skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that the unintended consequence here is that the Ronald McDonald house is getting more donations than it used to. It not accomplishing the goal the law set out to accomplish certainly wasn't intended, but it wasn't an "unintended consequence" in the traditional sense.
Sorry, what I meant about serving HTML from the server was the construction of HTML documents using server-side code. There will always be static pages served with apache or whatnot :)
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The question itself is not offensive, and the idea of the filtering is perfectly valid. The problem arises in that the level of risk being filtered by "sex with another man, ever" or even "sex with another man, last five years" is much less than other risk factors that are more common but not screened---but the presence of the question (and absence of others) has the effect of spreading FUD about the risk factors, and thus has the effect of spreading and reinforcing homophobia even if we generously assume that homophobia is not the reason for the rule in the first place.

Reducing the time limit and/or adding other factors to the screening would remove the objections of (most of) the people that complain about this rule.
You might want to read: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/why-successful-peo...

I've had good luck finding mentors by accident. Mostly, I'll e-mail someone who I would want to be a mentor with an off handed comment about how they can improve something they are doing and then we'll get an e-mail thread going. Eventually, they'll ask, "So what are you doing?" and then you'll show/tell them and they start to mentor you.

I suspect this is how mentoring works for others. Every single person I would call a mentor, I've approached to help them in some way. There is only one exception to this, but he and I shared a common group of associates already so he was just paying it forward.
Haven't RAM prices been 'crashing' since the 70s?
$1.5 per 1K emails include Custom DKIM? If yes, then it is really a great deal.
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With this a boom in Computer Technical Support sector is enviable. Why to ignore personal users? Nowadays, personal computers and laptops are the prime focus of brands.
Good point. Very few people seem to be aware of the actual statistics on this subject, and not terribly interested in debating it further once once someone links to actual data which is quite frankly unequivocal. A bit ironic considering how self proclaimed enlightened people tend to look down their nose at the "uninformed" masses who think HIV is a "gay disease".

I have no issue with gay people at all, and on an absolute numbers basis, infection rates are not terribly high within that overall community. I just find it immensely interesting how people's normal thought processes (even those who are normally extremely logical and data oriented) are fundamentally altered when the subject of discussion is race, gender, sexuality, or culture.

Thanks for pointing it out.
I can confirm that. I lived in the UK for a short six months during that scare. Whenever I went to give blood around that time, I was asked that question, then denied. I haven't gone to give blood in a while though, so I don't know if that restriction is still in place or not.
I've been been eyeballing this tutorial as an introduction to OpenGL/3d graphics, my question to HN is what's your opinion on learning 3d graphics with OpenGL vs. something like libcinder.org or www.openframeworks.cc which has bindings to OpenGL I'm not doing any game design mainly learning and understanding what the facilities of the API are and the logic of graphics programming
And yet somehow obesity was hardly a problem for thousands of years in human history. People need to stop making excuses for their poor eating and exercising habits and take responsibility for their actions.
Good advice. I'm currently looking into starting a blog to give insight to our company, your comment would be a great addition to this guys blog post though.
Startup have nothing to lose; established market players have everything to lose.

It's not that established players can't innovate, it's that they do need to focus on maintaining and protecting their market share. You frequently see small attempts at innovation from these companies, but almost as frequently the efforts get squashed due to market priorities. As an example, think about Google Wave.

Startups have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.
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Like many people, while in transit (may it be on the bus, subway, or chauffeured car) I tried to catch up on my reading list. Unfortunately for many though, they tend to get headache when trying to read while in motion. Can software image stabilization help in this application? Thanks,
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Do not worry, in order to sound "pretensions" you need to be able to spell pretentious correctly;)
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From wikipedia: "The vast majority of people (97%) have detectable antibodies by three months after HIV infection; a six-month window is extremely rare with modern antibody testing."

So if the transfer can work with a 3 month delay (I'm not sure if it can, just assuming), and the HIV test comes back clean, you're going to have a 97% chance of a true-negative, 3% chance of false-negative.

At that point, comparing it to the odds that the "eliglble" donor is lying about their sexual activities or is simply HIV positive and heterosexual, the ban on letting gays register seems draconian, and a scientific test-based approach seems better all around.

Especially when you consider that if no donor is found, the patient could die anyway. So if the only donor is gay, test them, and then notify the patient of the 3% chance of contracting HIV from a false-negative patient versus the 100% odds of dying from Leukemia, and see what decision they make.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test#cite_note-7
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Even using that, all I get are Internal Service Errors...
You said: "I think it has to be a part of a large _service_."

My question was about the size of the _network_.

In any event, following your line of thought, do you think it's possible to have a many _small_, separate networks that were somehow part of a large service?

Regardless of your answer, does our solution have to be a "service"?

What if it is a "product" that creates small networks as overlays on a larger, existing network such as the one all your friends are connected to: the internet?

You said: "I can see that it's possible to create a service around, say, PGP..."

What if you could see that it's possible to create a service (or product, or both) around, say, a scheme that involved only a single shared password and a single shared encryption key? That is, each friend has to remember only two strings for each network to which she belongs, sort of like, say, a username and password.

What if you could see that such a scheme might not require logging on and logging out as frequently as a web-based service such as Facebook?

Would that change your thoughts at all?

You said, when referring to a PKI scheme like PGP: "But I think that [the] level of conceptual overhead is more than lay-people are willing to deal with."

I once thought the same thing about Amazon's S3 service. When I saw the Dropbox product, my thoughts changed.
My class on legislation in the first year of law school (which was quite innovative, as at that time most law schools didn't require a course in legislation at all) was taught by one of the legal scholars who literally wrote the book on the subject.

http://store.westlaw.com/eskridge-frickey-garretts-legislati...

Almost everyone, "conservative" or "liberal," who took that course began the semester supposing that passing a new law is an effective way to solve a social problem. By the end of the semester, hardly any of us thought that anymore.
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Scofflaws deliberately seeking loopholes are not "unintended consequence." nwnted consequences, perhaps, but not unintended consequences.

An unintended consequence of a ban on toys with meals might be something bizzare like a rise in minivan accidents because kids full of caffiene and sugar have nothing to play with in the car and bug their parents while they're driving home from lnch.
Even better, EXPLAIN SELECT makes everything explicit.
We let any customer have DKIM signed messages on their own domain, if that is what you mean. If not, can you clarify?
Radioshack stopped doing that a while back.
Advertising and upsell on the website features.
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This looks to be damn cool. Looking at the docs[1][2] it's now possible to create a Spotify remote control (e.g. control PC from a phone) using the native client. Thinking about it, it's probably also possible to sync two Spotify players on different computers, although they would have to be using different accounts...

It would have been nice if the manifest.json used the Chrome extensions format rather than creating yet another one, but otherwise the developers should be congratulated on using plenty of HTML5 stuff, and what also looks like CommonJS modules.

I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of this!

[1] http://developer.spotify.com/download/spotify-apps-api/tutor...
[2] http://developer.spotify.com/download/spotify-apps-api/refer...
"Negative externalities" should never be a license to abridge individual liberty. What about the "negative externalities" of smoking, drinking, listening to punk music, homosexuality, or reading subversive literature?

No thanks, you can keep your nanny state to yourself. I may not approve of my fellow citizens feeding their children happy meals but by god I will defend their right to do so just as strongly as I'll defend anyone's right to love who they desire, listen to what they want, read what they want, and say what they want.
That’s the first I’ve heard of personal obesity as an externality. Frightening idea. What if someone lives a lifestyle that makes them more likely to contract an STD, say?
My best solution so far.

Vim has a better notion of what a paragraph is when in visual mode, so:

nmap } vip<esc>jj
nmap { vipo<esc>kk
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Ask HN: Etiquette on resubmitting a link (that died on the vine)
I submitted a link to an excellent Fresh Air interview with Jeffrey Rosen about interpreting the 1st and 4th Amendments in the digital era. Turns out it had been submitted 9 hours earlier, here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3296176 but it went nowhere. It's hackerish, and relevant -- what is the HN etiquette towards resubmitting it?
If you find out, I'd like to know too
Its worth noting that the only reason I know of that Google TV and some other early gen "media box" type devices ended up on x86 was the lack of an ARM SoC that could handle 1080p MPEG-4 AVC/h.264 decoding on the higher codec profiles. Boxee for instance publicly stated this was the reason for canning their original design based on the Tegra 2 SoC. There are now ARM SoCs which can do this, NVIDIA's Tegra 3 and the new TI OMAP 4 line.

I wouldn't be surprised to see many such devices move back to the ARM SoC platforms in their next incarnations.
I'm also aware of the statistics - roughly split between gays and heterosexuals. I think the problem lies more with the epistemological side of things. As the marrow registry, how do you know whether or not someone is gay? How do you know whether someone is HIV positive? Only one of these questions actually matters for donors, and only one of them is scientifically testable.

I'd agree with people who are okay with profiling if there wasn't a reliable test for HIV, or if there weren't enough resources to test for it, but I haven't found any evidence for either of those potential claims.
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All Europeans are also banned from giving blood for forever. I'm a very recent transplant to the US from Denmark. I was a regular blood donor in Denmark and checked up on the US regulations before moving here. Even wrote the local blood bank because I didn't believe that the "if you've lived more than 5 years in Europe, you can't give blood ever" was for real. Sadly, the rule is very much real.

The blood bank was also annoyed but there's nothing they can do. I'd write my representative, but as a non-citizen I don't have one.
unfortunately this is not an efficiency optimization. the intent appears to be to match EITHER all-alpha OR all-numeric strings.

the regex, as given, would match both "&()ABC" and "5673%$^#" and "123ABC" but NOT "ABC123"

what should be a simple concept is defeated and confusion ensues. the correct formulation should have been ^[0-9]+$|^[A-Z]+$ or (judging from the example input and output samples) [0-9]+|[A-Z]+
When I asked friends to donate for Amit, I had a hard time asking them to lie when donating. This is the limit of "lying for a good cause", especially when the person doesn't know Amit.
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People need to pay SendGrid at least $80 per month for the silver plan in order to get rid of the (via sendgrid.info) header in Gmail (sometimes people only need to send a few K emails..)

http://support.sendgrid.com/entries/98008-how-to-eliminate-t...

Also, do you support mass newsletters sending to subscribed users? I use sendgrid because many other providers like MailChimp said they don't allow it.

To be fair, sendgrid's service is also very good, e.g. customer support, reliability etc.
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This is a good effort and it's always good to see people using a SCM repository as a collaborative document store. Even better that it has such a nice simple command-line.

However, all four things that make Dropbox Dropbox for me are missing:

* A UI so straightforward that my technophobic mother-in-law (or even a project manager) can use it

* Block-level sync (in particular, the rsync algorithm) with server-side dedupe on binary files (git is suboptimal in my experience on large binaries, and it's unclear whether this project resolves the issue). Incidentally, integrating that with simple versioning behaviour is what lifts dropbox into the "Ooh, clever, I see what you did there" category for me.

* Local-area peer-to-peer sync.

* Click-to-share instant access granting.

Building an open-source tool that has all four is on my to-do list. Unfortunately it's quite far down that list. Anyone else having a crack at it?
http://startupweekend.org/events/
I completely disagree with what you wrote, but yon don't deserve to be downvoted.

You don't believe that the "negative externalities" of smoking or drinking should be addressed in any way? Even through (say) taxes/surcharges on said products?
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Here's an example of Bill Clinton, as President, calling bullshit in 1995. A while back, Pakistan had paid a lot of money to buy 28 F-16 fighters, but that sale was voided by the US Government because of Pakistan's efforts to develop nuclear weapons. However, since the planes had been built, and the money spent, the Pakistanis couldn't have their money back, either.

The State Dept. bureaucracy had already been mobilized to defend this decision and had so indicated at various levels to their Pakistani counterparts. Clinton, of course, was briefed on this decision and expected to go along. This was US policy, after all.

Instead, Clinton told the Pakistani prime minister that it was wrong for the US to keep the money and that he would find a way to resolve it.

http://auphr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic...

I note this because, according to the author of the piece linked, it almost never happens, even when, as in this case, the information involved is largely unclassified. So when decisions rely on classified information, percolated through the policy apparatus, it's surely much worse.
i learned regex inside-out before ever learning or implementing any sort of FSM - just sayin'.
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You can't think of any reason somebody might lie about being gay if they aren't paid money to do so?
I reckon there might be more NEON that bootloader assembly out there in the ARM world.
I think those events are best for people wanting to step outside of their comfort zones. It is an opportunity to try something different in a low risk environment, which is not a bad thing. If you enter an event like that, it is best not to expect to end up with a viable company. Startup Weekend events typically spend little time validating that anyone actually wants what the participants create. I understand that the Startup Weekend people want to place more emphasis on validation, but for now the events don't (and really can't) provide much insight into the day-to-day work that is required to build an actual company with a market viable product. I know that a few companies have emerged from Startup Weekend and if there are more than I am aware of...please share.
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I am dumfounded that beliefs such as these have such a strong and widespread hold these days.

This is a puritanical mindset. A mindset of the evil of sin and the necessity of combating sin through the coercive power of the collective. It is no less dangerous than puritanical religion ever has been (witch-hunts and all). This belief system escapes notice as a puritanical, regressive ideology because it does not come bundled in the familiar forms: married to a social conservative longing for the past or embedded within the larger structure of a religious belief system replete with supernatural pantheons and creation myths. But in the end it works out to the same thing: the institutionalization of morality. And as always it will end with the same results: repression, subjugation, abuse of power, and misery.

If you decide that individuals do not have the liberty to decide their own diets and take care of their own personal health then where do you draw the line?
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When we first launched in September 2008, we did try creating a few thousand unclaimed profiles as an experiment, seeing if academics would claim them. Other sites like Spock.com and Spoke.com were also trying the 'claim your profile' approach. It turns out that it's a really bad strategy, and, in particular, you can't build a community like that. We turned the experiment off after about 3 months. It was an interesting lesson in how not to build a social platform. It's relatively difficult to know this a priori. You wouldn't believe how many people since we launched in September 2008 have said 'Hey, you should create profiles of academics at departments, and encourage them to claim them'. We learned by experiment that that's just not a good strategy for growing a community.

Thanks for your thoughts about the our current product. Many academics write in to tell us that they are printing out their Stats Dashboards on Academia.edu and are including them with tenure track portfolios, as they are keen to demonstrate the global impact of their research, and we help them with that. Many academics feel that a tiny number of people read their papers, and they are incredibly happily surprised to see that, when they upload their papers to Academia.edu, their Stats Dashboard reveals that quite a few people read their papers, from several different countries.

You say you were in Math, so you probably used the incredible www.arxiv.org for disseminating your Math papers. Some areas of Math and Physics (e.g. high energy physics) are lucky enough for a lot of their community to be using the Arxiv. For various reasons, the success of the Arxiv hasn't been mirrored in the pre-print repositories of other disciplines. None of the other pre-print repositories (SSRN, Repec) has got much traction - nothing close to the traction of the Arxiv. One way I think about building Academia.edu is to bring some of the magic of the instant distribution you find on the Arxiv to the other 95% of research - biology, medicine, chemistry etc. We think that bringing instant distribution to the 95% of research that Arxiv doesn't have strong penetration in could yield huge societal dividends.

Faster sharing in, say, biology and medicine, could mean that cancer is cured 12 months before it otherwise would have. That would equate to millions of lives being saved. It's widely thought that science right now is too slow, and too closed. We are trying to change that, and accelerate research sharing.
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