skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says they placed them in quarantine based on their symptoms and recent travel history.
CDC: Ebola confirmed in Dallas patient
Google Has Started Listing Developer Addresses Publicly in the Play Store[LIVE]
Notice that no one talks of Microsoft as being the big Marketing machine it used to be.
First Ebola case diagnosed on US soil
I thought blockchain transparency is a bug and anonymity is a feature; it's hard to keep this stuff straight.

If you need KYC, a blockchain doesn't provide that anyway so you can either add hacks or just admit that it's not the right solution.
AWS spot instances
Self-promotion is one of the really hard problems to solve. Some of my least favorite subs that I really want to like (/r/Entrepreneur is an especially egregious example) have this problem severely. If I see another self-aggrandizing blogger post a link promoting their system for making money on the internet with information products, I'm gonna catch their hair on fire.

So, you say "content creator", I say "people trying to sell me shit that I don't want".

I've got stuff to sell, websites I want to promote, etc. too. But, I accept that the cost of me having a nice community I want to be a part of, that isn't focused on consumption as the only purpose in our lives, means I shut up about it except when it's really relevant and someone else brought it up.
This guy nailed it:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613504/microsoft-windows/m...
They can create their own crypto-currency on top of an existing one, using dogeparty or counterparty. This is most likely their best bet, because they won't fall into a lot of the security/hashrate traps with a lot of new coins.
The Compucolor 8001 (1976)
Am I correct in assuming that cultural differences concerning death and the dead along with our healthcare system mean Ebola in America would be relatively containable?
What kind of business co-founder are you? Are you a hustler? Did you build a landing page and already collected 10,000 emails of interested potential users? If not, why not?

Any decent mobile developer is smart enough to have their own ideas and build them. Why would they build your idea instead? What do you bring to the table? Money, connections, beta users... Just don't say "the idea".

Did you build a mockup of your app yet (check out app cooker for instance)? Did you show that playable mockup to 100 people in coffee shops, got their feedback and iterated?

If you have done all of this, then you are a business co-founder worth engaging with.

[0] source: I used to run the co-founders meetup of Silicon Valley, so I have had that exact same discussion with tens of business co-founder hopefuls.
I don't own the content on my iPhone because Apple put a U2 album on there for me if I checked the box that says "automatically download new purchases". That's the worst argument I've seen in quite a while.
My point is that the system at writingprompts worked fine before they were made a default sub. I imagine 2X was a better place before as well, but I'm not a reader of that sub, so I can't really comment.

Reddit's management simply has an economic incentive to promote these gems to defaults to draw in users and make the site more attractive to those unwilling to dig down, but in the end this hurts those subreddits. I suspect this will be reddit's downfall. It curates some grass-roots communities that are self-managed, watches them grow, and then throws them to the wolves of Joe and Jane CasualAsshole. Now these gems have been thoroughly bro-ified, meme-ified, and politically-correctified with endless arguments web commentators like to get into (religion, politics, accusation of various 'isms', etc).

So yeah, I eat my own dogfood. I know writingprompts will never be good again the same way I know 2X suffers from the same thing with casual visitors. The difference is I know its a symptom of reddit default changes and don't think there's anything here regarding "education" that can fix this. Reddit's need for growth and popularity means decent subs become shitty subs over time. Heck, even when they remove defaults, the damage is done. /r/atheism will never be this philosophical-type sub, it'll always be meme-ish anti-Christian crap. Whatever mindshare they hoped to attract long left, the same way the writers I used to recognize on writingprompts are long gone now.

In other words I blame reddit management, but she blames reddit users. I think those are pretty different takes on the source of those problems. She seems to believe some heavy-handed "reddit 101" is going to fix everything. I believe that is hopeless once you reach the level of a default sub. Shitty users are always there, its how you manage them, compartmentalize them, incentivize them, etc that matters.
As someone who has worked a ton with the Stripe API, whenever I use Braintree's (vZero) API it looks soo much like they are trying to copy Stripe, but fail so so hard. Want to get the subscriptions for a customer? Sure, first get all the cards the customer has, then iterate through that list of cards and combine all the subscriptions for each card. Oh, is that a paypal customer, well credit cards and paypal accounts are separate and each can contain subscriptions.
Yes, but was this person intercepted at a point of entry into the United States, or did they go to a healthcare facility voluntarily once they started noticing symptoms, after they were already in the country?

The former implies that there may be sufficient mechanisms in place to prevent a repeat incident. The latter does not.
It won't be tolerable until we weed out anyone who might say anything that anyone finds slightly offensive. No jokes allowed.

You think laws made to help people get up from the bottom tier should apply to everyone on the bottom tier and not just people of a certain color? Well you're racist.

Your favorite movie is blazing saddles? Well guess what: you're a racist.

/s

I think everyone should be able to use the same water fountain and no one should be able to cut in line solely based on the color of their skin, but on their level of thirstyness.

According to a lot of people on reddit (and HN) I'm a racist. I thought racism was discriminating against someone based on skin color.
he expects each user to exercise their own moral judgement

It's clear that this is not happening in any meaningful way, so his lack of action is simply an admission that he can't or won't do anything to prevent abhorrent behavior on the site he's responsible for. If it's a government, it's a powerless one, enforcing no laws but collecting taxes regardless. There's nothing to admire there.
Really? Mavericks seems like it was a substantive upgrade (2013 update) and while Yosemite isn't quite as dramatic they're doing a completely new UI end to end.

I'd be fairly happy if I was an OS X user in terms of upgrades, not least of all as they're free.
One of the big messages was unification of the OS, right? So presumably there is a lot of work going on under the covers to make Win10 scalable from phones to high performance desktops.

None of that is sexy though; you can't really demo it to a room full of reporters.
A mod can ban you from their subreddit and that happens a lot based on a fairly subjective basis. There are even times where you just get caught by moderating bots then if the moderators don't bother to reply to you, there is little recourse. I have heard of cases from friends who have been banned for fairly bizarre reasons. I'm not saying you will be banned the first time you break the rule but people who post about content they create have to be extremely careful or they can be banned either from a subreddit or globally. When you are a moderator of a subreddit that has millions of viewers, I think it shouldn't be so subjective.
Yeah, Reddit's weakest link is its moderation tools or really, lack thereof. The mod tools were really written for a much smaller site, and hopefully this infusion of cash will let them hire devs who can make it their mission to make the mod tools useful.

Granular abilities - like the ability to give someone only the power to delete comments, or only the power to tag titles or something.

Restrict posting from new accounts - force accounts to be X days old before they're allowed to comment in a given subreddit.

Exposing the IP's of users to the mods - Most trolls/spammers aren't going to with proxies/whatever to get that many IPs, so exposing this is the first step to bans, which leads to...

Better bannning tools - even 4chan has good banning tools, why can't Reddit?

I spent all of 5 minutes on this so I'm sure a good developer can come up with a super useful list of tools, and them write them.
How can we trust the government to solve this when it was the government that created the problem to begin with?
Underwhelming. cmd text selection[1], start+tiles .. come on Microsoft you can do better.

Snap assist, as simple as it looks might be the nicest thing demoed, dealing with windows is such a time waster, having windows hand a one-click way to do that might prove zen inducing to many many people. First time I feel a sense of workflow in the UI (doing something on one window will make the OS react and fill in with another object). Very valuable.

[1] take a look at babun for nix complete shell, and for windows purists, just use powershell and pipe the result to the Mail app.
Web-Based Turbo Pascal compiler (2013)
10 Absurdly Famous People You Probably Don't Know Enough About
try using http://projectlombok.org/
First diagnosed case of Evola in the US
The main difference is that with Parcelable you have two versions of your object (one persisted on disk and one in memory) while with Realm you are always working with your real data, not a representation of it.
Price seems a tad high, especially if it is only half of a real bike. I'd pay $500 for one of these, just think the price point is a tad off for what it is.
Because they're the most commonly used statically typed languages with both type hierarchies and generics?
Depends on whether you listen to your government or the nurses [0] that work in your hospitals.

You'll probably be alright as long as the virus is exposed to a small enough group of people that health workers are able to do contact tracing and secure those that may have the virus.

Edit: Something quite worrying is the number of people infected in Liberia that have resulted in this. What happens if the estimates are right and 100s of thousands of people die - do we expect a percentage of these to arrive on US soils?

[0] http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/24/6731509/nurses-to-march-on-...
So they bribe and kick-back their way through the year and then throw a big party (ahh 'convention') in Vegas where they give each other awards while sucking down premium liquor, hand-rolled cigars, and no doubt metric tons of the stuff half of their inmates are in prison for.

The pigs from 1984 would blush over this stuff.
i love this! laptop camera to gif? yes please
Pebble website is down
Microsoft unveils Windows 10
"Website is under heavy load" so can't look at specifics. But judging by another NYT article[1], it sounds like there isn't as much cause for suspicion as I would have originally thought.

This article singles out the Chief of Cardiology at Newark Beth Israel, citing he received $270,000. It's a lot, but considering how well compensated he likely is already I'd hardly consider him bought. And he's being paid for an undefined number of speaking/consulting engagements which may make that number even less noteworthy.

For the most part, this seems like a great initiative for adding transparency but ultimately highlights a non-issue (assuming further analysis doesn't change the story).

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/upshot/what-were-learning-...
I hope you mean something more like "call out" or "identify" or something. Defame has strong connotations of doing something unfair or unethical (in U.S. law, defamation usually starts when someone makes a false statement...).
I'm sure that the admins would remove any sub that asked from the default list.
Probably. Ebola spreads through bodily fluids. This isn't the major, world-ending epidemic that the apocalypse chasers are looking for.
I don't know about that. It's certainly becoming a trite way to describe your product.
Top Tech Investors Skewer Startup Culture–For a Good Cause
boy I hear you there. That drives me completely insane about Go. They choose to have generics in these specific instances because if they didn't the language would be cumbersome. It's not enough.
The article is an ad for Coinbase.

Coinbase might be considered more trustworthy if they had an address other than the founder's apartment and a mail drop in a sketchy area of Market St. in SF. Over half of all Bitcoin exchanges have gone bust. The "online wallet" services have an even worse record.
There's so much stupidity in the gun debate on all sides. It's rare to see a cogent argument anywhere.

The basic idea applies to any dual-use technology, of course: criminals will prefer the better items for the same reason law-abiding citizens prefer the better items. Thus, "criminals prefer X" is not, by itself, any reasonable argument against X in a dual-use technology.
Currently Vulcan just displays a long list which is not ideal. However in the Firebase Dashboard we do implement a solution for this. The approach I took there was to truncate the list at 1000 items and display something like [3,332 more items...] as the last node. When you click on the last node it displays another 1000 items, etc. Adding search to the existing implementation would be ideal.

When you open a node there is not network request, there is an open socket connection that data passes through.

Its usually not necessary to display all items in a 10k plus list as there is generally no use case for a user scrolling through a list that large. Search and showing a truncated list that renders efficiently would be a good approach. Ultimately the problem we are tying to solve is helping a user find the data they are looking for. hope that helps.
What's skeumorphic in that screenshot? Doesn't seem like much; all I can think of is:

-The icons look like physical objects. I'm not sure this actually fits the definition, and regardless it's still common practice in 'flat' UIs

-The calendar looks like a physical calendar, again this is still common practice

-Some of the thumbnails (presumably videos?) have borders like physical film. Seems inoffensive.

-The buttons are styled like 3D physical buttons
True, but do you really think it's going to take long for the crazies to come out of the woodwork and start discussing the irrefutable evidence for the alien seaside city on Titan?

After that, when it gets refuted with clearer imagery and it turns out to just be something really interesting and cool, they'll say we nuked it to hide the evidence. Just wait. Or have I just channel surfed past the "History" channel too many times?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread468075/pg1
The landing page loads a whopping 6 MB of assets, the culprits particularly being two images at 3.2 and 1.8 MB. It was definitely not a fun experience on my lowly mobile network connection.
Inspired by http://www.elliptigo.com/, perhaps?
In the early 90's these were called 'skate bikes': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Pe7Q5sFfw
Can you hack together a resilient mindset and positive attitude while grinding out your degree program?

Suggest reading Viktor Frankl's classic Man's Search for Meaning, good food for thought> http://books.google.com/books/about/Man_s_Search_for_Meaning...
To me it is reminiscent of the way our government (and most others) works.

Both involve a monopoly on banking, granted by the government, to enrich government-selected corporations, at the expense of non-bankers.

No need to go back to the middle ages to find analogies. :)
On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-sufficiency (2013)
The problem with modding, or really leadership roles in general, is that everyone says they want to do it, but very few of the people who say that will actually put in the necessary time, and even if they do, a large percentage of them will suck at it. You want to know why there's so much mod overlap in the large subreddits? That's why. The people in charge of adding more mods would much rather have someone they know is dependable than risk trusting their community with an unknown. I agree that diversity in moderators, especially between subreddits, is a good thing, but it's much easier said than done. Finding, vetting, and training new mods is hard work.
"He says he charges only as much as he must to maintain a razor-thin profit margin."

I have a hard time believing this. Does any one have experience in this space? The way I understand it, it really shouldn't cost $6+ for an electronic transaction.
I think they might have missed the "Segway lesson". It doesn't matter how innovative the idea is, if people look or feel silly riding it, you fail.
Not sure Brick is now "more modular" and "lighter", without X-Tag - in fact, it's quite the opposite. They've dramatically increased the weight of each component, and constantly repeat the same code over and over, much of which is derived from X-Tag's internal methods:

Brick Flipbox: https://github.com/mozbrick/brick-flipbox/blob/master/src/br...

vs

X-Tag Flipbox: https://github.com/x-tag/flipbox/blob/master/src/flipbox.js

-----

Brick Deck: https://github.com/mozbrick/brick-deck/blob/master/src/deck.... AND https://github.com/mozbrick/brick-deck/blob/master/src/card....

vs

X-Tag Deck: https://github.com/x-tag/deck/blob/master/src/deck.js

-----

The above examples call into question the claim that the move was to increase modularity and decrease weight - clearly that isn't the case when you actually look at the code.
This really resonates deeply for me as well. When I was completely buried with difficult projects, I would occasionally complain about being "too busy". However, when things normalized to 40-50 hours a week, I would feel lazy. I reached a point where building a reputation as being someone capable of delivering when the situations were not ideal was a far greater motivator than money or free-time.

I found Daniel Pink's "Drive" an interesting read on the topic of what really motivates in the modern era.
I'm not a fan of these pricing models for VPSs. If you're fine with an oversubscribed OpenVZ VPS with minimal RAM/HDD then you might as well be on a shared virtual host. Even with an oversubscribed OpenVZ infrastructure, I can't imagine Atlantic.net makes a profit at this price point.I shudder to think where they're cutting corners. I can only assume the strategy is to get them (the customers) in the door at $0.99/mo. and hope they'll upgrade when they quickly outgrow their bare minimum VPS specs. But if I'm in that position, am I really going to stay with a OpenVZ provider instead of moving on to a KVM/Xen one where I know I'm getting what I paid for?
Byte: The Smalltalk Issue (1981) [pdf]
The mods were absolutely involved in the decision to make the subreddit a default. Unfortunately, moderators are not elected and they cannot be usurped. They have no obligations to their subscribers, and indeed in this case they made the decision behind closed doors.
And I'm not seeing us give up traditional keyboards at least, or mice or trackpads for that matter, trackpads which can also be multi-touch, because they are very efficient for what they do ... writing text + pointing at things without your hand blocking your vision, which is tied to the other advantage of the traditional "PC", which is the ability to use big-ass monitors.

I remember the craze of tablets 2 years ago, they were supposed to be the death of PCs. Now sales are declining and many tables turned out to be dust-gathering paper holders, because compared to phones, you can't carry them in your pocket. For Microsoft to try its hand at a laptop/tablet hybrid was the worst mistake ever; instead of making Windows the best PC OS available, they broke it even further than it was. And it's 2014 and that Command Prompt is still retarded, with millions of software developers suffering because of it, with many of them not even realizing it.
Gilens and Page think they have shown that's only true for trivial matters: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/princeton-scholar-demise-of-...

People vote all the time in all kinds of undemocratic systems.

Are you seriously saying strong encryption is, or should be illegal?
Given that ~75% of the comments here are negative and a lot of those are related to how ridiculous this looks, surely someone has to raise the question of market research?

At what point does it become ok to try and sell something that the vast majority of people are going to find absurd? I don't know anyone (and I live in a fairly hipster town) who would even contemplate using one of these. Maybe the high cost means that they can make enough profit per unit to make it worthwhile?

Very Nathan Barley-esque: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAr_UeroCk
Who is this "they"? Jacques Cousteau would have loved to live underwater, and built the Conshelfs in part to experiment with the possibility. I've watched documentaries about marine biologists who visit one of the undersea labs, and want to be able to live there. A quick search even finds http://underseacolony.com/prime/mainhub_revA.html , of people who want to establish an undersea colony.
It depends in part on how willing you are to assume that the transmission mechanism won't evolve.
Yes. Theoretically this is correct.

However (though I don't think this will be an issue for Ebola) before we get on any high cultural horse, let us stop to consider how many modern Americans have been perfectly willing to allow serious diseases like whooping cough to make a strong comeback because some Playboy model made lots of public claims which are demonstrably false.
A First Look at Windows 10
I moderate a medium sized Reddit community (r/mtb, ~32k), and the key for me has been enforcing a few basic rules: no memes, no rage comics, and all posts must follow reddiquette. (Okay, that 3rd rules is really a blanket for 10 rules, I admit.)

Sometimes we get trolls, but because of the rule structure they usually get bored pretty quickly. I have a handful of regular posters, too, who do a good job of posting every day and reporting spammers. It really has a true community feel, as was the intention of the site.
You can always opt out though. There's literally a check box you can change if you don't want it anymore. You don't uncheck that box without a lot of communication and deliberation generally, but it's there.
Bullshit. As noted in the article, everything was fine (pay $1.50 for a money order and $0.50 for postage) until people pushed to get private contractors involved. You can say "government created the problem" but that's totally obtuse. Should people who commit armed robbery (like the man in the article) not be in jail? If they should be, someone has to take care of their logistical needs. The drumbeat since Reagan has been that private companies should handle the logistics, because government is inefficient. Well governments responded, and what we are seeing is that the svrice of the for-profit corporations dwarfs the inefficiency of government.
I think "Free Software", but I don't think they 100% share the ideology is a pretty mild, not at all controversial statement, you'll have to explain further what you mean (or maybe what you think I mean, or...).
You have to consider that there were six years between XP and Vista (aka Longhorn), compared to an OS X release every year since 2011. Windows has picked up quite a bit of speed as well, though they're not quite at yearly releases yet.
He does have unconventional opinions on software. Just consider the programming language that eventually grew out of the thoughts laid out in this essay: It's untyped, point-free, syntax-free, and lacks local variables (at least in most versions).
FWIW, though DFW is a very big airport, there are no direct flights from Africa that land there. If they ended up in Dallas, they at least stopped somewhere outside Africa before they got there.