skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things like the sales of cold medicine have been used before, and generally speaking they're pretty poor at detecting anything. They can occasionally work well if you know something happened already, and are looking to see when it started, but as any sort of surveillance system, they haven't panned out despite some very intensive research.

The CDC numbers (which are part of ILINet) are pretty decent, and one of the things they do, which hasn't been mentioned here, is they're not trying to find all cases of influenza. They have a network of physicians in all 50 states reporting "Influenza-like Illness". These people then also send samples in for laboratory confirmation of virus type, drug resistance, etc. The numbers are also backwards revised as more data comes in, meaning they improve over the course of the year.

It's a very good system for getting an idea of how "bad" the flu season is - the main problem is that it's slow. The ideal, and what people were hoping from Google Flu Trends (and other systems like it, it's not alone) is "ILINet, but in real time".
Hello all - new to HN and looking for feedback from this community. Specifically would like to hear from salespeople and folks who have tried to purchase for their organizations.
I think it's just a matter of taste. To say they look "horrible" is a stretch isn't it? I mean, you are the only person who brought up and I showed it to somewhere around 50 people - most of whom are strangers with no concern for my feelings.
- Im particular interested in metaprogramming. Ive always wanted to know if it was possible.
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Malaysia says missing plane crashed in Indian Ocean
Correlation does not imply causation.

Alternative theory (without any data :)):

Perhaps most of the photos with 30 tags are dew to semiautomatic fill-all-the-keywords strategies in SEO attempts. So most of them have naturally more exposure than photo from individuals that only use a few tags (like “dog” and “sleeping”).

Then they get more likes because they have more traffic, not because they have more tags

Proposed experiment:

* Pick 70 new photos, and separate them in 7 groups of 10 photos at random.

* Post them with 0; 5; 10; ... ; 30 tags and wait ...

* Count the likes for each group

* Kill outliers? 10 is too small? Find someone with more knowledge of statistics to check the experiment.
There are a number of US laws that protect mail / post explicitly, and don't explicitly protect email. See this article on the matter:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/data_mine_1/2013/06...

One of the laws in question:

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/83/1708
I think that is what's great about how 37signals is handling this. I am sure a large portion of their client base is not technically inclined and having DDoS explained in plain english like they did gives those customers an understanding of what is happening.
This is awesome, reminds me of this pngs I've been saving for a while (don't remember the source, but is probably written on the pngs somewhere)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26820220/unix.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26820220/windows.png
I just wish the quantity of coverage was somehow related to the quantity of information available.

Yes, it's a fascinating event and I can see why they want to talk about it.

But once you've covered all available facts (which in the case of MH370 does not take long, and that was especially true in the days immediately afterwards) then it's time to stop and talk about something else for a while.
Toybox (http://landley.net/toybox/) takes an interesting approach in that they use the ISC license, minus the notice clause. (Strangely, they call call it a 2-clause BSD license, even though it really isn't, but whatever). I'm generally not a fan of license proliferation, but I do kinda like what they've done here.

And the lack of disclaimer of warranty in the WTFPL is not fear-mongering... it's a real issue, and one of the reasons we (Google) don't allow our engineers to use it.
Everyone wants to maximize his/her profits. Nothing wrong in that. Insulting people, tearing contracts, talking rudely to them, deliberately making them wait (Steve Jobs was famous for that. He even made Bill Gates wait for an hour to meet, even when he was clearly seen by his engineers doing nothing in his cubicle) - all this made him the 'a' word, one of the biggest I've read about.
The CDC also uses a outpatient physician network to report cases of influenza-like illness in the community.
I just tried this and several times the highest degree was already connected with the lowest degree, so I either had to pick another highest degree node (if there was a tie), pick the next highest degree and connect it with the lowest degree, or pick the next lowest degree and connect it with the highest degree. They all seemed to work out okay.

I find it interesting that yours appears simpler on the face of it, but has more edge cases. Seems like mine would be simpler if you were actually writing out the steps properly.
It depends if this attack is on basecamp.com or the IPs that basecamp.com resolves to.

It appears Basecamp only has a /23, so even if they redirected traffic through Cloudflare, the attacker could still find their direct servers fairly easily and attack that IP. It's still possible to block, but not quite as easy as setting up Cloudflare.
They probably don't have to for most mail. I posted this yesterday in the Jimmy Carter's mail discussion thread. tl;dr It isn't difficult (at least in principle) to read mail through the envelope. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456157
Nice project, but the wire routing in the schematic makes my eyes bleed.
Today's announcement is simply the inevitable switch from "Search and Rescue" to a "Recovery" effort. It's been 2 weeks, someone had to make the call that the possibility of finding people alive has diminished to the point beyond hope.

As a "Recovery" effort, the pace will continue, but they will no longer risk lives to find the wreckage.
> isn't that the whole point?

It isn't. The grand-parent post implied that paying €2 for every euro in the employee's pocket what a terrible disadvantage for French companies. My point was to show that, all things considered, it was not a huge disadvantage, and that it might even not have been a disadvantage at all, if we knew how to communicate about it.

May I add that employees are, on average, more risk-averse than entrepreneurs. So the lower-risk, lower-reward compromise enforced by France will be more seductive to many of them than the quasi-libertarian approach adopted in the USA.
If you have any evidence to your claim of $12.88 mm, I imagine there are lawyers that would be willing to take your case on contingency...did you not even try to seek one out?
>Another medical support program, asked to suggest treatment for bacterial infection in the kidney, suggested boiling the kidney in hot water.

Well, it would get rid of the bacteria.
A naive greedy algorithm will eventually find a situation where the two nodes with the highest degrees are already connected. Another place where a simple greedy algorithm falls down is a field of many nodes with the same degree, where the greedy algorithm doesn't give information about which two to connect. I think the problem is a bit deeper than it seems in the first few iterations.
Works fine on every Dell (5 models) that I've tried it on.

Not conclusive, but can be a check against "getting better."
About rebuilding from scratch: Most of the time this is a big NO in software. But I think a demo product is an exception.

A demo is just a demo. Quickly put together as a proof of concept. And I think going from demo to product is the one and only time when rebuilding from scratch makes sense.

So I think they made the right choice.
On CNN a representative from Inmarsat stated that airlines could track direction and speed tomorrow. Airlines simply need to enable the service, which is relatively cheap.

Considering how cheap this service is, shouldn't it become mandatory? Then the question becomes, how do you board a 777 at 600 mph and land it if the crew becomes incapacitated?
What law enforcement do you call in these situations. I imagine it would be a waste to call local police.

I don't know how you would get feds to pay attention?
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This is in fact the Havel-Hakimi algorithm.
The key is, like all population studies, the CDC doesn't have to know about you. It has to know about some people like you, and honestly, if you were well enough to not need to go to the doctor, it's also not really the influenza public health authorities are worried about.

The CDC is unapologetic about their data being estimates - but they're very solid estimates, and match more intensive but smaller scale studies pretty well. But we don't need to capture every single flu case - no surveillance system will ever do that, nor need to.
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She says "no tech cofounder" when she was looking around for funding, and mentions it only to the extent that it makes it more difficult to get funding. The next slides are all about the technical team.

Plenty of "co-founders" disappear in early stage startups that take a long time to get going, and at that point they're no longer co-founders, they were just associated people.

I think that HN has a very low tolerance for some sorts of bullshit. But it apparently it has a high tolerance for bullshit questions about people that aren't involved with a startup's current success.
I haven't seen much in the way of HTML/CSS best practices articles either, it would be helpful if other commenters could post such articles that they have run into.
One aspect of the 'infographic' has me puzzled. The search area inset (small box) is way south. It has two lines that say projected flight path. But the flight path is way north. Should the lines in the inset box blowup say 'debris field flow?)
I have trouble figuring out exactly what you're asking here.

Are you asking whether it's normal for people to scream, cry, or collapse after being told that a relative is dead?

That's what it seems like, but such a question is about on the same level as asking whether it's normal for a bear to relieve himself in a forest, so I'm confused.
Cloud cover makes that impossible.
I use virtualpostmail.com for the same purpose; it's a bit easier if you're US-based.
DDOS firms (prolexic etc) are really expensive, I would imagine they do it on an as-needed basis. From my experience working at a datacenter, the first line of defense are the techs in the datacenter, for most attacks, they can blackhole offending IPs etc, and mitigate it. When it gets to the point of being something huge though, like the meetup.com attack, I would imagine they call in an outside firm.
The .ly domain space to be considered awesome
Whoever is doing this thank you for reminding me how important Basecamp is to my business. I hope you are hunted down.
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unfortunately i don't have the technical details, we weren't 100% sure but it seems there's a way to exploit BitTorrent by misdirecting clients to send their traffic toward any host.
We ended blocking out ranges of ip's but at a point you end up cutting a lot of legitimate traffic as well (but i really lack the technical expertise to go more into depth on this).
I use a similar service for here in the UK.

http://www.ukpostbox.com/

So far no problems.
The remarks weren't made with the intent of being cold and insensitive, though i admit i'm not the most sensitive of people.

edit: who knew asking about human/cultural behaviour was so frowned upon.
Correct, many times I've had to fill out a captcha to load a CloudFlare-protected page.
Agism? I don't think so. I have over 20 years of "real world" (who counts any more) experience (cut my teeth in 6502 assembler at age 10) and the real truth is that I am too expensive, and not too old for majority of companies out there let alone startups.

Take your average 20 something year old hot shot highly sought after programmer, well I make 3 times as much as him. As soon as that little tidbit of information is out of the bag, I'm suddenly "too old" or would not be "good cultural fit" for the budding startup.

Sad thing is, it's true. Most of the companies these days are not really solving hard core problems any more and don't really need someone of my level of expertise and skills (how many are in the guts of an OS, databasse or compiler, or need their server performance insanely tight). Most are hoping to disrupt Facebook or Twitter, and for that "social" stuff kids who don't know what they are worth are better suited anyway.
I didn't think that this would be so hard to find:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wash

n. 13. Informal An activity, action, or enterprise that yields neither marked gain nor marked loss: "[The company] doesn't do badly. That is, it's a wash" (Harper's).
And modern PC motherboards still ship with traditional BIOS support.
Agreed. Two things that I know are out of date:

No SteamOS (Based off Debian)

Backtrack was rebuilt and is now Kali

I'm sure there is other stuff.
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There's an oportunity if you're Cloudfare or similar service, not a time tracking and pm app. Most users will end up blaming you because you're not prepared enough etc..
NSA's wet dream.
Attacking the iOS 7 early_random() PRNG
I used to know people who performed these types of DDoS attacks.

Usually it was because they were hired to do so by a competitor. Every time they would claim to demand a ransom, although they didn't expect for it to be paid. It just made people less suspicious.
I've never seen anyone propose that undercover officers or detectives wear cameras, just the officers that interact with the public on a daily basis as part of their job. Street cops and SWAT.

If street cops meet with informants, change the policy to have them meet with detectives.
You should check out Belgium for fun :) If I remember correctly it's a little worse than France, or about the same...
Google turns down military money for robot competition
yes, quite strokes neckbeard
This is way better.
As an engineer on the team, I was skeptical about working the booth. I'm much more comfortable staying heads down writing code, iterating on designs, and just staying focused on building the product. But it was a good experience to get out and talk to people about Nutshell, and listen to what they have to say about CRM.
They use "criminals" 5 times in that short statement. IMO the overuse of emotive language is unnecessary and belies the emotional state of the author. Stay professional and detached—it's a DDoS, I've no doubt it's frustrating but they happen.

I prefer Github's recent response [0], clear and helpful but without the rhetoric.

[0] https://github.com/blog/1796-denial-of-service-attacks
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Suspicion of impropriety heightens concern, probably due to self-preservation instincts. Someone you don't trust implicitly is more likely to seem suspicious to you if there's a claim of impropriety that can't immediately be explained away by any other currently-available information. When you do implicitly trust someone, much less concern is attributed, even without additional information. This applies uniformly without regard to gender - unless the person viewing the claim is biased towards a particular gender, such as misogynists and misandrists.

It was upvoted because it's weird, there's no simple explanation, and people are concerned.
this announcement makes Malay government's unrealistic well known. Good job Malay Gov~
Yup, they're doing a great job in couching it in language that their customers can understand regardless of technical background. It's easy to forget that services like Basecamp service a huge swath of people who wouldn't necessarily understand what's going on without that sort of copy massage.
I think this is the killer point. Quebec suffers from a similar problem, with the result being a disproportionate amount of time is spent working out how to claim the credits, and less focus on the actual work at hand. This overhead also means subsidiaries of foreign companies get the bulk of the credits too, with very little going to start ups in practice.

It would be easier and better all round to have lower bureaucracy and business tax, and scrap the R&D credits, which would allow the market to actually function, but cynically I came to believe the whole scheme exists just to employ a load of accountants and government bureaucrats, not to actually achieve anything.
Has anyone defended a DDoS attack on an application hosted on Amazon's AWS/EC2?

If so, how did that go?

Did Amazon help?
My bet is that he's already explored that avenue, and that the business relationship was not properly specified in writing and that it's the unsolvable "my word against your word" problem now.

Hoping that everyone get's that right the first time is of course illusional; may you all learn that lesson by being screwed out of a moderate 4 digit amount early in your careers!
"For as long as he can remember, all he ever wanted to do was to build a start-up that would go public..."

Me, too! I just don't pout publicly about my sad fortune. Instead I take a job, using my decades of experience, doing interesting things.
It is a kids toy. They see it in a kids toy shop and want to buy it. There are already non lego bricks but every kid knows they're not as good, never work properly.

Plus no matter how great 3d printers become, the bricks would still need designing, and making sure they have the exact fit on each other like lego bricks always do.

lego won't be killed off by 3d printing.
Reason would dictate that if the plane had truly landed somewhere, it would have been found by now. Wild theories of said plane flying under some other similar plane to avoid radar detection would have been figured out already and would have not caused us to go on any wild goose chases in the Indian Ocean.

We all wanted that plane to be safe and sound.
they did get a blackmail email so it does seem like they are being targeted by someone.
There are two plugins they currently offer. One blocks sites from tracking you, while the other allows you to search using your favorite search engine with added security (no ip logging, more anonymity, etc.).

For more information checkout the Github project page for each project below.

https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect

https://github.com/disconnectme/search
Whoever is doing this thank you for reminding me how important Basecamp is to my business. I hope they hunt you down.
Why doesn't the developer's post address the possibility of visualizing the CPU rather than emulating it?
Why do you think they cannot? Or do you think that the thing called "culture" does not exist? How people show or do not show grief can and is the cultural thing.
Yeah. This decision (personal transparency) depends largely on how much an individual fears they have embarrassing personal lives vs how much they fear legal system (police, prosecutors, judges) incompetence and corruption.

There is no "right" decision.

I personally fear the legal system much more. Both because it is more likely and it's consequences are more severe. Being ostracized and fired from my job cause I'm a furry vs spending anytime in jail/prison (which would probably get me ostracized and fired anyways).
That's what i was trying to say, we did something very similar, but you still end up with a portion of your user base that will blame you for not being able to handle it. (and they are in part right, but due to the nature of the attack sometimes it's very complicated to handle it or costs a lot of money - something the same customers wouldn't want to pay extra for :)
No, I would disagree.

You can keep the data open to the public with some constraint. Such as, you can request a copy of video from a certain timeline if you are on the video or have the permission from someone on the video. If you can prove such information, then they have to hand it over.

I'm more interested in how to handle the news media on this type of thing. It would seem maybe the media cannot access the video unless they have similar permissions or if the video has been submitted as evidence in some way.
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It's a long story, but I am still in the process of pursuing it legally. When I first learned of the acquisition, I didn't have the resources to pursue it, and even today don't have millions sitting around to pay attorneys. I sent a letter to the acquiring company explaining the situation and demanding that I receive my cut, and they actually responded with an extortionate threat in writing. We are now pursuing a civil federal extortion case against both the acquirer and my cofounder.

But, as of this moment, despite my name being on the company's first and primary patent, having written all of its initial code, having envisioned the entire concept of the company myself, and even having named the company, I have seen exactly $0 from an acquisition I was supposed to receive 20% of. Even better, with $60 million in his pocket, my womanizing, alcoholic, conniving cofounder suddenly found Jesus and now fancies himself a televangelist of sorts. At last contact with him, he was "praying for me". Go figure.

So yeah, be careful when working with others. My cofounder would have been considered by anyone that looked at him to be beyond reproach. He was not.
Then the question becomes, how do you board a 777 at 600 mph and land it if the crew becomes incapacitated?

If (extremely hypothetically) it turns out that this disaster could have been preventable if there had been some way for someone outside the aircraft to assume control, the tradeoff to be examined would be the benefits vs. hazards of extensive remote control capability, rather than some kind of commando raid techniques.
what's with the bitly/quint.ly link?
Turkey has blocked Google DNS access to Twitter
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No one has found anything in person yet except some wood with straps on it that cargo is sometimes secured to, but ships use these also and they're not sure it's from the aircraft yet. Lots of debris has been sighted in many different areas via satellite but when they arrive in the area nothing gets found.

So far it seems this is entirely based upon analysis of the SATCOM ping data. Unless they have information they aren't yet sharing, I feel it's somewhat irresponsible for the Malaysian government to tell family conclusively that it crashed into the ocean with no survivors when they haven't even found wreckage yet.
What specifically do you deem as being "extreme"?

Why are you referencing the terror attacks on 9/11?

In the case of the Kiwis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI6TRTBZUMM#t=63. Is this group of screaming, chest-beating men any different in their expression of grief?

In the case of the Aussies: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/02/london-2012-aus.... Is this swimmer's loss really more significant than the loss of one's family and friends? I mean...no one died and this wasn't 9/11...right? Why is she crying, hiding her face, and hunched over?

In the case of the French: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117014/Toulouse-sho.... This woman didn't even lose any family (maybe) and yet she has smashed her fists to the window, pressed her head close to the coffins, and is openly weeping.

I mean, look at these Americans: http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1360633/philip-seymour-hoffma... (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-strugg...). A freaking actor died and they're weeping and moping.

My point is that I don't fully understand what your intentions were, but I feel that your comments come across as xenophobic and disrespectful to the families who are currently experiencing loss.