skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw the movie only a few years ago in my early twenties and I didn't get it. It never occurred to me 'not knowing what it is' meant AIDS back then. I'm not North American so the reference was totally lost on me. Also I didn't think it was an important detail and I never thought about it.
I thought it was pretty obvious.
Was also a tad annoying as because she was liberal and anti war and was a sexually liberated woman...well then she is a whore that will get her payback by being given aids.

I thought it was a good movie but it had touches of right-wing propaganda.
I always though cancer was an umbrella term for when a cell mutates in such a fashion to lose it's reproductive throttle, and consequently starts consuming as many resources as possible, eventually fragmenting and spreading throughout the body.

What kind of cancers don't fit this definition?
It took McDonalds nearly two years to perfect the McWrap
Fair enough, you could be right - that's a well written counter-argument. However, while data might exist that users hate confirmation boxes, even those they can ask never to see again, and prefer undo, the cited articles doesn't contain any. It's not a Microsoft employee either, so the author doesn't have the sort of Windows data we often see in Microsoft blogs on UI. I'd also point out that the confirmation box example in his picture, for example, doesn't include an option not to show it again. It's also an undoable action as he points out, and I'm certainly not arguing that we should include both.

All that said, I can certainly see reasons for both - it's probably not really a black and white issue.
What are some frameworks for web developing in C? Is KORE also a framework or just a server?

As for the server, I wonder how performance compares to say, OpenResty loading Lua compiled to bytecode.
Vagrant is intended to make starting, provisioning and then destroying and rebuilding virtual machine instances quick and easy. It makes it much easier to bring up VMs in different configurations for different projects and provides a way to store the runtime environment configuration with the code for a particular project. It's primarily a tool for software developers but as it gains more provisioning capability it's roll seems to be expanding and you can use ansible as a tool to provision a vagrant VM.
I actually don't blame them. I believe we need better checks and more carefully written rules for NSA surveillance, but I feel like I'm pretty well educated on these issues and I don't believe NSA is deliberately abusing their power right now. Rather, I think the potential for abuse in the future has become too great.

Large groups of people aren't great at at dealing with issues way out in the future like this.
There's nothing different from any other extension, so what you're saying nobody should be using extensions in their browsers. Good luck with convincing people not to do it.
The modern conceptions of the Japanese, and the German, as efficient work machines, is one born of recent economics. I hesitate to describe the cause as specifically "corporatism", but I think you're onto something there:

http://www.anthonyworlando.com/2012/08/02/the-myth-of-the-la...
A similar virus killed Steve Frasier, founder of Internet Mortgage Exchange (IMX), who also contracted it gardening at his home in Walnut Creek.

He had a fever and complained of pain in his arms for a week before going to see a doctor, but by then there was little they code do as the bacteria had spread to his heart.
>>Not only could Congress pass a law recalling any FISC judge

I'm not sure this would be constitutional. Courts have rules that the term limits on FISA judges don't impact their standing as regular article III judges. Arbitrary removal almost certainly would.
Every mention of AI should specify what you mean by "AI." Do you mean just k-means clustering? Collaborative filtering? Automatic image recognition? Automatic novel writing? Automated driving? Automated surgery? Automated world-level economic planning?

Lots of levels to explore.
Please do elaborate though - that figure seems about 10-20x too low.
This doesn't however block things like google ads inside Gmail, which ad blocker browser extensions typically can and do block.
"Lifetime" because his position is a lifetime position. Congress may in future change the law, but for now, his role in "shaping" the security state is Lifetime. Right now, this statement is accurate. The fact that you can imagine a possible future where this is no longer correct is irrelevant. Its about as useful as saying that copyright expires.

"Exclusive" does not mean "omnipotent". We negotiate "exclusive" agreements all the time. The fact that someone else agreed to give you that exclusivity doesn't make the "exclusive" part go away.

If not "Unaccountable", accountable to whom? Sure, there may be other individuals in the hegemony who can raise a flag, but its not you or I. The NSA can lie to the senate and it takes a brave senator to break ranks but even then all they can say is "I think the NSA lied on one of these points" but can't even say which one. There is real coercion going on here.
Some ad companies pay per view
Botched Paramilitary Police Raids
Disable automatic updates and review the code before installing any updates manually.
> Because they could be updated

So, this is a rally against all extensions? Expanding this argument, we basically get to a point where we don't trust any software:

1. No more browser extensions.
2. Want ad-blocking in Firefox? Request feature.
3. Feature request denied.
4. Fork Firefox.
5. Add ad-blocking to Firefox fork.

This leaves us with a couple of issues:

1. The bar to adding functionality to a browser has now been raised significantly. With a larger barrier to entry, we will see fewer extensions for trivial things like 'adding collapsible threads to HN', which can make your life easier, but isn't worth a fork of the entire browser to achieve.

2. Trust. You still have to trust the developer of the browser fork that same way that you have to trust the developer of the browser extension.
Ghost "looks" very cool but right now it's just vapor. Really hope that changes soon.
Not if NSA has enough dirt on each congress-person (or their family)
The barrier to entry for being a worker in Mechanical Turk is extremely low, and the system is very flexible. I could see it being very attractive as "side job" type work to monetize spare hours, rather than as ones' long term primary form of employment.
They can't remove federal judges from the federal bench.
Iceland parliament declines Snowden citizenship vote
Another option I've been using a lot lately: http://colourco.de/
The author picked crimes that would be perpetrated by the majority of population, as examples.

In another article, someone said there are so many laws and statutes (around 3000) that a person could potentially violate, that there is no sure way to maintain yourself legit.

For the government it's just a matter of finding something to pin on any person.
>do to market conditions

This was the problem, not the software.
Original Elite on the BBC B - Computerphile
The main thing that keeps me from engaging in mturk is finding tasks! I too like the concept, but I too do not speak Arabic and will not spam for pay.

There were some transcriptionist tasks that looked interesting, but the pre-screening task was looking for professional transcriptionist level performance.

Minimum qualifying WPM was like 70, and the acceptable error rate per minute was... zero? One? I'm not that good.
I think downvoters should be public, and also require a short contextual explanation for their downvote (< 100 chars; separate metadata from a comment).

This would help curb abusive down-voting. Too many people downvote whimsically simply because they disagree.
"[Thorium reactor] could provide cleaner, safer, almost-waste-free energy" Always when somebody claims this, it almost never works that way.
This: http://i.imgur.com/cocSwhF.png
It's not a lifetime position. Roberts position on the Supreme Court is a lifetime position. Absent a fundamental change to the US Constitution, Roberts is Chief Justice for life. But his position vis a vis the FISC is no more secure than that of the majority leader of the US Senate.

It's not exclusive. Exclusivity dictates that the power Roberts has is available only to him. But it's not; it's available to Congress as well. Not only that, but Congress' power over the FISC dwarfs that of Roberts. Congress could pass a law requiring FISC judges to decide while swinging upside down from a rope made of cheese curds. All Roberts can do is appoint FISC judges. Congress can un-appoint them.

It's not unaccountable. Unaccountable means that Roberts can exercise his power unchecked by any authority. Roberts power is checked the same way as the Secretary of Labor's power is: Congress can require him to testify before a committee and, if it wishes, strip him of his FISC power.
I have been using AdBlock for years, and I have no problem with this feature, provided that they select their whitelist carefully and enforce the rules aggressively. I wouldn't have any problem with ads if they weren't such a disaster. If there are providers that can do ads responsibly - no animations, no sound, no taking valuable space where content should have been, then I have no problem with giving them the edge. I'm not opposed to the idea of advertisement in principle, I use AdBlock because otherwise bad ads (which are on 99% of sites) make using the web extremely tiresome and annoying.

If the Google leads the fight in making ads good citizens on the web and profits from it - fine, all power to them. If they would start abusing it - I'll turn off the whitelist and all their money would be spent for nothing.
Not to disagree with the idea, but I would add that any such tax is at the discretion of the taxing body making it susceptible to difficulties like abuse or negligence. (That makes me wary.)

I would prefer a mechanism without such a centralization of moral authority (ex, Kickstarter rather than taxes). That's the big conflict in free societies: the cohabitation of different moralities. (What is a benefit and what is an externality are decided individually rather than by decree or in the average. I think our desire to average things leads us to think we can work backwards from an average to collective behaviour in cases like these, when not everything is a bijection...)
Use Mega for Reliable Backups
Definitely a lot to read and improvements to make. I will probably do a more complete benchmark with more datasets on a later post.

Thanks for the suggestions.
I was part of the lightly attended Restore the Fourth protest in Minneapolis yesterday. I was also part of a much larger protest in DC that marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Chinese embassy (which had a total participation of about 3,000 marchers) on 1 October 1989. Most of those marchers, of course, had no reasonable recourse in the political system of China, and at that time were not United States citizens. It is a long, hard slog to solve some problems. China still has neither a free press nor free and fair elections. China has pervasive surveillance of the domestic population of a kind that would appall any American. It's good that people in the United States are standing up for freedom here. It will be good for all of us to stand up for freedom everywhere.

A successful movement for greater freedom requires great courage, and a degree of social trust among the movement participants that is not easy to find. Allow me to repeat advice I have shared here on Hacker News before. If you really want to be an idealistic but hard-headed freedom-fighter, mobilizing an effective popular movement for more freedom wherever you live, I suggest you read deeply in the free, downloadable publications of the Albert Einstein Institution,

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html

remembering that the transition from dictatorship to democracy described in those publications is an actual historical process with recent examples around the world that we can all learn from. You can find publications in Arabic, Azeri, Belarusian, Burmese, Burma (Chin), Burma (Jing-paw), Burma (Karen), Burma (Mon), Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Tibetan, and Ukrainian there to share with your friends around the world.

P.S. Hat tip to the Reddit subreddit that linked to TV news coverage

http://kstp.com/article/12303/?vid=4128742&v=1

of the Minneapolis protest. (I'm visible way off in the distance in a few of the TV shots.)
STDs are hardly propaganda, and promiscuity does indeed increase the risk.

Besides she was clearly a troubled youth, with sexual abuse home and her further abusive relationships conveyed early in the movie.
Yeah but CPM (cost per impression metric) is not a scalable business model alone -- CPC (cost per click) or CPA (cost per acquisition) metrics have arisen because sites will spam impressions to people in Malaysia who will never buy anything...cheap impressions don't power a site for very long unfortunately.
>But they lack any sort of exterior shade on them

What direction does the window face? Are you certain solar insolation is an issue?
Or if they use their secret NSA drones to drone strike them.
Would you also be shocked if there are people who make no attempt to block ads at all? I would not be shocked by that, but I'd guess not blocking ads at all is a greater security risk than running ABP.
Mturk can be used as a source for automation training.

If you start writing bots to do the tasks, you're now the mostly-blind leading the blind.
Quantum Computing, what it is, how it works [video]
The next revolution should be letting programmers use AIs.

Because the only thing stopping them from using AI is that they aren't allowed to?
Therefore it never will.
You're getting pretty uppity about testimonials here. Regardless of them being effective persuasive techniques, they're still just persuasive techniques and I imagine a lot of people dislike persuasion getting in the way of content. I happen to agree with the OP that testimonials tend to make me believe that the product lacks enough substance to be useful by itself. In any matter, it's a personal preference and no amount research changes that.
Turn out was pitiful. We're being slowly boiled and almost no one is taking notice.

I spoke with a guy passing by across the street from Pershing Square who grew up somewhere in Europe. I didn't have the sense at the moment to ask him his country of origin (sounded like Russian or something similar) but he basically stated that he was still on the fence even though he had lived through a more intensely oppressive government.

He said he is "used to it" unlike me (a young-ish American.)
I agree completely a more complex benchmark should be done with a complete cross-validation.

Just for future reference I did ran the fitting a few times founding very(+-2%) similar results. Also Random Forests do an average so probably not much to improve on that particular algorithm.
"...[P]ut a good deal of work into ensuring their ads behave better than most."

It's more like they have a lot more data and scale to target better ads at individuals. And when you have many many ads competing for X amount of spots, the average ad quality increases. Google doesn't really need to do anything other than create the platform that gathers lots of data on individuals and allow for appropriate targeting.
GPA or the UK equivalent seems to be like knowing the mean of a distribution, you'd be much better off taking a look at the entire distribution, or in this case, a transcript. Then you would see if a person challenged themselves or just took easy classes to get high grades. Also, you could see if they took classes on a diversity of topics.
Rethinking surveillance
The saddest part is the consequences. The quality of technical writing has fallen dramatically over the years.
XSS Filter Bypass in validator Node.js Module
Python's Hardest Problem, Revisited: mitigating the effects of the GIL
The courts have ruled IT IS an article III court. See United States v. Cavanagh, 807 F.2d 787, 791-92 (9th Cir. 1987)
It's nowhere near "merely". The Congress traditionally has a lot of deference to Presidential nomination and cases where nominated judge is not confirmed are very rare and are considered exceptional.
Article III courts can't be abolished by Congress. US v Cavanagh doesn't unequivocally say that FISC is an Article III court, but rather only that federal judges don't contravene Article III (and thus separation of powers) merely by sitting on the FISC.

Tenure isn't the only difference between FISC and the Article III courts, either. What other court is so limited in the controversies it can hear? FISC judges have warrant powers, but what penalties can they enforce? What are the differences between the powers granted to FISC and the powers Congress already has to compel testimony?

Congress could tomorrow replace all the procedures of FISC with those of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos and I don't believe the Constitution would have much to say about it --- absent what it says with or without FISA as it pertains to the Fourth Amendment (ie, no matter what rules FISC uses to decide cases, SCOTUS can overrule the law that animates FISC if it decides the process contravenes the Fourth Amendment).

I wish your comment was at the top of this subthread, though.
Very interesting and simple improvement. Definitely will take a look at that.
>So, this is a rally against all extensions? Expanding this argument, we basically get to a point where we don't trust any software:

Yes. So DON'T expand it. The thing is, third party updatable extensions are far less trustworthy than Firefox.
What about SARS back in 2003? China first observed SARS in Nov 2002 but didn't report it until February 2003. The responsible virus was identified by April 2003 and the whole disease contained by July. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndro...

I'm not an epidemiologist so I can't compare the relative complexity of the SARS virus to HIV. But I'm skeptical that HIV presented a massive and insurmountable biologic challenge compared to other viruses.

I also encourage you to look into the epidemiological and sociological aspects of AIDS. It's horrifying, and it colors my above skepticism. The gay community referred to AIDS as a holocaust back in the early 80s, and I would encourage you to read this article at your leisure to see why: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/23/books/l-aids-and-the-holoc...
Protesters stage Restore the Fourth rallies across US
They don't need to, when the surveillance ensures compliance with the implied threat. Or are you just trolling?
IMHO the key is not download speed, but upload. That would change a lot.
Is Silicon Valley suffering from a failure of imagination?
Can audio streaming like this be done in current Chrome Stable with unreliable RTP Data Channels?
5 Reasons to make Mistakes.
https://medium.com/lessons-learned-2/a51c4b235ae6
Well, I for one don't use any extensions with Chrome. And not even from security concerns. Just from lack of any interest to do so. Why should I? For some marginal utility?

I'd take it more average people don't use extensions either -- if they know what they are in the first place.
It's probably easier to spot if you're older because absolutely everything in that movie screams reference to past cultural artifact. So you'd be looking for that in every detail. A younger person would be more likely to take the plot elements at "face value", as original or as standard story tropes.

That said I was around 15 at the time I saw it so recent history probably had a lot to do with it. AIDS was in the news a lot more in the 90s.
The State of Rust 0.7
Nice catch. Additional data point: I saw it when it came out, and it was obvious it was AIDS. I guess that's a piece of history that's gradually fading now.
Looks to have returned. (https://kore.io for those coming now that the top link has changed.) Also see: https://github.com/jorisvink/kore/commit/e1183e22a6a7a970213...
also people who don't try to mitigate the effects of Facebook iframes
I have a working solution for getting to work - i drive my car. Over the life of that car, i expect to pay about 25 cents a mile.

The investment approach assumes there is some technology that either can be added to my car, or replace my car. This technology would need to lower the cost of ownership, and do so at a profit. In my specific case, you've only got about $10k left to work with over the remaining life of the car, and that's coming from gas, insurance, maintenance and repairs budgets.

I'm just skeptical that that much room for improvement exists. Cars are a very mature technology. They have an (unfair?) advantage that a whole bunch of infrastructure is in place to support them. I would guess at least a trillion dollars has been spent optimizing cars and car manufacture. An alternative would need to overcome some pretty big obstacles.

Self driving cars provide enormous potential for underutilization of existing cars, but it's really hard to get around the problem of requiring millions of cars from 8-9 AM and 5-6 PM. There are gains to be had, and all those incremental 1-2% improvements over a hundred years have improved efficiency greatly. The point here, you can use fewer self driving cars to serve the transportion needs - just as much gas would be used, but the environmental savings come from less metal and glass and energy to shape the materials.

I'm just skeptical of even a billion dollar kickstarter moving the needle very much. Your optimism is commendable, but the only solution available to us today is using that billion dollars to somehow discount the purchase of slightly more fuel efficient cars. Even that is only a few percent improvement. Cities like Huston need to move the needle a lot, if they want kids to be able to play outside.
I am using AdBlock with whitelist enabled, and I don't see any scammy ads on this page. So whatever Google and AdBlock agreed on, it does not include those scammy ads.
Yes, he is mocking you by suggesting something outlandish to imply what you are suggesting is also outlandish.

Nevermind that politicians being blackmailed is hardly unheard of...
Mysterious radio flashes may be from stars collapsing into black holes
How Pixar changed the way light works for Monsters University
Are we nearly there yet?
You could also try the Elliot Sigmoid activation function. I found it executed about 2x faster than the exponential sigmoid (in Matlab). Brief writeup: http://www.gallamine.com/blog/2013/01/21/a-sigmoid-function-...
Asynchronous Programming in Dart [pdf]
yeah, but puma is free :)
The color wheel is a standard way to explore colors that go well together. Before digital design, I think it was more commonly used in print than buildings, but I suppose it's possible. You could also try http://ColourLovers.com for specific patterns.
Except if the work he does benefits both Democratic and Republicans (whose interests at the top level coincide, anyway -- the same way wealthy private interests fund both parties campaigns, hedge their bets, so to speak).

In which case Congress would not pass anything he wouldn't really like (except at the level of personal politics).
"There is no national registry of cancer victims, but the nationwide incidence of Kaposi's Sarcoma in the past had been estimated by the Centers for Disease Control to be less than six-one-hundredths of a case per 100,000 people annually, or about two cases in every three million people. However, the disease accounts for up to 9 percent of all cancers in a belt across equatorial Africa, where it commonly affects children and young adults."

Is that because GRID already was occurring in Africa, and people getting KS and dying of it, or was it just a common cancer in Africa for unrelated reasons?