skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to give you an idea, the FDA didn't start screening its blood until 1985 after several documented cases where patients received AIDS from blood transfusions.

http://aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/aids-timeline/

Reagan has been criticized for his complete non-response to AIDS as well. He mentioned it in passing in 1985, and didn't actually address the issue until 1987. Since AIDS mostly affected homosexuals and drug users, AIDS wasn't exactly a high priority for the Reagan administration in light of the Religious Right's massive power at the time. The popular rhetoric of the era was more akin to "AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality" than compassion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/politics/09policy.html

To quote Reagan's biographer: "Reagan's response to this epidemic was halting and ineffective."
I was thinking more along the lines of the relationship between Google streetview and Germany [1]. I feel (albeit without evidence) that German citizens are more likely than those of the other major EU countries to pressure their government and the EU parliament to introduce legislation that would forbid the storage and mining of private communications prior to any warrants being issued.

[1]http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/germanys-complicate...
Just to clarify, on chrome if you're using AdBlock (vs Adblock Plus), there is no such options. :)
You can probably find a lot of links, but I can give you a quick punch list (from memory; we have an audit process that our internal team uses for this, so I haven't had to think about it in awhile):

* Disable all sharing

* Enable the firewall

* Enable full-disk encryption

* Change the power management settings so the key isn't resident in memory at sleep

* Create a separate admin account and remove admin from your normal account

* Run software update

There are other things we do but they're fussy.
While there is certainly a conflict of interest here, it doesn't mean that Adblock Plus wouldn't have whitelisted Google's ads anyway. The whitelist program has been going on for a while AFAIK.
What a tax on, say, pollution, would be called is "internalizing the externalities". It fits in quite well with free market principles.
Yeah, but I can't find a way to pull colors from an image anymore, which makes this useless to me. I've switched entirely to ColourLovers http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add which still has the palette-from-image feature.
I did Mturk for a few months while traveling. Occasionally I was able to make ~7.00 an hour, but the average was closer to 2.50. The work is mind-numbing and underpaid.
https://www.heroku.com/

https://www.cloudcontrol.com/

https://www.openshift.com/

All of them allow you to host your projects.
Iceland Denies Snowden's Bid For Citizenship
So, not free enough for you then?
The whitelist feature isn't the issue here. You have always been able to whitelist sites in the "Custom Filter > Exceptions." The issue here is the addition of a built in whitelist subscription to a list controlled by the developers.
Do you think Google ads are invasive or annoying? No sound ever, a limited amount of times they can be placed on the site, and they are obviously ads (unlike the "Download Now!" ads on download sites). Perhaps there was more to the transaction than money. You are jumping straight to a conspiracy that you have no proof of. Like the OP, I don't use ad block software because I, as an adult, know what it's like to pay bills and feed myself and I don't mind people who provide me with free services paying their bills and feeding themselves.
I realise of course you refer to the American Civil War. But there are some striking differences between then and now.

I imagine it would be like this; a state (or more) announce that they will hold a referendum on independence, months (or even years) before the actual referendum will take place (similar to how it will take place in Scotland). This will give the President and the Federal Government time to react without having to sort to arms right away.

Furthermore, a referendum is particularly what will set it apart from the American Civil War; this will be the will of the people (of that state, obviously) and not merely the will of the state (which was the case during the American Civil War, it was merely the legislatures that decided to secede, and not by referendum).

This will make it much harder to justify for the federal government to intervene with military. Seeing as the process will open and peaceful, it would be seen as a considerable overreaction by the federal government to strike down with force on a seceding state.

In addition because war has gotten so much more terrible, and I doubt you'd even convince the army of doing so.

In short; I do not believe that you should be afraid of a military response to an independence, as long as you play fair. That's just intimidation. It would be sad to see that the only thing keeping the American states united was fear.

However, I do agree with you that independence should be the last resort. But considering the last few decades, it seems many things have already been tried.
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I would propose that is because Americans (both Christian and non-Christian) have confused Conservatism with Christianity. (I don't really blame the non-Christians for their confusion. Conservatives conflate the two often enough that even the Christians are confused.)

Lewis, to the best of my knowledge (and I've read most of his works), didn't invest much time in political activism—much as Jesus was content to pay the Roman soldiers his taxes due and return to teaching.

(I'm a bit of a politico, myself, but it's just a hobby. Or my Malcolm Reynolds side coming out. I don't mistake it for my faith. Bush and Obama are both equally bad news in my book.)
Almost every major consumer electronics manufacturer is working on a smart watch
Umm yeah, this would be kewl if it worked, but it doesn't work in FF for me and it does in Chrome.

EDIT:
{"arguments":{"0":"ReferenceError: mboxDefine is not defined","1":"https://kuler.adobe.com/build01/resource/js/external/jquery/...},"page":"https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/","browser":"Mozi... (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0","build":"build8"}
https://kuler.adobe.com/build8/resource/js/util.js
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I just started down the path to learn web development a week ago (after procrastinating it for years). My only prior programming experience was some BASIC and Pascal lessons I took in primary school and a bit of self-taught HTML.

I find codecademy.com to be a fun and well structured way to learn Python. To me it may well replace the "Python for Kids" book recommended in your blog post since codecademy is free and provides instant feedback on exercises (best way to keep the motivation high!). After completing the codecademy course I'll definitely get myself a proper book to learn the language in more depth.

One thing I'm struggling with is to find mini-projects that I can build and practice with as I learn more codes. As a beginner I may come up with a mini-project idea without realising how big the project can get to or the level of skill is required. If you could suggest a few project ideas with incremental difficulty as well as novel ways for a beginner to think about programming would be really helpful.

To me the most valuable part of your blog post was mapping out the Python > SQL > HTML/CSS > framework learning path. This was another question I had in mind ("what's next after Python?") because as a beginner I really had no big picture view of what skills I need to acquire. So thanks heaps for writing up the post and I look forward to reading your follow-up!
So you are criticizing me for commenting on the mental health of someone, but then you question my own mental heath? That's hypocritical of you. If that is how this works then we should also question your mental health.
Moz vs. Doz: Trademark issues at play in ‘tragic’ naming dispute
Not exactly a startup, but Grok (https://www.groksolutions.com/index.html), which was founded by Jeff Hawkins and used to be called Numenta, is a big AI company.
In a sense this is a way of saying that in epidemiology, the failures are noisy and successes are silent, so comparing large epidemics across history might be misleading.
I recommend Colorbrewer (Flash site, sorry) for choosing colours for graphs and charts safe for colour-blind people and general discernibility: http://colorbrewer2.org.

(It's the default go-to colour scheme for d3.js devs.)

+++

EDIT; Use this link, if you don't have Flash: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5577023.
Infant and Toddler Swimming Programs: Are They Safe and Effective?
But, if it's a snug fit, how would you put it on? Presumably, if it is snug to the size of the wrist, it won't fit over the user's hand, same way a handcuff fit to the wrist won't fit over the hand.
The Craziest Recruitment Tactics You’ve Never Heard Of
There's a lot of info in the book "The Coming Plague" about the initial reaction to the disease GRID, which would later become AIDS.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases/dp...
Saw the same thing with AdMuncher, I believe, and was wondering whether they had entered the same sort of agreement.
What, really? Is there really a tangible fear that Germany would blow up in everyones faces again, still today?
sure there are many ways to make foreign lib works. I use externs.js to stop google closure compiler from changing my var names.

but if clojurescript could make this kind of "hacks" integrated: i.e allow (:use [js/Foreign_lib :only lib.method]) instead of externs.js, then it will be way easier to attract newcomers.

I agree that using google closure will save a lot of work, for now. But I also think that clojure guys should come up with their own(and better) compiler that has awesome compiled asm.js code as killer feature.
You could try the following improvements to speed up neural network training:

- Resilient Propagation (RPROP), it significantly speeds up training for full batch learning: http://davinci.fmph.uniba.sk/~uhliarik4/recognition/resource...

- RMSProp, introduced by Geoffrey Hinton, also speeds up training but can also be used for mini-batch learning: https://class.coursera.org/neuralnets-2012-001/lecture/67 (sign up to view the video)

Please consider more datasets when benchmarking methods:

- MNIST ( 70k 28x28 pixel images of handwritten digits ): http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ . There are several wrappers for Python on github.

- UCI Machine Learning Repository: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html
See also: http://zedshaw.com/essays/why_i_gpl.html
Has anyone found a version of this that works on European DVD players?
> That PDF shows nothing about full-time vs part-time downgrading.

From the text:

"To capture potential changes in hours worked in response to health reform, we also examined trends in full-time and part-time work over time."

> uninsurance was only reduced by a little over a third for all that change in policy.

this reduction occurred on top of a trend of great increases in uninsurance nationwide at the same time:

> Between 2008 and 2010, Massachusetts, the four comparison states, and the
rest of the nation all experienced sharp drops in employer-sponsored coverage, reflecting the impacts of the recession. However, it would appear that health reform mitigated the effects of the recession in Massachusetts
on employer-sponsored coverage to some extent, as the level of employer- sponsored coverage in Massachusetts, which was below that of the four comparison states prior to health reform, moved above the level in those states after health reform and has remained at a higher level.
I believe that AIDS wasn't a high priority for Reagan, but from my vantage point it looks like HIV is an instance of an enormously complicated biological challenge being addressed with extraordinary effectiveness and rapidity by the medical establishment.

I take your point (and the sibling commenter's point) about the epidemiologic response to AIDS; I may be over-fixated on the research and development side of the issue.
I can give some examples but my point was basically you have to test for your specific desired user base, and these kinds of posts don't really mean much.

Some things that we did: autoplaying videos. enormous graphics and big text. lots of "as seen on !". landing page was probably 6000-7000 pixels high and the form was near the bottom.
This is such a great list, I just started frantically jotting some of these names down so I can start digging into their work.

Is there any particular order I should tackle these?
Effeckt.css: CSS library of performant transitions and animations for mobile
Even today, people have a very poor understanding on how you can - rather can't - contract it from HIV+ people, alas. (Not saying that HIV==AIDS.)

http://aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/how-you-get-hiv...

If an HIV+ person sneezes in an elevator, some will have a panic attack, I reckon.

Not to mention the travel bans some countries impose.

1) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/30/hiv-travel-ban-lift...

2) http://plwha.org/

3) http://www.unaids.org/en/targetsandcommitments/eliminatingtr...

Still much work to be done in informing people, so let this be an opportunity to ask your friends and family whether they know their facts on the matter, as HIV+ people are treated like lepers oftentimes.

Bonus trivia for reading along this far: Andrew Sullivan is HIV+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan#Personal_life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
You can create an API for data access that validates a given document schema... you don't have to operate in the open.
You should also clean the search parameters:

Example: http://alturl.com/6a7vw
Now i have to go through all my sites and remove all funny cat videos!!!!
Consider a lockbox at a bank. Surely that is private, no matter how many hundreds of strangers work there? Physically it is located on their premises, and they can even move it around between locations, but they have no right to access the contents.

What is different when the whole situation is made digital? I'm not saying all digital data held by third party companies is private, of course, but surely some of it should be.

And please don't bring up encryption for the moment, that only sidesteps the issue. There is no real-world unbreakable lock. This is a discussion about search and privacy rights.
I was specifically trying to counter "promoting a tax to get the most out of the market itself seems like doublespeak."

The parent is being Mr. weasel word with "seems like" but I'm guessing that's just sloppy writing.

Also, I agree with you. Tax on pollution is probably the best solution. I couldn't think of a way to put pollution tax into a short argument. Fee for "storing your waste" doesn't have quite the same punch as "using my air"
"There is utterly no epidemiological evidence that eating zest has anything to do with any kind of fungal infection."

No, but there is plenty of evidence that fungi develop resistance to anti-fungal drugs. If I really liked zest I might keep eating it, but since I actually don't like it in the first place I don't find that I lose anything by leaving it out of recipes and cocktails.

I certainly wouldn't say that it's definitely harmful, but when you're eating all these fungicides that have never been tested for longterm safety on humans then that's a risk one should be at least cognizant of.
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People want a quiet life where they don't have to worry about the safety of their children, and this is exactly what everyone deserves

Why do they deserve this, and not to be told that the life and safety you propose is not possible to provide? I would further argue that safety and quietude are not basic rights, and while I'm open to having my mind changed on the topic, I have never been able to find evidence that what you say is so.
Rasberry Crazy Ant - Attraction to electrical equipment
there's nothing they can do except to ensure that the next judges appointed to the courts are more congenial to their views.

Which is precisely what Roberts can do when he appoints FISC judges. In the same way that the President/Senate can't control the SCOTUS, but they are definitely picking on ideology first and foremost, with some degree of confidence that decisions will align with that ideology.
Hidden microphone found in Ecuador's embassy in UK
As somebody who's done a lot of civil liberties activism, I'm pleasantly surprised by how much press the protests got -- including CNN, CBS, NBC, Reuters, the Guardian and more at the national level, as well as dozens of local TV and newspapers.

There's a roundup on the Restore the Fourth reddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth/comments/1hor8p/rou... and I've also got a bunch of links on the Get FISA Right blog at https://getfisaright.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/restorethe4th-...
Take libuv > WIN, to watch http://vimeo.com/24713213.

Libuv is used in nodejs.
The graph you linked is discrete only by technicality (all data samples are discrete, after all.) Compare how yours is 19 time slices squished together into a width (normalized for aspect ratio) almost half the size of the one I linked, which is 6 data points with adequate white-space.

Please note that in the (excellent) Napoleon chart, cross sectional thickness is used to convey the size of the army.
Not only is this intuitive, but it is masterfully hinted by the way the line shrinks. Stacked area charts (as detailed in the article I linked) however are unintuitive - a slowly increasing trend stacked on a faster increasing trend will appear to decrease - this is very undesirable.

The chart you linked seems to want to say "The PC(+tablet) market is increasing, but Window's user base is stagnant". Either unstack the data or throw away/combine the irrelevant data. If you want to compare the Galaxy Tab to other Android tablets (as this chart seems to want to do as well) you will need a better chart or a second chart. The top of left chart is visual noise.
Looks cool. I feel like you should try and integrate with existing Haskell concepts. Maybe you'd have to make small changes in the design decisions compared to jQuery, but honestly, using the typical Haskell abstractions things just seem to be "right" somehow.

Queries could easily be modelled with the list monad. Add the stateT transformer for effects. Add lenses for niceness. (Lenses could really beautify the internal implementation as well me thinks).

I'd love to hear about some of your design choices making this.
Or you have a data structure that would require a lot of tables for what equates to a single record of interest.

In my last job, we were presenting search, and display of classified listings for cars. The normalized data required, iirc, 28 join operations to get most of the data for a single record (for display), about 12 iirc for the search support (not including geo/location based searches), and a second lookup for related data.

This could be replaced by a single query in a non-sql database. There is a real cost to these kinds of structures in SQL... There are a LOT of use cases where a single record structured as a complete object is much better than having to break up said structure into dozens of fields.
Attacking the rhetoric is weak.

He can and does appoint judges from his own party and ideology, almost exclusively. He does have the power to re-appoint or not re-appoint said judges at the conclusion of these terms.

So, he has been given a lot of power. It's reasonable to point out that congress can get rid of FISA, but it doesn't address the argument being made here in totality.
I'd say the self-discharge rate of these batteries is impressive compared to any of the commonly-used battery types on the market today. Of course, they deliver so little current that they're unusable for most purposes, but the shelf life is amazing.
Yes, absolutely correct.

Hey, I'm as much a hair-on-fire, crazy ranting privacy and anonymity freak as anybody else, but this, pandering to this issue is getting insane. I'd suggest eliminating most HN articles that mention a politician or political figure. This is just the same old political columnists we had before (and I like reading all of them), tacking on the current issue to whatever other agendas they already have.

So enough with the criticisms of Obama, or saying Roberts has unlimited power, and so on. Many of these folks already knew how they felt about those political folks. Ezra Klein leading with security state, then several graphs in goes to "...Roberts’s nominations to the FISA court are almost exclusively Republican..." Good grief. This is a serious issue, not the usual political commentary bullshit.

For many writers though, either the issues do not matter to them or it's impossible to see things in terms other than the political rut they live in. These articles are just PR hacks. Take issue A, add in public personality B, throw in some invective -> pageviews.

It is way to easy to overshoot on stuff like this. These problems as they exist are policy problems, not personality or partisan problems. Yes, I know, personalities and personal stories sell newspapers and get eyeballs, but we hackers should be smarter than this. As you point out, the article even gets the facts wrong. Roberts appoints justices to an administrative court, not a criminal court. I know you can argue that this article is not specifically about Roberts, but about the Chief Justice. But still, the title and the big picture of Roberts is just too much. This is crap. It's political, ass-covering crap designed to make one party look better and the other worse. This is like re-arranging the deck chairs on the sinking Titanic.

I will try to be a little more clear: If you care about which party is to blame or which party will get ahead, or if you're spinning issues to make one person better or criticize another, you're part of the problem and not the solution.

One additional nit: every judicial member appointed for life may also be removed by the Senate by impeachment -- although the power has only been used a handful of times.

[corrected for clarity]
Using standard Internet protocols (HTTP/HTTPS) isn't subject to carrier shenanigans (whether deliberate or not):
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/rebtel-chooses-pubnub-pulse-sp...
I agree with everything you said, but would like to add that apart from having very poor contrast, which does affect readability, orange text on a dark background is also quite tacky. Halloween colors.
A little off-topic, but why don't you apply AI to a hot startup? I see your question as similar to saying 'Any hot rails startups?' AI shouldn't be a goal, but a means to an end. You are in a perfect outsiders position to look at various startups and say 'Hmm, maybe AI could help them with ...'

Just an idea...
The document refers to this disparity but hypothesizes the opposite conclusion based on the fact that fewer firms would be impacted:

> Although there are differences in the details, with penalties for firms that fail to comply higher under the ACA than in Massachusetts but fewer firms likely to be affected nationally, the broad similarities between the ACA and Massachusetts’ reform suggest that we can expect to see patterns in the response by employers under the ACA similar to those observed under health reform in Massachusetts.
Haskell, Erlang and Scheme Platform as a Service
Here, only goats can prevent airport fires