skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it not a death warrant? 61% vs 0% (or whatever the percentage was by the time he got conventional treatment?) Look, it was his body and he can do what he wanted, but he made the wrong move in a very obvious and predictable way.

Not to mention the elephant in the room: Vegan diets are probably unhealthy. They lack selenium you'd otherwise get from meats. Low selenium and pancreas diseases go hand in hand.

There's also a link between drinking fruit juices and pancreatic cancers. Jobs constantly drank fruit juices as part of his vegan/fruitarian diet. Fructose megadosing is scary stuff. Healthy sugars and still sugars. They still have calories and still need to be processed.
> how much of this is that treatments are easier to find than cures, and how much of it is that cures eliminate their own market and thus make less business sense is a matter of debate

Only in the sense that things aren't very easy to find when you aren't looking for them. Otherwise there really isn't much debate. Nothing brings home the bacon like chronic disease.
Intersting that the page you linked is just plain wrong in the first graphic. It shows a 1.5 mile restriction around the airport instead of the correct 5 miles [1].

[1] http://knowbeforeyoufly.org/for-recreational-users/ "Contact the airport or control tower before flying within five miles of an airport."
it's a systemic socioeconomic one.

This is absolutely right. I'll post below my comment from a similar thread that considered this factor.

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I think modern "foods," of the extracted and refined sugars sort, and artificial colors and flavors sort, definitely play a large role in this.

I find all this searching for bio-chemical processes to blame obesity on pretty silly. A non-trivial portion of society has shown it is possible to not be obese. People have also shown it is possible to go from being obese to not being obese.

There are several inter-playing factors that shoulder most the blame I would say.

One major factor that seems to be missing from most conversations is that there is a huge mental factor in obesity I would surmise. And I think you're overlooking that when you ask why do some people feel satiety when others don't.

I think obesity can rightly be considered a mental illness. Why do some people continue to eat when it does their body no good? Everyone probably does this on occasion, but why do obese people do it routinely?

Most obese people I'm guessing would tell you that a lot of their eating has an emotional component, beyond a feeling of hunger.

When you think about it, present day "food" companies, are just as bad as tobacco companies, arguably worse when you calculate the costs. How many people are suffering from diabetes, or potentially will in coming years, how many from other 'diseases of civilization,' what amount of health and monetary resources are expended on these preventable conditions each year?

These are diseases of a civilization that is structured poorly. Just think about it, a civilization of overworked, overstressed, underslept, mindless-media over-exposed people who emotionally stuff their faces with garbage 'foods.'

The "food" industry and regulation there of no doubt shoulders a lot of blame, just consider for some people, the majority of their food energy intake comes basically from candy.

It appears that 'food' companies are exploitative of the low iq, low income segments of our society, but in the US I think that has a lot to do with agricultural policies that subsidize sugar and corn production and the like. And the people running these "food" companies navigate current market dynamics and govt incentives/subsidies to maximize shareholder returns, and that is producing negative health results for many people.

So with these factors considered, I would say that there are better ways of addressing this issue than the search for obesity immunity conferring pills and the like.
Ask HN: Advice on methodologies for consultancy-based development
Every article that I read about managing a development team is geared towards a single company developing a product, where all developers are working toward the same goal of delivering said product in the best way possible. There is some really great information out there, but I can’t seem to find anything that’s geared more toward consultancy-based organizations. Here are some big differences that I see:

* We are working on projects, not a product. A lot of what we do doesn’t come down to what the end-user wants, it comes down to what the client wants (and sometimes those wants are really, really strange).
* Our projects can be wildly different from one another (though we stick with a standard stack as much as we can).
* The entire team isn’t working on the same project at the same time. We currently have 6 developers, at any point we might have 1-3 on the same project. That means that we can have 2-4 unrelated projects going on at one time.
* Our timelines and budgets are relatively fixed, and need to be provided prior to development and adhered to.

Different projects have different requirements and allow for different levels of flexibility. Some projects it might make sense to go with TDD and weekly sprints. Other projects might have an extremely short shelf life and just need to get out the door, so spending time on code coverage and refactoring may not be something that makes a great deal of sense. We have our own values and processes that we use for every project of ours, but the constant changes in our client’s needs make it difficult to form a solid repeatable methodology.

Can anybody recommend some reading material that’s more focused on project-based work rather than product-based? Any personal advice about managing a team where members are often working on different projects from one another? Thanks.
Some are annoying, yes, but it annoys me when people are jerks to recruiters. We are blessed to be in an industry where recruiters are common.
Definitely agree with this. My 1 year old will simply sit on my laptop and bangaway at the keyboard.
Seems like a good use-case for docker
I think about half the recruiters I worked with had some good jobs that didn't work out because the hiring manager they were working with had budget dry up on them. I think it's like any enterprise sales position. You end up talking to a lot of well-intentioned people without a lot of organizational backing.

Most of them talk to you to get an idea of cost and benefits so they can try to sell it to their bosses. You never hear back from them because they couldn't get any backing from the people above them. It's not that they weren't sincere, it's that there's a lack of support for their initiative, and the kind of decision they were trying to make required more buy-in than they could get at the time.

I think recruiters end up in this cycle too. The difference is that because you're the product you never hear about any of the actual sales work that goes on.
Robinhood? Commission Free Trading
Placebo, Mandelbrot, and Strategy
That's not what I was referring to. There shouldn't be any reason for the FormField component to need to know the name of what the label is referring to, since it has access to its children through the "children" prop.
Results: We surveyed 200+ startup founders to find out how much money they have
Why we made FastCap and perspective on skeuomorphism, the homescreen, etc.
Yeah, but "print-ready posters" ain't the only professional use for raster graphics software anymore. GIMP (in my experience, at least) works quite well for digital work; it's only print work that it's significantly lacking (particularly due to the lack of proper CMYK support).
Racket programs runs on many platforms including Linux.

In DrRacket you can choose the "Create Executable..." to package your Racket program with the files needed to run the program (without the user installing Racket).

Since this is a just-for-fun project, they just made installers for Windows and OS X.
I've tried introducing my son to Scratch (and one other language - it was a long time ago so I forget), and it was hard to keep him motivated without a meaningful sense of forward progress.

A class provides better structure with an end goal in mind. We enrolled him in several "make a game" camps that I think he enjoyed more than open-ended exploration.

These days, he takes CS courses in high school and enjoys them, I think getting them into programming at a young age is fine but not a necessary condition if you would like them to have it as a skill later in life.

As a parent, I'd say to introduce them to many different sorts of experiences and indulge them if they show interest, and be willing to let them change their mind. Be interested in what they do.
BitTorrent tracker blocks Windows 10 users
And FastCap on ProductHunt: http://www.producthunt.com/tech/fastcap
Researchers find new code that makes reprogramming of cancer cells possible
I had always heard that the "longer intestines" story was a myth promoted by the Japanese government during World War II, with the dual goal of promoting the idea of Japanese "uniqueness/superiority" and of discouraging the consumption of meat, which had become very scarce during wartime.
>along with my girlfriend's patience for being ignored

can you tell us more about that? The passion that drives me is the passion that gets things done. Does she want the paycheck or does she want me? Sometimes I can't give both
The beginnings of an automated draft pick for models:
Yes, it was something like that "we changed the currency letter in Nowhereislands, list of 30 changed files includes cryptography.dll, well, why not."

The currency letters are since forever nicely separated from the code in the data NLS files, I thought I knew.

Whatever, there are enough problematic actions we're sure of, seen in the other posts here.
A super quick google implies it does

http://download.racket-lang.org/

So, it looks like an open-source cross-platform thing -fantastic :)
How the stock selloff could kill off some tech unicorns
This is my favorite part. This is how most keynesians react when confronted with the harsh realities of QE. This and "the consumers just aren't spending enough." Ofc it's never enough QE and never enough spending. Meanwhile that creaking sound....
It really disappoints me that Twitter never became this.
You really haven't specked out the question very well.

Do you mean algorithmic or just the ability to post orders?

Not sure what you mean by online.
If you mean web based or mobile? Or is desktop fine?

Robin Hood isn't bad if you just want point and click.

If you want to do something algorithmic then use Interactive brokers.

You might find something better but IB has been around for ever and probably wont' get out of this business any time soon. I can't say the same for any other broker that a retail investor can use.

Having said all of that, I would really, strongly, emphatically advise against trying your hand at algorithmic trading.

For the average person the rule they should internalize is Investing good, algo trading bad.... and this is comming from one of the people who benefits when the average person tries to trade in the stock market.
"I've never used X, insert certifiably false statement about X"

I regret that I have only one downvote to give.
> it's probably just because weight-lifting isn't as popular in Japan as in the west

Don't discount the role of genetics. Some people are just naturally larger, others couldn't get large even if they tried. Although Japanese people would no doubt be bigger if there was more of a weightlifting culture, they'd still be slimmer than the average American.
The Ziggurat Algorithm for Random Gaussian Sampling
Excellent! I hope to see myself and others use this for other probe flyby's... Thank you for opening up the source!
Barry Cranford of Recworks in London is one of the few good guys. He started the London Java Community and his approach is much more about engaing with the tech community and definitely adds value to the process.
> "big pharma wants to make big profits by killing us"

There's a big difference between distrusting drugmakers and thinking they want to kill you. The last thing they want is to kill you. It's bad PR, to say the least. But more importantly, killing you takes away one of the medical plan's customers. It's the only thing worse than curing you, because they'll never again get money for something prescribed to you. This position is totally unreasonable and no one who considers the situation for even 30 seconds can seriously believe it.
http://wiki.killfile.org/projects/usenet/faqs/cancel/
Linux + proprietary 3D graphics software is very popular in large shops (ILM, Pixar, DreamWorks, etc.). 3D graphics, CAD, etc. in general tends to have much stronger roots in the Unix world (by way of IRIX, with GNU/Linux being the most common migration path) than Windows.

Basically, for the big names in computer-animated movies, the Year of the Linux Desktop has already happened.
FWIW, I prefer GIMP at work when Photoshop is also already available to us. I still stick to GIMP because of its ease in scripting and automating my work via PyGimp. I'm aware Photoshop can script via AppleScript, VBScript, and JavaScript, but Python just makes more sense to me.

And not on the automation side, I have also created professional quality icons on GIMP used on our web application.
I wouldn't say it's entirely useless in Europe.

The weather info is always useful, quickly comparing weather at the current location to home is nice.

Transport is often relevant (if only Google Maps was aware of our U-Bahn instead of suggesting a 3h journey involving 5 busses), and it's helpful that you are warned when the last train goes (before midnight).

The scanning of emails for information is clever. I was quite surprised that it managed to pick up local train tickets and reminded me on the day, and it helps keep track of packages ordered through various sites.

Nearby photos and "things to do" can be nice to see, and in some places it will offer you "information about this place" (only observed in the Netherlands).

Sometimes it also showed some interesting blogs.

Some things are entirely useless or annoying to me, like the "breaking news" articles of american tabloids, or translations of "good morning" to German while in a train in Germany (as if Google doesn't know I speak German).
any link to the story about ferguson and schimmel?
Ehh, auto-vectorization is a much less interesting problem than doing fun things manually.
My favourite recruiter is an independent. Friend of a friend. Likes having a chat every now and then, only got me interesting leads so far. Even now that I am not interested in a new position, he's keeping good contact. James, http://www.thundercloudsolutions.com
This post doesn't seem to appear on the 'ask' section...?
>The problem is the long term efficacy rate of dieting is around 5%. If dieting were a drug it would never pass FDA approval for effectiveness.

If your diet has an "end" you have already failed. There's a huge difference between a fad diet and a lifestyle change.

If we are going to compare it to medicine, let's use this as an example:

You suffer terrible headaches. Your doctor prescribes you a once-daily pill to treat it. After 30 days, you suffer no more headaches. After 60 days, you stop taking the pill. After 70 days, your headaches are back.

The pill didn't fail to fix your headaches, you failed to keep up with your medication.

If you diet for 6 months and lose 40Lbs, congrats! If you "stop dieting" and gain all 40Lbs back in a year, the diet didn't fail, you failed to maintain a healthy diet/lifestyle.
Actually, debt is held by the US Government, which has had historic average revenues of ~18% GDP. Therefore, to have 100% debt/GDP is actually the US Government borrowing 5.5x their annual income.
Cancer-Related Companies Take in Decade-High $4.7B of VC in 2014
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or truly curious, but speaking as an old-but-not-that-old person who spends lots of time with older family members: yep! It's very much the on-trend "what's the matter with kids these days" issue, carrying on the age-old tradition of condemning bare ankles, short skirts, dirty dancing, pre-marital cohabitation, etc.
I can't really say... In my own case it was partly that I was trying to make a living off my project, and I couldn't spend that much time with her if I was going to build it before money ran out. But at the same time, there was an element of using the project to get away from her, and I think she could tell.

But yeah, finding a balance with these things is tough.
Hey Ed. Not spoken to you in ages. Thanks for the kind words (as always).
Has anyone from outside the US had a good experience with a recruiter bringing them in on a H1-B / J1?
Well, I'm assuming anyone who is doing that is an established relationship that has lasted months/years and is 100% certain of the other party's age. I suspect the people I talk to make the same assumptions.
I think that's how tutorialspoint does it:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_bash_online.php
I'd be interested to see if anyone can recommend recruiters in London.

I've had nothing but bad experiences over the last few years so tend to ignore them now, but it'd be good to have a little list of decent ones.
I like the ones who at least read my resume before emailing or calling me.
You're literally spreading the kind of dietary FUD this thread is trying to discredit.
The posted link works for me....
Does Rust not already get LLVM's current auto-vectorization for free?
My 7 year old is learning on a Raspberry Pi that does not load X by default. She gets around the terminal pretty well (changing, dirs, calling python scripts, etc.). The GUI is just overwhelming at this point. She prefers the terminal. In fact, she will boot it up and type:

nano story.txt

To start writing simple stories (she loves doing that). And yes, she saves it by pressing Ctrl-x, y, and enter. :D
It depends on what you want. As others have pointed out, IB is good for a near-pro trading experience. If you don't need margin access, shorting, options, etc you might want to check out Robinhood (disclaimer: I've never used it although it looks nice).

Really though, why do you care about real-time trading anyways? Not being sarcastic; this is an actual question.
I completed this a few days ago. Good enough to make me want to put Linux on my Macbook again. How I missed thee.
Makes sense; thanks for responding!
Thanks to you both for the kind words, and I do my best to provide a good service to my candidates and clients alike. And I did run the JUG in Philly for 15 years, resigning in February.
> 0% interest rate for several years is not healthy

That's not healthy or unhealthy. It's just a thing.

> QE is not healthy

Ask Europe that didn't do quantitative easing (or did too little too late) which economy they'd rather have right now. And it's no longer a thing - because it ran its course and largely worked.

>Inflating assets is not healthy

Some classes of assets are inflating. Some are deflating. Again it's a little vague.

> 100+ % debt:GDP ration is not healthy.

It was never higher than right before the boom of the 50's and 60's so...

Agree with you on the impact on the middle class.

But I think you can assert on the balance of things that the economy is healthy vs not. You've obviously ignored a lot of positive stats around employment growth and economic growth.
Every website, 2015
I was intrigued by this and did some very quick searching. Here is an article from 1948 which suggests that dietary differences are responsible for longer intestines in Japanese and Russians:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1513781/pdf/anns...

Here is a review which mentions several articles in which investigators looked at intestinal length among westerners and Japanese, but the authors concluded that it was difficult to perform direct comparisons due to differences in measurement techniques.

http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/803/art%253A10.1007%...
> Yeah. Just a conspiracy theory. Nothing to it. Nothing at all. The pharmaceutical industry has no influence whatsoever.

We know the pharmaceutical industry has some influence on what treatments a doctor recommends. I don't think anybody is going to deny that.

The part where it gets ridiculous is when people think the pharmaceutical industry has puppet master like control over the entire field of oncology, from research to individual doctors. Somehow, they've managed to manipulate our brightest minds from asking simple questions like, "Can sodium bicarbonate cure cancer?"

I have family members who have refused cancer treatments based on these beliefs. One took cinnamon for his cancer and died last year. Another is convinced he's cured his own cancer taking sodium bicarbonate in lieu of early outpatient treatment.

> Some people might say that doctors make far more money from doing traditional medicine, than they would from offering dietary advice, but this too has absolutely nothing to do with it. Just another conspiracy theory.

This idea is utter shit. Every doctor I've ever gone to has emphasized good diet and exercise as the key to good health. No doctor omits dietary advice so you'll eat like shit and live a sedentary life for the sake of future profits.

You could argue that they could/should do more to promote diet/exercise and I'd argue you're wasting your doctor's valuable time. You don't need someone with medical school to dispense advice on diet and exercise on a personal level. See a nutritionist for dietary advice or a physical therapist for an exercise regiment.

If you really think diet is a key then you should lobby your representative to subsidize healthy foods and food programs rather than corn based products. If you think exercise is important, than bully your representative to push athletic incentives. For example, mandatory insurance discounts for people who can demonstrate a athletic proficiency on some type of scale. (Remember the athletic tests you took as a kid?)

It constantly amazed me that the same people who insinuate hand wavy conspiracies that doctors have sold their integrity and your health and for a modest boost in salary don't even question the ethics of companies that make billions of dollars selling untested "alternative medicines" and "herbal supplements" even after they're caught lacing their products with natural amphetamines so their customers can legitimately claim they feel better.
Writing Tests for Rails: Continuous Integration
Last I used it, it had quite a few bugs. Even with work abounds to the bugs I only was able to get to 75%
I finished it last night and wrote a "review" in a mailing list, so I'm just gonna copy that "review" I sent last night if anyone's trying to figure out whether or not they should take this course:

I just finished it. It took me less than half an hour.

It was OK until I finished the 75% of the course. The last 25% were pretty repetitive: use nano to edit your bash config (they used .bash_profile as a config file), type something in it, close nano and use source to set the source of your bash config. I had to execute that same process at least five times and every single time the terminal session restarted so I couldn't use up and down keys to navigate between previous commands, so I had to type them again every single time. Plus there were constant bugs in the interface so I had to manually scroll the left sidebar to see the next task in like every challenge.

All in all, you're right, very basic, thorough, and a bit repetitive at the end. Nothing really left a wow effect to me, but I knew how to use 95% of those commands. Others might find it more useful.

P.S. I'm kind of surprised that they chose nano as a text editor. I expected vi, but I'm guessing they chose nano because it's more beginner-friendly.