skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then proceeded to catch every other flu that came around during the winter

There's generally only one or two flus in a season. Flu is often confused with colds and gastroenteritis by lay people - most of the time when someone says they got a "stomach flu" it's nothing of the sort.

This is why "sharing experience" is bullshit, especially when there's an entire global network of health organizations providing actual, data-driven analysis that shows your professed experiences to not be an accurate representation.
Day 7: Brutal Triage – Freetown, Sierra Leone
These are the numbers in Sierra Leone from Les Roberts, WHO Foreign Medical Team Coordinator.

Les is a long-time epidemiologist and sanitation engineer; he's served in dozens of outbreaks and conflict situations including both of the cholera epidemics in Goma following the Rwandan genocide.
Apple, Facebook to pay for women to freeze eggs
If/when patents are gone, you could legally use and distribute self-compiled binaries, since source is already under BSD license.
Sure, GNOME may have changed direction. The difference in Linux is (as you're probably aware) there are many, many usable alternatives. If Microsoft or Apple introduced some bad behaviour to their desktop environment, you'd be looking at changing your whole OS (and even hardware?) to find something new; not just `apt-get install kde`.
So running Chrome or IE in a VM is equivalent to running Firefox natively?
Faster pf
And.... there are tons of fake Facebook profiles. So how does that prevent spam?
I'm assuming that a user stuck on IE6 doesn't have the necessary technical expertise to upgrade or change security parameters.
Tiny $51 Tor router runs OpenWRT
Oh, so being brave means being a belligerent culturally-insensitive ass? Gotcha. Thanks for the awesome advice, Mr. Voice of Reason.
I should write a follow up piece explaining why a military response, but the basic reasons are:

1. The scale of the problem is too large (both geographically and in the numbers of people affected) for any organisation (or group of organisations) other than the military to handle. Even if we moved to immediate mobilisation today it would still take months to get up and running on the ground by which time the problem will be vastly bigger.

2. We need to enforce a effective quarantine in the area and provide protection for the health care personnel. Only the military has the ability to do this.

3. I think we will have problems recruiting enough volunteer medical staff and may need to conscript them to get them to go.

4. Only full-scale mobilisation will stop the political games. Only if this problem is treated as war will we be able to get effective action out of the bickering political parties.
Fellow Economists Express Skepticism About Thomas Piketty
It would be like selling a Jaguar with a Ferrari engine; still a weirdo, but at least fully functional. You can't seriously claim Mobile Webkit to be to a (theoretical) Gecko-on-iOS like a Fiat to a Jaguar.

And people are not "too dumb to realize". The whole point of the HTML standard is to make sure that all browser render the same. The whole point of the standard, and all the efforts of all the browsers, go towards a single goal: making all pages render equal on all browsers, that is making people NOT realize there is a difference; the technical problem of different codebases exhibiting different behaviors in rendering is just that, a technical problem to be solved.

I maintain that the developer-centric position of focusing on Gecko and thus refusing a iOS port as "useless", is actually doing Firefox lots of harm in its adoption. Firefox is the product, not Gecko.

Moreover, even if Apple eventually lifted the restriction, you want to be ready that day; you would still have to port the whole browser in addition to Gecko, including non-trivial issues like the extensions, and coordinating a solution for using extensions on all mobile platforms require years; the ecosystem of extensions need to adapt and evolve over the time. Releasing, maintaining, optimizing and evolving a Webkit-based Firefox on iOS would be still a gigantic effort and would still bring benefit; you're then free not to use it, if you only need Firefox as a way to use Gecko.
Women constantly get harassed on okcupid. Their goal is to do online dating where the women won't get harassed.

Being against the harassment of women is pretty fundamentally feminist.
SSL and the future of authenticity (2012)
The Drones of the World Wars
About what you'd expect, the playground sample drops to 75KB, and the compiler to 424KB. (Also the native binary gzips to 2MB.)
Ozone Object Store for HDFS
When does the sum of three numbers equal their product?
As a web app developer focusing on applications in both oil and healthcare related apps for smaller businesses we disabled SSL3 early this year after XP was depreciated. The vast majority of our clients had upgraded to a newer version of Windows already, but a few stuck on XP were able to use Chrome or Firefox to access the programs.

As for legacy clients, time to firewall them from the internet. They make the Internet a more dangerous place for everybody. If your device/program cannot be updated then it needs put on a vlan'd network segment. Breach after breach have shown that attackers will use any exploitable resource go gain a foothold inside your network.
this lecture by kevin is bomb. i love the examples of personality and delight he sources from multiple startups including his very successful startup wufoo. Also - on startupclass.co you can watch the lecture at 1.5x speed which i find ideal for these startup lectures.
This may be offtopic, but is there an editor for translating ICU messageformat strings?

There are many tools to extract gettext strings from source and editors to translate PO catalogs, but I do not know of any that works with ICU messageformat syntax.
What’s New in Emacs 24.4
If you're using AWS' ELB, Amazon has already added a new Predefined Security Policy with SSLv3 disabled: ELBSecurityPolicy-2014-10
This sounds very cool! The video you linked appears to be marked private, though, so I wasn't able to watch it.
3-Day Hadoop Programming Live, Instructor-Led Codecamp
If you talk to any HTTP API these days, you probably use a proper API client library (of which Pinboard has plenty) rather than manually crafting HTTP requests with curl. If so, it doesn't matter whether the API supports $popularAuthMethod or not. You just pass the token to the client library and let the client library handle it from there.
Google reveals major flaw in outdated, but widely-used SSL protocol
IIRC the conclusion was that the air ducts were the only feasible infection vector
I'll step up to defend lotsofmangos: that's a particularly uncharitable reading of the comment.

I took it to mean "your opinion is ludicrous; a person getting paid $8.50 an hour to flip burgers or assemble sandwiches lacks the access to capital required to start a restaurant". That's absolutely correct, and not at all a direct personal attack.

(though I'd agree that the choice of "sanity" is unfortunate)
7 is meant to be handled by the developer or possibly by Apple, not by the consumer. If you have to manage versions manually, Apple has failed you.

So I get to wait two weeks for Apple to approve the developer's bugfix instead of letting me roll back now to the version that worked last week. Yay!
When you add "Please" to a request, it makes that request less of an order. The word is there because part of being civil is not ordering people around abruptly. (Even if you have the authority to give them tasks.) So in fact, when it is used for civility, it does mean "I beg you". Or at least, "I softly order you".

So in fact it doesn't make sense in some circumstances (though those circumstances are narrower and fewer than fubu seems to think).

For instance, "please" is clearly out of place in "please put the gun down on the pavement, or I will shoot!".

The civility-conveying meaning of the word is out of place in abrasive speech; for instance it is out of place in "please get off the f___ing road!" In abrasive language, if "please" appears, its presence is ironic. For instance, in a sentence like "please don't start with that bullshit again!", "please" doesn't have any connection to being civil; it doesn't function that way. Other such politeness words are also ironic in abrasive speech. "Kindly keep your mutt off my lawn!"

(There is even the usage of the word "please" by itself, or nearly so: "Oh, please!" or its variant "Puh-lease!" which expresses disagreement or disapproval.)
Everything old is new again

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

"STATS LLC is a global sports statistics and information company – the company name originated as an acronym for "Sports Team Analysis and Tracking Systems". It was founded on April 30, 1981[1] by John Dewan,[2] who became the company's CEO. STATS was an outgrowth of the grassroots non-profit Project Scoresheet, a volunteer network created to collect baseball statistics, prompted by a suggestion made by Bill James, who later joined STATS for a time. In 1987, STATS developed a reporter network for Major League Baseball and provided research for NBC's postseason baseball coverage, and by 1989 was doing the same for ESPN's broadcasts.[1]"
> The whole point of the HTML standard is to make sure that all browser render the same.

If that's the case, why is Webkit turning into IE6 on mobile? Apple is totally at fault.

> even if Apple eventually lifted the restriction, you want to be ready that day

Better stop all work on Linux, Microsoft might release their kernel as GPL someday and all this work is being wasted.
See, it works for silly things too. Why should Mozilla be at the whims of Apple?

As for the straining resources, focusing on yet another product also affects me. Thunderbird has been left to rot, and while I don't really resent it because the Boot2Gecko project is very interesting, you can't just say that Mozilla should maintain a separate fork with WebKit because Apple says so. What if Microsoft does the same thing in the future, should they just fork it a third time?
>16-bit? Did they mean 4-bit?

This batch of recovered Nimbus images was converted from film to digital; there was another [1] where the analog data from magentic tape was digitized.

[1] http://www.moonviews.com/2010/03/dumpster-diving-for-science...
> becoming less deadly

I suppose you could describe being contagious for longer or being contagious with less prominent symptoms as "less deadly".
Yeah, but it's still better than the situation on the Windows side. In order to use the new Metro UI, Microsoft requires all apps to go through their app store. Remember: they've recently been dragged kicking and screaming from trying to hoist this UI on every Windows user. (You could draw the comparison to iCloud, but at least that's a service hosted by Apple on their own dime, not a native UI layer.) So far, Apple has made it clear that OSX is intended to remain an open OS. I expect that developers will be able to use OSX+'s new native features for many years to come, App Store, or no; in contrast, I don't see Microsoft permitting open development on anything but its rapidly aging Desktop.

But yeah, I hope the App Store gets better. Pretty much any cool application idea I've had has required going outside the sandbox.
I'd assume a user stuck on IE6 without the necessary technical expertise can follow a detailed guide full of pretty pictures written by someone else to change security parameters.

There's also the old trick of giving the user a .reg (or if that's too crude, a simple executable) to poke the relevant settings directly in the registry.

(Poking directly in the registry can break if Microsoft changes the way that setting is stored, but they won't change anything on XP anymore, so it's as safe as poking in the registry usually is.)
Did you seriously just say that "paid advertising rarely works?" Really? You believe that the entire 50 $billion Internet advertising industry is just wasting its money?
Is this a path to standardization for the modules work that's been in progress from the Clang guys? Or something different?

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html
Very nice finding!
Is that "very specific" method of assembly so complex or so secretive that it couldn't be deduced by anyone camped out at a table near the register?

Somehow I doubt it.
There are no public citations that I could dig up. That number is the number used for planning with persistent agents. It varies quite a lot by agent.

For further context look up the health worker mortality in West Africa due to Ebola. Even if those people are not all highly trained they are trained. The reality is that people simply cut corners, even when they know the risk, and the margin for error is obnoxiously low.
Apple trash talkers zinged by perfect cables
Could implementing things this way cause a problem if another script also post-processed your pages? Could you wind up in a loop where each script kept modifying the page in response to the changes made by the other script?
Jimmy John's Makes Low-Wage Workers Sign Noncompete Agreements
>> The whole point of the HTML standard is to make sure that all browser render the same.
> If that's the case, why is Webkit turning into IE6 on mobile? Apple is totally at fault.

uh? of course Apple is at fault there (and I never said otherwise), but this point is orthogonal to the opportunity of having Firefox on iOS with the current restrictions.

>> even if Apple eventually lifted the restriction, you want to be ready that day

> Better stop all work on Linux, Microsoft might release their kernel as GPL someday and all this work is being wasted. See, it works for silly things too.

Uh??? I'm not suggesting Firefox to drop Gecko, not at all. I'm saying that Firefox should use Webkit on iOS until Apple allows Mozilla to use Gecko (if ever), and that this would bring lots of value to the Firefox ecosystem and to Mozilla, because it would push Firefox market share for increased ecosystem effect.
Yeah, but the Pinboard API is extremely simple to use, and the token is shown in BIG BOLD LETTERS on the settings page. Frankly, it's easier to implement than username/password, especially since the audience is probably mostly comprised of tech-savvy power users.

OAuth would add a framework's worth of complexity to this simple and elegant system — qualities that the developer of Pinboard clearly holds dear.
despite the positive changes in today's Firefox release, it's worth remembering that time Firefox decided the GUI options for disabling sslv3 should be removed http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2722163
Nobody is going to care.

Sometimes I do look at candidates github repos before an interview (if they provide them on their resume). Even when the code is not great, it's still a positive sign because it lets me know they are writing and pushing code, not just talking about it. I don't think I've ever had less of an impression of a candidate from looking at their github, although I've had some confirm my expectations from their resume.

Worst case, let's say I was looking at someone's code, and I thought, as your example, maybe he doesn't understand linked lists.. hmm. I wouldn't dismiss them, I would ask that as an interview question.

If you're still nervous, ask a friend or colleague to give your code a quick code review (email me if you'd like my opinion), and grant them bitbucket access. Ask them if you think the code needs any cleanup before making it public.
I am working on a project headed in that direction.
I think part of the problem here is that there isn't a lot of information on exactly what you're offering the people you contact. Given that goodside referred to it as spam, the default assumption is going to be ... it's spam. And indeed, asking for some "slack" isn't going to get you any sympathy on HN, nor should it honestly. However, what might help is to explain in more detail exactly what you're doing, and be open to suggestions on how to improve it, while hopefully still maintaining some marketing benefit.

For example, if you contact someone with a message along the lines of, "Hi, we're _____, and we've got someone who's perfect for you. Just sign up for our service at _______ to get started!" that's definitely spam. No question about it.

On the other hand, if the message is more like, "Hi, we're _____. We think one our clients, ________ would be a great match for you. You both enjoy _______, and in particular, he(she) like that you mentioned _________. Here's a link to his(her) profile. You can contact him(her) at _______." that doesn't look like spam to me at all. Effectively you're just acting as a proxy in that situation. The OKC user is indeed getting exactly what they're looking for.

So I guess my point is, it all depends on the message. If you make them sign up for your service, spam. If your message is generic, spam. But if you give them information about a real person, and a way to contact them - ie exactly what they would expect to get in a message directly from another user - that seems fine from the user's perspective.

Of course, OKC would likely still not appreciate your use of their service to facilitate competition. In that case, a better model might be to strictly act as the agent of your user; search OKC for them, and if you find a good match, help them create an account and message the user directly. Obviously this might require tweaking your model a bit.
Are You This Brave?
How does this compare to Pollen?

http://mbutterick.github.io/pollen/doc/
Confession time: I'm somewhat of an accomplice in this unspeakable evil.

I maintain the (unofficial but widely used) Pinboard API client library for PHP. Until recently, it only supported password authentication. Development had all but ground to a halt in the last couple of years, partly because the API itself hasn't changed at all since 2012, and partly because I didn't want to spend any more time on API v1 when API v2 might hit production anytime, but mostly because I just forgot.

As a result, web services written in PHP are probably more likely to use password auth with Pinboard than those written in other languages. Sorry, @idlewords!

But thanks to an enthusiastic contributor who appeared out of nowhere and chastised me for slacking off, the PHP client library has now gained most of the features that it had been missing for years, including token auth. Even better, the API allows you to get a user's token given his username and password, so you can easily convert your existing database to tokens without any user interaction.
To anyone who loves this I highly recommend reading "Ruby under a microscope" by Pat Shaughnessy.

http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope
My users don't value the integration over security. I'm doing this due to ongoing user complaints about IFTTT (who have just fixed their implementation, bless them) prompting for a password.

I'm available at an attractive daily consulting rate for anyone who needs help adding an auth token to their query string with each API call.
If they made it sound more complicated then it'd be harder to tie a 'one weird trick' style headline to it ;P
> You need to demonstrate with data your "service" is useful to convince people to use it.

The thing is, you don't.

All you need to do is to market the living shit out of this idea, and since no one can reliably answer whether it beats random chance people will use it. You get to earn the benefits for as long as it takes for someone else to actually do the studies that debunk you and then one-up you at marketing.
To be honest, I remember the Slashdot article that incorrectly suggested that SSL 2.0 and TLS 1.0 was affected by BEAST.
Toxic Chemicals in Our Couches – Flame Retardant Chemicals
Correct Operation of Red Line Laser Alignment
Wow, that was a pretty surprising video. The audience's reaction especially surprised me. While maybe not quickly enough, times have certainly changed.
I also like this very much.
If you only have three attempts to enter a password, even most dictionary words are secure. The problem is when the unexpected happens, and someone finds a way around that restriction. In the worst case that might mean getting a hold of a copy of password hashes. Or it might just be an exploit that lets them try more combinations over the internet. Regardless, just because there are other safeguards in place doesn't mean that password strength should be ignored.

As far as why exactly six alphanumeric characters is bad, it should be obvious, but it significantly reduces the difficulty of brute-forcing. You have 2B possibilities, total, not even taking into account dictionary attacks, which also become far easier.
I have nothing against Coffeescript, and use it myself sometimes. But please don't respond to something about "js" and then put down a single coffeescript snippet with no additional context. It's very confusing.

I had to re-read the last line several times before I looked up at the function arrow and realized it was coffeescript, and that the "@" were not part of the i18n library, but rather the syntactic sugar for "this".
One of many lessons I learned from this overwhelming surge of feedback in such a short period was about how quickly I gave into my instinct to defend myself. Instead of using excuses to justify my mistakes and moral shortcomings, I really should have put more effort into reflecting on the comments that were tough to read. I need to do that better in the future.

I am grateful for all of the perspectives everyone has expressed. It's been a great learning experience, and I've become aware of more of my faults that I can now consciously work to improve.
The problem with 7 is it puts the developer in control, not the user. What if the developer releases a new version with a drastically reduced feature set (ahem..iMovie). I should be able to choose which version I want to run.
DevOps seguro, acelerando la dinámica del negocio
But if you actually grant the "good immune system" bit, then wouldn't that imply that the immune system already is prepared to fight off the flu, or learns so very quickly; and then what ultimaltey is the difference between someone who was vaccinated with a syringe, and someone who was "vaccinated" by an actual infection, if you know what I mean?
No apologies needed. I'm the one who's been procrastinating a proper API update. Hats off to enthusiastic contributors who shake us out of our torpor!
Gotta get the consumer over the believability hump.

The folks that care about their Microbiome will probably have tried some sort of probiotic previously. Why is this any better than what they can get from Jarrow, New Chapter, etc. from their Whole Foods or vitamin shop?

Is it the formula that's more potent with the 115 different species of bacteria?

Does this formula actually replace the bad stuff that could be in there currently? The n Billion bacteria in a traditional probiotic is not much compared to the Trillions of bacteria already there, do you have some sort of combination of Navy Seal bacteria hunting down the baddies?

Is your product special because of the delivery mechanism that gets it to the right place in the gut? There's a lot of talk about Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT). If you can save people from having to go that route that's a genuine selling point.

Can this product help people who have specific problems like SIBO? Ulcerative Colitis?

You're in the right spot, just need to understand the health conscious consumer a bit more because you're competing with a lot of info out there about gut health.

Start by answering those questions and you'll be on the road to getting some early adopters.
http://staefcraeft.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/linus-torvalds-the...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-...

http://www.attendly.com/linux-founder-linus-torvalds-deliver...

(And that was where I got bored.)