skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A basic reproductive number of two can be really really bad, provided it stays that high. If exponential growth holds long enough, it doesn't matter too much what the rate is, so long as it's above one.

With that being said it varies a LOT between different countries for exactly the reasons you mention. My initial work shows a lot of heterogeneity:

http://grantbrown.github.io/Ebola-2014-Analysis-Archive/Sep_...

I agree wholeheartedly with your last three points. Also, from the looks of things the cheapest and most effective time to tackle the disease was months ago. The second cheapest and most effective time to try to stamp it out is as soon as possible.

P.S. The ProMed daily digests are some of the best and most comprehensive updates on this situation I've seen:

http://www.promedmail.org/
I love ya notch, you inspired me. Games don't have to have a story, great graphics, or even a point. They have to be fun. After years of being a gamer, Minecraft is the only game I come back to.

I will buy anything you have for sale.
If I was already super rich and selling my
company I'd still prefer making 10-100 if my peers rich, rather than explain to them why they have to keep their day jobs because I'm convinced it's for a good cause.
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> That the game became a financial success is indeed somewhat accidental. But that the game was fun was certainly not

Yeah, it's amazing to me how many people who even play Minecraft and enjoy it don't understand this. The default state for games is not fun, and it's an incredibly deliberate (and usually difficult) process to get them there.
Reminds me a lot more of a sheep than a cheetah, but still, very impressive work. It must be an incredible feeling to see something like that come to fruition.
Until now I used to encode it with --bitrate 160 which is 160 Kbps variable bitrate. But from the test I linked above it seems to be an overkill, since 96 is already approaching encoding transparency for many people. So the optimal value can be somewhere above 96 and below 160. You can experiment for yourself, but I'd give a bit more room than your own transparency level to make it a safer bet for more people.
Is the Apple Leasing Program Good for a New Startup?
Recently started a new company focused on connected cars/IoT and need some new hardware. For now my co-founders and I are still working nights and weekends, so no FTEs yet, but we've gotta legit LLC and EIN setup.

- Have other people used the Apple leasing program and if so have they had a good experience?
- Can you use it for iPads and iPhones, or is it just for laptops and monitors?
- which program offers the best tax deduction?
- We're bootstrapping - which is easiest on cash flow?
A Macbook running Parallels Desktop with Windows works well. You lose SOME battery life but nothing unusual for the workload (they also support basic 3D acceleration for Windows clients).

A Macbook running Windows via Bootcamp is horrifyingly terrible. Neither Microsoft or Apple support it (Apple direct you to Microsoft, Microsoft direct you to Apple), it often breaks (if Windows works on Bootcamp you won the version lottery, although running older versions of Windows on newer Boot Camp can help (e.g. if you installed Windows 8.1 when it first got released you're SOL, even Windows 8 wasn't supported by Boot Camp for almost a year after release!)).

Plus the Windows Macbook drivers are simply terrible. They're the iTunes of drivers. Want your battery life cut by 2/3? You got it. Have a model with both an Intel 2D and Nvidia 3D graphics setup that is meant to switch? Not supported in Windows, Nvidia 100% of the time, also causes the Macbook to overheat as the Nvidia 3D graphics run at almost max (which further destroys your battery life!).

I really cannot bad mouth Boot Camp enough. Simply a terrible experience through and through. There's nothing redeeming about it, even Apple's "geniuses" recommend using Parallels Desktop instead(!). When Apple's own people are saying it isn't worth the headaches and hassle, you know it is bad...

OS X is a wonderful OS frankly. You could do much worse than to buy a Macbook, use OS X, and use a few Windows applications rarely via Parallels Desktop. A lot of people do that, it works great. But mark my words, Boot Camp is shit, Apple doesn't care and hasn't cared for years and years, and they don't "really" support it.

Thinkpads (not Ideapads, ick) would be my call for best PC laptop right now. The T540 is a safe choice. But they have a variety of form factors to choose from.
The whole answer is non-comital. "There's no reason" ... "Of course, Microsoft can’t make decisions for other companies or predict the choices that they might make in the future." And to me that signals "We don't know and frankly don't care".
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It's not my line: http://underbelly-buce.blogspot.com/2013/01/more-on-holland-...
Or Steve Jobs.

There was a school of thought that the only reason that Steve Jobs liked being CEO of Apple was so that he could build the products he wanted, how he wanted, without anyone else telling him what he could and couldn't do. He basically created a role where he was a Product Manager with near unlimited resources who didn't have to answer to anyone else.
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This is so cute
Data Source? Seems like you'd lose a lot of the nuisances when you use headings like "noSQL", "BigData", "Cloud" and "Cybersecurity".

I'm a admittedly junior developer, but nonetheless "tech" and if you asked me what any of those descriptions really meant, I wouldn't be able to answer.

Yea, of course we all know what noSQL, cloud and Hadoop are (I hope so!) but what do you call a distributed data warehouse based on a hadoop architecture? nosql? hadoop? cloud? What about the "cybersecurity" you need to use to keep it all safe? This isn't an academic distinction, these labels rely on the implementation of mechanisms under different labels to make sense.
I think he's clearly a nice guy and cares deeply about what he has created and the people that use it.

However, I think a saying I heard today summed it up quite well: "A few boos can drown out a lot of cheers."

With a sense of perspective as to what he has achieved, the people that complain must be a very small minority.
Agree on that.

My explanation is that there is some kind of positive feedback loop involved:

(1) Go developers/creators think they are really really smart.

(2) Experienced developers see their flaws, stay away from Go, and never participate in the mailing list.

(3) Clueless developers join the mailing list and ask simple/stupid/beginner questions. Go developers can easily answer them, reinforcing their self-assessment in (1).

It's a scary feeling watching their echo chamber ...
I think it's less the greed and crazy fandom and more a new generation of people that feel they are entitled to everything and anything they want and if they don't get it, start an online witch hunt.

There are numerous examples of this in the past 6 months and in Notch's case, it happened with EULA and 3rd party server support.

A community that supports this sort of behavior wouldn't have my support either. I don't blame him.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Sealing off the area wouldn't just be a crime against humanity, but it isn't possible. This is a region with little infrastructure and extremely porous borders.

The reason things got out of control is that the world relied on charitable organizations to fix things, but the wonderful folks at the MSF were quickly outgunned.
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Hey Walter,

I am in Irvine, CA...not to far from you. I was in the process of applying to Y Combinator, but unfortunately my partner who was a web programmer has since backed out of our endeavor. If you have any interest in becoming a partner, I think we may have complimentary skills and can make some $$$. Not sure if we are allowed to post links or emails here, since this is my first comment and post. Just in case my LinkedIn profile is here: http://goo.gl/owaFhk
I think you can reach me on LinkedIn if you are interested.
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No, because it has become an obsession. It's all the ever talked about, all day, non stop, for months. To this day they still play Minecraft imaginations games with each other.

I would rather they learn how to build actual things that they can use. I'd love for them to learn how to build a real circuit or a real tree house, whatever.

I would rather them live in the real world.
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I could see this being a huge play for young developers by Microsoft. They have been positioning themselves as a platform agnostic services provider, investing in or purchasing cross platform development frameworks, and opensourcing a lot of their technologies (e.g. C#, .NET, Rosetta, OWIN). Now all they need are developers to adopt their technologies.

Minecraft has a huge modding community and a lot of first time coders are getting into the scene because they love Minecraft. Imagine Microsoft ports Minecraft to C# or possibly C while maintaining full support for all existing platforms. Then go about developing a great API/SDK for modders and making it incredibly easy for anyone to download Visual Studio and the Minecraft SDK.

They just introduced an entire generation of developers to MS technology.
Minecraft's my favorite game, and my son's. We also both like Dune2. He's 9. (I'm not :)
I already did, really awesome!
It's a little different on HN due to how the comments are hidden quite quickly when downvoted. I frequently upvote people who reply to me but I disagree with, simply because it would ruin the comment chain and hey, they might just be right anyway ;)

I reserve downvotes for rudeness and demonstrably wrong/misleading comments.
I'm not trying to go too deep into philosophy with this concept. I guess one could present a convincing argument that there are no real terminal goals, or that the real terminal goal is happiness, or something like that.

From the practical perspective though, people seem to have a limited capability for introspection. Maybe for Musk solving the big problems/retiring on Mars is only instrumental to feeling righteous, which is only instrumental to being happy, etc. but humans don't usually introspect that deep. The recursion stops somewhere around the moment where you feel you care about something for the sake of that something. That's what I meant by terminal goals here.
You are saying that we should not continue doing what we do not like, and then you proceed to say that "one guy" Alexander Fleming "stumbled over" penicillin. Are you planning to stumble upon a way to relieve people from the need to obey the bosses or you expect someone else to do it?
Batman's superpower is literally class inequality and money.
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Innovation doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.

"The term innovation can be defined as something original and, as a consequence, new, that "breaks into" the market or society."

Making technologies acessible and useful to people, where previously they were the domain of specialists and geeks, is pretty much definitive of Apple's entire business model and core competency from 1997 to the present day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation

http://www.asymco.com/2014/04/16/innoveracy-misunderstanding...
Well, at least you're honest.
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Never had any problems with it. I only use it for seasoning my cast iron items, though. I find it works better for that role than vegetable oils.
'I only read it for the interviews/articles' used to be a legitimate reason and not a joke for covering up buying a magazine with boobs in it.
I doubt if this is all of it, but one suggestion I would make is constantly challenge assumptions/conventional wisdom.

Them: We can't do X

You: Why not?

Them: We asked them once before and they said [stuff]

You: But what if I ask them and say [new stuff]

etc etc. When people say stuff can't be done, keep digging into why not until you hit bottom. They might be right, or you might smash through another roadblock.
Very interesting that my 8 and 10 year old sons two weeks ago declared Minecraft boring after 3-4 years of all that they could consume play.
The bounding part is very cool (I caught myself leaning forward in surprise [and mild horror?] as the machine jumped over the box instead of maneuvering around it). Besides not requiring fuel, does anyone know how this is different/better/unique than Google/BostonDynamic's WildCage? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g) I certainly agree that more people working on this is a good thing, but I'd like to understand the progress being made.
From what I could tell, he just dislikes the word "manager" which makes for a pretty thin argument.
i always took that quote to mean Minecraft is the Legos of the Digital Age. building blocks used to make pretty much anything you want.. I've played it on PC and think it's really fun. It is amazing what it's doing for young kids and how its introducing them into programming. the last two conferences (JavaOne 2013, Oscon 2014) i went to had a keynote speaker that was 10 or 11 and got started because of minecraft ( and his parents were techies.. )
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uTP isn't really to make torrents run smoother. It's to allow NAT traversal.
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> I don't think one needs to go and find hard studies to realize that we're living in times of prosperity

Almost every generation in history thought that they live in prosperity compared to generations before them. And I don't think one needs to go find hard studies to realize that.

> producing more food than needed, being able to construct a shelter for everyone

Are you personally producing food or constructing shelters? If not, then apparently you expect someone else to construct shelters for everyone because in your opinion they have the ability to do so? If someone has the ability to do something do they have to do it just because of the fact that they can?
I understand not having any fancy features in a "corporate programming language", but wouldn't language features aimed at reducing code duplication (like generics) help with maintainability?
> Yes, but for the first time ever, we've reached the theoretical capacity to change that.

This has been predicted for at least the past 100 years it seems; I'm not holding my breath on it panning out in my lifetime, so I don't see how it should affect my short-term behavior.
The current battery tech is holding the entire world back. The next market revolution will come with new power generation (battery) tech that allows us to not worry about charging things every 5 hours.

I have the same thought as you, what Tesla may accomplish as a company may not be affordable electric vehicles but leaps in battery and power storage.
Thank you man! =)
Cool page. Makes totally sense. I'm doing it the same way. And in addition I use VersionEye to get notified about new versions of open source libraries I'm using in my projects. That saves me a lot of time. By the way I'm the dude who started VersionEye.
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I was saying that we as human species should strive to get rid of things that cause us misery. The "getting rid of" is the difficult part, as solutions are not always available or sustainable.

And while I'm definitely not the second Fleming or Pasteur and I don't expect myself to stumble upon a way to get us to post-scarcity utopia, I do want to work towards humans getting there. To work alongside other humans, so that our grandchildren don't have to.
I think these tutorials are missing one of the most important parts of D3 if you want to incorporate it into any serious application and that is the "Enter, Update, Exit" process (http://bost.ocks.org/mike/join/). The "update" step is sooooooooooo important in applications that few to no introductory tutorials talks about. If devs are taught about the update step from day 1, writing future visualizations will make much more sense. Otherwise, any update to a chart will just append new nodes to the UI.
I've actually been looking into this as well. From what I can tell, Macbook Pro is the way to go. I usually say Apple hardware and Microsoft software. It looks like this is the case with laptops as well.

Someone1234 seems pretty down on Boot Camp but I have had great results from running Windows 8.1 on a 27" iMac. I honestly can't think of one problem I have had. Of course, it could be much different on a Macbook Pro.
> "If you want to make a narrow page wider, you can open the Inspector and change the width."

The difference is that one is accessible to the average user. Outside of Developerland, most people don't even realize that the page they are viewing has a source which can be inspected or changed.
In this situation, It sounds like he got more out of life by following his original goal of hanging out with his family since they all die in the end anyways.
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"A large majority of this very loyal following are still < 16 years old."

I believe this to be a mythology that "everyone knows is true" although it isn't.

For similar examples, MMORPG players are all 13 year old boys, FPS players in general are all 13 year old boys, there is a perfect 1:1 mapping between WWII FPS and gaming in general...

I'll admit in public to relax I'll log in with my son and we'll work on the big base and rail system. Better than watching TV together. I find rail work to be relaxing exactly like working on a model railroad (obviously you need railcraft mod for this). I like building vast chemical refineries, like a fully automated system where you dump ore blocks in one side, all mixed together, and via AE and IC2 and compactsolars and all that, ingots of metal eventually plop out the other end. I also like multifarming and setting up automated ethanol plants.

From talking to other parents its very fight club where the first rule is we don't talk about it. Kind of like how legos seem to get played with by dad as much as kids, unofficially, although its a kids toy. Like many I have tried to sneak a lego imperial star destroyer past the wife "for the kids", unsuccessfully. Lego seems very expensive compared to when I was a kid...
Yeah that was the line that caught my attention, too. I hope that fear will subside somewhat with time out of the spotlight (if indeed he manages to get out of it in the first place).
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GNU Mediagoblin is a decentralized media sharing network -
http://mediagoblin.org/

Both are standards based.
That Mojang is worth 62.5% of Star Wars is a testament both to Minecraft's value and how much Lucas destroyed Star Wars in the last 20 years.
Not even in the slightest.

I was responding to what stuck out to me the most in his comment:

> because the son is mad about it.

> School started today, he's moved to another school this year. The first thing he asked to his news friends was about Minecraft. Then he advertised how PC version is superior to the one on iPad.

> My 2 yo daughter knows what Minecraft is, tells she'll play Minecraft when she grows up.

These stuck out because our children had similar signs of unhealthy obsession. (So did my wife and I for a while.)
There is also the THINERGY thin-film lithium rechargeable battery, which was used in a prototype super-slim eInk watch on Kickstarter.
> What is striving to earn "FU money" if not trying to free oneself from the slavery?

That last question. Really hit home. It reminds me of this quote my humanities teacher in high school taught us.

“The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.”
And personally and culturally, I enjoy intelligent conversations about it with my kids, and "approve" of it (as do my friends with kids) in a way I haven't with other crazes.
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Notch has done it. By leaving mojang he can no longer be blamed for any major disasters and has already achieved a place of honor in nerd communities. And now he does what every nerd dreams of doing but isn't sure they can do, leaving their company once it gets to big so they can just go and code. By specifically stating he doesn't want to be a huge symbol for the nerd community he has permanently affixed himself as one.
I do give Jobs some credit for being able to articulate these ideas pretty well. I am guessing he was surrounding himself with smart people and it isn't totally his. But he does well with it, in this interview and others from the time period.

But we shouldn't elevate it to something it's not. The cynical view, and to an extent a correct one, is that this is 1980s conventional wisdom mixed with a guy trying to sell computers.
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We have rules against harassing and insulting others in the Rust community, and pjmlp does not speak for us.
Marcus has earned the right to do what he wishes, enjoy life instead of stressing. Best wishes to him and continued success to Mojang!
In the end, it comes down to economics and how fungible goodwill/vanity/reputation/time/money are.

As someone who works as both a maintainer and community manager of an open source project, I find it naive to think that an open source project can thrive completely free of corporate sponsorship/benevolent dictatorship.

For example, I am hired by Treasure Data, Inc. to work full time on Fluentd (https://fluentd.org), the open source log collector. Treasure Data does use Fluentd, and Fluentd is a core piece of the technology that we offer to our customers. However, my boss explicitly tells me NOT to herd the community to serve our interest. Why? Because we know that we benefit a lot from the Fluentd community both for community contributions and awareness, and it servers our corporate interest to ensure that we stay on good terms with the community.

At the end of the day, open source community members are intelligent. They can smell when companies start exploiting the community to serve their own interest, especially in a way that's not beneficial to the community. So, in that sense, my response to the OP is "let the community decide. if enough people hate on community managers, they will disappear."

That being said, I can agree with the OP that "community manager" might not be the best nomenclature here. But that doesn't mean open source communities do not need the go-to person for ensuring the community's health and longevity. Whether that person is called a community manager, mailing list patrol, event coordinator, conflict resolver, or geek herder is somewhat irrelevant.
Notch seems like the closest thing to a modern day Woz, at least in his "doing it for the fun" approach. I wish him well in the future!
>>> I really wish I still had mine.

Simple, get one again.

Collecting Dreamcast hardware and games is still affordable - compared to, say, SNES games (which can get pretty pricey if you insist on having them CIB).

The beauty of the DC is that you can get all regions work on an unmodified (as in hardware) Console using a DC-X bootdisk and the games are as close to their arcade counterparts as they can get...