skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been a while since I've read the book but "And the Band Played On" paints a pretty sad picture about all the missed opportunities to save lives in the early years of the epidemic, due to (admittedly complicated) politics. And not just among politicians and government agencies, but among medical doctors and researchers and leaders of the gay community. You can feel rage and frustration coming through the pages--and it's an incredibly heartbreaking book as you see many of the main personalities involved in the fight against AIDS succumb to it themselves. Including the author himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Band_Played_On#Subject

That's specific to the early years though, pre-Rock Hudson. Obviously a lot's changed since then.
Aids was invented by the right wing propaganda machine to punish homosexuals though, so tomato tomato.
It was very obvious to me too, a teenager back then. The thing is, the entire film puts Forrest in the middle of countless major historical and cultural events. He serves in the Vietnam War. He phones in the Watergate Hotel break in. He speaks at the giant peace rally on the Mall. He co-founds the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. He even invests in Apple ("some fruit company.") Having him witness the early rumblings of the AIDS epidemic is just one more example.
>even when everything in the world points towards doing the work being the best thing for you, you just can't be bothered.

This is also a perfect description of depression.
I didn't find the video, but this might be the cause of you hearing sounds that others don't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbycusis
Nobody is arguing that Congress doesn't have powers here.
Le PRISM
I wonder though if you might actually do better overall with a smaller lookup table and interpolation (or even just a polynomial approximation, which can be evaluated without branching), since large lookup tables can lead to bad cache behavior.
The business owner doesn't share the risk, so I'm not sure how that applies. If anything, offering more 'benefits' increases his/her risk.

Outside of specialized industries, most employees are replaceable, so I don't see any merits to sharing profits beyond the reasonable salary that they earn (provided the salary is reasonable). In a free market, the employees have the right to find a job that offers better benefits, should it exist.
Nah, no issues with naming, mine was just a pet project to pick up a bit of haskell.

R.E. uniting forces, yeah! I looked through your code a bit, and it looks like we have the same underlying idea (yours seems a bit less convoluted than mine, though :-). I'm not really actively using hquery for anything more than a static site generator I wrote with it, but I wouldn't mind spending a few more hours/week on haskell code.
I just noted that Adblock Edge is still based on version 2.0.4 of Adblock Plus, which is outdated for a while. It seems that Adblock Edge isn't maintained anymore and probably never was.

So Adblock Edge will probably get incompatible with future versions of Firefox, anyway. And if there are security issues in the code, it is rather unlikely that they will get fixed, as fast as in upstream Adblock Plus, if at all.

On the other hand I think it is way less likely that Adblock Plus will add a lot of features that wouldn't be in your interest, in the near future.

Sure it is a change in the ethical background of the product. Adblock Plus isn't a hobby project anymore. It's a business now. That means that it has to be profitable. But on the other hand that also means that there are more resources available. So the product can be properly maintained, further improved, and ported to new platforms.

I think this "ethical failing" (as you call it), isn't more or less serious, or unexpected, than when Google introduced in-app ads in Android. In the case of Adblock Plus, as well in the case of Android, I'm happy that the company behind the product found a way to make the product profitable. So they can maintain and improve the product.
for some reason I am thinking that how smart peoples are making money with his hack-ish idea.
Yes, but why argue for the beef of the matter, when you can argue about metaphors and rhetorical misuses?
"but not in the sense that most people think of when they hear the word thorium [...] they haven’t created a cold fusion thorium reactor"

What is this supposed to mean? Who ever talked about cold fusion thorium reactor? Was the author thinking about toroidal fields in Tokamak (which is very hot fusion)??
70 seems like a fairly reasonable rate to select for. If you've been touch typing for any measurable number of years I would think you'd at least be in the 70-80 range.
I agree on hating the footer, but I have no opinion on your criticism of the content, because I didn't even read it because I was straining to focus on the actual site through the tiny slot provided.
Does this change your terms of agreement and enables you to opt out of the 2-year agreement without the ETF charge?
Getting out of the insanely dumb naive DOM smashing pattern is more important than having macros in your frontend language. I am experimenting with Angular + ClojureScript via Clang right now, but if I am forced to make a choice between the two, ClojureScript isn't going to win and I do Clojure on the backend if I'm given a choice of what to use.
This sounds like the sort of tool your credit card company would use to freeze your card if it shows up at POS in different states at too short an interval, buys gas 10 times in an hour, etc.

Real-time data analysis is useful for surveillance, but there are legitimate uses as well, credit card fraud being one of them.
John Landry's fix for angel capital: Get rid of the exit (2010)
That's not always true. Some ad models just care that a user may have seen an ad. A lot of sites you can't just "pay them money."
Are you sure that's what that means? Reading the cases that decision cites in the "unbroken line" of failed separation of powers claims against FISA, nothing I've read unequivocally states that FISC is an Article III court, which makes sense to me because FISC is more unlike a federal court than like one.
I'm not even vaguely interested in this discussion precisely because there are no facts in there, each point is an extreme interpretation of the world by someone who is clearly an anarchist.

Pick any one paragraph and approach it from a devil's advocate, try and argue against it yourself. For every one a clear counter point should immediately jump to you mind or you need to do some serious and unbiased research into history, politics and sociology.

That democratic governments are sued, that they do censure themselves, that politicians do resign in disgrace, that they are thrown out of power peacefully, that police officers are prosecuted for excessive force, that enquiries are done into police shootings, that many police forces fire less bullets in a year than a single gun enthusiast might in a week at the shooting range.

You'll rapidly see how preposterous the whole rant is. He claims that he cannot renegotiate the power they grant to their government. But anyone in a democracy can become a politician and gain that power or a political activist and energise a base until the government starts negotiating. But it cannot be a person on their own. They must be able to convince many others.

He just can't be bothered.

So no facts or reality, just an extreme political opinion not discussing the article at all, which is precisely why these discussions aren't a good fit for a programming, tech and startup board.

The post is very relevant, this thread, not.
Parentful - pinboard for parents
Because the subtext of the article is that Roberts himself is an intractable obstacle to reforming FISC, when in fact all the responsibility for doing so is properly on Congress, at whose pleasure Roberts serves in his capacity as FISC judge appointer. The article is inadvertently letting Congress off the hook.
Detainee at Guantanamo Bay accuses US military guards of sexual assault
Freeway Cameras OCR and Track People and Vehicles by License Place?
I noticed all the cameras today in a new light. Is there any evidence that they are OCR-ing license plates and using that to keep track of locations of cars? I read recently that many police departments do this with mobile cars, but wouldn't it be simpler for them to do it from stationary cameras already in place?
More like the claim will be true but ignored, atleast when it comes to cleaner and safer.
If it's mind-numbing, doesn't that by definition mean it's not worth paying very well?
What about this- clicking "delete account" loads a screen where the account is removed from the frontend, along with an undo button. When the user leaves the page, the account is really deleted. Can you see any problems with this?
What? Occam's razor says that's preposterous.

Source, please?
Ad blocking should be a core feature of web browsers.
What's particularly interesting about the big footer as a UI problem here is that it underscores the trickiness of balancing good UI with converting. For instance, people came to hate popup windows, and they became anathema to a good UI. However, the reason they were used is because they succeeded in getting the user's attention.

Likewise, in this article, the giant footer takes up half my tablet's page, yet the author does this because it contains his call to action.

It is completely fair to point out the irony of an article about good UI design residing on a site with questionable UI design. And while many of the points made were common sense or already known to me, I did learn and/or refresh a bit and so personally appreciated the article.

Still, it would be good to get more insight about the far trickier question: how to engage and compel users to your call to action without having to resort to offending them with popups, giant footers, etc.
Draining is easy. Your health check should be hitting a url like '/ping' anyway which responds with an OK if the box is in a reasonable state and willing to serve traffic.

I always add an additional check to see if a file called /tmp/down exists, and if it does, return a 500 for the health checks. Existing clients will continue to be served but that instance will get no new connections.
+1 for your comment. I don't see why "no images" is special anywhere. I think images would help out a lot here, as you mentioned, especially since I've never bought a tire before and have no idea what I'd be looking for.

Images, just like any other UI paradigm, have their appropriate and inappropriate uses. Producing a UI with no images, and shining the spotlight on that fact, is just the same as saying "Look at this UI with no buttons!", which is silly if buttons might be appropriate, just as images could be appropriate in this case.
Just saw that documentary the other night. It really gives a personal edge to the AIDs epidemic.
Game designers for clubs, UX designers for the DMV :)
Probably my biggest mistake
I've had a similar experience with certain laptops - an electronic squealing sound that apparently only I can hear. As best I can tell, the sound comes from an inverter connected to the displays.
And I love that this was at the very bottom of the article! Inverted pyramid... clearly the author thought this to be a somewhat irrelevant aside.
Xenograte.com calling beta testers
And plus, you know the NSA is looking at your mail anyway, so what further harm could a bunch of MIT grad students do?
Kary Mullis, the inventor of polymerase chain reaction, is an HIV denialist.
Have you seen his conversion statistics?

Good ideas often seem bad. You can't know until you've tried it and measured it. At least he's trying it.
This is interesting and encouraging stuff. I'm a big believer in fission power as our best option for a clean source of huge amounts of electricity (which we'll only need more of as electric cars start to become popular).

My main reason for commenting is to congratulate Thor Energy on coming up with a trebly relevant name.
He was actually an atheist before he was a Christian apologist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis#Conversion_to_Chri...
You CAN fly a plane without knowing about the weather, because the pilot does the flying for you. All you want is to get from point A to point B via plane.

A crypto library is the pilot. A crypto library that allows you to use insecure settings is a pilot who crashes the plane into a mountain because you asked him to.
Impression-based costing isn't unheard-of, even today.
idearebel, bnotions ?
I'm not using any adblocker and I see no scammy ads either.
Don't be absurd... PR firms wouldn't have anything to do with coordinated biowarfare campaigns.
Works ok here on FF25 (nightly).
Few companies take money to help bypass the function of their product!

This is analogous to an antivirus vendor taking money from malware authors to avoid detecting the worm of the day, the only difference being that a text ad isn't as likely to frag your computer.

But hey, in both cases, they're getting money to "maintain and improve the product".
Many thanks for the hosts file. I always prefer a DIY solution as opposed to trusting others.

I'll pass this on.
It's possible there's no immediately apparent close button because the lack of one forces you to read through the copy to figure out how to close the box, which is probably better for conversion rates. I know I wouldn't have even known there was an option to subscribe otherwise, because I would've headed reflexively straight for a close button in the upper right.

Whether that's ultimately a good UI choice I can't really say. Is not being able to find a close button quickly enough so alienating an experience that it would cause many users to turn away or never come back?
I don't know but the sarcoma the articles says is a symptom present in the last stages of AIDS, when the body is covered with brown "patches" - mostly in the back.
Other doctors were investigating other issues at the time, like a strong TB. But it took time for all this different specialists see it was one illness.
Thanks for posting this. Much better than adblock plus I.e. Much faster and more moral.
>> "How did two obscure, older French guys..."

What? I'm not sure if this is just a US perspective but Daft Punk are very well known this side of the Atlantic (Ireland/UK).
Of course, SARS was 30 years later...

To get some perspective, 1981 was as close to 2013 as it was to 1949.

Edit: Yes, I meant 2013, thanks. Point being: I remember the mid (not early) 80's and it SEEMS so recent and modern but it's as far removed from our life today as 1950's life was then.
By disabling that feature, he would block all ads. However, he did say that he wants to support sites who rely on ad revenue. I don't think supporting Adblock Plus was what he was really concerned about.
Sure. But I'm pretty sure Ezra Klein means "under current law"; of course the law could change such that this is not the case any more.

I think you're reading a stronger argument into the original article than is present. He's not arguing that Roberts is constitutionally guaranteed this power, or anything of the sort. Just that under current law, he has this power, and under current law, it's a lifetime appointment since the position that grants such power, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is also a lifetime appointment.
I was not implying that there was a problem with the software at all. Nor with the market. Or even with the permitting process.

A competent designer gets the results they want within whatever constraints are created by the system.

I made a design decision to use three occupants based on the design decision to use a 1.5 ton (18k BTU) HVAC system based on a cost benefit analysis based on the Owner's goals. A permit for construction being among the Owner's goals.

LEED has basically been working the same way. The Owner specifies a Gold Rating. The designer designs the documentation for a Gold Rating. They design the building based on other criteria in addition to the Gold Rating.

To be clear, it was not as if my goal was to subvert the system. I could have specified a 1 ton (12k BTU) unit. Inevitably, I would receive a call from my client because the AC subcontractor bid a 1.5 ton unit and that was what was on site and at least partially installed and had been red tagged by the inspector just because it was his job to red tag it.

Then we would all spend a lot of time back and forth and the end result would be that the inspector would be a little pissed off because the 1.5 ton unit got approved by his boss based upon common sense over the fact that it didn't really matter and that energy calcs for a small addition are meaningless and the energy code was really designed for larger projects and all we were really doing was shuffling paper.

And shuffling paper is largely what LEED is all about - at least up until now.
ok, it got well offtopic but my prev comment was confusing indeed, so:

- you're right, that's what documentation is for, but people rarely document things like use cases and workflows and I've rarely seen comments like "this complex optimization is here because a delay longer than X ms is intolerable for workflows like ... or because otherwise you'll have inconsistent data when connectivity to external service Y breaks at the same time as service Z crashes ... and this actually happens very often because the user tends to do N and P at the same time and almost always ignores warning/error Q"

- "platform dependent knowledge and code that cannot be abstracted away": if you write a tablet app, you will need to take into consideration things like touch ui, impermanent internet connectivity and so on, if you consider the "platform" to be the devices. At other levels, if your "platform" is the browsers you'll have code that reacts to browser differences. If you use Ruby your platform will be the ruby interpreter and you'll also have code that is written somehow because of the platform limitation (gc problems, multithreading problems)

...I'm talking about the kinds of applications where 80% of the code is actually the UI code. If your balance differs, you can probably have good abstractions in your no-UI code. But for interface heavy applications (it doesn't have to be UI, it can be interfaces with lots of external web APIs), porting will always be a nightmare and you'll lose stuff at every porting and have to rediscover/reinvent it.

- "orthogonal" - my bad, I should have just said "they are independent" or "I don't think they really influence each other's evolution", I thought this word has already grown roots in the tech vocabulary and it's a nice engineery metaphor that I really like (I just think of perpendicular vectors and independent dimensions and since I'm more of a picture thinker that only later translates his thought in words it just seems intuitive to me - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality)

- the Web: I agree, it's "butt ugly duct-tape driven" indeed but that's the thing with things that evolve, you don't get to control the evolution, nobody really gets to do this, we all pull in different direction and some organic emergent behavior appears... hopefully it will crawl out of the current state to a less chaotic state that would enable more sane workflows for developers
For Verizon Wireless customers

http://www22.verizon.com/about/privacy/cpniwireless/
Well, that's fucked up. Not much else to say.
Could you please tell a bit about that? What's wrong with them?
It was scientists working on leukemia and white-cell cancers that made the eventual discovery of HIV-1. Initially, the virus was classified as HTLV-IIIb before getting it's own name.

At the time there was also a bit of a dispute between American and French researchers over credit for the discovery and subsequent development of the diagnostic test.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14881-was-robert-gallo...
I am pretty sure contractors have to pay payroll taxes. It is one of the reasons that companies are increasingly classifying employees as contractors, the burden of the payroll tax falls on the contractor entirely (normally it is split 50/50 between employee/employer).
And on the US side of the Atlantic. They have had several hits.

While a fan of their stuff, I actually hate "Get Lucky"...
Interesting contrast to the German reaction to Fukushima.
CSS3 Balls
Seems like we are on the same page, I also test drived this library with a static site generator =).

I was really surprised that there are no more templating languages for Haskell given the availability of the mighty parsec.

I am following you on github, stay in touch.
the "who" must not be a single person.

For example someone (maybe the chief justice anyway) appoint, but the congress has to approve it.

Sometimes this is done even to make valid a vote by the population, and it works well (in Commonwealth countries, the Queen can not approve a election results if she wish so... fortunately this was never needed it seems).
[chuck norris] won't show any ads either -- and Google will show you Chuck's knowledge graph entry, including a random Chuck Norris Fact :)
I hope such technology comees to India soon!
Oracle switches Berkeley DB license (to AGPL)
Zopim unveils mobile-optimized live chat widget 
zopim is a pretty strong competitor to olark. anyone checked them out yet?
I'm super-interested in thorium reactor research, but this author seems to lack even a cursory understanding of the issues at play. This reactor differs from what lots of thorium advocates are aiming for because it's a solid-fueled, high-pressure, water-cooled reactor, instead of the proposed LFTR designs, which involve a reaction taking place in a liquid at very high temperature, but at atmospheric pressure, and thus have a different set of tradeoffs as far as efficiency, safety, proliferation resistance, etc.

This article discusses none of that, and instead suggests that this reactor is sub-optimal because it's not a cold fusion reactor -- what? Thorium atoms are big and somewhat-unstable, which is what you want for fission. For fusion, you want little atoms you can ram together to make slightly-bigger little atoms. They're totally separate.
While I'd agree that many plugins have marginal utility, some like Firebug or Lastpass I find to be invaluable.
I was always curious as to how they made money. He used to ask for donations. Asking for money in exchange for not taking actions that will harm another person's business (i.e. blocking their ads) seeing seems awfully close to extortion. Yelp was sued for extortion, and their conduct was far less egregious than this. Google probably couldn't handle the PR hit after the NSA stuff, but I'll bet their first inclination was to sue rather than write a check.
Very cool, thanks for your response.

Btw, do you know any other online sources for good minimalist games (text adventures or otherwise) ?

I'm trying to use some as a way to teach programming.