reply in the hospital was that even though they had no clue what was wrong with my wife, they were certain that it wasn't Lyme. And since insurance doesn't cover the Igenix tests, we had to pay the $300+ out of pocket.
Go is still garbage collected. Supporting Objective C, Lua or even Rust would be more meaningful in terms of improving performance.
Not if all the binaries for the version control systems also go missing :)
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Get a job that's not an agency but has an in-house product (you seem to enjoy that much more), then leave.

Give them a few weeks' notice, you don't owe them anything else really.
majority of the population will probably not care and keep feeding data into every device there is for a while

e.g. wearables
What about Double-UTF-8 -> D-UTF-8 ->"Duty-F-8"
FCC is going after robocallers and text-message spammers
awesome catch, thanks man!
The list is very long. HR applications across the board are generally very expensive, so you'll easily hit six figures for a business with just hundreds, not thousands, of employees.

This is why the exciting new breed of start-ups in this space (payroll, ATS, HRIS, etc) are making a killing—amazing profit margins, even when you dramatically undercut the established players.
I am 100% for a hivemind. I am 100% fervently against a hivemind that enforces a personality or even a network of connections. Fuck that shit. You can actually hear all the sociopaths wringing their hands in unison at the prospect of forcing a compliant Borg hivemind onto humanity and bending it to their will. Before something like this is implemented, we're going to very much first require a purge of all sociopaths from the species. Or use the hivemind somehow to change or destroy sociopaths. But even here, you can see where this is going. Nobody said the revolution was going to be easy, that's for sure.
I think this pretty much explains why this happened, a quote from their parent company here: "2005 - IN AUGUST, WE ARE ACQUIRED BY DICE HOLDINGS, INC., WHICH IS OWNED EQUALLY BY GENERAL ATLANTIC LLC AND QUADRANGLE LLC, PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS IN NEW YORK CITY." via: http://www.dhigroupinc.com/our-company/default.aspx
Are we too nice when a company fails? Homejoy and CustomMade find cushy landings
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Well if you use atomic 4K writes to the drive, and expose each one as 7 512-byte blocks to the next layer...
Yes, it's a crime that such an obviously desirable thing has been pushed out of common discussion, so many of us focus on absurdities like advertising.
I've been excitedly keeping up on telomere therapy - based on the observation that telomeres (tiny hairs on our DNA) get shorter as we age, and this internal clock causes our cells to shut off and auto-die.

This research has been in a different area of aging - preventing mitochondria damage. This is also an important part of keeping cells operating correctly.
Once you leave academia for an unrelated job, you're out for good. There's no way to get a tenure-track job when you've spent a couple years working in a different field, but that possibility still exists if you're teaching at a University, even as an adjunct.

They work for peanuts and a lottery ticket, not just peanuts.
GWU is located in Washington, DC, which as far as I know, doesn't have "right to work" laws as neighbouring Virginia does.
Reflective paint is surprisingly ineffective. In order to work at all, it needs to be tuned to the frequency of the attacking laser, and not get dirty, or scratched up, or otherwise gain significant imperfection in the finish, which is rather difficult to achieve when firing out a cannon and flying through the air.

Even if those conditions are met, however, mirrors still make for surprisingly bad defense against weaponized lasers, simply because no mirror is 100% efficient. The 0.1-ish% of a well focused, high-powered weapons laser that doesn't get reflected by a ridiculously high quality mirror on initial contact will still damage and deform the mirror, thus allowing more and more of the laser's power to be deposited in the target with increasing dwell time.

Laser weapons avoid destroying their own optics by, first, using optics tuned exactly to the specific frequencies the weapon is designed to fire, and second, by using relatively large focusing mirrors / lenses which keep the power/area on the weapon optics below dangerous levels. Even so, real laser weapons have ridiculous cooling requirements to keep from destroying themselves with waste heat, which keeps their efficiency rather low.

There are other countermeasures that can be used against lasers, to be sure; mirrors just ain't one of them.
That said, the "One Lesson" of the book's title is applicable to all schools of economics: that to qualify as good economic thinking, the consequences of a proposed change must be propagated through the entire economy, and not cut off until they are plausibly insignificant. This is something that any modern economist should agree with, regardless of what their other biases are.
"This thing you think of as you: it spreads across two cerebral hemispheres connected by the corpus callosum, a fat meaty pipe more than 200 million axons thick."

From the article.

It's interesting because, compared to the massive parallelism in each hemisphere, the connection between the two doesn't seem all that large.

Individual neurons also seem to have to have a fairly slow response time, on the order of milliseconds from what I've read. IANANeuroscientist, but that could be a manageable amount of data?
America's entire justice system seems unfair to the poor. Or to phase it another way, I literally don't believe the poor get a fair or speedy trial, but do believe the rich can. Bail is a big problem. Plea agreements and their relationship to public defender's workload are another massive problem.

A lot of people without much familiarity of the legal system think things like "no innocent person would ever plead guilty!" but the way the US legal/justice system is set up right now, it is often the least-bad alternative to plead guilty to a crime you didn't commit than to fight it.

And I'd love to point my finger at one individual or set of individuals, but the reality is that the entire system is broken, and it isn't broken because of bad actors, it is broken because it is just poorly designed and implemented at its core (although moral prosecutors can help mitigate some of the problems).

The UK justice system is imperfect, but things like no plea deals, no monetary bail, and better pay for public defenders (although still too low, and they're still overworked) improve things a lot. Plus prosecutors aren't politically motivated and are interested in justice (elected prosecutors is another massive problem in the US).

The US criminal justice system is "scary." I feel bad for anyone who it victimises, in particular the poor.
It would be a warning from numpy, not Python. That comes from numpy/core/src/multiarray/conversion_utils.c and was added 2013-04-13 , which would be for NumPy 1.8, I believe.
You would be surprised how many teachers don't know how to do practical tasks or be competitive enough to be employed on the public sector.
Personally I think just the front page has too much noise. I'd love to be able to filter out topics and submitters.
People may stop dying but they won't stop reproducing. Let's make sure we master space exploration and terraforming before we start overpopulating the earth.
>* Russia curbing various freedoms and opposition? Sure the US is a 2 party system where there is no hope for change.

Now this comment depresses me. Why not compare the us patriot act or civil forfeiture, or the wide spread illegal 4th amendment breaking mass surveillance program a whistle blower had to reveal (who incidentally lives in Russia now).

Then you use the phrase hope and change, is that satire, a man became president lying with that platform slogan.

How about including torture, indefinite imprisonment without trial, or kill lists to show how the US also has erroded civil liberties?

How much more comic book evil does the American empire need to become before people stop defending it with 'Russia and China are worse', maybe they are, but its a sad pissing match to ask if Mao or Hilter was the worst 20th dictator, both men caused tremendous amounts of Human misery.

Why do people want to defend a military that has killed hundreds if thousands of civilians? How morally bankrupt are the techies of hacker news.
I am not, actually, because the damage for me personally is above a threshold I'm willing to accept. I am experimenting with rapamycin, but I'm not so sure cyronics are going to actually work. I 100% respect that other people find the prospect acceptable, and I am totally supportive of people that want to push this technology further. The other facet of this gem is that I cannot afford it. :P
UCS2 is the original "wide character" encoding from when code points were defined as 16 bits. When codepoints were extended to 21 bits, UTF-16 was created as a variable-width encoding compatible with UCS2 (so UCS2-encoded data is valid UTF-16).

Sadly systems which had previously opted for fixed-width UCS2 and exposed that detail as part of a binary layer and wouldn't break compatibility couldn't keep their internal storage to 16 bit code units and move the external API to 32.

What they did instead was keep their API exposing 16 bits code units and declare it was UTF16, except most of them didn't bother validating anything so they're really exposing UCS2-with-surrogates (not even surrogate pairs since they don't validate the data). And that's how you find lone surrogates traveling through the stars without their mate and shit's all fucked up.
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Well, if you are designing such a system, you'd want to make sure that you hook into the close page function and give an alert saying 'If you close this page, the file will not finish saving' or something of the sort. Also, you'd probably want to design it such that the 'file save' operation is one of the first things you do rather than the last.
github.io will still also hit the CDN. It's just custom naked domains that will miss.
I would also add prescription eyewear to that list. These are not optional costs when you need them, and cause bigger problems when ignored. So why is it being left to employers, as if it's an optional benefit? The government is saying it's an acceptable level of health to not be able to see.

Let's leave the truly extended, non-prescription services, like massages, to companies to provide as benefits.
Maybe not a direct correlation but:

"By design, C provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions"[1]

I believe this is what the op was getting at. This is why C is called a "mid level" language.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29