skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there is this: "While all Ebola virus species have displayed the ability to be spread through airborne particles (aerosols) under research conditions, this type of spread has not been documented among humans in a real-world setting,
such as a hospital or household."

Cite: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/Fact_She...

I could've sworn that Ebola-Reston was airborne-transmissible in real-world settings (albeit amongst non-human primates and swine), but I can't find a cite for that; I could just be misremembering things from Richard Preston's The Hot Zone.
As someone who's had an attack of shingles, saying that chicken pox isn't serious, is bullshit.
> There isn't "one company."

Ok, so lest we shift the conversation - as right now we're talking about the specific prison and the specific banking corporation that this prison is using as described in the full article - please tell me who is the competitor to JPay.

Don't give me "different departments of corrections" blah blah blah. I'm arguing the system as explained in the article is broken specifically because JPay is not competing in a free market, i.e. it has no competitors. You seem to disagree. So please tell me the names of JPay's competitors.

Thank you.
NYC's First and Second Growth Venture Announced – Who Is In?
>I mean this in a non-offensive way, but who are you to say that? What's "content worth reading" for you may not actually be content worth reading for anyone else.

I don't find it that useful to argue for things that I don't like. And I am capable of making value judgments and having opinions.
And for $1800 you can buy an electric self-balancing unicycle (essentially Segway with one wheel and no handlebar).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007Q3FZYK
Wikipedia has casualties between 129,000–246,000:

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

Casualties and losses:
20 U.S., Dutch, British prisoners of war killed
90,000–166,000 killed in Hiroshima
39,000–80,000 killed in Nagasaki
Total: 129,000–246,000+ killed

It doesn't say if these are all immediate casualties (does it even matter), but it does mention estimates for Nagasaki immediate casualties is between 22,000-75,000.
I thought there was quite a bit of controversy with regards to whether Reston was airborne.
"On August 30, 2014, Anand announced his decision to retire from the technology publishing industry to work at Apple, and named longtime AnandTech editor Ryan Smith as his successor." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnandTech
You've never seen a Joe Camel cartoon? I refer you to the following study: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=393811

"The children demonstrated high rates of logo recognition. When analyzed by product category, the level of recognition of cigarette logos was intermediate between children's and adult products. The recognition rates of The Disney Channel logo and Old Joe (the cartoon character promoting Camel cigarettes) were highest in their respective product categories. Recognition rates increased with age. Approximately 30% of 3-year-old children correctly matched Old Joe with a picture of a cigarette compared with 91.3% of 6-year-old children."
> 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?

Maybe, but in the US we also have all sorts of people who purposely spread HIV and other deadly diseases, so if that starts happening with ebola then all bets are off. Especially if it gets into the prison system, into the sex worker population, etc.
And XP was 5.1.
I enjoy Sam's writing but I am wondering why is he doing this ? Of course, its his money and he has 100 % right to do with it whatever he wants but still --

1. Reddit is site which promotes hatred. Radical men hatred is quite common to find out.

2. Almost all mods are SJWs. It is almost impossible to find or carry out rational discussion on reddit.
This hatred is so strong that many FEMINAZIs recommend getting rid of men from planet.

3. Mods control everything. Free speech is illusion on reddit. #GamerGate proved that reddit collaborated with un-ethical journalists to promote hidden propoganda

4. Reddit ads are most useless things.

5. Reddit users are mostly illiterate or low wage earners or college students or BurgerLand workers or IT workers who are stuck at their job. Reddit will never achieve revenue it is expecting to achieve.

6. Reddit is owned by mainstream media powerhouse.

7. Reddit regularly participates in social experiments to modify user views and conducts social experiments.

If all such things are happening why a partner at YC, who in other posting talks about morals, ethics, equality would want to invest in something this filthy.

After all , Money changes everything, doesn't it ?

PS - You can downovote me as you wish, or moderate this post but it won't change fact that Reddit is shithole and you can't deny it.
All interested parties in Reddit wants to create rage, modify or alter people's opinion/view in US and outside countries and profit.
I don't know what I'd choose since I can't tell you a meaning for life that is at all universal or that I buy into all that much.

I do, however, know that Jobs was responsible for a lot more than the iPhone.
"The more time you give a virus to mutate and the more human-to-human transmission you see," she says, "the more opportunities you give it to fall upon some [mutation] that could make it more easily transmissible or more pathogenic."

- Pardis Sabeti, computational biologist at Harvard University

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/08/28/343734184/e...
Can't tell if serious.
CDC confirms first case of Ebola in the US
You're also not infectious until you're symptomatic which makes it easier to identify and contain.

Ultimately it should be manageable so long as people follow instructions.
The kickstarter page (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/774841427/halfbike) is more useful that their website to get an idea about it is.
Who the hell are they trying to sell these to? While I understand the labor that could probably go into making one of these (probably less than 4 hours), the total cost of the actual bike should be no more than $100. $1000 for a bike that looks like it should cost about $30 - $50?
Those are certainties, not risks. :)
So... the advantage is that it's slightly smaller than a regular bike, for storage? I can't see any reason to have one of these if you have room for an actual bike. Unless it's supposed to be a fashion statement of some sort. Presumably I'm not the target audience.
Recently traveled, self-admitted to hospital. Bad news.
Yeah, when the new defaults were added 4-ish months ago, they experimented with some country-specific defaults. I think they only set it up for Sweden though.

Edit: Actually, Kenya, Sweden, and Singapore. http://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/27rxzs/strange_subredd...
If it mutates and becomes airborne, it might be. That's why containment is so important, even if it doesn't seem so threatening in its current form. Viruses constantly mutate, and every extra person they infect gives them a million more opportunities to do so. All it takes is one of those mutations to make the virus airborne, and we're in big trouble.
[ask HN] Why Did Google Offer to Translate LinkedIn Somali  English?
I got an email from linked in saying someone wants to connect. The gmail.com frame showed Google Translate on for Somali to English.

I clicked the X, the content didn't visibly change.

In Show original I didn't see anything that looked non Alphanumeric.
It seems like a marketing opportunity missed. Canonical provides the most widely used open source OS. Something like a Web-of-trust key exchange mechanism and secure email service seem like a logical product line extension. I'd pay for that. Their file storage product seemed disconnected from any other advantage they might have.
That's a pretty self-centered world view, then. Why do you think your view should be the view as represented on any given Reddit page? Don't you see that everyone has views, just like you do, and should be allowed to express them, just as you do?

How would you design a system in which everyone had the same amount of influence over a series of submissions?
Open source crusades
Ello is the doomed utopia we can't stop building
It's like they took all the worst parts of a tricycle, a unicycle, and a broom, and combined them with the inconvenience of standing up the whole time.
As others have said, you can downvote here to, but I know what you are saying. The majority always rules on reddit, and on the default subs, there are so many comments that you will never see anything but posts that agree with the majority. It's a tough problem to solve with community that big.
S3's the storage - you still have to run an httpd daemon somewhere, and even the smallest, cheapest EC2 instance will run you no less than $14 a month. (Notwithstanding the one-year-only free tier)

(Wow, I didn't know you could just serve content straight off the storage. I need to re-examine AWS.. thanks :D)
I read the parent post as a plea for better tools to filter that, more than a rant on the type of people coming in. Users might or not get better over time, and as you point out they may have a completely different expectation of the site.

I think it's a good tradeoff to let these users run free on lax subreddits and moderate heavily on others, provided the moderating tools get better and make it easier on the mods.
That would have to be somewhere in Europe.
>often racist/sexist discussion

I'm confused. Reddit is one of the most anti-racist/sexist communities on the internet. That's the hivemind, so you'd expect anything that's racist or exist to quickly be deleted or pushed to the bottom of the thread where nobody can see it (on the large subreddits anyway).
Interesting variation on the scooter/tricycle. I agree with most folks that riding a bike standing on the pedals is the least comfortable for me, but the handlebars are quite low at that point. Designing something to be ridden while standing is an interesting twist.
And it can't go uphill...
From the FAQ:
How well does Halfbike handles hills?
Riding uphill is alright as long as it is a gentle slope. Halfbike isn't really made for steep hills so if it gets too steep you may have to push.
You will see that the CDC defines a case as someone showing symptoms but also has epidemiological link to an EVD case or EVD suspect case. Just being in Texas is not a epi link as there has been no confirmed transmission.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html
I don't know, halfbikes look fun to ride and compact to carry, and definitely less clunky than bicycles. An additional bonus is that literally no one rides halfbikes (and not very many people will for a while, at that price). Riding one would certainly attract looks and questions.
I wouldn't call a RAM scraper an exploit. ASLR isn't an effective protection against a program that reads from memory. Driver signing in newer versions of Windows is a more appropriate protection but will still fall short of stopping a motivated attacker.
Pixels are evil
Are these OpenVZ? That's a shame.

Really, all I've ever wanted is an IaaS provider that gives me VMs in the shape of Heroku's instance partitions: a little bit of guaranteed CPU/memory/IOPS per dollar, with cheap/free low-jitter bandwidth thrown in, made specifically for allowing network-server applications that scale horizontally.

My 64MB-of-memory IO-bound Erlang chat server doesn't need a 4GB instance with eight cores. But it has to take that instance, because that's what you pay for in order to get a good uplink.
You can make the exact same statement about every other deadly virus, though. Why is ebola any different?
Agreed. Far better than the actual website. Took me from thinking it's completely ridiculous to thinking it looks kind of fun, albeit still not worth nearly $1000.
Why? I thought Ebola wasn't transmissible until symptoms appear.
I was about ready to ask that. The guy who's being treated wasn't symptomatic until days after he left the airport, which is encouraging to hear.
you have your wish:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hwr02/i_am_sam_altman...
The prison phone systems are also bilking families. In the Alaska prison system, I had to call collect to my family. Phone calls were limited to 15 minutes and they cost my family $33 per call. I hated calling them because I felt so bad about that cost.
Akamais State of the Internet report Q2/2014 is out [pdf]
The whole point of the updated system is that they don't have your decryption key. They will still turn over encrypted data, but LE won't be able to decrypt. That might be a leap of faith though.
I would really like some new version of Windows, regardless of the number, to really rethink the install/uninstall process. Really sandbox new software in and when you uninstall it, it really absolutely removes everything, instead of leaving garbage all over the system.

And also to improve the install process, let's please move beyond the install wizard. The user shouldn't have to click "next" 5 screens in a row where there are no options of any kind. Something more OS X-like would be nice.
What's going to be a real struggle is how do you differentiate between symptoms of the stomach flu, influenza, Ebola, and so on...
We should be cautious and prepared for Ebola and not assume we can contain it. We use isolation chambers and a massive team of doctors in special rooms at the CDC just to take care of 2 people. I take a look at the hospitals in DFW and I doubt they can properly contain a handful of cases concurrently.
I'm intrigued by the final paragraph:

> Yishan Wong has a big vision for what reddit can be. I’m excited to watch it play out.

Has anyone seen him set out his big vision? I'm not sure that I have.
CCA (Community Corrections of America) is owned by a group of judges, I believe. They run for-profit inmate holding centers across the US.
Heroku? I'm unsure what could fit into one of these VPSes but not a free-tier Heroku instance. (Which you get as many of as you like, mind you.)
I'm not trying to challenge you, just curious: what is an example of discourse that would be interpreted by someone with said privilege to be civil, yet interpreted by someone else without it to be barbaric, small-minded, offensive, etc.

I get that you could have an objective discussion on religion that might be offensive, but does the fact that someone can find it offensive make it "offensive" in general, or does it make the person who isn't offended "privileged"? I'm just not sure exactly how to apply your statement to such scenarios -- could you explain a little more about what you mean?

Would (could?), for example, objective data (e.g. CSV file, scientific study, statistics) have these qualities or just people's opinions on the objective data?
My guess is that 100% robustness wasn't a big concern. Getting 80% of a lot is good enough.
While I agree with your point completely, I want to point out that /r/karmaconspiracy is a joke/satirical subreddit.
It is not often practical to use dictionary definitions to describe political or social ideologies. If we go by definitions, both feminists and men's rights activities should believe the exact same things.

I don't identify with feminists or men's rights activists today because equality is not those specific group's goal.
This is great to hear, there's nothing ever wrong with more competition, but could you respond to the concerns in this thread with regards to your AUP? Your terms as currently written, are at the very least extremely limiting.
Unfortunately it'd break too much legacy stuff.
I thought the same thing. It's like Matz writes C the way he'd like to write ruby. I also see some smalltalk inspiration in his style.

Very neat.
The other problem is that community gets to decide what content is on top of the page by upvoting. As the community gets larger some more quality in depth and technical submissions won't get the same upvotes as a simple meme post.
The Best Way to Explain Why Copyright Monopoly Must Be Reduced
I doubt the government would be doing this:

"JPay is protected from other market forces, as well. When states offer its music players and tablet computers for sale to inmates, they often confiscate radios that people already own, according to inmates in Ohio. This leaves inmates dependent on JPay’s music downloads, which can cost 30 to 50 percent more than the same songs on iTunes, inmates say."

I'm confused, are you defending this company and its practices are merely railing against government? Atleast with the government, there is a bit of oversight. It seems like JPay is a monopoly thanks to bribery and their CEO's lack of morality.

Edits: spelling
Microsoft Is So Eager to Get Away from Windows 8, They Skipped to Windows 10
I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that the mass hysteria and paranoia coming from this will cause far greater damage than any actual cases
They, apparently, own their own datacenters and tout HIPAA compliant hosting. If they can't deal with incoming DoS traffic at the edge of their network I would be concerned...

People who run botnet slaves large enough to get DDoSed by their fellow botnet masters are smart enough to own Voip numbers for verification. The verification keeps 12year olds off not really anyone else. But it also stops legitimate users from signing up.
This feature alone makes me want to upgrade my Windows computers for the first time in a while.
A contrary view, just to be fair and balanced. I really didn't enjoy using Lua, though it had its moments.

A. Lua's source code is pretty inscrutable, and written in a style that was pretty alien to me. It was also a bit horrid to single-step through because of all those damn reference copying macros. But it's actually fairly easy to add stuff to it and modify it, and this was what actually convinced me to go with Lua in the end; look-mummy-my-first-Lua-hack was surprisingly easy to put in.

B. Lack of variable declarations and global-by-default was a terrible idea. Languages should require declarations, or at least be local-by-default, and have a special interactive mode for when you want the no-declarations-and-global-by-default behaviour. Because making things "convenient" is fine, until it isn't, at which point it just becomes a bug magnet. For a language supposedly designed for use by people who don't know what they're doing, this borders on criminal; when you've got years of experience behind you, it's merely a huge pain in the arse. MaxScript gets this wrong too.

C. 1-based indexing is annoying. If it makes no difference, switch to zero, because it's then the same as other languages; if it makes a big difference, switch to zero so that it isn't so difficult. Just because you can switch back from one way of doing things to the other doesn't make 1-based indexing right! MaxScript gets this wrong as well. But 1-based indexing would be wrong even if MaxScript and Lua didn't do it.

D. Lack of a proper array type is silly; you have this ugly thing that's like an array, but not, and it's easy to stop it being like an array. Because it's not an array... it's a mapping. A mapping with some very odd ideas. Come on people, mappings and sequences aren't the same! Shape up!

(At this point in my argument I used to be in the habit of adding, "after all, you wouldn't skip having separate integer and floating-point types, now, would you?" - because Lua famously had just the float variety. But these days they have integers too. So I'm still in the habit of adding it.)

(The Lua guys' insistence on minimizing number of data types can also be seen in the lack of a separate symbol type. Even MaxScript doesn't get that wrong.)

E. The C-side API is actually kind of weird, but on the plus side it's actually somewhat difficult to use improperly from C. So... I guess that's even. Maybe there shouldn't even be a point E, but... well. The C-side API really does stick in my mind.

Aside from that, no complaints!

(This post is at least partly just so that other people who don't like Lua know that they aren't alone.)
There's another problem with global variables, though. They make it harder to reason about your program. Who knows which of the functions you're calling are updating which global variables?

Of course, as you said, things are a bit different in Forth.
Yup, time to buy some GSK shares...
Judging by the amount of karma i'm shedding, the consensus would seem to agree with you....
I think the fact that you're actually physically exerting yourself makes up for a lot of that. It may look a bit silly, but it's still more likely to garner interest and respect than derision (unless people know how much you paid for it maybe!) With a Segway on the other hand, the silly look just gives the impression that you'll do anything to avoid having to actually use your muscles to propel yourself around.
likely some kind of cryptocurrency. Given YC's involvement in Stripe, nonzero chance it will be done with Stellar.
All hospitals can contain Ebola. This is not an airborne disease and therefore negative pressure isolation is not needed (unless performing aerosol generating procedures). All you need is a private room and proper PPE use and infection control procedures.
An Open Letter to Dublin Software Developers
> The difference now is that we have free access via archive.org to much of the offensive and defensive literature prior to 1920s, mostly categorized under "occult" and "religion".

Could you expand on this a little bit?
I signed up for a $.99 VPS some years ago; horrible service and downtime, so I wrote them to cancel. And wrote them and wrote them. And complained to their domain registrar, and stopped the auto-withdrawl of $.99 from paypal, and complained some more. To this day, I get a $.99 email bill with an invalid reply-to address, followed by a $.99 second notice bill. Every month... I'm sure there are people that have let their auto-pay accounts continue to feed whoever is at the back end of this. (vpstree.com)
First U.S. Case of Ebola Confirmed in Dallas
slg really hit the nail on the head here. the overjustification effect is well known and hints at how potentially dangerous this idea is to Reddit's future.

I see the point Sam's trying to make by doing this, but does Reddit have a contribution problem? Hardly! If millions of people contribute to make a site awesome voluntarily, for no greater reward than the attention of their peers (and a desire to build a great community), introducing a new incentive might very well alter the magic bit that makes Reddit so great.

What about directing this 10% towards philanthropic or political goals instead? So by contributing my time towards making Reddit better, I'd get that attention I want and help make the world a better place.

This could have a dramatic impact on reddit's raison d'être, making it a powerful (and defensible) power for good.