skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a criticism (and a minor one) decades ago I worked thru school at a retail food store and WIC program women would come in with a long list of very specific required products. [...] My point with this anecdote is coordination with that program might help guide further recipes in the book, assuming it hasn't already been done to maximal ability. Perhaps similar coordination with food banks to match whats typically donated with recipe ingredient lists.

WIC is a federal-state partnership program, and the specific requirements are set by each state WIC program within federal guidelines. So, sure, it would be nice to have cookbooks that were coordinated with each state's WIC program, but its really not reasonable to expect someone to do that in a free cookbook offered as part of a degree project. Donations to food banks vary even more than state-level WIC requirements, and so present an even more dramatic version of the same problem.
This is the behavior I have observed too. There are addresses that could not plausibly be gotten by any means other than unauthorized scraping of my mail or contacts.

The only other mechanism I can think of is that maybe they're getting them via Android or iPhone apps (not necessarily linkedin's app) with less-than-upfront disclosure of what the app's doing. Either way, it's slimy behavior.
I'm working on this problem right now at blockauth.com. Launch is still months away but its an interesting mix of Blockchain publishing, ICANN style franchising, and paranoid levels of verification. The end result
will be a federation of OpenID providers that all vouch for a user to confirm that they are a real unique person all while not giving any personal details about them unless they approve.

Basically its what Facebook is proposing but we do background checks on the accounts to ensure they aren't bots. Our privacy policy will be a lot more serious too. No marketing or targeted advertising.
> Economic power doesn't mean high quality of life, and shouldn't be a sense of pride, hopefully the nation begins to understand this. There's more to life than being exploited money.

That is the most common misconception. A large country like United States can not have high quality of life without economic power.
Doesn't work on the web page at http://gigaom.com/2014/04/29/supreme-court-reverses-patent-j...

The subject line gets cut much too short, and the URL gets trimmed to the root level of the domain.
Only for developers
I hope my comment that you replied to doesn't make it sound like I disagree with you. I don't. But I do think it is reasonable for other people to disagree with us on that point. But I also agree with dragonwriter that perhaps a more important question is the practicality of having fewer things that "use ActiveRecord", such that you can then test those things without testing the database. I think it's a pretty good idea, but I've had only limited success doing it in practice.
No, I think OP has it right. The paying customers are the advertisers. Websites supply "inventory" of impressions. (That's certainly what Google calls it in my Doubleclick dashboard.) Google is a distributor, and they sometimes decide to cut off certain suppliers.
How? Few Argentines have USD bank accounts, so there's no electronic market where they can sell bitcoins for dollars. They can buy dollar bills with bitcoins on the street, but that's not really scalable.
I don't think a full test suite that takes 4 minutes is slow, and I don't see much if any value in adding a bunch of abstractions and indirection for the purpose of running the full suite every 5 seconds. I get 99% of the value by limiting my test execution to the test file for the chunk of code I'm editing and occasionally running the full suite. Running the full suite after each edit is of very little value.
> namespace.functionName = function() { }

I'd rather use Asychronous Module Definitions: http://requirejs.org/docs/whyamd.html
For a more nuanced discussion of the relative merits and drawbacks of PPP GDP (where China is about to become #1) vs nominal GDP (where China is not) see http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/04/30/chinas-economy-sur...

tl;dr traditional GDP ignores stronger effects of cheaper local currency like China can pay its military less than US can, PPP GDP ignores weaker effects of cheaper local currency like China can't import foreign goods as cheaply as US can
The Third Reich’s Electric Submarine Fail
Yikes, just to balance all the negativity.

I've had nothing but good experiences with LinkedIn. My LinkedIn profile is set for as-public-as-possible. For some reason I don't get all the problems that everyone else seems to complain about. Fwiw, I've never allowed LinkedIn to connect to my email and scrape my contacts. I will also say that I put care into my LinkedIn profile. It's purposely "unprofessional" and honest. Probably would look natural if I pasted it into an OKCupid profile. It seems to attract the right people(fun trendy tech companies) and repel almost all the ones I don't want(financial, telecom, insurance) except for the few recruiters who are clearly just doing scatter-shot to any profiles that has any vague mention of anything somewhat related to the role they're trying to fill.
Yip, this is definitely a serious threat, one that will affect the rich in ways that climate change won't so immediately do. Probably a good thing in terms of finding a solution ;)

I did come across (I forget where) a very interesting talk which was outlining new techniques in antibiotics. The basic idea was that instead of straight out killing them (in which some breed resistance) instead you get in the middle of their chemical signals and basically tell them to attach before they've reached the point where the immune system won't win.

Still, bacteria being bacteria they'll probably work their way around it, but maybe rewriting your messaging system is a little harder than breeding resistance.
MLA, APA and Chicago style guides don't recommend including the full domain unless it would be too difficult to otherwise find. Hence the truncation.
I think it's interesting the URL citation does not actually include the URL. It seems like the title of the article and the domain. Why is the exact URL of the resource is not important?
That was my impression of the critique: that Khan simply isn't a perfect math education. Well, you can definitely do worse.

Frankly, Sal Khan is better than all of my previous math teachers combined. (sorry guys and gals, but it's probably Alabama's fault anyway).
Google Glass Parts Estimated to Cost Less Than $80
Here is a more complete list of user interfaces sorted by TV Show, Movie, Designer, and more:

http://www.noteloop.com/kit/fui/
C, E-flat, and G walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Sorry, but we don't serve minors."

So E-flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished, and G is out flat.

F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough. D comes in and heads for the bathroom, saying, "Excuse me; I'll just be a second." Then A comes in, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor.

Then the bartender notices B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and says, "Get out! You're the seventh minor I've found in this bar tonight."

E-flat comes back the next night in a three-piece suit with nicely shined shoes. The bartender says, "You're looking sharp tonight. Come on in, this could be a major development." Sure enough, E-flat soon takes off his suit and everything else, and is au natural.

Eventually C sobers up and realizes in horror that he's under a rest. C is brought to trial, found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a minor, and is sentenced to 10 years of D.S. without Coda at an upscale correctional facility.
The problem I have with any reports of China's economy (GDP, inflation,...) is that fact that outsiders of the Chinese gov't do not know how doctored the numbers are. The Chinese could have been (and are still continuing) in cooking the books to achieve the #1 economy. It is one of those "if the number is bigger, it is better" kind of deals.

Could the US (and other countries) be doing something similar, absolutely. But China has been known for economical "miscalculations" and the fact that it is still a more-or-less communist run system.

Sure they may have the biggest number on paper, but I really don't think the US has anything to worry about.
What is the IPCC's worst-case scenario?

I'm sure you can find some individual scientists who want to get in front of a camera tot ell us it's the end of the world, just like you can some individual scientists who say it's all crap. I want to see what's in the IPCC's 99.9th percentile of things going wrong.
I don't see the connection between direct payment for service and the right to demand things (not that the gp was 'demanding', but whatever...). I don't think that most paid apps codify a right for users to demand things of them, and actually terms of service for paid proprietary software have a tendency to be as restrictive as possible of end user rights. But Facebook is a service that monetizes user attention, and so I think that users are just as justified in complaining about, or trying to work around facets of Facebook that they see as misfeatures as they would be for software that they directly paid for. They don't have a lot of power to individually change anything, but they do have the right to complain in open forums. I don't think that the business model really has any bearing on this.
People judge currencies by utility and future expected value. Developing economies have far more reason to use bitcoin than developed ones, but that shouldn't make it any less attractive. My paycheck is in dollars, but that doesn't mean I have an incentive for dollars to be worth more when compared to bitcoins. I can easily exchange between the two based on my view on their utilities and future expected values.

If Bitcoin is legal, easy, and cheap to use in developed economies, it doesn't matter where it starts being the most useful. It will spread everywhere.
With merged-mining[1], any alt-coin can hijack Bitcoin's security via PoW without any additional mining, see, e.g., Namecoin (which is unfortunately defunct for unrelated reasons).

[1] http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/273/how-does-merg...
Okay, fair enough. But what about the full subject?
Graphene is the super substance that could replace silicon plastic and glass
Sequoia's Investment Memo on YouTube
Hiring managers seem to be the only people in the world who think LinkedIn has any value whatsoever.

You wouldn't hire me, and I'm OK with that; I'm not going to feed a bunch of data into a scumbag spam factory like LinkedIn just to make your job easier.
One of the key innovations in the development of the Panama Canal was the fighting of malaria/yellow fever. Without understanding this, the canal wouldn't have been built, and Panama would probably look a lot more like Nicaragua than like Hong Kong.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-...
This is based on the Ray Tracer I worked on for a school project. Here's the technical report if you are interested :)
http://blog.vjeux.com/2012/javascript/javascript-ray-tracer....
But then you wouldn't want to check in on the democratic processes of 50+ different nations to tell if you have a dictatorship or something even worse on your continent.

You think the TSA is a lot of trouble now? Imagine fifty states trying to secure borders...

You think massive federal laws are annoying? Imagine what 50+ nations have to do in terms of bilateral treaties to keep minimal relations in trade, education, defense...
Porting 600k Map Views to OpenStreetMap/MapBox
I can't up vote you enough to highlight this aspect of malaria. I know it first hand.

As a child, I went through the horror for 3 consecutive years. After that somehow I developed some kind of resistance and never got it again.
MediaCrush (https://mediacru.sh) uses Project Wonderful. We describe our reasons here: https://mediacru.sh/advertising.

In short, they are pro-user and generally seem like good guys, and they give us a lot of control.
Sanitation for India's poor
Good point. It is definitely a smaller portion of the population that is really pulling the strings with money. I guess I could just say Wall Street? The banks? Regardless, I wouldn't say the lower 1% that makes this sort of middle class money that you are talking about are completely innocent. I'm sure many of them are government or government-funded private business employees, and I'm sure many of them aren't doing important work that is worth the fat wallets they are building thanks to the people who do control the money.

However, I'm also not denying that there are many highly influential, priceless, people getting paid these high salaries that are greatly beneficial to our society and have legitimately earned their fortunes. It's just unfortunate that everything is being done to support the continuation of rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. However, thanks to some people, the entire world can become richer.
Corrective upvote applied. But maybe don't put a comment to your downvoter in your comments? Downvotes get fixed, and anybody can check your profile to find out whether you are associated.
I think so: if your name is famous enough, hiring managers will ignore their own rules.
Then use one of the other implementations. The problem is it being facebook, not the concept.
http://www.speedcite.com/?q=9780142424179&f=chi works. I had to remove the dash from the ISBN-14. This is a known issue (as of an hour ago). For the ISBN-10, there's a check digit X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_digit#Design) that I haven't encountered before. Thank you for pointing out these issues!
That was a pretty shocking experiment. It's visible here 18m40s in:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xz0yb2_bbc-horizon-defeatin...
> an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print

Are you blindly copy-pasting? That's exactly what I just said about it not being a real fact.

In addition, your second link specifically denotes the "small fact" interpretation for what it is: A very recent and predominantly-north-American neologism.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/jan...

Perhaps in time it'll be like "decimate", where the false version has obliterated the original, but I don't think we're really at that stage yet.
Are there any scientific studies on the effectiveness of agile (or TDD), or is this just a homeopathy situation?

Yes (and yes) on TDD. None of the ones discussed in Making Software: what really works and why we believe it were done particularly well, and the less bad ones tended to show no effect or contradictory mixed results (ie, disagreed on what went better vs what went worse).

"Agile" is far too ill-defined to actually study usefully. Specific variants or individual practices could be studied.
Driver caught using cell phone jamming device
Actually, We Don’t Think Google Hates HARO Links
I really liked their last iteration, where posting to Facebook was walled off from the rest of the permissions, and separately prompted.
We'll still be the world's reserve currency for a while, but this is still a step to fixing the inherent systemic problems within the United States.

Unfortunately, being the world's reserve currency is the driver of our wars. Until the dollars for oil trade changes, we back our currency with a big gun.
Going to the URL for this page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7674449) and plugging that into speedcite, I get back truncated information on the subject line:

The MLA format cite comes out as:

"Show HN: One." Ycombinator.com. N.p. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. <https://news.ycombinator.com/>

The APA format cite comes out as:

Show HN: One. Ycombinator.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2014, from https://news.ycombinator.com.

The Chicago formate cite comes out as:

"Show HN: One." Ycombinator.com. https://news.ycombinator.com/.
What if we changed the equation and brought landlords in on the action without having to evict renters? Having followed this topic for quite a while, I think these points are generally accepted:

- People are more okay with host-present room/couch rentals than full apartment rentals.
- Landlords are pissed about rent-controlled units being arbitraged by their renters.
- Everyone just wants to make some money

Landlords can agree to a renter doing AirBnB if they are willing to profit-share with the landlord via some type of 3rd party rental management service. The landlord would have to ensure that everyone in a building agrees to this or at least you set up floors for "sublet-allowed" units so folks know what they're getting into.
God forbid I'd be "slightly mocked". Especially when it's about my ideals on not using a scummy company's product.

That aside, people who judge others by their (non-)use of social media are the worst. Someone who mocks friends for not using facebook is not a good friend. Someone who mocks colleagues for not being on LinkedIn is not a good person to work with.
I consider patent wars a storm in a teapot... cheap moves to abuse the patent and legal system in order to inflict maximum damage to comepetition.
I think anyone who had a chance to use android and ios would say they are different...
again - why are they suing samsung? samsung is using android... because every phone that is not apple's is either android, wm or a feature phone. So what was samsung's fault exactly that it got sued? "we will sue you, because we can"?
That was a rhetorical question...
That is so beautifully subtle... just casually sitting there like nothing out of the ordinary.
In emerging markets, holding bitcoins can be less about speculation and more about preventing one's savings from losing value. It's all relative.
Indeed. I very much enjoy Bernard Cornwell's take on the Arthurian mythos, where he tries to strip out a lot of the later additions to the myth and tell the stories as the struggle of the post-Roman Britons to retain their kingdoms in the face of the Germanic invasions.
Oh my god, this guy should go on tour, or at least get to give an intro speech / keynote introduction at some big conference... something
I think it's also occurring in part because of doctors who are prescribing aggressive and often unnecessary courses of antibiotics.

I expect this is at least one explanation for why (as the article notes) antibiotics are ineffective at treating more than half of urinary tract infections caused by E. Coli. One standard treatment for persistent, recurrent UTIs in women is to prescribe a prophylactic antibiotic to be taken post-coitally, which typically means that a woman takes a pill irregularly--either every time after she has sex or once a week. This can last for years, without the doctor reevaluating the necessity of the treatment. While this is completely necessary for truly severe, recurring cases, I've seen several doctors prescribe this casually to women who don't have recurring UTIs but request it anyway. This is detrimental for the community and the patient, who has a higher risk of developing drug-resistant infections.

I think one way to address this problem is making doctors more aware of the community-wide effects of aggressive courses of treatment, informing them about alternative treatments that don't involve antibiotics, and encouraging them to use aggressive courses of antibiotics (such as prophylacticly for recurrent UTIs) as a treatment of last-resort.
> Anecdotally, I hear from merchants who start taking bitcoin that after an initial spike they see almost no volume.

To me, this is one of the biggest problems with adoption--bitcoin doesn't offer much benefit to the typical consumer for mundane transactions.

I'm about to buy a coffee machine on Overstock.com. There's no practical reason that bitcoins are better than what I'm going to do which is put it on my mastercard. And there's a lot of reasons that getting my money into bitcoin in the first place is a giant pain in the ass.

Yeah, there are some potential situations that could change this, and if I lived in a country with massive inflation I might feel differently, but as it stands, I don't see any compelling reason to use bitcoin to make purchases.
None of them get the subject correct, which is:

Show HN: One-click citations for your essays (speedcite.com)
So when are anonymous logins a part of Facebook's privacy plan?
Both noise and property damage. The key is the tenant is much less likely to do that as they have a long term interest in maintaining a healthy (or in NYC more likely neutral) relationship with their neighbors. I never met the people who trashed my building and threw parties on the roof, but I was disturbed by them and my landlord incurred damages.
> (1) If I source the ingredients to "kale salad" at retail, it doesn't make the budget.

This isn't actually a point you made. You never questioned the author's pricing scheme (which would have been a good point, by the way -- her methodology is n=4).

> (2) If I eat 1/2 of it for dinner, its [sic] not a meal.

It is completely common for people to eat salads of this size and this protein content (before doubling or trebling the cheese) as a meal that is also a part of a healthy diet.

I'm not really sure what to make of the rest of your comments. There's some good points here somewhere...?
Sounds like you're thinking of the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinc...)

Thumbnail sketch of the event: something (possibly massive volcanic eruptions near in time to a significant meteorite impact) deoxygenated the water enough to cause a substantial marine life die-off. The death of so much marine life in such a short time encouraged sulfate-reducing bacteria, which would have released significant amounts of hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere. Hydrogen sulfide would have killed plant (and, therefore, animal) life and weakened the ozone layer, exposing the suriving flora and fauna to further UV radiation.

"96% of all marine species[5] and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct."

There is some concern regarding a risk (I have no idea how big the risk is) that anthropogenic global warming could "tip the scales" of the global ecology towards the conditions that allow for a Permian-Triassic-style cascade.
For quite a long time actually. In fact go back to when bitcoin craze was on it's highest and you will see people pointing out that it's not the currency but the technology that's important.

Bicoin the technology has already changed everything.
Can you provide reasons/evidence for why I should not trust Coinbase?
If anyone's interested in a fun project:

It's apparently pretty common for people to create virtual Truecrypt volumes and stick them on Dropbox, as a sort of poor-hacker's encrypted Dropbox.

Someone should bone up on the "Evil Maid" attack and do a proof-of-concept of it on a Dropbox-backed volume. Call it "Evil Maid In The Cloud", or "The Mallory Poppins Attack".

My intuition is that the Evil Maid attack is much more powerful vs. Dropbox-backed volumes.
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LNKD may well be the most overvalued stock in the whole world.

20B market cap for what?

It's the only top-ten social tech stocks I never use.
If anyone reading this is very familiar with the Bluebird promises library, it would be awesome if you could write an in depth blog post on all the optimization strategies used by bluebird to minimize the memory and cpu overhead it achieves.
Facebook won universal login two or three years ago. It's offered as a login option on practically every website today. Twitter/Google+/LinkedIn offer no real threat at this point.
Web apps can be used from any device - your home machine, your phone, your tablet, your friend's machine, a computer in an internet cafe halfway around the world. Pushing markdown files up to your github account... well, okay, I dunno, maybe you can figure out a way to do it in all of those cases if you're the kind of person who thinks that's the simplest thing to do, but most people are not.
Fair 'nuf! Will nuke the edit.