skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something based on Morse code is indeed possible, and it was used:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_telegraph_code
The mortality rate for white men and women ages 45-54 with less than a college education increased markedly between 1999 and 2013, most likely because of problems with legal and illegal drugs, alcohol and suicide, the researchers concluded. Before then, death rates for that group dropped steadily, and at a faster pace.

A graph in the article [0] shows a large spike in deaths by poisoning, a modest increase in suicides and chronic liver disease, no change in diabetes, and a decrease in lung cancer. So the authors quasi-conclude that the increase in this demographic is due to underlying psychic pain (tough times post-recession?) that causes people to overdose/die from alcohol poisoning.

There is a weird stat at the bottom of the article - according to the "National Heroin Task Force" (who knew there was such a thing) 110 people overdose on legal/illegal drugs every day. The CDC says that only 6 people die from alcohol poisoning every day. So if we take those stats at face value, which we probably shouldn't because the National Heroin Task Force has an incentive to overblow the problem, then we would conclude that heroin is a much larger problem than alcoholism across this demographic.

One other discrepancy was the author throwing in this strange citation that (supposedly) bemoans the future of Medicare:

"This is the first indicator that the plane has crashed," said Jonathan Skinner, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College, who reviewed the study and co-authored a commentary that appears with it. "I don’t know what’s going on, but the plane has definitely crashed."

It's not often that you see this level of insightful journalism and deep analysis, so I took a moment to savor that nugget of knowledge. Then I wondered - isn't it a "good" thing for the Medicare system if the working class is dying off after contributing to the pot but before taking anything out?

[0] https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/Wash...
The project as a whole is not GPLv2.

From http://www.mono-project.com/docs/faq/licensing/

The C# compiler is dual-licensed under the MIT/X11 license and the GNU General Public License (GPL).

The tools are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

The runtime libraries are under the GNU Library GPL 2.0 (LGPL 2.0).

The class libraries are released under the terms of the MIT X11 license.
On my iPhone I don't get the scrolling bug you talk about (and don't recall ever having it on NYT pages), but I do have two options to fix it if it comes up - the reading mode where it strips everything but the content, and the "show me the desktop site" button that would presumably strip whatever the mobile site is doing that screws it up for you. Haven't owned an iPad for a few years though so don't know how different it might be.
>There's no specific reason, aside from time, why China cannot be a legitimate competitor for international aircraft.

Though this has no bearing on a Chinese firm's ability to bring a product to market, I can think of many moral and ethical arguments that could undermine the 'legitimacy' of Chinese jets (provided they're constructed with typical Chinese labor practices). Functional or not, the product is tainted.
Obviously that post is a bit off-topic, but anyone following HN regularly likely inferred that this topic is in response to the recent "Slack vs. IRC" debate that's been going on.
Indonesia, not unlike Malaysia, is at it's core a corrupt country filled with an ignorant majority ethnic group that rides on the backs of the East Asian immigrant populations that actually value education and hard work.

I work with numerous people who would otherwise be starting businesses in their home countries, but don't want to have their pocket picked by the absurd laws forcing native Malays and Indonesians to be employed in top positions despite having no skills.
Maybe, but the years from 79-99 were hardly stress free and actual standards of living and health care are still well above what they were in the late 70s. Or maybe the rate of improvement in living standards actually contributes more to life expectancy that the absolute level? That seems hard to believe though.
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Of course, the analogy falls down–like all analogies–at some point. However, there is a whole realm of industrial fabrication beyond what is available at a simple/hobby shop.

To put it a different way: there are tools that I want to use when I am making one of something. Then there are different tools when I am making 10 of something. Again at 100, 1,000, and 1,000,000.

I've been a teacher, and I think there is a inherent conflict: As a teacher, I want my students to learn _how_ to do something, but I also want them to do things "right". Those two goals are often at odds. Sometimes the best way to learn is to do it "wrong"; preferably in a safe environment where doing it wrong won't kill/maim you. I think the injustice is trying to teach students how to use the "for a million" tools (which they will _need_ later), when they really struggling with the idea of making one.
Yeah according to the Internet, Morse invented wired communications. Its hard to find any history that doesn't begin with him.

Here's all I found today: http://www.recordnations.com/articles/pantelegraph/
> an increase in general despair and decline in quality of life.

Yet in our own country, suicide is treated as a "mental illness", and rarely does anyone acknowledge the circumstances which make suicide the rational option.
I think this article might be over-stating the lack of technological adoption at Japanese companies to the point of characterizing the nation as some backwards Kafka-esque nightmare.

I was just at the Openstack Tokyo Design Summit where there were plenty of Japanese companies sharing their stories of adopting and contributing to Openstack technologies: NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Fujitsu, Yahoo Japan, and others. These are not small companies and many of them are building critical public infrastructure on Openstack.

You can still buy cassette tapes in corner stores in Canada and there are many industries here where people still use fax machines (ie: lawyers, realtors, contractors). I don't think Japan is unique in this regard.
Do you - or anyone - have stats about the possible traffic demands of Slashdot/Reddit/HN front page stardom?

I'm very much in the Nginx/static camp, but it would be useful to know how bad the spikes can get.
I've visited too, but I actually came away feeling optimistic about Indonesia (and not just because I loved the food!).

Where were you that you were offered drugs? Places where Indonesians live or places where tourists go to party?
Just buy it on Alibaba [http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_...].
Yeah, British pavements should be fine, try somewhere like Thailand or Vietnam ..
Brasil is another country that makes commercial planes. They (and Canada) are much bigger internationally then Russia. And they are pretty successful with Embraer even though they did not have any prior reputation.
NYTimes take on it from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10495758
Do people understand what rape is?
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Productivity vampires? Is that really legacy systems you refer to, or is it just yesteryear's fad that's starting to show its true colors?

Some time ago I worked on a modern travel reservation system frontend, to replace an aging 5250-based one. When I finally spent a day with the customer's end users to validate some things and learn how they worked (those things never shine through the specs) it was like a punch to the stomach. They were happy to see me and happy for the system replacement, but they worked with such lightning speed in the old system (where all 24 F-keys were bound and known by heart) they could keep up a conversation with the client while contantly pulling out the information they needed.

Just reaching for the mouse in that situation would have incurred noticeable latency for the customer. A snowball's chance in the proverbial hell would constitute much better odds than my web based system would have to improve their productivity. I didn't stay on that project until the end (for other reasons) so I don't know how it turned out, but it was my first real encounter with "legacy" systems and it humbled me like nothing since.

There are still high cost to maintaining these systems, and their batch-orientedness makes modern always-online mode very difficult. But productivity for end users should be very hard to match, especially since they were built for kilobit lines and megahertz computers in mind.
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http://pybossa.com/ provides a template for projects like this one.
Does varrao.vision make use of PyBossa?
The thing that always pulls me back to wordpress is the ease of creation and hosting. Drag an image into your text, and pop it's uploaded, hosted, and linked to. Write something in the interface and bam it's online and reliable. Every static site generator I've played with (And there have been TONS), solves 80% of the problem.

I'd love an app that gave me that ease of hosting and creation and generated a static site from there (hook it up to an S3 bucket or something). I'd pay for sure.

Currently I'm using Nginx w/ SSIs for lightly dynamic sites. Works well enough and is very very simple.
Unless you’re Adele, you have no business releasing album tracks all at once
Those minimum orders are astronomical it's almost funny. Does anybody actually purchase manufacturing-level quantities of goods on alibaba? Genuinely asking.
No doubt there. Over prescribing them leads to dependency, then the DEA terrifies doctors into abruptly cutting the doses for those already on them and those patients turn to more sinister alternatives like heroin.
Yikes! That is much worse, at least based on your note. Do you think this is an area where the EFF could litigate on behalf of the original creators in a fraud context? Just curious, and also grateful to not be dealing with such a horrible prospect.
Apple is not a company like Activision :)

And really, most of Apple's "innovations" are taking innovations created elsewhere and applying them to mass-produced consumer products. Not that what Apple does isn't innovative; but it's industrial-scale innovation.

Activision is a media marketing and investment company. Why bother being innovative when the mass-market AAA games they churn out earn $1-2 billion each in global sales? They're not trying to be innovative; they're trying to make mainstream video games.
The morbidity statistics they are using would break out strokes as a category.

The abstract for the paper says This increase for whites was largely accounted for by increasing death rates from drug and alcohol poisonings, suicide, and chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis.

( http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/29/1518393112.abst... )

So strokes probably don't explain it.

In a previous discussion I speculated that military service (and thus combat) could be a contributing factor. It would be interesting to see how many of the suicides and overdoses were people who had experienced combat.
Not agreeing with the previous statement regarding Singapore's military supremacy, but measuring military effectiveness by number of troops is a hopelessly outdated method.

Powerful armies are nothing more than logistics organizations, with 80-90% of members operating supply chains and maintenance to enable the 21st century weapons systems and their elite operators to destroy things.

300,000 guys with assault rifles and crappy Air Force are no match against 75,000 with modern technology and precision munitions.
> When you look at page speed, not much of the slow-down is from servers delivering pages, but browsers having to digest HTML/CSS/IMG/JS

I think both can be to blame, although you're right that JS load is becoming more and more of an issue. I used to work on a site that used Joomla and literally hundreds of separate database queries were executed for each page request. That is going to put a huge strain on server-delivery time, and it's unsurprising that this site couldn't handle much of a load before falling over.

Static pages are really so much faster than any dynamically-generated site I've seen. Still, I agree about JS - it's possibly time for a 'back to basics' approach on client-side scripting akin to the static page revolution that has occurred on the server-side. At the very least, I think the 'many scripts, many sources' issue needs to be resolved.
Shit kills. I guess this happens everywhere in the world, but over here (Finland), there are the occasional deaths at farms where H2S released from remains of cow manure, stored in a tank, kills people.

https://www.mela.fi/sites/default/files/lietelanta.pdf

"Description of event

A farm-owner suffocated inside a manure tank which was lacking oxygen and contained toxic gases. Also his brother, who went in to help, died.

A tank of liquid-form manure was almost empty. A pipe at the bottom of the tank was blocked. The farm owner decided to enter the tank and finalize emptying the tank. However, he lost consciousness and fell to the bottom.

His brother, who was close by, saw what happened and went in to save the unconscious man, but he was also overcome in a moment. Four hours later a family member discovered the victims. Fire service was called to help, and with pressure air breathing equipment, they retrieved both men. They were both found to be dead. Cause of death was a poisoning by methane and hydrogen sulfide."

(Taken from farm advisory leaflet on manure https://www.mela.fi/sites/default/files/lietelanta.pdf )
Might work, if the cargo were somehow locked in. Maybe unlocks when scanned at the receive site somehow? To discourage casual theft.
Since the 80s whites as a group have diverged into blue-collar and white-collar groups. The socio-economic index of the blue-collar has been falling, and mortality has thus followed. My assumption the blue-collar group in bigger than the white-collar one, and hence the overall as a group is down. Charles Murray has some literature on this issue. I understand he is hated in Leftist circles, but the general observations have some merit.
Well, maybe not. It's a mistake, a lapse of judgement, but not that extraordinarily stupid mistake.
Similarly, when Bank ATM's switched from character only green screens with buttons on the side as the interface to full color "GUI" ones with touchscreens, the delays and speed at which you could run the interface went down dramatically, which was quite frustrating if you were used to the old system.

Thankfully, the newer touchscreen interfaces are much faster than before - the delays between selections went down.

The touchscreens still stink from a UI perspective - too many elements too close to each other, where inadvertent touches can result in unwanted behavior.
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Reminds me of AudioGL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-RCzeJQazA

https://www.audiogl.com/en/audiogl

There is a downloadable version of it, but sadly its development looks dead :(
Please don't call suicide a rational option.

One can argue that oppression and malaise are driving people to despair. It's another argument entirely to say that wasting a life makes sense.
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It was awesome he was eventually paid for it on the blockchain.

Interesting that traders are using it for personal transactions these days.
John Resig (of JQuery fame) got a $7500 advance[1] for a Javascript book. I think it's reasonable to assume that a Javascript book would be 100x (or even 1000x) more popular than a Haskell book. To this day, I don't believe he's made much beyond that advance. I doubt he's reached $20k since 2007.

If the author can crowdsource $20k, more power to her. On the other hand, maybe the monetary threshold needs a reality check. EDIT ADD: I looked again and noticed that the $20k is a "flexible goal" so presumably, the author will write the book even without reaching that amount; therefore, the author already understands market forces at work that might prevent a $20k payout.

(Of course it's possible that the Haskell book market can charge a premium because of a uniquely enthusiastic audience . E.g., doctors pay $500 for a book that shows surgical procedures and the volume of sales is only in the hundreds.)

In the economics of books, the big money is fiction. (50 Shades, Harry Potter, etc). To a lesser extent, you have some non-fiction titles making a decent amount of money (Chicken Soup for the Soul, Eat Pray Love, etc). Way down on the totem pole are the trade publications like computer books. The economics on that level basically dictate that you slave away writing "Java for Dummies" for less than minimum wage. You then use it as a business calling card and let it open doors to speaking engagements at conferences and attract consulting gigs.

[1]>http://ejohn.org/blog/programming-book-profits/
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Lack of research and cultural context is the reason the plans proposed in the article failed to begin with. You fell in a similar trap, it seems.
Could work inside a campus or industrial center? Maybe in the new Apple starship juggernaut.
I feel like what I'm about to suggest must have been thought of: is it possible for me to somehow attach a "one time crackable key" such that if someone wants to send me an email, they have to do a nontrivial amount of calculation? Like... a turing email address, where they have to compute the actual address, and the computation is nontrivial?
> Changing the thought process isn't the easy way to go about it but it is ultimately the only way that's going to be effective in the long term.

How does one actually change the thought processes? Or begin to make progress changing the thought processes?
In fairness to the study, the way they brought the subject up was pretty well done.

In all the cover letters (both with and without disability) they stated that the candidate volunteered for a disability charity and that their work there meant that they had experience in working with people in a supervisory capacity.

In the disability letters they added that they had the disability and wanted to help others with it.

Having read a fair few CVs myself, I think they all read fairly innocuously.

My only comment on the way it was written (as an employer) is that the novice letters read better than the experience ones: having supervisory experience for a graddie is a plus; but a bit of a red flag for a senior role (why would you mention it, don't you have it in your day job?)

I think the most likely explanation for the finding is in the breakdown by company size. The government and fed contractors were, more or less, without bias (in some cases with a small bias towards the applicants with disabilities).

By far the largest bias was in small firms. If I were to hazard a guess it will be at least partly due to a perceived cost in recruiting people with disabilities (which is presumably why they are exempt from ADA in the first place). But the study didn't pursue this.
Yeah, I can imagine how it would be extremely stressful and life-shortening to be perpetually worried about money.

Wealth inequality has been rising for a very long time, with all but the highest income brackets stagnating. This isn't sustainable, it's literally causing the serfs to be so stressed that they die or kill themselves because of how few resources they get. We need at least some of these people alive and functioning if our society is to continue.
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"Opinion polls suggest an extremely high level of resistance to any kind of financial cost potentially being involved in sending e-mail."

I think this is the most important point of the whole concept. Make people pony up cash to send email, and they will send their messages in some other way.

Remember when SMS messages used to cost money no matter what service you used?
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I'm still looking for a static site generator that's as easy to use as Wordpress (so with a UI, not markdown). Anyone know of something that fits the bill?
Though it's not a concern within my inner circle, I've studied the War on Drugs and to claim the "National Heroin Task Force" should be baseline accused of "overblowing" the problem shows, well, straight up ignorance. Currently, yes, it's a much more fatal problem than alcoholism. The toxicity of opiate addiction - and the unregulated black market for which to get heroin - is a deadly mixture of factors.

So as painkiller overdoses leveled off at about 16,000 in recent years, heroin deaths skyrocketed from just over 3,000 in 2010 to more than 8,200 in 2013, according to CDC data. Though all heroin users didn't necessarily start with painkillers, it's the transition from painkillers to heroin, Humphreys and other experts say, that led to the recent dramatic spike in heroin abuse.

Below is a link to a Vox article that presents evidence regarding the above quote, and the reason there's a heroin epidemic in the US is because of the overly aggressive (lobbied, and punished for dishonesty in marketing) pharmaceutical industry pushing opiate drugs. Now, with the crackdown on pills, there are wide, wide swaths of the US population who've gone from pills to the horse:

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/9433099/opioid-painkiller-heroi...
You aren't the only one. Frank Purdue, of Perdue Farms, used to have the slogan "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken", but managed to get it terribly mangled when translating it into Spanish. It became "It takes a hard man to get a chicken aroused".

I wouldn't feel too bad. Not much tops that.
For runners, its ok. At least I only stop when I am done and then I take a shower.

Until you get hurt and have to walk home, shivering the whole way because you wore cotton. I avoid the stuff for running. Plus a wet cotton sweatshirt just sounds miserable.