skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people thought the same about MySpace a few years ago. Disclaimer: I don't use MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter and don't foresee ever doing so.
I think the effect of eliminating the efficacy standard would just be to shift the cost from one that is paid upfront by the company and then borne by the consumer to one that is wholly borne by the consumer. The cost of finding effective treatments would not be reduced, but just more hidden in the cost of having the market weed out more medications, misinformation around claims, etc. Just look at the supplementation market which the FDA does not regulate much. How many people waste their money chasing claims that have little or no effect?
You have to succeed.

From the moment you're born, odds are stacked against you, chances of getting born in a industrialized country is 20%, of being intelligent enough to read (or care about) this is <1%, to not fail education it's 80%, to get hired somewhere is 0.3-3% (per application), to not get fired or be unemployed is 80%... To not toil at a J.O.B. = Just Over Broke is 40% and so on...

And your startup isn't just some bakery store or corner drug-store as is also included in some government statistics.

So go ahead and succeed!
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I think he's merely asking for access to data that might potentially either prove or disprove his hypothesis.
One wonders what will happen when one of the cloud computing companies goes bust and it turns out the data that was oh-so-secure turns out to be legally fair game to anyone with a cheque book.

But the other comments are spot on too, it's all in the air, but Facebook's and Google's recent attitude of you shared so you're damned has left me gravely worried about our future.
Agree, I find that LinkedIn does little for me. I'm not in sales or marketing, and I'm not currently looking for a job. There's just no reason for me to log in to LinkedIn daily, or with any real frequency at all.
This completely misses the point. The reason JGit cannot compete with Git is not that it is using an extra cycle or two to make function calls.
The problem is that Java cripples you in the sort of data-representations you can use -- no mmap, no value types -- forcing lots of extra copying.
There's no reason a language can't provide these features, and I don't know that they require significant extra programmer effort. C# does it, etc.
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I'm not really convinced that this tells you the "size" of the index. It could be that both search engines A and B know of 500 pages with "archiloquy" on them, but A returns all 500 while B doesn't think half of them are relevant, so it only returns 250.
The statistic I have heard is that religious people give more in quantity, regardless of what this particular article shows.
"New movements will arise and gain power very quickly. Obama beating Clinton was the first hint of this."

I would argue that Howard Dean's 2004 candidacy was an earlier hint of this.
In life or death cases, the FDA can grant a Humanitarian Use Exemption. eg. Experimental cancer treatment drug.

The key difference is in the "experimental" part, as that drug cannot be marketed until its fully approved.

The doctor would have to get permission from the patient, and their hospitals "Ethics Review Board"
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Your social graph is replicated in your address book, if you've used facebook to 'reconnect' with people then I'd guess if it was worth enough to you then you'd stay connected with them even if facebook went bust.

If you have photos on facebook but not backed up elsewhere (on your own storage devices) then you're setting yourself up for a fall.

Interactions with people can happen in many ways outside of facebook, after all it's not like they invented inter-human communications.

But sifting through the web without a search engine would be a bit tedious. On the other hand it would stop the spammers cold and people would have to spend some more time linking to places. Who knows what a web without search engines would have looked like, possibly better than the one we have today. But we can hardly go back there.
Anyway, the first major cloud dataloss will put an end to that one.

I am willing to bet you on this. Big datalosses will happen, and people will for the most part continue doing what they did before, because they don't know better, because it's less of a hassle, or because the cat's already out of the bag. Look at the long list of data losses and privacy breaches that have happened in recent years:

http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm#2005

These haven't significantly changed the way your average person protects their data. People continue to put their data at risk in ways that boggle my mind, but we hackers have to be careful not to assume the average consumer shares our tech savvy and concerns for privacy.

As for the question of data loss: sure, a cloud provider might lose your data, but then again you might spill coffee on your laptop and do the same. (Again, "you" meaning the average consumer.)
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15. The higher a patient's body-mass index, the less respect he or she gets from doctors.

I'm surprised to see this on the list, I would have thought this would have been established long ago. Anecdotally, I've talked with several docs who have commented on the frustration of trying to help people who clearly are not taking care of themselves (e.g 350 lb diabetics who won't lose weight, etc.)
Honestly, it's just a simple formula that generates pretty pictures.

The neat part is that you can get wildly different images by changing the constants in the equation.

I've made an updated version which generates a new one each time:
http://dhotson.github.com/attractor2.html

.. you can also bookmark the good looking ones for later. Enjoy! :-)
This graph basically proves that the bottom end of American society has fall off and says nothing about the quality of care that the majority are getting.

As others have pointed out, life expectancy is only a single facet of the health of a nation and with many sociological factors such as the fact that americans eat too much which leads to heart disease which is not-incidentally the most common cause of death in the USA.

Assuming you have coverage, what you're paying for is word-class care with minimal waiting times.
Do you keep your money in a bank, or under your mattress?

I think you're underestimating the security of Google's servers and overestimating the security of your own computer.
Use the News and Discussion features of linked in to drive traffic to client Wordpress blog articles. It's a soft sell mechanism, a gateway for offers on the blog page. I am always pleased with the quality targeted traffic I get through this process.

If your tired of paying for $1.00 click thrus, the silly keyword scoring BS, rampant competitor click fraud, and not knowing anything about your traffic unless it converts, switch tactics.

I don't give a hoot about how Linked In makes its buck. A free account allows you to join 50 groups. If you setup a profile aimed at your target demo, and then join the right groups, you can post a weekly blog article notice that gets seen by 250k+ real human beings that actually converse about the topics you write about.

If you are a smart cookie you can leverage low cost labor for about $25 a week to write the article, post the notice across 50 groups, and average about 5000 real nice visitors a week. No click fraud, engaged readers, 1-2% conversions for your paying adv's. What would the same 20,000 clicks cost you on Google?

That's what Linked In is good for...

And Twitter too...

Facebook, not so much...

Facebook is useless for this, as a personal account maxes at 5k. Useless.
I get that, but the trouble is that it sounds very much like the stance Microsoft has taken, which is that since they have 90% (or whatever) share of the market, they are the de facto standard so others should get in line with what they do.

And the counter argument had been, no, browsers need to follow formally recognized standard, specifically what the W3C endorses. What's funny is ti see that toss aside now that it has become practical to ignore the W3C.

I expect HTML5 to become a W3C rec at some point, and Microsoft to follow along, but it still seems hollow for people to complain that Microsoft is not be so anxious to jump on an HTML5 implementation.
I'm not an executive, but certainly interested in data & reporting!

I was initially going to suggest a one-off cron job to run each morning, aggregating the previous day's costs/revenues by the core 'dimensions' you use (store, sales region, etc.). This could be done quickly with the 'ROLLUP' modifier in MSSQL/MySQL, and the output placed into a summary table or exported as spreadsheet/CSV data for quick analysis.

But reading your post again - I'm not sure where you're worried the time sink will be; is it the interpretation & display of the data you have which you suspect is going to be the tricky part?

The temptation might be to look towards more fully-featured OLAP/cube style tools - they do need a good amount of time and focus though!
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3) facebook will die and will be replaced by the next fad

Facebook reminds me a lot more of Prodigy (where I met many good online friends who became in-real-life friends who are now my Facebook friends) than of Google. Yes, I think Facebook will be pervasive for a while, and then fizzle out.
If you really want to make big savings, look towards the wholesale food markets (different to supermarket) or auctions.

However, buying foods in large quantities would require you to have a physical location to sort the items into individual drops for either delivery or pickup.
Indeed. Git may be fast, but if you ever want to wrap a reliable program around it, good luck.
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BSD implementation of strlen() is handwritten in assembler for most architectures, and is optimized. The misunderstanding about it not being optimized is probably because someone read the fall-back non-optimized C implementation and missed architecture-specific directories.

This was discussed in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510832

Edit: glibc also doesn't use the generic optimized version in C on some architectures, see for example: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/sysdeps/i3...
Naa, not really. We might all die due to some extreme natural disaster or nuclear war, but civilization is a very strong trait. Even in the most abject poverty and the most horrible wars, glimpses of the beauty that is human civilization appears.

Our lives may change significantly for better or for worse, but civilization isn't going anywhere.
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> Do you mean that very wealthy people are able to pay for tax shelter strategies but those with, say, only a few million will end up getting taxed?

That's one way. Another way is that such estates can be structured so they aren't owned by someone who dies. Or, they're owned in a friendly jurisdiction. And so on.
My pattern is bimodal. On an average day, I probably make no more than 10 Google searches. On a day when I am actively building something new or doing background research before I start a new project, I might easily make over 100 searches.
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I put 31-50, but it's hard to keep track. There are very few times a day I say "I'll google this", but it's quite common for me to just enter a search term or incomplete url into the bar and Google ends up doing the work for me anyway.
All the security in the world won't protect Google's servers from a subpeona, and no black hat on the planet can break into my wallet without being in immediate physical proximity to me.
This is a great infographic with a high data-to-ink density.
That's an unfair comparison. It was at historically low levels of job growth because the US was experiencing below average unemployment rates to begin with (ie it's tough to grow additional jobs when people are employed - you will always have a certain percentage of unemployed just because of friction). You can chart/see historicals here: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_i...

If unemployment fell much further there would be significant concern over inflation (because the only way to fill jobs would be to keep increasing pay for the same amount of work).
> I'm confused to your point, besides a general helplessness.

It's not helplessness. It's an awareness of how the world works. (Related example, regulatory capture is as solid a law as gravity. It is foolish to act as if it doesn't exist, even if your scheme won't do what you want if it does.)

There aren't that many "really rich" people, but they can apply tremendous pressure, have a lot of resources, and are highly motivated.

The folks down a rung or two don't have those advantages. As a result, they're the ones who get hit, mostly because they're hittable but also because their collective wealth is much larger than that of the "really big money" folks.
Wow, I just did that right 10/left 10 trick on my Master lock here, and it opened right up! That's messed up.

Being somewhat security conscious, whenever I lock it (at the gym), I always set the dial to zero so that I'm not giving out the 3rd number of the combination to any passer-by. This also thwarts the right10/left10 attack, which is nice. Cool video!
I believe this is a question often studied in Economics journals, you may want to look there. If I remember correctly, it is referred to as "Type I vs. Type II" error. One type of error is when a drug is approved prematurely and people are harmed because of it. The other type of error is when people are harmed because a useful drug is kept off the market. Some economists theorize that the second type of error would be more common, because the first kind of error is more visual and visceral. I believe there have been studies attempting to find evidence for the theory, but I'm not an expert and have never kept up with the latest journals in economics.
In the first part, they are comparing apples and oranges, and in a very meaningless way. Compare FreeBSD to Debian or Redhat or Suse or Ubuntu or anything, if you want to. What sense does this make? If you were going to use Linux, you would use some distro, so compare FreeBSD to that distro.

Performance part doesn't really say anything. It's far too vague and incomplete.

And ports could be easily compared to, say, Gentoo system, or something similar. Just describing them doesn't make much sense, given that you are targeting mostly current FreeBSD users. I wouldn't even rule out a possibility that there is some Linux system using NetBSD pkgsrc, as it should be quite portable (and comparable to the ports).

In summary, the article is quite bad :-)
I don't think they need better information, just a collection
place that adds up the red flags and spits out a security
risk level. Cross referencing the different sources of information should do it. Create a central database.
It also may be how these people are tracked. If it's on a assigned case basis, that could be difficult to manage.
> Those who had preached fiscal restraint when it came to small welfare programs for the poor now clamored for the world's largest welfare program

What are you babbling about?

The folks that brought us the financial crisis did claiming to be fighting poverty. Why do you think Fannie and Freddie were created and lied about mortage quality?
The collection of all sets is not a set under ZF set theory, regardless of choice.

Such a collection, if it were a set, would imply the existence of a set of all sets that did not contain themselves from the axiom schema of specification.
Strange article -- half polemic half unnecessary (anyone who spends 5 minutes reading up on BSD would have heard of ports).

For a more detailed take on BSD vis-a-vis Linux: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4lin... . BSD user's point of view, target audience Linux users.
RE 5: "Only one gene is involved in the important barrier." but "the gene, FOXP2, is not the only one involved in our ability to communicate linguistically but the specific gene in chimpanzees and humans act and appear much differently." I guess it's just one that is the difference.
standard zip is far more cpu intensive than anything you could afford to run on something where you (a) have very limited cpu resources and (b) need to add very very little latency.
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Thanks. It's great to know. I will schedule it so I can see as soon as possible.
Interesting... what is the online equivalent of interest?
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My favorite search engine right now is duckduckgo.com. For some reason I like trying out the new stuff.
My day just got better.

My week has just become less productive.
Sounds like a http://groupon.com kind of model. Am I getting this right? You want to sell groceries this way? How long does it take to get the groceries? How are they distributed?
I do a similar thing, but with conversations. Some friends and I have become more aware of unintentional subject changes, and instead of letting the old topic roll under our wheels, we say "push," and "pop" when we are done with the temporary subject change. This keeps us focused on the original topic because a stack push feels more transitory.

And it's not just the geeks. (But it's mostly the geeks.)
who needs another newfangled gadget? mine still works just fine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2007Computex_e21Forum-Mart... http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/another-day-a...
Hehe, good point, but 'new' does not equal success.

I remember the 'newton', and the tablet is suspiciously close to a modernized newton.
tar+gzip performed similarly well (1.6MB -> 450kB) and is a lot faster than normal zip. GZip was similarly able to compress my Mac's System folder from four gigabytes to two. Anyway, the point stands that executable files are quite compressible. If you'd like me to try it with an algorithm you consider more appropriate, please direct me to the download page.
Yes, but the MSM torpedoed his candidacy after the Iowa caucuses. That didn't happen to Obama, largely because he was telegenic enough to impress the old media as well as the new.

I actually think the internet's effect on politics is overstated. Ron Paul won the internet in 2008, but got single digit percentages of the vote.
Dave Rolsky is a Perl programming machine ~ http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/ and lead the team to create the Perl Datetime module ~ http://datetime.perl.org/?Modules I sat in on a talk with one of the developers ("Iain Truskett" ~ http://use.perl.org/~goon/journal/16893 ) more than half a decade ago and was amazed at the complexity of time.
I don't think a massive cloud dataloss will be that big a deal, it will all be cached locally. Also I think data will be pretty segmented between many providers (like steam for games, flickr for photos, etc) not like Dropbox on a whole harddrive.
The original complaint was

> the far more likely scenario is your project depends on a specific version of some other project which in turn depends on the LATEST version of some other project, so you still get hosed even when downstream providers do remember to bump versions!

so are you saying this is impossible (non-snapshot artifacts are somehow forbidden from depending on snapshot artifacts, which is not what was claimed), or that every author has to understand this and package their artifacts perfectly to prevent this from becoming an actual problem?
Really wish they'd stop lumping in tithes in with legitimate charitable causes. It completely distorts the data.
Data mining maybe? I store all my data in the cloud, and then services derive more and more data from it. The longer you keep your stuff in the could, the more derived data it accumulates.
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During a discussion with a friend on future technology, someone remarked that for a few days' wages ($200 for an iPod touch) you can now hold a condensed summary of all human knowledge (Wikipedia) in the palm of your hand, with near-instant access to astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, engineering, mathematics, history, sociology, economics, psychology, medicine, technology, literature, art, drama, religion, and boundless other subjects.

Yet far more often we use it for trivia and the mundane. The future is wasted on the future.
As noted above, the collection of all sets cannot be a set in any set theory with specification, regardless of regularity:

Call the collection of all sets S. We specify T by

T=\{x| x \in S \wedge \neg x \in x\}

T is then the subclass of S of sets that do not contain themselves. Thus with specifiction (provable from replacement, or as an axiom by itself), it is contradictory for S to be a set.

If you reject the law of excluded middle, you can have a intuitionist set theory where S is neither a set nor not a set; alternatively, you can have a set theory without specification one constructed based on a type theory might meet this requirement.
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I wrote a github/twitter API gateway to use with Tweetie 2's custom endpoint feature. This is similar to the custom Tumblr and Wordpress endpoints.
Mexico is in red, which I suppose is "technically" accurate, but the Mexican Constitution guarantees health care to all citizens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Mexico#Public_he...
That's a funky name, I'll have to try it just for that :)

For some weird reason it reminds me of engine oil, but no idea why that link is there.
Are you suggesting your personal computer is somehow immune to subpoenas?
Perseverance is an awesome trait, and real tenacity is a rarity in this instant gratification world. I deeply admire those who just keep at it despite incredible hardship. However, there are at least a couple of things I can think of that people need to be cautious about.

1) Not every venture has the possibility of a profitiable outcome. There is real wisdom in knowing when and how to get out and do something else. Often you can change the gameplan on the same venture, but sometimes it isn't possible. It is possible to waste your time trying to ride a dead horse.

2) Entrepeneurs often don't like to hear it, but there is more to life than work. It is possible to spend too much time and energy on your business. There is a long line of middle-aged (and older) men and women with kids that won't talk to them, spouses who divorced them, friends who wonder whatever happened to them (and even worse situations that I won't enumerate) all because they were so focused on never giving up on their business that they sacrificed their personal lives to try to "make it happen". Be tenacious, be determined, but be in control of your business life -- don't let it control you.
Jacques, this comment interests me:

There is no drug war, that's just a figment of some peoples imaginations.

I've been on the edge (on various sides) of what looks to me like a very long, slow and destructive engagement between the populace / drugs gangs / the authorities.

So Im wondering how your comment is pitched? Im certain there are quite a few people in SA countries who would argue there certainly is a drugs war :)

On the other hand I suspect your talking in a domestic sense (in which case I mostly agree). Just interested where your coming from with that?

The energy solutions will immediately be offset by an increase in consumption by the developing world, I figure the energy-almost-crisis will be here for at least another 50 years. The only thing that will solve the energy crisis is cheap, pollution free fusion power. That will take a while.

This I think you nailed spot on. But I think there is definitely a market here for someone to really work on sustainable energy - and to make it less of a niche / hippy thing. Perhaps a startup opportunity or 2. The am would be simple: to stretch that "50 years" out as long as possible till a proper solution (Fusion, I guess) is stabilized.