skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow, very fast and stable, thx Online !
Problem is, the data from West Africa is so bad in quality it could easily be 3 (e.g. I believe that's in line with the CDC's worst case estimate for January).

Which to echo simplemath is deeply scary.
Show HN: Commandline Bitcoin wallet (ZW)
The SSL 3.0 POODLE attack [pdf]
He talks about the calculator like it's his wife. He mentions their anniversary, and has a candlelit dinner. And he punches it causing irreparable damage.
Apparently independently discovered by Thomas Pornin with a few hours of work: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/18151930#18...

We saw this with Heartbleed too: given sure confidence that there is a vulnerability in a particular diff, skilled security researchers can find it very quickly. It makes me want to find such and firmly tell them that there are vulnerabilities in TLS 1.2.
Now I'm curious which video driver features they depend on for full optimizations. Running on a current MacBook Air inside VMWare Fusion, IE11 and Chrome have very similar performance:

IE11 in a VM: 24.874

Chrome in a VM: 24.137

As an aside, I'm impressed that the overhead of running in VMWare was that fast. It's within a factor of two of the best native performance:

FF 33: 24.577

Chrome: 16.908

Safari: 13.004
Is there a WebGL game marketplace established yet, similar to the Apple App Store?
I'm in Tulsa, Ok, but you do raise some really good points.

I'll hunt around to see if I can start/find some Hackathons!
The many things I wish I had done differently can often be seen from public roads for many years. Most people don't notice or care.

Anyway, a commit history that shows that a person went back and refactored their code all on their own is a positive...on the unlikely assumption anyone is going to care enough to go through your commit history looking at syntax and whitespace.

At the point where a prospective employer is looking at your code, you're well past the point where people are looking for reasons to reject you. Instead, you're at the point where people are rationalizing their formed opinions.
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My understanding has always been that since the dead virus works by triggering an immune response, 'symptoms' (that are actually part of the immune response, e.g. fever, soreness) can still occur, though they end quickly, as the body easily 'beats' the non-reproducing virus. Is this not the case?

Regardless, a person with nothing to fear from the flu getting the shot anyhow and having a fever for a few hours sounds like a cakewalk compared to what happens if they don't and infect me, even through my vaccination: I am very asthmatic and the flu for me can easily turn into months of bronchitis, or -- even worse -- pneumonia and hospital trips.

People like me rely on herd immunity to supplement our own vaccinations. Please get vaccinated.
I'm sorry, did Duncan's FAMILY lie on the form? While we're at it, did Duncan? It's fairly widely reported that he did not know that the woman he helped had ebola. Apparently her family had been in denial, and told people she was experiencing complications from the pregnancy.

>Duncan did not know he'd been exposed to Ebola by the pregnant woman, says his brother-in-law, John Lewis.

>"The family said that the girl did not die from Ebola; they continued to say it until they went and buried this girl," says Lewis.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/09/354645983/f...

And in any case: how about you spend a little more time trying to feel compassion for people like you who just lost a husband/father/son and a little less trying to figure out who should get the bill.
For those wondering about the usefulness of this. It should be great for those who commute on the tube or somewhere else where there is no phone signal. This lets you load a single lightweight page before boarding, and then be able to browse hn easily.
Would be ideal if it was sent out in an email though so you don't have to remember to load the page every time.
Isn't that the joy of Time Machine too?
Not everyone is convinced:

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentar...

Some health workers have been infected even though they were equipped with significant protection.

Clearly infection rates in unprotected populations would be non-trivial, even without the kind of mutation that would make Ebola as infectious as a rhinovirus.

Given that many public spaces in Western cities are more densely populated than equivalent spaces in Africa, and there are much greater numbers passing through them, I'm genuinely concerned this has the potential to blow up in a vey bad way.

I'm not heading for the hills yet, but if case numbers begin increasing I'm going to consider it seriously.
Usually the progression of most diseases is toward easier transmission but lower mortality rates. Viruses that kill their hosts have a hard time becoming endemic.

My prediction for Ebola is that it eventually becomes like norovirus (stomach flu): a common gastrointestinal ailment that is painful and inconvenient, but seldom lethal, and spreads easily through contaminated surfaces.
Well, the name and domain name were originally 'Headlines', but I changed to 'traveler' when seeing the site's users as backpackers, campers, or international business travelers - people who'd be going off the grid for a few days to a few weeks. So right now the site allows you to pick either specific news sources or categories of them, and then use that widget on the side to select whichever range of days you want news from.
Absolutely. For historical reasons (not worth rambling about), a lot of Houston's early startup "scene" was organized via Facebook group, and somewhat remains so to this day.

Single biggest resource is the Startup Houston blog/site [0], followed by the Houston Startups Facebook Group [1], and the Startup Digest calendar [2], both of which are linked to from Startup Houston. The calendar can be a bit cluttered, so working with the Lean Startup Circle [3], I help compile a monthly, semi-curated list of events that gets sent out to anyone who subscribes to "organizer announcements" within Meetup.

Plans are in the works for a unified calendar/feed for Houston's many, many Tech meetups, which currently have no central point of organization. Example of what I mean: there are 2 (or 3?) Python meetups, 3 separate UX meetups, and while there is a broader "Functional Programmers" meetup, the Clojure folks have their own separate one in addition.

Lastly, the three major coworking spaces inside the loop [4, 5, 6], as well as the SURGE seed accelerator [7] all put on good events. Not all of those events reliably make it onto the startup calendar, as each has its own little calendar page, but that's being worked on as well.

[0] http://startuphouston.com/

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/houstonstartups/

[2] https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/houston

[3] http://www.meetup.com/leanhouston/

[4] http://www.starthouston.com/

[5] http://www.platformhouston.com/

[6] http://whitespacehou.com/

[7] http://www.surgeaccelerator.com/
Google discloses vulnerability in SSL web encryption technology
You described my pain exactly. Upon further examination, it really does look like a market size issue. :-/ (Tulsa, ok )
Adam Langley Confirms OpenSSL SSL v3 Vulnerability – Poodle Bites
Hi,

I love your website- the logo is amazing!! who designed it?
I've been thinking about this recently. A developer could do so much better (he's still copying from spreadsheets). Who wants to put this guy out of business with me?
Caffeina Core – RAD Toolkit
People always forget that sane language choice isn't ticking checkboxes on lists of features. If you actually program in said languages, you'll learn to appreciate maintainability, the time it takes you to get something right and the general pleasantness doing so, which is where Go shines (but you'll have to actually use it to see that).

Perhaps you'll be one of the 5% users who will actually miss generics or cannot work without exceptions (even though Go's error handling makes perfect sense without them, it's just a different approach), but it's not very likely.
Truthfully, I've been near oblivious to Austin or Dallas as potential solutions. Thank you for enlightening me!
SSLv3 Support Disabled by Default Due to POODLE Vulnerability
When I receive spam or people abuse services I run, I don't care what position they hold within a company or what time of morning it is. Play fair or don't play.
To be fair, the Woody Allen joke is also allegorically about domestic violence and this updated version only reinforced those references, so I don't think your reaction was off base.

For even more context, around the same time as the Woody Allen stand-up Hunter S. Thompson gets confronted on CBC by a member of Hells Angels. It shows in stark contrast how much society has matured in 50 years (at least regarding public acceptance of domestic violence). You should really watch the clip, but I've again excerpted choice quotes from the Hells Angels member that the audience reacts favorably to.

(At 3:24 in the video)
> Junkie George is beating his old lady. Junkie George's dog bit him. To me this is a personal feud. If a guy wants to beat his wife and his dog bites him, that's between the three of 'em. [Audience laughter and applause]

and a short time later (5:42 in the video):
> To keep a woman in line you got to beat her like a rug once in a while. [Again, audience laughter and applause]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccyu44rsaZo#t=204
I personally think that the configuration set by web developers should be respected by default, but the same way there is a "Compatibility Mode" that enforces a legacy document mode, there should be something that enforces the most recent document mode.
Pixeler – CLI image renderer
So here is a perspective from one of your users.

I signed up for Dating Ring in NYC in like March, and have generally had a good experience. Probably been to a dozen dates/events. Of that I've only been on two "bad" dates. I define that as dates where I felt we just didn't have anything in common and/or they were completely not my type. Most were mediocre, but we had fun, mostly because I know how to be entertaining over drinks. A couple I was interested in but never really had a good relationship develop from it. In general, I had fun so it was money well spent.

I'm new to the city and the site was a great way to meet totally new people frequently without having to jump through all the hoops of stuff like OkCupid.

I have to say I am curious about this "pivot" in how you are approaching matchmaking. It is nice to have an "out" and not waste my time if it is clear that I won't find the person attractive mentally or physically.

Honestly I think I've stuck with the site out of curiosity, and not really the expectation of having a good date. Over the past year I've had much better success finding relationships using OkCupid in NYC than your service. Mostly because I can better select dates that are attractive and interesting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Of course we don't do that.
Since the beam spreads out as it travels, the hole is magnified to enormous proportions over long distances.

Why is focusing the beam before sending it not an option?

edit: I'm guessing the beam would cross itself and go outward again, unless you start with big antennae.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter – Issue 100
HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8437470
I am hoping for comprehensibility feedback.

I have seen a lot of interest in probiotic/digestive articles lately, so I think there are people on here who should be interested. What are we missing? What do you want to know that we aren't explaining?

Also appreciated would be ideas for online advertising.

Thanks HN!
This is very true - I wonder if the majority of Windows "enterprise" software is embracing this or whether they are still waiting for purchase orders before shipping out CDs?
I'd love to do that, but my company is pretty hardcore set in it's ways. :(

Many of the really neat ideas I've had and pitched just don't go anywhere because either A) It's new and shiny, which corporate doesn't like (My company is in the Fortune 500 but we are painfully slow to market). or B) I'm expected to do things as they have always been done because "That's the way we do it."

sigh
I fear we've been talking past each other, but it doesn't matter.

The problem with that view is that your defining theft essentially as any wrongful setback of interests, which means that every non-victimless crime (and even legal but immoral acts) is "theft".

But by stretching the word so far, it essentially loses all meaning. The guy who cut in line is a thief because he stole your time; the woman who insulted you in public stole some of your self-esteem.

And more: with copyright infringement being considered theft we're not even talking about interests being set back, but suppositions that they have been set back (since it's impossible to if it actually had any effect).

To me, theft means one thing: wrongful transfer of something from the victim to someone else. Any other definition is too broad to be usable.
It's been interesting to see the migration of online poker players over to daily fantasy sports (DFS). It definitely feels like the early days of online poker - tons of new sites popping up, heavy TV advertising, lots of new money coming into the "sport". I just started playing DFS this season and it's pretty addictive. Obviously, I don't think I'll be getting rich off it (the "I turned $5 into $50k" stories are just lottery winners essentially), but it's been fun (and a bit scary...) to get into the world of gambling without having to "know a guy". I've always played fantasy football for "fun" so it's been exciting to have a bit of cash on the line.

Daily fantasy is a whole new beast - it's at the intersection of data science, predictive modeling, quants, poker players, sports guys, Vegas, startups (FanDuel and DraftKings are killing it), bootstrapped entrepreneurs (RotoViz). You can make some serious money, put down $5 to make your Sunday afternoon more exciting, or play around with a new data modeling library on some interesting data.

There's a whole industry built around fantasy sports if you look just past the surface of ESPN Fantasy leagues. There are subscriptions sites offering premium content, people willing to sell you their Baynesian prediction models, ebooks about strategy, weekly video shows talking about the best plays. I read somewhere that fantasy football was actually worth more as industry than the NFL!

PS: If you want to try it out, here's a shameful affiliate link because I'm turning into a gamling degenerate: https://www.fanduel.com/?invitedby=swan3788&cnl=da
What does my cat think I am? (2007)
People here are so inclined toward numbers that I fear people are latching basic reproduction rate (R0) without proper context. The transmissibility of a disease is not some kind of invariant property of the pathogen.

It's not meaningful to talk about the R0 of Ebola in any kind of historic sense. Jungle/rural outbreaks are going completely different from urban ones, and this is a very different outbreak than previous ones. Very simply, if you have a 100% transmissible disease and are in a sealed room with 0 people until the pathogen is gone, your R0 is zero. If you're in a room with 100 people, it's 100.

I guess I'm saying that I'd love a reliable citation for your claim. Changes in R0 aren't necessarily evidence of that, and those claims (especially airborne transmission) is just needlessly and baselessly worrying people.
I'll concede that there was definitely more churn around the change from OS 9 to OS X. But the result was definite forward progress: the entire OS moved off of its legacy core. This was clearly a transition period, with both the legacy APIs and modern replacements clearly identified.

I don't think Microsoft's churn is like that at all. Instead it seems to reflect churn in their internal strategy. They attempt transitions, but abandon them before they are complete. There's no overall trajectory.

The latest is WinRT. Take a look at https://dev.windows.com/ . It's all about Windows 8, Windows Runtime apps, etc. Other technologies are buried. Wouldn't you agree that MS is positioning WinRT as the new preferred way to write for Windows? (If not, their messaging is terrible.)

Characterizing these development options as MS giving developers "choices" is crap. WPF developers aren't excited about having WinRT as another choice, they're worried that WPF is abandoned and their investment is obsolete. They saw it happen to Silverlight. See http://pragmateek.com/is-wpf-dead-the-present-and-future-of-... for example. See http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-563 too.

This isn't 1998 and I'm not looking for some Mac vs PC flamewar. These are serious problems. They're making existing developers sweat, and new developers are taking a wait-and-see approach. It's hard to watch, but I'm optimistic about Nadella turning it around.

Oh, and Carbon is not an emulation layer at all, nor is it "heavy handed." Perhaps you have it confused with the Classic environment?
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/viking.pdf

UHF 1Kb/sec to the orbiter, also could use S-Band direct to earth at a lower bandwidth. The orbiter could buffer 40 Mb. Not sure how fast its link to the DSN was.

ed: 16Kb/sec in there too. Example DSN doc:

ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report2/42-33/33C.PDF

My memory was everything was first shown grayscale, and then color. Not sure if that was a ground processing thing or the lander/orbiter sent two streams. Maybe the orbiter buffered the deeper bits and sent 8bit for near-realtime enjoyment.
How do you verify the prescriptions of your potential clients?
I'll definitely be tuning into your podcast.

http://signaltower.co/ right?
The way it is "worth billions" would be computing the cost to reacquire it which is impossible. It is a stretch of course, and it depends on a strained definition of value.

That said, any reliable data from earlier is always good for filling out our understanding of how the planet has changed over time.
Did you ever try to contact someone at Google for higher quota? (There's a form linked from the developer site.) I'm not surprised the default quotas were low, it is still Beta...
It won't be "months or years." If you worked hours, the state will tell the company to pay you for that, now. Even if they are bankrupt.
Couldn't agree more.

Anyone who thinks Go will ever be a replacement for Java is frankly clueless about enterprise software development. Go has almost non-existant integration with enterprise systems e.g. SAP, Hadoop. It lacks operational management capabilities e.g. JMX. And seriously the range of libraries on the JVM covers pretty much everything e.g. banking/finance use cases.

And concerningly there is not a single reasonably sized Go project to get an understanding of how it works with 20, 50, 100 or 500+ developers working on the same codebase.
It looks like their clocks/IDs are a combination of local timestamp and user ID? Is there technically anything in place to prevent duplicates?
MakeSchool, a.k.a MakeGamesWithUs, Is Looking for a Rails Dev and Instructor
I'm not entirely sure, because I'm in a car waiting to pick up my daughter from play practice while I consider it, but I think this is worse than BEAST. It's slower, but it's easier.

POODLE seems to be a padding oracle based on SSL 3.0's inability to fully validate padding. The oracle only gives you the last byte of a block; a full extended padding oracle gives you successive bytes, but this vulnerability doesn't. The authors sidestep that problem by using application-layer control of the boundaries of blocks to repeatedly line up the byte they want to learn with the last byte of padding the vulnerability reveals. C l e v e r !

The difference, I think, between POODLE and BEAST is that BEAST needed not just blockwise "chosen-boundary" control over plaintext, but also a continuous channel that would provide the client with fine-grained control over the first N bytes of each request. It didn't work (IIRC) with vanilla Javascript.

This attack, however, seems to.
The goal was free marketing via the press who zeroed in on what appeared to be an ongoing SV story - Bubble 2.0 + gender imbalance + hapless engineer stereotypes.

And by any measure, it was outrageously successful.
My story of applying, getting in, and being a mom in Y Combinator
https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/10/dropbox-wasnt-hacked/
Pornin did this --- to Thai Duong, no less! --- with CRIME, too. That guy is a freak of nature.

I also ruefully remember how Halvar Flake did this to Dan Kaminsky's embargoed DNS vulnerability.
Paul, while we have you here, a question: The obvious trope is that we are the product, that somehow Conspire will make money "off our backs".

I think it might alleviate some concerns if you shared at least some notion of how you intend to monetize, e.g., selling anonymized marketing data, and, perhaps more importantly, how you will NOT monetize, e.g., never offering "recruiter" plans where folks get access to our stuff for a fee.

You don't have to say what you will do, but knowing what you will NOT do may allay concerns.

Thanks!
Snacking?

Growth snacking? Snacking on some code?
Programs might run a third as fast, but most of these games are not so taxing as to even use a third of a modern computer's resources. So they work fine in the browser.
I'm not opposed to moving, but aside from just jumping in do you have any recommendations on where to start?

Obviously cost of living, things to do in the city, etc. But should I also try to ascertain hard numbers on the "growth" of the tech sector in that area?
I don't live in California, but AFAIK prescriptions aren't per order. You get a medical card via a doctor's recommendation, and then present that card to become a member of a medicinal "club" (which probably requires validation with the state that you are properly licensed). If I understand correctly, Meadow then interfaces with these clubs to provide expedited delivery to their members. Essentially, the hard verification work has already been done since only members (with medical cards) can order from the clubs Meadow delivers for.
Secretive Spaceplane Ready to Come Back Down
This article reads a little awkwardly in ignoring that Qik was an existing brand that Skype aquired, as that affects a lot of these perception issues.
Firstly, this might happen over millions of years, but this is unlikely to occur anytime in the short term. Many viruses that have been in the human population for a long time have quite high death rates in immune naive populations (think of small pox as an example).

Secondly, the mechanism of transmission of Ebola is quite closely tied to the cause of death. To be transmitted it needs to turn you into a massive viral factory and then make you very “leaky” so the virus gets spilled out into the environment. Any mutations that decrease mortality are also likely to decrease the infectiousness of Ebola

Thirdly, Ebola is starting off from a very high death rate. Even if there was a major decrease in the mortality rate (say it only kill 5% instead of 50 to 75% people), it would still be a huge problem.