skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the big problem with triclosan is that it's a water pollutant. This is why I've stopped using it.

That said, I think the concerns about antibacterial hand soaps leading to resistance are overblown. The bacteria on your hands are not an isolated population; you're exchanging bacteria with the environment all the time. Applying intermittent selection pressure to a tiny fraction of a population at a time causes little if any genetic drift in the entire population.

Say you wash your hands with triclosan soap, and all but a few bacteria are killed. When those bacteria are transferred to a doorknob, say, they have no advantage against the other bacteria that are already there; indeed, whatever mutation allowed them to survive the triclosan probably puts them at a disadvantage in a triclosan-free environment. Even the ones that stay on your hands don't have a competitive advantage against newcomers until the next time you wash.

Conversely, the bacteria in your body are an isolated population. When you subject them to strong selection pressure by taking an antibiotic, if any manage to develop a little resistance, they continue to have an advantage as long as you're taking it. If you don't take enough to kill them despite their resistance, you'll wind up with a pretty pure population that has this new level of resistance. Pass that to a few other people, and repeat the process a few thousand times, and you have a problem.
HTML whitespace "compression" - don't bother
Bergson comes to mind - the central cause of laughter is mechanism applied to life, and all comic effects are articulated around this cause by our imagination.

"The comic is strictly a human phenomenon. A landscape cannot be a source of laughter, and when humans make fun of animals, it is often because they recognize some human behaviour in them. Man is not only a being that can laugh, but also a being that is a source of laughter."

"Laughter requires an indifference, a detachment from sensibility and emotion: it is more difficult to laugh when one is fully aware of the seriousness of a situation."

"It is difficult to laugh alone, it is easier to laugh collectively. One who is excluded from a group of people does not laugh with them, there is often a complicity in laughter. Thus the comic is not a mere pleasure of the intellect, it is a human and social activity, it has a social meaning."

"Because the mind is flexible, always in activity, we tend to attribute these qualities to the body too, ignoring its materiality. But when we are fully aware that the body is a weigh, a burden for the soul, the situation is comic. We laugh every time somebody looks like a material thing, every time we are under the impression that someone is a thing."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter_%28Bergson_book%29
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I asked one of the SimCity devs a question along those lines this weekend: https://twitter.com/MaxisScott/status/310835756107177984

Q: Is the launcher built on WebKit or some other layout engine? Are there things in game that are WebKit too?

A: The whole UI is done in javascript running a custom version of webkit. :D
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Kierkegaard gives a theory in Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments. I don't remember the details very well, but it has something to do with contradiction. I seem to remember near the end he offers some way to distinguish between the ironic and the comic.
It's the same in Lebanon.
> the complete disregard of quality

Quality is measured on multiple axes. RAM use is only one of them. CPU use is another, for example, and it's often the case that reducing CPU use requires increasing RAM use.
I think right now the Syrian opposition is more interested in anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles.
Or, as Apple says, "You're holding it wrong."
Cool hack, happy daughter. What's not to like? Oh, hello patriarchy. Now I understand sinfest better.
No kidding! I have been having that issue for a while too, and thought it was my oldish hardware starting to flake out. Maybe not!
Huh, I didn't realize you could search. That's neat.
For what it's worth, I installed this in my VIM, switching between files took about 4 seconds instead of 1, so I uninstalled it.
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> There's no way you could effectively work with 100 tabs open

I'm sure there's no way you could effectively work that way, but imagining that what's true for you is true for everyone is a massive smell for ignorance of other workflow styles and cognitive abilities.
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Guess what? Your preferred workflow is just as smelly. Clean it up.
Something very similar to this:

1GB XFX Radeon HD 7770
Intel Pentium G850, Socket 1155, Dual Core, 2.90GHz
LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±R
Fractal Design Core 1000
500W Storm Silent LPJ19-25
MSI H61M-P31 (G3) Motherboard
4GB Corsair Value DDR3 PC3-10600 (1333)
500GB Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm
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Thank you, I appreciate that. :)
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In that country? Maybe, I wouldn't know. In the US, it could actually be a more serious offense, it if were classified as hacking.

I am in no way suggesting that I'm 100% comfortable with the framing of the current hacking laws. Just pointing out how they might be applied here in the US.
Ironically the reason I've tried my best to avoid MS Office is because they are not easily accessible by anyone. I once sent my CV as an HTML file along with a PDF. Still to this day, I prefer to send HTML and PDF over sending a Word document they only need an app that everybody uses, a browser.
I am just trying to point out that your views are demonstrably obtuse and your arguments absurd, given that you are claiming to have experience in the region.

The award for least Asian city in Asia certainly goes to Singapore.
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I'm getting a 404 when trying to open the comments links on all the articles on the front page.
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This could be a very bad thing.

There was a fork in the blockchain, and the community will have to decide how to resolve it. Some transactions which were "confirmed" could be reverted.

IF YOU ARE A MINER READ THIS: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=305879...
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Daniel from Disqus here. We have a list of common restricted "obscenities" used on Disqus-powered sites. That list is provided there for convenience.
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For me, they seem to work with https but not http.
I'm curious how this bug will affect bitcoin price. I'm betting it'll go up even more.
From [1]:

>If this is a widespread problem, it is an emergency. We risk having (several) forked chains with smaller blocks, which are accepted by 0.7 nodes. Can people contact pool operators to see which fork they are on? Blockexplorer and blockchain.info seem to be stuck as well.

So, what would happen to the coins used in those forked transactions? If the chain does fork what would the best strategy be for performing the merger?

And more interestingly: since bitcoin transactions are considered to not be reversible bitcoins are easily converted to and from other currencies with non-reversible transactions. If one were to convert his or her bitcoins to, e.g., Liberty Reserve right now and the chain got reversed that would result in pretty much a perfect scam, wouldn't it?

[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=305878...
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I'm not sure if I understand your comment. Firefox does allow you to organize bookmarks by tag, and it even lets you use the tag collection as a bookmark folder (meaning that you can add the tag to the bookmark bar and it behaves like a normal bookmark folder.) You can even add different links to different bookmark folders and give them the same tag, so that they appear under the original bookmark folder and under the same tag category, or tag folder if you drag the tag to the bookmark bar. If you decide to remove the tag folder from the bookmark bar, the tag will still exist.
It depends how it is resolved. If no one loses money, then yeah, it could go up. Otherwise people could lose confidence in Bitcoin and the price could plummet.
Integrating Dropbox Chooser was super simple
Comments work with https
Who took a chance on you?
I can confirm that https solves it.
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Same here. Thanks for making this comment! I was able to spot it from viewing all the HN comments. But I couldn't view the comments for this submission by clicking it. :)
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The biggest problem is that Microsoft has introduce TWO new things at the same time. Imagine if Microsoft had released windows with this new menu but it didn't have any of the 'Modern' apps or marketplace functionality. All of a sudden it just seems like a stretched out version of the original start menu. With only this in mind it doesn't seem that shocking anymore. The icons would behave exactly as you would expect. It's just bigger and has a lot more features. A great experience all around.

The REAL problem comes with the 'App Store' / Live Tile baggage added on to the new menu. The biggest complaint I see on Facebook and hear from others always involves a the 'modern' app version of Skype, Messenger, Picture Viewer, etc. People using their desktop just don't want those full screen apps. It only gets in their way and they are always a terrible experience on the desktop. Also, as far as I've seen no one cares for Live Tiles on a desktop. For some reason it makes a lot of sense on a tablet, but non on a desktop.

The reason so many people want their old menu back is because they know that menu kept them in 'Desktop' mode and would open the normal Windows applications. Once you've opened the NEW menu it gets tricky. I see an icon for Skype, but is this going to launch the Skype I've used for years? NOPE, surprise you're now in full screen skype app mode. Argh, take me back!

In the end, I love Win8 but I never use the menu.

(Disclaimer: I don't work at Microsoft, but I wish I did!)
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It looks like /reply works but /item doesn't. I can't see other comments but I can make one myself.
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This also applies to attempting to login for me. When logging in, I am redirected to the front page instead of being prompted to re-enter credentials and a "bad login" alert.

This is also fixed with https
Same for me, but HTTPS seems to be much slower to load for some reason
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Login Is Also Not Working, Use HTTPS
In addition to comment problem, login page redirects to front page without a "bad login" alert. Solved with https for me. Anyone confirm?
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You're presuming a lot on behalf of your users. Not everyone will think to unplug/replug; many will just say "it's broken", unplug, put it away and never use it again.

> But if you have the time and talent to waste on edge cases like this, then why not!

The world is made of edge cases, my friend. :)

At any rate, I think the ideal to pursue is the "tick/tock" strategy: roll out new features aggressively, accepting that there will be imperfections; then take the time to fine-tune and backfill. You can't pre-solve every potential problem, but you can try to catch the major ones, and fail gracefully as much as possible.
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Good to see people using the Closure Tools. It really is a powerful toolkit.

Just a reminder that I (and some others, hopefully) are in ##closure-tools on Freenode to help you out if you have questions. Make sure to stay in the channel if you ask, as it's low-volume. I don't believe I've let a question go unanswered in well over a year, unless the person left right away and there was no point in answering it.

The channel itself is in no way affiliated with Google, nor am I.
seems to be working again now normally.
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it's fixed now.
Note also that the last version of SimCity was launched in 2003, running on a completely different engine with a completely different simulation model.

The Maxis team has talked quite a bit about the challenges in making their agent-based simulation engine, Glassbox, performant on low- and medium-spec PCs.
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That improvement is already underway!
I'd sell while it's still in the $40-ish
Yea. I suspect power users won't exist with this app. School reviews just won't work like a product review site or something. You may buy and review several things a year. But you'll only ever go to 1-3 schools and only a few of them will ever make a review. But if you can rank, lots will read them. Your job (probably) is to cause the former to create reviews by any means necessary (Maybe talk to school admissions folks at different universities and work out a deal of some sort.) and create a business model around the traffic from of latter.
...if you can get your coins onto MtGox.
Source article on Al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2013/03/2013391...
no, i meant that since the game companies are already treating us as adversaries, the question of us not treating them likewise does not even arise.

ea are treating their entire target market as adversaries; game companies have been doing that for years.
How could this possibly result in Bitcoins going up? Even if this is handled without any hiccups, this should shake a lot of people's faith (myself included).

This should be a wakeup call for anyone that thinks that Bitcoins are totally secure. What if next time the bug in the client is more exploitable? Someone malicious could potentially take out the entire Bitcoin economy in one day by exploiting it.
It was a test to see how many "hackers" got the DTs.
Word on #bitcoin is that transactions should NOT be lost.

We'll see how it actually shakes out, but that's good news for bitcoin if it holds up.
I wasn't involved at all in the discussions, but the cryptopunk in me wonders if this isn't malice. Running out of DB entries in the client can be predicted with reasonable accuracy. "Accidentally" slip in this bug, and "fix" it in a future version. Then time a major transaction to coincide with the fork you know will happen, and bam! Engineered transaction reversal.

That would be one great hack. But my imagination is probably just getting the best of me.
Funny, I just now swapped it for Dead Kennedys instead, as I thought the Jesse Dangerously was too long to be a good demo of the intended use case. :)
It looks like everyone is halting trading (at least MtGox and CoinBase are), so you probably won't be able to for a while.
8:43pm CDT - They are working now without HTTPS.
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From news in #bitcoin-dev, it looks like miners on 0.8 are being instructed to downgrade to 0.7, and that'll be the winning fork of the chain going forward. There shouldn't even be any lost bitcoin transactions.
I can see your point, but I have seen useful discussions about what is legal to do with technology in this particular public space, so we disagree a bit on this.

Whenever I hear of the police reaction to being recorded, I find myself wondering if they are thinking of Rodney King. Keep in mind that the whole Rodney King thing would not have happened without a video recorder.

I find the discussion on this topic interesting--law and technology, but I can see why many might not.
Even though it's relatively primitive compared to some of the other PaaS providers out there, I really like AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Here are some of the reasons why:

* You only pay for the underlying AWS services
* ELB + EC2 + RDS is a good stack for a lot of
web applications
* They support environments and promoting releases
from one environment to the other (e.g.
qa -> production)
* Git integration

There are a bunch of downsides but it's a cheap MVP for a certain category of database driving webapp for me.
As someone who has published a theory on humor that I think is completely unbreakable, I welcome this project and I'll definitely throw my hat in the ring.
The interesting thing that I'm taking from this is that The United States is not nearly as far behind other countries (average bandwidth wise) as some would have you believe.

In fact, our average bandwidth seemed to be about exactly the same as the other counties.
After all this is "dealt" with if they are still in limbo use something like pywallet to fix the coins in limbo (if there are still no confirmations after hours)
Sorry, I don't quite get it. The web player has support for playlists and dynamic streams, so I guess it depends on whether the app available for your phone uses the correct API. The one I use, for example, maintains a 10gb MRU cache of my stuff (with lookahead) and that works out quite nicely for me. YMMV, but it definitely surpassed google music for me in both usability and quality.
And now we wait for the post-mortem. I imagine it would have to do with some apache/nginx setting?
This is fun! Great job.
Are there any evidences that this is real information?
Well, I thought that limited access to bitcoins may result in price going up. But as I see, there is a panic on the market, so btc/usd is dropping quite fast.
Well, then, bitcoin was about due for a HUGE DISASTER to bring the price back down to sane levels, wasn't it?

For those not watching, BTC is currently trading at ~$45.
The problem is that search engines are still stupid.

Even with Google there are biases towards keywords in the title, url, or domain, even when it isn't relevant.

People needed SEO even when no one was selling it.
If it comes through this with no lost transactions, then the system has proven a degree of robustness.
Speak for yourself, cynic.
What's your theory of humor? Send me a pointer and I'll test it!
I use Chrome because of the UI.
What are you going to plug all the gamepads into then?
What determines whether a price is sane or insane for a commodity with no intrinsic value?
600 and 700 megs != 200 megs.
Canada has a very different culture despite its proximity to the US. You can't even compare the two. In my experience, people in the US are taught to feel that they are losers if they don't achieve a certain amount (or basically get what they want), whereas Canadians, in general, seem far more serene about the ups and downs of their lives.

Yes, it is a generalization, but it is very real. For instance, look at the disparity between violent crime rates in Seattle and Vancouver.

On your second point, I feel that you are speculating. Neither you or I know what a handgun would bring in those situations. People who do concealed carry in the US are statistically very unlikely to commit violent crime, far far less than the general population. The mere presence of gun isn't as big of a deal as many people fear.

The thing that troubles me in the US is that gun control advocates continuously attempt to paint a future where there are no handguns. We can't even keep cellphones out of prisons in the US, or eradicate drugs (which have been illegal for decades). With that in mind, essentially telling criminals in a society of extremes that they have nothing to worry about, that law-abiding citizens will be disarmed, seems incredibly foolish.

If we had it to do all over again, I'd be for strict gun control in the US, but we have to deal with the way things are now, not some imaginary reset. Maybe the issue for today is an early ban on armed drones.
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LinkedIn started being worthless to me when the people started contact whoring. Now it serves little more than a place to dump a resume, but really, we don't need linkedin for that.
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Wait. Since when has HN had https?
I use Opera pretty much 100% and I've very rarely found any issues that would not have been issues in the other browsers.

The only problem is some people seem to think every single CSS3/HTML5 feature needs to be prefixed with -webkit- to work.
My mortgage broker endorsed my jQuery skills. While they are excellent - I doubt she knows what jQuery is.
LinkedIn to buy Pulse?
Any doubts about Google's intentions are easily negated by using Chromium.
It depends on your target audience. For instance, print campaigns work extremely well in the aviation market. It turns out the various pilot magazines are still the most penetrated medium to that market. Print campaigns work better than anything else. I agree print campaigns for a social networking site is dumb.
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Bollocks. 1% is not a fallacy. It's just a way of mentioning a low-risk target without specifying the strategy.

You don't know the specifics of the strategy because you're a startup - to quote Clayton Christiansen, the needed market research costs much more than making the product, so you can't afford to do it - and to quote Steve Blank, you may need to pivot if you get your hypothesis wrong.

It's called a "fallacy" because idiot VCs don't bother to note these facts, and just want a sure fire winner business plan handed to them so they can fire the founders from their own company.

Similarly, idiot VCs don't get why you'd want a hockey-stick graph or to say "these figures are conservative", for much the same reasons. So these become infamous "fallacies" too.

If you play by the rules of these idiot VCs, you will find that it's impossible to make a business plan that meets their expectations and isn't fraudulent. It's better to walk away than to play their game.

If by any chance you meet a sane VC, they're likely to tell you something useful. Instead of banging on about 1% being a fallacy, they'll say something like "at your stage you need to have a working prototype before seeking investment" or "at your stage you need a more aggressive advertizing plan".

You know, something with content.
Are Polish jokes funny because you know a dumb Pole? Unlikely.

I don't think the humor in these jokes has anything to do with truth - they could apply to any group with a reputation for being dumb.

What's interesting is they probably would not be funny if Pole or blonde were just replaced with "idiot," probably because the listener doesn't get to make the logical leap to stupidity themselves. There may also be an element of shame and schadenfreude for picking on a group that adds to the humor.
Hm, please don't give unpublished/unaudited circumvention software to people in censored regimes -- you could get them in a lot of trouble by promising privacy that you aren't actually giving them.
Also remember that you can trivially fake author name, email and date in git and thus github. Only the github-side push log will tell which user pushed what, the commit log can lie all it wants.

Most notably, you can backdate a commit and github won't even show it in the commit log (because it uses strict commit date order).
Pardon my ignorance; DTs?