skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between effectively managed by the medical establishment and what Reagan / america did in the 80s. I'm at work and I don't have sources readily available, but my understanding is that many older gay people (those still alive) hate reagan and republicans specifically because they slow rolled the response to hiv. Much of America's response wasn't really pushed until the Clinton administration. So how much of the below is the legitimate difficulty of rapidly responding to a new disease is arguable, but I don't think anyone can make a real case that if a new disease had appeared in the 80s that affected straight white men that it wouldn't have gotten a much more vigorous response from the reagan administration/fda/etc. At bare minimum, by the first time reagan mentioned aids publicly, 20,849 Americans had died from it [1]. How he squared his conscience with not mentioning aids until twenty thousand americans had died is amazing.

A brief history mostly off the top of my head

1 - reagan didn't care at all about aids until an actor friend of his died of it;

2 - the strong perception within the fda was that reagan didn't care about aids / didn't want anything done about it;

3 - reagan allowed his staff to delete a mention of ryan white from a speech;

4 - reagan didn't mention aids publicly until mid 1987

Writing in the Washington Post in late 1985, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los
Angeles, stated: "It is surprising that the president could remain silent as
6,000 Americans died, that he could fail to acknowledge the epidemic's
existence. Perhaps his staff felt he had to, since many of his New Right
supporters have raised money by campaigning against homosexuals." [1]

5 - act-up, amongst others, fought with the fda about not just glacial drug approval processes, but also the fda denying access to experimental therapies even to patients without other therapeutic options;

6 - I don't remember this as well, but I believe hiv patients also had to fight the fda for early-ending of clinical trials, because they were insisting that people taking placebos should basically die

So some of this is similar to why many gay people of the right age hate Ed Koch, but an aggressive intervention by the reagan administration might have saved many lives.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Reagan-s-AID...
Sorry, why does this warrant an animated deck? Sheesh, next up, "How to use gravity to fall over."
"Why server-side development in Javascript? Seems like a headache."

People like to use what they like.
Major Dan was getting it on with prostitutes but he doesn't get aids. It also showed the anti war guy just happens to be a women beater...
Del Toro resurrects monster movie with 'Pacific Rim' - Video Dailymotion
So many hours spent in space. I still have mine too.

http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/Elite.jpg
I think the analogous entity for "pilot" would be "application". The library is analogous to the airplane, and airplane will fly into a mountain when you ask it to.
> 1.) UI is confusing. Not immediately clear what's a button.

Interesting. I found it very clear/easy. I read this text as soon as the page loaded: "Please enter your tyre dimensions by clicking on the boxes below. e.g 205/45 17"; so I just clicked the boxes according to my own car tire's dimensions.
I usually have my NoScript turned on, and it was a very pleasant read because I didn't even realize there was a footer there until I turned on scripts. In my opinion, the experience was better with the scripts off, even if the font wasn't as cool. I got the value from the article without the scripts on and footer missing.
That hardly seems relevant. The fact that they do not unblock every ad you consider not to be invasive and annoying is unsurprising. They entered into an arrangement with Google where Google agreed to meet certain standards and be vetted; Bing and Yahoo have not.
2 minutes per trip. 35 scales per trip. 700 scales needed. That works out to 40 minutes per Alien Alloy.

I guess it depends on what you consider unreasonable. I don't usually play games w/ a large amount of grinding.
It's not a US perspective, that journalist is just massively out of touch.

I'm not sure of their actual commercial performance, but their cultural impact is widespread in the US. To the Pitchfork/Coachella crowd they're living legends and RAM was perhaps the most anticipated album this year.
Less centralization.
FF22 works fine here (OS X).

Edit: Also see below re: ghostery (or other blockers).
Facebook exists in its current form because of broadband. Along with Instagram, etc. Running Facebook of even circa 2008 without broadband is painful. In a way broadband adoption let websites like Facebook and many others come into existence.

With 1 Gbps, I think it will be similar. We'll see websites with components that wouldn't be possible without it, but those components themselves (uploading photos of your drunk college friends) were possible to some degree beforehand.

I don't think it will be a radical transformation where suddenly doctors preform robot surgery as envisioned with things like Internet2, but I could see, say, more Skype meetings with your doctor as the video quality and sound quality increase.
> this is a rally against all extensions?

No it is a rally against extensions which have a non-risky (and arguably) superior alternative.

Risk is a gradient and cumulative. The more risky things you do, the more at risk you are.
Concerns are misplaced for many reasons.

1) no supervision

2) no dependency on any particular employer

3) ability to choose what to work on

4) ability to choose own hours

5) intrinsic trade-off between job compensation and the speed at which the job will be completed

6) no requirement that the worker be doing the task exclusively -- the could be watching TV, or chatting with a friend, or playing a video game

7) No possibility of employer coercion

Here's another scenario: say you were paid to watch ads. Should that be subject to minimum wage laws? Well, clearly not: we're routinely paid $0 for the ads we're subjected to.
You typically want the long dimension of the house to be facing east/west, so that fewer windows are facing directly into the sun. Passive solar (prevention or gain, depending on climate) is something that should be taken into consideration. For Austin's climate, it's fairly important. I saw 113F temperatures last year, and 103F so far this year, with the hottest part of the year still to come.

http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/home/construction/solard...
You're right, the author clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. But the story is still interesting nonetheless. :-)

Its great to hear news that Thorium is finally on the path to adoption.
As always with these things it seems like this was an outlier. They hadn't released an album in quite a long time (8 years) so with any hint of new music people got excited. They are also a very popular group - I doubt this strategy would work for the average band or even most successful bands. They were also lucky they had an iconic image they could use to promote the unannounced song (the helmets). Very few bands have logos that iconic that they could run a strategy like this.

Obviously the strategy worked fantastically well and I'm not taking anything away from that. I just think it's important to point it it's unlikely this would work for anyone else. In fact it probably wouldn't even work for them a second time.
Marketing doesn't make a song listenable. Musicians do.

The success of this single is not due to the marketing or "mystery" this article suggests. The success of this single is due to the contributions of legendary recording artist AND producer Nile Rodgers, who has written dozens of break out singles including:

Good Times - Chic

We are Family - Sister Sledge

Let's Dance - David Bowie

Material Girl - Madonna

If you listen to this album, it does not have hit songs except for Get lucky. Almost all marketing focused on this single, because it was the only good track.

Learn more about Nile Rodgers Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGUAiAxpu3E
Hits in obscurity. This is different.
Okay here's a peeve of mine: just because something is in C ("no overhead!") doesn't mean it's faster than something in another language in all situations.

As an example, this server uses a thread pool architecture. This architecture will perform poorly with slow clients (common on the public Internet), servers which have to interact with slow disks or external services, and is useless for long-polling. It's only useful for CPU-bound applications when you can assume fast clients and short requests.

In fact, I could make this server grind to a halt by opening one connection per worker, issuing partial requests to each, then letting the connection hang. So to be used in production, this server will have to sit behind something like nginx, which can insulate your application from pathologically slow clients.
My college roommate and I were definitely jamming to Homework in 1998 or so. Around the World was a huge hit in the late 90's and people have been raving about their live shows at Coachella 2006 and the Alive 2007 tour forever. The new album and live performances have been highly anticipated for a long time.
I have a bigger problem with taxes. Central planning is fine IMHO assuming everyone involved is onboard - otherwise the ship should stay in the dock to the degree people still want off. For what it's worth, I am fond of industry standards when they are documentary in nature and not prescriptive (the difference between designing something to be perfect and picking a winning technology to distill).
Quick video uploading and allowing everyone to self host webservices with a multitude of users I guess
Maybe it assumes you already have housing, and that you live in a country with socialized medicine.

I can see myself retiring with maybe U$ 500.000, though I'd like to have more to afford better healthcare than my country's default (which is MUCH better than the U.S. average, but much worse than what you can buy with money).

What my grandparents did was to rent 3 or 4 properties, and live off that. They did so for about 20 years.
> For some marginal utility?

Yes, this is the point of extensions. Extensions are help you and others do things with the browser that the vendor shouldn't really spend time on. Approaching them with the idea that they're useless doesn't really help your argument.

For example, I once wrote a browser extension that extracts class calendar info from the school website and automatically syncs it to the calendar application of your choosing. It turned my class scheduling process from an error-prone 2 hour process to a 3-click 10 minute step. You can label that as a useless, marginal utility, but that's being facetious at best.
It is in Opera (or was, rather, until version 12).
MIT's radio show French Toast has been playing other tracks from the album, not as edgy as their older stuff but quite good. Get Lucky is catchy but a little repetitive.
>>Article III courts can't be abolished by Congress. US v Cavanagh doesn't unequivocally say that FISC is an Article III court, but rather only that federal judges don't contravene Article III (and thus separation of powers) merely by sitting on the FISC.

I'm not sure I understand the point about Article III courts not being able to be abolished. Several courts established by the judiciary act of 1801 were abolished early in Jefferson's term.

I agree that it doesn't explicitly say that the FISA court is an article III court but some of the holdings are hard to understand if the court isn't. For instance, the court rejected the argument that it was not "properly constituted under article III because the statute does not provide for life tenure on the FISA court." If the court held it wasn't an article III court it would have not considered the argument!

Additionally, from a quoted decision in that section(Megahey, 553):
"As such, with respect to their assignment to FISC for a seven-year term with no additional compensation, FISC judges do not differ from other federal judges who sit from time to time and when the need arises on courts other than that to which they are appointed by temporary designation"

I'm not sure there is any indication that the judges are serving on a non-article III court here. They certainly would 'differ' substantially from the example presented if they did.

Well, the FISA court is really strange in any case. For starters, I'm not sure how FISA warrants are actually warrants in any sense at all. I'm sure congress could screw it up even more.

Thanks!
He also has an excellent course on Coursera on this subject:

https://www.coursera.org/course/behavioralecon
Internet giants planning to wipe out child abuse images
Pharrell doesn't hurt its success either.
There is a javascript version hidden at http://colorbrewer2.org/js/
How long can we continue to believe our energy needs can rise at the level we've become accustomed too?

This is scary: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
Notice how many of those are actually bindings for C/C++ libraries: a relatively hard problem for most high-level languages, but one that CPython makes very very easy to solve. These days, it's not surprising to see new libraries providing Python bindings from the start.
They have hit the Billboard top 100 previously.

http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?sort=...

And even more for their albums in their genre

http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?f=322...
> The government's patch is only accepted because of the threat of force behind it.

Uh, some of us accept the government's patch because we agree with it, or because we want to play the same game that everyone else is and the government happens to be a conveniently centralized entity for deciding which patches go in and which do not. Like Blizzard. We also accept that hacking your own patch in either means you can't play on the ladder with everyone else or that it's an action worth of receiving a ban in response.

It's called "establishing a free market".
The article mentions the Coachella event in passing, but it had a huge role in building anticipation for the album. Thousands of people (many of them influencers) were hoping for a Daft Punk surprise show. This anticipation (and subsequent disappointment when they did not perform) created an emotional connection that is hard to achieve through traditional marketing channels.
I was thinking about this further, and while it comes off as fairly irrelevant to start with, it's actually an extremely bad thing.

In essence, this has set up two tiers of advertising: those we have paid for white list privileges, and those who haven't. This is heavily in Google's interests as they are the only advertiser powerful enough to get by with only text adverts - nobody else has a platform like Google search where text only adverts are enough to overcome costs and provide viability.

By using Adblock Plus as a weapon against non-Google adverts, Google is removing the ability for other players to compete on level footing. It's very similar to the idea of paying AT&T for prioritization for Google traffic, and it destroys a lot of the foundations that the web is built on. It definitely crosses into 'evil' territory for me, in the same way as paying AT&T to slow down access to Bing would be.

While it's just an add on, it's a bad precedent to set.
> There absolutely is a mechanism to review his appointments.

Not at the present time there isn't.

> Congress [could] pass a law

Saying that Roberts's appointments are reviewable because Congress could change the law is exactly analogous to saying that murder is legal because Congress could change the law. It is true that Congress could change the law. But unless and until it actually does change the law, murder is in fact illegal, and Roberts's appointments are in fact not reviewable.
Today is the 60th birthday of a friend who has been HIV+ since 1983. When we met, ca. 1986, I didn't expect him to live long. I am pleased beyond my ability to express that I was completely wrong. The party he and his husband are throwing on Sunday will be epic.
This comparison implies that everybody can get their ads on that white list, for money. But that isn't true. There are guidelines that define what is acceptable ad and what not. [1] Everybody that gets on the white list has to conform to that guidelines.

So it would be rather like an AV software that lets by default, installers still change your default home page (or stuff like that), if the installer is fair enough to ask for, but would still block any real malware.

[1] http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
"A study at Boston University School of Medicine looked at the continuous impact of the foot with the ground and the commonly accepted belief that running causes degeneration of the knee and can lead to all sorts of arthritic conditions.

Said lead researcher and epidemiologist David Felson of BU: “We know from many long-term studies that running doesn’t appear to cause much damage to the knees. When we look at people with knee arthritis, we don’t find much of a previous history of running, and when we look at runners and follow them over time, we don’t find that their risk of developing osteoarthritis is any more than expected.” Felson added that recreational running doesn't increase the risk of arthritis."

Quoted from:
http://www.mizunousa.com/running/blog/article/the-planet-wav...
The challenge here is to help create a world where militaries who kill people are no longer necessary.
A recent documentary about Bowie, "Five Years" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/22/david-bowi...) covers some of his work with Rodgers.

Basically it was Bowie looking to get a mainstream hit. Which he did, and the Serious Moonlight tour ended up far larger than expected.
The text following your quote substantiates their claim, you should respond to it: "their biggest previous single, 2000’s One More Time, peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard chart in the U.S., and they had limited Internet presence and no live performances in 2013"

I know and love Daft Punk as well, but by these and other commercial objective measures they are obscure. Daft Punk are famous in some circles, and unknown in others. In particular, Get Lucky has achieved chart success previously unknown to Daft Punk, which is interesting and makes one wonder how they broke through this time and not before.
Well, GP's talking about the UK, not the US - but I suspect that if America really notices something happening, those Free Speech Zones will be relegated to the dustbin of history where they belong.
Adblock and Adblock Plus are different.
Why we are not joining Fight for the Future’s "Internet Defense League"
Edward Snowden’s nightmare comes true
how they broke through this time and not before.

By changing their sound and style.
I really liked their advertising posters. They were unlike anything I have seen in a really long time and actually did work on me.

Two or three days before the release of the album those posters popped up all over Hamburg. I saw them at least twice on my way to work and the city. Just the helmets, album name, record label. Very unlike all the other ads (even those for music, usually concerts, with big bold letters, many colours) you tend to see in those spaces. I’m fairly certain that those posters made me preorder the album and wait until midnight to download it – listening to the album stream they offered while waiting for the download – instead of buying in in a few months (maybe for a bit less money).

I’m not the biggest Daft Punk fan and I’m usually not waiting for new stuff to be released. Usually I only notice that a few months later. Daft Punk made me actually anticipate something and that was really nice (plus, the album kicks all kinds of ass – undoubtedly their best work since Discovery, probably even surpassing that).
Talking about the implementation as if the mathematics of it were the only consideration is silly at best, and mostly dangerous. Tptacek is completely right: "proven safe" components are not a magic bullet. Until the actual software, in the field, is proven reliable, its not.
Founding the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co is not a historical reference. The restaurant was founded in 1996 as a marketing tie in to the movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_Gump_Shrimp_Company
Disabled AdBlock Plus. Added Adblock Edge.
I changed it to "they". It doesn't change the fact that someone managed to extort money from Google.
This sounds like a possible lawsuit against the local PD. As much as I despite our litigious society, sometimes you have to hit them in the pocketbook to teach them a lesson.
That could be addressed by having an optional meatbags-only flag when creating tasks.
You actually want buildings oriented west/east, facing north/south. Why? Because you can control the sun with horizontal shading devices. In the summertime you can block insolation with shading devices while allowing insolation during the colder months for free heat gain. This also allows all-day indirect daylighting from the north.

The sun is also low in the east and west, so it's difficult to control and often glares into inhabitants. Shading the east and west faces of buildings often requires vertical shading devices or operable shading devices if you don't want to block the view.

Finally, remember that the face of the building that receives the most solar insolation is the roof.

I know the article says east/west, but that doesn't apply if you have shading devices.
I love this guide and I love how it's presented. The ideas look easier to use and definitely look nicer.

I would, however, be weary of implementing these ideas for the purposes of improving conversion because there aren't any numbers with each improvement. How does this author know for sure these ideas improve conversion? If they have been split-tested, this article provides a very good starting point of ideas for your own tests.

I'm not urging against trying these ideas though, definitely not, but please do test these for yourself. There are loads of factors which may make these ideas less ideal, such as your market, your product or service, your branding; the factors are potentially unlimited. Use a good A/B testing tool and measure impact on your conversions when implementing these!
I would say Go for it. You're on the right track.

I did my Master's after having few years of experience in the industry. It opened my eyes to some struggles which I had when I was working, and showed me good problem solving skills.
If you enjoy studying, you will enjoy doing a Masters. It's only 2 years but you can gain a lot.
At the University which I did mine, I had the option of doing a Thesis, or a Course-Based degree, I chose Course-Based, because it was more interesting, and diverse in terms of the different subjects. So it gives you view on multiple subjects, compared to focusing on one subject and doing research.
If you wanna stay in Academy, thesis is nice, but if, you're like me and enjoy working in the industry, course-based is more useful. It's the debate of vast & shallow, or deep & narrow. But to me, Software Engineering is where you need to know your tools, as much as much as possible.

I know that there are billions of resources available online, prints and etc. BUT it requires a lot of discipline. To me, nothing replaces the force you get you studying for an exam. If you have an exam this Friday, you have to finish reading the book this week, while the same book might take me 6 months or even a year to finish.

Not all the subjects are very interesting at school, but to me it's a 50% of really good materials and 50% of useless materials and/or bad profs. So don't set your expectation very high.

Also I would recommend, not disconnecting from the industry, you could do a part-time school and a full-time job or both part-time or even if you decided to do a full-time school, keep an eye on what's going on in the industry.

Good luck.
Ah, thanks. Got another example I can swap it for? Haven't seen the film in at least a decade.
What does a PM do?