skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is unlikely that the negative consequences of banning DDT are nearly as much as that. Malaria nets and pyrethoids are each more effective than DDT, to which mosquitos quickly become resistant - making continued use of DDT wholly negative.

Regarding the figures you state, I am copying and pasting the relevant section of Wikipedia:

Robert Gwadz of the National Institutes of Health said in 2007, "The ban on DDT may have killed 20 million children." In his novel State of Fear, author Michael Crichton wrote "Banning DDT killed more people than Hitler." These arguments have been dismissed as "outrageous" by former WHO scientist Socrates Litsios. May Berenbaum, University of Illinois entomologist, says, "to blame environmentalists who oppose DDT for more deaths than Hitler is worse than irresponsible." Investigative journalist Adam Sarvana and others characterize this notion as a "myth" promoted principally by Roger Bate of the pro-DDT advocacy group Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM).
it's been ~4 years since put.io opened its doors.
We need generic magnetic resistance (instead of weighted) machines charging batteries.
They used to have one (it was an optional add-on from Googke Labs). They got rid of it. It's not the bad UI thasr bothers me most about Google Maps, it's the fact that they are clearly trending toward WORSE UI not better.
watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKCK16Junz4 ;)
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/txt-sushi
At least in the UK, Jack is a fairly common shortening of Jacqueline. The only way of determining a users gender is asking them directly, and if a person wishes to enter different values into different systems, all the more power to them.
I think it is important to make a distinction between gender and sex [1]. The link below is a makes a pretty good distinction between the two.

"Sex" refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.

"Gender" refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.

[1]- http://www.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/
Just the opposite - every time you buy any content from the evil media mega corps you're funding their war against privacy, democracy and individual freedoms.
See, I'm seriously not convinced about the whole singularity thing. This article sort of touches on why I can't wrap my head around it, but it basically comes down to this: if I "upload" my "consciousness" -- how is it, well, me? Now, I'm fully aware that's a massive can of philosophical worms, but I simply can't reconcile it, personally.

I see the future hyperintelligent AI as something more like Iain M Banks "Culture" Minds, but hey, maybe I just can't comprehend it with my puny brain :)
Why your torrent service is clumsy? Find one that is better.
Wonder for how long the magnet needs to fall until it is completely demagnetized.
Coincidentally that was the first thing I thought of when I read the title.
"I initially used "William" as an example. Ironically, it turns out that name is only 57.6% male. Both Jack and Cindy are 90% male/female."

You have just used the numbers from the API as evidence of its own accuracy.
And how do you think it was without the machine? Often it is doing the cleaning in the stream, beating the cloths on rocks.
Depending which tools you're using you'll have to do a bit of work to migrate out of AWS, but there tools are usually pretty standard stuff managed for you.

For example, RDS is just a database instance with management. You'd have to invest some time to replicate what AWS already does for you, but its not rocket science. The same for Elasticache, Autoscaling, ELB, and most of their other services.
Your GCC and Clang are outdated and results are VERY UNFAIR in many aspects.

Intel compiler violates IEEE 754 by reassociating multiplication and addition. It you want to compare icc with other compilers, you should use -Ofast option with other compilers.

Also, if you compile this code with Clang 3.3, you will get the same assembly as with ICC. And with GCC 4.8 you will get even more optimal assembly. Check http://gcc.godbolt.org/ to see the result with different compilers (permalink to code: http://bit.ly/1euyjXZ)
Looks interesting and geeky. Will definitely try this someday. Thanks for the recommendation.
I'd rather have everything as I care to watch it than be drip-fed. The old "Accept what we give you when we give it to you" model needs to die, and the sooner the better. If I really care about discussing what I'm watching with someone, I'll either watch it with them, or schedule when we watch to ensure we don't get ahead/behind, but truthfully, I really don't care that much.
I'd not really consider DVD/CDs as the same thing as digital downloads. I'd love to purchase digital movies/music, but there's no way I'll buy a CD/DVD as they're useless to me.
Macs have weird keyboards with non-standard layouts and keys. They consistently drive me mad every time I'm forced to work with them.

If you're not going to run OSX you have no reason to ruin your workflow with a keyboard not matching the expectations of the running OS.

There's seriously no reason to ever buy a Mac unless you want to run OS X, a OS specifically designed to not run well on other hardware.
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Yup.

'Eric' (which often becomes Erica for females) scored a 10% higher chance of being male than 'John' did (Eric = 66.854585% while John = 57.399103%).

What's also surprising is the dramatic change the Anglicizing of the name brings: 'Erik' = 91.939346% while 'Eric' = 66.854585%
Use BitCoin.
How about if we extend your brain by hooking it up to a memory augmentation device. Still you?

And then extend it again by hooking it up to a co-processor? Still you?

And then keep extending it, until the meat bits are only 5% of the structure, and not necessary for the running of the whole? Still you?

Is You-ness (or identity) fluid and variable, or is it binary - something is either "you" or "not you"?
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Made me think of Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky"[1], which is set on a planet where the atmosphere freezes and snows to the ground before thawing again (in 250 year cycles).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Backgroun...
The Racially Fraught History of the American Beard
Not to mention Apple gets away with doing this to $1000+ hardware which then is non-reusable, while Microsoft gets neck deep in shit for not supporting a $100 OS license 15 years down the road when the HW is perfectly reusable with a much cheaper OS update.

This is clearly insane.
Jawbone is sounding out for more cash even though it recently raised a ton
Hoffman and the Terrible Heroin Deaths in the Shadows
No. Also you may want to change the question because downloading copyrighted media from any source for personal use is legal in almost any country in the world.
aaaa... us-centric minds
Cool, so if you ever get a 100lbs+ bag of diamonds you'll be sure to give it to me.
Is not illegal downloading torrent?
Map: What Country Does Your State's Life Expectancy Resemble?
I think this Wikipedia article should be pinned somewhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
Try Text-to-speech... the best multitasking trick.
I'm unsure as to why it's important to state that she is Indian in the title?
Nicely done - kind of made me realise how unimportant a lot of the stuff I post on Facebook is though! The photos were nice to see but all but one of the status updates were dumb things that only had relevance the day they were posted and had no lasting nostalgic value.

I'm guessing this was quite a technical challenge to produce a 1 minute HD video for every user on Facebook and have them all available today.
Good to see that it's not using SQLite's own CSV parser, which the last time I checked didn't seem to support the standard convention for quoting fields that contain commas themselves (very common if your CSV stores text strings in some columns):

https://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ImportingFiles

(They also seem ignorant of the existence of RFC4180 when they claim there is no CSV standard.)
We're going back to moveabletype?
Try imagine it like you fall asleep and when you wake up, your physical body is gone and what you operate on is a virtual body, just like a virtual machine for OS-es.
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With respect, while I had the same reaction as yourself, he did provide some other interesting things other than the Quaker angle, and wasn't solely discussing American slavery, the latter part of which I found interesting, albeit something I'm not going to take as gospel. Might be an interesting jumping off point for further research though. I'm from Australia, and so I sort lack the connection to slavery over the past few hundred years, other than my country being founded by prisoners, which amounted to poor people being arrested and sent here as convicts for often fabricated crimes -- slaves, basically. Then, we massacred the Aboriginal people, to the point of genocide for those in Tasmania... So we have our own dark and disgusting past...

As to "why" he'd bring it up on this post? Well, I personally like discussing things that are related on a topic, and have come across many fascinating topics and thoughts due to HN generally being ok with that. That's merely my opinion though.
Just set a number of connections in your client that the router can handle. Problem solved.
> memory augmentation device. Still you?

Yeah.

> co-processor?

What's that mean, even?
"if you're used to math in C or Java. Watch out for stuff like:
0.1 + 0.2 == 0.30000000000000004"

Uh, how floating poing operators are different than this in C or java
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In France, most of the PC have a Windows license sticker even if there are running linux. I think the statistics are biased by the fact that it is difficult to buy a PC without a windows license. Among the last 3 computers I have bought, none are running windows, but 2 have the license.
Here's the updated version of the C# Programming Guide for anyone interested:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/67ef8sbd.aspx
The privatisation of science (pesticides, medicine, etc) will always lead to these types of conflict of interest.

If the objective is to find The Truth, then a profit motive can be very damaging. It is why pharmacology in its current form is very badly flawed, among other endeavors.
It varies from book to book. Some of them are only 1 or 2 devices. The annoyance is that I inevitably forget which books are device limited and end up unable to open them from work / while traveling / etc.
Wow, this is an awesome site, especially for someone who's not from the US. I've read literature that is about US slavery, and a few stories about particular slaves that got (or took) their freedom so I find it fascinating to read about.

Really nicely designed too :)
Love this service, the UI is pretty slick
Oh come on guys. It's much more fun to assume that he's right! This is why you know his name at all: it's a fascinating idea.

This is why I believe the singularity will happen in my lifetime. I honestly, genuinely, have no idea whether it really will, but believing that it does makes for excellent ideas, great conversations and a whole lot of excitement (and Judgment Days) in general. I want to believe it. This might be difficult for a certain type of rationalist (that many HN'ers are) to appreciate, but if you really want to believe something very much, the step to actually believing it is very small. Even if it's a conscious process.

In general though, no need to squeeze those butt cheeks so much, this is not the stock market. Fun predictions are fun!
"I'm sitting on a second hand 2008 circa Lenovo T400 and have a spare one in the cupboard. I'm sitting on a second hand 2008 circa Lenovo T400 and have a spare one in the cupboard."

Do you boot up the spare one now and again or have you simply removed the battery and bagged it? Just interested as I'm considering a similar move with X series Thinkpads.
The GiraDora manually powered washing machine was announced a couple of years ago - I don't know what happened to it, e.g. did it never get funding?

http://inhabitat.com/human-powered-giradora-washer-needs-no-...
I think only 500 hours/year in some cases, but even the full 1225 is doable with the 4 months on 8 months off schedule.

But yeah, get them through one of the subsidy offices. It'll cost you 700 to 1200 Euros but increases the chances you'll get it and is definitely worth offloading the administrative hassle.
Don't use IE and "never install microsoft office"
This bill is DOA, thanks to the Republican controlled House of Representatives. I wonder how much Verizon, Comcast and AT&T spent to get these clowns elected?

Americans should expect to pay a lot more for internet services like Netflix as Verizon, Comcast and AT&T extort as much money as they can from them.

America already has slow, shitty internet. The loss of net neutrality will only compound these problems. I foresee US internet ghettoized in the near future: There will be a Verizon ghetto, a Comcast ghetto, and an AT&T ghetto. Each one with its own set of proprietary services, isolated from the others, a throwback to days of CompuServ and Prodigy in the 80s.

If I were starting another internet company, it would probably be in a place with faster, cheaper internet. Maybe South Korea.
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There's plenty of info one Google search away, but easiest is probably to just ask one of the providers that will handle the registration for you.

I use subsidiefocus.nl, but feel free to shop around. Just keep in mind that there are sharks out there that will get you to pay E2000/yr and bind you for multi-year contracts; so shop around and be wary of AdWords advertisers.

Oh yeah; also make sure you inquire about the RDA subsidy which is not that big, but is often available on top of the WBSO subsidy.
To a large extent, yes. Economic injustice, however, increases the probability and severity of civil unrest. It is in the best interest of those with economic power that those without don't bang down their doors and line them up against a wall.
Offtopic: is there a better implementation of 'cut' that handles field reordering and multi-character separators?
One of the links says that EU use Monsanto product instead, because it degrades much faster, but it is much less tested than azantine.
Well happy birthday.
And even sex[1] is sometimes not as binary as we make it to be.

[1]:http://www.chw.org/display/PPF/DocID/22620/Nav/1/router.asp
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>100.000 people smiling now at Norilsk :)

Taken several days ago - http://s2.pikabu.ru/post_img2/2014/01/30/9/1391089429_818451...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk
This is probably still faster than washing by hand in a basin. If it is, it'll still free up time.
At some point, you have to cash in the prestige or it is worthless. So companies that do this are encouraging turnover.
Apparently god is overwhelmingly male at 99.998179%
Network Security Operations Set For ‘Major Changes’ In 2014
"The first ten years were about bootstrapping this network." Can somebody please enlighten me on what he means here? I had previously thought that "bootstrapping" is a term reserved by those who are developing with little resources?

Is there some other meaning that i'm not aware of?
You're coming over rather no true scotsman there. Every political group tries to disown the negative aspects of its labels. But those who self-identify as libertarian are and should be judged on the views and actions of others who self-identify as libertarian.
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A simple calculator, for example. It could feel as if you had all answers to numerical calculations somehow memorized. You might wonder what the twelfth root of two was, and you would just suddenly "remember" the answer.
Damn Vulnerable IOS App
Damn Vulnerable IOS App (DVIA) is an IOS application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goal is to provide a platform to mobile security enthusiasts/professionals or students to test their IOS penetration testing skills in a legal environment
The cost of providing an internet connection tends to adjust to the market. There's countless testimonies on this thread to that effect. The different regulatory environment, lower cost of labour and less entrenched monopolies in less developed countries mean that connections are cheaper.

Knowledge is basically free. Anyone with an internet connection and a PC made in the last 10 years (not particularly hard to come by, even with very little money) can be knowledgeable enough. Equating wealth with knowledge is foolish.
Agree. Also, it's a bit misleading to suggest she's created a washing machine that "runs without electricity". By the same logic, Fred Flintstone (or someone in his era) should be credited for designing a car that "ran without electricity".

At this stage of mankind's industrialization, it's disingenuous to look at a human powered machine as an improvement over an electricity powered one.
See here the word "scientific" used by a politician to prepare for some hardball during the ongoing TTIP negotiations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcoue-mlQxw&t=56

Multinationals will be able to sue countries for their business obstructing laws concerning environmental legislation etc., thereby conveniently bypassing democratic process.
Still, the performance of computers is increasing exponentially. The arguments in this article seemed a bit weak.

http://top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/
Of course, the best bit is why the atmosphere freezes (i.e. why the On/Off star acts like it does)
It very much depends on your use case. But no you do not split by tables or rows generally. You split your problem into actor types.

For instance if you were to create your own news.ycombinator.com you would require 3 types of actors: frontpage, thread, user

frontpage:

- CREATE TABLE threads (storyid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, author INTEGER, title TEXT, url TEXT)

thread:

- CREATE TABLE comments (id INTEGER AUTO INCREMENT, parent INTEGER, user INTEGER, txt TEXT)

user:

- CREATE TABLE info (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, email TEXT, password TEXT)

- CREATE TABLE posts (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, threadid INTEGER)

There would be many thread and user actors, but only 1 frontpage actor.
Nobody can answer those questions, because we don't understand much of the brain yet. Beyond philosophy, you need to understand what is really YOU.
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What's the point of developing stuff in the first place? To make the world a better place, to learn things, to grow. Will that be accomplished so much better by switching from Perl to ASP to Ruby on Rails to Node.js to Go?

Look, there will always be a new tool|library|framework|language|paradigm that is cooler and better. If you pick the coolest language available today, you will be "so 2014" in a few years.

We need to be more pragmatic and use the tools that make our mission easier. Sometimes that mandates a complete rewrite in a new language|framework, but that is rare.

What the article calls "revolutionizing" is really not that big a deal. Maybe it makes things a bit easier, faster, prettier -- but it won't make or break your company.
I like how top comments are arguing about what "Libertarianism" is and that author does not know what it is 100%.

Yet they are completely ignoring the main point of this article - big companies pushing down wages.

lol
> The point is that we can't take a market with N regulations, see what happens with (N-1) regulations being followed, and then say "see, that's what would happen without any regulations!"

That seems like the sort of evidence that's actually useful when making policy decisions about whether we should increase or decrease regulation. Abolishing all regulations is not practical, so what political theorists think would happen in a complete absence of regulation is irrelevant to any real-world issues.
"In computer technology the term (usually shortened to booting) usually refers to the process of loading the basic software into the memory of a computer after power-on or general reset, especially the operating system which will then take care of loading other software as needed."
So I'm assuming they are saying that they "creating the necessary software/infrastructure for the network to run on", rather than using it in the "bootstrapping a startup" sense.
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Silicon Valley has nothing to do with a free market, those companies make ridiculous profits for one reason, intellectual property. And IP is in complete opposition to the free market.
That is only really possible if the human mind is a giant chemical-driven deterministic state-machine that could be replicated using current technology on a massive scale.

Most neuroscientists believe that there's much more to the human brain than that - there are things going on in our brains like interactions between close synapses using quantum effects. Perhaps we could model that if we understood it better, but the reality is we don't, so we can't really predict whether or not it's something we can copy.
Traditional crop irrigation methods are notoriously inefficient. Lots of room for improvement. I saw a novel solution on a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank. The Wikipedia article on water conservation has a section about optimal crop irrigation methods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conservation
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"Steven Sinofsky even did a demo to us where he got Windows 8 up and running on an ancient laptop originally manufactured for use with Windows 95 or 98 (piece of x86 hardware that was close to 20 years old.)"

Interesting. So I could buy a retail copy of Windows 8 and install it on this X61s (Duo Core 2, 3Gb RAM, Lenovo BIOS, Intel 945 graphics, Atheros WiFi) and it would run reasonably quickly?
The articles for which this statement is true often end up there for a day or two. The system works :)
It gets booted up every 3 months or so to apply windows updates so it's ready to roll if this one fails. If it does, I'll repair this one as they're pretty easy to fix even with massive failures. I've got another T61 running FreeBSD which gets used regularly as well.

The battery is removed and placed in a box. It's a second hand 9-cell battery with 12 recharge cycles (Paid £20 for it!) so it's been charged to 80% and will be maintained at that where possible. I've investigated rebuilding the packs as well in the future and it's not impossibly difficult.

I'd definitely go for it. There is a vacuum of quality hardware now. Even the latest Lenovo T/X series are cruddy machines.

I'll go back to desktops if the situation doesn't improve by 2020.
The word Libertarian was coined by french anarchist (libertarian communist) Joseph Déjacque.

In the US the word libertarian would be better replaced with neo-liberal.
I like to try before buying anything, and most of the times downloading is the only way to try something.
So how is that not basically a religion?
Hmm, interesting.

A fork of Ethereum might be the key. I read it's premined anyway.

http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1wxot1/you_ha...

Anyway, I'd weight HN points much more than reddit karma - perhaps certain subreddit karmas are worth more. Even a twitter followers stake could be worth it. The key is incentivizing the right people so they feel they can do work and not give others a free ride. Perhaps even having an application period would be best for people to hoinz up on their online identities.

Anyway, it really needs a 5 person board, so key decisions can be made with a best out of 3 majority, with abstentions and appeals possible. I personally would not want to be on that board.
Regrettably that was my poor decision to launch without checking it in Firefox, nevertheless bug fixed now :) learn from your mistakes haha