skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, with the irrelevant aside: vaccines aren't made of pure viruses. They're mostly filler.

Second, here is what I recall about Dr Offit's chain of reasoning.

1. You need some amount of virus particles to provoke the
immune reaction, call it 1 million. (I'm too lazy to
try to google the numbers myself.)
2. You need some amount of immune cells of the various
types to carry out the immune reaction which results in
immunity, call it 10 million.
3. You have a total of 1 trillion of these immune cells in
your body. (Once again, I'm making up the exact
numbers.)
4. So therefore, the capacity of the immune system is
sufficient to deal with
1 trillion / 10 million = 100,000 vaccines at once.

Third, and most importantly, of course 10,000 vaccines at once is hyperbole, but it's making a very important point. The question wasn't "Should we give our childrens 1 vaccine or 10,000 vaccines?", it was a debate about whether a three-vaccine (or was it seven?) combo "stressed" the immune system too much.

Dr Offit's point wasn't "Nah, let's give them 10,000 vaccines!" It was that when you go from 1 vaccine to 7 vaccines, you're increasing the load on your immune system from 0.01% to 0.07% and we've all got better things to worry about than that.
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I believe the ipad mini already has touch rejection of this sort.
> So what is the non-arbitrary reason? The one mentioned in the article?

You seem smart enough to have figured out the implication, but I believe s/he meant that the inner portion of the labia and opening to the vagina are pink; the word pink is also used as a slag term for the female genitalia.
Omega 3 has been linked to prostate cancer.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/12/health/salmon-cancer-time
Contad: SVG + CSS3 craziness
vB's biggest problem is that it's a horribly convoluted rat's nest. If you've ever seen the actual code, you can see why it's just not possible to lockdown everything since there's so much legacy code that would break as a result.
The only way that Goldman could possibly make more money by artificially delaying shipments would be because of a market-distorting regulation. And sure enough, here it is:

industry rules require that all that metal cannot simply
sit in a warehouse forever. At least 3,000 tons of that
metal must be moved out each day.

Without looking I'd bet this is some kind of "anti-hoarding" provision, probably intended to prevent single manufacturers from cornering the market. As is typical, it caused exactly the opposite of the desired consequence.

Moreover, said rule means (among other things) that no manufacturer can hold a strategic reserve of aluminum for unexpected spikes in demand without playing the games that Goldman is playing. Naturally, the response of the New York Times is that we need more such rules and regulations, that next time we'll anticipate their consequences, that the only failing is that they haven't been "strict" enough.

But the "stricter" the rule, the more that little guys get hit with it while Goldman uses teams of lawyers to define and then exploit a safe harbor.[1] In this sense, Goldman and the NYT are in cahoots: "strict" regulations directly benefit big companies.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor_(law)

A safe harbor is a provision of a statute or a regulation
that reduces or eliminates a party's liability under the
law, on the condition that the party performed its actions
in good faith or in compliance with defined standards.
Legislators may include safe-harbor provisions to protect
legitimate or excusable violations, or to incentivize the
adoption of desirable practices.
Nailing that course with help of students all acros the Earth.
Currently used to designing websites, when I found out about this in class I was so excited. The only problem I found was that I wasn't sure what theme to make it as most of them follow a certain style but I guess that's down to myself.

Some fantastic designs produced by it though.
Here you go: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy
Writing Tetris in Clojure (2011)
Good point. It is installed on my MBP but it looks like I installed it via brew.
This idea already exists for women's fashion, it's called 99 dresses: http://www.99dresses.com/
Wow, this is a pretty complete list! Thanks for compiling.
You're in dangerous territory if you ask boy or girl - people often assume their child's gender is as obvious to you as it is to them. I've gotten some unexpected hostility from strangers this way.
The point of imagination is that it is not limited by constraints.

You're right. My imagination says I get an iPhone for free. No, wait! Not for free, Apple pays me $500 to take it! No wait, $500 million! $500 trillion! Wow, I'm the richest person in the world! Imagination is great!
I'll better avoid advices, based on blind hate.
Yeah I thought that too. I didn't realize they were old designs. I thought they were new ones.
Fast Time and the Aging Mind
Big data: Sporting Kansas City Makes the Stadium More Like Your Couch
I've never worked with big databases so bare with me if this is a really silly question.

Let's say I have database A with sequential IDs, and database B with sequential IDs. Couldn't I just translate the sequential IDs to GUIDs in both databases, merge them to database C and then translate the records from A and B to sequential IDs?

Or modyfying IDs is a big no-no in this scenario?
My scientific instinct is to think this idea of "fan death" is ridiculous. But the US EPA is not helping:

In
these conditions, portable electric fans provide a cooling effect by evaporating sweat. The
increased circulation of hot air and increased sweat evaporation can, however, speed the
onset of heat-attributable conditions (e.g., heat exhaustion). http://www.epa.gov/hiri/about/pdf/EHEguide_final.pdf

EDIT: On further reflection I think his claim that 90F/31C ambient air with a household fan blowing on you (because it makes you feel cooler) is comparable in lethality to 140F/61C is outright absurd.
I shake my head every time I see these because as someone that works as a product designer I know what isn't even feasible to do. These artists create work that has no basis in the real world, and add positively ignorant statements about the construction and capabilities of these devices.

I see comments like, "Carbon fiber alone is perfectly rigid and doesn't bend." and can only shake my head about how stupid this statement is. This particular mockup is one of the worst I have ever seen for being unrealistic. Feel free to create industrial design concepts, but at the very least don't comment on features that are unrealistic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.travel - I assumed it was one of the new "buy your own TLD" for $200k (http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/icann-to-expand-top-level-d...), but apparently .travel has been around for 8 years.
It's as if there was some sort of problem with prosecutorial overreach or something.
Does measles vaccine covers everyone who takes it, or do some people have to rely on herd immunity?
If you think Airbnb is big now, just wait.

I'm 27. Most people I know have not stayed in an Airbnb rental, or considered becoming hosts. They haven't heard of it, or they're reluctant to stay with a stranger.

Eventually, positive word of mouth will convince them to try. They just have to like it once and they'll do it again.

Friedman tried to paint Airbnb as massive, but all I can think about it how tiny it still is compared to the global hotel industry.

You may say that for use case X, a hotel would be better. Fine. But I'd estimate 80% of the market hasn't tried Airbnb, and X% of them will switch once they do.
If you're not limited by constraints, why design an iPhone? Why not design a superhuman AI that communicates with the user's brain via phased-array MRI? I would say that these kinds of concepts tend to use an undocumented and improbable set of constraints. The problem with improbable but possible futures is that there are so many of them that choosing a specific one has no predictive value.
Ask HN: Why can't we get search results for our bookmarks?
I've been struggling with this for quite some time and i have tried few plugins for chrome. What would i really like to see is when I search for something on Google to also get results from the bookmarks I have made using chrome (they are synced after all). So why can't we have this ?
Modifying IDs is a giant pain in the ass. At several previous jobs we've had to rekey billions of records with sequential IDs and it never ever goes correctly the first (or tenth) time, and when it eventually does work it takes forever to complete.
By applying to the .travel Registry Association as a registered business with it's main focus being traveling. Once they accept you, you can register a .travel domain from one of the registrars they provide. There are constant audits and check-ups of your website and in case it changes its focus, the domain can be revoked.
Point 5 makes no sense. The whole point in using a surrogate key is that a natural key is almost always flawed. There are no good reasons for the advise he gives for point 5, in fact it is a mistake to do what he says!
I assumed the framework provided some protection against sql injection.

Some frameworks consider security out of the box to be beneath them. You should never assume you're secure even with a framework until you've gone combing through the docs and found where the security is, if it's anywhere, and if it's not anywhere because they spent all their effort on making it look and act like Ruby on Rails, how to get it.
canada has serious issues. I wanted to go for a conference there + meet a few startups. Turns out you need 2 months to get a tourist/business visa!
Of course, at the same time, prisons are overcrowded, the media tells us the world is becoming more dangerous every second and local police need SWAT teams and assault rifles to protect them from the rise in crime.
super cool design and website. only one gripe. it took over a minute to load. not many people will wait.
Well in that case: the penis glans is pink.
But no one is talking about whether or not Korean culture is superior or inferior in general, we're talking about whether it's optimal for the very specific situation of airline cockpit communications when the more senior pilot has made an error in judgement.
this is the site that inspired me to get into code~! love this site and glad they revamped it.
Here are the European figures:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-an...

Next time you should focus on providing evidence to support rational discussion, instead of being facetious.
I don't use foreign keys because they've bitten me in the ass too many times. I can maintain data integrity in the app level so I do it there. Adding FKs to the mix means my DB is also doing the work I already have to deal with in the app and that's use slowing things down.

FKs are a kind of business logic and I want none of that in my DB. I want my DB to give me storage, preferable ACID storage, and nothing more. I'll keep my business logic in my app.
The worst database design mistake is starting database design after development is almost done!
I know this happens with every animal bred for food production, but I was taken aback when I've read that those roaches can live up to two years. If I had a choice I would want the animals I keep to live at least a greater part of their lifespan before killing them.
That was the Block II version though. The previous version (at 24k Storage and 1k memory) is proably closer to the ATtiny1634, which only has 16k of main storage but clocks at a veritable 20Mhz. The thing I find amazing is that there's a bga version of that chip that is 2x2mm. And they're like <2$ single unit. Sorry for whipping out my 1634 pet peeve.
It's finally happened, the penguins are fed up with the Linux caricatures.
All they've done for me (in my experience) is slowed down development and saved me from nothing. The only downside I see to not using them is not being able to use FK's in indexing.
Let’s care for one another.
I wonder if looking up the source is really necessary. I did some tests with Rails console just now. It seems that Ruby and Rails are handling the case quite logically.

"3.days.ago" at least by default is a TimeWithZone object in Rails.

3.days.ago.class
=> ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone

And then the way Ruby iterates Range is through the "succ" method. So even this will give you a wall of errors:

(3.days.ago..2.days.ago).to_a

Sending "succ" to a TimeWithZone object will print a warning because the method is deprecated. So basically a warning will show for every second in the range.

Calling .include? should be equivalent to .to_a.include? in effect.
To be fair, he seemed to be referring to non-sequential GUIDs. And I can understand his point. If the only thing a GUID provides is a unique ID, it's not doing much with all that room it takes up.
Bug report: I entered hi+ and it parses it like (hi)+ instead of like h(i+) (I mean with noncapturing parentheses).
Thanks for commenting. Did you know about the Startup Visa? http://www.techvibes.com/blog/foreign-startup-visa-program-2...
Thanks, the adsorbent one seems to be the most practical. I wonder what the cost to produce this stuff is relative to zeolites.
It's not the concepts, it's the conflict of interest: We assume Gladwell is telling us the unvarnished truth in a journalistic manner.

You might find Gladwell's disclosure statement (or at least its length) revealing: http://www.gladwell.com/disclosure.html
Looking at Wikipedia, he did get some recognition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosumer#General_meanings.
Reminds me of this quote from Linus Torvalds:

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."
By vitamin(s) I mean the chemical compound(s) that have been proven to be absorbed from food and used by the body.

If you get a cheap multivitamin that doesn't actually contain the real stuff, well that's a whole other problem.
After 69 years, 'pitch drop' experiment finally caught on video
I suggest using whitespace.
Show HN: My first Chrome extension (TabZolo.co)
I had an idea to build a Chrome extension to help stay on track with browsing the internet in today's multi-tab-able browsers. I wanted a solution that would encourage (ie, force) me to finish my business on a single given tab before going on to doing something else in another. TabZolo is the result of my dabbling with a buddy.

Using the chrome.* APIs, when enabled, the extension forces you to use one tab and window (except incognito windows - but I probably shouldn't have told you that) and kills any new tabs/windows that get created instead replacing the current tab with the new URL.

You can check it out at www.tabzolo.co. It's completely open-sourced on GitHub too if anyone wants to extend its functionality.

What do you think of it?

For more on TabZolo:

GitHub - https://github.com/dasmall/TabZolo

My blog post - http://dazm.co/weekend-project-tabzolo-co/

My co-creator's post - http://leonardocorrea.com/posts/2013-07-14-tabzolo-to-the-rescue/

LifeHacker Mention - http://lifehacker.com/tabzolo-keeps-you-focused-on-one-tab-at-a-time-845544805
I've never really understood the Tom Friedman backlash. He seems to be a pretty thoughtful, reasonably imaginative writer.

My guess is that it's because he's not a doctrinaire liberal, plus probably the whole Iraq thing.
>I want my DB to give me storage, preferable ACID storage, and nothing more.

Yikes! You are missing the 'C' in ACID at the very least.

If what you say is true, a relational database might not be what you need to be using.

I think it is more likely that a relational database would be helpful to you but you worry about data after you worry about logic. A dangerous approach in many cases IMHO.
Attempting to Secure Redis in a Multi Tenant environment
An alternate hypothesis by Stephen Thomas of Harvard Medical School is that medicine has been getting so good that many crimes that would have been murders in a previous era are becoming attempted murders.

http://people.wku.edu/james.kanan/Murder%20and%20Medicine.pd...

Despite the proliferation of increasingly dangerous weapons
and the very large increase in rates of serious criminal
assault, since 1960, the lethality of such assault in the
United States has dropped dramatically. This paradox has
barely been studied and needs to be examined using national
time-series data. Starting from the basic view that
homicides are aggravated assaults with the outcome of the
victim’s death, we assembled evidence from national data
sources to show that the principal explanation of the
downward trend in lethality involves parallel developments
in medical technology and related medical support services
that have suppressed the homicide rate compared to what it
would be had such progress not been made. We argue that
research into the causes and deterrability of
homicide would benefit from a “lethality perspective” that
focuses on serious assaults, only a small proportion of
which end in death.

As for whether governments should focus on prevention rather than punishment, it can also be argued that incarceration does indeed prevent recidivism during the period of incarceration.
It's not ad hominem when raising questions about serious conflict of interest. Proper ad hominem is nearly a non-sequitor (e.g., he has a bad hair cut therefore we must question his judgement in all matters).
A lot of stuff is built on the "worse is better" philosophy. Introducing a daemon like yours will complicate the OS a little bit more. So instead, OS developers outsource the complexity to the apps, and only implement a quick hack to make this possible. In practice, the running-as-root-then-drop-privilege pattern works well enough so nobody bothered making a more complex, but potentially more secure, solution.
When discussing someone who's written many books since, I think its not legitimate to focus on their college politics and early employer's funding sponsors.

Nevertheless, Gladwell doesn't seem to claim to be a rigorous logician or scientist. He makes a "brand" out of his style of "food for thought" reasoning and the merits of his overall approach are certainly up for discussion.
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. was founded in 1934. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motor_Company#Nissan_Mot...
And the word "Nissan" was used before that as a stock market abbreviation in Japan. The name Nissan, however, was probably not well-known outside of Japan. Mr. Nissan had probably never heard of the company. He was first to register the domain name, and presumably Nissan "the company" had the same opportunity at the time. But it is disturbing to read comments such as this on a page (http://www.digest.com/people/page_1.shtml) linked to from his home page:

"Mr. Nissan,

I congratulate you, and thank you, for your perseverance in standing up for what is honorable and legitimate, for each of us and our children.
NMC's attempt to leverage their size and importance (as it is the Asian way), will not be tolerated.
I will post your information for everyone I know to read and boycott their products."

Boycott! Wow.

After reading several such posts, I wonder if the posters realize that Nissan has factories in the U.S.

Someday, I speculate that the current nissan.com will be subject to a cyber attack in a case of mistaken (or "mistaken") identity. What goes around, comes around.

So, while Mr. Nissan has the rights of "first dibs," he should realize that real damage is being done, and that he is fanning flames that do not speak to the "better angels of our nature."
I pity the engineers every time the designers come and say "build me THIS (or you're fired, lol)"...
"So long as you're not poor..."

I had a kidney stone a few weeks ago. All told, the bills for dealing with that hit $34,000.

For a kidney stone.

That's not about being poor or not, that's highway robbery.
Aireal: Interactive Tactile Experiences in Free Air
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system

I like the idea of something like this, with a local non-monetary exchange currency.
While I understand the author's point comparing a wave of groupon-only customers as a swarm of locusts moving from deal to deal, I don't agree with lumping AirBNB in there. If a business is offering a groupon at a loss on the hope of spurring future customers, the deal-hunters can act like locusts by breaking that hope, causing a net loss of value.

AirBNB, by contrast, is creating new supply, and that supply is in turn only being sold to AirBNB users. As an AirBNB host, it would be very good for me if I was constantly full of people making one day stays and then disappearing forever.

Similarly, if the businesses offering groupons were still profiting from them at the margins even without assumptions of repeat business, then these "locusts" wouldn't be taking value away either.
DeviceJS is Javascript for the Physical World
I don't see it this way. Foreign keys in your database allow you do define relationships that must be maintained across your data set. Without them it's possible for a bug in your application code to create a logical state that makes no sense (ex: child records with no parent).

Just like data type checks (ex: regex whitelisting for field values) they need to be done at both the front end and backed and yes some times it's a pain but in the long run that's a positive not a negative. If you expose your database to a whole new app, say v2 of your app or an orthogonal admin interface, you can be assured of relational guarantees between your tables.
I don't really like the term "sharing" applied to airbnb and the like. More like renting out excess capacity, which businesses have been doing since the concept of business first came into being.
It was almost certainly Richard Greenblatt, who built the CONS prototype (there was only one built) and then the first CADRs.
I love love love AirBNB. I host w/ my apartment in NYC and it's enabled me to travel around the world this year and still have a home base when I need it. I've used AirBNB a lot in those travels.

BUT (there's always a 'but' isn't there). I'm skeptical. On two fronts:

First, it's becoming increasingly difficult to make reservations as a guest in a nice place unless you're planning 4-6 months ahead of time. Some people have the luxury of doing that, many do not. I've just taken reservations for both Xmas and New Year's eve at my place in NYC and it's barely the end of July.

As a guest, this irks me. I spent 3 weeks in London recently, booked the trip about a month in advance, and tried to no avail to find a place on AirBNB -- nada. All the nice places had been snapped up months ago, and the ones that were left were either shady brokers or absolute crap (it makes sense -- I wanted a 3 week booking. If a nice place had even a 1-day booking in that window, the whole place was unavailable). I ended up booking on HomeAway or FlipKey or one of their competitors.

Second, I feel in some sense, the tide is turning the other way on the regulation front. I've been lucky with my place in NYC in that I'm in an AirBNB-friendly building and I've had extremely good luck in getting terrific guests. But the regulatory environment is not AirBNB-friendly and it's getting less so. Several people who used to host in NYC have stopped doing so for fear (irrational or otherwise) of running afoul of the law.

I tried to host w/ my apartment in SF and within 72 hours of posting the listing, I received a very strongly-worded C&D letter from the building's management company staff attorney. They had someone in the office who constantly scanned for listings on AirBNB and came down hard and fast. Others have reported similar stories from HOAs and management companies.

So of course I want nothing but the best for AirBNB - I've a happy customer on both sides. But I don't think it's such a slam dunk as many seem to think it is...
What passages from the text made you think she meant that?