skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I disagree with your drastic metaphor. I don't think that using a single word: "Recomended" is any kind of masterful psychological ploy.

Where did I call it masterful? What even gave you that impression? Huh.

> And a trick is only a trick if it dosen't work. Otherwise, they are providing value. Even if it's just a Japanese Robotic Dog.

The question is, to whom are they providing value, and what value is it. Just "providing value" is like "being safe", it's, to quote you, a "void of information". Maybe just skip to doubleplusgood, same thing.

> If you consider it a "trick", then I would suggest you look into "Dark UI patterns" -- there is no intention to deceive.

There's always something worse. There's always something better, too. For starters I recommend "Politics and the English Language" by Orwell (or anything he wrote on writing really, consider it a crash course in intellectual honesty) and this http://fadeyev.net/2012/06/19/moral-design/

A trick doesn't require intent, either. An insect might camouflage itself just because it happened to evolve that way, no thought process involved.

> then why would the user even be there?

Because it's kinda hard to see what's on a webpage without going to it, duh...

This is like having a pet food shop, and then wondering why some people even look at your shop, when they don't even have pets, or don't want your pet food. This is how mindless the web became in roughly a decade. Just astonishing.

> Prodding and nudging have negative connotations attached to them-- and I really don't think that just by attempting to humanize a the user experience deserves such harsh judgement.

What do you even mean by "humanize" in this context? I know what it means in electronic music, to just shuffle stuff around so it seems human when it's really not. So either rephrase, or thanks for making my point for me.

This is about conversion ratios, not the human condition, unless I missed something. This is about making gifts so people feel like they owe you something, making sure the gift is less worth to you than what the average customer will give you for it. This is about acting nice while not actually being nice.

I wouldn't care as much if people groomed by marketing wouldn't also fall for politicians employing the same tricks, and maybe if the web could retain a bit breathing room from all the huge fonts and "hero shots" that show you "what you'll get" (a woman holding an agenda, that's the product? No wait... gotta love how marketers can't even help bullshitting each other).
How about more control over the software & configuration side of ELB as well? If you could control more things that nginx or haproxy let you control, I think there would be a lot less need for another routing mechanism behind ELB.

In addition to weighting, we need an nginx layer for different app pools, custom routing options, max connections limits, request queueing, url rewriting, static content serving for specific requests. The list goes on but these things could easily be brought up into the ELB layer.
Node Man's Land
>doesn't every place have its own local diseases and parasites???

You're right. I live in the mid-Atlantic region of the country. Two months ago, we went hiking in the woods and my wife and I forgot to check our three kids for ticks until the next day. My 4 year old son had two ticks on him. A week later, bulls-eye rash about 5 inches in diameter appeared on his back around one of the tick bites.

Three weeks of antibiotics later, he was fine but there are a lot of people that get Lyme's Disease without even knowing that they had a tick bite, or the rash that appears in the majority (but not all) is in their hairline so they don't see it. Untreated, it can have a lot of the same effects the article attributes to this fungal infection.
yep, i need to sort that, thanks
It's worth noting that this is a non-binding resolution, in case it wasn't clear from the article's title:

"the Commission now has the authority from the Parliament to suspend PNR and TFTP, but it falls at the Commission's discretion. Resolutions passed by the Parliament are not legally binding,"
With a language as unstable as PHP, of course you'll be spending more time on StackOverflow than on HN ;)
CSS3 and the nth-child
How many times have you seen a piece of JavaScript or PHP code that’s only purpose is to add a specific class to the first, alternate or last element of a list or row of table? With CSS3 you can easily get rid of all of that logic and replace it clean and simple CSS selectors. This will help tidy up your code and depending on what exactly the code is doing reduce CPU load by removing unnecessary recursions (This is of course a minimal gain, but every little bit counts)
>> His complaint is that crypto is to hard to use.

Yes, and if you're going to use low level constructions he's right, and that will never change.

>> This is a valid complaint and "don't do it" isn't a valid solution.

Except that's not what I said, I said find a higher level library. When he asked I gave examples.

>> Too many "libraries" consist only of implementations of the crypto algorithms, but don't give any help with the proper use.

Then these may be the wrong libraries to use to secure your application. Great libs to poke around in the lower levels for a variety of other purposes of course.
I think both theory and data are against you here.

e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163835.aspx
that's weird , works fine on my chrome on my mac, i will take a look
It's not possible. You can't live in a place and not participate in its political regime, even if it lacked a government. For example, you claim to not want to pay, but that is meaningless in a regime without the concept of property.
I think he is using Vagrant to install Ubuntu on a non-Linux machine. Docker seems to work only there.
good spot, now fixed
That's right. Python is popular among sysops folks, and the scientific/mathematics people.
I'm already a big fan and advocate of both Clojure and ClojureScript, and although I've had great success convincing friends and coworkers to give Clojure a try (and even get excited about it), unfortunately ClojureScript has been a different animal entirely.

Thus far, everyone I've taught Clojure concepts to really appreciates the functional bend of the language, immutable values, and of course the elegant sequence/collection abstractions/persistant data structures that Clojure provides. But semantics are almost never a convincing argument (for most for programmers I know) for spending the time to pick up another language.

What really pushes people over the edge in my experience from thinking of Clojure as "just another Lisp" or a parentheses laden toy, are the amazing concurrency primitives that Clojure provides out of the box. Once my colleagues realize how trivial (and fun!) both concurrent and parallel computation becomes with Clojure, they're hooked and want to dive in.

The talk you gave is probably the most concise manifesto I've yet to come across of just how much better Clojure's semantics are for, well, pretty much any complex problem I can think of. You did an absolutely fantastic job with your assemblage of example functions which definitely shows off the language.

But I know that if I want to convince the company I work at to adopt ClojureScript as a JS replacement for our client side applications, an argument for superior semantics is almost never going to get very far.

Clojure (in combination with libraries like Incanter, JVM interop, etc.) allows me to completely replace R & Python for both exploratory data analysis, machine learning, and building a powerful backend for any distributed application with a double whammy of awesome - I get a much better language for expressing a lot of ideas AND it's fast as hell. I can scale my Clojure code to a cluster of CPUs for training some model without a second thought. I can write really powerful software and never feel limited in what I can accomplish and in the end, project managers/execs just can't argue. Simply nothing else exists in this class with this combination of agility, functional elegance, and "enterprise" class power.

Okay, this comment began as a thank you for making a great appeal for ClojureScript and has unexpectedly turned into... I'm not even sure.

So, TLDR? We need a killer feature that goes beyond semantics for ClojureScript that fixes something broken and practical in JavaScript. Is this a seamless and powerful Web Workers VM or abstraction that just works? Is it a mature core.async in tandem with full featured promises? Is it a new core lib that makes having to think about client/server interaction a problem of the past? I just don't know.
Do you have any more information about that?

I zest the peels often and enjoy a gin and tonic with lime, would buying organic or from a specific producer help avoid it? The cost should be minimal for these items.
This is good news. But oddly enough, I can't copy color values in Firefox :/
Quarks, Atoms & Molecules: structuring front end development
I don't think the US have any interest in the death penalty for Snowden.

They'd much rather him rot without trial in Guantanamo for the rest of his life, as to serve a better lesson to anyone thinking of following his footsteps.
Again, it can not be known to the general public that the NSA is in fact complying with all applicable laws because the legal justification is--in fact--classified. However, it is known thanks to an approved declassified statement that on at least one occasion, the NSA did violate the 4th Amendment[1]. This is taken from the legal director of Senator Ron Wyden as part of an official statement:

"It is also true that on at least one occasion the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held that some collection carried out pursuant to section 702 minimization procedures used by the government was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment."[2]

Again, no one is saying that the government isn't claiming legal authority. But what you--we--need to understand and accept is that no matter what actions the government takes, they will always claim legal authority. If they were to take unconstitutional or otherwise illegal actions against U.S. citizens--even with benevolent intent (e.g. protection and safety)--they must claim the legal authority to do so. The problem at hand is that neither the actions taken nor the legal justification of those actions are known to the general public and thus we have absolutely no avenue to check the government and ensure that their claims of legal authority are accurate.

It's important to now note that by definition there is no enemy of any nation which presents a greater threat to the sovereignty of that nation than a corruption of that sovereignty itself--be it political corruption, abuse, or tyranny. Therefore, it is an a priori requirement to national security for the public to know that the actions and justifications of the government are legal--and that the public views their legality as justified.

And this can and should be done without releasing specific details which would result in an unreasonable threat to national security. We're not talking about releasing the source code here; we're talking about proving to the public that they approve of the both the actions and the justification of those actions. It may be inconvenient to be restrained by the constitution, but violation of it--even if only in spirit--is tyranny as the founders defined it.

Finally, as an aside to your point about aircraft carriers and missile defense shields, those examples are neither questionably unconstitutional nor are they equivalent. If a aircraft carrier or a missile defense shield become compromised, there will be destruction; but manageable, well-defined, destruction. We can measure and contain that sort of destruction. It's impossible to imagine or measure the amount of destruction caused by the release of in-depth intelligence data of many, most, or all citizens of the world.
I would love to be able to not just attached EC2 instances to ELB's, but also RDS instances.
Yes, I should probably clarify that I'm not in favor of oppressing black people. Rather, I'm skeptical of arguments that it's a bad idea for the federal government to take power from the states, because historically the issue of states' rights has been synonymous with the issue of oppressing black people. Forgive me for the sarcasm.
According to your document, the reason is that MA's employer penalty is about 7-10x smaller ($295) than the Obamacare employer penalty (either $2000 or $3000).
thanks now fixed
I couldn't reply to your comment in response to my earlier comment so I am replying here.

I believe in natural rights, not designed in the human framework sense, so I totally agree with you on what democracy is actually: mob rule of the majority. Proponents of government actually must accept its truth: wealth transfer at the point of a gun. I live in India (a high-tax and high-tax evasion socialist paradise where even the roads are not good) and I wouldn't pay taxes at all, since I get nothing in return. But poor people get a lot (and of course, rich politicians steal most of the money), but there is no point in denying the truth: but for the State's implied threat of violence, I would not fork out what I earned. Period.
Materiais de Construção e Tecnologias Sustentáveis - SCMT3
:-) forgot about that one
This is very interesting! I wonder if I can get the same battery in my Android phone so it can last longer.
Most people either strongly prefer chocolate, or strongly prefer vanilla - let's say these partisans total roughly 80% of the population. Roughly 10% are resolutely 'undecided,' their vote might change each election. Suppose a final 10% strongly prefer strawberry (they are partisan too, but not with one of the two parties).

They can vote strawberry, but there is no chance of winning. Many will still do it anyway because it is a sort of symbolism or alternative to invalidating the ballot, or because they want to show that a significant number of strawberries are there in order to encourage people to vote strawberry in future elections. But many others will, in the end, vote for whichever majority flavor they would much rather see winning. If they are serious about getting more strawberry, they may do things like trying to win the vanilla primary, or positioning themselves as providing vanilla votes in exchange for a strawberry swirl.

And the two-party system continues.

Meanwhile, a tiny number of people believe we should all starve, or eat only gravel, or human flesh. While different, these are not necessarily more "balanced" suggestions. Some would like to bypass democracy to install their own like-minded buddies, which isn't very balanced either.
That PDF shows nothing about full-time vs part-time downgrading. It only shows employment numbers were not reduced.

In fact by reducing everyone to 29-hours, they could in theory claim to hire MORE people, while carefully saying nothing about them making a living wage or the state paying for their insurance vs the employer.

That PDF is actually depressing when you look at the graphs, uninsurance was only reduced by a little over a third for all that change in policy.
Theory; science.
Implementation; engineering.

That's how I think about it...
What motivates web designers to tell stories by repurposing the scroll mechanism instead of, say, using video?

I can only speak for myself, but I rarely, if ever, watch website videos, especially at work.

I made it through this entire thing by scrolling.

While I understand video is sometimes the best way to convey an idea, I fricken hate it. It would need to be something very, very intriguing for me to watch. 99% of websites selling things don't fall into that category.
What resolution are your running your rMBP at? I'm on 1920. When I change my settings, to the default resolution, things get worse.
It's been made very clear that the 95% of the world's population not living inside America have absolutely no rights in the eyes of the NSA.

By indiscriminately spying on everyone, America has made this a global issue.
What kills off third party competition is its lack of viability at elections.
You can host webpages (HTML, CSS, and Javascript) free from Google Drive: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en
Then it's a case of do as I say, not as I do. It's not just him who has a problem with, I did as well. And so did a bunch of others who had half their devices covered in landscape and almost 1/4 on their tablets in landscape.
This assumes the president doesn't want to maintain plausible deniability.
OpenSSL is fairly low level and still lets you shoot yourself in the foot. You can make the same mistakes as in the OP post.
I am very closely acquainted with a person who was found to have this infection by culture of a biopsy sample during the 1980s. The person I know has never been to the parts of the United States mentioned in this article. The examination finding that prompted the biopsy was persistent cough and general fatigue accompanied by an abnormal chest X-ray. (The chest X-ray, in turn, was follow-up to a course of preventive treatment for tuberculosis, medically indicated for a foreign person who arrived in the United States Mantoux-positive for tuberculosis, perhaps from having had the BCG tuberculosis vaccine overseas. The X-ray finding was nothing at all like the chest X-ray of someone with a tuberculosis infection, but quite unusual, prompting many other diagnostic tests, including repeated biopsies.)

The good news is that the patient I know recovered fully after surgery. The bad news is that the patient had to have major surgery. Moreover, we are unsure to this day what the actual diagnosis was. The surgery was curative, as the patient's complaints and disabilities all went away after it was over, but the lung infection was never definitively diagnosed. (Another infectious agent was cultured after a different biopsy.) Slow-growing lung infections are very hard to diagnose. Fortunately, most people have a lot of spare lung tissue, so even removal of a whole lobe on one lung does not impair future aerobic exercise.

Developing better diagnostic procedures for this illness will not be easy at all, but seems well worth doing. Antifungal drugs are very hard to develop, because fungi are very biologically similar to animals, and thus a drug that works on fungi has a high probability of being toxic to human patients if taken internally.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/valley-fever/DS00695/DSECTI...
73 year old entrepreneur starts after school education center
As unrealistic as it is I would love to be able to attach non-Amazon servers.

It's hard to find load balancing as a service.
Existence of things is not a justification for them.

There is always theft and rape and lies around us. But we don't justify them just because we see them. Only some moral justification gives government huge size and power. People believe that while theft and murder are bad, when government does it according to some scripture, they can be good. It's just like any double standard in any ancient religion.
Good point.

Baden ftw!
That's true, but I picking up a few minor infections here and there that your body can shrug off is no big deal. In fact it's useful for our immune systems get a minor workout from time to time.
In med school I learned about a mailing list primarily for infectious disease specialists tracking potential outbreaks worldwide. After a few months I stopped reading it -- it was too terrifying.

Update: It was probably ProMED-mail[1]. The WHO also posts disease a outbreak news[2].

[1] http://www.promedmail.org/

[2] http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/index.html
Could you please expand? Do I make a crime anywhere here? In legal framework or in the framework of your own ethics.
What do you imagine will happen if Musk lands on Mars? Various countries will be claiming jurisdiction before he lands (assuming they don't already). They could simply call mars an extension of their country and hold him accountable to their laws for anything he does on Mars.
I never said society == government, then I wouldn't have said "society's government".

Government is a PART of society. Along with other norms (like what we consider acceptable in social situations).

Also, government is set up to protect from rape and theft. You're right, government often has immoral shortcomings, but most people believe it is better than anarchy. No one was signing this contract? Most people agree with the need for cops.

I'm not saying government does its job ideally. I'm not saying the majority wanting something makes it right. All I was saying in the comment was that if society wants something, and you disagree and want to be isolated from, while living with, that society, then there will be problems. If, on the other hand, you just want the society to not have a government (either at all or just not the current incarnations) then that is different.
I understand the point you're making, I just don't think it's obvious that the NSA is unimportant. As well as detecting terrorism, they may well be doing a lot of other things to protect the us against then machinations of others e.g. Russia and china.

Also, don't underestimate terrorism. Over decades, the IRA did a lot to disrupt the UK, including killing cabinet ministers, and two nearly successful assassination attempts against the prime minister. Ultimately the UK conceded and the new Irish government contained ministers who had been leaders of the terrorist movement.
This is probably something I should already know, but how do you read a chart like this?
I agree with everything but the concept that what he did "is without a doubt a crime." In fact, many people, including lawyers and constitutional scholars, have debate on the subject. The reasons they might not be a crime include:
-Legal whistle blower protections
-precedent of committing lesser crimes to prevent larger crimes
-international case law around disobeying illegal orders
-the application of reasonableness in the 4th amendment

Snowden is committing a crime no more than Daniel Ellsburg releasing the Pentagon Papers was a crime, and Mark Felt (Deep Throat) was a criminal for exposing FBI and presidential misconduct.
Would you prefer distribution of violence?
Show HN: What does it feel like to be one of 7 billion? (built with D3)
That explains Google sponsored links showing up again. Oh well, that's just another filter I'll have to add.
I posit that Microsoft has more to do with this trend than anything else.

I was a Windows / Microsoft tools only developer for many many years and only recently switched to Javascript / Node.js and OSS tools for our business applications.

My usage of S.O. almost exactly parallels what you see in that graph over the time period and I'm personally aware of a great many other Windows developers moving away from it recently.

The reason for myself has absolutely nothing to do with Joel or Jeff and everything to do with Microsoft pushing out the smaller professional developers who supported them and by extension Windows for decades in favour of policies that benefit only the very big software shops and students / dabblers and then recently with Windows 8 basically giving us all the final push away in many, many different ways.

As for your last sentence; as a professional software developer of well over 20 years who 'goes near' Windows programming and everything else I can get my hands on I can't fathom how anyone can take pleasure in less opportunity and a smaller market and fewer interesting platforms to work with.
I personally reject the notion that "...A Good User Interface
has high conversion rates and is easy to use". I don't agree that it is a requirement that a good UI has high conversion rates. In fact I would argue that software can have a good UI and poor conversion rates. A good UI is responsible to the user only; it's not called a USER interface for nothing.
4th of July DUI Checkpoint - Search without consent...
I haven't been able to get this working in Chrome at work because some js scripts fail to download. Firefox is okay though.