Hacker News on 5 July 2013

• Ideas on how to improve customer conversion and ease of use
• Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted
• Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway
• EU Parliament supports the possible suspension of U.S. data sharing agreements
• Hikikomori: Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms?
• Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state?
• The Revel Web Framework for Go
• If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
• What is A/B Testing?
• Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals (1981)