skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reaons, this whole thing makes me flash to that scene in Phantom Menace when Palpatine says: "I will make it legal".
That still doesn't why there are two separate developer tools. Is there something that an in-house tool tied into firefox is capable of that is impossible for a plugin to achieve?
It's good to see the average spend for Linux is way above the average for Windows and Mac. That pours cold water on any notion that Linux users are somehow against paying for software. It also suggests that people use Linux distros just because they're damn good operating systems, not necessarily because they are free as in beer. It could also be interpreted as Linux users being starved of games and therefore having more to spend per game. Nevertheless, it challenges preconceived notions of the ability to make money selling Linux games.
Not always, no. They measure different things and fail in different ways.

Take the dataset [7, 8, 9], with a median and mean of 8. Adding a 100 to the set results in a median of 8.5 and a mean of 31, so the mean moves much farther. This is probably the effect you're thinking of: the mean can take extreme values into account "too much".

But I can also make the median move more. Take the dataset [0, 50, 100]. The median and mean are both 50. If I add [100, 100] to it so it becomes [0, 50, 100, 100, 100], the mean moves to only 70, but the median moves all the way up to 100! There was a "gap" in the numerical sequence that the median could jump over, but the mean couldn't.

Here's a different way of moving the median further. Take the dataset [1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5]. Bathtub-shaped data. As I add fives to the set, the mean goes 3, 3.17, 3.3. But the median goes 3, 3.5, 4! Medians move past thin spots in distributions very quickly.

Mean is sensitive to distant outliers; median is sensitive to unevenly distributed data and numerical gaps.

To come back on topic, while I don't have a reference for the age-at-death distribution, I think it's bathtub-shaped. Hence, the median might be more sensitive to extra values at the top than the mean would be.
After reading the linked article and thinking WTF-hows-that-supposed-to-work, then reading the linked article, and reading the linked article again, I think I found the big caveat: It relies on unstandardized undocumented behavior of some email clients. Specifically, it doesn't work in Gmail.

But the problem actually seems real, makes me glad that I am not an email marketer. If you provide a one-click unsubscribe to your users, you don't want them to give somebody else that link. Reading through this HN thread, I see two and a half other solutions mentioned:

(1a) Require users to enter their email address on unsubscribe.
I hate that one because frequently it's really hard to figure out at which of my email addresses the message first arrived.

(1b) Require users to confirm the unsubscribe
The better version of the unsubscribe forms from alternative (1) have the email address pre-filled, which wouldn't stop someone who knows what they are doing from unsubscribing others. But it gives those unsubscribing others unintentionally a hint about how they ended up with that message.

(2) Send an email confirmation after unsubscribe
This way you can just re-subscribe if one of your friends unsubscribed you. Looks like some people in the discussion below like this approach, others hate it.

If I had to pick, I'd probably chose (2) because that's the only way of making sure an accidentally unsubscribed user notices what happened.
Piggybacking off a piggyback comment to take the discussion back on topic:

There is further parody content in the URLs of the 'reply' links

Didn't realize until stalking through to the author's commentary on his personal blog: http://bradconte.com/hacker-news-parody-thread.html, because the relevant replies (including the author's own: ctrl+f "B-Con") were too far down this thread to ever see without foreknowledge.
Interesting! It has never occurred to me that this would be important. I never quit apps, unless they're misbehaving (which is, admittedly, much more often than I'd like).
fuck hypotheticals
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official report "Vital Signs: Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae":

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm62e0305a1.htm?s_c...

The report abstract, which leads into many more details:

"Background: Enterobacteriaceae are a family of bacteria that commonly cause infections in health-care settings as well as in the community. Among Enterobacteriaceae, resistance to broad-spectrum carbapenem antimicrobials has been uncommon. Over the past decade, however, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) have been recognized in health-care settings as a cause of difficult-to-treat infections associated with high mortality.

"Methods: The percentage of acute-care hospitals reporting at least one CRE from health-care–associated infections (HAIs) in 2012 was estimated using data submitted to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) in 2012. The proportion of Enterobacteriaceae infections that were CRE was calculated using two surveillance systems: 1) the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system (NNIS) and NHSN (for 2001 and 2011, respectively) and 2) the Surveillance Network–USA (TSN) (for 2001 and 2010). Characteristics of CRE culture-positive episodes were determined using data collected as part of a population-based CRE surveillance project conducted by the Emerging Infections Program (EIP) in three states.

"Results: In 2012, 4.6% of acute-care hospitals reported at least one CRE HAI (short-stay hospitals, 3.9%; long-term acute-care hospitals, 17.8%). The proportion of Enterobacteriaceae that were CRE increased from 1.2% in 2001 to 4.2% in 2011 in NNIS/NHSN and from 0% in 2001 to 1.4% in 2010 in TSN; most of the increase was observed in Klebsiella species (from 1.6% to 10.4% in NNIS/NHSN). In the EIP surveillance, 92% of CRE episodes occurred in patients with substantial health-care exposures.

"Conclusions: Carbapenem resistance among common Enterobacteriaceae has increased over the past decade; most CRE are associated with health-care exposures.

"Implications for Public Health: Interventions exist that could slow the dissemination of CRE. Health departments are well positioned to play a leading role in prevention efforts by assisting with surveillance, situational awareness, and coordinating prevention efforts."
Non-LTE version should have a free PCI-e slot where you can install additional SSD disk. http://goo.gl/WkXX2
This kind of comment contributes nothing.
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Sorry, but it is never good news when a person dies, not matter how much we try to dehumanize him.

edit: it doesn't mean I liked or supported him at all.
Hi Bryan,

Enjoyed your post. First-time posting here on HN so pardon any noobish remarks that follow ... I definitely like the idea of exposing webhook/subscriptions via REST in this way. Do you have any thoughts on how rich client-side apps (e.g. a Backbone app) could get the real-time benefits of such an API? It's my understanding that real-time updates will be POST-ed to a user-defined hook URL, presumably hosted on a server that is maintained by the API consumer. Maybe I've got it all wrong?

Thanks again for your post.
Fair enough. I loved OMD too (haven't bought OMD 2 yet). You're right that they're similar, although OMD was frustrating at times.
Article aside, it's much better to have a one-click unsubscribe that just works.

It's an edge case that someone will unsubscribe from someone else's mailing list or click it by mistake, so making every single person (99% who are unsubscribing on purpose) confirm, log in, enter their address or receive a confirmation is an infuriating waste of time.

The best way to mitigate this is a simple "You unsubscribed whatever@gmail.com", with a little undo button in case it was a mistake.

And if all this still goes wrong... if the person liked your newsletter enough, they'll figure out what happened when they stop getting it.

(Side note: I've really been hoping GMail and other clients would accept a URL in email headers that would handle unsubscribe, so they could add a button to the UI. I know that's oversimplifying everything, but it would significantly improve the email experience.)
OK, my drones first! Lisa's dog is DONE shitting on my lawn, done I tell you!
Drone strikes are messy and result in mass casualties themselves.

Another thing, semantics are the last thing you want to rely on for protection from a government sanctioned assassination.
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Of course, this guy also thinks it's perfectly fine to give guns to Mexican cartels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
Maybe because Hollywood is your only frame of reference to conceptualize a complex legal situation?
i've asked before about my sealed bottle of water, if i open and drink half of it in front of the agent, can i take the other half aboard? no, of course not.
Too bad fractal antennas are patented. US Patent No. 6452553
Why not? Even milk is often shipped (powdered and then reconstituted) across oceans to gain a bit of price-reduction.
And they let us carry bottles of water and liquid Tylenol through about a month ago
Given that he cited that precise example, one would assume he was thinking of it.
Completely misleading title and ludicrous article.

FYI, what was actually said was “It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States,”

Somehow "Yeah, I guess it could be possible, like if we're invaded or attacked or something" turned into "OMG We get to kill all you suckers".
Yeah, I think it would really set Firefox above everyone else is if it had its own web IDE (live WYSIWYG and code editing) built right in. It'd have to be a good one and you shouldn't try to force people to use it who don't want to. But I agree with other folks here: We all would kind of like the option to use something like that right in the browser.
does anyone know of any commercially available products incorporating graphene yet?
I think everyone should go ahead and read the letter in order to put this into proper context:

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/BrennanHolderResponse.p...

What Holder is trying to say that while it is unlikely, if a drone strike were the best way to eliminate an imminent threat on US soil, it would be legal.
It also felt like "selling a religion" to me. The fact is that I haven't checked on the "TDD discussion" for a while now (maybe 6 months?) and when I read the initial paragraphs and saw how confident the author was I thought that maybe I had missed something in the meantime, that probably some new studies had been published that had demonstrated that TDD did in fact provide a positive boost to the teams adopting it etc etc .

I read the whole thing but there was no mention of hard numbers. Facts were also lacking.
Ok, as a challenge, I'm gonna try make a Conception version, brb.
I accidentally downvoted you - meant to upvote. Sorry about that.
My favorite thing about Chrome is that I can open up "View background processes", get a list of which tabs are using up how much memory, and then click-and-kill selectively.

But this is an end user experience, rather than a web dev experience.
You realize that the Librarian of Congress serves at the pleasure of the president, right?
If the president, any president, in the future can execute anyone he deems as long as they're "a threat" democracy is over.

There's a very simple solution to this. The president can only authorize such targeted killings under his war powers, and only congress has power to declare war.

If the US congress wants to prevent such targeted killings, all they have to do is pass a resolution stating that the US is no longer in a state of war -- at which point the war powers immediately evaporate and such killings become illegal.
You're always reliant on semantics for protection under the law. Laws are words, and semantics boils down to what words mean. For example, if we take "freedom of speech" to mean "the ability to order whatever you want at McDonald's," your free speech is drastically abridged. The Constitution and the laws are all collections of words whose application is entirely dependent on semantics.
Oh, a bracket-style programmer (Java / C#) spitting his poison about Scala, Haskell and Lisp dialects all in one comment and somehow this gets voted up.

I'm calling appeal to autorithy now. No, not people with lots of rep on SO for answering Java and C# question.

I'm calling appeal to pg authority.

This is ycombinator.com FFS!

Go read "Beating the average", "What made Lisp different", etc. There are many very insightful things in these essays.

After you'll have read them, you won't be upvoting these "I hate everything non-bracket styles / your language is a toy because it's not the most succesful one" comments. Actually after reading them you'll be downvoting these poisonous words...
I'm still awaiting the next bomber who's stuffed a bomb up his ass, and how airport security will follow
The first thing Chavez is being described as on his death bed: "an Anti-American socialist".
You can also switch between 3rd over-the-shoulder, 3rd top-down, and 1st person.
If the world is a better place when someone passes, it should be considered it good news. Death shouldn't be viewed as an absolute negative.
It's interesting to see flight attendants objecting to allowing even those knives in airplane cabins. I'd like to be able to carry a pocket knife on an airplane again. The last pocket knife I bought was actually bought (just before 11 September 2001) to bring along with me on plane trips, which I was never able to do on a carry-on basis. That knife was eventually confiscated a couple years ago when I still had it in my pocket as I was about to go on a plane trip with my son.

I remember better days of air travel, when everyone felt a lot more carefree.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5216204

But on an issue like this, I have a lot of empathy for the flight attendants, and might sooner advocate for keeping my shoes on in the airport rather than again making it convenient to carry knives on board airplanes. With training, any device that can cut a pilot's or flight attendant's carotid artery can be used to take over a plane. Intelligence to stop the plots to take over airplanes from happening in the first place is an essential step in defense, but maybe leaving knives in checked baggage is another.
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I wrote a post about a year ago, to open up a discussion about what browser vendors can do to encourage rapid prototyping designing in the browser, by giving them tools for visual design that they would opt to use over software like Photoshop/Fireworks.

I'd love to see more tools that enable rapid prototyping, including the ability to craft CSS in a more visual manner.

Here's the post, for any who are interested:

http://blog.colin-gourlay.com/blog/2012/03/how-can-browser-b...
I hear people make this claim. How does it make sense?

A negative times a negative makes a positive.

An evil person dying is a good thing.

The only thing worth debate is if the person is evil or not.
Taglist does something similar, and it uses ':h updatetime' to toggle how often it works.
Wow, I listen to these 4 constantly. Really helps me get stuff done. Good choices!
So it's ok for the immune population mentioned in that article to eat people?
I've been looking for someone to write interesting, in-depth articles on local business. For money. I've yet to find anyone who a) wants to do it, and b) can do it.

I've tried a few things - even contacting people who I know are doing unpaid 'internships' writing crappy press-release pieces. Very few even responded, and of those that did, even fewer had any grasp of investigating something.

I gave up looking, and just do the writing myself - even though the opportunity cost is massive.
Which is pretty accurate.
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And a passport, please.
Are you saying that suffering of Cubans under Castro was the fault of Chávez, or that the people of Cuba are suffering as much as those in Venezuela?
I miss the 1680x1050 15.6" thinkpads. Now they're selling 15.6" T-series that have a pathetic 1366x768 unless you want to spend 2-300 more for 1980x1080.

I should not be able to get on Lenovo's site, look at the current T-series, think back to my (now half a decade old!) 2007 T60p, and be disappointed and underwhelmed. If cheaper less powerful computers are being sold with better screens than T-series thinkpads, there is something very wrong going on.
People said the same thing about box cutters prior to 9/11. The Flight Attendants Union Coalition is against this too, so there is plenty of objection.
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> No but doing that when iPhoto stores backups of your images is a pain in the arse.

In what way?

> Yes but that doesn't deal with folders which aren't indexed. For example if you do an iPhoto import it can lag for a while before Spotlight catches up. Bang - synchronisation problem.

Moving goalposts. First you said the metadata was opaque. It wasn't. Now you're saying there is lag.

What were you trying to do? I do a lot of photography, and while I am no means a pro -- or even a semi-pro -- I have done automator scripts against iPhoto with zero problems. You still haven't said what you were trying to accomplish.
See, dotfiles like yours are why there's not more women in technology. As a feminist, I demand that your dotfiles be made inclusive by also accepting input from boobs.

Also, who uses h and l anymore? It's 2013, you should be using w and b.
Stalin was having dinner with the party elite one night. Suddenly he clutches his chest, grunts, and collapses on the table. Everybody is quiet. A minute goes by. One of the men then yells out, "Yes! He is dead!" Stalin slowly gets up from the table, points at the man and says, "No, comrade, but YOU ARE."
Stalin died 60 years ago today. Do you care to revise your sentiment?
I'm not GP, but the first statement doesn't make too much sense. As a Venezuelan, I think he means the second one.
Outrage is precisely what we need less of here. Cool rationality would have been a better approach. This guy did not say anything remotely like what you're saying, but because a bunch of Senators who play for the other political team presented it a certain way, you got outraged and were fooled into interpreting a guy saying "This could pretty much never happen" as "The president can assassinate anyone he deems a 'threat'".
The only such notices I've been truly annoyed by are the ones that say "now please wait 6-8 weeks for your unsubscribe request to be processed".

Otherwise, it's really a very small thing to deal with. And it can be nice to have that email in your archive for future reference, like if they start spamming you again.
This is why you wouldn't rely on semantics to protect your freedom of speech either, or any protection under law for that matter.
You have nothing to refute it. Eric Holder is repeatedly making very horrific statements which are fundamentally shifting precedent for how the US government treats the citizenry - in a negative direction.

My comment only appears to contribute nothing if you have not really been paying attention to what has been happening in the US for the last 13 years.
If it wasn't Castro it would be Batista or whoever the US decided to install.
I think it's important to note that the Washington Examiner has little credibility. The letter quoted in the article omits the first two-thirds of the letter (which, by the way, contain quite a bit of context for the final one-third).

While the administration absolutely needs to be transparent about its drone program, reading a source like the Washington Examiner will not provide any realistic perspective.

Another reader posted a link to the actual letter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5328151
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I see, I knew that the two met on several occasions, so I thought perhaps one may have significantly influenced the other.

How are people viewing this news in Venezuela?
Golden that this thread reflects the OP exactly.
Then you need to stop talking in circles and state what you mean clearly. If you weren't depending on the Constitution, the law or declared policy (which are all literally meaningless without semantics) to protect you from governmental drone strikes, how does this development make you any more or less dependent on semantics?
Really? I would love see some citations.

(And by the way, I don't think this one counts; feel free to read the entire letter)
Show HN: How To Oppose the CA Money Transmission Act On-Line
Step 1: Sign up for an account at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/loginClient.xhtml and sign into your account

Step 2: Go to http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB786

Step 3: Click on the "Comments To Author" tab

Step 4: Choose "Oppose" and write your comment. A suggested comment (improvised from Ron Garret's blog at http://blog.rongarret.info/2013/03/cutting-to-chase-repeal-california.html) might be:

Dear Chairman Dickinson,

I would like to have the following comments entered into the record for the March 11 hearing on the California Money Transmission Act. I believe that this act does nothing to protect me as a consumer. To the contrary, it erects barriers to entry that favor existing players, suppress competition, and thus ultimately hurt consumers such as myself. More effective consumer protections come from the very technologies that the MTA prevents from entering the marketplace and that our payment systems presently cannot support. I urge the legislature to repeal the MTA.

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Breast milk is expressly allowed. I have personally taken breast milk through the airport with my children by myself (I'm a man) and they didn't bat at eye at me. Supposedly you can take it through without the child too, which makes sense for traveling, pumping mothers.

Sometime they will test it, which involves holding a small trip of paper above the open container. I think that happened only once to me.

They are pretty lax most times if you have children along. You can take water through with kids (or at least I have several times), and they have always skipped any of the extra screening and scanning when I'm with my kids. We just walk right through the metal detector.
I mean, I hate to jump right to it, but was Hitler's death not good news? Surely there are people whose negative impact on humanity outweighs their positive impact.

(I'm not taking a stand on Chavez specifically, I just disagree with the absoluteness of your statement.)
That's a good point. They note that it's a "remote" job at the top of the post, but it's not totally clear from the post itself that that's the case. I'll remove that one.
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> I am doubtful that people are truly "opting in" to receive email; it seems more likely that they were not paying attention to the "yes by default" checkbox.

We manage lists with an aggregate about 1 million people who have all explicitly ticket checkboxes that were not checked by default and/or explicitly gone into their user account and added mailing lists on various sites we operate for clients.

That you even doubt that people are truly opting in just reinforce how much of an outlier you are.
A bunch of our users put up use cases here: https://plus.google.com/102023090624091726129/posts/4qBJBvby...