skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The military is quite good at operations 'other than war'. I was a minor cog in one effort, in 1991: Joint Task Force Sea Angel.

Details are searchable, but the upshot is that NGOs (I no longer recall if the term was used then) provided far more disaster relief assets and supplies, than the military did.

What the Marines brought to the party was command and control, and the ability to field, and support, a thousand guys in only days for delivering food, water, and medical aid.

And also, one shouldn't underestimate the ability of a brigade of disciplined troops to control masses of infected people. If they're told 'don't shoot' then they won't shoot.
Very inspiring story, thank you.
Subscription box for kids (that might be more fun for the parents)
Thanks, I found this most intriguing.
Almost certainly not TCP socket based nor built on commodity hardware.
I always thought it was about "not being a bad person", a concept which predates feminism by a few millennia.
Another possible metric for rating apps could simply be how many users use an app on a consistent basis and how many hours they've logged in the app. If you get an app that has 5 negative reviews and 1 positive review, but you have over 100 people using it everyday for a few hours it should be rated highly regardless of the negative reviews.
Spreading fear is a hobby for some people. Every single story on Ebola seems to be taken over by people who are:

a) ignorant of virology

b) enamoured of a multiply-debunked case "they've heard" that "might have" involved "airborne" transmission despite the massive unlikeliness of that

c) deeply, deeply fearful about the "possibility of Ebola becoming airborne"

and

d) have never once anywhere posted anything wittering fearfully about influenza becoming a deadly pandemic, which is so many orders of magnitude more likely it isn't funny.

The degree of cognitive failure exhibited by these fearful posters is saddening. There is no obvious reason for them posting their fears and disinformation.
I swear I read "converse with the dead"...
i was not implying that POODLE affected TLS 1.0/1.1 in my (downvoted) parent comment, but was pointing out that the scope of ciphersuites in Firefox has been effectively constrained for a large number of users by defaults and GUI toggles vs. enabled about:config prefs for quite some time now.
Project management or idea management?

I don't know what is project management, but I don't like it.
You made a very accurate description, though I'd argue that depending on situation and culture, "please" in "please put the gun down on the pavement, or I will shoot!" might not be that much out of place.

It conveys friendliness, the concept of "we're all friends here and we don't want anyone to get hurt, so let us sort this out without a mess"[0]. On the other hand one could argue that abrasive speech is very effective at bypasing various psychological bareers and delivering message straight to the target - after all, that's the reason for so much shouting and insults in the military. So there's a trade-off.

[0] - I guess I might have been watching too much Star Trek in my childhood, which gave me a deeply ingraned attitude that we can all see the bigger picture if we try hard enough.
And what I am talking about is why.
Sure, but French keyboards are generally AZERTY, which breaks the WASD layout. Some countries also use QZERTY, also breaking the WASD layout.
Show HN: A prototype of an offline-first multipurpose card-oriented CRUD app
You can't compare a physical phenomenon to a social one, especially when the existence and magnitude of the latter is heavily contested by people with agendas that rely on the phenomenon's existence and magnitude.
Remind HN: YC applications are due at 8pst tonight
Getting the best out of BEM with Sass
> How does one reconcile their company as feminist with how that campaigned operated?

By accepting those women as adults who are free and intelligent enough to make decisions that may not necessarily line up with the common branch of feminism popularized by the media.
I was young and in good health when during one semester of law school, I caught the flu during finals week. All the studying I had done all semester to learn the material was very hard to drag out of my brain while I was worn out and sore and barely able to breathe from the flu. Since then, I have received the flu shot most years, and I can keep productive during the winter while other people have to take time off from work to recover from a case of the flu.

As other comments have said, the main reason for healthy young people to take flu shots is to limit spread of the disease to people who will die from the flu or who cannot take flu shots. But you may very well get direct benefit for yourself, and the risk is very small.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/whoshouldvax.htm
Is there any kind of tutorial for unexperienced network admins on how to use pfSense and how pfSense differs from: (1) a cheap home router; (2) Mikrotik RouterOS; (3) A full Linux router (involving iptables, DHCP server and other tools)?

I would like that.
A few questions spring to mind:

The interface is obviously image-heavy, do you perhaps plan to offer photography services to your partners (a la AirBNB in the early days)?

Also, pricing/availability can vary significantly from week to week and dispensary to dispensary, in addition to the cycle of daily promotions many clubs employ, and other broader discounts (like those offered to patients with terminal illnesses, for instance). I'd be interested to hear how you're approaching the challenge of keeping all of that information up to date in a way that's relatively frictionless for your partners.

There are some weird complaints elsewhere in the thread, but I generally like the design. Good luck, I hope this goes well for you.
It's well-known that the fallback can be triggered by accident, see for instance https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00:

"[...] Also, handshake errors due to network glitches could similarly be misinterpreted as interaction with a legacy server and result in a protocol downgrade."

Perhaps that's what you're seeing.
Manufacturing Depression: A journey into the economy of melancholy (2007)
That is already happening. There are already 565 US military in the region, and Obama plans to deploy up to 4000.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/anothe...
Technically, it's possible. To get stuck in a loop you'd have to have another script that uses MutationObserver to reverse the changes that Localize.js makes to the DOM. We haven't run in to this yet, but I'll see if there's a way to safeguard against this.
Cheer up about the downmods: If it gets bad enough, your sentiment will be the universal one.
And the execution. It's much easier to impersonate somebody through a text message or an email than a voice call.
The U.S. Town with No Cell Phones or Wi-Fi
Is this a new thing? Kickstarters for shirts? I like this idea.
I think that "paid advertising rarely works" is actually true and yes, the whole (Internet or not) advertising industry is really wasting tons of money - and more importantly, fuel and labor.

The thing is, marketing is mostly zero-sum game; people are stuck in a negative feedback loop of throwing more and more money to one-up their competitors at attracting customers from the same limited pool. It's an unlimited resource sink, but it's a) what you have to do lest you get outcompeted by others, and b) profitable for those who facilitate advertising.

Weixiyen is also right that this "growth hack" is effective, but remember that "growth hacking" is mostly a fancy term for spamming / abusing trust. Every new way to trick people into buying something will work for a while, until everyone else starts doing the same and the ROI drops to zero.

Once upon a time, a pop-up banner was the clever growth hacking trick. As HN's idlewords tells the story,

"One of the first banner ads had a click-through rate of 78%. That's mind-boggling. Do you know what two words were on that banner ad?

"Shop Naked!" CLICK!

But banner ads turned out to be like poison ivy. People clicked them once, and learned never to touch them again. The industry collapsed in a flurry of pop-overs, pop-unders, and shame."

http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm
iMovie is an exception that proves Apple's usual rule: in most of Apple's own apps (Quicktime, Aperture, Xcode, OSX itself) each major version is its own separate app.

This fixes both the "paid upgrades" and "choosing what version you want to run" requirements, very simply, as long as you do it correctly.

Most importantly, you'll need to make MyApp N+1 discoverable from MyApp N (likely by an update with text such as "click to see MyApp N+1 on the app store.") For example, look at how "Transmit 3" (one app) talks about "Transmit 4" (a separate app).

You'll also probably want to sync IAPs to some more canonical source of truth than Apple's own servers, such that your app can ask "has the user purchased IAP X in [any of our apps that provide IAP X]" rather than "has the user purchased IAP X in this particular app." Then IAPs purchased in MyApp N apply to MyApp N+1, and vice-versa.
Expand Your Brand
Ditto for the actual product names. Selling a strain of cannabis with the name "Girl Scout Cookies" will do little to help earn the tolerance of anyone who might be on the fence about the legality of cannabis. I recognize getmeadow doesn't name the product, so they're limited in how they can effect this. It's something the category needs to address though.
Several close relatives of mine died in similar circumstances, so I especially appreciated the humane treatment of the elderly stomach cancer patient. Everyone in medicine should be looking for anything that can reduce abuse via "heroic measures".
Programming Arduino Uno in pure C
It says a lot about a person, when disaster hits they run for the hills. I think we need more people prepping for rebuilding after disasters than ready to go hide in a bunker. I wish I knew a way to change their minds and remove the fear. What life is one in hiding?
As of a couple years ago (the last time I was there), you can actually call the club and have them verify you at the time of delivery (eg, you show your recommendation when the driver arrives, before any transaction is made).
This has pretty large implications for countries (namely china) with still a sizable IE6 userbase. IE6 doesn't support TLS by default, making https effectively completely unsupported for that browser.
I will never try this service because it requires a facebook login.
I won't say that's been solved, but extern template is supposed to address it (well, exporting templates was supposed to address it, but that never really got off the ground).

Borland came up with an approach that instantiated templates multiple times, and then weeded out duplicates. That was relatively easy to implement, so everyone else followed suit. Extern template makes it possible to make sure some instantiations are instantiated only once, so the compiler doesn't have to weed out extra instantiations (I wish I could use "instantiate" fewer times in that description, but I can't see how to pull that off).
Just like the utility of heat engines is heavily contested by us making sure heat sink never averages with the heat source. That's why you have a radiator in your car.

My point is, that a) that campaign didn't foster a myth, it used a real, existing potential gradient and b) it is very much pro-feminist as long as they're letting things equalize and not actively trying to maintain that gender gradient.

ETA: of course I can compare a physical phenomenon to a social one, mathematical models don't differentiate between those. Still, I chose that example only to highlight that calling facts a "mythology" is weird.
I have a lot of knowledge of advanced baseball statistic analysis, and played about $100 per day this year during the season, making a profit of ~$2000. This is my third straight winning season, but the first where I actually wrote code that spat out lineups.

I spent no money on data, everything you need is available for free.

If anyone has advanced knowledge of other sports and wants to collaborate, send me an email or tweet. Contact info in profile.

Here are my 2014 MLB results from Fanduel, the site I spent the majority of my time on:

Entered $15,128.00
Won	$17,022.04
Profit $1,894.04
ROI 12.52%

Data:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rN8vhO1nZlojF-wiFSgq...
"For example, people might get so scared of Ebola in the affected countries ... and throw them out on the street to die."

That might make it worse. In Africa, the distance between the gutter and the water supply isn't very far nor clearly defined (bad water causes a lot of deaths in Africa already). And given that the Ebola virus causes people to literately leak, dropping them in the street may containment local water supplies. Plus, the Ebola virus can probably survive in wet but dead tissue a lot longer than in the open area. So each one of these bodies would become a mini bio hazard, until the tissue decays to the point that the virus dies.
Ask HN: What can we do about ebola?
This site attracts enough intelligent minds that surely we can find some way to help.

I was hoping to leave this open ended because I don't know what I don't know about this situation. I want to help, but I'm not keen on flying to West Africa.
When were you last in Portland, OR? I bounce between there and Seattle and I'd say Portland has at least as vibrant a tech/startup scene as Seattle, even if there isn't as much VC activity. It isn't just Intel and HP in Portland anymore either.
sigh. we don't have anything like this in vancouver, BC. supposedly the chest thumping and shouting BC BUD now seems embarassing.
Don't Listen to Snapchat's Excuses. Security Is Its Job
Medical marijuana has been delivered in Washington for at least 5 years, and as of a couple months ago, still was being delivered.

Do you have a citation for claiming it's illegal for medical services to deliver? Your claim doesn't jive with what I recall about designated providers, which is the legal aspect of the medical law used to justify dispensaries.

While it's true that the recreational market isn't allowed to transport when operating under I-502 rules, the complete failure of the Liquor Control Board to do a decent rollout of the recreational market has essentially forced the police to pick between busting up more or less legitimate delivery businesses and having everyone be really, really mad they can't get legal weed.

Also, the 28g thing is incredibly complicated, because of the rules for various infused or extracted products.
I once had to write an OAuth client for each of the major invoice/accounting cloud services. It was a huge hassle, with very little standardization. Everyone had to add their little quirk to the system (like client-specific endpoints, or some quirky encoding, or only accepting HTTP headers and not POST fields), depleting all the value of using the OAuth "standard," leaving only a bulky OAuth library. Simple GET/POST fields are much easier and can easily be transparently maintained in a few lines of code.
We and our dispensary partners verify through third party verification service.
Foldit helped AIDS researchers. Is there a similar game that could help with ebola?
I am far less concerned about fear being spread than ignorant “solutions” being spread. Things like proposing that closing the borders to people from west Africa will solve everything, that it is somehow's gods way of dealing with “overcrowding” and Ebola will only happen to “those people", etc. There is a real risk that we in the west will go into isolation mode and not do anything.
I Am Not Your Friend, Incorporated
Open Source and Game Development
Anything intended as more than a 5 minute gimmick should have configurable controls anyway IMHO. That, to me, settles this debate right there, at least when it comes to games. Yeah, it would be nice for browsers to recognize the keyboard, but no wait, that's still not really useful, because then you still need to be able configure your keys, and once you have that, browser recognition of the keyboard layout would just make it possible to set a smart default config - which would be cool, don't get me wrong, but I wonder if this is really that big of a "pain point" right now.
I begin to use Firefox more now than Chrome. Chrome has gotten really slow. like I navigate to a url, it will redirect to about:blank;

watching youtube or soundcloud sends cpu crazy active.

i remember I switched to chrome from firefox 5 years ago because of those reasons. now I find myself using firefox for the same reason, chrome is sluggish. I also don't feel creeped out.
Thanks!

We really want to bring people together and believe that Meadow embodies that.
Good advice aside, this is some great use of computer vision techniques to solve a real problem!
Anyone know if you can get these in a podcast format?
And while the number of deaths varies each season, the CDC estimates that the flu kills a minimum of 3,000 people in the US each year. Just to put this Ebola thing in perspective.
Building a Helmet to Peer Deep into the Brain
Industrial Alignment Lasers, Laser Pointers, Laser Diodes and DPSS Lasers
I vote for fumbling.
Which is way less than the number we need there right now let alone in a couple of months it will take these troops to all get there.

If people want to know what it is like on the ground have a read of this blog post [1].

[1] http://pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/les-roberts-the...
This is a tough business to win as a player. The house is taking 8 - 10% rake meaning you have to have a 60% winning percentage just to break even. Much better business to be the house. Even if 30% of the players are highly skilled handicappers it's going to be very hard to consistently win this game. Sounds like fun to play, but as in all gambling enterprises, the real money comes from operating the casino, not playing there.

When I heard the fan duel ads on the radio and then saw it on ESPN, I couldn't believe that it was legal. Then I saw the law with the exception for fantasy sports and I was just super jealous of these legal sports book operators. Running an online sports book is like having a free money machine.
OkCupid is one of the few dot-com companies whose customers have a bad experience (for example by getting no replies), and then blame themselves rather than blaming the company.

If more guys blamed OkCupid, maybe they'd be willing to try things like Dating Ring instead? That'd put pressure on innovators to innovate, rather than stopping at "men need to try harder."
Nobody's arguing that it's a panacea. Only that raising awareness of operational issues, reliability, and lost sleep does tend to put feet to the fire.
Maybe allowing users to have multiple API tokens, that way you have one for IFTTT and another for each service you set up. Gmail does something similar to this btw.

Although I agree with you, there's a good chance that people who reuse passwords do so because they don't want to remember usernames/passwords everywhere and by forcing the user to go get their API-token it's just making things harder for them again. But, maybe this just isn't a problem for Pinboard users.

Too bad about OAuth, it does solve both problems above. :)
Using VMWare Fusion 6 on my system, yes. I suspect native drivers would differ.
As others have pointed out, Ebola lacks a large number of important features that rhinoviruses, for example, have. It is possible given sufficient time Ebola will mutate in ways that generate those features. It is also possible, given sufficient time, Ebola will mutate into flesh-eating flying monkeys (admittedly, this is marginally less likely than becoming airborne.)

Viruses--parasite and pathogens generally-are incredibly narrowly adapted to their preferred mode of attack. They have to be, because the chinks in the host's immune system are almost by definition incredibly narrow. If they weren't the host species would not have survived.

This gives pathogens and parasites very little room to maneuver. They can't just arbitrarily bolt on new capabilities. They have relatively little genetic material to work with: 19 kilobases in the case of Ebola, which is less than the coding length of the majority of human genes (which can run comfortably into the hundreds of kilobases).

So think of Ebola like an evil eight-bit micro-controller. It's only got 256 bytes to work with. It has been carefully programmed with a tiny attack program that depends on a very specific weakness in the target system that requires it be plugged into a USB port controlled by a particular chipset rev from a particular manufacturer. The claim "it might go airborne" is equivalent to the claim that such a chip, under millions of random mutations, might be able to infect systems via network ports while remaining the same in every other respect.

This is not (provably) impossible, but it is of such low probability that I'm pretty sure anyone concerned about it should be in a state of panic regarding cows, coconuts, coronal mass ejections, and other far-more-probable causes of death if they want to make any claims to intellectual consistency.
You're right! I was more talking about the people here asking questions that weren't being answered with a straight answer. Surely people do use unproven (or even disproven) products all the time. I was just frustrated with the non answer marketing talk.

I've been doing a little googling (and I do mean a little) and it seems as these matchmakers will offer dubious value for predicting long term relationship satisfaction.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/opinion/sunday/online-d...

>Because they gather data from singles who have never met, the sites have no way of knowing how two people will interact once they have been matched. Yet our review of the literature reveals that aspects of relationships that emerge only after two people meet and get to know each other — things like communication patterns, problem-solving tendencies and sexual compatibility — are crucial for predicting the success or failure of relationships. For example, study after study has shown that the way that couples discuss and attempt to resolve disagreements predicts their future satisfaction and whether or not the relationship is likely to dissolve.

>the information that they do collect — about individual characteristics — accounts for only a tiny slice of what makes two people suited for a long-term relationship.

>According to a 2008 meta-analysis of 313 studies, similarity on personality traits and attitudes had no effect on relationship well-being in established relationships. In addition, a 2010 study of more than 23,000 married couples showed that similarity on the major dimensions of personality (e.g., neuroticism, impulsivity, extroversion) accounted for a mere 0.5 percent of how satisfied spouses were with their marriages — leaving the other 99.5 percent to other factors.

Sure it will get you to meet singles, but there probably isn't anything special about it other than that. Adding someone who majored in theater arts is unlikely to add value for the cost involved.
Show HN: Obscure – Share what you want – Send fun and private pictures/texts
Google discovers another flaw in SSL
I think the 30% is a red herring. We aren't talking about 15% revenue difference being somehow transformative to the profitability of app development.

I disagree strongly that people who would use upgrades already do so, but badly. Pretty much every paid app maker would be tempted to start using paid upgrades, since it would be trivial and become a norm. The 'bad' way of doing it is a strong disincentive that stops most developers actually doing it.

Adding paid upgrades would make the whole store into a nightmarish minefield where you'd suddenly be being charged again for minimal updates to trivial apps. The examples give for paid upgrades are always solid reputable, thoughtful companies like the Omni Group, but they represent 0.000001% of the store at most.