skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does agreeing with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights about force-feeding people accused of no crimes makes you "biased" exactly?

http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/04/05/un-gitmo-detention-regime...

What does it say about the U.S. that torture and indefinite detention of random people picked off the street is a political issue?
IE <= 8 and Android <= 2.3 don't support SVG without a polyfill[1]. For much of the web, IE8 is still the lowest acceptable version of IE and Android <= 2.3 is still about 40% of that market. You may be able to use it in your projects, but there are still many people who cannot yet.

[1] https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Brow...
This is cool. I sell on eBay a lot but would totally use this, except I mostly want to sell crap they probably wouldn't take.
For those that missed the original HN post:

Original article: http://www.jitbit.com/news/183-how-google-authorship-decreas...

HN Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792268

Matt Cutts' HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793803
> My daughter did have a minor side effect from the measle/chicken pox vaccine. The side typical side effects from each of those vaccines are similar, but since it was a combination vaccine, I'll never know which one/both my daughter had a reaction to.

Isn't this expected?
American patriotism related to the wake of the 9/11 attacks seem to have broken more things than it fixed, both internally (eg TSA) and externally (eg the pride-wounded initiation of the Iraq war). It doesn't seem to have actually fixed much.
His "should" was likely not prescriptive, but instead descriptive.
> They will work you to death and they will promise you potential, but it is for nothing. You will never truly be a part of anything. It is time to seriously consider unionizing, or organizing a major strike.

Is it a shock that no one will take an $11 an hour [temporary] video game tester seriously? He overestimated his value (there are a ton of other guys who would also take a shot at playing video games for little money) and was just another temp who ended up quitting. If you're being paid $11 an hour and think you're key to a multi billion dollar franchise, you should probably reconsider.
No, I'm criticizing real people in this thread.
If safeness cannot be guaranteed, then noone should be forced.

Arguing with statistics over a population surely must sound cynical to those who have been negatively affected by vaccination: "Sorry, you're one of the rare people we ignored while forcing everyone to take the medicine which is known to cause problems for 0.00001% of people."

Also, vaccination does not guarantee, that I cannot be an agent of the germ, even if I am imune myself.
If you live in the future collaboration and creativity are the norm.
True, visualizations can only go so far, but our goal is to take our platform beyond that. Not too many people have access to an oscilloscope or equipment to analyze the projects they can make with traditional kits. Our app is a cost effective way to show similar analysis, like what a modulated wave would look like on an oscilloscope. This is helpful in understanding abstract concepts.
What relevance is this? Font Awesome is... a font. The OP is logos in pure CSS with comparisons to the original.
Honestly lots of people could care less about IE8 nowadays.

Another problem is this really annoying bug in Firefox [1] that makes SVG blurry when they are scaled, defeating the entire purpose of using SVG. Hopefully people reply on that thread and it gets fixed soon.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600207
Why is the "MIT Grads" part even relevant? Can't this idea stand on its own two feet?
Typhoid Mary is a great example. You can quibble over the investigative technique and how they perhaps did not treat her with compassion but the fact is that she was killing people and imprisoning her was the only way to spare others. (Thankfully imprisoning is not necessarily in this case.)
You and others are ignoring those who's vaccinations don't "take", they silently don't result in a sufficient immune system response for whatever reasons. Herd immunity is the only thing protecting them since don't know ahead of time who they are (those who you know aren't protected can e.g. get a gamma globulin shot if exposure is suspected).
IE8 doesn't support these CSS logos...
Why paint a picture when cameras exist ?
Landing on the moon was certainly quite an achievement, but it should also be noted that it is kind of pointless - the reason why no-one else has bothered is the same as the reason why the US doesn't return there.

Similarly, the argument that "we have high highs, therefore it's reasonable to have low lows" really doesn't do the complexity of human nature any justice, instead treating it as a simple see-saw.
In cases where I've used OpenMPI it was spanning machines as well as being multiple processes on the same box. The goal was making that interchangeable (in my use case).

I imagine google's compute engine isn't all on separate machines, but utilizes VMs heavily.. although it's probably a bad idea to put one customer's VM's on all the same box.

That's a long way of saying "of course you're right, I guess my thought doesn't contribute as much as I thought" :)
Do you have an idea where the seeds the farmer used came from? There the water came from? What is the chemical composition of the soil and which exactly chemicals in which quantities were put in it? Probably not. And it is never required to publish it. However, you require to publish data about using specific technology. Thus you single out this technology and stigmatize it, implying product using this technology is abnormal and substandard, and must be avoided. If the full knowledge was indeed important to you, you would solicit all the information above, but you do not. You want only information about specific technologies used, arbitrarily defined, for irrational reasons. It is fine, but the additional expense and regulatory hurdles you would impose on the producers because of this irrationality is not.
Sorry but I'm still on Mr. Peter's side. I had a room-mate who did QA at EA and would come home with the same complaints, and similar stories. This is a re-occuring problem in the Video Game Industry. Maybe Mr. Peters' expectations were set way too high but there's a reason why QA has such extremely high turnover. Generally people don't quit good paying jobs, they quit mentally disengaging low paid crappy ones.

And don't think that $11/hour somehow fixes everything.

Another room-mate worked at a defense contractor as a "geospatial technician" aka sit in front of a PC and do mind numbing easy work. The work and hours so mind dulling that they had an extreme turnover despite paying their employees well. The ones that stayed were miserable as hell and new employees stayed away from them.

If there's a problem with the job or with the treatment, increasing pay doesn't fix the original problem. You can't keep putting new bandages on a wound that won't heal and keeps bleeding. You can't keep filling up your tires with air and ignoring the hole that needs to be patched.
I am not going to argue against vaccination (which seems to be the target of a lot of conspiration theories), but I am really interested on where are the limits of this logic: are we going to "use" only vaccination or any factor that might/could increase the chances of getting somebody else sick?
They look fairly useless in IE8 — http://i.imgur.com/IjWkRvp.png
High Performance Rails
People always say that remote working will be the way of the future, but humans remain extremely social animals. So much of what we do is guided by genetics and it seems to be human nature that if you don't see someone's face on a regular basis it is very difficult to create an intimate or trusting relationship.

This seems to be one of the main pain points when it comes to outsourcing work abroad, people seem to work best and collaborate the most when they interact frequently in person. In Pixar Story, I recall Jobs saying he designed the headquarters specifically for unplanned collaboration. As much as the world changes, people remain the same.
Thanks to Heroku, my startup pays $0/year for a sysadmin/devops team.
Nobody is being forced to vaccinate under this proposal. They are only being opened up for liability if they choose not to vaccinate. If you want to endanger your child and others, then fine; just don't expect there to be no consequences.

NOBODY is claiming that immunization is a guarantee; I don't know where you are getting that nonsense from.
Our government does this shielding because otherwise our legal system is so crazy no company would be selling vaccines in the US.

the fact that no one cares to collect statistics on side-effects from the vaccines

Doesn't the existence of a fund to cover those with really bad side effects suggest that we actually do have those statistics? They're certainly collected during FDA mandated testing, which is particularly extensive for vaccines because the tradeoffs are so stark, you're giving them to an generically healthy population, it's not a "take an antibiotic or die" kind of thing.
Compared to Massachusetts Europe is a shithole. Even if you just compare Norway it still looks bad. Oh well.
We assume this always happens it because we observed many things falling off many cliffs. Though if you had a parachute concealed on you, our assumption about what would happen if you jump off a cliff would be proven wrong.

We never observed the thing that were predicted above, despite the claim that it always happens. We didn't even observe the "fall" you claim to be happening right now. No evidence for it exists except for repeated claims of impending doom, usually accompanied by sermons to repent and sacrifice to whatever favorite pseudo-deity the would be prophet happens to believe in. I have nothing against faith, but this particular faith wouldn't be my choice.
I'm not going to criticize their thought process behind locking NaCl to CWS; from a standards and 'open web' perspective, that was a sound choice. That doesn't change the fact that it largely contributed to its failure in the market. The game devs I talk to on a regular basis wanted to use NaCl, but couldn't, because it was tied to the CWS.
| Yes, data failures can happen anytime.

Right, but you could also get accused of a crime at any time. If police take your equipment, then good luck getting it back. It doesn't matter if you're proven innocent, or if proven guilty, and have served your time. If the police take it, it will gather dust in evidence storage somewhere for years (or mysteriously disappear to show up in possession of friends/family of a LEO).
Here are my quick, shallow thoughts on this release.

I wrote the open source alternative to major vendors (ETS, Pearson, etc.) that competed in the Hewlett Foundation's ASAP competition last year. I started a company around that technology earlier this year (http://lightsidelabs.com/) and have been eagerly awaiting the release of EdX source code.

(as disclaimer, I wrote some preliminary thoughts on the announcement several weeks ago at http://bit.ly/ZJTt8E which are probably useful for gauging my pre-existing bias)

Looking through this codebase, it's roughly the level of machine learning work that I'd expect from a first-year graduate student; it gets the job done but is really only tailored to the very narrow task of essay grading and doesn't offer much extensibility. My guess is that for that narrow task, it does a pretty good job, but in my experience teachers are rarely satisfied with just getting a machine learning-generated score and nothing else. The frontend API is a nice addition and the Django service around it is sure to be beneficial, but it's not really ready for primetime yet.

I'll be eager to see if they continue to develop it or leave this as their open source contribution and continue on to other flashy announcements.
Since vaccines are not 100% effective why would it incur liability? You can't prove that the person wouldn't have gotten sick with the vaccine.

People should have the right to refuse medical treatment. Can we sue the FDA for with holding treatments that may have prevented death?
Anecdata on disproportionate searching: I'm a middle-class white guy who's 40. I haven't been pulled over for a "random stop, sir" since I was about 25, and before that I would have been pulled over about a dozen times. The times when I was pulled over, I was a young guy with long hair in a beaten-up car. My mother has never been pulled over. And judging from the general dialogue with friends, this is not an unusual experience. These "random stops" are (almost!) certainly using a different definition of 'random' than the ones we used in statistics class.
I would expect that data regarding the rates of mortality from viruses over, say, the last century would be readily available somewhere.

So i'll suggest the null hypothesis -- assuming that vaccines do at least as much, if not more, harm than good (of which we're unaware because of politics and whatnot) then there should be evidence of lethality due to vaccinations on a scale approaching that of viral pandemics. The evidence of the good should be indisputible - how many people still get polio? The onus is on the other side to demonstrate harm.
We also have concrete cases of negative effects of vaccination and as long this is the case, forcing people to take these risks, just to lower the vague risks for others people's babies is ridiculous. Maybe people shouldn't expose their babies to the public as long as they are so vulnerable. Probably safer than requiring that everybody else is vaccinated...
The problem is herd immunity. If you're okay with getting sick and you opt not to get vaccinated, whatever. You can get sick. The problem is that by getting sick you are now able to spread your affliction onto others, and you're compromising herd immunity.

If enough people get vaccinated, it protects the unvaccinated people as well by stopping the spread of disease. So each person who withholds vaccination increases the chance that the disease will be able to spread and reach all the unvaccinated.

EDIT: To give a more simple example, do you think it's okay for people to show up to work badly ill with the Flu or some other transmissible disease? What if they get the whole team sick? Is that okay?
P2PTradex back to the future
Rondo, Surround sound in headphones using motion tracking
I believe the Springsteen song you're thinking of is "Johnny 99":

"Your honor, I do believe I'd be better off dead /
So if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head /
Sit back in that chair and think it over, Judge, one more time /
And have 'em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line."
They would still have the right to refuse. Others would also be able to sue them for the fallout. You would only need to prove your case beyond a preponderance of the evidence to sue. In this case doing that would be trivial.
To hell with fear
Yeah Transmit is awesome (as is Cyberduck), but for git all you need is to enable color on the CLI.
Yeah, I was gonna say Twitter Bootstrap is pretty commonly used.
If they don't name a blend 'Land-o-smiles' I'll be very disappointed.
Yeah it has to be open source. Accept donations in bitcoins.
There's a couple of competing things at play here. You're not seeing people on these trips, but you are being stimulated by the experience you're having.

That being said, some people are hardier to the idea of being in solitude, though it does usually take some training to get there. However most people aren't that hardy, especially in the extreme case of solitary confinement.
There is nothing vague about herd immunity; it is very well understood.
Thank you for the kind words! For each one I started off pinpointing the toughest areas/curves to create, and then worked off that. There's a lot of thought behind which layers to place first so that subsequent layers can mask over spills or imperfections, but beyond that the rest is pure trail and error.
I still bookmark, but only because it helps to make sure those results have a higher priority in the address bar.
> It's silly because the specific examples you gave, which websites you visit and who you e-mail, are both deeply personal and speak to the innermost thoughts of a person.

Except they're not personal at all, being visible to god knows how many intermediaries and being recorded in plain text for any sysadmin to see. Maybe we'd like to treat them as such, and legislate accordingly, but that's not their inherent nature.

I think the problem here isn't lawmakers not understanding the implications of digital technology, but technologists adhering to a romantic view of technology rather than a literal one. Forget the law, forget the philosophy, just look at the mechanics of the process. Reading a web page is not a private act. It involves plain text communications over public networks through intermediaries to a host that is free to and does record identifying information. Privacy is not a core tenant of the internet protocols, whether you're talking about TCP/IP, HTTP, or SMTP.

This is not an example of an impedance mismatch between a technical term and the same legal term. We don't treat mailing addresses the same and e-mail addresses the same because they both have "mail" in the name. We do it because both have the characteristic of being routing information visible to third parties outside the communication. The idea is that routing information can't be all that "deeply personal" if you voluntarily expose it to a bunch of people. It's irrelevant whether its digital versus physical, or whether you call it "metadata" or something else, or whether the "bunch of people" is the postal service or your e-mail hosting service.
I think that "depraved indifference to the risk to human life" is a hard standard to meet when the person who didn't vaccinate honestly believed that the vaccine posed a larger risk to their child than their unvaccinated child posed to everyone else.

Compare to http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/involuntary-man... where the equivalent is "The act either was inherently dangerous to others or done with reckless disregard for human life." The "inherently dangerous to others" standard is much, much easier to prove. And it is easy to prove regardless of the mistaken beliefs of the (ir)responsible parent.
If you think vaccines are so effective then take yours, stop worrying, and leave everyone else alone.

Not everyone wants to be part of the herd. Herds get slaughtered.
rdl may just be unusual in this sense. As for 3min/day, even solitary prisoners have that minimal contact - bare interaction with guards when let out for exercise, or when the meals come.
Taxing is a way of enforcement, as well as telling people that they can get sued.

Also, I never asked for the guarantee of immunization, but for guaranteed safety of vaccination. For example I know a child that lost ability to speak due to bad vaccination. Since it doesn't live in the US, it will never get compensation from a fund.
You say that the authorship markup won't reduce clickthrough, and that people won't think it's an ad. You're a SEO expert, so I guess I should trust your word on this. But why do you say this?

Have you run user tests and observed that users click more or an equivalent amount on results with the authorship markup at the top of the page? Have you done A/B tests and examined the results?

I ask, because to me my instinct would be that it is a paid ad, because it looks like one, and the authorship markup is weird. If not a paid ad, I'd assume it was a G+ social result, and I NEVER click those.
yup, sure do - for one use case. reviewing diffs and choosing what files/lines to commit. GitX.
I tried to post an iPhone but got stuck when I didn't post enough description. They emailed once reminding me but then that mail got buried and I forgot. They have an opportunity to fix that problem creatively, by maybe using different interfaces for different products, where each post screen is uniquely tailored to posting that specific product optimally.

They're definitely in the right path, but I think like any startup, they have some wrinkles to iron out. Luckily they have an amazing team and I think they'll do just fine in time.
Pretty neat that it's still identifiable as a bird, though. Like an 8-bit version of the Twitter icon.
I've changed my mind on HTML5 DRM.
I appreciated that jitbit stopped by HN to mention that they'd ended up with spammy links to their site and that they needed to do some clean-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5798569

This incident reminded me a bit of http://www.ecommercefuel.com/seo-mistakes-organic-traffic/ .
Hah, that looks incredibly sad. They look a lot better on IE9 though! (besides IE9 not having radial gradients for the Apple logo)
Just to derail a bit...

I've always disagreed with Jobs over the filesystem thing. There's just a minimum level of knowledge a computer user needs to use the damn thing, and file systems are really fundamental to that. I've never seen an abstraction that worked well enough to replace the file system as we know it, so abstractions stay welded to particular apps. Then you have a bunch of domain specific abstractions replacing a common system that was never broken.

I've worked some service jobs, at a FedEx computer center and a University computer lab. I've seen several poor souls who couldn't for the life of them use a pointing device OR keyboard. Far more common is people who can't grasp the idea of usernames and passwords; and I mean really can't understand the difference.

"Why does it have to be so hard?" is the question. Not for hard concepts, but for every concept. People offer to pay me to write their email and school papers, so they don't have to fight with Word and the whole save/load idea (not to mention glacial slow typing). Maybe this person could be served by some ultra-simple software, negating the need for new skills. I really feel this is a disservice to them. In the case of a student, this all but guarantees they are dead in the water career wise, even if they somehow eek through school.

I think people should just learn about files, they are fundamental to computer use. In the far future, when we have Star Trek style voice driven computers, most people will utterly fail to use them. "Computer, email? No I mean the one I sent. Why can't you just find it?!? There was a picture". Anyone who thinks natural language is clear and intuitive should be sentenced to two years labor in a public computer lab or call center.
Humans make mistakes. Here on HN, it's repeatedly announced that making mistakes is a good thing, as long as you are allowed to learn from them - it makes you a better person/founder/businessperson. Your mindset just doesn't match this - one mistake and you're literally dead. That you consider a few tax dollars so rapaciously important to yourself speaks rather badly of your priorities.
To me vaccines provide enough individual benefit that there is no need for a social solution. Vaccines are not a case of market failure.

Especially in the United States it strikes me as insane that vaccine manufactures are by law not liable for the side effects of vaccines, yet people would propose to hold individual parents liable for not vaccinating their children. (Note: I'm not talking about crazy autism stuff, but the risks that have been proven and for which industry has sought protection)
I hold an unreasonable hope that he'll create Blood Dusk II :).
From Cursive to Coding
Adventures in Printing Food
Such a guarantee would be unprecedented, and expecting it is ludicrous. You can get sued for many things that you cannot say you are "forced" to do.
Some of the comments on here are pure trash. I wish a mod would delete them or something.

Fantastic job on the logos! It's insane how powerful CSS has gotten, can you imagine building something like this 10 years ago?