skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the CDC: "Unlike respiratory illnesses like measles or chickenpox, which can be transmitted by virus particles that remain suspended in the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes, Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with body fluids of a person who has symptoms of Ebola disease."
You don't have to be an authority to criticize others for speaking about a topic in which they likely have zero expertise.
You do realize that's Joe Arapio, right? He's the poster child for law enforcement that's so egregiously overreaching it's become self-parody.

Of course he's holding a cocked firearm with his finger on the trigger. He pretty much doesn't have any other state.
what would you guys use a $0.99 server for?
> I love how you're complaining about people posting without authority, meanwhile not providing a reason that we should listen. Can you say hypocrite?

There is not even an ounce of hypocrisy.

I didn't make any claims of the US preparedness, nor did I say anything about how the disease may or may not spread. If I was going to do that I would only do so if I had research to back it up with - and I am about to get in the car to drive to dinner with my family so I don't have time to read a bunch of journal articles.
The car ride to the fair is what he should be most afraid of.
I have used Vultr's $5/month service for at least the past 6 months. It has only restarted once unexpectedly, and the CPU performance is quite impressive for that price.
Far from the only one, but it's obvious why it is captivating. It has a high fatality rate (>50%) and is quick not to mention graphic. Oh and there's not a cure (though that may be changing!).
Londoners unwittingly sign away first-born child to get free Wi-Fi
But those jury nullification errors are non-deterministic, so you can't rely on them.
Sign in to the online portal. If you have a credit card with them you can generate virtual ones tied to that same card.
Is the current media frenzy "sensationalism"? Yes.

Is there a risk here? Yes, a small one.

I understand, but am frustrated by, the number of people who keep repeating "it's not airborne", as if this is some kind of definitive argument that a virus cannot spread here.

Something like 80% of cold/flu infections happen via "bodily fluids" -- people snot on a surface, someone else touches the surface, then touch their face, etc. This is an effective means of virus transmission. A virus doesn't need to be airborne for a pandemic to occur.

That said, we have a number of advantages over rural Africa in dealing with illnesses -- we have high standards of sanitation, good electricity, clean water, and our population is generally not afraid of physicians (with notable exceptions in some minority communities). But our biggest advantage, by far, is that Ebola isn't endemic here. Our best and most effective screen is "have you been to Africa recently?"

If that screen loses its effectiveness, you start to have to worry about every patient presenting with a fever and diarrhea, and the epidemiology becomes quite difficult. We're not really prepared for everyone with a fever and vomiting showing up at the emergency room...and it won't take many patients (a few thousand, say) for things to get tense.
The likelihood of any kind of pandemic is extremely low, sure. However, your dismissal of this epidemic and its impact is arrogant and disgusting.

It’s still a disaster in the affected countries, with many knock-on effects. Also, it would have been better to spend more money earlier to prevent unnecessary deaths.

This Ebola epidemic is actually something people hardly care about. Hardly anyone is donating, for example.

Help is needed. Actually. For real. And with better support and a better reaction this could have turned out better.
Here is a nifty set of OS data to track the ebola outbreak
https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola
They called it "OS X" because "X" is the roman numeral for 10. They had been promising (and promoting) the new system for five years or more, but it was still years away, so they offered "system 8" and "system 9" which were mere incremental updates of system 7, not real OS versions. (But you had to pay for them because they had new numbers.)
Given that you created your HN account 4 minutes ago, I'm going to give you a quick answer. If this is a real question and you post a more detailed question, I'm happy to give you more info.

Reddit is an entertainment site for me. Funny gifs, videos, etc.

HN is more about tech and the industry.
>Except that the mutation to go from a fluid to airborne...is not what we see happening in general

I've written a bit about infectious diseases but defer to virologists or other folks who are better informed. I do remember reading these two articles about airborne transmission of Ebola, which might be what the previous poster was thinking about:

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00...
EBOV infection in swine affects mainly respiratory tract, implicating a potential for airborne transmission of ZEBOV2, 6. Contact exposure is considered to be the most important route of infection with EBOV in primates7, although there are reports suggesting or suspecting aerosol transmission of EBOV from NHP to NHP8, 9, 10, or in humans based on epidemiological observations11

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/what-were-afraid-t...
If certain mutations occurred, it would mean that just breathing would put one at risk of contracting Ebola. Infections could spread quickly to every part of the globe, as the H1N1 influenza virus did in 2009, after its birth in Mexico. --Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
HN: news, occasionally discussion.
Reddit: discussion, never news.
You should have a look at Squirrel (http://www.squirrel-lang.org/) - it addresses most of the points above but is still very lightweight and easy to embed. The main disadvantage is that the documentation and community is not as well developed as Lua.
I'm having a hard time accepting the "everyone should stop being stupid and stop panicking about Ebola" argument. To me, an uneducated observer, the problem only appears to be getting worse. And it has gotten significantly worse in spite of all the reassurances that it would not get worse.

i think a lot of the vitriol aimed at people who are worried and a little freaked out by Ebola is unfair. People have lost their minds over much easier to understand and less worrying issues before and those peoples concerns have been met with respectful, educated correction. Now it seems to have descended into name calling and ridicule.
DashO Java Obfuscator (2008)
So everyone he came in contact with for four days between the 24th and 28th is potentially infected. Hopefully a small set of people.
> Don't you think its a little pretentious to imply those that browse Hacker News are somehow smarter than others in a comment on Hacker News?

No. Some people are smarter than others - that's a fact. Hacker news consists of technical discussions on complex topics. Those kind of discussions tend to draw in more intelligent people. Therefore, I have no problem concluding that hn readers are likely to be more intelligent than average.
There is a difference between walking through a cloud of sneezed particles, and sitting and sharing an armrest with someone for an extended period of time.

Though apparently this person wasn't infectious at the time as has been pointed out.
The one question no one seems to be asking is how much of PayPal's revenue is due to transactions on eBay. I suspect that it is the majority. If that's the case, then with the spinoff, it would be in eBay's interest to make all other types of payments equally attractive on its site -- not so good for PayPal, I'd think.
Watch every Android vendor and Apple stock go down massively if this actually happens due to all non US companies switching phone vendors.
It would be fine, I think. Just create the variable in the scope you want it, then assign to it somewhere else. If you get it wrong, you get it wrong, and there's scope for weird bugs from that - but the effect is at least localized, lexically.

(Of course, the right thing to do is have explicit variable declarations...)
I'm +inf more concerned about XDR TB and other airborne diseases.
Something like the Spanish Flu returning scares the living shit out of me (while I also know it's remote), that fucker does mutate, it is airborne and it has happened and that was in a world with slow transport.

That said I'm still more likely to die from Heart Disease or Cancer, statistics ftw.
>Riding one would certainly attract looks and questions.

So does wearing a large purple sombrero. That doesn't mean I'm going to pay $1000 for one.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are some of the most poorest countries on earth. Liberia especially is haunted by its brutal, child-soldier fueled civil war and the entire society is rather rickety.

Nigeria, not even the most advanced nation in Africa, seems to have been able to contain Ebola, according to the CDC [1]. There have been isolated cases in European nations that didn't lead to an outbreak. So I think the US can contain (but don't think I'm not nervous about this still, the disease is distinctly disturbing).

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-outbreak-in-n...
I think this is one of the few cases where parts of the sensationalism is legitimate.

I think the media has desensitized many people to the point where they can't recognize a significant and potential danger.
The headline variations are quite interesting:

CNBC:
First confirmed case of Ebola confirmed in the United States: CDC

NYT:
Airline Passenger With Ebola Is Under Treatment in Dallas

BBC:
First Ebola case diagnosed on US soil

CNN:
Ebola case is the first diagnosed in the U.S.

FOX:
EBOLA HITS AMERICA
CDC identifies first case on US soil

Obviously Fox takes the FUD crown, but I thought the NYT actually misrepresented it a bit..
I dug up a link to a screenshot:

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/keskitsune/3409956/45220/4522...
Semantic Annotation and Similar Content Discovery
The ratios are nothing like 90 bad:10 good. That kind of hyperbole is uninformed at best, and disingenuous at worst.
Chaum's alive.
I have to disagree. 'Quality' is subjective. Trying to decide what should and should not be part of reddit goes against its overall 'democratic' mantra. It should remain open to all without much prejudice beyond the public's upvote/downvote.

Increased level of quality in both content and discussion should come naturally by attracting and retaining intelligent individuals.
Reminds me a bit of Scratch[1], a tool that came pretty popular when the Raspbery Pi came out. Very simple programming interfaces that work with simple graphics, but can do a lot of things.

[1]: http://scratch.mit.edu/
> Atlantic.Net says it is targeting this service at early-stage and bootstrapped startups that want develop on a dependable cheap server.

They are doing no such thing.

At 99 cents per month, they are targeting people who want things for free, hoping that they can later up-sell, or convert them to a higher plan.

Don't know how well this is going to work in the hosting industry - usually the lower the cost, the worse the customer is.

I'd like to say maybe as someone on the 99 cent plan sees that they need more resources, they could click a button and get on the $9.99 plan, but that might be wishful thinking, and they are just opening themselves up to an enormous drain on resources.

Either way, if there is any indication of people signing up for this, all the other hosting companies are going to match this plan within 24-48 hours, just like they did when everyone switched to "unlimited" offerings. It's a race to the bottom.
Nice! This is sure to be a time savings for a lot of folks.

Why are some fields missing?
They have agreed to give up 10%, not to do the crypto thing.

"We are thinking about creating a cryptocurrency"
Anecdotal web hosting recommendations are worse than useless and everyone seems to have one regardless of how qualified they are to give it.
I figure Visual Studio Express is what you're after...

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-exp...
> What? There is no "factual basis" for my saying "chances are"?

Correct. Exactly.

> I didn't make a statement about fact, I made a statement about probability

Claims about probability still require factual support (and, in fact, are still fact claims -- that, given given particular prior conditions, there exists an X% probability of a particular subsequent event is a fact claim, even if it is a different fact claim than the claim that the subsequent event is certain.)

> the point I successfully made was that five billion years from now, there will be no sign of us to fret over the earth's being absorbed by the red giant star our sun will have become.

There may be a reasonable basis for that conclusion, but if there is, you haven't presented it, so it would be inaccurate to claim that you have successfully made that point, even if it is a point that could have been succesfully made.
And then it will disappear, and the only person who will truly know what happened will be Fox Mulder.
> Hardly anyone is donating, for example.

It might be beneficial to provide a link to where people could/should donate.
Microsoft Unveils New Operating System, Dubbed Windows 10
Where is the most effective place to donate?
So, you're complaining about a completely unrelated company... for what reason?
Can you back it up with some overview of the math?
You wouldn't download a city.
There are numerous fold-bike manufacturers; they are quite common in Japan, I hear.

(See Dahon for another example: it retails for ~$320 I believe. ﻿http://dahon.com/mainnav/foldingbikes/single-view/bike/board...)
Since I've know about it, I've liked the extension because in .PSB, the B is for big.
Thank you for your response. It is a real question. I am a passive reader for over 2 years (not in tech, not in media, not very opinionated. Just trying to learn from others' wisdom). I have never read anything on reddit directly. The news of sama leading a $ 50 M made me wonder about the differences. And this is the only place I know to ask.
Apologies for the wrong signal I sent by creating an account and immediately asking the question.
Thanks again for your response!
One thing the news stories never mention is that the death toll from malaria every day is comparable to the total deaths in this recent Ebola outbreak:

http://www.malariaworld.org/lastweek
It's always surreal to me to see Atlantic.net in the news. I worked in their customer service department for over six years back when their primary product was still dialup internet. It was a pretty good job, for call center work. No scripts, no quotas - each MSR was trained and trusted to actually be able to solve customers' problems on their own.

I don't know if that's the case anymore. By 2007, dialup was dead and the company had pivoted to making most of its money from hosting. I left a few months prior, but still had friends working in the call center when they were all laid off. I don't know if they outsource their phone-based customer service now or if they set up a new call center in Orlando instead of Gainesville, but if it's the former, it's a shame.
I'm actually waiting for their call right now.

That fact actually blindsided me since I already gave info and couldn't just login and start up the server.

I wish I'd have read stuff carefully before blindlessy jumping into a deal.
proof of lack of expertise? Oh right, there is none. You don't know someones credentials over the internet. Unless you maybe divine them somehow
There was an airborne strain of ebola that made it to American soil. The catch was that this strain only infected monkeys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston_virus
I suppose that's because in they end, they want to allocate all the RAM, CPU, and network link available on each physical host. If a host has a 1Gb uplink, 32 cores and 256GB of RAM, and someone takes 1Gb bandwidth, 1 cores and 1GB of RAM, all the other cores can't be sold any more. It's easier for them to just split each host server in n VMs than to do some fancy stuff to try to maximize allocation.

That being said, some providers let you tweak everything independently. I know Gandi does [1], there are probably others.

(I don't use them, no idea what their cloud service is worth, I'm just showing the sliders)

[1] https://www.gandi.net/hosting/iaas/buy
> Is running the same OS across all device factors not a big enough accomplishment?

Sure, but unification was part of the big pitch for Windows 8. Of course, it wasn't quite what they did, but the fact that it was the pitch for the last major version makes the "this time we really mean it" repetition of the pitch for Windows 10 less overwhelming. Fool me once...
Defining "criminal" to mean wrongful rather than illegal doesn't actually help you. Aaron Swartz or graduate students publishing crypto code would not be doing anything wrongful either. And no one is suggesting that we remove the laws against unarguably wrongful things like fraud or homicide, none of which could plausibly be used to charge any of those people.
ugh, grip area of handlebars are so narrowly placed to the point of dangerous. wider bars is safer, more controllable.
So stock is going to be used to back to something in the reddit community, and related to cryptocurrency.

Karma: no

Reputation: no

Dogecoin: no

Reddit Gold: hmmm not mentioned...
This actually looks very interesting. Wonderful shear there Eddie!
Facebook has the ability to scan and monitor chat logs and this is not prohibited either by their TOS or provincial law (for Quebec at least). However I am not sure you realized that I took the discussion a step further by pointing out, although I admit I should have made this clear to begin with, that the concept of ownership of the content of said logs can be divided into several different aspects.

There is the intellectual ownership (the ideas contained in the logs), there is the right to consult and have access to the logs, there is the publication right etc. These rights are also independent of one another, someone may have the right to consult the logs, but not to publish, or may have the right to publish, but only once someone who has the right to consult this information has given it to them

Also, it bears mentioning that simply claiming my argument is a straw man argument without actually telling me how that is so does nothing to show that it is so the issue of ownership was discussed in the first half of my commentary where i mentioned that Facebook's TOS allowed them do do what was described as such I addressed and confirmed OP's position

I then added that there were implications with what was being discussed and proceeded to give an example. Taken alone, yes it would be a straw man argument on my part, however, the point behind my commentary was to show that the practical damage that could be done by such a practice as monitoring and storing the information of chat logs would be minimized by the fact that not everyone can consult and publish that content
Alexandrescu speaks up on the infamous “static if considered” paper
One thing often missing from these types of solutions (this one included) is that it's extremely easy to generalize them beyond the 9x9 case.
Didn't the 90s and early 2000s teach us all that "You get what you pay for" when it comes to hosting?
> Put aside the warrant issue for a moment

I don't think we can put aside the warrant issue when talking about your right to be secure. Your right to be secure is only against unreasonable search.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"

You could argue that we should have the unqualified right to be secure, but the constitution disagrees. I think a better argument is that warrants are issued without probably cause or not explicitly describing what is to be searched.
Agreed. Even if "beautiful" is a foundation of a company's strategy, I like it when they show me what I can do, and let me notice how beautiful they've made it.
Ask HN: Should I drop school?
I'm a postgraduate student doing my last year in Computer Science.

We need to carry out a graduation work. I tried to introduce some personal ideas
to teachers, in their
respective area of expertise:

1. A P2P client optimized for LANs: an GUI very similar the Windows's Explorer
over a LAN but with an easy setup (no server, no complex configuration),
fast transfers (many sources) and a solid search feature over the network;

2. Forcing people to share as much as they download in a P2P client by using a
cryptocurrency. You get "paid"
when sharing and you paid when downloading ;

3. Develop an API (as a SaaS) to index and search images with similar small
patterns and/or colors. Targeted for e-commerce websites selling clothes. I work
on the idea for a few months.

I tried to find promoters for these since May without any success. I lost a lot
of time by writing emails and waiting for responses.
Most of teachers didn't even take the time to respond to me.
Others thought that my ideas were useless (1 & 2), refused to promote an
industrial project (3) or clearly showed they didn't like the specialization I
took (Business Management).

Now I really need to choose something but all interesting suggested subjects
have bee taken by other students (they didn't lose weeks waiting for emails).

I tried to choose a mildly interesting subject last week without any success.
The teacher never responded to my email to schedule a rendez-vous.

I'm tired of being treated like shit. Write emails for hours without any
response is really depressing. I lost any motivation to do my graduation work.

I don't want to speed months doing a work I don't like for people who don't
give us any respect.

I'm thinking about either dropping out to work or trying to finish my
third idea (eventually resuming my studies next year if it doesn't work).
"Likely" is the word you seemed to have overlooked.
I don't know if you can call it a disaster. The total number of cases, as reported by the CDC, is less than 7000 so far.

I don't mean to be callous, but compare that number to the number of total deaths to Malaria or even the flu, and that number pales in comparison. I am not callous to say that we shouldn't care about the Ebola outbreak, but if you look at the numbers, directing that money to buy more mosquito nets or Malaria vaccines will likely save more lives.

Malaria kills close to a million people a year. If you're looking for a cause for donation, the most value per dollar could be directed there.
Your 80% number is misleading. There is no good data on that. Flu has long been thought to be mainly transmitted through droplets, which fall to the ground quickly, rather than being dispensed in the air, being able to travel large distances (which would be truly airborne). If anything, the latest data suggest that we have actually underestimated the airborne route (relative to the droplet route).

Yes, a pandemic can occur even if the pathogen is not transmitted through there air - see HIV/AIDS.

Airborne and droplet spread make for fast spreading and hard to control epidemics. If something spreads through bodily fluids only, it's easier to do contact tracing and put the right measures in place. I think that's what people want to highlight if they say that Ebola is not airborne.
Yeah that is much more suited.. all the tiny php can be hosted on this without any SHELL/super user restrictions
Could be worse. The pandemic will start if Ebola spreads to a low-resource country with a large urban population. Worst case, in my opinion, would be an Ebola case diagnosed in Johannesburg.