jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There're some questionable assumptions in this paper, notably this one:

"What we really want is to minimize the number of infections resulting from any given number of sexual encounters; the flip side of this observation is that it is desirable to maximize the number of (consensual) sexual encounters leading up to any given number of infections."

He's saying that there's this ratio, infections per sexual encounter, that they want to minimize. And the easiest way to minimize this is to increase the denominator. If you have a universe with a skewed (self-selected) distribution, then as you add more people to a category, you'll increasingly get more marginal people. In this case, it's people who have fewer sexual partners and hence are less likely to carry AIDS, resulting in a reduced chance of infection.

Whether this is the metric you care about is debatable. If you're a public health official, you probably care about the absolute number of infections, not the number per sexual encounter, and so this only helps if it brings the probability low enough that the disease can't sustain itself.

Similarly, if you're a married guy who just wants a faithful and devoted wife and kids, you don't care about the chance of infection per sexual encounter, you care about the absolute chance of infection within your life time. This is minimized by not having sex with anyone, or, failing that, having sex with someone who only has sex with you.

Only people who regularly have sex with lots of partners would benefit from this - for them, the metric is chance of infection per sexual encounter (since they'll be having lots of sexual encounters anyway), so why shouldn't they?
It would be nice to be able to fill in the results without having to press tab or clicking on the input box, by jumping to the next score box as soon as a digit is entered. In this way, one could fill all the results of a group in six keystrokes.
The saying used to be that something was designed for obsolescence. I no longer believe that's the case, I believe new devices are programmed for obsolescence. That is to say, the device used to work, but with new "updates," the device becomes more decrepit, and less useful, not better and more useful. I've had Apple devices that worked fine until the "update" (which was mainly targeted at the latest and greatest, not my 1 to 2 year old model) came out, at which point the device that was still quite useable, becomes almost unusable. I don't recall which software update it was, but my iPhone 3g was a great example of this. I've recently noticed the same thing (rather my completely non-technical mother has) on her 2 year old iPad and iOS 8.

The joys of software. They can now be used to artificially shorten a products life cycle, without having to even design in obsolescence from the get go.
arguably humans should spend more time on art, athletics, poetry, music, literature, gardening, and the like.
Well, not to be a downer, but there are a number of caveats to be attached to this discovery. First, melittin is over 7.5 kDa which, while small for a protein, is still much, much larger than your typical household toxin. It is also larger than the smallest molecules that antibodies can be trained against.

Second, the interactions here appear to be entirely steric (that means size/shape related). One of the advantages of natural antibodies is that they can bind their targets via H-bonding, ionic interactions, van der Waals interactions, and hydrophobic interactions in addition to steric interactions.

Third, clearance by the liver runs the risk of just having all of the toxin concentrated in the liver, and it's not clear that the toxins will remain bound to the bead until they are inactivated. Certainly, if we're talking about a snake-venom which is a neurotoxin, and the "down-side" to taking this and not dying is that you need a liver transplant, I think it would still be useful, but this is not any sort of panacea I would think.

Edit: Also, it seems like the "imprinting" would require a fairly large interaction surface with the target molecule. This means that its probably not even very useful for molecular biology work, since natural antibodies can distinguish between proteins with very small differences and only require half-a-dozen or so amino acids for a match. Really, I think the lesson of this article should be just how amazingly cool natural antibodies are, and that it's taken until now to maybe come up with something that could possibly replace one of these uses.
I'd be interested to know, but somehow I seriously doubt there were librarians taking eigenvalues of citation networks.
It would be interesting to see an estimate of how many lives the disappearance of men like him from africa cost. And have you, by the way, been reading mencius moldbug? (http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-cr...)
Works neatly in Firefox and even better in Chrome, but fails horribly on my iPhone. Might just be due to the small screensize but I haven't tested that properly yet.

Impressive none the less.
I like Peopleware, and Larry Constantine's essays Constantine on Peopleware, especially for managers of programmers. But I think Robert Glass's Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering might be a better recommendation for a developer.
http://shell.appspot.com/

http://yarriba.appspot.com/
That's about whether Twitter will make a lot of money, though. The 'digg' issue is not that digg failed to monetize, but that users abandoned it in droves and it seems irrelevant, isn't it?

Twitter could always restrict their API, too, to discourage or make some third party tools obsolete. This would only be accepted if they made their own available with applications similar features and quality.
The premise of such posts is that if people were aware of
who was getting a tax cut they would be against it.

That is not a premise, but a corollary from the conclusion. The conclusion is that people wish for a distribution of wealth that is vastly different from the actual wealth distribution. The corollary is that they would not support measures that retain the status quo or skew the distribution further from their expressed optimum.

Put another way: the premise is that everyone is purely
motivated by self-interest.

How on earth is that 'putting the same thing in another way'? The richest quintile thinks the poorest quintile should be more wealthy. If they took that conclusion from these statistics to their logical consequence, they would immediately donate the relevant portion of their wealth and allow it to be redistributed. If anything, the numbers suggest rational people would act in an altruistic way to change things towards their expressed optimal wealth distribution.
As I tend to point out any time someone goes on a masturbatory flight of fancy like this: there ain't no such thing as a "self-made man". There are only people who are too short-sighted or too narcissistic to acknowledge the others who helped them get to where they are.
Is it not simple to write a reply, like samdk did, instead of downvoting?
I am well aware the scanners are flawed. However, I have not seen a study that shows the added benefit is "indistinguishable from zero." Please provide links, I may agree with you.
I can assure you that I am no shill.
One thing I will say is that it took a few weeks to get everything "in the flow" (socks go in this drawer, wash this but not that etc) , but once they know your routine it's quite incredible to watch everything happen on autopilot.
> Advertisers don't waste money. They carefully use money by investing it in advertising which (when done properly) nets them a positive ROI.

Back before the Internet revolutionized advertising, this was one of my favorite quotes about advertising: "I know half of my advertising money is wasted. The problem is, I don't know which half."
they had 300 million in profits in 2009...

i don't think that qualifies as a startup.
It’s quite funny to me that the Catholic Church (of all churches) has a very decentralized internet presence. Every church, every diocese, is responsible for their own website. They each have to find someone who does it and they have to pay. The Vatican’s website doesn’t seem so much like website for the whole Catholic Church, it’s much rather all about the Vatican and only about the Vatican. What you find on the internet is very much patchwork.

This is a church: http://www.st-elisabeth-bonn.de/

A diocese: http://www.bistum-regensburg.de/

The Conference of German Bishops: http://www.dbk.de/

One of the many German Catholic portals: http://www.rpp-katholisch.de/

All German but the content isn’t important here. I think the patchwork is obvious.
I would at least make it a minimum of 2 or 3 characters. Perhaps only to promote recognizable or comprehensible user names.
I just launched the API today so any feedback on it would be greatly appreciated. The direct link to the API is http://www.groupflier.com/api.html

P.S. Click the phone image to watch the video easter egg
No, but I would credit Apple with "inventing" the iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air. Even though all of those products likely have core pieces that were from acquisitions, it seems like Apple executed the grand vision of bringing it together.

Same thing with Google, though they appear to buy several things that they don't fully roll out (Dodgeball, etc.). Android may have originally been an acquisition, again it feels like Google made it into a finished product far beyond what they acquired.

Microsoft appears to have bought the Kinect technology/product and done little more than change the logo on the device. The surface table also hasn't been productized into anything revolutionary or different.
This is a GREAT movie for entrepreneurs to watch. I highly recommend it.
Start by saying what it does and posting a link (or at least adding a link into your profile)? Pro tip: add a call to action to your description.

I'm not kidding.

For you it's an exercise to describe it.

For us it's 1) a way to see it (which is what you want), and 2) even if we're not interested, we could give more precise suggestions.
Just removing parking subsidies would be huge.

I lived in Vancouver, which is very transit friendly by NA standards.

In the residential Neighbourhood I lived in, most roads were 3-4 cars wide, and 2 of those widths were exclusively for parking private cars (parking lane, travel lane, possibly another travel lane, and another parking lane). The building I lived in had as much square footage for parking as it did for living.

Parking a car in was more or less marginally free(as in most North American cities). Using a city parking spot for anything else cost money, and was time limited. Renting a private parking spot was about $100/ month (due to building codes there was an oversupply of private parking in addition to the available street parking). Renting a bedroom the size of a parking spot was $500+/mo.

In other words, the city incentives were set up that a climate controlled parking spot for a car was significantly oversupplied, and cheaper, than a putting a human in the same space.
What are your reasons for not supporting this move? I have no skin in the game and no understanding of what's going on here.
Agreed. I was less drawn in by About Elly.

A Moment of Innocence, Close-Up, Where Is My Friend's Home?, and Persepolis are next up on my watch list. A Moment of Innocence is a bit hard to find and seems to be available only on DVD.

I thought A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was pretty entertaining. It was made in the U.S., but by an Iranian-American and its setting is fictional (“Bad City”) with Persian dialog. It has a Jim Jarmusch feel to it.
No, you are not reading that correctly.

They are invasive species that exploded in Australia due to a lack of natural predators. How you can cite their existence as a refutation of anything I've said baffles me.

I've been up excessively long. With any luck, I'll be asleep soon.

Ciao.
Perhaps you'd be interested in HAM radio or public-access TV. I don't see why the answer has to be national.
> As it stands, it was known to landlords that the CDC has the power, during pandemics, to engage in action such as this one or even more severe.

This is simply false. They couldn’t have known that, because CDC never had constitutional authority to issue this order in the first place. There is no way this order could survive strict scrutiny test: it is not nearly enough narrowly tailored.
And a way to rank, score, sort, browse playlists. Currently the only way to stumble upon a playlist is to get linked to it from elsewhere or from an authors page?
Where is don't recommend channel? I saw a video about this when searching how to block specific channels but it doesn't appear in the UI of my YT android app...
There are more wealthy people suffering through engineering degrees than you'd think.
A lot of Guardian stories around, this one from a very suspicious account.
Ha! That is amazing. I would love to read a book or blog just full of examples like these.

Another couple I can think of: (more common examples)-

* reducing baggage waiting time by increasing the walking time to the baggage carousels.

* Reducing "the phone rings too many times before customer support answers" complaints by lengthening the time per ring.

* Using mirrors next to elevators so people distract themselves and feel less bothered by the wait.
Also on Amazon Prime Instant Video -- going to watch it tonight. Thanks!
I'd like Google to be more aggressive on chasing Enterprise customers. Make something compelling/disruptive enough for the enterprise space - things like CRM, ERP etc. Aggressively price/promote your cloud product.

I'd set a target like getting 40% enterprise marketshare in desktop/server OS, apps in the next 5 years. Make IBM sweat for their mainframe share.

Compared to the consumer market, enterprise software is still largely bloatware and legacyware. It is ripe for disruption.
(D)s, (R)s, and other letters in parentheses next to names are the sort of things that influence how people vote, and in articles like this, they affect future votes.

That said, it is somewhat sad that the informed citizen is a more rare voter than they used to be. The ballot in my state was so long that I had to make a cheat sheet to avoid having to memorize all of the names. I suspect that for non-partisan offices, a lot of people did just vote for names they like. If elections weren't so costly, it might be objectively better to hold local, state, and federal elections on different days, so that people who show up to vote for a president or a governor don't just mark the rest of their ballot without knowing who they're voting for.

These are all senators, though, so it can be assumed that they were mostly elected by people who at least had heard of them.
Oh.. um.. sorry dude. Well I guess you know by now already. It stops you being able to do anything on HN for an hour and a half.
Actually, Leahy killed CBDTP:

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had stated that he could "not support" the proposed legislation and, as chairman, intended to block consideration of the controversial bill. This essentially killed the bill in 2002.
That's what makes it such a fascinating study in how politics works.

Here we have a new issue, which neither party is mad about, and which people of all walks of life are pretty pissed.

Parties keep people consistently voting for them by coming up with some kind of narrative around why their policies are best: "looking out for the little guy" or "getting government off your back"

It looks like this issue could fit into several narratives put forward by the parties over the past decade or two. The killer part is that parties must oppose each other: if party A is for something, party B must find a reason why it's fracked (insert long story about messaging and branding here). So that means that somehow these parties are going to have to choose a side _and_ develop a plausible narrative sometime in the very near future. Right now it's chaos. I can assure you that the spinmasters are currently hard at work.

I'm hearing one narrative already "nobody really cares about this." which sounds a lot like "nothing to see here folks, please move along" Not sure if that one is going to fly, though. I guess we'll find out.
I just ran the same test. Set up a 2 slave cluster, killed slave 2, then killed the master. Ran pg_last_xlog_receive_location on each slave, picked the one that was furthest along in the timeline, promoted it to be the new master and the other slave caught up as expected.

That's great. That's the first time I've been able to get this to work smoothly. I'm sure there are still ways to break it but this gives me hope.
I wonder how many mainstream approaches to health will be considered quacky in 15 years.

Any examples in either direction?

Here's a fun one:

http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
MySQL has had years to evolve their approach and to fix bugs.

That sounds nice in theory, but completely ignores the reality of the respective code-bases. Features in MySQL have a tendency to rot rather than mature. It could hardly become more obvious than in the comparison between this version 1 of postgres replication against the "evolved" MySQL equivalent.

Postgres may have the smaller feature set, it may be the first version, yet I'm still inclined to trust it a lot more than what MySQL has to offer.
Simply because postgres has a track-record of being rock solid and MySQL, well, not so much.

Sure, in theory you can build fancy rings, cascades and even multi-master topologies in MySQL. But what is that worth when even the simplest master/slave mode still randomly and silently desyncs in various, undocumented situations?

Statement based replication has its faults, but complexity isn't one of them.

There's a nice quote from Alan Perlis:

Fools ignore complexity,
experts avoid it;
geniuses remove it.

Some complexity is inherent to replication. The question remains which parts, if any, they removed and which parts they ignored...

It's not a joke. There is more documentation.

Sorry, measuring documentation in terms of quantity sounds like yet another joke to me. As you can tell by my snarky comments I'm responsible for babysitting the odd MySQL cluster in my day-job (and postgres, too, so I have a frame of reference). It is indeed true that for most common problems I'll find the solution not in the official docs but rather on some more or less obscure forum, in broken english, linked from page >3 of the google search results (after 2 pages of outdated and plain wrong information).

So, in all fairness, yes, most common problems can eventually be solved that way. But good luck debugging a not so common ring, multi-master or otherwise non-standard scenario that way. Or encoding issues. Or silent truncation. Or hotbackups that are strangely much smaller than they should be. Or the dreaded 'mysql'-database being screwed after restoring a backup to a newer minor-version...

Anyways, the way postgres handles this seems more sensible to me. In postgres the overwhelming majority of the "common" MySQL-issues simply doesn't exist.
Start now! There are great introductions out there.
Good luck, I want to get back into robotics myself.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs373

http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=86cc8662-f...

https://www.edx.org/course/autonomous-mobile-robots-ethx-amr...

https://www.edx.org/course/robot-mechanics-control-part-i-sn...

https://www.edx.org/course/autonomous-navigation-flying-robo...

https://www.edx.org/course/underactuated-robotics-mitx-6-832...

https://www.coursera.org/course/conrob

If you are missing some math to understand these, those classes are online too.
Even if it attracts "just" serious code-reviewers that provide detailed bug reports that's a big win.
It's no different to

- Java with Functional Programming concepts in Java 8 - which was already there for FP-oriented languages like Haskell and Scala.

- PHP, with OOP on PHP 5 - which was already there for Java, C++, C#.

I'm not aware of the innovations of other languages, but I'm pretty sure it's not just JavaScript. It's not also about being "late". It's just extending the language to cater more features to a wider developer audience as well as providing a more flexible language.

Just because someone bought a smartphone first doesn't mean I can't own the same exact model or do the same exact thing.
"A Republic, if you can keep it." [1]

This is a positive step. It will be interesting to watch who opposes it, and how, in the various branches of government.

[1] http://constitutioncenter.org/learn/educational-resources/hi...
I love this library and like others, was a god send. one thing I want to try is use the lib with the python mock lib to mock services that can return randomized data of some kind.
Thats why even years later they tried to replicate iPhone and failed (see Blackberry Storm)
This was early on but still interesting: http://twitter.com/humble/status/15624817784922112

They definitely benefited from being nice "integrated" people and playing the internet well (with the videos or even the picture if you donated <1$).
No, most CSAs these day will automatically add "www.yourdomain.com" to your certificate as a Subject Alternate Name.
I wonder how accurately HN can discuss the general trend from business to casual, considering the heavy concentration in the later.
...it means wealth is supposed to be directly proportional to merit (e.g. contains no winner-take-all dynamics).

And that merit is assumed to be normally distributed. They also seem to make some fairly strong independence assumptions:

If poverty were exclusively due to individual differences, we would expect rates of poverty to be randomly distributed throughout the county.

This of course makes the implicit assumption that individual differences are neither correlated with location, nor do individuals of high merit change their location. The latter is certainly false...
The article points out that although hard work might pay off, owning appreciating assets pays off with significantly more consistency in the US economic system.

And unlike hard work, one can inherit appreciating assets.
The "North Carolina Sociological Association" sounds socialist. Color me surprised.

Sociology is socialism now?
Simple. Human nature is about survival and reproduction. Resources are limited so that only some of us will survive and reproduce. Scarcity produces unhappiness which in term induces human productivity/creativity.

Case in point, Love in the Time of Cholera. You want to get the girl but you are a victim of socioeconomic scarcity. You become a life-long melancholic but are motivated to climb the social/professional ladder to get what it is that you couldn't get in the first place. All great literature, music, scientific discoveries were of products of unrequited love, jealousy, or the urge to overcome a self-inferiority complex.
Absolutely. The same phase occurred in the 70s, until the power suit was brought back.
I'm not quite sure what the relevancy of this is, unless you're actually such a rabid Apple hater that you automatically see any mention of Adobe flaws as an argument for Apple or somesuch.
The Windows features that succeeded most (loosely coupled applications with root access) don't overlap at all with what Android is trying to do.

Android is trying to do tightly-coupled sandboxed applications that invoke and include one another. The Windows features in this area (like COM) all failed pretty miserably.
So, 10.0.45.2 is vulnerable. Oh look, that's the only available version of the 64-bit Linux plugin, because they don't do 64-bit builds along with their 32-bit builds:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html
... "and emacs doesn't really work for me in terminals as well as vim."

What kind of problems are you facing running emacs in terminal? I always run emacs in terminal (wrapped inside a screen session) and I have found no problem so far.

I run emacs-trunk/rxvt with 256 colors/bash. But have also used gnome-terminal.
The Linux 64-bit version needs some love. It has not been updated since Feb.