skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While your criticism is technically correct, when michaelochurch says "drug resistant MRSA", he's probably thinking of VISA/VRSA [1], which is more extensively (but not completely) resistant to the pharmacological armamentarium.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/organisms/visa_vrsa/visa_vrsa.html
>It's hard to make that sort of case for Chrome - but easy for Safari. Chrome was primaily developed to improve Google's data mining and reduce search server loads by collecting keystokes from the address bar.

This statement is not just technically ignorant; it's downright absurd. More than probably any company, Google lives and dies by the web as a platform. Chrome is Google's best way to influence and improve that platform. It's why Google previously had a team of mostly former Mozilla/Netscape employees contributing fulltime to Firefox (including one of the original creators of Firefox), and why that team eventually chose to create Chrome. When the web is so essential to your business, it only makes sense to invest heavily in its improvement, and ensure you have a say in its trajectory.
A Fight to Save Baby Girls in India
I can agree with him on that specific point, but beyond that there's the issue of people he calls pseudo-scientists (who are actual scientists that do actual academic research on the topic), that are linking degenerative diseases and grain consumption. http://thepaleodiet.com/published-research-about-the-paleo-d.... That and the accompanying evidence on actual people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc.
javascript - exactly - before Chrome v1 no one was even talking about speeding up javascript in the browser space. Chrome v1 blew everything out of the water with that. And js speed has a big impact on everything these days, pretty much
You don't get to decide the purpose of all guns. Mine are for target shooting.
Working While You're Asleep
You used “Joe Sixpack”, the OP used “Joe Consumer” which sounds a lot less derogatory to me.
Why an EC2 Instance is Not a Server
go push your religion and political views someplace else
> Regarding the antibiotics, it's not completely clear why giving them to animals makes them bigger

I think the explanation that I heard which sounds plausible is that the antibiotics free up a certain amount of energy in the organism that would have gone to fighting micro-organisms that can instead be applied to growth.
Which is why I hate laptops on which you cannot physically block the webcam. Laptops used to have a little slider that could cover the webcam but nowadays they don't anymore!?

I love my MacBook and MacBook Pro but... I'm putting a little piece of paper on the webcam "just in case".

Oh and the difference between nowadays and BO in the 90's is that nowadays virtually everybody who has a laptop has a webcam. That's quite a big difference.
After using Delphi professionally for some years, I pretty much hated it. Some of my least favorite features are automatic and locale-dependent string/WideString conversions, and that there are multiple memory models: interfaces (IUnknown) uses reference counting, TComponent is owner-based, and lots of other classes require manual memory management.

On the other hand, the object system has some nice features. I miss AfterConstruction and BeforeDestruction in other languages, and I like virtual constructors.
Well, with both Chrome and Firefox on rapid mandatory release schedules, all I can say is: Get comfortable supporting IE for large enterprise customers forever.
But what do we do about it, when it seems that nobody at all cares?
I've noticed Google Analytics tab in Google Chrome crashing often. Google Analytics eats lot of memory in Google Chrome.
I don't think it is disrespectful to search their emails
though, Harvard is fundamentally an institution funded
by donors.

In my mind searching someone's e-mail is like searching their pockets as they leave the office, or asking them to take a supervised drugs test: It's technically legal and some employers do it.

On the other hand, the people who work for me are trusted, respected professionals. I'd understand them taking umbrage if I asked them to turn out their pockets, or to piss into a cup, or if I started reading their e-mail.
With references cited to YouTube and NPR, I have trouble trusting anything in this article. Maybe send us to some peer-reviewed study?
Definition of kid (noun):
1. informal a child or young person

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/kid?q=kid
They're not just doing garden-variety spying - they're deliberating trying to cause fear in their subjects by broadcasting their own presence.

There's a pretty big difference between a peeping tom, and a peeping tom who then mails you pictures taken through your window. One has no sense of boundaries, the other is taking glee in others' suffering and fear.

I'm a lot more concerned about the latter group - the lack of empathy is disturbing.
I had that thought, too.

I don't think that exact conversation actually took place. My girlfriend would give me hell if I talked to her like that, I'm pretty certain.

As for the explanation, I like it. It puts into words what I had been intuitively thinking about the benefits of a RESTful API.
(http://v6.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=24goih4&s=6)

Here's a short snippet from a BBC Television programme (Horizon - 'defeating the superbugs').

It shows E.Coli developing anti-biotic resistance. There's a tray of nutrient jelly. The jelly is divided into sections. It starts with no antibiotic. Then there's a normal dose. Then there's a 10x dose, followed by 100x dose, followed by 1000x dose. They reach the limits of solubility. They cannot dissolve any more antibiotic into the jelly.

Then they drop E.Coli onto the normal jelly, and use a time lapse camera to show the growth.

After just two weeks the bacteria is able to live on the 1000x dosed jelly.

It's pretty impressive demonstration.

(Apologies for the suboptimal hosting site. YouTube's contentID blocks this video worldwide.)
Mate, I can also relate to this. It's tough. I know the problem is myself but I don't know how to solve it. Although, I do know how to solve it, yet somehow I don't. Sure, it might be a "humblebrag" but it's a god damned frustrating one. I Think a lot of people, especially people on HN, feel this way.
really refreshing!
I have several friends who've defended themselves with guns during a home invasion. It does happen.
Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Meteorite Fragments
Also, to make wood burning unnecessary, you only have to give people access to electric or gas heating

You missed a key word, cheaper alternatives. I live in Maine and put in a pellet stove (which is way more efficient than a fireplace) and it saves me about $2500 each year over oil heating.
That's not an analogy.
How many people own multiple pools?
so you would be ok with people being arrested for selling software to rip dvds or cds?
Sure. Twitter hashtags can be found here:

http://www.hashtags.org/

Adding a hashtag to a tweet can increase the number of people who see it. Here's a good overview of why and how to use hashtags:

http://www.hashtags.org/platforms/twitter/why-use-hashtags-g...

In this case, it appears that both #remote and #telecommute would be relevant hashtags to use.
Show HN: StartHQ - a web app directory
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Getting Much Worse Amidst Insane New Tech Wealth Boom
People trading security (sandboxing) for performance (lower memory usage and faster speed in Firefox) deserve to be a) owned and b) have their whole browser crash when one tab crashes.

I'd be using Firefox if they started to sandbox all the tabs. To me the argument that it's faster and use less memory because it's not sandboxed is a very poor one.

Actually that argument shows what is wrong with the mindset of many people in our field.

You should never trade security for a bit more perfs.
It's annoying when you're using a different device in a locked down environment to have to deal with pages braking because some JS (or other) won't load on whatever piece of junk browser or device I have to use. I had this issue a lot when traveling through Asia, I never realise how bad accessibility was until I had to use crap phones and dodgy computers to access airline websites.

For the love of god please provide a BASIC fall back!

Slightly adhomien edit, but I think you're ignorant and live in a bubble. Not everyone uses their computer, or has the same level of access, like you do.
Right you are. That was unintentional on my part. My mind must have translated "unwashed masses" and "Joe" into "Joe sixpack." The overall tone of it still sounds derogatory to me.
Thanks for the links on the Hacker diet, the rubber bag concept sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

As for my metaphor - actually I think it holds very true to what you're saying. You pre-qualified that the fire be hot enough to overcome the dampness of the sticks. That's my exact point. Think of the water as insulin and the stick itself as the fat you want to burn. If you're consistently slamming yourself into insulin shock then you'll never burn fat, and you'll end up looking like most of America(Myself included).
It takes very little insulin response to put our fire out.

No one is refuting thermodynamics here - simply stating that making the assumption that the body is a perfect machine (Or set at some guaranteed rate of efficiency) is a flawed outlook.

Taubes makes a great case for this in his examination of Native American Women and their children.
Nice story, but it's a bit like management fad books. Experiences of a sample size of one extrapolated to the status of general truth.
Electrical tape is good for blocking webcams.
Great article, but I couldn't help thinking my time could have been better spent elsewhere. ;)
The OED defines sarcasm as 'a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt'. Irony is often used in a sarcastic remark, but it's generally the cheap sort of irony - 'Well done, genius' in response to a stupid error - rather than the more literary sort, which when particularly well-developed we call satire.
> "The point of Paleo is not to reduce the number of carbohydrates you ingest; nor is it to enter ketosis"

Having been curious enough to browse paleo forums (including /r/paleo most recently), this is how most adherents seem to define it.

They may be wrong, but in that case it seems the majority of the paleo community is wrong.

> "But please discontinue spreading misinformation about Paleo"

It would be nice, then, if the paleo community can first come to an agreement about what it is, because even disregarding literature "from the outside", reduction in carbs and entering ketosis is a huge focus of conversations I've seen on these communities.
Pinboard: An Excellent Personal Blog Theme Making Good Use of Post Formats
‘Big Data’ Generates Big Returns
ACME kitchen knives: great for chopping onions and murder sprees.

Yes that is tongue-in-cheek but there is an equivalence here in that the consumer decides how the product will be used. I do agree that advertising use for illegal activity should be quashed (does that impinge on free-speech?).
In 1995, all we had at university had was a bunch of SunOS & HP-UX workstations. Yes, they had X, mwm and (later) CDE, but you just had to learn the command line to do anything particularly useful. Man pages, a few of the IT service's leaflets (How to use troff/LaTeX), searching the web (Altavista! Dogpile! Webcrawler!) and asking in Usenet groups when I hit a real roadblock. I started building small shell scripts out of need to automate some things, and learned about the shell environment and the overall Unix philosophy doing that.

This was over a period of years rather than weeks or months - I probably can't say that I was proficient on the CLI until around 1999 when I really started getting stuck into Linux and building everything from scratch. I find that young developers today expect to learn everything immediately, expecting a one-true-way to wisdom, rather than accepting that true mastery seeps in over time, largely through doing and getting things wrong. So, experiment, and don't give up when you can't figure out something immediately.
Unless you have a business that targets people all over the world. Like a software business.
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I've seen some work contradicting him, but would be interested in seeing something refuting him.

Your phrase "Compelling anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron" seems strange. If 5 people told me they saw my wallet outside, I'd be compelled to check, by anecdote, if I'd dropped it on my way in.

Please show me your science.
yeah, I kind of thought the writer was at least a bit in awe of the ratters. I would have called them victims, instead. Why perpetuate the vernacular?
Speaker here. Thinking about writing something longer about this, so would love some feedback.
There's only one search engine that anyone cares about.

That's not my new experience. I have found that Bing (and Yahoo, partially) ranks sites differently than Google. Google is quite competitive and thus it's hard to rank.

I tried ranking in Google, but even the second page doesn't help. I optimized for Bing and now it brings much more than Google. Certainly, my SE traffic is quite low (few hundreds a month) but I found Bing traffic to be decent and convert well.
What you call a bubble, I call my target audience. I don't mind that I accurately target my audience and prioritize my development towards them.

If information is what you care about and not design, style, or functionality, than my pages are perfectly readable on a screenreader. It will look and function like shit but the people who see it that way A) expect to or B) are not my target audience.

But you're right, it's a bubble. If my audience included people with poor data connections in Asia, then I would certainly approach the problem differently.

However, when it's just one guy making something, prioritization and cutting out the nonsense (like bad connections from Asia) are vital ;)
Interesting... I've been consulting for one of the biggest of the biggest you could dream of.

There's a tendency which you may have heard of: mobile (smartphones and tablets) and there's a lot of push for making these supported and available to employees (the push very often coming both from the employees and from very high up the chain).

As a result mobile browsers support in large enterprise are becoming very often mandatory.

Why do you think large enterprise are supporting browsers at all? why do you think large enterprise are switching en masse to internal webapps instead of internal desktop apps? To free themselves from a particular technology vendor. It's the way they regain control. And you think they'd ruin all that by mandating "IE only"!?

This is not at all what I'm seeing in the enterprisey webapp world. On the contrary: the shift is to more platform, more standards, more openness.
What's a sucky life?

Writing code for other people, even on sucky projects, pays for an awesome life for me :)
HTC: Wasted Opportunity
The master/slave terminology has a history in technological circles, typically being used to describe situations where one device is used to control another device. It actually predates computers; you can find examples in mechanical and hydraulic machinery going much further back.

As far as that context goes, the term is accurate for what RATs do: the hacker's "master" device can be used to control what the "slave" machines do. I assume that this is the context in which these people are using those terms. But it is, admittedly, somewhat jarring for people unfamiliar with that context.
You pose a reasonable question - and I would agree that the ordinary path of getting hired into a well paid first year associate job at a law firm would probably be off the table.

But I also suspect a lot of people would hire you. The US has a glut of lawyers, no doubt, but also a huge number of people who can't afford lawyers (and are pretty screwed without them). If you were willing to work for $50 an hour or less, I suspect you'd be booked up pretty quickly.

Another thing to keep in mind - I'm actually skeptical that law school is the only good path to become a lawyer. Keep in mind how talented people from non-CS fields can become at programming. A lot of people with degrees in math and physics, or no degree for that matter, who study intensely can become truly exceptional programmers.

Some people learn much faster than others, and some people are extremely good and disciplined at self-study. Abraham Lincoln is probably the most famous lawyer who never went to college or law school. Keep in mind, you still have to pass the bar, and there are often apprenticeship requirements or other educational requirements for the non-law school route. And (like the math or physics major who becomes a programmer), many of these non-law school lawyers might very well have impressive academic credentials in other fields.
Perhaps a non-lethal gun could be used for that purpose?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft_gun)
Nice idea.

There should also be some more tags or things that would help someone narrow down results to less apps. Currently all categories seem to have 3-5 pages with 10 apps each, with just a line of description and URL.
The green light next to the webcam will come on when the camera is in use on MacBooks. It is programmed to come on at the hardware layer so unless somebody has physical access to your MacBook then it will always come on.
Interesting that they don't just move somewhere else. In any case, lower your taxes, reduce state and municipal spending, and reduce state regulation of business. A federal repeal of PPACA would also be very helpful. I can't imagine living in California.
How Syria is to geostrategy what Japan is to tectonic plates.
The Cincinnati startup scene, a rant.
How to run an Arduino clone on a 9V battery for weeks or even months
Is natural gas not available in Norway?
Obesity is not being heavily pressured by natural selection, only by sexual selection.

Obesity may be targeted by certain disease, but usually only after the age of reproduction.
Paleo is a low-carb diet. By consequence rather than design, and it's certainly not an Atkins/ketosis diet, but the emphasis is on fish, meat and eggs. If you need to consume a standard ratio of carbs:protein:fat on the paleo diet you're going to have an oddball variation of what most people do on paleo and be eating lots and lots of squash, yams, and sweet potatoes.

Some folks can handle dairy just fine and do so. Some can eat white rice or white potatos and suffer no ill effects. Those are not outright banned by the diet.

Of course they aren't "outright banned" but potatoes and rice are exceptions to the guidelines.
Wondering if GO would be considered a good candidate in the 'exotic' category.

-People seem to enjoy programming with it
-Makes somethings very easy (concurrency)
-Standardized formatting, makes everyone else's code easier to read or vice-verse.

Just not sure if people are doing 'work' yet or still mostly playing with it.
It made me sad, but it also immediately made me change my behaviour - I'll regard wood smoke as a harmful indulgence if I enjoy it myself, and not to be foisted upon neighbors or kids.
I also switched back for similiar reasons. FF has really stepped up their memory management and patching IMO. Also, i went back because of plugins.

Say what you will about chrome, but tab plugins are king in firefox. Tree style tabs on the left hand side and tab grouping what really sank it for me. I even merged the the search box and address bar in FF to give me that chrome omnibar feeling.

I think the most important takeaway is this: FF is still competitive among technical people and so is chrome. There even might be room for IE. We as a community, would need to keep voting with our feet and we can make sure the "browser wars" never end.
'SEO' as it is sold to clients by SEO companies is packaged as another form of advertising, nothing more. It's an industry that thrives on subverting the discourse on search keywords to sell stuff.
What about Mistral? Do you think it's been abused? I'm from Montreal and it's been use everywhere. Just look at this and tell me it's hasn't been used a lot! Maybe more than Comic Sans and we never hear about it. http://www.mattsoar.org/gallery/Mistral

Everything from movie posters(Drive,Flashdance), to asian restaurants and much more.
That's scarier than any horror movie that I've ever seen. It also makes perfect sense. You're providing nature with an evolutionary pressure and it adopts by breeding the most resistant strains until they are undefeatable.
I believe coal burns more cleanly than wood. I could be wrong though.
I don't know why you're being down voted? Obviously your employer can look at your work email at any point in time.

I'm not sure if this is right or wrong. I have a gut feeling that this may be right though. I'd like to be able to look through my teams emails if I have a good enough reason (sexual discrimination etc)
People care a ton about this, enough so that the FDA has released guidance on it and even industry magazines are talking about it [1]. This is a huge issue with major visibility in the health professions.

[1] http://nationalhogfarmer.com/health/be-ready-antibiotic-rest...
Why am I not surprised that his grammar sucks?
Yep, had 3 devices (double shame on me?). Seems to have one of the least graceful product depredations paths of any mainstream phone manufacturer I'm aware of.
The double-talk on HN never ceases to amaze me.

On one day Google is close to dying and there are lots of alternatives out there and on the next day the very same people are writing that "SEO = Google pagerank ownage" as if Google was the one and only search engine which mattered.

So which is it? Are Google's days numbered or not?
The number of deaths is a poor measure of harm. One reason is that trauma care keeps improving. So there are now a large number of amputees and brain-injured soldiers that would have previously died.

Cars are getting more survivable, and almost certainly safer, too, but do numerical comparisons with numbers from the past remain valid in light of external influences on these outcomes?

In this case, improvements in trauma care may mask both brain injury from lack of oxygen and serious disability from gun accidents in this comparison. Or we don't know the methodology and they could be counting ER visits, which might provide a better comparison.
Courant is kinda saying the opposite here, by de-emphasising the need for purely abstract formalisms, or by saying that they have to go hand-in-hand with applications, or are worthless without applications. As a numerical analyst, he of course thinks "applications" of mathematics are tantamount to its existence.

The thesis in the linked article is that we need to emphasise the importance of purely abstract formalisms, not only in the context of possible applications.
Factory farming should be outlawed for a number of reasons. It's inhumane, devastating to the environment, and bad in a million other ways. It's not even efficient, except in jurisdictions that allow the farms to (freely) dump their effluent-- an externalized cost. Factory farms are literally putting huge quantities of shit into their local water tables.

That would be a start. Then we put a ban on the sale, for human consumption, of animals that were treated with antibiotics. If you want to save your pet cat's life-- or your pig's-- that's fine. Just don't sell it as food.

That's the low-hanging fruit. It will make meat slightly more expensive, but I'm okay with that. People in the developed world eat too much meat for their own health anyway.

What remains is educating people about antibiotics so they stop asking for them when they get colds and flus (they don't do a damn bit of good for a viral infection). Doctors in the US tend to be over-liberal with the drugs, even knowing that they have no effect on viruses.