skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, when they don't use any of it against bankers or embezzlers - just against online poker players and marijuana buyers.
Congress cannot make murder legal. Congress can strip Roberts of his FISC powers. The situations are not analogous.
Agreed on Ghostery. I have been using it for quite a while and it seems to work well.
I think this misses the point of minimum wage. The whole point of minimum wage is that the work is not very important and very commodity-like. Minimum wage protects the importance of people, not any particular type of work.
Wait. You own tiersum.com and still decided to call tires 'tyres'? Why don't you, ya know, spell the word correctly?

When I visited your page, between the horrid spelling and lack of images, I had no clue what the hell your site was supposed to do.
Didn't they also do the entire soundtrack for the new Tron film? Obscure? Hardly!
You've completely rehashed the OP. My point is that it doesn't matter what one individually believes on the subject of testimonials and the effectiveness thereof - they are indisputably effective for selling. Presenting anecdotal evidence that there exist people that dislike them does not change that and is worse than saying nothing because you give people the impression that testimonials are somehow negative.

We're on an internet message board talking about conversion optimization. Statistics don't care about personal preferences; your competitors will laugh at them straight to the bank.
I might got his message slightly wrong. However white listing is is a feature in the filter list format itself, that is used ever since by every ad blocker. So you can include third-party white lists or maintain your own with every ad blocker, already before Adblock Plus introduced "Acceptable Ads" and its own white list.
As someone with rudimentary programming experience this is cool. I've had an enthusiasm for D3.js projects but haven't been able to come across an applicable "this is how you get started" example. Well done.

Side note: I downloaded the gist and encountered some odd behavior when I opened the .html file in my browser (Chrome on Mac OSX). The treasure chest is stuck near the top of the circle (regardless of cursor position) and one of the flags is missing its connecting lines. Just thought you should know.
Interesting coincidence, I just posted a related blog post about why our company isn't joining Fight for the Future's "Internet Defense League".

Fight for the Future attempted to organize online protests similar to the SOPA blackouts, but ended up doing this in a rather deceptive way (which is what the post discusses).

It's floating in https://news.ycombinator.com/newest right now: Why we are not joining Fight for the Future’s "Internet Defense League"

The blog post itself is here: http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2013/07/integrity-internet-def...
The Long Shadow Design Trend
The travel bans constitute inappropriate discrimination in my opinion, but they don't imply a misunderstanding of AIDS transmission. People can travel to a country and have sex there.
The first step in getting a click is gettin an impression.

On the other extreme, I've actually found myself right clicking into an organic search because I feel bad for charging UPS for my laziness.

(Yes I do realize how ridiculous this is on so many levels. However, do not assume that well plassed text ads do not get click thrus)
Optical transistor switches states by trapping a single photon
So great. I download a product who's stated purpose is to block ads, and I have to worry about their author's dealings with ad companies to decide if something will or won't be blocked.

You have a disturbing amount of trust for someone with such an amazingly blatant conflict of interest.
Are you implying that child pornography is more diffused than financial crimes? Or that there is a weird top chart of crimes where terrorism > child pornography > speed limits > financial crimes?
I think we can disagree on this point without disagreeing on the substance of my point, which is that it's Congress that is ultimately responsible for the shape of the surveillance state until it infringes on the Fourth Amendment, at which point it's the federal court system (and SCOTUS) that becomes responsible; at no point does Roberts authority over FISC play a key role.
Major Dan gets both legs lost and ends up a pathetic drunkard in wheelchair without purpose, I'd think it's bad enough, no?

And John Lennon, with his "Imagine", was a wife beater. Do not confuse political convictions with person's character.
Whenever I've watched this, I've stopped it several times and just tried to think of/like the people in the audience. What were they thinking? What previous and familiar techniques and technologies were they using as the lens to see this through? If you had them brainstorm in small groups about how they could use this if they had it for the next year, what would they think it was good for? Is it something they saw as useful for themselves or just for record-keepers and report writers?
Are you saying anti-war protesters can't be women beaters? That liberated women can't get AIDS? That in the late 70's prostitutes were guaranteed ways of getting this disease that wasn't widespread yet?

Forrest Gump had very real characters. Jenny had a shitty life, which continued to be shitty by her choices. This really happens to people from shitty backgrounds because they don't recognize shitty situations as shitty, but as normal. Had she stayed with Forrest, her life wouldn't have been that way, but she still could have been the strong woman that was part of her personality. She just didn't recognize when a good thing came her way.

Lots of people did heroin and hookers before AIDS was everywhere, not all of them contracted HIV. That's the nature of a mystery disease. Lt. Dan also fell into a depression that Forrest helped pull him out of, just by being a good influence. Lt. Dan had the life Jenny could have, Forrest made the lives of people around him better by being a good person. Between that and the rapid changes the world went through from 1950 to ~1985 is what the movie is about.

It's not a propaganda film, despite your strongest wishes that it were.
Jay-Z's New Album Is Basically A Massive Data Mining Operation
It's a formulaic little disco song. It's calculated soulless pop. I don't get the appeal.
It's interesting that people are upset about Google being able to pay to get their content around certain barriers, when this is essentially what Google AdWords is: a system for advertisers to pay to get their content displayed in prominent locations rather than relying on position in organic search. And yet nobody really takes it seriously as a Real Problem.

Not trivializing your complaint, btw... just pointing out that using money to get your message to the forefront is kind of the point of advertising itself, so the fact that Google is paying to get their advertising displayed is kind of... meta?

I'd love to have a discussion on HN about the necessity of advertising in the Information Age. I think we would all like to live in a world where purchasing decisions are based on reviews from people that have actually used a good or service, and I would think that the ubiquity of the web has made this kind of crowdsourced intelligence quite feasible.

Does advertising provide a valuable service beyond subsidizing information flow? If not, are there alternate viable strategies for subsidizing information flow, such as Wikipedia's donation model? Is a post-advertising world possible, or even desirable?
It would probably be helpful to have a little section telling you how to figure out what size tyres you have. You'd probably need an image, though. See, e.g., http://www.blackcircles.com/tyres.
You really equate paying a third party to reduce their negative impact on your business to paying a third party to start negatively impacting a competitor?

One takes advantage of market conditions their benefit, the other changes market conditions to the detriment of the competitor.
I knew about it before it was in the standard library, but thanks.
This may be the beginning of new era. Thorium is easy to get for developed nations in the 3rd world.
No. You learn to do cryptography. You get a book, you sit down and you read it. Understand what are cryptography primitives. Understand how they can be used together to create cryptographic systems. Understand every part of that system. Then learn what are the common errors, learn how misuse of cryptographic primitives can lead to disaster. Be able to talk for hours about why WEP encryption can be easily cracked by a low-powered netbook.

When you've done all of that, you'll know that you are abysmally incompetent at cryptography. When you know that, you can start learning how to become good at cryptography. Some people divide learning in four steps: unconscious incompetence (you don't know that you're bad), conscious incompetence, conscious competence and unconscious competence.

Even when you're competent, you will make mistakes, because cryptography is very hard. We've seen how MD5 is now broken, yet still people use it as message authentication ciphers even when it's trivial to perform a length extension attack. But MD5 wasn't always broken. I'm sure it was designed by competent people, but they can't foresee all flaws.

That is why someone who is incompetent at cryptography should not do it.
playing them or programming them? These days text adventures are called "interactive fiction" and if you google that, suddenly you find a lot of stuff, including http://www.theescapist.com/

But programming games? GameMaker might be a good bet.
Ways to do Content Marketing
Why do you think they do not do that?
Keep in mind, this article was written by the same author as "Cold Fusion reactor independently verified"[1]. He seems somewhat obsessed with the idea.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/156393-cold-fusion-reacto...
Looks like a hoax for me. Fungal infections are medically treated, even if your lungs are affected with, say, Candida after sharing some shisha in a dirty moroccan place.
This thread has descended into self-parody. I encourage you guys to go do something else.
Surviving that Insufferable Button
"Tyre" is British English for the black rubber cylinders that wrap around a car's wheels.

Also, physician, heal thyself: you've spelled 'tire' as 'tier' in your first sentence.
Serge Lang as well. I don't know enough about the topic to evaluate his critiques, but they certainly don't sound crazy.

http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/slquestions.htm
I'm okay with hobby projects that use cryptography if every time the user tries to do anything in which security can be expected they flash a message that makes the user type "I understand my data may be read by an adversary."
That is a by-product of being SPDY compliant. The SPDY spec doesn't allow for unencrypted traffic, which is just one reason we need to switch over.
I don't know about you, but while I can type at 70WPM for typing tests, I generally can't sustain it for long periods of time, and my error rate increases.
It might be just me but I feel "Get Lucky" is also highly derivative of a lot of hits that came just a bit before it, including Katy Perry's Last Friday Night. Never mind the marketing, I think the song itself has been engineered according to careful analysis. Not that I have anything against Daft Punk, they made some pretty awesome music, but this particular song doesn't feel all that original or engaging to me.
The US can close the loophole at their end in a minute, by passing Cuba-style embargo laws. They won't do it today, because US corporations are prime benefactors of that scam, but it doesn't mean they won't ever do it.

In any case, there's absolutely no indication whatsoever that the Irish will risk jeopardizing their relationship with the Empire for little Ed Snowden; in fact, the opposite is likely true (they'd love to be the ones shipping a shackled Snowden to the NSA). It's probable that this intimation was issued to Ireland exactly because it's the country less likely to protest for being openly treated as vassal. For example, it's already quite doubtful that the stunt pulled on French and Spanish authorities for Morales's plane could ever be repeated, because public opinion in those countries is now incensed. Not everyone loves to be Air Strip One.
The bad precedent was when Adblock introduced the concept of "acceptable ads" in the first place.
Operative word being 'were'. I lived through Discovery coming out in the club world back then. What's happened since has been a slow yet steady growth in their popularity/mythology. My parents know who they are now.

There was a pretty nice fervor surrounding their involvement in the Tron soundtrack as it was their first new work in 5 years. It went gold and peaked at number 4 in the billboard charts - not the dance charts, not soundtrack, the billboard 200. And that was just a soundtrack.
Daft Punk's early work, their Homework album, and the releases on Roule were some of the best things to ever happen to house music. However, they sold out in a big way and it's been all downhill since then. (They signed with Virgin for Homework.) Skipping through it on YouTube, this song is no exception, unfortunately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I

At least it won't get as overplayed as Music Sounds Better With You did/does, which is a pretty good song the first time you hear it, and for which there was truly explosive demand out of the gate.
MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis to Keynote Inside 3D Printing Chicago
NSA recruitment drive goes horribly wrong
For car owners this is a non-issue but we geeks are not that car-savvy. I tried several combinations before finding a good one.

Maybe a "most searched" sizes could beat this.
Well by funding, they are helping adblock. And, assuming its true that their(Google's) own ads are NOT blocked, it means adblock(and by extension Google) is negatively impacting only the competitors. So in this case, the comparison is very valid.

Obviously they(Google) can't outright put out an adblocker of their own, but if someone else puts it out and they support it, and it just so happens to whitelist their ads, you must admit its definitely worth at least questioning. Plus Google is not the stellar company it pretends to be, with the recent news about its tax evasion in Europe and PRISM participation.
There's a great Radiolab episode, Patient Zero (http://www.radiolab.org/2011/nov/14/), that covers the the spread of AIDS and tracing the disease back to its origin.
Oh, he would be "trialled", of course. With a special trial, that could last decades, time he gets to spend in protective custody, of course.

After all the bull*hit about "enemy combatants", my faith in the separation of powers in the US is quite nil.
The inventor of the mouse has died – why his invention took 30 years to catch on
He wasn't asking. It's a rhetorical question that explains why this article was written.
> In some cases the fungal treatment is longer than usual eg: Nail infection, ...

I believe I got that and roughly beat it! It only
took a few years!

Doing some rough carpentry, I dropped a 2 x 4 on
my left big toe. No big pain. But later it appeared
that I had cracked the nail. Later the nail began to
crumble -- likely a fungus among us!

Eventually the nail crumbled its way nearly all the way
back to the white part.

I got some anti-fungus cream, generic, big tubes,
from Wal-Mart. So, I'd put a tablespoon of this
cream on the nail, wrap up the toe with a piece of
paper towel, secure it with whatever tape was
handy, and f'get about it until after a shower,
etc. and then repeat the procedure.

More than once the nail grew out again but was
infected with the fungus. We're talking years
here!

Finally I got lucky and the nail grew out
apparently healthy.

Then there was another problem: The inside
edge of the nail was a long way from growing
out so grew against flesh giving me an
ingrown toenail. Okay, been there; done
that! So, slathered on some Wal-Mart
generic triple anti-biotic cream, wrapped
it up, and waited months until the end of
the nail grew out past the flesh.
Yes, the end of the nail was ugly with
blood and dead flesh! Ah, soap and water!
But there was no bacterial infection from
the ingrown nail, and no fungus infection.

Now the nail is nicely grown out with
little or no evidence of crumbling
from a fungus infection.

So, I killed the fungus with just topical
medicine and not some internal medicine
that might damage my liver.

But, given the slow rate of nail growth,
a case can take years!

The anti-biotic cream seems to be strong
stuff: Once got some on my socks,
washed my socks, and too soon saw
sewage bubbling up in my backyard.
Yup, the anti-biotic cream had
sterilized my septic tank! So, flush
a box of Rid-X or whatever,
and the septic tank has been
healthy ever since.
This is probably rather pointless - first normalize the energy consumption by the population. Because population growth was exponential for a long time, the energy consumption per capita was probably more or less constant. It will get very crowded way before our energy consumption starts to melt the earth.
No, it's not just you. But is a collage considered not art because it contains cut bits from previous works? I guess it's all down to just how derivative it all is. I don't think "Get Lucky" is all too original, but I did enjoy it.

It has a blend of smooth rock, jazz and old-school disco more than electronica.
Badger wants to replace Identity Providers with The Blockchain
Just like in real life. Some people got it, some people didn't.

I also thought it was great how they handle the subject in that movie. And what about Forest who loves Jenny regardless anything on her past?
How Development Agencies can Play a Bigger Role in Startup Communities
If so, that's pretty cool. Happen to know if foursquare / twitter have anything in place that lets them handle the enterprise case w/o letting me mitm them?
Without fail, every time I hear that song, I find myself soon after with Madonna's song "Who's that Girl" in my head.
Well, Karposi's Sarcoma is a cancer. They weren't wrong about that.

It just happens to be a cancer that is overwhelmingly more common in people suffering from HIV than in the general population.
Also falling middle class incomes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A#t=8m25s
Ask HN: How to market Facebook application
Hello everyone,
I spent sometime to develop a facebook application that builds virtual inventory by connecting Amazon API with facebook API. I have finally got the app approved on FB, but no idea how to get some users to try it out.

The app link: http://www.facebook.com/appcenter/zollaria

I'd greatly appreciate any tip.
Thanks!
easym0de
So maybe he should know that thorium has nothing to do with fusion :)
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Musicians make a song listenable, but not necessarily a hit. There are many artists out there who write music that is as good (or sometimes better) as that written by artists who make it, and who will remain mostly unknown outside a circle of dedicated followers. If success depended on good music alone, they would be better known than they are.
I guess there is more than one reason for this, image and marketing are just two.

Here, the journalist writes that "[Daft Punk] opted for their own small-scale marketing strategy", having billboards popping up all over the world and TV spots doesn't sound at all like a small-scale operation to me, just creative. I assume that a lot of recording artists out there would love to have access to such small-scale marketing strategy.

But that's just me, and what do I know?
I recently posted on writing a UI component using only native javascript and a Model-View pattern[1].

Something like this can easily be written in 10-15 minutes, doesn't require previous knowledge of any library or framework, and serves as a good measure for code style, organization, design patterns, knowledge of javascript, the DOM API, and application architecture.

[1] http://ricardo.cc/2013/06/07/react-tutorial-rewritten-in-pla...
And, as a couple people have pointed out, Thorium isn't even used in fusion. This author could stand to do a little more reading on the subject.
I'm surprised more startups don't hire agencies. It is just so much easier to get a prototype spun up. The agencies have already built products, so they have the experience needed to help you get started much faster.
Read Intro to Backbone.js tutorial
Maybe I'm a freak but putting a js in a css folder feels weird.

<script src="/css/tyrejs.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Unfortunately the type of reactor they are building is not as safe as a LFTR, nor does the fuel in this type of reactor last as long; the LFTR reactor is a type of fast breeder reactor. It will still need to be fed pellets continually. The only two material difference between this kind of reactor and a normal boiling water reactor is that it is capable of "burning" a small amount of uranium and/or plutonium a year (either from spent fuel or new sources), and the spent fuel is far less radioactive after a full burn (a full burn is not always the case). It still has most of the other safety issues of a boiling water reactor.
its a UK site, so is spelt correctly, if we do a usa one we will use the tiresum domain
For those curious, AdBlock Edge is a fork of ABP before they decided to add 'Acceptable Ads'.