skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Why can't the state let a bank put a bloody ATM (or several) in a common area, and let the inmates use debit cards?

This is what you get in a privatised system. Money must be made and an ATM in the common area is not going to do that.

http://www.alternet.org/story/155199/private_prison_corporat...
No one's making shit up in this thread.

A 500-pound dumb bomb consists of about 250 pounds of steel and 250 pounds of high explosive. Plus a fuze.

When manufactured in large quantities, $3000 in 2014 dollars seems like a reasonable cost.

(Most of the ones in the US Air Force's inventory were manufactured decades ago.)
Fear, you're not fearing this enough... Maybe we should ramp it up and make it airborne. Fear will come.
First off, how do you know the credentials of ANYONE commenting? My "profile" doesn't have any information relating to my degrees, my work history, or anything else.

Saying people need a degree to comment is a complete joke. I can make whatever comment I want, regardless of my experience. Get over yourself dude.
And still much slower than typing. I see insufficient value to learn cursive in a modern society.
EBay follows Icahn's advice, plans PayPal spinoff in 2015
Sorry, I don't know why my comment was posted 3 times...
It would be nice to credit me since I developed this approach (down to using Redis with Lua scripts) two years ago at Twilio: http://vimeo.com/52569901

If you developed the approach entirely without having seen my talk then feel free to disregard this comment, and please accept my apologies for being presumptuous.
> * The number of cases of infected patients is fairly small.

This is no longer true. We have no idea how many people are infected anymore because Liberia has too many patients to even keep track. They're literally thousands of beds short and it's actively doubling.

The CDC estimate is 100k-1.4m by the end of the year.

> * The vector of transmission is fluid exchange, so that reduces its ability to spread.

To some degree. It's still highly contagious, especially since it happens to cause people to tend to eject all kinds of different fluids. This is the largest spread of a BSL4 virus in history. It isn't casual.

> The chances of contracting the disease in AFRICA is fairly improbable too.

In places where it's not spreading, absolutely. In Monrovia or Freetown, there's actually a real risk and it's growing worse daily.

That's the scary part. This isn't even about what the risk is right now, though it's terrifying in comparison to where it was a month or two ago. It's about what happens two months from now.

The situation is bad now and rapidly deteriorating.
hey, good luck! this is your day and if your time on hn/reddit was like mine so many years ago when my prices were good, you probably want to be racking up new servers rather than answering questions, but even though I'm a competitor rather than a customer, I imagine others are wanting to know the answers to similar questions:

what virtualization technology are you using? Is it openvz/virtuozo/container based? or is it kvm or xen hypervisor based?

Are your backups hosted on a different provider or on a different server?
This is awesome, I wonder how hard it would be for this to emulate vga mode 13h, 320x200 256 colours?
Firewall for Magento: Open-source security extension
This is missing the point. Ebola is a far more dangerous pathogen. I dont think this needs further explanation.
I used to use AHK a lot for interacting with a game. Sikuli seemed neat when I heard about it, but it turns out that it only supports pretty much a single method of capture and only a single method of relaying mouse events. This made it completely unusable for that purpose. AHK supports pretty much every method available to Windows. The simplicity of use was attractive, but it needs a ton of work under the hood before it'd be viable as a general purpose automation tool.
iPhone 5 and 6 have hardware and software features, like the 1000-gradient flash, that are unavailable on any other camera. It's one of the best point n shoot cameras on the market.

I have a decent DSLR, and I rarely use it because I rarely happen to carry it. Even when I had a Galaxy S, with a pretty poor camera, I was making much more use of the phone camera than I thought I ever would. The affordances for instant editing and posting are just a world apart on smartphones.
> NT 3.1 made sense because it was a compliment to Windows 3.x.

NT 3.1 was the rename of OS/2 NT after MS and IBM couldn't agree on what to do with OS/2. But it was a parallel release to the Windows 3.1.

> Windows 2000 kind of makes sense too, since we had Windows 95 and 98. Or at least 2000 would have made sense if ME didn't exist.

Me was the DOS-based successor to the Win 3.1 -> Win 98 SE line, 2000 was the NT-based successor to the Win NT 3.1 -> Win NT 4.0 line.

Since 2000 wasn't a successor to 95/98, it can't really make sense because of them -- to the extent that the name indicates its the next in that line, that illustrates why it doesn't make sense rather than indicates that it does (though, IIRC, that was part of the intent -- 2000 did support more of the consumer features than NT 4.0 did and there was some initial indication that MS hoped that 2000 would be the convergence OS that XP became, and that Me was a result of MS realizing belated that that wouldn't work and that they needed a new consumer OS as a stopgap before the convergence OS landed.)
Very cool project! Is there any word on getUserMedia for IOS Safari?
The interview you link to points out numerous problems with that study, but beyond that, the very existence and success of activist groups disproves that premise. If the United States was truly an oligarchy, gay marriage or marijuana legalization would never have happened.

Lawrence Lessig is making serious progress with his Rootstrikers group, and the fact that he's doing so proves that ordinary citizens do have political influence. Battles aren't won overnight, but

>Are you seriously saying strong encryption is, or should be illegal?

Do you think I'm saying this? If so, where?

Or are you asking leading questions in order to put words in my mouth? In which case, are you seriously saying that democracy is an idea we should totally abandon in order to embrace the rule of whoever-can-summon-the-most-technological-power?
If you wanted to long this stock you should have been on board more two months now. You are a lot late to the party.
I don't see anybody panicking.

And if anything, I've seen calls for more resources, calls to "do more" about Ebola, etc. Mostly to control it in Africa.

There's the "We are losing the fight to contain Ebola" line, and there's the "it'll never spread outside west Africa" line. Both of which can be (And are, apparently) true - it may become endemic to West Africa, but much like Malaria, it won't be a threat to the developed world.
This is all over the web. Why should I care that Windows 10 is named Windows 10? Why should I care about this story at all? So what? What about Windows 10? The fact of it being unveiled is not news.
So every time you do a zfs scrub on a large pool (many TB) you should see errors that are detected and corrected.

But you don't...
Can someone explain why it makes sense to build a new community/ecosystem in Las Vegas? Not only is the climate terrible, there are problems with even having enough water: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/06/05/lake_mead...

There must be plenty of cities across the Midwest without such problems that would be a better choice for such an initiative.
OTOH, Moore's Law says that at some point you should be able to get a decent amount of hardware for $1/month. No support, of course.
The death toll from malaria throughout history is orders and orders of magnitude beyond that of Ebola. I don't see how there is any way you can accurately describe it as "a far more dangerous pathogen."
I don't think anyone is suggesting we move to Mars to escape global warming.
I didn't overlook anything, but I'm also not under the illusion that Hacker News is a peer reviewed journal. Hacker News doesn't require anything of a commentator, the only requirements are on content.

Unless you can magically ascertain the qualifications, or lack thereof, of someone, maybe you should only criticize on the content of their comments?
It's definitely worth it if you have the time to do it well. I know one instructor who did $140k in his first month (he did have an audience beforehand though). Feels like a 'goldrushy' time in online education right now. A lot of people don't know this.
as far as donations are going, Time had a good breakout. There are many who have gone there, given money, and risked their lives. hint they aren't the type that frequent tech boards but posters here are quick to dismiss some of them for their religious convictions
I know a couple of people who live in Vegas who are familiar with the project. Based on what they have been saying, it is a prime example of why it is not possible to create a "startup hub" just by pouring money into some random city. You also need great educational institutions nearby as well as a healthy mix of angel investors and VCs. Attract enough smart, curious and self-driven people to create a "critical mass" and then have lots of money available to fund the ideas that emerge. That's what made SV what it is.

I was actually asked if I'd be interested in moving to Vegas to join an accelerator to seriously pursue one of my ideas, but I declined. In my mind, Vegas is for weekend getaways. I could never live there.

Besides that, the project seems to suffer from typical nepotism. When you're giving jobs to family and friends without paying any attention to whether they are qualified, you are shooting yourself in the foot and significantly decreasing your chances of success in a project that's already very ambitious. I hope things work out but it isn't looking good right now.
Wrote a WoW fishing bot with Sikuli a few years back - it worked pretty well.
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders is the first organization that jumps to mind -- they've been helping to lead the response in Africa, more or less on a shoestring.

Their US donation page is here: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm

Folks in other countries can find their local donation pages here: http://www.msf.org/donate

EDIT - To give you a sense of how involved MSF has been in the Ebola response: "Since March 2014, 14 MSF staff members have become ill, among whom 8 have sadly passed away." (Source: http://www.msf.org/article/ebola-workers-risk-tragic-reality...)

There's a comprehensive rundown of their efforts to date to help contain Ebola across West Africa here: http://www.msf.org/article/ebola-crisis-update-sept-25th
Last year Ebay's marketplace accounted for 30% of Paypal's revenue. Ebay mentioned that this number is declining and is forecast to hit 15% in the future. So significant but declining.

"That’s no surprise since about 30 percent of PayPal’s business is still on eBay, although that is down from 50 percent only a few years ago. Donahoe said eBay projected it would get to 15 percent quickly."
http://recode.net/2014/09/30/ebay-to-spin-off-paypal-with-ne...
> Have you been to Africa recently..

Considering that there are still regular flights from African countries to the US, that would be a large number of people.

Maybe that screen should be applied only if you have developed a symptom like a high fever...?
I completely agree with your points, and just created this account to post something similar until I saw your post.

Reddit is indeed a shithole, filled with an extremely radical left-wing hive mind that is completely devoid of critical thinking skills.
Meanwhile, over 3000 dead in west africa.
> You also can't stop criminals with a crime that isn't on the books.

If you make this sentence mean anything at all, which requires redefining "criminals" as something like "moral wrongdoers, independent of whether their wrongdoing is actually a crime", then it still isn't true, as the existence of a law prohibiting an act is neither necessary nor sufficient to create disincentives to committing the act.
remind us again of the fundamentals of moral calculus: how many rongs make a right?
How to Model a Multi-sided Business
It's not an unnecessary risk, because "risk" requires there to be some chance of danger. Ebola isn't contagious until symptoms appear, thus there was no risk at that stage.
Subjectively some fields either did not provide enough information, e.g., most providers have free ingress traffic, or I could not find enough information about a field, e.g., number of replicas for several providers. I tried to pick a subset of data that was both useful and complete for the defaults; other fields can be selectively enabled.
I have always been a bit of a hypochondriac and I was worried about ebola spreading world wide in 1995 during the Zaire outbreak. I was 12 years old at the time and my classmates laughed at me. I just hope that I wouldn't have the last laugh(more like cry).
You need me to provide examples of sexism or racism in "civil" discourse? Maybe we don't live in the same society. Read the post that these comments are about. Only a minority of them are trolls. Many are otherwise reasonable and intelligent people saying ignorant and shitty things in calm, civil, flag-avoiding ways.

If you don't notice it it's because you're privileged. If you're not, it's like you're swimming in it.
I also experimented with it a few years ago trying to build an automated GUI testing framework, and it turns out that its way too fragile and non-portable to be usable for that use case.

I remember running into issues as soon as anything changed regarding resolution, scaling, graphic settings, color scheme etc.

Pretty fun to make toy programs in to automate stuff with though.
Question: why can't paypal be used here as a viable competing solution?
Advanced iOS virus targeting Hong Kong protestors
That Microsoft has revealed the next OS release and that the tech preview will be available tomorrow is news, as are the (however minor) bits of information about its features and the new "Insiders" program.

They may not be news that you care about, but that's a different issue.
Yes, exactly. I recommend this episode (https://overcast.fm/podcasts/episode/110040344176) of Stuff To Blow Your Mind if you want to learn what Ebola really is. It was very informative and easy to understand for someone like me who doesn't know anything about diseases/viruses.
A relevant post arguing for Reddit to implement this on top of the Bitcoin Blockchain: https://medium.com/@barisser/an-open-letter-to-reddit-why-yo...
these guys semantic annotation services are pretty awesome. They seem to be the best for Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industries. Or even for Government Entities.
Ah yes, ye old "reverse Xism". Going for the oldies but goodies.
You wouldn't know it based on the blockchain frenzy these days.
>>The CDC estimate is 100k-1.4m by the end of the year.

No no, you see, the world has seven billion people, so 100k-1.4m is still a tiny portion and therefore it's all sensationalism!

/s

The fact of the matter is that the current ebola outbreak is a disaster of epic proportions. Whether it becomes a pandemic is irrelevant: it's already devastating several countries in Africa and is likely to move to other underdeveloped nations if not kept in check. Can you imagine what would happen if it started spreading in India?
The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible
I think that it's totally appropriate to be alarmed by Ebola and the damage it's doing to the people and communities affected. It seems like people understand person concern, and are more trying to discourage un-informed reactions. I don't mean I know better - just that I'm not trained in public health and neither are most of the people who are being alarmist.

The WHO has encouraged the international community to react more strongly to ebola, and I certainly support that. However, I can still look askance at people with no expertise who think we should all be more frightened / upset / etc.
Very nice, just the sort of thing I had in mind. I can see how the resource allocation problem would get really hairy, though. I wonder how Gandi deals with it.
SSL Toolbox
Same here. There have been seemingly credible sources saying it will go nowhere and other seemingly credible sources saying we're too late to stop it from spreading. It's hard to figure out where to fall on this as an uneducated, relatively detached observer.
It's not a free market because the people sending the money (the customers, in this case) don't get to choose which provider to use.
mmm, so Glacier is still the best bet for archive and S3 for day to day use storage? specially if you are on AWS already.
I've been enjoying RubyMotion since its inception, so I'm always surprised by how many people haven't tried it. It's been a huge boon to writing apps.

I cut my teeth on app builder/interface builder about 10 years ago, back in college, and I have never learned to love the GUI approach to building UI (nor do I care for the XML/XAML approach of android/xamarin - just code, thank you).

Since then I learned python, ruby, and don't feel any desire to go back to strongly typed languages. Anyway, I hope more and more people get fed up with Swift and join us in the RubyMotion camp. It's a ton 'o' fun. ;-)
I used Sikuli back in 2011-12 for some random automaton tasks, and often wish I would remember to use it more.

- Advisor wanted a one button way to run a convoluted research prototype I had made, and I didn't want to have to dig into Cocoa to figure out how to programmatically click/select options in a few desktop apps.

- Worked at a company and there was silly employee training slideshow+quiz, so I had Sikuli wait for the next arrow to show up once the audio was finished and click it.

- Wanted to heat up my GPU to warm a brownie, so I opened one of those WebGL water demos and had Sikuli repeatedly pick up a ball and drop it in the water.
That was the hope with the Windows Store. Unfortunately it was Metro only.
The article also says:

"RAM scrapers, by contrast, can be installed remotely on a Big Box
retailer’s network and deployed widely to dozens of stores in a
franchise, without an attacker ever leaving his computer. They can
also be deleted remotely to erase crucial evidence of the crime."

The ability to remotely install and delete RAM scrapers from anywhere in the world precludes this being a hardware device.
I think people find ebola more frightening. Even if it's caused a tiny amount of deaths compared to other, less frightening diseases.
I've always traveled through De Gaulle on my way to and from West Africa (used to take Air Afrique, but these days Air France, Ethiopian and Air Maroc all go to Bamako). However, since the patient wasn't symptomatic until they were in Dallas, transits and port-of-entry don't have to worry. There's a large, fairly dense immigrant neighborhood just east of the hospital in question (the IRC does a lot of refugee relocations there), so there may have been exposure in that area.
There is a lot that one could say about this, but let me throw this in the mix: a big part of the problem is simply that we (the US) have far, far too many people incarcerated and "in the system" to begin with. The US ranks second only to the Seychelles in terms of "prisoner count per 100,000 of population"[1], at 707. And many of those people are in jail for non-violent crimes, or crimes for which restitution would be a better consequence than jail.

We need to decriminalise drug possession and sales, and focus on restitution for cases of theft, fraud, etc. The people in jail should be mostly murderers, rapists, and people who have shown themselves to be an active threat to society. And even then I'm not actually convinced that jail is the best solution, but let's tackle one problem at a time.

(Sidebar: a different Wikipedia page says the US incarceration rate is actually the highest, not second. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat...)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...
It's stopping money from flowing down the river and those with boats from enjoying their weekend. It must die.
Thanks, that's a reasonable explanation. I can see how storing every value in exactly one machine word and having the low bit always indicate whether a value is immediate or a pointer is a nice simple design.
I'd guess part of it is that it's easier to use homogenous hosts, and chop them up evenly.
>> "Obviously Fox takes the FUD crown, but I thought the NYT actually misrepresented it a bit.."

I actually think they were closest to accurate. The other headlines all make it sound like this man caught ebola in the US. They are the only one to indicate he was abroad. I think they've undersold it a bit as he spent several days in the US before being isolated but everyone else has sensationalised to an extent imo (or written the headline in a way that allows us, the reader, to accidentally sensationalise it).
Ask HN: Marketing and validating side project when already in a job?
A friend and I are working on a project. We both have full time jobs at the same (large) company. The plan is that if the idea is validated and gets some traction, we will leave our jobs and work full time on it.

We are targeting enterprise market and I am struggling on how to market and validate the idea without letting our current employer know. We cannot even list our names on our web site. Same fear with reaching out to people we know but don't completely 'trust' or other random people in our target markets.

Am I overthinking it? Did anyone had a similar situation? How would you recommend we handle it?
Mailchimp Lana – email as artefact
Yeah, for real - I'm sorry for your terrible experience, but surely it doesn't have much to do with atlantic.net...
They have a blood test...
I'm basing that number on a paper I read a while ago that estimated the infection channels from a variety of experimental and epidemiological data. I can't find the original article with a quick search, but there are plenty of other papers that show how efficient the hand-contact mechanism is. For example:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/205151

In that study, 11 of 15 hand-contact exposures to a rhinovirus led to infection, which is not 80%, but it's within the margin of error. Notably, it was almost as good as large-particle aerosol exposure at spreading the virus.

But yes, the important point is that you don't need an airborne virus for a pandemic. Every virus is different, but there's this public fixation on "airborne" transmission that is a bit of a red herring. Ebola is doing just fine without it.
Also, there were patients with Lhasa fever and Marburg in the USA before - and nothing happened. Ebola is hyped up because there's an outbreak in Africa.
Detecting Cyber Crime from a New Angle
You mean like this?

http://www.pcjs.org/configs/pc/machines/5160/cga/256kb/win10...
FOX: EBOLA WAR ON US SOIL
Two Years of Telescope: Open Source Lessons Learned
"It is certainly possible that someone who had contact with this individual...could develop Ebola in the coming weeks," Frieden said, but added that "there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here," Frieden said.

General rule of thumb:

Anytime someone says "there is no doubt in my mind about X", you can be pretty sure that yeah, they do have a lot of doubt in their mind about X.
Start a kickstarter campaign to create a not for profit, ethical competitor to JPay? Providing the prisons still get a similar commission (which according to the article isn't where the lion's share of the fees comes from), why wouldn't they opt to go with a payments firm that gives them good PR?

Edit: alternatively, maybe the stripe guys could fund/seed a philanthropic off-shoot to tackle this?
You're linking to your own thread.