skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does there need to be a business case?

Its quite probable the engineer that built the layer has left (either Google altogether, or just to another team).

As its aged its started misbehaving, and nobody left is interested enough to figure how to fix it. Ultimately its easier just to ditch it than to maintain.

euthanasia rather than murder.
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Why would God protect from the measles but not the autism? (And I say this as a Christian who believes in healing) Yet while 'vaccine denialism' is often associated with the Religious Right, it's certainly not a prerequisite, because you can certainly find the same sentiments among the all-natural anti-GMO fringe Left, and before we had stories about Texas mega churches we had stories about affluent Californians[1]

[1]http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/08/26/vaccine-exempti...
Mindcrime, your reply is fantastic and covers the problem well. Thank you.

But it also turns out that your words "projects that publish a list of 'low hanging fruit' bugs for beginners" is a great way to phrase "give me somewhere to start contributing to OS" for Google.

You have given me a few roads to go down :)
I believe your parent was arguing that vaccines facilitate travel and that globalisation is anathema to monoculture. So vaccines indirectly attack the monoculture which you both think is a risk to our civilisation.
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Of course it's close to zero, if it were not financial crises would be a commonplace event and not a crisis. Seems like a tautology to me.
I will be interested to see how this plays out over the next few years. Will these predictions match reality?
> I have also never seen a case of autism.

Not sure where you live.

There are two kids with autism on my block. Both young boys. Autism is a common disease where I live in the midwest. We have 3 large organizations that only work with Autistic kids.

My wife and I have 3 kids and vaccinate them selectively on our own schedule. We vaccinate our kids for the same things that we received as children, nothing more and nothing less.

> The stuff we vaccinate against is not harmless.

Our medical system wants to vaccinate for everything now, chicken pox etc.
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Except now we also have to be much more vigilant about open source standards, too.

For example, now I worry the security model of WebRTC has been compromised by NSA, because it has the potential to offer very secure P2P conversations to the masses (at least 1 billion users - and that's before IE even adopts it in IE12, hopefully).
Why would God protect from the measles but not the autism?

That's a wonderful line.
I don't believe what I'm reading here: You suggest that the medical industry is more or less a monopoly / oligopoly with lack of competition and at he same time barf at people dependent on that system to keep out of the discussion? Maybe you (or I) missed a sarcasm tag ... Otherwise it might be the place to remind you that the medical industry does not operate on a free market because sick people mostly don't have much to choose from. I cannot imagine why the profit seeking aspect of that industry should not be questuined and/or observed?
It goes deeper than that.

If I owned any server hardware, chances are it would be in a rack in a datacenter. What's to say somebody hasn't walked in, flipped a badge and taken my SSL private keys? In fact, that's quite probable.
The code is just cleaner with HTML5 markup. I've updated the project, it's more readable this way :)
Yep, which would be valid except there is no scientific basis for those.
Yes--there's no real number on administration costs.
Maybe that's the problem? Just keep giving--we're complicated! I guess I keep giving to the nonprofits that sound good? The one's that advertise on T.V.?

Any nonprofit founder, should be able to answer a few questions; "How much do you, the founder expect in salary--
present and future. If we decide to fund your initial
nonprofit, would you agree to work for these amounts?

If you want to make a large salary--start a for-profit business. There's nothing wrong with wanting to make
a good living, but don't hide behind a nonprofit entity.

Oh yea, Obama is hip the nonprofit dance, but hasn't done
anything. A few years ago, he wanted to separate legitimate
nonprofits from just money making businesses. As far as
I know, nothing has been done?
If your goal is to communicate securely, it's preferable to encrypt using a native (and obviously open-source) application (and OS) and to avoid the browser, for the time being.
No, never ever validate anything. End of discussion.
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If the shakedown theory is true, and I'm not sure that it is, that's an order of magnitude beyond the evil threshold.

One plus though, businesses still have the option of engaging their local community which may have a stronger effect than just search ads. I feel some people are far too concerned with getting onto the top of Google rather than improving the scaffolding to their sites and driving organic traffic back.
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The sad thing is, one of the worst pandemics in human history is fairly recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

There are (a few) people alive today who remember it.

It killed between 1.5 and 3 times as many people as the earlier WWI - but isn't as sexy as war, so hardly anyone studies it (relatively speaking)
I leave PHP last year. The way PHP moves is not my way anymore. After so many years of using, it get boring too.

PHP has a problem, the "old stuff" / compatibility, like all older projects have.
They change things, but slowly and sometimes inconseqent.
I hope the will really renew everything with a new version, even if that mean that they lose many users.

In the last years so many new languages and styles were born, you feel really old with PHP ;-) ... that does not mean that the others were better.
They are penalized. They declare bankruptcy, have the cars and homes taken from them and generally have a significant stain on their credit for a substantial time period.

Alternatively, financial companies, especially in the 2008 crisis, receive small wrist slaps in the form of tiny fines and public rebukes while now, 5 years later, they are returned to record profits.

These days, almost all of us, individuals and corporations alike, live off credit in some form. The difference between individuals and the banks is that when individuals mismanage their credit, something bad actually happens to them.
True. You should host in a non-US and non-EU country (i.e. Switzerland) to be able to sleep better.
I assume the writer was in Beirut as the flight was Beirut -> Amman.
Even if Microsoft is telling the truth (very skeptical about it), you could see how they can easily lie through their teeth with that statement "We aren't explicitly providing a backdoor for the NSA - but hey, if NSA knows of a vulnerability in Windows that is very hidden, and we know about it, too, then it's out of our hands, and NSA can do whatever".

This is also interesting, something someone posted on HN from Steve Gibson back in 2006:

https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-022.htm

At this point I would really start with the presumption that at least Windows and Intel's chips (possibly others, too) have backdoors in them, and that the chances of that happening at this point is higher than not happening.

I'd also assume most routers have at least dormant backdoors in them. Jacob Appelbaum has been saying for years that it's easier for manufacturers to just build-in the backdoors in all routers that they're making, because so many countries demand them, and they just keep them "disabled" in the countries that don't ask for them. It might be a good idea to start installing OpenWRT firmware on your routers.
This is an open sourced project. All the code is available. It's a stretch to call it "presales", because you can use it immediately.

They are radically transparent:

* https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile - source code

* https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues - issues

They have a running feature list with each status.
Dynamic typing is simply sugar. It's a bit misleading (particularly for newer developers) that you don't have to think about types just because you don't have to declare them. Automatic coercion, etc, is really only useful if you're a more experienced developer because for the most part, you keep the type information in your head.

That said, python is the most productive language I've used so far but type management is really just one part of that.
Well, when your mind is made up you can explain anything - perhaps the autism is a punishment for not trusting in the original protection, etc, etc
The stickers aren't mandatory to keep on the vehicle, I leave mine in the glove box because people in the area have a habit of peeling them off...

I was stopped without registration earlier this year and it wasn't an issue at all.
I wasn't - but I really like the point you are making. It had never occurred to me that the globalization of of travel is the antitheses of monoculture disease pools - But it's true - the Flu in China last year, quickly becomes a worldwide phenomenon six-nine months later.
This is a vastly overly facile analysis.

Let's look at the mortgage debt crisis in the US through this same lens. It's just the US owing debt to itself, so you could just wipe it off the table with no consequences. And in large part what happened was a lot of people in the US walking away from their debt. Allowing their underwater mortgages to go unpaid, letting their houses be foreclosed. It turned out to not be particularly good for anyone involved.

Japan's debt to itself won't go any better if it is written off either. There are people, human beings, on both ends of that debt, snapping the cord will have real-world consequences, it's not just numbers on a balance sheet.
Agreed, especially when shipping, and invalid address can be expensive. We were charged $$ for each address which was "invalid"...even as simple as missing a "NE" on the street. An address lookup service was put in place, but it was done non-obtrusively. The user was prompted if the address was completely invalid, but they were allowed to ignore and continue anyway instead of stopping the order.
Bad-validation certainly doesn't justify no-validation.
Would you be for mandating, in high-income countries, the administration of a vaccine against rotaviruses knowing their efficiency is only 45%? Rotavirus is evaluated at 1% of children deaths in these countries [1] (from CDC, a source you mention yourself). Will you also push for a vaccine for the 99 other percent?

Where to start with this?

45% is a pretty low effectiveness rate. I'd prefer to see it higher, but nevertheless 45% success should improve herd immunity, right?

Rotavirus is evaluated at 1% of children deaths in these countries

If that is correct, then that is a HUGE death rate. Anything to reduce that seems sensible.

Will you also push for a vaccine for the 99 other percent?

Well.. can you predict in advance which are the 1% who are going to die? If you can then vaccinate them! If not then it would seem sensible to vaccinate everyone to develop her immunity. That will (a) directly decrease the death rate by making some who would have died immune, and (b) indirectly decrease the death rate by making it less likely to be transmitted.

Edit: Reading a bit, I believe your numbers are incorrect - or at least the way you have phrased it. 1% may be the rate in developing countries, but it isn't in developed countries.

The Wikipedia article on Rotavirus[1] makes the vaccine seem pretty compelling: In Mexico, which in 2006 was among the first countries in the world to introduce rotavirus vaccine, diarrhoeal disease death rates dropped during the 2009 rotavirus season by more than 65 percent among children age two and under.....In the United States, rotavirus vaccination since 2006 has led to drops in rotavirus-related hospitalizations by as much as 86 percent. The vaccines may also have prevented illness in non-vaccinated children by limiting the number of circulating infections.

So yes, in my opinion - based on 10 minutes of research only - it should be mandatory.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotavirus#Prevention
>Many web services choose to return dates in something other than a unix timestamp (unfortunately)

Wrong. That's very fortunate. Unix time stamps have some serious deficiencies as data type for storing time information: for one, they lack precision. One second just might not do it. Then they lack any time zone information. You will never know what a specific time stamp is in. GMT? UTC? Time zone where the server is in?

Sure. Maybe you are lucky and it's documented (it probably isn't because people who care about such things are not using unix time stamps to begin with), but using a string time stamp formatted in ISO means that no documentation is needed. The encoding is good enough to store any sub second time stamp including time zone info.

That way, you can turn any of these into whatever your environment uses internally which you will then use in conjunction with the library routines to deal with all the difficulties related to doing math with dates (how many days in a month? What about leap years? What about time zones? Not really hard issues, but many to keep in mind and many possible causes for bugs)
It's true that you don't tend to mill around town in first gear but the title of the post is 'Tesla Model S outperforms Aston' which implies to me that both cars were performing optimally. I bet most people hadn't picked up on the fact the Aston was in the wrong gear for a race. I hadn't until I read your comment.
I can't be the only one who thinks that this kind of thinking is exactly the kind of hubris that causes disasters like this in the first place.
When Google does something that makes it impossible for them to hand over certain types of data to the NSA, either by not collecting it, or making it so that only the user is able to decrypt it, wake me up. Until then, it's a PR stunt.
That's probably because you don't grasp what can be done with this data, and for how long this data will be around. The bottom line is in the relation between privacy and freedom.

There's a few point to raise here:
how do you object or prevent the sale of your data ?
how much of the money from the sale of your data went to your pockets ?
what control do you have on your sold data over time ?

Then it's not only about you and your life, ever heard of first they came [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came
I've seen SMB sites get "getting screwed" by Google, because they had hired an SEO guy who got them backlinks that ended up getting taken away. Or they still have bad on-page SEO.. Most of the time it was a one time hire kind of thing, and they just expected the traffic to always stay the same with no effort.

This guy named Glen runs an incredible SEO blog, and he's got case studies of brand new sites/page [1]. He explains how single page sites and YouTube videos are beating out big established sites. His SEO work and breakdowns on his blog are outstanding, and there is great information on there. The marketing departments of every startup should be on this guys mailing list. I have 0 affiliation with him.

I've never seen anyone bring his name up on HN, and it's about time someone does. He has been saying all year: 2013 has been awful from Google's standpoint. People are gaming the system harder than ever, and maybe theres some smart people on HN who could use bits and pieces of what Glen does/preaches.

Since Google is always changing the algo, Startups tend to avoid considering using SEO as a way to get immediate results.. But there is still some time left in 2013, and instead of all the information marketing spammers benefitting, I believe it should be HN (legit businesses & startups)!

[1]- http://www.viperchill.com/google-storm/
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Until AI that's comparable to a human brain is invented (which I don't see coming in the next 100 years), there will be an ever increasing number of problems to be solved by humans, and as a result, an ever increasing number of opportunities for humans in all sorts of industries.
FRA is one of the reasons why Finland is very close to building another cable to Germany via the Baltic Sea, bypassing Sweden. It's politically very high on the to-do list.

Follow-on project would be to connect it to Asia via the Northwest passage. Russian company is already laying some cable there, but connecting these two is wishful thinking at the moment. On land the cables are already there, reaching from Helsinki to near Russian Murmansk.

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Sorry I did not answer...

I am not a native English speaker so I may not be the best teacher of those details to a person speaking a different mother tongue than mine...
Everyone can choose the path of self-improvement and self-education which is becoming more and more widely accessible due to cheap technology and Internet access. Viewing people as "below average" or "above average" is a very pre-deterministic way of evaluating any person's potential :).
While we're talking comics, this xkcd comic was inspired by this particular debian bug: http://xkcd.com/221/

As a more serious note, people who are not cryptographers should refrain from touching crypto code, especially something as important as pseudo random number generators. In addition, it's not a very good idea be doing significant modifications "downstream" from the actual project.
The causality of why you "don't mind bad grammar" is not correct. I am raised bilingually (both non English) and after some yeas of school I went to an international school where half of my courses were in English.

Bad grammar bothers me a lot in any language, even if it is one I don't speak well. It shows a lack of time spent into the details of things. It is the sort of mentality that causes plane crashes; "I checked the engine last time". Only on a lower level. If you adopt the 'but you know what I meant' argument than we'd all say things like "ain't nobody got time for that". It is funny as a meme, but it makes you sound stupid. Of course you have to take into consideration whether someone is a native speaker or not.

You don't have to care; you are free to sound stupid if you want to.
Are you saying that it is ok to globally disregard privacy, profile users, sell their data/profile without them knowing or getting a part of this profit because it doesn't make your life worse ?
The other major advantage of using ISO 8601 is it's human readable. Very few people are going to be able to look at a Unix timestamp and convert it in their head (...if you can that's a good party trick).
Why not vaccinate for chickenpox? Helps reduce chance of scarring and reduces the chance for shingles. When I was a kid I gave chicken pox to my mom who got super sick. It would have been nice to have a vaccine back then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine

I'm surprised at the number of comments on a tech site showing fear of technology.
A paranoid reading of this statement is that the next financial crisis is looming right around the corner.
Sometimes these arbitrary pseudo-technical restrictions are just infuriating. Once I came across an online store that wouldn't let you ship to one country and pay with credit card of another one (say, you try to order something to the US and pay with Canadian credit card), like no one ever moves between countries. Or Elance.com won't check your address in Belarus because they don't 'support' Belarus (I guess it means they didn't want to find anyone who can read Belarussian), preventing anyone from Belarus from using their service.

It's great the author brought this problem to everyone's attention.
> If an engineer signs off on design work which then fails and injures/kills someone due to their incompetence they can and are charged with professional negligence and sent to jail.

And medical misconduct and malpractice often involve federal investigations, that tells you it's not considered trivial.
That wasn't really my point so much as an attempt to clarify. In all likelihood globalisation at best buys time against the monoculture issue. If and when that hits, with globalisation, it will be commensurately larger than it would have been otherwise.
«In our own time, the development of technology and the growth of cities has brought man's alienation from nature to a breaking point. Western man finds himself confined to a largely synthetic urban enviroment, far removed physically from the land, his relationship to the natural world mediated by machines. Not only does he lack familiarity with how most of his goods are produced, but his foods bear only the faintest resemblence to the animals and plants from which they were derived. Boxed into a sanitized urban milieu (almost institutional in form and appearance), modern man is denied even a spectatorial role in the agricultural and industrial systems that satisfy his material needs. He is a pure consumer, an insensate receptacle. It would be cruel to say that he is disrespectful toward his natural; the fact is that he scarcely knows what ecology means or what his enviroment requires to remain in balance.»

— "Towards a Liberatory Technology", Lewis Herber [Murray Bookchin]
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There is a great episode of Freakonomics Radio on predictions: http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/14/new-freakonomics-radio-po...

TLDR:

* Everyone remembers predictions which predict radical change and where right.

* No one remembers predictions which predict minor changes.

* No one remembers predictions which where wrong.

* There are so many wrong predictions, because there are no repercussions.

* Most experts predictions are not better than layman's guesses, some aren't better than random chance.
I have been using KeepassX for years on Linux, Android and OSX. No problems anywhere. Yes, the interface isn't the most '2013 flat UI webapps' whatever, but it's simple, and works.

We're currently moving our office over to KeepassX for our lists, also iOS clients, Windows and for a while I had it quite happily on my java feature-phone. (Entering the master password on the feature-phone was a bit fiddly though...)
Ask PG: How/why did "RFS 3 - Build something on Twitter" happen?
From http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html (the Y Combinator requests for startups):

"We want to fund those companies. And the people at Twitter also want to encourage people to build stuff on top of it. So together we came up with a plan: anyone YC funds to do a startup based on Twitter will get priority access to the Twitter stream, and to people at Twitter."

Yet HN seems to be filled with stories of people who built something on Twitter only to have their API access pulled. Granted, most of them are going against the TOS and basically building a Twitter client, but I frequently hear the advice to "not build a startup on top of Twitter."

Note: I'm particularly curious because the startup my co-founder and I are building, while not 100% Twitter-based, would be absolutely revolutionized were it given full Twitter stream/API access
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