skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually unlike antibiotics, there is limited evidence of rrsidtence to antifungals. Amphotericin and fluconazole have been around forever and still useful.
Sincere question: do you feel that you, personally, have gained useful information from advertisements? Was it about a new kind of product or service that you didn't previously know about, or just a brand that was better than the ones you currently knew about?

Your point about product discovery is well-taken. In the case of discovery of new product types, it seems to be a valid issue. For product types that a person already has knowledge of, however, I would think it would be preferable to skip the ads and simply compare reviews. In other words, if I'm searching for a hammer, looking at ads for hammers will not give me the best information.

I do wonder if there are other ways to enable product discovery besides paid placement, but I'm not sure.
Apocalypse When
That's exactly what I'm saying -- I read through it all because with my scripts turned off, the footer didn't appear. I didn't even realize it was there! So, yes, case in point - maybe I wouldn't have read it at all with the footer, although it's hard to tell now. When others started commenting on the footer, I had to go back to the page, turn on the scripts and then I was like, "ok, that's big!".

The content of the article was good nonetheless, but I don't think the footer added to it, and probably took away from it a bit.
Ditto.

Interestingly though now that I'm old (37) I can no longer hear bats, I certainly could when I was in my mid-twenties.

So the squeal of some electronics is high-pitched, but not as high-pitched as bats.
The author qualifies this assertion by pointing out that their highest rank on a billboard chart prior to this was 61st.
Saw this a few years ago. Mind boggling what he had created back then and how long we have waited for it. Things like the demonstrated collaborative working didn't (and sometimes don't) even work as well as then a few years ago. Very impressive.
It's a storage issue. Storing a useful quantity of hydrogen is very difficult.
I wondered the same thing... I collected some thoughts but haven't reached a clear conclusion on that. I tend towards common for unrelated reasons.

Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) is caused by a herpes virus: KSHV, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi_sarcoma-associated_herp...

We see KS in HIV patients because they are often concomitant infections and because KS is opportunistic, attacking immune-suppressed people. But, this doesn't mean that KS necessarily goes hand-in-hand with HIV infection.

Particular forms of KS affect younger people:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_cutaneous_Kaposi_sarco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_lymphadenopathic_Kapos...

KS may have been 9% of all cancers in equatorial Africa just because of a very high KSHV prevalence and because lower life expectancy = fewer age-related cancers.

There was a similar rate recogised since the 1950s http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200004063421407
This article also notes that KS now accounts for 50% of tumours in some countries, with and without HIV infection.

An NHS article which admits that, even today, they're not exactly sure how many incidents of KS are HIV-related http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Kaposis-sarcoma/Pages/Introduct...
So it's a massive broadcast network?

Where does Dropbox come into this?
"Dropbox for VPN" makes no sense whatsoever, and even after reading the product description, I don't understand how it related to Dropbox at all.
That's a terrible example, both because it has nothing to do with speed (your complaint is about scalability, not speed) and because it is wrong. Having a pool of workers to handle requests while using event driven interfaces is normal now, and gives you the best of both worlds. Your theoretical attack works the same as it would on nginx: you'd need to run it out of file handles.
Using Google Chrome for web scraping
Honestly, I've been very positively impressed with CouchDB so far.
Obligatory don't move here.

Lol just kidding it's pretty cool. But you'll hear that a lot. The place is getting overfilled and traffic has gone to shit so live close to work.
> The more you know.

Thanks for an insightful post.

While procrastinating for an exam a while back, I decided to read up on the Chernobyl accident. It always remembered it as a horrible accident (which it was), significantly due to the errors involved, and the massive impact it had on the victims involved.

If I read your post correctly, it should not be attributed to plutonium. Would you mind elaborating on what kind of radioactive fumes/waste this could've been?

While the number of victims may be high, the number of casualties is impossible to determine: could range from 50s to 200,000s. In either case, I assume this is due to other radioactive waste (airborne?), or am I mistaken?
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Apparently today is the day to post links to alternative web frameworks. Right on.

Incidentally, Revel achieves an exceptional framework overhead rating in our tests. In our i7 Fortunes test [1], Revel performs at 96.5% of its platform, Go. (See rightmost tab on the results panel.)

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...
Incredible nature photography
This is my favorite and cool nature picture that I would like to show you right now.
I'd guess that very few people know the size of their tires offhand, so their first experience will be experimentation.

Add a list of the "Most Popular" 5 tires sizes so that these first-time users can still use the site and understand what it does. Then when they actually need to shop, hopefully they'll give you another go.
Is the problem that John Roberts controls appointees?

Or is the problem that the only check on NSA's surveillance is a glorified review board, instead of comprehensive system of laws?

How much safer would you feel if the Chief Justice was a Democratic appointee, and selected only Democratic appointees to the FISC?
Title sounds like an oxymoron. [Ducks and covers]
I don't understand this comment. Congress set up the FISC to begin with, the last time signals intelligence was a national issue. What prevents it from revisiting that now?

No, we cannot agree that Klein is correct. The gist of what he's saying is as wrong as the lede of his article.
Haitians in the US were discriminated against on the belief that they were bringing AIDS into the country. But medical anthropologist Paul Farmer has done a good job of showing that Haitians were only more "susceptible" to the virus than other populations because American sex tourists often visited Haiti and inadvertently spread the disease to Haitian sex workers.

http://www.amazon.com/AIDS-Accusation-Haiti-Geography-Blame/...
This might be a nice way to get around the JS-FFI burdening things like Fay and GHCJS which compile Haskell to JS.
There was an enegry debate here a couple of months ago and it was suggested that the future of enegry is everyone will have a solar panels and a battery which is charged by the sun.

Once you think about distributed power, the need to generate mass amounts in one place seems to be less important, though having access to cleaner and safer ways of doing so are still good things as no doubtsome of us will still rely on the grid sometimes.
I believe you're wrong. There's no implicit contract, and I'm free to view or not view anything I feel like. I'm also free to refuse to use my resources (bandwidth) in the furtherance of your flawed business strategy (ads)

I'm a good citizen, in that when I'm offered the opportunity to fund resources I enjoy through means that don't involve advertising I do. Often this comes with extra benefits to entice me. That's why I pay for Reddit Gold, and Strava Premium.

If you as a business owner have decided that advertising is the only way you wish to fund your business, I'm not going to feel like I'm slighting you by refusing to participate any more than I would by muting my television and getting up to grab a snack when commercials come on.
The oatmeal had radioactive tracers in it. This is described in more detail at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_E._Fernald_Developmental....

Everybody seems to agree that the whole experiment was unethical, but it seems unlikely that that the radiation harmed any of the subjects.
I would be interested in how this perfoms compared to the web server implemented in Go
If you have problems with seasonal allergies, this place will be hell for you. I stay on a cocktail of three allergy medicines for most of the year.
I like it a bit better, it's still very repetitive and the beat just isn't that great to me. I like his voice better and the song is better when you remove daft punk from the equation oddly. I think that's why my stomach turned at the song it's not what I expect/want out of daft punk. Same problem w/ Around the world.
Don't forget Electroma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daft_Punk's_Electroma
FYI it's the flag of Israel...
The US is way more into dance music now than they were 10 or 20 years ago when Europe etc. were quite into it. Daft Punk are predominantly known for dance music, so this album got more interest from US music publications etc. Of course, this album is the least “dancey” they’ve made, and heh, no doubt that helped!
I must say, I made a beeline for the security page and was not disappointed. While I think they underplay the risk of memory corruption flaws (namely by emphasizing backups to be critical, rather than isolating user data to minimize compromise in the case of the site being owned), they otherwise do a fantastic job. I can nitpick a bit (and will probably send some recommendations to improve the guide a little) but I really have to commend them on that.
That doesn't make much sense--payroll tax is roughly 15% either way, so with employees you just pay them 7.5% less than a contractor for the same benefit.

The real reason for contracting is that the paperwork is much simpler. You don't need an HR department. And the guy gets automatically laid off after a few months without the incident reflecting on either you or him, so there's less risk.

There's another side to it where you can hire a "contractor" on an n-month term, but instead of paying the contractor directly you go through a middleman who hires the contractor as an employee and provides (shitty) benefits and takes care of taxes.
Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Explore Quantum Problems
Odd wiki. Unlike Wikipedia, the front page is completely open to public editing.
A New Cyber Concern: Hack Attacks on Medical Devices
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5990201
Storage is certainly difficult, but there's also a fairly serious efficiency loss as well.
From Amazon's perspective it doesn't matter if the user is a bot or a user. An user can also work themselves to build reputation up and then start doing low-quality work to increase pay. If you can't create a market for humans, you can't create a market for humans and bots.
Are you saying people are being oppressed into having unprotected sex?
But having the ad networks (or sites hosting ads) pay a charge creates misaligned incentives.
What's next ? A OS written in Ruby ? snark
Are you talking affirmatively authorizing murder rather then simply not penalizing it? Because I can't think of any constitutional provision that even hints at a requirement for Congress to promulgate a penal code at all.
I think if you want to get the analogy right you need to have in-transit encryption, so employees can only see the destination of the data, but once it's stored away it should be decryptable. A key part of using the lockbox analogy to explore your rights is by having it still be physically penetrable, but never expected to be penetrated.

Let's look at Dropbox for a moment. If the system is working correctly the employees never have access to the contents of your files. The data flows past the employees in a TLS tunnel that only lets the destination server decrypt it. Employees are kept from accessing the contents via a mechanism similar in effectiveness to locks. Should this data be protected? I think it should.

Now let's move on to Email. Most of the time, with modern server configurations, it works in a very similar way. The messages are encrypted in transit, stored in plain text, and employees are kept out. Ignoring that obsolete rule about email 'abandonment' after a certain number of days, I see no reason email shouldn't need a warrant.

It comes down in part to how the data is stored in the first place. Why do you say that my email is 'unprotected'? Are there not locks on it, barriers keeping away employees in the typical case? What makes it less secure than a box with a lock that can be broken with a hammer?
You think that people working for less than minimum wage is not a problem?
So if the bank weighed each box before and after our access, and wrote the weight of what we stored there on the outside, made some guesses about what might be in there, and/or maybe sold some ad-space next to that info on the box to offset their costs... that would make the contents less ours, or we in some other way have less right to privacy about them?
A final shout before disappearing behind the permanent, impenetrable curtain of gravity: "I existed! I was."
A bit off topic. But I've had problems with the visualwebsiteoptimizer, not as a customer but as a user on websites using their system. At two different occasions websites have had problems to render, no matter how many times I try to re-load them and wait. I've then checked the webdevtools to check what's wrong and it's been the websiteoptimizer's script that's been blocking the whole site.
I think that's a difficult question for most people but I can honestly say yes. Sometimes its hard to tell what exactly motivated you to buy a certain thing. My first car was a Volkswagen Jetta. The advertisements made me aware of the brand and its personality. That sounds superficial but its a real part of the appeal of a lot of products. It's hard to be zen and take your ego out of buying decisions. Sometimes it can be one of the few differentiating points of a product. For me, a car is made to drive from point A to point B. I don't care about performance or most tech specs. So to me, without the advertising there's no difference between a VW, Chevy, or Mercedes. They're all cars that'll get me where I want to go and all 3 have some model that looks nice to me. So I identified with the brand personality of VW and chose it. Reviews came into play in the one area where the ads were, to me, misleading: reliability. I heard great things about the reliability of VWs from reviews and that clinched it.

I learned about DigitalOcean from advertisements. I saw the ad, read the site, and their advertising convinced me to try them. They were much newer at the time so I didn't have anything else to go on and never heard of them before. To me, for my preferences, DO is a strong competitor to Linode but what kept me from moving my important projects to DigitalOcean was the reputation of the Linode brand. So its hard to separate the advertising from other information from other sources.

Apple's "it just works" campaign led to me getting my first Mac. I identified with the issues they brought up in the ads, switched, and found out I really did like Macs better. Now, Macs aren't without their own set of problems so when it comes to what would make me choose a Mac over a Windows PC, those intangible, marketing-speak little things is what gets me.

A lot of people try to act like they're above all that but I can't believe that. I know we all hate to think we're swayed by advertising because we want to protect our individuality. I feel like I can still be an individual even if I buy into some marketing.
Okay that's an awesome acronym. "Language for Systems Development" = LSD
Trying that out now myself. It's OK but has a long way to go if it is to compete with the current platforms dujour.
Wonkblog posts things are incredibly flippant coming from the Washington Post [1] but they're also high quality when it comes to substantive matters so I as long as its unambiguous which things are said in jest I don't really care. Ultimately its not going to effect the quality of work, either Ezra shares a joke with the office or shares it with the world.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/02/h...
How does "There is virtually no evidence that this is even done" translate to "This is a big problem"? At least in my book, lack of evidence doesn't count as evidence.
Dragonfly - a fast and embeddable web framework
Dragonfly is a web framework for newLISP. It focuses on speed, small memory consumption and a small learning curve. Other goodies are a plug and play architecture for plugins and a very easy deployment.

This thing even runs on a Nokia N900 really fast :)
Bitcoin Foundation Responds to California: Respectfully, You're Wrong
Propaganda or no, our brains do have a tendency to mix up correlation and causation (most notably because many times, correlation does come from causation), and a tendency to draw conclusions from fiction as well as from reality.

Someone who notices both her AIDS and her left-wing behaviour will likely be a tiny bit more confident that one causes the other.

(Now, I do see her as a prisoner of her shitty situation, and not as a "liberated" woman.)
Minimum wage is a distortion of pricing for human work - somewhat analogous to rent price control. Although you could argue it helps some people, it hurts others such as people who aren't currently working. They may be prepared to work for $6/hr but are prevented from doing so. Similarly an employer may have work that brings in value of $6/hr but are prevented from hiring people to do so. Or maybe they have work that brings in $10/hr and can't hire two people for it.

This is a completely separate discussion than what people need to get by, or what they should be provided. It is far more straightforward to just provide/pay them directly from the government, than pretend that isn't happening and there is no cost by distorting markets and making customers pay anyway, as well as reducing competition.
I think the killer feature will be functional Dom manipulation which is just starting to become feasible (Facebook React). Give it another year.
Edward Snowden Considering Marriage Offer by Former FSB Spy
Unobtainium is almost within reach!
This is back before it was discovered to be an immune deficiency.
Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: 40th Anniversary Celebration
That feature is bound to be functional reactive programming which extends into the server.

The two easiest ways to think of FRP are to either a) imagine it as declarative data binding with the ability to add function transformations or b) think of Excel cells and their functions and dependencies.

Pedestal [1] seems to be an attempt at getting there but it's still incredibly convoluted compared to its Common Lisp equivalent Cells [2]

[1] http://pedestal.io
[2] http://common-lisp.net/project/cells/

P.S. If you combine FRP with Clojure's purely functional data structures you also get an amazing 'replay' feature since your UI is nothing more than your (client + server) data models materialized into a view through a graph of FRP functions.
Biometrics in Argentina: Mass Surveillance as a State Policy
Oh heck yes, the first annual Alternative Web Framework Day is underway!

Might I trouble you for a test implementation and pull request [1]? :)

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
re: "naked skin"
Did you read where he addresses this question in the first green box on this page: http://www.macroevolution.net/hybrid-hypothesis-section-1.ht...

Is there some evidence that the hairless trait was the result of human selection and no hairless varieties existed before human selection?
I suspect that US does not know Daft Punk as well because of two events:

a) Overreacting to disco in the past like "Disco Demolition Night" event.
b) The progression from Disco to Eurodisco to Eurodance and other Hi-NRG styles in Europe.

Is that possible?

In either case, if the boys keep producing good music and wearing those helmets, they will never sound or look old.
That is very relevant here.

chez17's comment implied that the whitelist applies to non-invasive and non-annoying ads, while there are a number of new qualifiers here, including a payment which you have omitted from your post.

>They entered into an arrangement with Google where Google agreed to meet certain standards and be vetted; Bing and Yahoo have not.

..and perhaps most importantly, have paid for it.

The whitelist standard is not just about non-intrusive ads as the title of the setting implies to users, it's about a payment too.
Thanks for the note on the gist, I was editing that as I went along writing the post and obviously have mistakenly made an edit somewhere. Will fix it up ASAP.

EDIT: Now Fixed.
The Fake Twitter Follower Experiment: How I Gained 150K Followers in 1 Month
Whoops! Thanks for catching that, must have made a mistake on an edit somewhere, I'll fix it up.

EDIT: Now fixed.
Yeah, because some desk analyst in Langley was the cause of the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
The Bizarre Architecture of the PDP-8 (2004) [pdf]
Here are some slides containing more details about the Norwegian thorium initiative and Thor Energy: http://www.statkraft.no/Images/Thorium%20power%20abundant%20...
As I understood it, there was a long standing debate about whether the AIDS epidemic spread from Haiti to the US or the other way around, but genetic evidence eventually found that it did come from Haiti: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/47/18566.long
The videos are at http://www.sri.com/newsroom/videos/content/6815.
Congress doesn't care because most Americans don't care.

We want our government to do these things.
Maybe people habitually search for a stronger end-of-list indicator, once a list starts, \ like a larger gap or return to un-numbered wider-columned text... so simply using a list helps immunize against short breaks causing problems.

Also, perhaps you could decorate the bullets/numbers in some sort of boundary-escaping way that always helps hint there's a next item. (For example, using a diamond background where the top point always reaches to be alongside the previous item's body text.)

Of course, these theories/ideas would need testing.
or that they receive fewer opportunities for education and distribution of said protection (eg, a richer school may have free condom distribution, but a poorer one does not?). Maybe because cultures of "Abstinence" (eg, teach them abstinence and dont give them condoms/protection, then wonder why they get diseases)...

This is all supposition, I'll let others lay down the facts.
Hack humans remotely
a pebble bed reactor? It's like a nuclear gumball machine! Neat!
Modules, Routes and Factories - AngularJS Fundamentals in 60 Minutes
http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/cppcms_1x
What does 'already having housing' mean? It's state provided? Even in a country without property taxes a property you own outright will require maintenance.

500k still seems low but might do it if you don't have rent to pay. I'd still love to hear the original commenter explain his or her reasoning - there might be some useful tips to learn from.
Latest version: https://github.com/taoeffect/dragonfly-newlisp
The author is saying ridiculous things. Anyone under 40 knows Daft Punk, the song would have done well regardless of the marketing techniques used.
Thanks for the honest answer. Definitely food for thought.
Can't watch it from the U.S.:

"This video contains content from WMG, SME, Dance all Day, CD Baby, Warner Chappell, UMPG Publishing and EMI, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. Sorry about that."
Great suggestion, I'll try to make that more clear in the future. Thanks for the feedback!