skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India ‘Has Lost’ Superbug War

"India has lost the war against the toughest forms of antibiotic resistance, largely because of poor sanitation, unregulated use of antibiotics and an absence of drug resistance monitoring, according to the man who discovered a type of drug resistance in bacteria in New Delhi."

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/04/23/india-has-lost...
Stop trying to break the whole damn internet!
Pretty sure more of them monetize the lack of privacy, and destroy privacy to do it. Just sayin'.
I do something similar with `storename@mydomain.com`, which all get filtered to the same `me@mydomain.com` which is imported into my gmail.

I get very strange looks whenever I give out my email address in person. But you're right; it's an excellent way to track who gives out my email and it's an easy way to block spam that gets through the filter.
Important poll- which product would you prefer for your B2C website
Hey All,

Don't want to take too much of your time. There are two types of products:

Product 1.
The gain is:
Monetization (7/10);
User engagement (relevant added value on site and more time on site);Brand Awareness to your website (Social networks and PR)
The efforts:
management (requires time)
Small legal (brand) risk;
Initial tech setup (5/10)

Product 2:
Gain
Monetization (3/10)

Effort
Initial tech setup (1/10)

Thanks a lot!!!
"STOP. Right now."

I dislike this new trend which consist of SHOUTING at your reader and ordering them to do or not do something (for their own good, obviously).

This is used to give some weight to very dull advices, like when you should or ~n't read your emails, which books to buy, etc. Strangely enough, genuinely useful advices about important topics like how to educate your kids or how to behave in foreign countries do not need to be SHOUTED at the readership.
You might as well have said "As entertainment, food is no worse or distracting than television."

Uh yeah, food is a very common form of entertainment; restaurants, cook-offs, eating contests... it's only when people go overboard that they begin to have a problem.

I'm tired of being too lazy to leave my apartment all weekend, of the food I eat when I'm stoned, of not being present around my friends, family and co-workers

These are all personal choices you made. If you really wanted to spend time with your friends and family you'd just do it. It sounds like you just can't be bothered but smoking pot gives you a convenient excuse to blow off social obligations. I mean jeeze, you're just so addicted to pot, how could you ever find the time to hang out with your friends?

I know, because I've been trying to quit all year. I've failed twice since February and I'm on my third go of it right now. And I only smoked a half-ounce a week for a year or so

Give me a break. Failing to quit pot is in the same category as failing to quit World of Warcraft, it ultimately comes down to the fact that you really just prefer to smoke.

needing to smoke when I wake up because it's so uncomfortable to be lucid.

I don't think pot is the problem.
Do you know the portable dental unit on dental area?
Do you know the portable dental unit on dental area?
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Well, example first:
http://www.ishinerdental.com/category-1984-b0-Dental-Turbine.html
Me too. Will you guys please stop?
For the love of god and everything that is holy, please don't post mobile sites.
Yes! I have one!

Where do you plan to get your 5 million PV's per month?
"I refuse to understand addiction."

Gotcha!
one potential benefit to HTML/CSS prototyping is that it's quite easy to share ideas. Upload somewhere and share a link. The equivalent for native would be screen sharing or sending an XCode/Eclipse project (or binary) which is slow and limits sharing to devs.
Sadly, no, it's not satire. Legal academia has become a para-masturbatory self-congratulating circle jerk of mostly useless scholarship subsidized by unlimited federal student loans.
"Once the local food conglomerates are able to produce this, it's all about a price point and most frequently that price point is so low that anything you'd describe as high quality is not available. Think Salisbury steak. What will end up happening is a stratification of meat. Those with higher disposable incomes will eat dead things and the impoverished will get the poor economies of scale."

I agree with you to a minor extent, in that there'll be extremely high quality meat available and cheap gro-meat available for the backyard burgers and fast food. I do not see this as an issue. Production will be cheaper, use up less resources, and destroy the shitty mediocre meat, leaving the higher-quality just as cheap as it always was.

"You may find my lack of faith disturbing."

I find it unsurprising, but I really don't see things as being that bad. This would be entirely preferable (in the pocketbook) for low-to-middle-classed meat eaters.
Co-founder of Streak here. Chalk that one up to poor judgement. We definitely screwed up with that one and are really friggin sorry about that.

We gave settings to disable that when it launched, but that was obviously not sufficient especially since it was on by default. After it started to roll out and we got complaints pretty much instantly, we turned it off within a few hours.

So ya, if this soured you permanent off of Streak then obviously that sucks big time. We definitely learned our lesson though, so hopefully we get one mulligan.
The point was that not everyone needs or has big data. That's hardly controversial. Even some instances where you think you have big data that you think needs to be handled in parallel by a cluster could easily be handled by a single server or even laptop. Again, nothing controversial.

The most important thing is knowing what data you have, how best to collect it, and what it can (and can't) tell you. Just because you find correlations doesn't mean that they are real. It takes people with real expertise to help here, and just running your data on a cluster isn't going to help you. In fact, it could even hurt.

I didn't see anything wrong with the article at all.
Well, there is SAP, whose business model is "look at what the big companies are doing. You small time fella, you need the same thing to grow big as well" as well
The same guy people call Taliban Khan?
I recently got serious about Priority Inbox and it has really turned my GMail experience around. After less than a week of being proactive about tagging important vs. not-important emails GMail was able to pick up the trend and do a perfect job of separation. I now have my phone and computer only notify me of priority inbox and then I clear the regular inbox at the end of the day. Reduced my active email volume by about half.
After reading the article above, I had an idea for something similar to folding@home. Essentially a business that pays regular people $X to register as a compute unit and charges businesses to use that compute infrastructure for massive map-reduce type jobs.

The trick would be charging just enough to financially compete with something like AWS, and paying just enough to compete with bitcoin mining.

Or it could be a stupid idea - I don't know. But I wouldn't be surprised if someone smarter than me was able to find an angle that'd make this profitable (or already has?).
oh it does. The law is pretty clear. Here in India, I, the recipient of a call, decide what is unsolicited telemarketing.

Whether a company has/had a commercial relationship with me is irrelevant, especially in a case like the OP provides, where I have not given the company my phone number and the caller got it through some sneaky data mining. If it is an unsolicited call, and the recipient feels it is spam, register a complaint and the caller gets punished.

Pretty good policy imo, keeps such nasty shenanigans down.
Chrome will truncate a pasted URL, but you can navigate to it using a link's href (works the same way with long img src URLs).
"artificial sweeteners generally being pretty bad for your long-term health"

The fallacy has everything to do with your insistence that this is anything but fantasy. Artificial sweeteners are not worse off for you than sucrose/fructose.
Most of the points above are hyperbolic and quite silly, to be frank. For example - "robots, automation and artificial intelligence resulting in jobs destruction" - I suppose just like the personal computer lead to "jobs destruction"?
Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you, just commenting on flying car design.

AFAIK licensing requirements scale with aircraft size and complexity -- which does correlate nicely with its danger to bystanders.
This is very cool to see a company do good things for under served groups of the population that don't contribute a giant chunk to the bottom line. Good on you Regal and Sony!
I disagree. The amount of DNA you have will affect the rate of mutation. Mutations are mostly a bad thing, however, in an environment where a species must constantly create defenses against parasites or disease, it's important to mutate new defenses. As a result, in a low disease/parasite environment it makes sense to get rid of "junk dna" to reduce the rate of mutation, while in a high disease/parasite environment it makes sense to increase "junk dna" to increase it.

Red Queen is a good read on this topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis

http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Queen-Evolution-Nature/dp/0060...
Interesting choice of words given the subject.

In this case I guess you skin the cat by growing cat-meat in a dish, so you don't skin any cats.
Agreed. My point is just that each person tends to favor one or the other.

In truth, it's a false dichotomy for everyone except the super-rich. People could have both low taxes and good social services if they would be willing to tax the super-rich to the same extent that we did so back in, say, 1950.
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The HN discussion linked from my previous post includes a fairly extended set of comments on this exact issue.

My read is that "f-bomb" (and other -bomb terms) can be merely a case of being uncomfortable with swearing, but it is also used by people of various demographics to describe the conversational effects. I hope my use of terms like "f-grenade", "f-pepper" (which came from the previous article), and "f-spam" are likewise evocative.
What do you think all those VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and AmEX servers, not to mention all the banks, are doing?
Higher education is publicly funded by a large degree, via all kinds of government grants and government-guaranteed loans. Unfortunately, while it is funded on a premise that higher education equals better employment - and thus better contribution to the economy, which is supposed to more than offset the cost of the funding - the reality is that many of the degrees sponsored in such way do not produce this result, and instead only transfer money from taxpayers to people running these degree programs and on the way seriously mess up lives of many people by making them waste time and get into various financial obligations based on assumptions that never come true.

This is why system is broken. If you want unbroken system, there should be a link between how much particular degree raises the income of its owner (after paying off the loans) and the public funding available to those seeking such degrees. If you want to study aspects of underwater basket weaving in medieval French poetry - be my guest, but do not expect a dime of public funds to be invested in it.

>>>> higher learning institutions should help you explore your interests regardless of the applicability of those interests to employment.

That is true only if you ignore the premise that is described above. However, since the public support of the higher education availability is largely based on this exact premise, I do not see how you can ignore it.
I'd say terrible for, but not terrible at.
Show HN: Hacking SMS Voting
Used mod_fpm under Apache actually, I was doing PHP :)
Two things

1) There are now more transactions to check.

2) The transactions can be verified by more people now, resulting in a more secure network.
Android was gaining significant market share before Samsung emerged as the clear leader (see Motorola Droid, HTC Incredible, etc). There's tons of budget consumers carrying around sub $100 Android phones from Cricket, etc, many of which aren't Samsung devices. (I see probably 100 of those for every 1 Windows phone I see in the wild) Also, since you didn't delineate that you're referring to phones alone, I'm sure the tablets sold by Amazon and B&N are quite relevant.
Also many varied responses, mainly because you have a tech savvy pool of responses.
The reason why jobs require degree is because degree is a proxy for both IQ and ability to perform set tasks in defined settings and achieve measurable results. Since other proxies are either hard to get or illegal, here we go.
As some one who is currently dealing with these sort of things I can tell this article hits the nail on its head.

Most, heck something like 99.99% of all so-called big data I've dealt is something I wouldn't even classify as small data. I've seen data feeds in KB's sent over to be handled in as big data. It happens all the time. A simple data problem sufficient enough to be easily solved on something like a small db solution like sqlite is generally taken to 'grid' these days. It reminds me of the XML days when everything had to be XML. I mean every damn thing, these days its NoSQL and Big data.

People wrongly do their schema design just so that it can get into a NoSQL, then use something like Pig to generate data for it. The net result is they end up badly reinventing parts of SQL all over the place. If only they understand a little SQL and why its exists they can save themselves all that pointless complexity they get into. Besides avoiding to use SQL where its appropriate creates all sorts of data problems in your system. You will go endlessly reinventing ways doing things similar to what SQL offers while bloating your code. You will go reading a big part of the code, only to figure out the person actually intended to something like a nested select query albeit here very badly.

Besides I find much of this big data thing a total sham. Back in the yester years we would write Perl scripts to do all sorts complex data processing(With SQL of course). Heck I've run some very big analytic systems, and automation set ups in Perl to do far difficult things people do using 'Big data tools' today.

In larger corporation this has become fashion now. If you want to be known as a great 'architect' all you need to do is bring in these pointless complexities. Ensure the set up becomes so complicated it can't explained without the help of a hundred jargons totally incomprehensible to anybody beyond your cubicle. That is how you get promoted to become a architect these days.
It's specifically talking about analytics jobs, not the user-facing stuff.
So, if the people pay, they bargain (successfully), if the government pays, no need for the people to bargain, so the costs skyrocket. How many times we have seen this? Now we see it in education too. Will we ever learn the lesson?
Please let there be some ahi tuna in the product development pipeline after that. They wouldn't be going extinct if they weren't so damn tasty.
You can get more modest powered paragliders for <$10k. Paratoys and Fresh Breeze are a couple of the more popular brands.
There are a range of issues with that but the few that spring to mind immediately are:

1) Pasting into an IRC channel as already noted by someone else and;

2) Pasting text where formatting is important (such as a code snippet) into an email

The latter is of particular importance when sending through things like "tags" (ie. javascript snippets) to be embedded in HTML pages for things like analytics, conversion tracking, Wufoo forms, Wistia embeds and the like. If the formatting is off on a lot of that stuff because people have been copying and pasting it in and out of emails then they can end up not working at all.

NOW ... the advantage for me over something like pastie.org or pastebin is that when I paste a snippet into a Basecamp todo list item, for example, I'm creating an external dependency on those services for some or all of the relevant data to the todo list item.

By having a service which embeds the data into a URL that can then be decoded into it's original format without error, using something that I can reimplement myself if the original service should disappear, I end up with a much more "future proof" and reliable storage of that format sensitive information.
The problem with free range (at least in Australia) is that it doesn't really mean what customers expect it to.

Often the only difference is that a free range barn will have a small outside area, which the chickens may not access because all the food is inside [1].

I think most vegetarians/vegans would agree that Halal meat is ethically worse than the 'bolt to the brain' alternative. Of course this is a sweeping generalisation.

[1] http://kb.rspca.org.au/What-is-the-difference-between-free-r...
I can't imaging trusting a 3rd party to provision userId's and SSH keys for my servers. Am I missing something here?
I don't know why you're so angry at r0s; the potential felony really is the thing most likely to fuck up your life with respect to weed.

A half-ounce a week is a pretty hefty habit. I can barely imagine the constant cognitive impairment, paranoia, and anxiety that are likely to come with that on a daily schedule. You aren't using the drug, you're abusing it.

> My body desperately wants pot right now

No, it doesn't. Your mind does. Your situation is not even remotely comparable to an opiate addict going cold turkey.

> Every drug taken to extreme can seriously hurt your life.

The drug isn't seriously hurting your life. You are. The psychological addiction you are experiencing is yours to walk away from - or get medication for, since there are probably serious compulsive or depressive problems in the mix if the hold is that strong. I wish you the best in conquering it and feeling 1000% better - and you surely will - but I really don't see what you're trying to say here, or what everybody else in the thread supposedly has got wrong. Weed is a remarkably benign drug by any measure, and the author of this piece is far too naive of his subject matter for anyone to be thinking too hard on anything he has to say.
SAT Exam Canceled in South Korea After Reports of Cheating
Bacon is so chock full of good-for-you things I'll take it exactly as it is. But I'm definitely OK if Wilbur doesn't have to have an early demise after an inhumane existence to produce it.
This is such a naive response. It is the sort of response that portends to show how it's object of criticism is naive, yet it misses the point entirely. First of all, you misunderstand that the author is claiming that people are treating the terms "big data" and "analysis" synonymously and that that is erroneous.
This is something that has been in my mind for some time: If I understand correctly, the bitcoin generating process is based in computing SHA's.

So, I wonder if those computations could be used for something else? Maybe having a database similar to Rainbow Tables, which allows people to look for previously calculated SHA's to avoid calculating them...
This has been tried several times over the last 15 years (e.g. United Devices); in general the idle time on random PCs is worth less than the overhead of organizing it.
I love it!

For me the big benefit here is that when I'm communicating code snippets that are often "format sensitive" through channels such as IRC, email or project management tools (like basecamp) I will almost always use a paste service in order to ensure that no crap creeps in throughout the process. I most frequently either use sprunge.us or pastie.org and grab the "raw" URL before pasting it in.

This does, however, create an external dependency, and it has happened before that pastie.org was down and a bunch of tasks I had meticulously created couldn't be read by the person who was supposed to be doing them (it didn't last long but it was annoying).

Sprunge.us is actually open source so you can grab and host your own, but that takes a little time and effort and I've never ended up bothering ... THIS, on the other hand, provides a handy way for me to create these little "pastes" and share them with my team, secure in the knowledge that if things bum out I can, at a pinch, get an alternative service live to read the formatted data in.

Of course, this doesn't apply if the URL has been shortened ;)

Speaking of which, you could stick a URL shortener in pretty easily based on the one I did for CueYouTube[1]. I used this library http://www.myjqueryplugins.com/jquery-plugin/jly1 which has an API that works entirely on the client side.

Kudos!

[1]http://www.cueyoutube.com
I had a friend who graduated from University of Iowa law school. If I remember correctly, he told me that everyone had their GPA bumped up by a third because graduates weren't measuring up to other law schools if potential employers filtered by GPA.

Found this at http://www.law.uiowa.edu/documents/2010-11_handbook_web.pdf which would seem to back it up since he was in law school at this time:
"In November 2005, the faculty decided to adjust the grading scale and grading curve applicable to the students
who entered the College in May 2004 and thereafter. This change included a retroactive adjustment of the grades
of students entering in May 2004 or thereafter."

And wikipedia has an article showing a pretty large range with where various law schools set their 50% mark. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_school_GPA_curves
> I'd rather a bolt to the brain than having my throat sliced open and being left to bleed out.

Agree.

> Free range chickens still die, which is often the ethical reason for vegetarians/vegans.

Disagree. For me at least the death itself is comparatively insignificant. What's far more significant is horrible conditions in which many mass produced meat animals spend their lives, i.e. Factory farming.
$4 a month per server for a rsync script I could write myself combined with our existing ldap infrastructure? If it were a nice open sourced tool I would consider it but at hundreds to thousands a month I could never justify it to myself let alone my boss.
I get maybe four or five e-mails a week and actively look forward to - no, ache for the experience of - reading each of them. I can only imagine what it must be like to live a life where I am so in demand that I literally cannot process my inbox.
> "good user interface shouldn't require instructions." (-- Donald Norman)

I assume you are taking Mr. Norman here out of context and vastly simplifying his position because the naive, simple reading of this statement makes him sound like an idiot. Humans require instructions for everything... "The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned." -- origin disputed
This is probably more accurate history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_language...

and this is a good book on programming languages in general:
http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Programming-Languages-Robert-...
"We require that you deploy our public key to your root account’s authorized_keys file so that we can provision users on your behalf."

That feels like a big requirement. What is the gain of using your UI/service over using puppet in-house and creating your own UI?