skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But when the government privatizes services, that agency problem always exists. Instead of contracting to one service like any other entity, government would always need to contract with several. You're just making a stronger argument for not privitizing government services.

Moreover, laying all the blame at the feet of government for these companies being scumbags is precisely why I said private industry has the wrong culture for this sort of thing.
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Very useful for managing entities in greater number. Nice shear!
Your expensive health care system may cause people to delay seeing a doctor, which means they might be symptomatic and spreading disease for a few days before being quarantined.

A patient zero on a new york subway could infect a few people and they would be hard to trace.

Although it's not probible it is scarier than "can't happen"
Because the guy who wrote the check wants it for his hometown.

Why do I want Chicago to be successful? On one hand, it get's super cold so it isn't the most practical location and it's kind of a racial powder keg. On the other hand, it is my home.
Most interesting is that this guy apparently became symptomatic 3-4 days before going to the hospital. Arrived on the 20th, felt sick on the 24th, went to hospital on 27th, was isolated on the 28th. How many people did he come in contact with? How many contacts are being traced? This may be very interesting, and I doubt it will stop at just the one case.
I'd say it makes sense to Hsieh because Zappos is based there. Natural to want to improve your surroundings over a random area.
Currently there's no word on support for IOS8 Safari that I've seen...here's to hoping that it'll come along soon though :D
Windows 10, Microsoft's next OS
Donations are always tricky and effectively allocating resources to aid is hard … but can you at least recognise that similarly sized catastrophes get much more attention and money?

More than 3,000 people dead, potentially more, and many of the affected places don’t have enough resources to deal with it in a satisfactory manner. That’s the situation here. This could have been controlled better, probably.
Feminists calling other people "not _real_ feminists" is a full-time hobby for some people. Some people even consider watching the drama to be a spectator sport of sorts. There are entire subreddits dedicated to just observing this sort of drama.

Some people, having been accused of being "not _real_ feminists" one time to many, stop self-identifying as such (even though their views on gender equality have not changed).
Does the syslog appender handle large, multi-line log messages (i.e. messages containing stack traces)?

I recall having some trouble with that when using syslog with Loggly, before switching over to the json appender.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter – Issue 98
10 proto-smartwatches (1975-2004), from Seiko's TV Watch to Fossil's Wrist PDA
It's ok. Sometimes people just post garbage or spam, which is why new accounts are displayed in green, so we know to be cautious :)

Reddit is more of a general-audience kind of thing. It's like CNN or BuzzFeed, but the key difference is that anyone can go in and create a new group ("subreddit") to discuss whatever they want (hence the value of the community, and the potential for advertising & marketing). This ad-marketing potential is likely what's causing people to put money in.

To me, HN could be thought of as a single subreddit focused on tech-startup-business. I see political things and other non-tech-startup-business things on here sometimes, but that doesn't appear to be the priority.
Can anyone point to something parallel for Python? Python-experienced C-neophyte feeling envious over here.
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Animal Farm is Orwell 's dystopia with pigs.
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These can be pretty useful for Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industries to manage their entities.
Ebola crisis update – Sept 25th
I see about $200 worth of parts. Now add the Name, time for fabrication and laminated wood, yeah...

I don't like the single handle bar or tiny two hand handle bar, I would want something with more grip for aggressive riding and peddling.

I'll stick with my BMX.
The RPM varies between different models. Each drive has a fixed RPM [1][2].

From SPCR:

> Western Digital doesn't want to say that they're selling 5,400 RPM drives — those became second class in the desktop market years ago. Instead, they rate the drive's speed as "IntelliPower" and take pains to emphasize that there are other factors that affect performance.

Western Digital has caught a lot of flak for withholding the rotation speed of the Green Power, especially when the product was first launched and the marketing material listed the rotation speed as 5,400-7,200 RPM. This led some to speculate that the rotation speed changed dynamically during use — which would have been an impressive engineering feat had it been true. The reality is revealed by a sentence that Western Digital added to the description of IntelliPower: "For each GreenPower™ drive model, WD may use a different, invariable RPM." In other words, Western Digital reserves the right to release both 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM drives under the Green Power name — without telling you which are which.

We were able to confirm that our 750 GB Green Power had a spindle speed of 5,400 RPM by analyzing its sound spectrum. Why sound? Sound is vibration; the pitch of the sound corresponds to the frequency of the vibration. Hard drives vibrate at the speed of their motor, so they produce a noise at the same frequency as their rotation speed. Our sample had a sharp spike at exactly 90 Hz (cycles per second). Multiplying that number by 60 (to get cycles per minute) yielded a measured rotation speed of 5,400 RPM.

[1] http://www.silentpcreview.com/article786-page2.html

[2] http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=23526214#p23526...
Just to clarify, I strongly dislike Apple's controlling policies on iOS. I think it's ridiculous that they won't allow sideloading apps or downgrading your OS, let alone installing custom OS builds. However, going from "they can tell your phone to download a U2 album if you ticked the box" to "thus they own your vacation photos" is still a complete non-sequitur.
> [...] while considering the price the market is willing to pay

What about considering the cost of enforcement? Content "creators" in Hollywood and CBS et al offload their enforcement costs to U.S. government agencies which are funded by tax-payers, not those "creators" (though in fact those "creators" are really content copiers most of the time).
This struck me as almost a perfect example for good content on a company blog (outside of the required press-release style posts). Ties into their software, light-hearted, polished and well put together.
Recently an arsonist alledgedly set fire to a dog shelter in the UK.

They raised over £1m in a few days.

> The blaze, which was tackled by more than 30 firefighters, killed about 60 animals.

> Within 24 hours, more than £1m pounds had been raised to help around 150 surviving dogs.

This happened while Ebola was happening.
One interesting use for Linear Optimization is to do constraint-based UI layout - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_%28software%29 . I wonder how Glop would compare to Cassowary?

EDIT Unfortunately the documentation for the Google OR suite is pretty sparse.
There is extreme group think in subreddits like /r/politics and /r/libertarian. The main problem is that the quality of content degrades extremely quickly as the community grows. It has been eternal september there since Digg v4.
You're correct. For instance, there's a lot of ill-founded concern around the flight the patient took into the US. The CDC is doing its damnedest to quell fears around it -- the patient wasn't symptomatic until four days after arrival -- but reason isn't always effective at moderating hysteria. The New York Times' headline, for instance, is currently "Airline Passenger With Ebola Is Under Treatment in Dallas," which is downright irresponsible.

As for "bad news," the patient self-referred to the hospital, Ebola was not suspected, and the patient was initially sent home to recover. (S)he returned once conditions worsened and was then diagnosed with Ebola.

Specifically, the patient arrived in the US on the 20th, became ill on the 24th, visited the hospital on the 26th, and was admitted on the 28th. Which means that Dallas had someone symptomatic in its midst for four days, which is rather unfortunate.

Cite: http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/s930-ebola-confirmed-...
And? I’m not sure what the point is. The effect on the affected countries is still disastrous. Do you think having to fight Ebola on top of Malaria is harmless?

Do you think it is worth considering whether a better response was and maybe still is possible to end this quickly (and be better prepared in the future)?

Malaria is a huge disaster. The Ebola epidemic is, too, in the affected countries. (I couldn’t care less about scared idiots in Europe and the US.) Both are.
Endo for days... Hit the right crack in the sidewalk and life becomes fun.
> To repeat: there is no cost in adding generics to Go, because they are already there!

Could you please stop spreading this nonsense?[1] Generics aren't free. You will always pay for it in terms of some combination of implementation complexity, runtime performance and compiler performance.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8316995
if you are banned from a subreddit (even a default one) the moderators can basically choose to ignore you and you are SOL

This touches an issue I'd like to elaborate on: the psychology of someone who is willing to moderate a Reddit subsection—or any similar site, like many mailing lists—is probably not good. It takes someone willing to spend a fair amount of time at a thankless task that is hard to do well and rarely if ever remunerative.

A lot of the people who start at that task do so optimistically but quit as their lives change or the task becomes more onerous. Who gets left? People with axes to grind; people with no sense of perspective; petty tyrants; and so on. I don't use Reddit much for many reasons, but one is the low quality of moderators. I don't bother messaging them anymore, ever, because doing so is largely a waste of time.

The problem with moderators is not dissimilar from the problem of users: people who regularly have something interesting to say and the means to say it well get blogs, as I wrote here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/social-news-sites-a... . Those who don't stay on Reddit.
> Reddit's management simply has an economic incentive to promote these gems...

Management's economic incentive is purely to get more money from existing sponsors and to get more sponsors - and if they had to close down /r/writingprompts to achieve those ends, it'd happen. Look at how Reddit handled the celebrity nudes leaks were handled.
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These kinds of policies are unfortunately commonplace and largely ignored. Gandi.net, which incidentally powers Amazon's Route 53 domain registration, requires that you agree to their "good moral standards" [0]. Gandi reserves the right to shut down your services without notice if, among many other reasons, they in their sole discretion deem you are doing anything deviant, you're not respecting someone's honor, or if the content isn't appropriate to each person's sensibility... where "each person" can be any of the millions of users you have using your services.

[0] http://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.p... (Note that this is the English copy of their rules, which is not binding. You are bound to the French version.)
DEA. Not FBI. Keep your agencies in check.

Granted, both are under the Attorney General (formerly Eric Holder)... but Holder's recent MO has been to improve race relations between the Police Agencies and the general public. (See his exceptional handling of Ferguson... but his less-than-exceptional handling of "Fast and Furious")
I'll admit that mods aren't always perfect, but they're (for the most part) regular users who are making communities the way they want to

I agree with the rest of your comment but would like to qualify this, for reasons I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8391963 .
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sooo... this is just a way for you to collect email addresses and annoy people, right?
You are being downvoted because the 5-year survival rate of pancreatic cancer is 5%. In all probability Jobs was going to die no matter what he did.
Sufficiently large to do what?
OpenVZ's only going to get more painful once all the major distros migrate to systemd. The systemd developers basically assume that you're going to upgrade the kernel in lockstep with the rest of the distro and that's just not feasible with OpenVZ.
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Where was pre-Java 1.5's generic HashMap? Or closures?
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Because of this (quoting from the article):

"To impress state corrections officials and gain their business, JPay spends heavily on industry conventions attended by agency heads with contracting authority. During a 2012 convention of the American Correctional Association, the company threw what it called an “END OF THE WORLD PARTY” at a Denver wine bar that bills itself as “about you, and your inalienable right to the unbridled enjoyment of food and wine.”

The invitation, printed on a disposable beer coaster, promised “a bash, JPay-style: fuerte tequila, hand-rolled cigars, a live mariachi band.” Conventioneers could catch a JPay shuttle leaving from the hotel “ALL NIGHT LONG,” it said."
You can just show the posterior and let your brain be the decision rule. You can visually see the difference in conversion rate and the uncertainty around it. That info makes it easy to decide whether to continue the test or stop the test and pick the best performer. Much better information to base a decision on than a hypothesis test with a significance threshold that people pull out of their ass.

If you want to be fancy you could even implement a strategy that maximizes the total conversions based on bayesian decision theory, so that it automatically tends to show the best performer as time goes on.

That article is weird. It uses a normal distribution as the prior for the conversion rate. That could produce a negative conversion rate or a conversion rate above 100%. Then in the section "So why doesn’t everyone already do this?" they say "The answer is simple - it’s computationally inefficient.". No shit if you are using a normal prior. A much better way to do this is to use a beta prior (or a Dirichlet prior in case you have more than 2 alternatives). Then the math becomes trivial & fast and you don't have nonsense negative or above 100% conversion rates.
>Instead of contracting to one service like any other entity, government would always need to contract with several

No, the government is the entity making a selection among several choices, and is the entity in the position to negotiate the rates.

Therefore they could bargain for lower rates if they wanted.

Misrepresenting the choices isn't making your case.
Last week, the total number of cases was ~6500. One month ago it was ~3000. Two months ago it was ~1300. How do you call a process that duplicates itself every fixed unit of time (in this case, every ~3 weeks)?

Of course, we should not fall into panic. Many factors will affect what ends up being the total effect of this outbreak in the mid to long term. But dismissing it as a non issue because "there are just a few thousand cases" misses the point completely.
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> How many died because of the advance of Communism in Asia?

How many died because the US fought the advance of Communism in Asia?

And why do you believe that it is even your damn business to interfere in countries that are thousands of miles away from the US?

By the way, the General that was responsible for the bombing Japan with nuclear weapons, Curtis LeMay (you can see his signature on one of the photos) was in favor of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, and proposed dropping more than 140 nuclear bombs on Russia.

And yes, he was willing to lose US cities due to counter strikes. All that mattered to him was that the US had an advantage at the time, and could win a war.

He also insisted on invading Cuba during the Missile Crisis and almost convinced Kennedy. We are lucky that he failed, because there were already nuclear weapons on Cuba at that time (which he didn't know) and an invasion would have triggered an all out war.
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I'm working on something that goes in this direction but it will still take a lot of work: https://github.com/mntmn/home-lisp
I think the "peripheral agnostic" idea might not work out, though.
If I was able to write that kind of C code, I'd never feel the need to use ruby, python maybe even lisp :)
Oy, look up the word "contagious", please.

This has the potential to make malaria look like a walk in the park.
What is FUD about it? This is potentially how a epidemic starts.

Stopping this spread depends on everyone checking into a hospital when potential ebola symptoms start, which doesn't happen. Even the current patient didn't think to go to the hospital when he became symptomatic. He potentially infected others. Those contacts have to be traced and put in observational quarantine before they become symptomatic, if they do. If one contact was infected and is missed by the epidemiologists, then the whole process starts over, because whoever it is probably won't know it's ebola and will be symptomatic for days before getting more serious and going to the hospital.

We're also close to the flu season, which has a lot of overlapping early symptoms. If nobody else was infected, or if they proactively quarantine everyone who was infected before symptoms start, then we're good. Otherwise...

I don't understand why there are flights allowed out of ebola-stricken countries. We know ebola has an incubation period. This was just a matter of time.
Thank you for this detailed explanation. I assumed there was some extenuating complexity to the process, and was simply wondering what it was that prevented the original publishing system from being adapted to be faster.
> 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).

Actually, there was a study earlier this year[0] which showed, with better data and more rigorous treatement of the fluid dynamics, dropplets can travel much farther than previously thought. [1] has a summary of the research, in case the article is not available. But their basic conclusion is that, depending on the size, droplets can travel up to 200 times farther than previously thought, because they are carried along with the "cloud" associated with the sneeze.

[0] http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/09/sneeze-cloud_n_5110...
This is true, but Its a Biosafety level 4 pathogen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level

So its "literally more dangerous".
That actually makes it easier. Build a non-profit competitor, get the press, charities & public behind it and shame the fuckers in to switching. With material like that it would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
In an A/B test where you usually get so much data, priors honestly don't matter much. Just use a flat prior. You'll overestimate the uncertainty a bit, so you may need a couple more data points than necessary but it's still way less than you'd need for a frequentist method. An A/B testing company could even automatically come up with better priors based on A/B tests that their customers have done in the past.
Eh, there are plenty of 1's and 2's.
What an utterly sick, broken system. Cannot contain my despair at this.
You missed a: for me at the end there.
You are taking "dangerous" to mean "total number of people killed", while an equally reasonable definition is "likelikhood of dying if you contract it". It all depends on what criteria is being used to define "dangerous".
Its sequel, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb [1] is also great. It deals with Edward Teller's hydrogen bomb, the nuclear spies (Fuchs, the Rosenbergs, etc.), the beginning of the cold war, Oppenheimer's ambitious attempts at atomic regulation, and his subsequent trial. TMAB stands out, however; it is superb in its panoramic, often lyrical depiction of science and philosophy coming together in a broad cast of scientists. Much of Dark Sun is about spies, cops and military figures, and its subject matter is somewhat more prosaic.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sun-Making-Hydrogen-Bomb/dp/06848...
I don't disagree. I'm not saying types are bad or unneeded, simply that they can be overused. I think we are encouraged to use types to solve so many problems because they're one of the few things that compilers can easily check, rather than because types are the optimal solution.
I like this little corner of the universe with YC funding redditcoin and giving free lectures from Stanford to the world.
Law Enforcement (aka FBI / DEA) battles pedophiles and drug dealers. These guys typically make the "think of the children" arguments.

Defense (Army / CIA / NSA) battles terrorists.

Keep an eye on the names of the agencies involved. This is an FBI / Law Enforcement story, so the excuses are going to be different than the NSA-case a few months ago.
I think the marketing figures offering more than five or six nines of durability are just deceptive. There's no way Amazon or anyone else can model risk well enough to offer eleven nines of durability.
And a random asteroid has the potential to totally like explode the planet and kill everyone. The difference is that I'm talking about present reality.
Malaria has a steady death rate. It's obviously a serious issue that doesn't get enough attention in the West, but immediate action will affect it only marginally.

The issue with Ebola isn't how many people it's killed so far (although the number is already tragic), but the number of deaths it can potentially cause. If left entirely unchecked at this point, it would kill over a million people in the next year. A half assed response limits it to hundreds of thousands, while a solid response limits it to tens of thousands (conceptually, numbers pulled out of ass but reasonable, I'd argue).

Outbreaks grow exponentially unless contained; the point of fast action is to prevent or curtail the exponential growth.
And for any government entities as well. I like this
I wonder if they've been planning this for a while? https://twitter.com/redditcoin/status/428947176002056192
Point out a horror resulting from Hiroshima or Nagasaki that tops human infant vivisection.