skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CDC spreadsheet is supposed to model a single West African country, and doesn't explicitly model any of those things.

It doesn't account for finite medical capacity. It assumes a specified fraction of patients are isolated in hospitals at a given time, a fraction that increases, regardless of the size of the epidemic. I think the burden is on users to check if the results make any sense (it does give you the # of beds in use at a time, so you get that feedback).
> Yes, you can go crazy with Scala, but if you are responsible

The problem is not so much the code you write but the one you have to read/use.Languages that are more rigid are often easier to work with,they are predictable,as you wont have to deal with strange apis.

I believe Java8 or Kotlin are good enough. Scala is sometimes just unreadable when you have to read other people's source code.

but maybe it's just me.
JQuery drag and drop HTML builder, compile Bootstrap based HTML and JS-loader
jQuery drag and drop HTML builder - compile Bootstrap based HTML and JS. Builder extract required JS code (about 0% - 15%) from itself and provide it with resulting HTML to allow initialization a third party JS libraries on frontend. Generated HTML contain "data" attributes which store JS libraries settings and helpers to allow parse document structure by editor.
That is a good critique, 'ppreciate it. Let me know if you need any design related help in the future, happy to chat.
C++ game converted with emscripten to ASM.js, see above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454988
Ask HN: What problem gave you the idea for your startup?
How did you come up with the idea for your startup? What problems gave you a viable product to combat them?
When it comes to helping a programmer understand code, every little bit helps. Humans are not good at parsing and keeping complex state in our minds, computers are. The less clutter I need to keep track of, the more interesting stuff about the code I can concern myself with.

As for marking local variable bindings as non-changing, I think it is tremendously helpful. In the (mostly Java) code base I work in daily we use this throughout. The net result is that I can just assume that property for everything, and whenever I see a variable not marked as non-changing I immediately know that something less than obvious is happening.

Given the above, I am naturally a big fan of making non-changing variable bindings (final/cons/val/...) the default and updatable variable bindings the case that should be marked. I would also like to work in a language where immutability of not just the variable binding but also the values themselves was better handled by the language.
Are you sure? The writing implies that it was written recently. (Does the emacs release team consider "any day now" == a year in "There’s a new Emacs minor release due out any day now,"?)

Either way, the article does not mention its publishing date anywhere, which is rather unfortunate for a medium like the internet, where text is forever.
Wow. The inspiration for Ray Finkle's parents?
For any unfortunate souls using IIS, Digicert has a walkthrough of disabling SSLv3 at https://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/iis-disabling-ssl-v3.ht...
Outstanding talk and q/a from a startup grandmaster. Kevin reveals wise strategy and insight repeatedly. In particular I liked the simplicity of everyone storing their self authored todo lists on the company dropbox and using these lists to hold one another accountable. Another point that hit home was the idea of respecting one another's time and what that means if you think it through. From the q/a I wonder what the other two YC companies are that have the same sort of disciplined remote working style that Wufoo has. Since only 3 YC companies have made remote working work, if Kevin Chris and Ryan had it to do all over I wonder if they would choose the remote approach again. My impression is yes, because of the efficiencies gained when remote work is done well.
Fair enough - I can appreciate your point of view and logic.
" the local contractor announced that the crusher’s engine, needed to smash rocks, had broken" and "Hauling parts and equipment from the United States and Europe takes time, and then there are negotiations with local contractors for heavy equipment."

That's crazy. The Seebees and other military engineers have rock crushers, and construction equipment. They know how to break that stuff down and put it on airplanes. The Air Force is used to transporting that stuff.

Now, I was only a stupid jarhead, and there may be issues not called out in the article, but I'd expect a week, tops, could get engineers on site, working, with their own equipment.
Does this happen in Williston, ND? The oil boom in that area has spurred so much growth that even entry-level workers at Wal-Mart are paid $17.40 an hour, or 2.5X the minimum wage. How many of those workers have signed noncompete agreements? I don't know for sure, but given the competition for labor there, I doubt that many have.

If this is a problem, it's just a reflection of market conditions (including high unemployment). Williston shows that the cure is growth. A rising tide lifts all boats.
For some reason the Aaaaaaa! for the awesome game has the screen blank out after a short while. I'm using Nightly, so that is probably expected. Anyone had similar problems?
And the developer doesn't get anything, no matter how much work developing the upgrade took.
I used MOSIS years ago for custom image sensors. Amazing resource. I can't say much more than I think each spin was about $150K.
Quick patch: how to disable SSLv3 in Nginx/Apache for CVE­-2014­-3566
If I can translate Thomas for the benefit of non-security professionals in the room, several researchers (most prominently, Egor Homakov) have repeatedly demonstrated the combination of a) using OAuth in certain configurations and b) having an open redirect on the OAuth consumer site allows an interested attacker to achieve privileges from the OAuth provider site to the limit of a trusted consumer site.

What does that mean? Alice uses Bob's site, which she trusts, and authorizes it to operate her Twitter account for some limited purpose. Bob's site includes an open redirect. Mallory carefully crafts a URL that theoretically exists on Bob's domain but redirects to a server Mallory controls (which displays a cute cat photo and exfiltrates the OAuth token) and then posts it, as one does with cat photos, somewhere where Alice can see it. If Alice sees that cat photo, Mallory can now manipulate Alice's Twitter account to the maximum extent permitted Bob.
And she conveniently left out the cost of childcare for all the days she was gone. Oh, you know, those little $18-20 per hour* minor details. If her partner works fulltime, that could be round-the-clock care.

But yeah, of course a mom can do YC! (If she's rich and has a very, very supportive partner.)

And yeah, I do remember that tweet from Sam she highlighted. And the thing I tweeted back to him, unacknowledged, still stands: daycare in SoMa is almost impossible to find, in some cases has a two-and-a-half year waiting list. Gee, I wonder why about half the women in tech leave mid-career.

* yes, that's the going rate in LA for two children, possibly more if one is a newborn, and/or if you pay your nanny on the books instead of off.
"we will have the exclusive, worldwide rights to publish your book in digital and audio formats in all languages for a 5-year renewable term"

Note the word "exclusive". You basically can't sell your book anywhere else unless Amazon ends the contract. Maybe in 5 years.

I would run far, far away from this.
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The risks of cheap water
TeX, runoff, others.
http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2173/what-are-the-m...
Sorry, I don't want to blame any frameworks in particular. There's already too much bad blood in scala land. Let's just say there have been many instances where I had a really hard time understanding a piece of code and it turned out there was an implicit conversion hidden somewhere out of sight that was the missing piece of the puzzle, and in most instances there would have been a simpler design without implicits. Most great pieces of software, such as unix, are great not because they use very complicated concepts but because of how simple they are. Finding that simplicity is the key. Very frequently people don't see the importance of simple things like the presence of hints in code to where the related pieces are. Implicits break this flow. The number of places implicit conversions can be defined at is mind boggling. And even when some code doesn't use implicits the possibility of implicits does harm. When you don't understand some code, well who knows there may be an implicit conversion in play.
According to this article the justification for the invasion of Iraq was not that Iraq "possesed WMDs" but that they had "active WMD programs". Wow - I somehow missed that distinction all these years.

And when people say that "Iraq didn't have WMDs" they are wrong. In fact Iraq did have some but they were old and not that many of them.

Nothing is ever simple.
This post is from December 29, 2013, according to /feed (using Digg Reader). If you've been using HEAD then you've had 24.4 for longer than that.
I needed a toilet. This is why I decided to sell toilets online.
All the things node is designed to do and it does it at least as fast as Go.

We can argue that the Go concurrency model is better.I think nodejs's is good enough,easier to understand and to deploy.
If your goal is to write lightweight webservers that do a specific task,nothing beats node in my opinion.
Even worse, now that Google itself is a retailer, merchants are paying Google to advertise against Google. I wouldn't be surprised if, soon, Google Shopping simply becomes Google's own product catalog.
replying to you since i can't reply to the child reply i wanted to address.

If they deployed the SeaBees this wouldn't be happening. The key word is 'contractor', by using companies to avoid the political taint of 'getting involved where they aren't wanted' or being accused of 'wasting money' we send the proverbial 'lowest bidder' instead of the trained experts. Sad but true.
No mention of a bug in the kernel anywhere. I see systemd proponents just can't stop lying. Please don't contribute to a conversation when you can't be at all truthful.
Ubisoft Digs Its Own Grave, Says 30FPS 'Looks Better' Than 60FPS
The problem is plenty of Doctors don't understand statistics. Do I really need this diagnostic test? What's the prior probability I have the disease being checked for? What's the probability that the test will harm me. If I do have the disease, by how much will the test improve the likelihood of a good outcome. Most doctors can't do the math even if they have the answers to all of the questions.

There are scores of things a doctor can do that I can't, look at an x-ray and tell me my bone is broken, listen to my breathing and tell me that I have bronchitis. However, I can almost guarantee that I know more about statistics and how to interpret them than your average primary care physician [1].

I want the doctor to tell me everything he knows, do some research on my own, and make an informed decision--taking the doctors advice into consideration. I have to live with the consequences, not the doctor.

[1] http://www.jgme.org/doi/pdf/10.4300/JGME-D-12-00161.1
This is exactly the inspiration women (and everyone else who believe they don't fit the YC archetype) need more of. She specifically recommends against directly copying some of her actions. It's admirable how she overcame so many challenges she faced. Buckling down and getting shit done when you miss your family isn't easy, and she is a great role model for those who will have to do that. Hopefully her story will inspire more outliers to give it a shot despite their doubts.
Amazon's search ability sucks though.

You have to really really work to find legit items similar to what you want if it not a specific brand name item.

Amazon also allows sellers to list cheap oem copies of products right on the genuine manufacturer page.

For example if you want a phone battery from motorola specifically, you better buy it from amazon directly because all the other sellers on that page are cheap oem knockoffs that may not even have the battery temperature sensor inside. If the product directly from amazon goes out of stock, then a fake takes the place front and center.

Here's a specific listing with this problem but there are thousands out there: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MZZQVY/ Says "genuine motorola" but the product being sold by the vendor is completely fake, cheap oem copy.
When you do your tests are you using the new-ish message.get(format=METADATA)?
Ummm... Australia is listed as Europe....
Well put.

A 'predictive model' should say 'if you do X then you will end up with Y' - and the X cannot be adjusting some number. The X has to be stuff like 'building ETU's in West Africa', or 'canceling all flights',... A predictive model should be able to say 'don't bother canceling flights, it's no use - instead do this...'.

Note: I'm going to be teaching a course in Erlang programming next month where the homework assignment is epidemic modeling - 100K's of concurrent processes moving around, getting exposed to each other - that sort of stuff. Rather ambitious, but I feel it's a good use case for Erlang - a pandemic is a 'viral' chat application.
I agree that native to OS X would be nice, but I would immediately disable over-scroll if it were on by default.

Luckily, FF is pretty good about giving power users this kind of flexibility. I haven't found a way to disable it on Safari for instance, though it's not my primary browser so it's not too big a deal.

Another small OS X thing that FF is missing is three-finger tap to view dictionary definitions.
Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA) Official Website Vulnerable
Are you limiting yourself to one thread or something? If you're not getting limited by quota then why not use batching + more threads until you do get to those limits?
Though they claim to have designed the hardware themselves, it looks very much like the NEXX mini-router:

http://www.atupapa.com/17043400030en.html
http://www.nexx.com.cn/index.php/home/detail?pid=199
We ask a variation of this question in our interviews. (We use lightbulbs, not eggs). I've yet to have anyone storm out yet.
Is it really worse than the pattern/OO folks that end up creating dozens of one-member interfaces, namespaces galore, even separate compilation units for absolutely no reason other than it feels "enterprisey"?
Hi Sahara,

Patients need to know the quality of the medicine that they are receiving so we really wanted to focus on the photography of the products.

You raise a great point on promotions and one that we are well aware of. Each dispensary is different on how they engage with their patients. We'll do our best to onboard our partners thoughtfully and build the tools that help them run their business.

Thanks!
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Google has notoriously awful customer support.
That's going to be a problem for Google. Google is used to the advertiser being the customer, and they have a big staff to hand-hold big advertisers. End users, not so much. Amazon is reasonably good at customer service, and has a culture of keeping the customer happy even if it costs them something.

Google sells the Nexus phone. For a good time, go to the support page for the device (https://support.google.com/nexus/?hl=en#topic=3424348) and follow the steps for "My phone won't turn on". See what you have to go through before you can even communicate with support. For warranties, they refer you to Samsung, unless you bought the thing through Google Play. They'd probably like to send those problems to Samsung, too, but in the US they run into the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which says the retailer can't do that.
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> And when people say that "Iraq didn't have WMDs" they are wrong. In fact Iraq did have some but they were old and not that many of them.

When (most) people said that we didn't find WMDs in Iraq, they're clearly talking about the secret nuclear programs or mobile chemical weapons labs that were so prominent in the rationale for war.

At the time, Fox News et al. pumped the news every time an old shell was found, but there was zero active biological or nuclear program and the bulk of the chemical weapons were leftovers from the Gulf War.

Factcheck has a nice summary:

> Experts from the three nations failed to document any existent biological or nuclear weapons and discovered only a few random chemical weapons. The ISG concluded that contrary to what most of the world had believed, Iraq had abandoned attempts to produce WMDs.

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/no-wmds-in-iraq/
FPGAs are very slow and power hungry compared to ASICs at the same node, so an older process could be effective.
Building the World's Tallest Rideable Bicycle
Sounds like he had a WiFi pineapple in his backpack. https://wifipineapple.com/
New Li-Ion Batteries Charge 70 Percent in 2 Minutes, Last for 20 Years
In Copenhagen, the authorities occasionally clean up an area from abandoned bikes and then you will see literal piles of bikes. Don't have a bike? Take one from the pile without feeling guilty.

I've lived in both Copenhagen and Malmö (the location of the cycle parking in the last picture in the article). What's great about cycling in both places is that cycling is super prevalent so that infrastructure is much better (separate cycle paths, protected cycle lanes, public bike pumps) and drivers are generally more respectful (since they are usually also cyclists) even when you are sharing the road with cars without a bike lane.

An interesting difference from American cycling is the speed at which one should cycle in Sweden/Denmark is much slower. The reason for this is that cyclists are not generally in danger of being smooshed by lots of cars, so more people feel comfortable cycling, even those who are older or not as physically fit or not as suicidal. Cycling fast is a defense mechanism unnecessary in Sweden.

I wrote a bunch about cycle infrastructure on Metafilter:

http://www.metafilter.com/140136/Intersection-Protection#559...

With some links to some interesting design details:

https://www.google.se/maps/@55.58868,13.005717,3a,75y,218.76...

https://www.google.se/maps/@55.589265,13.005744,3a,75y,233.2...

https://www.google.se/maps/@55.600765,13.004514,3a,75y,194.7...

https://www.google.se/maps/@55.599945,13.005198,3a,75y,245.8...
Yes, we'd definitely do it the same way again.

To be honest, there certainly might be more than 3 (it's hard to keep track of 700 companies!). The Zapier guys write a lot of great stuff on remote working on their blog.
No. The stats seem to be in the public domain. See: http://www.silha.umn.edu/news/summer2009.php?entry=195089
2014 Ebola Outbreak: update timelines, news, projections based on WHO data
Fair Warning, I worked with the other for some time, and have been having an out of band convo with him.

One of the things I absolutely HATE about scala is operator overloading - and the excessive abuse of it. I ran into it just now using some library that used ==.

A Case:

List(1,2) == List(1,2); true
Array(1,2) == Array(1,2); false

The reason for this is obvious, list implements equals and does a deep compare. While Array.equals is a pointer compare (like how java do).

This would be obvious in Java because that would look like.

ArrayList<> a = ArrayList<Int>();
ArrayList<> b = ArrayList<Int>();
a.equals(b); // equal because it's a value compare

versus

int[] a = new int[5]
int[] b = new int[5]
a == b; // obviously false because it's a reference compare.

The lack of a universal idea about what == means is pretty dangerous IMO.

*edited for spelling
Those hints were pleasingly helpful, they lead you right to the 'aha' moment without giving the whole answer.
Kicking the Bukkit: Anatomy of an open source meltdown
I totally valued the experience of being home on the weekends... I was commuting from Utah, but it was really really draining to travel that much. If possible, I think I'd opt to bring the family out. (My wife was pregnant, so that wasn't a real option for us.)
Boob Jam: Games to depict 'unsexy reality' of breasts
> I'm guessing a lot of new stuff has been added since then.

The article implies it shouldn't have been:

> At the time of this writing Emacs 24.4 is in feature freeze; no major changes will get in, but the list of changes you see below is not set in stone – but it almost never changes much.
There are sometimes too many ways of doing the same thing.

E.g.

- syntax: def func() { and def func(): Unit = {

- collection library
I think we agree that at the time of the invasion Iraq had some chemical weapons, a type of WMD, but was no longer producing WMDs. Right?

And this implies that the statement "Iraq did not have any WMDs" is false. Right?

What you and the NYTimes seem to be saying is that all along this statement actually meant they weren't producing WMDs. Right?

That's the distinction I missed. You don't need to be a prick about it.
Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
This Ask HN made for a great thread a few years ago [1].

To quote from the original "I've heard many of you love to create side projects for fun, but I also heard that few of them actually took off and grow into a profitable business. So feel free to list if you have any. Statistics will be welcomed as well!"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772224
We are getting limited by the quota. As the documentation says, quotas can be temporarily exceeded and in our tests we could fetch about 3000 messages in those bursts. After that, we would be 403'd for one to two minutes before requests would succeed again with quotas strictly enforced for an unknown amount of time past that.
My thoughts exactly. I went there to see pictures, not read the article. The pictures are tiny...
>I have a ton of respect for the commitment on that transaction

Why?
You're right that a very supportive partner is important. Being a mother, you probably have a pretty good system already, but I have some advice from my own experience that may or may not be helpful. I've been a work-at-home dad taking care of our little son.

Save tasks that need complete focus for when your child is napping or sleeping at night. Do the stuff you can easily break from and start up again while your child needs (some but not undivided) attention like being strapped into a highchair for meals/coloring, watching a movie, or playing with toys/ipad/whatever else you allow.

One great advantage we have as parents is being able to quickly recharge by enjoying time teaching/playing/snuggling with our little ones.
Any thoughts on how hard this might be to integrate with Polymer (or web components in general)?
It's similar in Ada.
Of course they're allowed to make mistakes but gross negligence needs to be held accountable for.