jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The differential exposure to UVB, that is, sunlight, was the first thing I thought of reading this article. It is especially likely among people born in the industrial-era 19th century, at a time before the nature of the link between health and sunlight was clearly identified.

Around a hundred years ago, the role of UV in preventing rickets was confirmed. By the 1930's, vitamin D supplementation of foods became widespread, and the most obvious manifestations of deficiency (e.g., rickets) essentially disappeared. Studied intensively since the 1930's numerous effects of D (or lack of it) have been reported, and recently interest has exploded.

Increasingly evidence implicates low vitamin D levels in a wide range of conditions, such as autoimmune disorders, cancer, and metabolic disease, that are likely contributors to reduction of life expectancy.

Seasonality of vitamin D level is well known. In northern latitudes (>=45th parallel) the nadir occurs around March-April, and the peak is measured on average in September-October. The timing of these fluctuations appears quite congruent with the article's assertions about life expectancy, so it's reasonable to think there is a connection.

For anyone interested in vitamin D, I highly recommend this excellent review:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/derm.24494
Oh jeez. I wish this were posted a few days ago. That's 5 hours of nodejs debugging I'll never get back.

But really, I'm psyched this is available.
The article is more about the consumer side than the producer side of the jewelry industry.
Oh wow, I thought it was a joke at first, my game was only a half-dozen moves: http://i.imgur.com/kmKQ2Wi.png
SpaceX has suggested around 20 ms latency with 4000 satellites offering near-gigabit speeds. Nothing but promises and a billion Google bucks right now, but I'm also hoping he succeeds. That'd be amazing.

The fun part of his is that its supposed to fund his Mars ventures and be SpaceX's experience for putting a similar network around Mars.

If it pans out, even in 2-3x his expected timeframe, I'll be the happiest geek alive.
> in large part because of their lack of maturity.

Maybe that depends on the topic you are teaching then ?
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We'd like to. The difficulty is that in order to get the performance improvements we had to integrate three different components: a few patches to libcoroutine, a patch to glibc, and pooling code that's tightly integrated with our asynchronous IO layer. A compelling patch would span three different licenses, involve patches to two libraries and re-engineering of the integrated piece to make it usable by the outside world. We'd like to do it, but for now this would be too much of a distraction.
"It can be a coincidence"

Since the cold season is usually when it is cold outside, yeah. Might be more than coincidence.
Thanks for your explanation, however it left me with additional question as to its value when politicians/government use a sign language interpreter in speeches. If it's so nuanced and regional, wouldn't reading English text translation be better/clearer?
I suspect that’s what will happen, but this time instead of company dollars it’ll be cryptocurrency.
hmm crazy but interesting ... if you wanna build a 'smart' city, now you can do so with little to no oversight. I can see Google or Amazon jumping on this.
How is this going to be different than the coal mining companies in Appalachia?
No tax exemptions so this means nothing
You're comparing a tiny startup to AWS. For me, the bigger issue isn't security, it's not knowing if you guys will still be around in a couple months (no offense).

Between the chances of getting acquired or running out of funding and shutting down, startups aren't the best place to put the most essential part of your application. Stormpath is gone = my app is gone.
I think it's assuming you've done something substantial on your own time, or worked on open source. I don't know exactly how common either of those is, but I'd guess pretty common.
"Crony capitalism" is just apologetics for regular capitalism.
Are you being serious? asm.js is basically a "best practices" guide for js vm authors. It's not required to run asm.js code, or even guaranteed to be faster; other js engines have optimized for asm.js code without treating "use asm" special.

Dartium requires the end developer distribute 2 payloads, one for Dartium browsers and 1 for JavaScript browsers.
Ok I'll take the bait. Americans have no greater 'right' to code than anyone else. Your argument although heartfelt stinks of privilege.

If the whole world is coding and though that is altering jobs as we know them currently and freeing up lots of people resources, we have a very different much more encompassing problem and opportunity.

Allocate your thinking and concerns there.
SNS by AWS does it too.
How is it an Android clone? Looks like Touchwiz, which has been used for four or five OSes by Samsung.
Funny how I don't remember those vikings to be so low-detail and tiny.
"Now focus on your body. This is you, alive and present."

Wow - this punched me very hard. I have a mild case of depersonalization and those words really affected me. I'll use this daily.
Looks nice. For similar functionality I currently use Quick Tabs:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfein...
Reading this article and the recent DeviantArt post about page-load optimization (especially with respect to JS) makes me think there is a need for a standardized, scalable solution for page-assembling & loading. Something that would take into account things like ad networks, external JS, user-accounts, lots of small JS files used throughout the site, lots of small images, and backend services like memcached. Maybe the solution is not a standalone application or a new framework but rather a front-end JS library with a few backend modules in different languages (PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl).

Small sites spit out HTML from a couple of files/classes, large sites (e.g. your auto-insurance company) assemble a single HTML page using hundreds to even thousands of different files. Most large sites write their own HTML concatenator but as there is no standard or best-practice method, each one is organically grown and gets more and more complex over time. Now imagine being tasked with improving the pageload of a single webpage that calls 43 different backend services (mysql, vsam, ldap, memcache, soap etc.) across 600 different .php or .java files - you won't even know where to begin. MVC doesn't help much when you have 30 controllers calling 40 views and 20 models. The problem is there is no HTML pipeline.

Writing code to make a cube spin in 3D is easy using OpenGL. Making 100 cubes do the same isn't much more difficult either. This is because the graphics cards have a pipeline that you can fill using OpenGL commands in the right order. There is no right order for spitting out HTML, CSS, or JS and so everyone makes their own. Large sites already use some object-orientated say to echo "[div]blah[/div]" instead of hand-coding it. They just do it using their home-built solution. If there existed a standardized pipeline that different libraries, modules, and even web-servers could use, the optimizations described in the article would be nearly automatic.
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What if the net number of votes a comment has received is hidden whenever it is between -10 and +10 (for example)? That way you are able to tell that a comment hasn't yet been rated highly, but also can't jump on the bandwagon of voting whichever direction the first couple of voters do. When a comment has a votecount somewhere near zero, you still have to think about it yourself (if you want to read it), but can also choose to ignore it if you only want to read already highly rated ones. If a comment at some point has, say, 12 votes and then receives three downvotes, it would return to the nebulous "small vote-count" status.

Another scheme I've liked on some sites is to show the counts for both up and downvotes, along with the total. A comment's having 10 upvotes and zero downvotes can be quite different from its having 100 upvotes and 90 downvotes, even though both equate to a net count of +10.
Maybe it's making the site less useful to those who are making the site less useful.
Do you think they got to be worth $50 bil. by spending cash on such niceties such as customer service ? That's so old industry BTW. /joke
Would you say that Canada has done as good a job or better of assimilating those immigrants culturally than the US has? (I think that's one of the reasons for the quotas/other hoops - to make it so that there's not enough at any given time to make sticking entirely to one's old cultural group easy).
Great idea, BUT —

Isn’t it true that it is fairly trivial for attackers to spoof the number they are calling “from”? If so, this could be a serious security weakness, couldn’t it?
But then, you need to have a little faith in HN and PG. Best posts are usually shown first. Try that: Check a new post and try to guess the votes for the posts at the top of the page. It's still the same algorithm as before.. posts with -4 are shown in light gray.. high voted posts are shown first, etc.
I ran this in FF4 on my 2009 Unibody MBP. No other programs open, no significant background processes, with the dedicated graphics card active. Choppiness throughout, including some pretty bad stalls.

Wouldn't work in the Webkit nightly (Safari) or Chrome. At least, I don't think it would. There were no UI elements to show loading progress or any errors, so I gave up after a bit of waiting.

Oh, it did throw an error on my iPad. Two of them, in fact.
I'm a newb or something but :

(cdr ()) makes it explode. What's nil? null nil don't exist

I do really like this. I was hoping for something like this where it would allow me to write lisp instead of javascript.
I know I'm being nit-picky, but words are associated with experiences, not objects. (E.g., "red" is not an object. "circle" is not an object.)

This is especially important when you consider the fact that most people treat their language to be operating on some intricate notion of _reference_, when in fact it is based upon correlations of states of experience that may be very noisy. This kind of misunderstanding often leads people into a position where they do not know why things are true or why their words have meaning.
This seems like a useful service but what about the future? I can see myself using this more and more, but I wouldn't, because I cannot trust you simply.
Just remove voting altogether and let the strength of the argument/statement prevail rather than allow a mechanism that rewards groupthink.
On that topic, I wonder how difficult it would be to make a bot which used machine learning to scan through comments to pick up phrases or words which were highly voted, then have it put together comments based on those.

I'm sure you could be very successful.
Agree to all of this!
thomasnet.com was decent for finding leads, but we weren't able to find a suitable manufacturer to get past prototype
Sex offenders have one of the lowest rates of reoffending.
They're doing a fantastic job with improving the design. I didn't consider it an option before but I like it enough now, and the fact that it has a built-in physical keyboard is the only real differentiator I need from a standard tablet.

For me it wouldn't replace everything - though for specific use cases it would be a perfect companion, though perhaps isn't for everyone's needs.
Meet marketing. I will personally buy pizza for one week to any marketing department that, when announcing a new product, publishes figures that are actually useful.

Oh look, we just launched a MCU with a power consumption so low that you can keep it powered for twenty years. As long as you don't do anything with it. Of course, every other figure that would make this one useful (such as per-module current consumption, time to sleep) is missing.

It's especially funny when everyone claims they have "the best" or "state of the art" consumption, but when you factor in everything else it turns out they're pretty much within the noise figure of the current state of affairs.

In my whole engineering career, I'm yet to see a press release or a market launch that isn't full of bullshit. Just hand me the bloody datasheet and give me a break, folks.
You can use it just like an ipad, without a keyboard. Or you can buy keyboard and use it as a laptop and a tablet. What core functionality are you talking about?
that depends on who you ask.
> it runs windows, and I have no interest in that

Then it's definitely not your device. It's main point is that it runs full Windows. If I were using Macbook + iPhone, I would not think at all about buying this.

It's probably more interesting for people like me who want to work on Windows and/or Linux, but definitely nothing from Apple. :) (I have no problem with the company or the products in general, just they don't fit me at the slightest, while Windows on desktop and Linux on the server is just exactly what I need.)

It is also interesting for people who need a full computer but who don't need a lot of computing power. I find pen input indispensable nowadays, so a Galaxy Note + a Surface is just the ideal tool (if you have a compile server, but I do).
39% of Americans either believe they are already among the top 1% or believe that they one day will be

And how many people will actually be in the top 1% of earners at least once?

EDIT: 12% http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/from-rags-t...

What’s more, 39 percent of Americans will spend a year in the top 5 percent of the income distribution

Not that far off.
As others said - canonical way is to use iTunes.

Another way is to use app like GoodReader, which has a file system of its own, you can create folders, and you can download files from websites/URLs to them. GoodReader can not only store and organize your files, but it also opens all the popular formats in the app (PDFs, images, MP3s, etc.).
And precisely this is why I'm adamant about never, ever moving to the Bay Area. It's full of tech companies to work at, neat people to hang out with, and has an excellent climate with plenty of nature to bike through... and the local governments do their damnedest to ensure nobody will ever be able to afford any of it except for them.
But I also know that, pending someone suicidal, I will always get to work at the same time.

This is not true. In my experience BART keeps to schedule pretty well but buses don't. Back when I had the option of a walking commute in Berkeley I chose that option because my walking speed was more consistent than the buses. Also, it was not that much slower, and I didn't risk running into people I knew on the bus and finding myself stuck in awkward conversations with them.

Also, I live in Atlanta now, and I'm finding that "there was traffic" is a totally fine excuse to be late.
A better analogy might be to ask how much Wal-Mart marks up software in their store. The answer is more than Apple does. Apple's value proposition is they bring x hundred million paying customers with credit cards ready to go into the store and you will sell at least 30% more than if they didn't bring those customers to you.
There is a legitimate problem in the software/developer tools ecosystem that everyone wants everything to be free, which means no one can make money building it.

I'm actually looking forward to Github's solution to this, given they are generally pretty smart folk. Perhaps they'll find a model that others can follow.
The idea that entrepreneurship is somehow opposed to "liberalism" is just laughable. Startup communities welcome people no matter what their background (high school dropout, college dropout, who cares?). At least, that is their goal. This is not to say that there isn't some cognitive bias in favor of those with access to elite educations (I'd say much less so than in older institutions such as law, and even in modern institutions like banking and consulting). However, the barriers to entry in technology essentially do not exist in the way they do in banking and law (try getting one of those jobs without a degree). Or even becoming a politician. Just off the top of my head, Paul Buchheit started at Case Western Reserve. Jack Dorsey started at the Missouri Institute of Technology. The President of the company I work at went to USD. Evan Williams went to Nebraska. Biz Stone went to Northeastern, then UMass. Trevor Blackwell started at Carleton. Other YC partners went to schools like Bucknell and Stetson.

Apologies for the rant-like post, but this is becoming a major pet peeve of mine.
You'd need something like ElephantFS whose presmise was precisely this. Modern file systems still don't protect user's data the way they should.

http://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alistai...

Why even give users control of the data? No, that should rest squarely with the file system and ait should never delete things unless it is running out of space.
This is highly location dependent and programmers are often located in expensive cities.

100k in the bay area is just middle class, no upper qualification. Very unlikely to afford a home within 25 minutes of work unless they're in the south bay.

You need 200k total household income before a mortgage on a $1.3mm house (starter home cost in most neighborhoods) is realistic.

There is a 10x difference in the cost of a home in SF and Austin (where I just moved to from SF) and a 20x difference between SF and where my father lives in Ohio.

There is not a 20x difference in income between developers and the 30-60k US median. The medianites live out in the sticks where their mortgage is $150-600 a month.
I find it interesting that their site doesn't support deeplinking.
American-English is weird like that.
But this simple example is also solvable with infix functions.
Advantage of 28 days is that company can't stop or fire you from using them. And will be punished for not allowing it.
If I understand you correctly, I think you have it backwards -- as I read it, Bell Labs saw math as having "lasting value," while computer science was just a practical application. Morris didn't want to look foolish, so he persisted with math long after he realized that he really wanted to be a programmer; unfortunately, after he gave up on mathematics as a vocation, he didn't have the fortitude to keep in touch with those who advised him otherwise.
That's interesting, I didn't know that. Branson really doesn't own any of it?
When 27% of those quarterly profits is from the iPhone, the bigger question is how long can apple keep growing in this rate?

IBM has its fingers and toes in a lot of things, including SmartGrid, Healthcare IT to name a couple. It is a good bet to say that it will take more than one bad product iteration to knock them off their perch. Ripping IBM off of the enterprise market will be akin to cleaning crap off of velcro. Not easy.

Apple as it grows defying expectations has to both make sure that future iterations of its products can keep enchanting their customers as well and stay innovative (at their current click) once Jobs is no longer involved in making product decisions.
I'm kindof curious how they're going to deal with the self-serve ads that were supposed to run yesterday.

Just a straight refund, or...?

/me patiently waiting for it to come back up so that I can buy some for next week... :(
Nice work. And there's other implementations too on the project web page: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/spdy. Seems all google sites are using SPDY for ssl now; that is evidently the lowest hanging fruit for speed gains.

You can see it in use in chrome by visiting chrome://net-internals/#spdy

No idea when it's going to be supported in any browser besides chrome, though ..
Ah ok, stupidity on my part in both cases! It actually does work, but after skimming the description I assumed it was for styling 'View Source' tabs. Which would be a great feature btw.
All great questions! Thanks for your answer! :)
I like simplicity. Simplicity tends to perform well, and being simple also means it has little space for problems.

Amen.

I saw an old interview with Chuck Moore a while ago in which he said: I like simplicity and efficiency. That struck me. How often do people put those two things together? We're conditioned to think of them as a tradeoff. But if you can have both, shouldn't we be trying hard for that? Which raises another question: what do you have to give up in exchange for both simplicity and efficiency?
Nifty, I actually worked a TA under Torben Mogensen recently, teaching out of this book. It's a really succinct description of the fundamental theory, although a little light on the practice.
To anyone who lands here: where does your company fall on the open source culture spectrum? Embraces it, uses it tentatively, curses it to the heavens? I'm curious to know.
Btw, has Amazon commented about potential irrecoverable/lost changes/damages, if any?
Nope, haven’t arrived yet. Just scoping it out.
Wasn't the united states already developing an empire long before the cold war? things like the philippines and hawaii come to mind
What I don't understand is this binary, black/white view of the oppressed Vs oppressor, where the powerful are always wrong. Classical civilization is amazing for its achievements in a world that was filled with oppression, rape, cruelty, horror, etc. It did not invent these things. It showed a way out.

This freedom, initially for the few, has grown measurably to encompass nearly the entire globe. Never before in all of history has there been such real support for the plight of the underprivileged. Far from being in opposition to classical civilization, it is the extension of its ideas, to create a more beautiful and harmonious world. Beauty is not unity or totalitarian, but, in a classical sense, diversity in unity.
Edgy drivel mixed with guilt by association: how pathetically needy of recognition the writer must be.
You're right most people are wrong but don't know how wrong they are. It took me 30 years to learn how frequently I am wrong. Just do The Four Agreements from the eponymous book (the book's not worth the read IMO)

1. Be Impeccable With Your Word.
2. Don't Take Anything Personally. (Most people are wrong)
3. Don't Make Assumptions.
4. Always Do Your Best.
Just like C and C++ debugging allocators, so what is the improvement here?