skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really is a tremendously good article illuminating many of the challenges posed by the Ebola outbreak. Among the points.

Determining that you've got a problem.

Determining specifically what that problem is, especially in an environment in which the threat may be confused with numerous other conditions.

Recognizing the severity of that problem.

Mobilizing resources to deal with it.

Communicating the severity to others, particularly a population that's highly illiterate, has virtually no scientific understanding, a considerable (and, given history, highly justifiable) distrust of outsiders. As well as deliberate or incidental disinformation arising from various concerns.

The impacts of cultural practices on a situation.

How poverty, crowding, and other conditions influence circumstances, particularly those of infectious disease. Both lack of and access to technology are contributing causes. Lack of resources, medical technology, isolation measures, and information generally contribute to the spread. But so do mechanized transportation (in highly crowded conditions in the case of buses, in rapid distribution in the form of aircraft), and just enough medical services to provide effective means of concentrating and distributing the virus. "Nature finds a way", as Jeff Goldblum's character in Jurassic Park noted, and what we've got here is the coevolution of a virus and a specific ecological niche such that the key fits. It's agnostic as to whether or not the specific pins it pushes are high-tech or low, and considering technology and modernity as unalloyed friends or foes is invalid.

And the counterintuitive dark patterns and responses which can emerge: the apparent success of early interventions in addressing the nascent epidemic, an apparent effect actually masking the conterproductive response of the local population shunning medical treatment and assistance out of fear, resulting in the hidden development and spread of the epidemic.
The Ambit2 S does not do that. The new Ambit3 does it though. The strap works underwater, too. It buffers the data and sends it later when bluetooth connectivity is back...
I'll make an alternative suggestion. Hire management. You want to sit in a box and code. You want someone to handle business, support, etc. People who can do that are a dime a dozen.

That could be another student at the university; someone with an active Twitter account, good charisma, etc. Offer 25% equity vesting over 4 years. That's pretty generous. Keep hacking and plugging, and do as much or as little of the interacting as you want. If the other person doesn't carry their weight -- which is not uncommon -- dump them or swap them out for someone else. Be very upfront about this when bringing them on (if you want, overly upfront -- pitch this as a short-term engagement, with possibility of going longer depending on how business goes).

Give yourself the title of CEO and CTO. Give them the title interrim president+COO.

Regarding depression, social anxiety, etc., this can help fix it. I've been there. Depression gets better when you have meaning and purpose, and when you're busy enough to not have time worrying about it. Social anxiety gets better with status. When people are competing to talk to you (rather than the other way around), and you're in a position to say yes or no, the dynamic is just different. If this were to grow into a successful company, you might be in a very different position. You've been playing with fixing this for a while. Play with this as an opportunity to try a different approach to fixing it.

Again, I don't know you. This could not apply at all. Take this as what it is -- an idea from a stranger.
I am curretly working on similar project. I really like your concept. But I see some flaws.

- No list auto-creation

- Sometimes ugly html like <span font-weigth=>

- Does not produce nice htm5 like hgroups, sections and em/strong

- I cannot make a paragraph in chrome, just <br>s
Homotopy Visualization
Note: "open source" in this case means AGPL.
This story had much attention here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8307790.

You can find whether a story has already appeared by using the Search box at the bottom of most HN pages. Reposts are ok after about a year. If a story hasn't had much attention on HN yet, it's also ok to repost.
As jacalata pointed out, President Obama could be cited as a counter-example, and under the same criteria I would add at least Wilson to the list.

Being perceived as an intellectual is not strictly exclusionary, but opponents will certainly try to hold it against a candidate - much like any other characteristic that can be played up for factionalism.
This post feels like spam. I'd hate to see more of this kind of thing taking over the HN front page.
Some people are always surprised by well established facts half the world knows about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_traffic...
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Double Dentist
In my case, delusions, paranoia, and the occasional inappropriate remark that could be construed as homicidal or suicidal ideation. Depression genuinely caused the latter ideation.

Lithium is a very harsh mistress, but if you have type 1, which is akin to emotional epilepsy, she will bring you to heel.
This looks like putting the cart before the horse to me. One can say "we have one-user UI and multi-user UI", etc. - that's good. But saying "this is a tablet so you always get multi user UI and this is a phone so you always get single user UI" looks wrong for me - the purpose of the user should be driving the UI, not the other way around. Of course, maybe the whole point of Apple is to drive user's choice and thus make them comfortable by not confusing them with too much variety and options. I see how this can appeal to some people though I am definitely not one of them. That's why the only Apple device I've ever owned - an iPad - has been collecting dust in a desk drawer since the minute I've got an Android tablet. I guess these are just two different models of user interaction that appeal to different kinds of people.
http://eclass.cc/courselists/42_data_science
> P.S. Check out this Hacker News post to discuss and/or upvote!

Please don't do this. It's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and will get your story penalized, along with (in many cases) your account and/or the accounts who voted for it.
Docker is similar to a VM, only without all the excess overhead. That very same docker container, could be deployed to production, assuring that your production and dev environments are identical(same web server, same db version, etc). A docker container can be spun up in a matter of seconds on a linux machine. If you're using OS X, it will require a VM to run docker images(see boot2docker), but even with this, it's very low overhead.

To be honest, i've used Docker much more than Heroku so I may be biased. But a quick google search turned up this article, which I think explains the differences well: http://tuhrig.de/docker-vs-heroku/
For some apps, there are cases where you want to load the entire dataset and then operate over it (see pourover.js http://newsdev.github.io/pourover/ )
I'm sorry, but this is a terrible suggestion. I ran a company successfully for 8 years and at times made this same mistake in thinking.

The only time you can hire above is when scaling a successful product + sales model - essentially when you are no longer a startup and are becoming an established player.
I prefer that rhetoric as follows.

'Anyone who supports the war on drugs has abandoned liberty and freedom.'

Terms like "the rule of law" encourage a mentality that's unempathetic and unconcerned with many forms of tyranny and suffering. It encourages complicit behavior through blind allegiance and rhetoric. That allegiance will probably remain until the faithful are personally affected and destroyed by the rule of law they so thought they knew.

The rule of law is a process that should be (and usually isn't) viewed as deserving of great distrust, fear, and delicacy rather than of great admiration and worship. The largest atrocities and cruelest of societies may happen due to the rule of law. The United States' Bill of Rights is not enough. Legitimacy doesn't fear it. Meaning is created. Meaning overrides meaning. Freedom and free speech may be eternal flames in the hearts of free minds. I hope that will always be so. Legitimacy, meanwhile, paves a path with new terms while nationalists are left clinging to the rule of law.
Show HN: Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative
I've tried to make it as light as possible. It's only tested with Firefox and Chrome, however I intend to test it in IE down to 9. What would you change? What would you add? Any feedback or pull request is greatly welcome! MIT Licensed
I've tried to keep it as tiny as possible with just under 3kb when gzipped. What would you change? What would you add? Any feedback or pull request is greatly welcome! MIT Licensed
Maddox said it best in "You're not a nerd, geeks aren't sexy
and you don't "fucking love" science."[1]

People love science in the same way they love classical music or art. Science and "geeky" subjects are perceived as being hip, cool and intellectual. So people take a passing interest just long enough to glom onto these labels and call themselves "geeks" or "nerds" every chance they get. I feel a sharp pang in my head every time some moron on Twitter or Facebook says something like "i'm doing my homework i'm such a nerd LOL!!!" Wrong, fuck belch. You're not a nerd for doing your assigned homework; you're doing it because you have to, not because you want to. That'd be like saying, "I'm eating food, I'm such a foodie, LOL!!!" Since when did it become cool to label yourself a "nerd" anyway? (...)

If you have to tell people you're a nerd, chances are you're not. Nerds don't have to advertise their status. We know. Being a nerd is a byproduct of losing yourself in what you do, often at the expense of friends, family and hygiene. Until or unless you've paid your dues, you haven't earned the right—or reason—to call yourself a nerd. Being a nerd isn't graceful or glorious. It's a life born out of obsessive dedication to a craft, discipline or collecting some stupid shit that only you care about.

[1]: http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=youre_not_a_nerd
From Rookie to the Big Leagues
Peter Thiel's AMA
Would You Hire Socrates?
Retronaut: The Photographic Time Machine
The original title was a quote from page 13. A very interesting quote, but with very little context information.
Pretty amazing that even with Angularjs, Ember.js, Backbone.js and all these MVC in your browser frameworks, jQuery is the easiest to pick up and use.
Yep. A telecom did that for Appointment Reminder within a week of launch day. They wanted to do what Square recently did -- acquire a drop-in offering to cross-sell to SMBs.

Anecdata: they opened with a $100k offer. I said that I had built it to run rather than to flip, but that everyone has a price, and that I'd be unable to turn down a million. No deal happened, obviously.
Yes, they met at a Holiday Inn, drank shitty coffee, ate stale donuts, some guy complained about video adapters, and then they spent the day discussing how to completely subvert the fourth amendment of the constitution.
A Curatorial Cavern
Thanks! We changed the URL from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft). It's always nicer to have a domain-specific site. Bonus points for obscurity.
It's not anything any of us has expected. :D
You say it like releasing a paid-for product is a bad thing?

I'm currently working on a project and would've happily paid for this if I'd seen it at the time and it met my requirements. Currently I'm using CKEditor and happy with it but I would've paid to get a simpler/sleeker product without hesitation.

Having said that, I couldn't see image uploading and browse (of uploaded images) in the demo, which would be a deal-breaker for me.
Under those circumstances? Yes. Or at least I'd understand it and respect the resoning behind it.

I don't expect "knight on a white horse" or a beacon of justice, and I don't judge all situations the same. It's all a matter of degree and case-by-case basis, there's no black and white in politics. For the same reasons I'm against USSR's invasion of Afghanistan or Hungary too.

So, comparatively speaking, this is a 10 times more defensible situation that an all-powerful country invading/bombing a smaller one (and under false pretextes at that) to secure cheap resources and/or a favorable diplomatic outcome in the area. The hypocrisy of people treating those two situations the same is incredible.
Getting the target of value expressions in Java EE
There's also the problem that when communications companies think of security, they may be thinking of "revenue protection" more than customer privacy (that is, making sure that customers have to pay to communicate, and that they get billed accurately).

Ross Anderson liked to point out that the crypto that some cell phones used to discourage you from using aftermarket batteries was stronger than the crypto they used to protect your voice calls over the air. He's also suggested that the crypto in GSM ended up more focused on subscriber authentication than on voice privacy.

There is also now a source for the notion that governments pressured the designers of GSM to make it not provide strong cryptographic privacy:

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Sources-We-were-pres...

Here is a sad thing: Governments are STILL pressuring the designers of GSM to make it not provide strong cryptographic privacy. Like, today. We got some documents from ETSI only a couple of years ago showing that they are designing a cryptographic backdoor mode for the official GSM end-to-end voice encryption, which isn't even deployed yet. The use of the backdoor mode will be optional according to carriers' view of their jurisdictional obligations.

Sorry, that last part is less on-topic for this thread. But in the big picture, I'm sure the people who are involved in those efforts are not making corresponding compromises in the billing and revenue-protection areas.
Please get the name right in the logo.
The letters ö and ő are not the same.
JSF 2.2 HTML5 Cheat Sheet
"I had a Laundry dream"

A case of a green nightmare?
What is your hourly rate? How many hours would it take you to recreate even a subset of this functionality? If the answer is "more than half a day" then assuming typical hourly rates you are better off buying. There's a certain cognitive dissonance here, nobody wants to pay for anything but most of us here earn our livlihoods on people (in one way or another) paying us for the software we create.
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The complexity designing responsive websites that respect typography and readability good practice at all (most) screen sizes is certainly a problem that deserve a better solution.

After checking out this demo and the project site with an iPad, I noticed the Examples section looks kinda broken (columns of text wih 2 words per line) - this does not inspire confidence and I'm not sure there is anything the product does better than opensource Flowtype.js with contentEditable=true ?

http://simplefocus.com/flowtype/
(the demo link at the end of the page is quite impressive)
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Others already mentioned, this game bears a lot of sweet memories, since it was one of few hanheld games foreign USSR made (OK, a few years ago I found them being much more than a few) and other countries cloned. Having one ot those was friend-magnet, mastering and exploiting bugs in them was regarded as being geekish in best of ways.

Also, it came as no shock that each and every Elektronika brand game was a copy of sorts from similar or identical Nintendo products.

As this is very approximate clone of original handheld, sound was closest to version everybody remembers. It triggered nostalgic feeling all around the room.
Curl without
Thanks Bliker, bulleted & numbered list can be created using the editing toolbar (or drag/drop from the content block). We also keep improving the HTML result, including the fix for the unwanted span styles and new paragraph.
While this story may be true, it doesn't quite support 'There are easier ways for the government to make money.'

The CIA is very different from local law enforcement agencies, and they don't just rely on the material support of siezures of cash and other things which go to auction, but a substantial portion of all of their staffing budgets come from federal drug grants, which means that there are individuals who need to protect the drug war in order to protect their jobs.

There are scarcely easier ways for law enforcement to fund itself than to sieze cash from marijuana farmers and distributors. Even legalization campaigns to tax and regulate come across as shockingly close to protection schemes, since not supporting them is effectively supporting the continued risk of militarized police encounters.
>>What chance would there be of adding lithium to our water supply?

I can imagine posters like "The government wants to drug us".
Doesn't surprise me at all. I've been subject to 'random physical search' in very unexpected situation, twice. Both of those cases were when I had been in (phone) contact in previous days with guys which phones were highly likely to be monitored by law enforcement. - Random isn't nearly as random, as you might think.
I know, but picking an arbitrary sentence to emphasize one tendentious point is a form of spin, and thus arguably editorializing.

In the absence of any good title, subtitle, or caption, it's ok to pick the sentence from the article that best and most neutrally represents it as a whole. But that is not the same thing.
I doubt it's even possible for USB3 to support high-end graphics. The bandwith for intensive applications is just not there, and not having direct access to memory (like with PCI-E) could be another obstacle.
Everything is possible, sure, but...

I don't see thunderbolt-like technologies to be an USB replacement, though. More like a definitive standardization of docks for laptops with interesting side effects.
Liberty Java EE 7 beta now implements Java Batch and Concurrent specs
South Africa's future is bright, Michio Kaku explains
"all analogies are false and therefore bad. And resorting to quantum physics to describe the impact of Maxwell's equations is another bad signal."

That (EDIT: The analogy used in the article) is not just a good analogy, but summarizes our best understanding of both light and quantum physics. (Feynman knew exactly what he was talking about -- he invented/discovered some of the fundamentals). Whether you'd use quantum physics as an analogy to explain light, or light as an analogy to explain quantum physics is a matter of taste -- which one you find more intuitive and which less intuitive -- which depends on what you've been told by others previously.
Cool project. It's nice to see someone put together something awesome while so early in their education/career and have it work out for them. Shows you've got potential.

If I could give you any advice, I'd say think about going to academia. Working in the software industry is all about this kind of stress, and it really only gets worse from here. It's why we get paid lots of money to sit in a chair all day eating free snacks.

If this project has been stressful, the industry is going to chew you up and spit you out. Projects follow the same trajectory: you work on a project in a bubble for a long period of time (maybe a year or two). Then, there's a usage spike the first day, the first week. Maybe it goes up (if you're lucky), but it probably goes down. You have to fight to get usage.

And then things get harder. Bug reports. QA nitpicks about a million things you didn't notice. Product Developer's decide to change something major and you re-write 20% of your code base. Some of your junior team mates can't handle stress, so their output drops. The senior folks on the team get agitated and are suddenly unaccessible to help you with anything because they have their own shit to do.

Oh, and btw now that it's already in the field with customers bitching about it, so everything needs to be done yesterday. You think about leaving sometimes, but you can't afford to be out of a job for a month, and thinking about studying for an interview yet again while working sounds even more stressful (since you haven't really used big-O notation or graph algorithms in your last 2.5 years as a web developer).

Not every job is going to be stressful, but the really good ones will. You'll work with people smarter than you doing things a lot of people haven't done before.
> You want someone to handle business, support, etc. People who can do that are a dime a dozen.

Is this really true? I mean that as an honest question, because, while being a coder with a typical distaste for shallow marketing folks myself, I think these "business things" actually constitute work, if done right (first and foremost good user support).

I would imagine that there exists a similar comment in a board for marketing guys and gals, where they say:

> You want someone to program the database. People who can do that are a dime a dozen.

Pun intended.
The San Francisco Public Library also keeps no long-term circulation records. I really admire and appreciate this.

They think it will make people feel more freedom to check out the books that interest them, without fear of what other people will think. That seems almost certainly right. I wonder if anybody has studied the effect of reader privacy on people's reading habits. (The experiment might be a little tricky to set up because the baseline level of interest in particular books, and baseline level of stigma associated with them, could vary quite a bit from community to community.)
San Diego School District's New 18-Ton Armored Vehicle
Nintendo went to great lengths to acquire publishing rights for this game. Tetris basically established the whole handheld gaming market, it was the Game Boy's killer app.
Only tangentially related to the article, but I've been trying to understand lately why Facebook wants us to view our 'top stories' feed over 'most recent' stories. Facebook has gone from setting 'top stories' as the default when you log in, to hiding 'most recent' stories on the mobile app to the 'more' tab, to pushing old stories that get a random like or comment to the top of your 'most recent' stories feed. This is incredibly annoying, as when I log in to Facebook, I want to see news that is new, not the same posts I've already seen multiple times. Does anyone know why they do this? Does it somehow drive increased user engagement?
??? Why would you downvote an HN member for giving a health warning about drinking massive amounts of milk? YES, I went to my doctor, yes we determined milk was the cause of the hair loss. Especially when I drank it at night before bedtime. Our closest guess was that some people have sensitivities to the hormones in milk. There are also cases of men growing breasts due to large quantities of soy milk which increase estrogen.
And what is a true democracy then?
I would make the default grey button colour a little bit darker so it's easier to read the white labels.