skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your graph is better; the other one only provides enough info to deduce "omg! Circles!"

More devastating would be to know how many are actually dying of measles/pertussis. I can't find any legitimate, non-anti-vax sources talking about that, except the WHO, who says that measles deaths declined 71% worldwide between 2000 and 2011, (anti-devestating! Hooray!) and also that 95% of measles deaths occur in low-income countries. Hmm.
If I remember correctly, Verizon doesn't particularly want Windows Phones. They sure aren't pushing very hard to get them.
This 100-year-old idea could end San Francisco’s class war
The problem is that deniers don't advance the science. They are just trolling, effectively obstructing the possible improvements. Please read the article for an example of a huge trolling action.

The consensus just means that the different scientists can independently reproduce the similar results. You can do the calculations yourself too.
As someone who's about to become a parent (on the order of weeks now), this drives me up a fucking wall.

My instinct is generally towards politeness[0] so it goes against my nature to get up in people's faces. But I'm wondering if I need to take a hard line on vaccination when it comes to who I allow to spend time with my kid.

[0]: See http://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/hquotes.html, the quote on p247.
Where The American Dream Is Dead And Buried
Kids get sick all the time anyway, and almost nothing is directly attributable to vaccine administration. I thought I was really lucky when my household had a healthy stretch between last July and mid-December. That may have been record since my son was born 5 years ago and my daughter 3.
The Davy Crockett makes a pretty good rebuttal to the "nuclear suitcase bombs are impossible" people. That would easily fit in a large suitcase.
Pretty sure this is illegal. :(
Every cheezy startup website uses the same photo of a screenshot on a macbook nowadays. It's just cliche.

Typing this from a mac right now.
I think it will be like this for a while, with only token changes. But change in that direction isn't impossible...in fact, at some point it will be inevitable.

The problem with those types of changes right now is that the world is still highly meritocratic. I know a lot of people would scoff at that idea, but they end up riding the bus to work in the morning thinking that the bus driver might be worth a comfortable living wage but definitely doesn't deserve their college-educated salary because they worked harder for it. And they think that they are better at their job than Joe CubicleMate, and they think they can run the company better than Director Jim, and they think that their friend's step son is a worthless piece of garbage that shouldn't be allowed to collect welfare unless he checks himself into rehab first.

And as such, the people who fight for reduced inequality may have a point about billionaires and such, but they don't want so much equality that they can't think they are better than their neighbor. If they want sweeping change, they have to change themselves. Until then, the only meaningful change can be targeted at the extremes.
On the other hand; If the field of medicine is anything like engineering and computer science I'd rather chance my own opinion over trusting the advice of a random doctor w/o supporting reasoning. I've been given obviously crappy advice by way to many doctors over the years to just "take their word for it" because they have an MD next to their name.
Okay, but the guy says he bought it in Jan of 2013 and waited over a year to try and activate the offer.

Many of these offers are time bombs and sometimes for good reason. I'm not so sure I'm ready to pick up my pitchfork if this is the case.
Funny how there is no disclaimer that the writer stands to benefit by saying that.

""Scott Kupor is the managing partner and chief operating officer at Andreessen Horowitz,""

CNN this is what we call sales literature or propoganda.

This isn;t some kid of balanced article that is randomly presented.

The more insane the valuation the less real work Kupor has to do and the earlier he can retire.

It's naked self interest not economics.
One cannot hit the downvote button on replies made to one's own comments.
I would have thought the poignant guide would be better to give to a teenager than a child. Even I found myself caring way more about the story and the author than the code.
How is TigerDirect a "has-been"? They're a direct competitor to Newegg.
Interesting to see an established (albeit young) nonprofit taking the YC route.

I like the basic principle behind their approach too: its ultimately philanthropy in the sense that you're unlikely to see a positive ROI on loans you make, but at the same time the repayment requirement ultimately encourages the recipients to invest the money and means the same cash can potentially help more people than gifting.
I remember reading somewhere that some of the whooping cough in the States was actually being transmitted by the vaccine itself in some cases - but Google isn't returning any unbiased search results right now on that one.
Forget Tesla vs. Edison. Remember Kettering, whose hack revolutionized cars.
A programmer’s adventures in product marketing
Despite a huge increase in demand making it much more difficult to get an apartment in a desirable area, the rent increases on them have only been a few percent per year. And dealing with property management companies is usually a huge pain, but that's nothing new.

It's still pretty easy to find a 50qm in Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg, or Neukölln (within the Ringbahn) for under €500-600 warm. If you want or need a larger, fancier flat, or if you want to live in Prenzlberg or Charlottenburg, obviously you can choose to pay more.
So how do you interpret "diversity" then? That we need more kids in industry?
It is not about securing your server. It's about securing the user who connects to your server.
What you're doing is baselessly asserting things.
Are there any contemporary figures as "interesting" as Curtis LeMay, Herman Kahn or Thomas Power - the latter being the man who said while head of SAC:

"Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Power
LINE is big here (Uruguay, South America), it's not used in the U.S.?
Doesn't mean one can't create a better testing machine than a human.
Yes, it stands for machine learning. The one comment I saw the phrase "Mind linking" in looks as if it was short for "Do you mind linking to...".
European and US wages are in no way comparable by looking at just the figures. European wages include pension payments, health care, payment for sick days and at least 4 weeks of paid holidays while US contracts often do not provide all of those benefits. This skews the raw numbers massively.
Quantity vs Quality in Early Stage Prototypes
It does make me wonder what happens once we gain the ability to do two things:

1) VR by direct neural input, instead of by enveloping the senses (think more Johnny Mnemonic than the Star Trek holodeck)

2) Manipulating perception of time, which we already know is pretty mutable.
Seems like you're trying to augment your argument

Yes, it is. When someone's getting emotional about a topic, particularly a scientific one, it's useful to point it out, to rhetorically place yourself on the side of scientific, rational debate. You do the same thing one line down when you emphasize how much you prefer her "calm approach to Science."

Her work

Which work? Is it her scientific papers you respect, or her publicizing the evils of other scientists?

outnumbered by Miley Cyrus fans too

Miley Cyrus is great. But are you comparing the entirety of the climate science community to fans of a particular pop singer, when it comes to judging scientific credibility?
You know, I think that socials skills are lacking those who are easily offended by anything.
When I add a foreign package to my third-party tree in a C program, I know every time I build the system exactly what version of the code I'm getting. On larger, longer-term projects I've worked on, we've gone through pretty elaborate effort not only to package the third-party code along with our own, but also to carefully manage what versions we're using while hiding that detail from the actual program (so that, for instance, version numbers don't infect the #include directives in the source code). Golang's package system does a good job of streamlining this process, so that as long as you don't try to use it like Rubygems, you can create a reliable build environment for an important program with little effort.

Idiomatic bundler, on the other hand --- and, just take my word for it that we've seen a lot of different teams Gemfiles --- treats something like "haml" or "eventmachine" as something akin to a system dependency; versions, when specified, are often fuzzy, like "anything from 1.1.0 to 1.1.9 is acceptable". Ultra-specific versioning in Gemfiles is brittle; a "bundle install" on a mostly-rigid Gemfile can be expected to routinely fail as one gem's dependency on another fails a constraint in the file.

There's an upside to the Bundler mechanism, which is that it's very easy to use and doesn't require you to think about the actual code. In fact, Rubygems even hides cross-language dependencies, so that you can easily use libraries that happen to be native C code without even having to know that you're bridging. But there's a downside too, which is that it's opaque and, like I said, brittle.

Basically you have to decide whether tracking your upstreams is more important than having a deterministic build. The C programmer in me is obsessed with deterministic builds, and Golang appeals to the C programmer in me, not the Ruby programmer.

Again, it's totally legitimate to complain that there isn't a widely-supported npm-alike for Golang. I don't necessarily want one of those, but I can see how a competent programmer would! I'm just saying that it's not reasonable to compare "go get" to npm; they aren't systems with the same goals, even though they sort of look like they are.
Do you have a link to the startups? As an International Development grad this is very exciting.
RealClimate has a history of censoring intelligent skepticism [0] and of mindlessly defending the scientifically indefensible [1].

[0] http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2009/10/hockey-stick-gets-...

http://amac1.blogspot.com/2011/06/tiljander-data-series-appe...

[1] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/08/doing-...
I find it humorous that Tiger Direct and Newegg are promoting Bitcoin mining with GPUS. The returns from such cards are so small now its not even worth mentioning. Even with a high end GPU you are only making around $0.96 a week. With the card costing $440 it'll take 8 years to make your money back, assuming the difficulty won't increase. Which it will so there is no hope of making a profit.
The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs
Awesome. I'm certainly glad people care enough to work on these types of real issues.
Since they're finding out more and more that immunity from various vaccines wane faster than thought, why aren't adults who aren't fully up-to-date on their boosters figured into the "herd immunity" argument? I have yet to get a serious response on this anywhere I've brought it up.
> I don't quite understand why kids need to be taught to want to build things. Most kids already want to build things.

I'm reminded of this quote by Neil Degrasse Tyson in one of his speeches: "Stop worrying about the kids! They're fine, they're already interested in Space. It's the grown ups I'm worried about."
I really really from all of my heart wish that your project will work. Seriously, the idea of a free HIV vaccine is amazing. But honestly, I believe that you might all be a bit naive when it comes to doing proper molecular biology experiments. There's a reason why most PhD students need several years to finish their studies and they mostly use just a few techniques. Doing experiments with humanized mice and HIV might sound easy on paper, but will turn out to be way more complicated than what you believe it to be now.
Trust me, been there, done that.
Anyways, I wish you all the best, I love it when people challenge old dogmas with new ideas.
I'd appreciate it a lot if you could put some more information about the biology, especially the role if the immune system, online.
I'd say watch the Kahn academy biology videos, his wife is an immunologist or something so it had a big focus on the adaptive immune system. Goodsell's "The Machinery of Life" is really good too, but for molecular bio in general.

Those and just random magazine articles, etc. are really the only two things read/watched though, so others may know of some better options.
A 'per day' payment sounds like a freelance consulting gig which puts it at the lower range of the freelance wage bracket. Freelance jobs are paid better but suffer from higher costs, so those numbers are not directly comparable - you'd have to subtract about 40% to cover the costs.
IBM is nothing like a steel mill. There will always be services and software that are high margin.

Do you know nothing about the history of IBM? They've reinvented themselves, and pivoted many, many, many times in the past.
Loads of people thought it was a good idea. Traditional CSRF attacks work by pointing an HTML form on an evil third party site at an endpoint on the trusted site. HTML forms can't include custom HTTP headers, and you can't make Ajax requests (which can have custom headers) to different domains due to the same-origin policy - so the presence of an X-Requested-With header should be enough to "prove" that the request came from the same domain as you and not from a site run by an attacker.

Unfortunately certain versions of the Flash and JavaScript plugins allow requests to be made to other domains with custom headers, which left CSRF holes open.
Agreed. And since when is criticism a bad thing, esp. on HN? Especially since most of it here seemed meant to start a discussion, as in "I'm not sure this is the best way to teach programming, wouldn't X be better."

I thought this would be a worthwhile discussion to have as opposed to only useless "OMG this is the BEST thing ever" comments.
I did some more research and would really like a clarifcation of this project.

First of all - Flow Pharma is the inventor of the vsaccine - they are a FOR PROFIT angel backed company. Why do they need crowdfunding?

Second - How does Immunity project work? It seems that the real non-profit is "Until there is a cure". So you are donating money to them, which then give the money to the immunity project which pays for a trial of an unproven drug for a FOR prfit company.

This is a fantastic project and I promise I will donate if you have full disclosure. thank you for doing this.
This is very good news. Good luck.
My understanding is that the pertussis vaccine, by its nature, does not prevent infection at all. It inures you to the pertussis toxin, causing you to experience milder or no symptoms when you do get infected.
But I must be wrong, because they push for people to handle babies to get the vaccine - wouldn't it be better for those people to feel sick, stay home, and not handle babies when they're infected?
Help me understand.
I read that article awhile ago, used the character brightness representation idea to build a JavaScript image/webcam/video to ascii converter
http://dph.am/jscii/
https://github.com/EnotionZ/jscii
Node steamer: Send data to the client with less code and more clarity
Tell me about it! I couldn't find how much the service honestly costs because they don't you!

Pro 500MB Data Plan Trial - FREE
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1 GB of Bonus Data ($20 Value) - FREE

Shipping - $6.99

Due Today - $66.98

First Month Service - $0.00

All I want to know is how much are you going to charge me on a recurring monthly basis? This feels scammy to me... is this a dark pattern?

UPDATE: I finally found were the monthly prices were/are found (they used strike-through on the monthly price on the plan selection page and wrote in larger font behind it 100% FREE Trial)... They're hurting themselves by making it difficult to find.
Thanks for the answer. I understand that times have changed and that revealing that you're from Google is not as fun as it used to be.

The distinction you seem to be making between data that Google has and data that is "revealed to anyone" is misleading in my opinion. No matter who has the data, "privacy" is concerned.

Also I need to call you out on your blanket statements that Google developers have no access to that data (clearly, some would, as part of their jobs, also [1]), and that data is not revealed to anyone (seriously?). As of January 2014, this position is not defensible and you might have to face a more nuanced, and possibly inconvenient reality.

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...
Mm. The companies might have fallen from their high, but they're hardly irrelevant or dead. Overstock is advertised like crazy and has some pretty good deals to boot, Tiger competes directly with Newegg. App is a bit of an outlier there..

Starbucks or Apple? I'd assume the megacorps will take it up once the instability gets smoothed out a bit. Which is a problem of adoption, which means the faster the smaller fish like these adopt it, the faster the bigger ones will.

I predict Amazon will take BTC within the next 2-3 years.
Not only are they useless, they cost me money as a customer. Every company paying for ads, needs to earn a greater margin to cover the cost of ads. If the entire ad market collapsed and products instead needed to compete on price, quality and overall value delivered to the customer, we would all be better off. Advertising allows firms to compete in a vector which provides me no benefits.

I would love it if we had a law that said once a product achieves more than something like 10% market share, it could no longer be advertised. Advertising for new unknown products makes sense. Once I know about a product, advertising just serves to divert resources from making the product better and to generate noise that dilutes the message from new products of which I might not be aware.

One of the biggest problems in this country and all countries are people who live their live accepting what they are told, instead of seeking out an answer to their questions and doubts on their own. People accept information from Fox, CNN, NY Times, NY Post, radio, advertisements, etc. at face value. Culturally, we would all be better off with an attitude like those who read and write the reviews for products on Amazon. I and every other customer get 1000x the value from Amazon reviews than I get from advertising. It has saved me from buying many many dud products and helped me discover the products that provide the best value. Plus, there is only so much any manufacturer can do to game those reviews since it is eventually self-correcting (i.e. pay for good reviews increases sales among the misled, who later show up and post most honest reviews that will be less favorable or downright negative)
Nearby supernova dazzles astronomers
Reading these reviews can help one better appreciate Taleb.
You're going to continue to see major eCommerce players offer bitcoin as a payment option. In the checkout flow it is best practice to offer as many payment options available because it increases the likelihood of a successful conversion.

Regardless of whether Andreesse's essay is correct regarding bitcoin two IR100 sites is a pretty big deal for bitcoin.
U.S. Army Considers Robots for Support Service Roles
That is an extraordinary claim. Does someone else have a source to back that up? This argument would appear to vindicate the antivax movement, at least vis a vis whooping cough. That would be a shocking development.
Someone with a less favorable view on Bitcoin could easily point out that these retailers are not embracing Bitcoin. They are embracing payment services like BitPay and Coinbase. To TigerDirect this move isn't that different from deciding to accept payments from Paypal, Google Wallet, etc.
Maybe I'm blind or searchiotic but cliffs on what the other 6 are doing?

I think YC is one of the few places that could actually disrupt the academic publishing and reputation-bargaining field so I'm hoping some nonprofit will tackle this eventually.
You trust your own engineering opinion over that of an expert professional engineer? The doofus who used to own my house was one of those kinds of people and I am still paying for it.
" Not one American has been found who has been demonstrably harmed by any NSA program."

Of course, this statement heavily relies on what you mean by "demonstrably" and "harm". What is the standard of proof you would require to demonstrate harm? As you say it, it sounds like one of those terms that you can forever pushback against and say "but X didn't demonstrate harm sufficiently".

The most likely harm that I would consider widespread would be the chilling effect. For example, Chris Hedges and others tried to sue the gov for the NDAA's chilling effect, but once they got to court it was thrown out because they had "no standing". So it's pretty obvious that you can't say that a court ruling on something demonstrates harm, because the courts themselves are part of the harm occurring.

As a matter of fact, I bet I could have a pretty good claim that the NSA program has harmed me. I am an Iraq combat vet with PTSD, and happened to be someone who has talking about the NSA doing this stuff since the early 2000's. At my last meeting with the VA, I specifically stated that I was concerned at the confidentiality of my talks due to their being entered in an electronic system that I suspected the NSA and other three-letters would have access to. Therefore I quit my PTSD treatment because I felt I could not trust the VA system or any claims of doctor-patient confidentiality. I actually asked the doc to make sure she typed that into the system so that in the future I could use it as evidence if the need ever arose. I'm doing fine now mostly of my own volition, but what I think about is how many other vets had the same gut feeling and kept their problems hidden and suffered greatly for it?

This is only one example that I think is pretty concrete.