skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key of the article:

“It really is up to these FISA judges to decide what the law means and what the NSA and FBI gets to do,” said Julian Sanchez, a privacy scholar at the Cato Institute. “So Roberts is single-handedly choosing the people who get to decide how much surveillance we’re subject to.”

Senator Wyden, briefed by the NSA, said that the NSA has a secret interpretation of the law:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/secret-patriot-act/
That tutorial link alone was worth me making my comment :)

Yeah I feel comfortable trying clojurescript next time. Thanks for the info.
Exactly. It prompted about it, and users had a clear option to disable or enable this feature.
"Almost all fungal (few exceptions) infections are 100 % curable and treatable in most healthy individuals !!"

I mean some of them are curable, but anti-fungals are extremely toxic since human cells and fungi cells are very similar. And unlike with bacteria you can't just use antibiotics, since antibiotics mostly come from fungi to begin with. Also, you're not going to be young and healthy forever. At some point you are going to reach an age where you are highly vulnerable to fungal infections, unless you've already died from something else.
I cannot find the article by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, which describes how the public health officials in San Francisco bowed to political pressure and did not do the typical contact-tracing, public announcements, etc. that would normally be done - because they feared getting in trouble if they pointed out that the carriers were almost all gays. But it makes an interesting counterpoint to the idea that there was a lack of concern about it.
Yes i noticed that too, I thought it could be because I put the leads where ever I felt like.

I am using 3 electrodes, the reference one (ground), was on my right thigh, the other two were, one where my right chest meets the shoulder and the other one on my left side at the level where the floating ribs are...

I placed them in non standard positions so that is why i may be getting funny values... But I agree that lower lobe is not in any ECG I have checked so far... I may go to the doctor to double check..
The idea of protecting things most people don't like will always be a hard sell and it will always be easy to attack. What has to explained is the principle that we all have to accept some disgusting things in order to keep certain freedoms. You cannot make that point without mentioning something that most people find disgusting.
1. There was a user survey in 2009, whether users would like to have every ad blocked or would accept some ads to a certain degree. And the result was that around half of the users are fine with getting some ads:
http://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-plus-user-survey-results...

2. Adblock Plus has announced on their website that they have introduced "Acceptable Ads", and that it will be enabled by default:
http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

3. It isn't even a secret that they get paid from larger companies, for putting them on the whitelist (they though have to conform to the guidelines for "Acceptable Ads"):
http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements

4. Plus the source code is open source, that everybody can read it:
https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockplus/

So Adblock Plus couldn't possibly be more honest and fair about its "Acceptable Ads" feature. If you don't like it, it's just 3 clicks to disable it. I don't get why lately, everybody is so surprised about thatfeature and feels betrayed.

The German media went completely insane over the past two weeks, and made a scandal out of that feature in Adblock Plus, which exists for quite a while now and was clearly announced and documented from the beginning by the AdBlock Plus Team, and can easily be disabled.
Part of the issue here is that to describe such entities there needs to be a means of standardization.

We saw 'carbon credits' devolve in to specific-exchange linked, unique entities that were not interchangeable across borders. That made meaningfully adopting them as environmental units to stake a claim for the value of environment in the present-era systems very difficult. That situation perhaps evolved partly because nobody could otherwise agree on an appropriate level of auditing, and partly because .. well .. established interests. (Without nationalizing and centralizing these things, their potential for decentralized issue versus centralized government fiat issue poses a threat to both sovereign currencies worldwide and the vast profits of connected financial services industries.)

Historically, part of the control effected against change within the financial environment is that SIX in Switzerland on behalf of the ISO has controlled the major ISO4217 global currency and commodity registry, locking out innovation and essentially refusing to issue new codes. People have been avoiding that gridlock by making up unofficial codes like 'BTC' for Bitcoin and such. I recently proposed registry of these values via the IETF at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-stanish-x-iso4217-a3/ however it's expired pending a new release at the moment (adding Litecoin, etc.)

(On the off chance anyone's hitting OHM2013 later this month in Holland, I'm planning to give a talk there on this subject and related matters at the intersection of politics, finance and technology.)
Klein didn't say Roberts had a lot of power (clearly he does; he's the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court). He said he had exclusive, unaccountable, lifetime power to shape the surveillance state. He has none of those three kinds of power over the shape of the surveillance state. Not one of those words was correct. I'm not nitpicking; Klein is directly, overtly wrong. The quote I chose there? It's the lede of the article.
Yes exactly. In the startup world, we build products for users - they are the ultimate arbiters of a product's value. It doesn't matter whether the value is delivered by working two weeks or two years - all that matters to the user is the value delivered.

So smart founders should find ways of getting to that value delivery point via the shortest, cheapest most efficient path. Because that way you win over your competitors who might not.

BTW, this is also why companies led by technical founders often beat those that are not. If you're a non-technical founder, you are beholden to the techno-priesthood, which may care about building things in the most perfect way, which often ends up being an inefficient path.

Note that this is not meant as a knock on writing good maintainable and elegant code. It is more an affirmation of minimizing work that does not move you closer to the point of value delivery for your user.
While I think it's somewhat natural for society to talk about "collective ownership," since the ownership model is what we use for individual transactions, the idea of "public goods" implies that they are "owned/managed by the public" - and that degenerates into "stewardship" by the government "for the public good" (for my/our benefit, even if I disagree, for my part). I definitely don't enjoy the "for my own good"/parental logic - so I don't like the "collective ownership" language we seem to be working with.

I think it would be better if individuals (and governments, to the limited degree I can rationalize them) acted pro-actively/responsibly, rather than defensively (tax, tax, tax...). IMHO, a better model would be to grow (to "invest" not "subsidize") what the public deems worthwhile, driven by intelligence and creativity ("leadership"), rather than perpetually trying to put out fires through punitive intervention (tax, tax, tax...). (Why centralize decision-making if not to aid leadership?) Bringing something to the market through collective action doesn't diminish the market - it is the market. I'm not saying punitive measures are ever off the table, but they should be the last act of a desperate will.

This could be as simple as using approaches like Kickstarter more (instead of taxes), but that depends on people keeping the money they already have.

IMHO government is mostly the sum of our negative/fear-based responses (digging in our heals against "threats" leading us to tax, and inspect, and...). That governments are as large as they are - and that we are taxed as much as we are - reflects a culture of fear.
Here is a site I'm going to be trying out. Has PHP 5, MySQL 5, ASP.NET. It's free.
https://secure.biz.nf/order.php
I thought I was just going crazy when I noticed something happening, but couldn't tell what it was.
> including CNN, CBS, NBC, Reuters, the Guardian

I hope the chief editors there have realized that their own phone calls and emails are being scanned. You would guess that it is in their best interests to give this issue a helluva lot of attention in their media.
As an Arizona native, both my best friend and one of my college professors acquired the disease and became seriously ill. My professor had to miss most of the year of the class I signed up for, and my best friend was down for an entire year with weakened lung capacity, as well as not being able to drink an ounce of any sort of liquor while taking the medication she needed to fight it. These are probably 5s on a scale of 1-10 with how bad this disease is.

It's horrible, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I'd say be careful when you visit AZ or CA, but there's not really anything you can do except avoid the dusty areas entirely.
Delivery I think was spelled wrong in one of the slides. I can't be bothered to go back and verify though, but may want to check it out.
Many people love AdBlock being free (incl. myself) and many people would admit Google's Ads are comparatively less intrusive and comparatively more relevant.

I assumed this was the case when I installed it, similar to the situation with Firefox using Google search by default while being compensated to the tune of $1B[1]. Why is this surprising or upsetting?

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398046,00.asp
I agree. Not sure why I worded it that way.
Where was this? If this was in the USA, wouldn't a potato cannon be protected by the Second Amendment?
And that's why I used adblock-edge as well :)
I don't think so. Any projectile of decent mass will be deadly when accelerated to high speed. There's nothing that magically exempts potatoes from this just because they're edible. You can absolutely kill someone with a potato gun. The prosecution in question may be wrong for other reasons (e.g. fired safely and not with any intent to harm), but "potatoes can't kill, because otherwise Ireland would be a superpower" is not the way to argue it.
I am certain that federal agencies have all sorts of whacked out "secret" interpretations of the laws of Congress. They get to do that because Congress passes janky laws that deliberately delegate authority to the agencies to come up with the specific line item regulations that animate the laws.

Congress needs to stop doing that, across the board. This is also the basis of the "3 Felonies A Week" problem (that, and the fact that that the US has a perverse default of strict liability in criminal law).

But Wyden has exactly as much power to curtail the surveillance state as he does over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refugee, or over national seatbelt laws.
Eh, if you read more closely, you'll notice that I pretty explicitly disagree with Heinlein and Aristotle. (And Hobbes, for that matter.)

I'll try to find the time to write a longer response today. I don't agree with any of your claims here other than the first one, and I disagree with how that one's stated.
I can't think of any rules that aren't enforced by threat. (The equivalent of patching Starcraft in the real world makes you rich or lands you in jail for tax evasion. The government's patch is only accepted because of the threat of force behind it.)
You are just doing a simple validation on a test set rather than cross-validation; the point of CV is to make many iterations of validation on different train-test splits and average the results.
(Not saying that HIV==AIDS.)

Why make that disclaimer?
Wall St Cheat Sheet writes its own rules for new media
Are text ads on Bing and Yahoo searches invasive and annoying? The article appears to say they're still blocked by default while Google's are not.
Those ads aren't vile specifically because they have an image of a woman in them; they're vile because they're psychological manipulation primarily based on the objectification of women and intended to funnel clicks to shady online game websites that basically operate as a mechanism for scamming as much money out of gullible players as possible.

Or to put it another way: Typically the ads that do the most annoying stuff are from advertisers that obviously aren't particularly legit. Microsoft and Apple aren't blaring noise out of your speakers or shoving pictures of scantily clad women in your face to get you to play microtransaction games and Amazon doesn't do it to get you to buy books or movies.

Of course the definition of taste and acceptability is subjective, but there is definitely a line between legit advertisers that aren't hostile to web surfers, and the advertisers who will do absolutely anything if it increases revenues - including tracking users or outright lying to them.
Americans are taught from a young age about the foundations of our country, a cultural heritage on the same order of magnitude as the Bible or Greek mythology. Demigods formed this government during the Heroic Age, the most perfect the world has ever known, and while we understand that we mere Iron Age mortals may controvert its principles with certain actions, at its core the government is fundamentally the same.

Under cover of this shared belief the American government has a wide degree of latitude to collude with corporations, torture, and spy on its own citizens. They are permitted to do this because the American citizen believes, and would prefer to believe, it is done in his own best interests; because the possibility of it affecting him directly is remote; and because even if he wanted to effect change he is after all only one person.
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> The parent is being Mr. weasel word with "seems like" but I'm guessing that's just sloppy writing.

Fixed. Thanks for the input.
I think a better bet would be to create a nation in international waters.
Not that the '"Download Now!" ads on download sites' ARE published by google. Google text ads are just one part of Google's inventory.

The scammy fake-Download links on this famous page, for example, are provided by Google AdChoices

http://www.alternative.to/Google_Reader,29653017#nav-7647923...
You have it completely backwards. We were net exporting post-war, now we're net importing. Imports are benefits; net importing is a good thing if the rest of the world is letting you get away with it.
Not everyone who is HIV-positive develops AIDS.
No, Klein is absolutely correct, and you are absolutely wrong. Roberts has the power to appoint FISA judges. That power is clearly the power to "shape the surveillance state." There is no mechanism to review his appointments, hence the power is unaccountable. Roberts alone has this power, hence "exclusive." And until the law is changed, he has this power for as long as he is chief justice, hence "lifetime."
Any authoritative reference on the type of antifungals that are used? Do they inhibit fungi specific to citrus fruits or also fungi that infect humans?
Data science is crack, not milk
I wonder if it's the younger YN crowd that is not seeing the connection? I was pretty young when I saw that movie in 1994, but it never occurred to me that it could be anything other than AIDS; the reference was completely unambiguous. I guess things had changed in the 12 years between the coinage of "AIDS" and that movie, but it still resembled the way people talked about it, and I think the memory of not knowing what it was was still fresh in the culture.
You're correct that it's endemic, and it is usually associated with the fungus getting kicked into the air, but being rid of it is hardly a walk in the park. It usually downs its victims with the effectiveness of polio, there's no vaccine, and no real "cure". Fungal infections don't work like that. It takes a long, sustained treatment to be rid of it, and the meek/unhealthy individuals you refer to usually die from the disease. Generally healthy people merely suffer for a year or so.
it doesn't have much with "being adult" so "copping with the crap".
It has to do with:

- morals. I don't think unsolicited ads are moral. I'd rather pay. But I generally don't get that choice without an adblocker.

- More choice and ethics. Again. I'm the one to decide what I want to see, not adblock people using a revenue model where they're in a position to force companies to pay them to be on a whitelist. That's extorsion.

And.. I'm pretty sure you get revenue from adverts.
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There absolutely is a mechanism to review his appointments. Not only could Congress pass a law recalling any FISC judge, but it could also pass a law revoking Roberts authority over FISC, or abolish the FISC court entirely. There would be fuck-all Roberts could do about it.
Thank you! I definitely agree with you regarding the idiomatic solutions.

However, the only defense I can come up with (not that I really want to excuse myself) is this is part of an effort (Hakit) to make Haskell web development accessible to HS beginners. I was a beginner myself when I started Hakit, a web toolkit, and I was overwhelmed by the seemingly complex Haskell APIs. So I tried to build a complete toolkit while forcing the users learning as few Haskell concepts as possible, without writing exceedingly ugly code.

I will surely try to make this more appealing to Haskell ninjas too though.
We've gotten good interventions for a lot of things that will kill you that aren't old age. But if you've already managed to live to 90, your further life expectancy might not be much better today than it would have been in Ancient Greece. See http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-w... for how bad things get when you age.

Some kind of medical intervention that targeted the actual senescence mechanism instead of just the other problems it causes would be an actual game-changer, and I don't see how we could get living past 100 to be very probable without coming up with one.
As I said, reasonable to point out the inaccuracy of the statement, but then there's a lot of substance to discuss after that.

I think this article adds to the thesis that the NSA apparatus is not a product of democracy. While you can trace its origin to a law the people approved, it's no longer controlled by democracy. At least it wouldn't be if our leaders had their way, and people like Snowden and Ellsberg were silenced.
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I'm a French-speaking Belgian guy, but I speak English fluently and I'm minded to travel in Europe (I'll study in Copenhagen for the first term).

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If this type of work is important, then why does it not provide minimum wage? For what reason should Mechanical Turk be an exception?
" If all that gets built is judged by what gets used, then a lot of great things won't get built." - isn't that the point??
The point of the Constitution was to create a stronger central government then we had under the articles of confederation.
>Sagan's quote

Minor nitpick, but while Sagan popularized the saying, it probably originates with Laplace's "The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness" (which is itself a rephrasing).

This makes sense in historical context; the quote comes from 1814, two years after Laplace published the most well-known formulation of Bayes' theorem, which is exactly what the saying embodies.
The FISC apparatus is a product of Congress. Democracy produced an outcome we (myself included) don't like. The majority of US citizens are more concerned about {the Soviets,Terrorism} than they are about NSA "accidentally" reading their emails.

Appeals to "democracy" in discussions like these tend to have a whiff of "No True Scotsman" to them, where "democracy" is defined as the form of government which is subject to the will of the majority but that cannot be captured by any interest we disapprove of. In reality, democracies do insane things all the time.
This article is analogous to a Why the Automobile hardly ever deserves the appellation 'Horse Replacement' witten in 1903.

We are in the first 25 years of architectural interest in Green Building - it began among professional architects following the Rio Summit. It took more than a decade to get the first big projects, such as Foster's built. The buildings coming online today tend to reflect designs four or more years old - buildings have long incubation periods.

That's not to say that LEED hasn't been mostly bullshit. But HN'ers of all people should understand why. They [USGBC] have been focused on creating and growing a user base. During the boom, they credentialed anyone who could pass the exam as Certified. You just needed to answer questions about processing paperwork, you didn't need to know squat about buildings. Then they sold agencies on the idea of specifying LEED certification.

Now that they have buildings to measure, they can actually look at post occupancy analysis and make it a criterion.

What bothers me about the article itself is that it juxtaposes historic landmarks - Lever House and Segrams - with the image of a bucolic residence which concludes the article. Seagram was designed with the intent that all its lights would blaze all night for aesthetic effect. Then again, it does help clarify that the real purpose of the article is not criticism of Green Building but an attack on modernism.

Everyone in Seoul or Mexico or Rio or Helsinki will not be served by a house designed for the Bayous of Louisiana.
On one hand this is true; on the other, this is a result of the horizontal (flat) treatment of comments that make pedantic comments appear the same as deeper ones.

The one upvote button just means that people agree, not that they think it's an important, insightful comment, and that's why we see those comments float to the top.

As the OP, in this case and others, I wouldn't too much into those comments, because I too know how skull-numbingly hairsplitting and pedantic comments here can be - or seem.
Two things that I saw:

* If there are instructions, that's usually a red flag to me that I've done something poorly in the UI design. I agree with one of the previous commenters that you should do a make/model search instead.

* I'm not quite sure what to do with the filter field on the results page. It's just a blank text field. Does it filter by keyword?
I would have been 13 at that time, and I have the same thoughts. It was very clear to me what it was they were suggesting.
Soon after they identified the 4H's of HIV/AIDS: homosexuals, haemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians.
Here's a screenshot of the newsletter form occluding content in Android. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/jln36yrne8jzhbr/X_r8tldSXn Do you have to submit it to dismiss it? :)