skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider neither solution acceptable. The only acceptable solution would have been to have a cure for ebola by now.

I do not consider compassion with victims misguided.

I don't live with the delusion that there has to be an acceptable solution to every problem - there isn't even one for those 40000 people on that mountain in Kurdistan - but that doesn't mean we shouldn't acknowledge that it is a shitty solution and work towards getting an acceptable one.
https://getcardflight.com
I would be loath to take advice from Google about how to monetize a small website. Not just because of the conflict of interest (of course they want people to run ads), but because it's not their area of expertise.
We need something like this for Chef cookbooks. Managed private and public API endpoints for organizations to host cookbooks that don't belong on the main community site,
The best way, the only acceptable way, is to have medicine for the decease.

But we don't have any right now, so wishing that reality was different from how it actually is doesn't help us to deal with the short term problem. We can work on deveoping and producing medicine, but while we wait for results we also need a strategy to managing the outbreak right now at the local level.

Incidentally I don't agree that we're signing the death warrant for anyone in there. Those people are already at a high risk of death, but we can still treat them even while they're isolated.
Google Wants to Save Our Schools–And Hook a New Generation of Users
Cull your backlog
I've found a no-questions-asked refund policy for the first few days of the account much more satisfactory than trial or free accounts.
Exactly, its easy to spot a Chinese spy when you investigate your Chinese workers.

The notion that a spy is only someone loyal to a country is just quite frankly, silly.
Some guy does it with aluminium and ants' nests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI
Videotaping yourself and watching it is a pretty good place to start. You'll be surprised at how much you can coach yourself.
Hello, Oppio is the italian word for Opium, one of the most dangerous drugs out there.

Just thought you'd wanted to know.
Pretty awesome. I was tired of having a Google Plus account for personal use and for work just to access Hangouts.

Very annoying that people would "discover me" on both Plus accounts when I did my best to hide both profiles.
I believe that project is dead. David Dalrymple took a job at Twitter a few months ago.
Be sure to block all of the white guys with yellow fever, while you're at it.

No, it's not a "political" problem.
Ask HN: What to do when the .com is too expensive?
We have found a new name for our company, the .com is parked (I mean do you know any good .com that's not?).

We have exchanged maybe 10 emails with the domain broker and he is asking us almost $20,000. We have make a proposal for $1,400 (Similar domains sell for this price), and the broker told us that our offer is too low to even be taken to the actual owner. Sic.

We try to find an alternative of the .com, like alternative domains as .io, .net, .ly ... or to add a prefix (my, your, get, the...) or a suffix (app, service, hq...)

I wonder what's the best practices?

PS: We are a web-based SaaS for businesses.
Too. Late. Users. Gave. Up. Already.

Signed,

Real Name? Ha!
I've seen business cards with PGP fingerprints encoded as QR codes. That's a pretty neat idea.
Raspberry Pi Compute Module media player flying high on Kick Starter
Great question. Yes, some require accounts. For the ones that do, we provide you with the account details once all submissions have been completed.
Which is pointless when the plaintext password has already been sent across the wire.
Sorry to hear about the job becoming something you stopped liking.

Are you unwilling to search for another job? Is that due to Spain's large unemployment rate? What about freelancing on the side doing small, cheap portfolio-building projects, and then switching to a minor role at your company?
X-Ray Gifs: Joints in motion
Adding clarity to scope inheritance in Angular.js
The NHS quality is dependent on where you are in the UK. For example my 92 year old grandmother cannot make an appointment in advance to see her GP (general practioner). Instead she has to call the practice from 8:30am to get put on a list for that day. If she is lucky enough to get through on the phone she then has to be lucky enough to have been one of the first patients to get through (it is normally engaged due to high demand). Once she is on the list she has to go down to the practice and wait. That wait could be up to 3 hours. She is blind and deaf.

I live in Germany on the other hand and I am privately insured. I can get to see a doctor easily. However my health insurance has a strange caveat in that I must see and be referred by my GP if I have to see a specialist doctor. My health insurance recently refused to pay for a visit that I made to the ER for a broken arm which was caused whilst playing football at 8pm (long after my GP had hone home). I was expected to wait until the next day in agony to complete their beaucratic hoop jumping.

That being said I like the UK system because it is free (excluding taxes), whilst in general the German quality of service is exemplary (although non private patients have a much poorer QoS). If I was seriously I'll with cancer or something that requires a expidited process between diagnosis and operation then I'd chose Germany every time.
ACL2 Sidekick: a graphical aid for the ACL2 theorem prover
We wrote pretty much this years ago at FastMail:

https://www.fastmail.fm/help/technical/ssltlsstarttls.html

All the downgrade and pre-encryption MITM and complexity arguments are definitely worth repeating though. Straight up SSL is significantly better.
> $300 ain't bad to save the sight in your eye.

Not everyone can afford $300. Consider people on minimum wage (or unemployed), or supporting children on that income. That's most of a week's paycheck; so much for meals, rent, heat, etc.

They always could leave the glass in their eye, as the insurance company suggested.
I don't agree. I use GPGtools on OSX with the openpgp smartcard and it works flawlessly and is truly convenient. Furthermore I can use 4096 bit RSA keys.

One thing I have learned watching the crypto forums over the years is that there are well calculated misinformation campaigns trying to dissuade people from using secure methods. I see it again and again and the people on this forum need to think carefully before swallowing this as sincere.

I would never never never trust a solution from Google or any large American corporation. They have just been caught lying about prism (Google) and taking bribes (RSA). These companies are now and always will be totally untrustworthy.
What’s 250M Light-Years Big, Almost Empty, and Full of Answers?
Part of the problem is that health officials really have no idea how many people could be exposed inside the regions as many do not trust health care providers. Quarantining entire areas is probably the safest thing that can be done right now.

"Its size is due in part to weaknesses in the affected countries’ health systems and a lack of trust in the health workers who are struggling to combat the virus" [0]

Not sure the reliability of this source, but "The health security situation is worsened by an apparent lack of trust by the local population in their own governments and medical staff. Warnings against the consumption and selling of bush meat for instance have largely fallen on deaf ears with an inherent belief of the local populations that Ebola either must be a myth or a scam on behalf of corrupt politicians to deprive them of their most basic needs and livelihoods." [1]

[0] - http://www.intrahealth.org/page/ebola-outbreak-underscores-n...

[1] - http://www.securitynewsdesk.com/2014/08/12/ebola-west-africa...
First I saw the domain and I thought someone was trying to bring back winamp... Nice job on the app!
Whatever Happened to BeOS?
I love to tinker with operating systems -- perhaps too much. I was just thinking about BeOS and the non-Linux replacement, Haiku, which is still in Alpha 4.

What went wrong with BeOS? Was it hardware, software? No one cared because of Linux and BSD?

BeOS was original, fast, and elegant. In my opinion, it should have been the next OS X instead of the remnants of Next.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Prism_sli...
Looks great, has potential: nice design, self hosted, responsive UI, open source. Maybe create a companion offline app for smartphones/tablets that would sync with the server?
Blackphone Hacked Finally
Interesting, would I be correct in saying that this is like Kenshoo / Marin but with more of a IFTTT approach vs. using complicated portfolio bidding algorithms to make decisions? I like the flat fee per month vs. % of budget.
The use of the X symbol to mean "cancel, close" isn't nearly so mysterious as the author claims. "Cross off" and "cross out" are common phrases in English, and traditionally denoted by an X symbol (the "cross").

There is no reason to suppose that the GUI usage was inspired in any way by exotic Japan. The X as "cancel symbol" has been quite common in the west and indeed worldwide for millenia.
On Net Neutrality, California Cares; Texas? Not So Much
There are too many startup related videos floating around. If you have watched them, after a point, you notice that they all say the same thing. Next step is to stop watching these videos and actually doing something. If you are already at the stage of noticing the pattern, you don't need to listen anything in person.
If not, it might help you get there.

However, you will get to network with some good talent if you visit startup school.
Yeah, I imagine there was a testing aspect to what he was doing, and you pointed out some potential tests. Maybe just making sure the version that went live responds the way he predicted it would.
Oh for the love of <insert deity here> no!
This will now be printed and stuck onto the wall by the astronaut architects where we work, who blindly parrot MFs words like gospel, without any understanding.

Software used to be shit, but at least fun, then we had software architects, and now software is just shit.

Sigh.
Are you the only developer on this? If that is the case, this is pretty impressive, as you did both the front and back end; along with the business items.
I think that's a great idea. Team Fortress 2 does things like this after a death (ex: That was the longest you've stayed alive as the Engineer, That was the most points you've ever captured with the Scout) and I find that they do motivate you to keep going even if you're being decimated, because hey at least you did _something_ better than before.
Checkmarks (positive, accepted item) are quite often opposed to X marks (negative, undesired item).
I know it seems crazy but they might have a storage technique that is unknown to the public.
> Protection of a private key, for example.

I have a master key that was created offline, and use a subkey on a usb smart token. It works good but it was a bitch to set up. Apparently Qubes OS has a hardware-virtualized PGP container for protecting private keys, but that's not a viable solution right now.
I'm curious--what sort of workload are you looking at where JSON/HTTP is insufficient?

We do a lot of realtime signal streaming, and haven't had many problems. We'll be switching to a different format (or embedded format) to better handle some numerical pickiness on our end, but the fundamental transport is fine.
I think most non-EV SSL certificates these days are "verified" by sending a message to whatever e-mail address you have on file in your whois record.

Also on Chrome at least certificate pinning should prevent that particular scenario.
For the fresh, barista-brewed cup, you're almost certainly correct. But what about the bag of beans that someone buys along with their coffee? The coffee mug? Hell, go into a Starbucks sometime and look at any item you can buy that you don't have to ask for from someone behind the counter...all of that is what Amazon does better and cheaper (though not friendlier) than any small business can compete with.
Facts are important here. Families and friends share things like food, water and probably plates and things. I personally don't have any facts to refute your argument, but would be wary to allege anything based on "what you heard" from sources you didn't name.
Thanks. Glad it helped another dev.
Also, would be really curious to learn your story for why you decided to start AdStage, and what the steps are like for creating a bid management platform (that also handles display) from scratch. I imagine it might be fairly capital intensive up front given the engineering costs and the likely commitments required from networks/exchanges to integrate.
Ksplice: Automatic Rebootless Kernel Updates (2008) [pdf]
Oculus Rift Finally Lets You Kiss Hatsune Miku
Just an idea that might not be very practical but what if there was X number of "master" public keys managed by trusted groups that could be used to verify other public keys and they were posted in plain text on billboards across towns (maybe could replace CAs?)... just like you can use the Debian keys to verify the Tails OS key..
Show HN: Imageless – Read webpages without distracting images
If the mini demo on the home page is accurate, be careful with those colors - light red & green specifically. Full protanopia is present in approximately 1-2% of males. Deuteranopia (less severe than protanopia) is present in some form in up to 5% of males of certain European descent.

For a reference, this is an approximation of what light red & light green look like for someone with protanopia: http://i.imgur.com/EGSlsmB.png
Where I am, if you want a doctors appointment it's either a normal appointment or an "emergency". If it's not urgent, you ring up whenever and make an appointment, but it'll be a few days at least. I once waited a fortnight for something non-urgent.

But if it couldn't wait that long, you rang at surgery opening (8:00 iirc) and they give you a time for you to turn up. You turn up and then you wait to be seen. They fit you in as quickly as possible, average wait for me is usually about 45 minutes I guess?

Is it emergency appointments your nan is trying to get?

There's definitely an element of what we call "Postcode lottery", the quality and provisioning of medical care can vary based on where you live. But generally, while we British bitch and moan about it, it's brilliant.

Edit: which -> while we British
Or perhaps to dig deeper as to WHY they are on the brink of extinction. If they develop a trait that causes them to lay their eggs on the rim (which can be directly linked to the species decline), isn't that just Darwin at work? Who are we to step in an say "yep, they're idiots for doing it, but we should still save them."
It's in GNUPG 2.1, but it's been in beta forever. Also, at least my smart token can only do RSA. It's disappointing that it's taking this long, but it's not people are throwing money at the GNUPG team.
I am, it's me and my business partner - she takes care of the financials / legals, and is the voice of common sense and reason. I handle the dev (with a bit of help from bootstrap).
What Do Blind People Actually See?
I still have...

1) My university Google Apps account, with which I cannot use most services.
2) My employer's Google Apps, fully functional but will be dead at the end of the summer.
3) My personal GMail account.
How would you do TAM bottom-up? Don't you need to rely on stats that describe your total market size?
Some diseases simply have no cure. Ebola is one of them. TDR-TB is another (and it's spreading in India and elsewhere).

Both are, thankfully, reasonably difficult to transmit, though conditions of poverty, with close proximity and contact, as well as poor sanitation, increase the likelihood of transmission.

Camus' The Plague has already been mentioned in this thread. I'd strongly recommend reading it.
I have no experience of pitching anything, I'm just a dev but...

Laughs?? Why are laughs even in the script? This is a business deal right? One day I'd like to start something myself, and I guess I hoped that shrewdness, business acumen, techical chops, idea-originality, those would be more vital parts of a pitch. Do we need to make investors laugh too? Genuine question.
Fields Medal – Avila
Fascinating article

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-brazilian-wunderkind-who-calms-chaos/
Robot sex?
Convert Audio / Video Files With Selene Media Encoder
Your "only acceptable solution" doesn't exist.

What now?

Do you risk thousand (possibly millions)? Or billions?
A couple of things I've learned:

Find somebody with terrible eyesight, and see if they can read your deck. If they can't (probably because your colors are bad, you have too much text, and/or you're being cute with fonts), fix your deck.

Turn off your phone/IM/notifications. Seriously.

Don't bring up anything you aren't going to explain--it just distracts people. Think of it like leading people through a house--if you show a door but don't open it, they'll be preoccupied with what's behind that door when you're making your next important point.

Never do a live demo without screenshots and videos as backups, just in case. Never let somebody from the audience help you debug things--just kill it and move on.

Your audience has no idea what you're going to say, so don't worry about fucking up mid-sentence or pausing too long--most everyone will totally miss your hiccup. They will remember if you screw up, backtrack, and look visibly shaken.

Don't read off your deck don't read off your deck don't read off your deck.

~

These are things I've seen students and people new to pitching screw up on a lot.
> I customarily travel with private insurance ... The insurance company denied reimbursement for elective medical treatment. Direct quote: You could have elected to leave it in your eye.

Sounds like your private insurance will never pay a claim. "You could have elected to die."

$300 is amazingly low, especially for a big city. For 2 stitches I got a bill for $1500.
Cisco Systems Plans to Cut 6,000 Jobs
We are certainly planning on making these sections more comprehensive. This is just the first iteration of this and as we get more feedback and we create the deeper guidance this will certainly grow. The way this is presented right now is "people found this experience frustrating, don't do it." We need to dive more into "these are 2-3 patterns that we know work really well.". A lot of feedback we recieved is that actually a lot of developers want the seed of the guidance first, specific guidance a little later.

I think you hit the nail on the head about anonymous users. It is hard, and there are patterns that we have not fully explored yet such as sign in on add to checkout.
I think this is great. Seems like tons of people would find this useful.

If you already have traction with customers already than great!

If not, you might need to follow up with them and get them to pay. Listen and iterate based on paying customers. Make them happy and I think you'll be good.
Sap Discovery Could Turn Syrup-Making Upside Down
Here's some feedback: I think it's incredibly cool you put that site out on Github even though you clearly did not have to. Keep doing that. :)
For Mac it's also possible to use 'Stache' from the app store. This has a full-page screenshot functionality built in. It cost's $6,99 but it is also possible to store collections of interesting or inspiring pages/websites in a nice looking library. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stache/id870659406
If it is someone who is in over their head trying to meet a goal or deadline, then probably try to back them off before they burn out, and go back to the planning stage and come up with something that has a chance for success. If it is a noob-syndrome type then the best thing is to get them into an environment where they can learn quickly what the ante is for a "real" solution -- so high quality test data and mentorship are ideal.
I use Google Hangouts all the time. At least for my D&D group, it worked when Skype didn't and I can add people's real phone #'s for free...
Solving natural language query is at least as hard as asking the system to write a program for an arbitrary goal. So if you can ever build a program that can take an arbitrary goal and output the program source code then you can also solve arbitrary natural language queries efficiently.

So most "supposedly" AI systems do brute force or probabilistic templating - i.e. mapping the query to a known structure of sentences. Then you get translation of these known structures of sentences to known machine level structured queries. This is why systems like Siri would fail on its face as soon as you ask even mildly "hard" question. For example, queries that starts with "How many..." such as "How many teeth humans have?" are very easy to solve and in fact it can be your weekend project for Wikipidea corpus with impressive accuracy. But if you change this query to "What is the factorial of the number of teeth that human have after subtracting number of legs octopus has?" then you would get no where.
but they are not allowed to tell you if it can be intercepted...
It's just general showmanship.

Jokes are a good way of managing tension and encouraging rapport with your audience--if they're laughing with you, they're having a good time, and if they're laughing because of something you've said on purpose, you've got a bit of control. It's a good way of staying at-ease in front of dozens of people.

EDIT:

Luckily pitching and presenting IRL is much easier (and less harsh) than cracking wise here on srs bsns HN. If you can get away with jokes and upvotes here, you'll be fine at any venue in person. :)
A few days is probably cutting it a bit fine - what if you turn out to have an account problem with your cert provider?
I think traditionally that is something that rings true. Ads aren't the only answer and this is just the first step in a more comprehensive area that we are planning. I would say that one area that we get a lot of requests for from web developers is strong guidance on how to build forms that convert well. We have data on this, we just haven't formalized the guidance on this.
Entertainment is memorable. Also this is someone you are going to work with for a very long time, they should genuinely like you as a person
Hey, dat you?
Now please extend this to Play Store app reviews and YouTube comments...I won't be holding my breath.
Your message is plain stupid. In dfact, I'm for fluoridation of tap water, even though it's not legally allowed in Germany as of now.

You're putting up a strawman. At least you've rectified my perception of you. I take my "condescending" welcome to HN back.
I guess that would depend on if we billed them at Yank rates ($1000 = ~£600) and if they paid it. I'd imagine it'd be like trying to get the American Embassy to pay the Congestion Charge (£8,775,965 owed and counting).
Science Is Not About Certainty
Is opium that dangerous? I would have thought that tobacco or alcohol were far worse.

edit: Wow, that was an extremely quick down vote. Didn't even get round to posting my follow up with a bit of evidence.

Drugs are bad, m'kay.
Could they have been mined towards a wallet whose private key were never recorded, if a group agreed ahead of time to never spend those first blocks?

They could probably still get wealthy by getting in on the action fairly early with a separate set of mining identities, if that's what they wanted.
Cool, very useful! Do you have plans to make it so that it remembers which pages I have images turned off on?
Self evaluation which is then evaluated by others is difficult to get right.

This is because everyone's internal lens is different, so comparing "results" is compounded even more than usual.
The Future of the npm Website: Let’s Map this Road
There most likely was a simple gpu miner that wasn't public knowledge until later, which helped in balancing out the network without needing a horde of machines early on.
Ivip – A scalable routing and mobility architecture for IPv4 and IPv6 Internets