skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The complete onesidedness is distressing. But yeah I do agree it's not racist, at least not any more than say Russia's releases about MH17 and who's to blame.

But why does Hamas put rockets in everything they can reach ? Somehow that is never mentioned as the major human rights violation and war crime it is ... Including, incidentally, the airport : http://www.centralmaine.com/2014/07/23/faa-continues-ban-on-....

Why the double standard ? The article describes "the Jews" as waging an unprovoked war.

Other various things that happened in Europe, that most definitely are racist, a football team on a friendly match in Europe was attacked in Germany, remniscent of the 1972 Olympics:
http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/other-soccer/video-pr....

Oh and how do palestinians protest all this ? Well, by chanting "death to Jews", of course, and by attacking Jews all over Europe : http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/world/europe/israels-gaza-....

Of course, not a word about all this being unfair, or god forbid someone call it by it's real name : racist violence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7-WvfWXn7U

If there is one people that does not have a right to complain about racism, war crimes and human rights, it's the "palestinians".
As I wrote that comment, BitTorrent came to mind with all the societal implications that carries (that's what I meant by "sanctioned" in the last sentence)

I haven't really explored PopCorn Time but I'll take a look.

With regards to DRM, the content must be de-protected before you watch it - so if Netflix installed a mini-box on my network, they could decrypt it to let me watch the show, and encrypt it to store on the device before it is sent to someone else. The key itself could be retrieved from the a centralized server.

If I think about it some more, there really is no need to keep an entire Netflix catalog in every location. As I mentioned, they have usage data and a strong prediction system too, so predicting the next show that will be watched in an area and even when would be "straight-forward" (In quotes because it wouldn't be easy for me to do it, but I think it would be easy for Netflix).

Another thing Netflix could try is pre-fetching shows during off-hours. That would work well for binge show watchers, and reduce peak time traffic.
I generally agree, but some people really are allergic to some vaccinations. They present the same exposure risk as somebody who chooses not to be vaccinated for stupid reasons. Should they also not be allowed in?
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I think trying to monitize the way they did was a big mistake. A social network isn't really a business tool and mass-market consumers aren't ready to shell our a monthly fee for a new and unnecessary way to communicate.

Twitter, the giant that's integrated into pretty much everywhere, is still fighting for engagement and new signups. So for a company to come and challenge them with such a vague value proposition is plain bad.
Read the post:

> My latest strategy was to pretend to be them on twitter to get some of their followers
So when it comes to anti-vaxxers, the problem is simply that the scientific community simply hasn't been accommodating enough?

It's good to know that, yet again the fault does not lie with the common man. It is always someone else's fault.
Thanks for sharing the cached version! The blog is back up and is fortified with a few layers of caching :)
Those exist, however they handle rush hour rather poorly. Also, when the system malfunctions, vehicles are not retrievable. Human-operated valet service is a very inexpensive, very reasonable alternative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_parking_system
App.net was born out of a visceral, snap reaction to Twitter's API decisions that, really, the mainstream didn't really care about. That's not enough to build a product on top of. What's more, while I sympathize with the developers who were negatively impacted by Twitter's decisions, one could argue the choices they made were _right_ for the product. If you believe that, App.net's decision, the inverse, was _wrong_ for the product (reducing quality and focus).

Or in short, most people just don't care.
Yes, but tech companies (among others) also run conferences specifically for their users. I suspect Rackspace would take action if you wanted to run the "Rackspace Summit" or something along those lines because people would reasonably assume that such an event was associated with the company in some way.

(Companies do often allow quasi-independent organizations to run quasi-associated conferences but this is usually a deliberate decision.)
Just give up on the human race already, they aren't worth it.
Old and boring: “selfie”  New hotnes: “dronie”
aka The Iron Law of Bureaucracy

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
I often wondered ever since Wikipedia started that if they just had slightly more involvement, they could handle all of this kind of content and the site would still be great. I also often wonder if the content that does get rejected should actually be there, and the site is worse without it.

That being said, there are still probably too many articles, especially in other languages, that could use more depth, and I guess that's been the driving force for some time, and I hope we don't give up.
Vlad Filippov of Mozilla on open source software and front-end web development
I think if their concept was clearer the business model would have evolved to be effective. It's hard to get it right the first time but with a strong enough base they could have iterated.
Yeah, but we're talking about not vaccinating your kids, here. It might be that we're all living in a computer simulation and none of this matters but we should still act on what we observe.
Thanks for the feedback.

Interesting thoughts on the layout engine and comparison to CSS, I hadn't thought of that before. I think a lot of the discussion around excel (ie data vs models vs formatting) applies here too, in that while it isn't ideal architecture separating content from styling, in the end it is certainly easier.

Interesting point on 2013 too, we are currently using 2010 and I think it may be giving me bias.

The thought on rendering back to Word was to acknowledge that certain things still need to be tweaked and changed to arrive at a final product. I agree that it would be easier and probably more forward thinking to got the HTML->PDF route, but I am thinking of the masses here, where a computer illiterate person can pick up a generated document and then go from there. Interesting thoughts and thanks for the feedback
A while back NPR's Planet Money did a show on the penny[1]. It included a piece on a company that was trying to allow and make easy to charge/make fractional cent payments, so we could have content that cost a fraction of a cent. While there are obvious technical hurdles to be overcome at multiple levels in a technology like that, I like the idea of allowing small payments for content to support the production and delivery of that content.

1: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/16/312732409/episode-...
This is a Nature Future, the story printed at the back of the magazine as food for thought. Perhaps only twenty percent of them present a future in which we'd like to live.

If the Future has driven HN to active discussion of an ethical topic, then it has succeeded in its purpose.

Unlike most of Nature, the Futures are free to read (and ~10% of them are compelling enough to make reading them all worthwhile).

(just scroll down to see the complete archive)
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/arts/futures/
I wish I had a good reason for you, but it's fixed now!
It's very true, but they:

1. never really made it clear
2. never explained what else that framework was good for
3. never grew out of being a Twitter clone.
Do you believe the marketing efforts that went into naming the Future Stack conference chose that name accidentally unaware of this person's domain and other online presence? If not, then I'm not sure collision is the correct word to use here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Contamination_co...

I'm not at all anti-vaccination, but I am anti-authoritarian and anti-closed-science. People have a right to know what they're putting in their bodies. The SV40 contamination turned out to not be that serious, but it was a close call. Had SV40 been potently carcinogenic, we would have had a medieval plague of cancer.

In the end it reduces to the problem of freedom and open society: freedom means tolerating people being idiots. Freedom means it's okay for the Ku Klux Klan to mail me literature. It means it's okay for people to question vaccination because some stupid celebrity told them it caused their son's autism. It means it's okay for people to put pink plastic flamingos on their lawns. The alternative is a closed, authoritarian society.
Totally unrelated to the post, but it is striking how changed the main heroku website is. It used to be this beautifully designed website with lots of detailed line art and subtle depth and glowing effects, and now it's this flat purple with some text. I always thought the beautiful "how it works" section was useless, but now this site is a shade of what it once was. They could have at least kept some of the art culture in the design, it was part of the Heroku brand. Now it looks like every other Salesforce website, only purple, except for the sign in page.
That's interesting, the MMR vaccine is a normal vaccine here in the U.S. as part of the normal shots infants get. There's usually a booster shot as a young adult and again in middle-late age.

edit apparently I forgot reading comprehension, I see now that you were talking about Chicken Pox vaccines.

I didn't know either, I just know the MMR. AFAIK people just have Chicken Pox parties for their kids and make sure they get exposed. I remember when I was about 4 or 5 my mother was so thrilled when the lady who owned a store down the way had two kids who got Chicken Pox. The next day she took me out of school and I "met" their kids for about 30 minutes. Got the Pox sure enough right after that.

My Uncle somehow missed it and ended up getting it in his 40s. I think he spent part of it in the hospital. The difference between adults and children's responses to it is quite remarkable.
Doctors aren't really scientists, although some might think so -- they're taught the results of scientific research, and how to apply that to diagnose and treat patients. There's a reason that "evidence-based medicine" isn't just called "medicine". Most of it is pattern-matching on learned knowledge. The result is that some of this knowledge becomes outdated as the underlying body of scientific knowledge evolves, which may cause problems if the practitioner doesn't keep up with the latest changes in their field.

This probably applies to engineers, too because we use scientific (or logical) results imply certain solutions, and we don't always realise that validity of the underlying assumptions changes over time.

Unless you're actually formulating hypotheses and running experiments, you're probably not a scientist.

<http://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/01/mad-scientists-are-actua...
I would be happy if I worked for a company with just the high end coffee, let alone everything else.
Charging money. Centralized. Personal data stored in the clear.
IIRC it's fairly common nowadays to administer the vaccine to children in Canada/US.

The main trade-off I've seen is that a small percentage of people who get the vaccine end up with pox at the age of 20-30 where the complications (pox on internal organs) can require hospitalization and/or cause death. The flip side being, of course, that a small percentage of people infected with chicken pox as kids also require hospitalization and/or die.
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On one hand - yes, absolutely, I agree. On the other hand, you remember the outbreak of the swine flu? And some countries wanted to force vaccinations on their citizens? Vaccinations that were later proven to not work at all, because they were prepared for the wrong virus, and some EU countries spent hundreds of millions of euros buying them? How about that - should the government have the power to force you to be vaccinated or not?
For me that's GOG.com and the Humble Bundles. I keep telling myself that someday I'll have the time to go back and beat Baldur's Gate, or any of the hundreds of other games I've bought on sale. Fat chance...
MMRV only became available in 2005. Source: http://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/chickenpox-varicella-...
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- shows up on the 'Intern' filter, but it explicitly says they're not looking for interns at this time.
If Wikipedia does a better job explaining the service than the service's own site it's in trouble. If there was no competition maybe, but there is, and everyone knows about it.
Do you want a gold star because someone on the internet, who said something you didn't agree with on a post, did not publish citations? you failed human.
The VW delivery centre in Wolfsburg, Germany has a storage garage that does this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iCv1KNeQ4w
The bar is higher than "interesting enough to garner upvotes".

Here's what moderator 'dang said about this issue a few weeks back:

Some of you feel that such stories are so important that the flamewars around them should just be allowed to burn. Our experience and observation suggest the contrary: they are bad—existentially bad—for the site. Like fire in general, they lead to more of the same. So the alternative to the current policy is conflagration. The best aspects of HN, in our view, would not survive this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8012898
Maybe the post has been edited but I don't see anything about Copyright at the page.
> Except that those who are "proud to be bad at math" exude pride because they've given up, but don't want to feel like a failure.

I totally agree. What I'm saying is I'd love to read a more nuanced piece exploring this attitude including its causes and effects.
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We can't forget the Subservient Chicken.
There are studies that suggest voluntary vaccination programs are better at achieving a higher level of penetration than mandatory ones.
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Note that many of GOG's Windows games will work on Linux under Wine too. The good news is you don't have to figure anything out - use PlayOnLinux which will prompt you for the games setup executable and then do everything else. Start at http://www.playonlinux.com/en/supported_apps-1-0.html and scroll down to the ones beginning GOG.com.
Did the trains actually run on time, or did anyone who pointed out that they were late end up with a bullet in the brain? And of course the best way to prevent late arrivals is to minimize the number of trains running.
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There is the story of course of the years of research that were destroyed because some particular gene names looked suspiciously like dates to Excel.

Yes, I was working on a bioinformatics data warehouse a while back. Yes, we did have to write an import filter to extract data from Excel files.
Non-profits are not about making money but the underlying sustainability of their cayuses still requires a sound financial framework (no mission without margin). This is not really any different form the free software movement.
I'm sure there's a better way for authors to get paid. Would you pay (say) $1 for a credit for any five articles from the archives of a magazine, with free previews to help you decide? Or would you pay for a Netflix-like service for long-form materials?
Impersonating the other FS also confused his story. I saw the logo on his tweets was the logo at futurestack.io, I thought that he made the logo first, and then futurestack.io copied it. And that would have crossed a serious line.

Instead, the artist crossed the line first and cost himself a claim to clean hands. He deliberately caused confusion, which is what brands are supposed to protect against.
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If you successfully and reliably deliver a higher quality product in a shorter time-frame than "the old way" one of two things will happen.

1) A whole lot more work and responsibility will come your way.

2) Other divisions will want to emulate your success.

If you are not successful, then yes I think sticking your neck out in a big organization is a good way to lose your head. The thing to remember is that if this organizational change is well executed then your likelihood of success increases.
I still don't know what app.net is about after reading their About section. Seems like a mish mash of products. Their messaging is very confusing. I couldn't figure out why, me as a user, would ever download and use their app(s)?
I used the name "Unreal" as an internet handle before the game Unreal came out. First come, first serve - I guess I should have gone after them.
Are you talking about something other than shingles? This study seems credible enough (the Web MD article even manages to discuss how they dealt with several obvious confounding factors):

http://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20131202/chicken...

The CDC says shingles is less common in vaccinated individuals (under "Other safety information"):

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/varicella/
You can also append .json to any board url to get a text copy of its data (or .csv if the board is in a Business Class organization).
All of my computers run Linux, but that's because I can deal with most of the flaws. This is definitely part of the reason why desktop Linux has never taken off with the general public.

Also, the people who manage Linux distributions seem to absolutely love suddenly getting rid of things that work and replacing them with incomplete alternatives, without any kind of migration of user data and settings. Those alternatives should be pushed out as developer previews until they either

(1) match each and every feature of whatever they are replacing AND capable of importing all settings

OR

(2) warn the user months ahead of time with a list of
features that are going to disappear in the replacement

OR

(3) provide an easy, 1-click option to let the user continue using whatever they were using as their default, with continued support and updates
> This isn't to say that anti-vax is a rational position, but I don't think (disclaimer, I'm not a medical professional) it puts vaccinated children at additional risk.

1) Vaccinations aren't 100% effective.

2) All unvaccinated kids aren't unvaccinated because of anti-vax parents. Some can't receive them for medical reasons, others are exposed to the disease before they could receive the vaccines.

3) The effectiveness of vaccines decreases over time, this is why adults with or around children are being encouraged to get boosters for things they were vaccinated for 20 or 30 or 40 years ago.

4) Sometimes vaccines don't take.

5) Sometimes immune systems are compromised (ever gotten sick and then, right when you were getting better, a cold takes you out for a week or more?). This can happen to both adults and children.

Ultimately, we need to achieve a high rate of vaccinations in order to minimize/eliminate the disease. The anti-vax movement is doing all it can to destroy our herd immunity and bring back diseases that we should've been on the verge of destroying (at least within certain regions of the world). The more the disease is around you, even if you're vaccinated, the higher the chance that you'll contract it or become a carrier of it. In the end, we're all less healthy as individuals and a species because of these morons.
and that's... why you always register a trademark
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That's probably true today, but we are aiming to get to a spot where you could choose to use Gosu alongside Java, rather than replace it wholesale. Gosu does have some features that make it very nice in some contexts when contrasted with Java.

A very simple, but amazingly useful example is properties, which have the useful behavior of being both l-values and r-values. Easy to implement, but Java doesn't have them.

Another useful differentiator are feature references:

var methodRef = someInstance#someMethod()

which have all sorts of interesting applications as a sort of type-safe reflection syntax.

And so on.
Everybody wins!

Oh. Wait.
If you do decide to try a lisp, don't start with Emacs Lisp. It's a mess. Go with Clojure, out of all lisps it's one of the least self-congratulatory about how awesome they all are for using lisp.
Yeah, there are tons of these in Seoul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87StyyFssvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghy9g9F2JQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBwvKaswynM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W457clq9VOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf1dTNSJBu8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgHCxLktSag
> no one has invented a simple way to pay for the content.

Single click amazon payments, google wallet? Or gumroad? Or stripe?

How about monthly things like patreon? Flattr? Or things like bitcointip on reddit?

How much simpler do you want things?

http://www.patreon.com/

https://flattr.com/

https://gumroad.com/

https://stripe.com/gb
“As I said, there is always a small risk, but if you look, you will see that this is less than the probability of...”

Sacha held up her hand.

“Please, Doctor. Don't try and confuse the issue.”

---

Education attempt, and rejection of such education, in three sentences. After previous education attempt (plus a pamphlet) and rejection of such education.

What more should the doctor have done?