jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Deaths" decreased but what about cases of cancer? Is it constant?

EDIT: Found this exert after going through the whole Cancer Institute pdf:
"
The overall rate of cancer cases (incidence) remained stable for women between 2007 and 2011, but declined by 1.8 percent per year for men.

Men experienced relatively rapid declines in cases of colon cancer (3.6 percent per year), lung cancer (3 percent per year) and prostate cancer (2.1 percent per year) during that period, the report found.

But there's been no change in incidence rates for breast cancer. And the report found that certain cancers are even on the rise. For example, thyroid cancer cases increased an average 4.5 percent per year between 2007 and 2011, and liver cancer cases have increased by more than 3 percent.

The increase in liver cancer cases is largely due to hepatitis C infection, mainly through intravenous drug use and sharing needles in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Jemal said.

The rise in thyroid cancer cases cannot be easily explained, Jemal said. Some suspect the condition may be now overdiagnosed due to the overuse of imaging scans and ultrasound, he said, but there's also been an increase in the size of cancerous lesions found.

"For thyroid, it's very difficult to explain what's occurring," he said"
For A/B testing, I use this in C++; it looks like it works in rust (according to my syntax highlighter):

//* //add/delete the first slash to toggle these blocks
fooA();
/*/
fooB();
/**/
In a dystopian future, pooping at shopping malls and retail establishments could be harvested by data brokers for advertising purposes.
I've found two uses for smith charts: causing students pain and impedance matching. They're good learning tools but imo it's less of a headache to do impedance matching in code.

For actual measurements: there is much less ambiguity in a standard magnitude/phase response, since you actually can see the values of your independent variable (frequency).
Unlikely. The package will be confiscated if found at a border crossing or in transit, but it doesn't appear charges are brought against the recipient (the sender might be pursued though if within the jurisdiction; this is why I assume many of these types of shipments originate outside of the US). Not that I recommend doing so, especially with anything considered a controlled substance or on a federal schedule.
Not everything needs a citation
What the point of the quote?

It's Western capitalism + allies vs Eastern communism + allies?
Killing your cash flow is usually not a good practice. People are more likely to take your money and fuck off.
The problem that I see with the "check your privilege" approach to solving racism is that it's similar to PETA's approach to fighting for animal rights. If your rhetoric makes everyone into the enemy, then how do you expect them to turn around and support your cause? You've already "othered" the majority of the population.

There are huge numbers of white people who don't like the status quo but see the "check your privilege" rhetoric as arguing that they haven't earned anything in their lives. If you come from a working-class white family like OP's, that's a slap in the face.

The answer isn't to say that people like OP are just misunderstanding what you mean and should listen better. The answer is to change the rhetoric so that it actually reaches the target audience.
Thanks for the link. I've updated the "current state" notes to better reflect reality. https://github.com/joyent/sdc-docker#current-state
I truly, profoundly do not like to watch sports in any way shape or form.

However, I love carrying on about meaningless rivalries in social settings, just so everyone is rather tongue-in-cheek about it.
What kinds of volume of sales do you plan to do?

Based on what you described, getting a CAD designer to make you an injection molding form, and getting the actual forms made is about a $10K-$15K investment (caveat: it's been about 7 years since I last did much with injection molded designs and tooling for another project).

If you are not planning to do huge volumes, this probably won't pay off the way you think it will.

If you're going to do low volumes (hundreds of units) you could make changes to your prototype yourself and make a couple of castings of it and just do poured casting models.

The problem is in the ~1,000-8,000 pice area. It's too many to do by hand, but most likely to low to make money on unless you can charge a pretty significant premium for your figurine.
That's a hell of a racket! If Vlad wasn't single before this project he probably is now.
It's more of a business term, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vupen
Because the process I mentioned is the only feasible way to create "a law that limits the government", especially given the current legislative climate, and that process is incredibly dangerous.
And no one will buy the product, they'll expect awesome for free, and the company will go for a song. Why expect a different outcome the second time?
> Javascript is not such a bad language, I use it directly when doing meteor.js development, but I think the future is better languages like Clojure, Haskell, Scala, etc. transpiling to Javascript.

Honestly I think this has been the 'future' for a long time now, and I still don't see it happening anytime soon. Clojurescript as a language was announced in mid 2011, NodeJS came on the seen in late 2009. Both were languages never or barely used in their respective domains (server vs client side), but NodeJS has clearly had way more adoption on the server side then Clojurescript ever has had on the client.

Unless we get significant browser buy in for other languages (aka not just Chrome) and much better tooling I don't think any transpiled language is ever going to go beyond the minor niches they fill. And I say all this as a huge Scala fanboy, having used it for years in a professional way, and being very interested in ScalaJS. There simply isn't a language that has the buy in and following Javascript has been able to develop.
> Can any of you actually relate a real-world case where a 4-month-long team-driven effort produced some code to solve a problem that could be solved by one cowboy in 3 months and 20% as many lines?

Yes, I have real-world experience of that kind of ratio. All it took was some unreasonable non-functional requirements, many coming from a "chief technical architect" who had the authority to overrule everyone and made a bunch of poor decisions.
Not all of those people are employed full time for that movie. They are likely to be subcontractors (either via companies or themselves) that may work on a fraction of the movie. So those salary costs are spread across multiple movies.

You don't need a costume designer or editor for the entire length of the movie, right ?
"while there have been attempts to graft a more versatile type system onto the Erlang base language, the cleanest way forward seems to be a language purpose-built for the task."

Are you sure that's even possible? Erlang is fundamentally a dynamic system, with hot code (re)loading, processes starting and stopping (possibly crashing), and nodes attaching and detaching.

Moreover, the idea that a message can be sent to any PID seems fundamentally at odds with type checking at compile time. You'd probably need to do something more like channels.

Perhaps an ML-like type system can work with all of that, but it sounds like a research problem.
http://www.markus-lanthaler.com/hydra/

My recent choice, w3c track, sensible use case driven progression, growing adoption, flexible embedded or referenced meta-data as appropriate.

I've personally found great joy in being adaptive with the meta data in the responses, like presence of operations and accepted input on the operations depending upon data state and security context, something not really offered with json-schema.
The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies by Edward Jay Epstein [1] just about that

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZZP5QA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
You're new to writing software? Because after 20+ years in the trenches, it can become second nature to you. The thing is: to get from A to B is a journey you can perform in a million different ways. When you're new, and young, such a journey is an adventure: what shall we meet along the way? Who knows! Let's find out! The more experienced you get, the more you know which things to avoid, what to do to get certain things done and how to make things easier for yourself and others. That also means that a journey from A to B isn't an adventure anymore, it's a carefully planned expedition, because you _know_ that by not carefully planning it, you'll hurt yourself and perhaps won't make it to B.

This means that all the fun of exploring and adventuring to get from A to B is more or less gone, as you already know what lies ahead and how to avoid it. You _know_ what's coming and thus how to deal with it. You also _know_ which parts are a chore and can suck the energy right out of you. This alone can make a journey that would otherwise be fun, a problematic undertaking we probably would like to avoid if we had the chance.

The post absolutely doesn't state you should avoid crap, it also doesn't state one can achieve greatness without avoiding mess and misery. It just writes about by learning a lot over the years the adventure of a journey from A to B is fading away and with it, the fun and excitement.

The post hit home with me a great deal as it perfectly answered why I didn't code on a Saturday anymore (e.g. silly stuff like a small game or tiny tools), but only program software during work days and only for work: it wasn't a problem to find ideas to write a silly program for, it was the baggage that came with it as I already knew I had to do X and Y to get started properly, Z to get something on the screen, get a lib for E and F and as I knew that would likely be a chore I wouldn't even start, as: why bother with chores on a free Saturday if you can have some fun?

It's still possible though, don't think it's all grim and gloomy and dark, you just have to put what you _think_ up front what could happen aside and still do it. You'll learn it isn't so bad, but sadly the fun of adventuring and exploring into new territory is often not there anymore, simply because it's familiar territory. That's often a good thing in life, but if it's adventure and excitement filled exploration is what you're after like all those years ago, you're not going to find it (easily).

Cheers :)
The Parable of the Handyman's invoice

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp
But the preset dic functionality I've seen, in say, LZ4, really is just the saved state of a normal compression run. So once you start compressing, the dictionary eventually evaporates as more data does in and backreferences can no longer point back that far into the dictionary. That's fine if all your content compresses well, but if the dictionary is a far superior state...
> I would absolutely want to know if Apple's own charger has a cheap cable that frays

Of course, but why would Apple want you to know that before you shell out the cash?

> "all is lovely in Apple World" view is incredibly buyer hostile

They're laughing all the way to the bank.
I've noticed that new LED backlit screens tend to be harder on my eyes then the old CCL backlit ones. Perhaps it's just me getting old though?
You can get "a computer from the 1900s" in the examples in the post.
Sorry about that. I can definitely agree it’s not a great source but I thought the general idea might be worth discussing
Good point, but most of it is light rail above ground, with only a small portion underground downtown.

I’ve ridden on it, they are nice trains. And a nice option for suburb commuters. Rush hour gets pretty crazy there also, with everyone trying to get in and out of Fort Pitt tunnel.

This is something Cincinnati has painfully missed out on. I liked the read, never knew about this.
If you'd like to reinforce some of the same mental muscles used during programming, you might consider certain tabletop games as a good way to do so during play. There is a game out there called Robo Rally which is excellent for the purpose, where you "program" your robot via a series of cards. It's not just for kids, being enjoyable by adults as well.
Waiter.com is pissed
As a new immigrant to the USA, I am simply appalled at the infringement of privacy that is being carried out by the NSA and the government. In Australia, we learned that the 1st amendment protected the Freedom of Speech of every American. How can you have Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press when every private communication of citizens and reporters alike are being scrutinized by secret agencies in the government??
The point is that the statistics are the exact same, but one makes a much more baity headline.
You are right, it is an incredibly expensive business. InclinedPlane is right, a 10 year lifetime is pretty good for a satellite. They have finite fuel for stationkeeping, and the electronics wear out. The space environment is very hard on electronics.
The Birch family made out handsomely in this whole fiasco, leaving shortly after Bebo was acquired. Everyone else got fleeced.

This deal reminds me of the many horrible deals done at the beginning of the decade. It's not a surprise that AOL never learned their lesson.
That's a pretty good summary - though I'm more used to the French and Middle-European scales. As I have been searching for something like that for a while already, do you by any chance have a link to something like a cumulative distribution for fraction of climbers that can do grade x? Something like 90% of all climbers can do 5.9, 65% can do 5.10, 30% 5.11 and so forth? Percentages obviously picked out of thin air. Just out of curiosity as a climber and data nerd.
For me, coding is more fun getting in the zone, doing it for a few hours at a time... so nyet.
I understood her depiction as "helpless" rather than "innocent" toddler. There is nothing in her writing that indicates that she sees herself as innocent.
>So they might still complain that the text of their site/product/etc. has been replaced with something unintelligible //

Perhaps the answer is to have lipsum that looks like: "Sample text, this is place-holder text. None of this is supposed to make sense. All these sentences are designed only to fill in for real text; once the real content is known it can replace this. Some other sample text is written using Lorem Ipsum - but it can be confused for a mistake. So, we use normal writing to demonstrate how content might look."

Et cetera.
this is a second try

https://translate.google.ru/translate?hl=ru&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...
To me a simple 'device proximity' check described in the article would not work if an adversary forced you to remain near the computer.

A 'vigilance control' device would work as intended in these cases - a message is issued to the user (possibly via covert means), and failure to respond locks the device:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch#Vigilance_c...
This website looks great.
Hopefully sites like these will help the new comers in data science to jump start their education.
First official Wonkey game programming language release with Wake (Transpiler) and Wide (IDE) built for Windows, Linux, MacOS ans Raspbian targets.

Wonkey is a fork maintained by community of Monkey2 programming language designed by Mark Sibly, creator of the 'Blitz' range of languages.

Wonkey "transpiles" your code into readable C/C ++ sources and compiles on desktop, mobile and web platforms.

Community page: https://github.com/wonkey-coders
Project page: https://github.com/wonkey-coders/wonkey
Discord: https://discord.gg/awfuRtZay7

Join the community and improve this programming language.

Enjoy!
on my Mac I ran Brew Upgrade ffmpeg and now the current version is 4.3.2_3 -> 4.3.2_4 ... so still not 4.4...

Do I need to wait on the Brew people to upgrade or did I make a mistake?

Also, I have no idea which codecs are native encoding and decoding on a M1 chip but I hope h.265 is included
Link to the product? I don't care if it's not ready, I want to look at it :).
You are misleaded. Only the Debian and Ubuntu communities are struggling with technical issues, such as hibernation. What do you expect from lawyers running a distro?

The technical linux communities, like Redhat, Suse or Arch figured it out. See eg https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/fedora-hibernate.html
Is there anything preventing the same or a similar algorithmic optimization from being implemented on the GPU though? IIUC, the new algorithm (on the CPU) was compared to an existing algorithm (both on the CPU and GPU).
Ironically it already happened: bash for user interface, but /bin/sh is something else. But bash for user interface keeps being a repl that was accidentally promoted to user interface.
Clearly the place to own a bike is Edinburgh, where there are no bike thefts whatsoever. I pity the three people in Scotland who had their bike stolen, in Armadale, Clydebank and Glasgow.
> Why do we still buy macs?

In general, it's because they get out of the user's way and it becomes invisible to the user's workflow. Linux always involves tweaking the system just to get work done. The integration of the software and hardware of the Mac is why the user experience is no competition.
>Who calls it that?

It comes from some studies[1] that show a large number of neurons in the gut which control subsystems, which number about as much as a cat brain. This is interesting and makes things more complicated than initially thought, but is a bit apples to oranges; just having as many neurons as a cat brain doesn't mean they operate like you hacked a brain into your gut.

Spitballing here, but this probably started as an analogy to show the number of neurons, and people started thinking it was an actual brain.

[1]https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...

(Maybe not the best source, but google "human gut cat brain" and you'll see this view all over the place.)
Wow, what a nice thing to say. Loved working with you as well. The world needs what you're doing, and I'm happy to have helped even a little.
I initially assumed that this was a random person using Don Knuth as a username, instead of, you know, the real deal.
I believe that is before subsidies and including VAT, so it will be more like € 11 000 after subsidies. The point still stands: there are many other manufacturers with long experience in making cheap cars.
Accidentally became a manager.
That misses the point. It's a trade off. The mindset of saying something is good or bad is ridiculously limiting.

Yes, more people would die. Does that mean the ones who didn't would be worse off? Less healthy?

There is a natural balance to the world order. Pushing the system, even building it up, creates strains that might not be obvious until it is catastrophically so.
upvote-hero to the rescue
Quite a few people would care. Personally I'm uncomfortable with most animals and would hate to be stuck on a plane with one nearby. If I knew an airline let animals on I'd definitely consider flying with someone else.
It's complicated to just do something you were not supposed to and then go with: "look I know I had to do that but instead I did that so please give me [amount you never aggreed to pay]".

What he could have done on the other hand is: inform the client of the attack and propose him to get rid of it for a certain fee...
And that's why I'm quite excited by the concept of Coreos and the way they do updates.
I don't know who thought thought the new Harley Quinn outfit was better than the old one but they were wrong.
So, marketing.
Indeed, AAISP are very strongly anti-censorship, anti-logging. They're good people, impressively low level of bullshit, and even their front-line tech support are actually techs who know one end of a DSLAM from the other and how to diagnose MTU issues, and not a bloody call centre (although they do only work working days and not weekends).

Strongly recommended if you're in the UK and if they can get you a good connection (if Sky can, they definitely can).
5 solution with eval

function foo(s) {
a = Array(s);
for (var i = 0; i < s; i++) {
a[i] = eval('(function () { return ' + i + '})');
}
return a;
}
The press release title is "Nokia starts measures to align workforce and site operations with new strategy".

My translation: "Nokia blah blah blah"

Their PR people need to learn the art of a catchy title.

Really, does "to align workforce" mean anything?

EDIT: BBC News offers a bette title: "Nokia says it will cut 4,000 jobs"
One-sentence summary of this 20-minute video: people are hopelessly bad at making security decisions because we respond to the feeling of security rather than the reality.
Given the growth reported recently, it's not that surprising that Android is now more popular than iOS, but what a ridiculous headline: Android is an OS not _a smartphone_, let alone the "most desired smartphone in the U.S."

What is the most popular Android smartphone? How many units has it sold in comparison to the iPhone? Is it a mid-range or a high-end phone? Now those are interesting questions.
Thanks for the CACM link; that's how I found it, actually, but I'm a subscriber so I only had the "subscribers-only" link (which is very nicely formatted.)

In any event: congratulations on the CACM publication-- that's a quite impressive academic credential, if those things matter to you.
I like better "Acccenture hires 4,000 Nokia employees"
At this point MtGox must really be kicking themselves for moving from Japan.
> Uber, Groupon, and the other spoilage / sharing successes are amazing, world changing businesses.

So are Modo, City Carshare, and numerous bikeshare implementations. Except not businesses.

> Exclusivity - Everybody can own the drill (you're not special)

This is different from the current case when you buy a drill for <$100 how? It's a largely-non-consumable commodity.
I suppose. But those two notions are related, and I think appealing to an interest to discuss and debate honestly without fear of jumping to name-calling is a peaceful way to go about changing minds. I absolutely will never change minds if I belittle my adversary.
Having owned a lot of uncommon, unusual, and vintage products over the years, there is intrinsic value to many other people owning the product beyond simple social proof.
>it seems to me that chatting up passengers in order to spot potential trouble-makers is probably the single most effective part of the whole TSA process

I don't understand this. I assume that its meant from an intuitive 'I feel like this would be effective' standpoint. Because as far as actual effectiveness is concerned, we know that it has stopped 0 attacks. The only way we could know it to be effective is if there were people actually trying to carry out attacks and being caught. Neither of those things are happening, though, so we really can't tell. Thus far, it's just a massive waste of resources.

Really, 9/11 guaranteed that there will never be another airline hijacking for a very, very long time. No passenger will fight with anything less than every fiber of their being to stop any hijacker now. It doesn't matter what kind of weapon you've got, the instant you stand up and say 'I'm taking over this place', you immediately have the entire crew and passengers willing to die to stop you. Before the idea of planes as weapons was tried, everyone presumed a hijacked plane would just fly to Cuba and everyone would be OK. But now that they know the possibility everyone is going to die in an intentional crash, hijackers have no chance.
So how does the data storage part work? I literally browsed for ten minutes unable to see how the thing stores the data you give it.
There are a lot of ideas out there (and in the article) Apple could implement. Here's a few I remember off the top of my head:

* Improve App Store search results

* Remove the top lists and blunt the 'rich getting richer' effect the lists amplify

* Put their share of App sales on sliding scale, so you only start giving Apple the full 30% after you've reached $X in sales