skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Points 1 and 4 contradict themselves. So triclosan is no better than regular soap at killing bacteria. But the point 4 implies its killing too much bacteria and contributing to allergies.
I think you've got things backwards. College tuition has risen so rapidly because of the vast amount of subsidization from the federal government.
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We've evolved in 2013, we'll transform in 2014
I remember that too with IE 4 on Win95.

IE has still the same UI mouse feeling of Spyglass Mosaic. IE 1 started with its source code and even after the major improvements of IE 3 it still feels very similar. (IE up to IE 6 mentioned "Spyglass source code" on the about dialog.)

Even the print preview window of IE 11 looks like the same window in NCSA Mosaic 2 (1995) (I just downloaded and run on it on Win7)
let's just hope they don't get bought and shut down... =(

ps. still needs tons of work though it seems
When i hear Organic and City Design I immediately think of Christopher Alexander's Timeless Way of Building [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Timeless_Way_of_Building
If I had to refrain from saying any joke which someone in the world might find hurtful, I wouldn't have very many jokes to say. Besides, in this case, he was talking about releasing pathogens upon, or lighting up with a flamethrower, half of the babies in a hospital. I can't imagine there are too many people who've had something like that happen to their child.
It is not clear that agency is the issue here. The search ad business is a long-tail business. People who read and comment on HN, who understand how search works, likely are heavy users of search yet contribute little revenue. But hackers are important to Google in other ways because they are the tech trend setters who turned Google into a verb and told their computer-illiterate brethren to just "Google" it. Now just imagine what some of those less literate, who believe in palm reading or tarot cards, would think when faced with a computer that appears to half read one's mind. I mean these are the real gold mines that the ads people are looking for. And once they get comfortable they are not just going to switch based on some technical merits they've never even heard of and the ad market will continue to pay more to those who can deliver more of the "gold mine" type users.
I'd go further. I think there needs to be a class action suit brought by customers who purchased a security solution and got snake oil. I'm sure the RSA license limits liability but I think there's a case to be made that this isn't just negligence but willful criminal acts and the limitations should be set aside. The case itself would probably be pretty damaging ("Tell us, what did you think the $10m was buying?"). I think RSA would go pretty far to avoid a trial.
RSA is a subsidiary of EMC. This means that a boycott of Greenplum, Pivotal, VMWare, Isilon, Mozy, and MANY others would probably be included.

I just don't see an effective boycott of this scale happening -- especially when most of their customers just care about the product cost and benefit. Also, it can probably be argued that trying to secure your systems against a targeted intrusion from the NSA using technical means is pointless and a waste of money (throwing money at the EFF might be more effective).

Having said that, is there an good alternative to SecureID? The only thing that seems to come close is CRYPTOCard, but it looks like they have closer ties with the NSA than RSA does. A yubikey also looks nice, but I don't like how it needs to be plugged in as a keyboard -- a device that is kept physically separated from the login machine would be ideal. OTP apps on a multi-purpose device (mobile phone) also isn't something I consider to be secure.
I don't personally have much exposure to rsa, just ssh keys and ssl certs. Are these compromised?
Vancouver maybe?
In the previous post about SnappyLabs the author said he wasn't looking at doing an android version at the moment, and gave the impression that there were technical reasons why it was more difficult.
It's now 2014, actually, and you're talking about a problem from 1997, in an OS where backwards compatibility has been an extremely high priority since the 1980s.
A very well known and funded business gets preferential treatment. BOO-HOO. Do you think Bill Gates waits on a line at the bank? At the mayor's office? Anywhere at all? In real life if you are powerful, you get respect.

There is no such thing as fairness. It's a paradigm of the feeble minded. Most likely a defense mechanism - "look guys, he cheated on the exam, let's tell the teacher!".
I like the design, the drawing on the map isn't working for me though, using chrome.
The thing that kills me is we are supposed to be encouraging proper hand washing technique, but public rest rooms are mostly set up to specifically discourage proper hand washing technique.

You have to pump about 5-7 times to get any amount of soap, then you get maybe 5 seconds of frigid ice cold water that you can hardly stand keeping your hands under, with no water pressure at all, then it stops. You either have to press a button again or wait for the sensor to detect you again, which of course takes a while. This goes on for some time. It encourages you to half ass or skip the hand washing procedure. Companies I guess think public health is less important than saving on the water bill.
How long until my Nest thermostat activates UV-spectrum functionality (in yet to be sold LED bulbs) when I'm away to break down surface bacteria?
These all sound like reason to use Lua over Python then (and especially LuaJIT for FFI).
How about antibacterial toothpaste? Some have triclosan (Colgate), some do not (Crest). Is this a concern?
I search for "[song name] lyrics" and I get a site that has the lyrics. I've never thought it sucked. I don't care how many banners on the side, just that the words are there. And I prefer an "expanded" view with all the [Hook] type stuff replaced with the actual words, rather than the "more correct" RG presentation.

Heck, sometimes I have to click more to get what I'm looking for with RG. After trying a few things, I was able to reproduce this just now with a search for "forgot about dre lyrics" (no quotes). This is the second result I got: something google shows as "rapgenius.com/...dre-forgot-about-dre/Eazy-es-ice-cubes-and-docs-the-s..." that does a redirect to http://rapgenius.com/Dr-dre-forgot-about-dre-lyrics#note-252... which pops up an annotation over the lyrics. That's not what I was looking for.

All that to say: it's not clear to me that RG really sucks less for "[song name] lyrics" queries.
Don't bother leaving a critical reply to this guy. "User comment is awaiting moderation." I guess he had to do that to block all the backlink spam he purports is being so unfairly punished by Google.
What version of chrome? Can you see if there are JS errors in the console? View -> Developer -> Javascript Console?

Sorry about that!
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A boycott is symbolic, and that is important. But I doubt it will be effective in changing their corporate priorities. RSA makes its money from government contracts, or from other government contractors, not from privacy-minded individuals like us.

Instead, I propose that it be unlawful for companies which have been thoroughly hacked to bid on government cybersecurity contracts, at least for some period of time. After the SecurID hack, RSA should have been blacklisted for, say, a year. BSAFE should not be anywhere near a government or defence network.

PS: The analogy to Vichy France isn't great. It was not a matter of French technocrats collaborating just to save their jobs; it was real counter-revolutionaries fighting to bring down the Third Republic from within.
I accept them, and the prominent HNer sitting at the table with me laughed at it and upvoted it. If pg or our other overlords have any issue with pun-based humor, they have yet to codify them in the rules.

There is, however, a rule against complaining about HN turning into Reddit. The official HN guidelines read as follows:

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"

My per-comment average is nearly twice yours. Please pick on someone else.

I'm sorry you don't like my comment. I thought it was grate.
I think Herb has said the answer to "why graphics in particular" is: beginners. If someone wants to start out programming in C++, it can be disheartening to learn that just drawing some simple shapes requires using external libraries, with all the complexity that brings.
Alternatives:

https://www.blippex.org/

http://www.yandex.com/

https://duckduckgo.com/

And of course:

http://www.bing.com/

http://www.yahoo.com/
I have a feeling it was actually 'Invaders...' he was talking about when he made that claim.
try y^2 + x^2 and y^2*x^2
In terms of effectiveness:

Boycotting all EMC subsidiaries > boycotting just RSA > doing nothing

Nothing wrong with keeping it small scale and only boycotting RSA, if the alternative is doing nothing at all.
The surface is so thin that it probably wouldn't be worth while.
This is not on the same level as Prodigy, but a great Australian electronic artist Flume [0] creates his music by "playing a Mac" [1]

[0]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flume_(musician)
[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/flume-q26...
I was making the point that cynical eye rolling at any initiative from political competitors, despite common goals, leads to a zero sum system where policy reflects narrowminded politics rather than shared values. That is a bad thing, and I think we should try and nip it in the bud as much as possible.

What about my attitude is leading to the same?
Its pretty tolerated compared to UK and Austria (the countries I have lived in). You regularly smell it in the street, and police don't make such a big deal from anecdotal evidence.
The book's worth reading too - even if you've read the blog.
One interesting thing I learned from this article is that the US does not have a VAT, but a sales tax on a state level. It took me a while to understand this as most countries in Europe usually have only a VAT on the nation state level. I guess the US system does have some benefits but it seems shockingly insufficient in the face of online retailers.

Wikipedia also tells me that there have been pushes to introduce a national VAT in the US, but they have failed. To me that only seems to have benefits: less administration, less rules, less loopholes. Could someone outline the arguments against it?
Have a like, sir!

Fairness does not exist in real life. Screaming "unfair" will not help you achieve anything. It's such a ridiculous situation for me. All these guys are sitting on the line, raging at real life because popular culture brain washed them.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but

What a bunch of stupid nerds!
It took a bit more than that. The person in charge and Deloitte agreed on the ruthless simplicity you've outlined, and which we can also judge by the short timelines, 6 months to design and build, 3 months for system testing and fixes. Implicitly, your summation also tells us requirements were frozen early enough in the project.

Even if HHS/CMS had assigned a single person to be full time in charge of Healthcare.gov, it's vanishingly unlikely they would have had the authority to take such measures and make them stick, refuse requirements changes from above past a certain point, etc. etc., even if they'd known to do so, or were smart enough to listen to the contractors.

Oh, yeah, Deloitte was the general/prime/whatever contractor, CMS took on that role until "fired" in the 3rd week in August. CMS simply didn't have the skills to do that (in the Federal government we're told only the Pentagon does, and only for "medium sized" weapons projects).
Not intended as a criticism- no one writes every possible feature immediately! It was me expressing enjoyment at the dry way you documented this implementation detail.
"In some cases the companies had no choice (Verizon)"

This is how wrong so many people are. Verizon's CEO has flat out said "they are our largest customer" (i.e - go fuck yourself).
In this case its been a long, long story in Idaho. When CCA took over and built a prison near Boise the prison directors actually asked to be allowed to bid on running the prison since they felt that the state could do it cheaper than CCA. This was denied by the very Republican government. Slowly the attitude has been changing though, and recently the private prison had to admit to falsifying records after several inmates where very much harmed due to CCA's actions. The private prison is now nicknamed "Gladiator school."

I find this very interesting because its forcing the hand of a group of the staunchest supporters of privatization. When the very, very far edge moves toward the center its usually cause for curiosity. =)
Since you said "at every level": optimizing via caching (at the program/memcached level) before you have otherwise made the code go as fast as it can has several problems.

It can obscure future performance enhancements, may take away cache memory from other parts of the code that are already optimized and need caching to reach full speed, and can be used as a replacement for seeking out improved algorithms, causing more structural changes down the line when performance needs to be improved and you can no longer "just add caching!

The low-level CPU caching is, as _delirium points out, highly specific to an architecture, so it's almost got to be the last thing on the list to optimize.

All this is to say, starting by looking at the cache is premature optimization most of the time.
Humanity survived just fine ... ? Do you have any idea what mortality rates used to be?
That story was very inspirational to me. I know Hollywood glamorizes but it is a beautiful story in its own right. Good post.
Coingen
You can't explain evolution without making reference to people who get killed before they get to breed, and trying to sugar-coat it too much just inhibits understanding.
In the US it's actually more insane, we can also have different sales taxes at the county (a smaller administrative unit w/in states, there are a few thousand of them nationwide), and the city level. We also have different tax rates on different kinds of products (restaurants vs clothes vs gas, for example.)

This reasoning behind this is giving individual areas the flexibility to tax based on their individual needs, so a county could vote to raise sales taxes for (X) years to fund a new high school or something.

I believe they usually do this by other methods (like bonds), but want to keep taxes as an option.

I live in Washington DC, which is tiny and close to 2 other states, so there are days when I can end up going to DC, MD, and VA and buying food and gas, so I pay 6 different tax rates in the same day. It's all transparent to me of course, and most people only pay attention to income taxes when they think about moving somewhere.
yup. just adding duck duck go to this laptop now. thanks for the reminder.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-ss...
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The haters should check out this site called "Zen Garden". It totally shows how powerful CSS is - at least on a single, static HTML page.

And I'm pretty sure the approach will scale to multiple, dynamic pages, right?
I'm sorry for whomever you have in mind, but I absolutely reject the mentality that non-bullying humour must be curbed in case someone might have their feelings hurt - especially the kind of hurt where people take offense where none was intended.
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Hey, maybe the GP doesn't use medication, automobiles, electricity, or computers either. Humanity survived just fine without those too. ;)

EDIT: You might find "Bacteria Living on Antibiotics" blog post interesting though: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=239
Those companies appear to be hoping the NSA toothpaste goes back in the tube. It won't.

Until they deliver open source client software that uses end-user-controlled strong encryption, they are not making their users secure. But that means putting their users out of the reach of law enforcement, too, and they are scared to do that.

They need to face the choice: Enable real privacy, or lose your customers.
TFA often means "the full article", even though the more rude sense is more common elsewhere.
The parent is just making some typical nerd point from too much scifi or something about how we shouldn't cae much about death or something. It's HN, I guess.
I use owncloud 6 - with all of it's imperfections - it still beats storing things for NSA on google cloud.

P.S.
Although I wish they'd just use existing framework like ZF2 or Symfony2 instead of reinventing the wheel.
I have this[1] extension installed, and this is the most ridiculous thread.

[1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/butt-to-butt-plus/...
Call me a precocious five-year-old, however, why?

I read that doing so minimises the risk of irritation, however, isn't that the same as locally diluting the soap? Is that the only reason?
I've on multiple occasions been on a UK street, witnessed a very strong smell of weed with police officers walking along near me, and had them do nothing. That said, I'd personally never take the risk of smoking in public in the UK (though I do know people who do).

Belgium's another country that's very relaxed about it. The friends I have there who smoke have to drive over to NL to buy it (I guess there are street dealers too), but I've stood in the centre of Antwerp smoking a joint chatting to a police officer, and that anecdote matches up with my friends there who say it's very relaxed.
A middle ground may be to subsidize only some fields. STEM requires more investment than the arts (laboratories, equipment, etc.) so is a better candidate for subsidies.
Three words: no thanks NSA. How about the government fix potholes and explain where the gas excise tax revenues actually go...
Google inexplicably shutting down isn't a realistic option though. The damage to society in unusable email, Android phones, etc would be far worse.
Recently, researchers from the University of California at Davis and the University of Colorado found that the chemical impairs muscle function in fish and mice and stated the results they found show “strong evidence that triclosan could have effects on animal and human health at current levels of exposure.” Beyond Pesticides has provided more extensive documentation of the potential human and environmental health effects of triclosan and its cousin triclocarban. Triclosan is an endocrine disruptor and has been shown to affect male and female reproductive hormones and possibly fetal development. It is also shown to alter thyroid function, and other studies have found that due to its extensive use in consumer goods, triclosan and its metabolites contaminate waterways and are present in fish, umbilical cord blood and human milk. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found that triclosan is present in the urine of 75% of the U.S. population, with concentrations that have increased by 50% since 2004. [1]

The study, entitled, “The effects of triclosan on puberty and thyroid hormones in male wistar rats,” was reviewed by the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and approved for publication in Toxicological Sciences. Researchers measured blood concentrations of testosterone and several other types of hormones and weighed a variety of organs that are essential for rat development and puberty, including the pituitary gland, the testes, the prostate gland and the liver of male rat pups fed an oral dose of triclosan for 31 days. The purpose of the experiment was to determine what effects triclosan would have on concentrations of thyroid hormones and the onset of puberty. [2]

This study demonstrates that triclosan exposure does not alter androgen-dependent tissue weights or onset of PPS; however, triclosan exposure significantly impacts thyroid hormone concentrations in the male juvenile rat.[3]

Could someone for the love of all things natural please elucidate on how relevant, in general, are rodent studies and fish studies to the physiology and therefore the prophylaxis of humans?

For every two or so multi-year studies done on humans there seem to be dozens, if not hundreds, done on rats, fish and ferrets. /s/

Anatomically speaking, aren't pigs much better candidates, in that they much more closely resemble humans? There have been organ transplants from pigs, right?

[1] http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=7913

[2] http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=1004

[3] http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/1/56.abstract
Apple has earlier ripped off the Swiss Railway watch face, and also pilfered the idea of using volume button as a shutter for the camera. They apologized for the watch face, IIRC.
Just use regular toothpaste. Use Listerine if you are that concerned about germs in your mouth.
No problem: NetApp or ZFS-based solutions, Asana, Xen, Tarsnap and open source soft tokens. There are plenty of alternatives that include more alternatives (ie solving the problem by modifying requirements) than a narrowly-defined class of product so there is no such thing as "only X options." It's the false dichotomy fallacy.

The choice is to make an effort instead of making excuses, because doing nothing has the appearance and effect of condoning the behavior. Silence gives consent.

A wise (wo|)man will make more opportunities than (s|)he finds. - Francis Bacon
Also, re: the shock of someone lifting the icon of the wifi sync thing. If I am an Apple designer, the first idea for a wifi sync icon will be combining the wifi icon with the sync icon. The most obvious way to do that is to put the sync icon (two circular arrows) around the wifi icon.

It's pretty clear this was just two people coming up with the same logical icon concept simultaneously.
> Also, it can probably be argued that trying to secure your systems against a targeted intrusion from the NSA using technical means is pointless and a waste of money (throwing money at the EFF might be more effective).

You're assuming that the NSA is unwilling to do things that are illegal. The (legitimate) fear is that your competitors may have ties to the NSA, who can then target you illegally, which can greatly benefit your competitor and damage your business.

Good security has now been made vastly more expensive because the government has to be assumed to have built nearly every high-budget attack vector they could. The cost of defending your business from this is very high, and we're all going to end up paying for it.
The iBooks interface, too:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/think-ibooks-looks-familiar...
Maybe some effort should be put into making it much easier to use external libraries in a C++ IDE then?

With Visual Studio or Eclipse I am still downloading the libs for my architecture, sometimes compiling them with an entire set of potential issues and dependencies, configuring paths, etc...

They have NuGet for .NET in Visual Studio, you'd think this could be done for native software.

It is actually far easier to do this on Linux with package managers, which is sad for Windows imho.
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It has risen rapidly because the subsidies are college tuition loans instead of something less indirect and goofy.
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I think you've missed my point. -- I'm saying before even beginning a conversation about subsidies (for or against, doesn't matter), we need to resolve the systemic structural problems of universities. Perhaps also move forward the debate of what constitutes a good education, so we have clearer targets to work towards.