skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preventative tools exist today that would significantly reduce the incidence rate of cancer.

Much of them require lifestyle modifications and regulation, unfortunately, which is admittedly very difficult to do. Still, I suspect investment in these areas would likely have a higher return on investment than R&D into broad preventative drugs.

(1) Smoking Cessation: Reducing tobacco use has a =huge= positive effect on cancer reduction - an order of magnitude higher than anything else we can do.

1 in ever 5 deaths of males over the age of 30 is due to to tobacco-induced illnesses, and a third of those are cancer [0]. Globally, 31% of men and 6% of women smoke daily. 17% of Americans are daily smokers. Over 1 billion people are projected to die due to tobacco-related illnesses in the 21st century.

(2) Obesity: A recent epidemiological study found that 4% of cancer in men and 7% in women was due to obesity. It was as high as 40% for some cancers such as endometrial and
esophageal adenocarcinoma [1].

(3) Alcohol/Red & Processed Meat: Consumption of alcoholic beverages is a known human carcinogen. A recent study estimated that 3.5% of all cancer deaths can be attributed to alcohol [2]. A separate study found that 3% of all cancers, including 21% of bowel cancers, was attributed to red & processed meats [3].

(4) Environmental & Occupational Hazards: The WHO estimates 19% of all cancers globally are attributable to environmental factors [4]. This includes air pollution, which likely causes 3% to 14% of all lung cancers, as well as exposure to chemicals in the workplace such as asbestos.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54023/

[1] http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/ob...

[2] http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/al...

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines/...

[4] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs350/en/
apparently HN doesn't stop dupes anymore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801167
'Writable' Circuits Could Let Scientists Draw Electronics into Existence
Many feel the same way about financial experts.
Oh, yep sorry. I and my team have been using it for over a year now. Pretty good!
Assigning fault isn't productive. But as Linode customers, what are we to do? My trust in Linode's reliability is completely shot at this point. I filed a support ticket trying to get more information about the outage, and the response I got was absolutely worthless. No part of this has made me feel better about Linode at all.

AWS is so massive that they can just sustain most DDOSes, and they write real postmortems after attacks. They're not as fast as Linode, but what good is speed if my site is completely vulnerable to every botnet that decides to look Linode's way?
You can use whatever you want to build--the author of the post didn't offer any reasons not to use grunt/gulp/broccoli; they just said they don't recommend it. If those tools are currently doing what you want, then it's a waste of your time to switch to another system.

That said, if you really want to switch and you're using npm (since you mentioned JavaScript), you can set up a dead simple build system just with bash/npm/JavaScript: http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool...
But autistic people are not dominating other humans with their "high IQs." In fact most people with autism struggle to lead a productive life and require quite a bit of social assistance to do so.

No one is doubting that machines fail to understand human values. The doubt is that such a machine could dominate its environment, or even work independently without careful management by humans.
meh, the paper was written by Prof. Max Tegmark from the Department of Physics of the MIT, I think it's pretty understandable that it's being associated with "physics"; the paper itself it's pretty much about physics.
I don't think there is a fundamental problem with trying to approach a philosophical/psychological topic with physics, I mean, I really believe that at some point everything will reach the domain of "physics".
Maybe another process is to really do blow up "the well" but all the uses of explosions I've heard about was to put out the fire (burning oil) by starving its oxygen. So, workers could then go in and cap the well.
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> However, I like them as a amazon.com customer. I guess to make things awesome on the outside, those on the inside have to suffer...

Whenever I really enjoy or am afforded a major convenience by some kind of technology these days I feel guilty about how much suffering went into my enjoyment. This ranges from video games, NLP, or being able to get food at 11:30 PM on a Sunday.
Migrating ifs to guards in Swift
We're not talking about legality, we're talking about deserved merit. And as you yourself have shown, one cannot really independently judge merit, as it always comes down to who is actually judging it. Making the idea of a meritocracy not really feasible.
My guess why it's done:

BIOS booting is still standard in all Virtual Machines and UEFI might even be a pain in the ass to set up. This is where in the beginning your OS will run most of the time.

Also UEFI has it's own pitfalls (the main function you have to provide and the UEFI functions you can use use the windows calling ABI).

If you were to remove BIOS booting from an operating system that's actually used you would get lots of complaints from people that a) have a system that doesn't support UEFI b) are too lazy to switch on UEFI on their mainboard and c) the most vocal group probably would be people that hate UEFI
Isolate the "dirty" parts. Write them down and make sure they're written somewhere.
I'm going to ask the obvious one: What's your "sales pitch" compared to Redux?
Honestly, all the conceptual debt I've encountered has been at the hands of bad product managers. Product managers who have no grasp on how users are using the system, don't talk to users, and just blindly create features for features-sake.
That's a really good argument - and emphasises the value of living in one country over another - very reminiscent of city state style arbitrage.

I feel there is another "fair" - that of paying the same percentage of income or wealth as everyone else. This is easier to explain and appeals to a more monkey brain part of us.

As an example (from the cbsnews link)

While the tax rate on dividends has since jumped to 20
percent for people earning more than $400,000 annually,
that's still far below the tax imposed on wages for
America's highest earners.

20 percent on dividends !? That can't be right ? In the UK we get the same rate as all other income (40 rising to 45).

Can I move ?
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Agree that 'technical debt' could encompass conceptual debt in its broader definition. But, at the companies I've worked in people often don't use the terminology technical debt to include conceptual design issues. Technical debt discussions often focus on the programming language/database issues. I've found it useful to have a shorthand for referring to unintuitive products and codebases that stem from poor product design choices rather than poor language/tool choices.
Drones have agency; they can target precisely and evade defense mechanisms, whereas gas spreads in well understood and constrained ways. You can't release a cloud of sarin or anthrax over Washington DC and instruct it to seek and destroy the entire high-level leadership of the US government. With drones, you can. And it doesn't require superintelligence, just face recognition at the level that already exists, and some engineering work to put all the pieces together.

Is a drone attack worse than a nuclear detonation or mass biological attack? Maybe not. But if you haven't noticed, people are scared shitless of nuke and bioweapon attacks, and with good reason. So it doesn't seem unreasonable to question whether we should be directing government resources towards developing weaponized drone technology that will inevitably be used against us.
It looks like the backend is "dumb", and doesn't handle persistence (as it's not really needed), so using node allows the OP to simply store session state for clients on the stack as a global variable, so the server is completely independent and doesn't rely on any additional infrastructure. Most other backend techs (PHP, Ruby, most Python) simply handle the Request/Response cycle, with memory being cleared and allocated each time. Other web techs can do this, but node madebit easy " out of the box".
Considering what it does, the consequent benefits to it being open source, and that there are already open source tools to do this out there, it does not seem like an unfair criticism.
If you want a game where the secret is different each time, you should try Eleusis:

http://matuszek.org/eleusis1.html

http://matuszek.org/eleusis2.html

If you try it, this tip is really important: "Remember that rules are always much harder than you expect them to be."

And that principle applies to Petals around the Rose too.
I'm curious what algorithm you came up with that yields the same outputs but isn't effectively the same. I could probably create a formula that doesn't directly reveal the key, but it would really just be an obfuscation of the real rule.

Edit: Actually, I see one other interpretation that relies on bqq if rira (minor spoiler). I guess if you arrive at this first, the name seems irrelevant.

Edit2: Rot13 for minor spoiler
A few articles have been written about their fulfillment center conditions. Unlike the NYT claims about white collar workers, their treatment of fulfillment center workers is well documented.

Ambulances instead of air conditioners when it was very hot. http://business.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/25/11877532-after-...

Getting sued (and winning, ugh) over forcing people to stand in line for 30+ minute security lines when coming and going from work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-c...

Battling the unions in Germany. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/business/workers-of-amazon...

and just random bonus articles
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_...
Strange they didn't make this announcement on their official blog, going to their site one would think nothing happened.

Saddest part, no one cares. An hour plus since the news and hardly anybody is talking about it on Twitter including any reaction to their tweet. For how much they fought in this transportation movement, they're going out with a whimper.
In this comment we (1) propose the bullshitonium, which is a paper crammed full of assertions and a heady concoction of weird diagrams and unintelligible mathematics. The bullshitonium introduces fancy sounding terms which can then be written (in crayon on the walls of asylums and secure wards, or more worryingly on internet sites by people who should know better). Having written this "thingy" we (2) will smile enigmatically and make wild claims to anyone who will listen in the hope that they will take a lot of notice of us (3).

(1) me, I, that which is of the thing that I really am.

(2) sighs you really are a glutton for punishment, you're checking these footnotes a little bit toooooo seriously! See (1)

(3) See (1)

(edited to reformat!)
As someone who makes heavy use of redux-rx[1], this looks fantastic. While using Redux, one of the greatest productivity gains I encountered was moving more parts of my application to frp. In particular, I've found that reflecting portions of my apps state in the URL was challenging with vanilla redux + redux-router, as I had many actions that relied upon componentWillMount and componentWillUpdate watching the url for changes.

Fastflux looks like a step in the right direction towards the promised land of of a functional-oriented UI written with javascript.

1: https://github.com/acdlite/redux-rx
I figured it out. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER (You have been warned):

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Only the dice containing both a pip in the center (the "rose") and pips outside the center (the "petals") count towards the total. Count all the "petals" on all five of the dice, and that is the total.
1 = 0, 2 = 0, 3 = 2, 4 = 0, 5 = 4, 6 = 0
> "privilege mentality"

I see a discussion ensued ;-)

The privilege mentality I define as a worldview (or call it an attitude) where those who have the privilege (it doesn't have to be money, it could be time, social status, freedom, or health, or any other significant advantage) have a hard time understanding the position of those that don't have it.

This usually happens when talking about wealth as privilege. And manifests in examples where rich people will look with disdain at poor people and will label them as lazy or "in charge of their own fate, yet deciding not to take advantage of it" etc. This often happens because they look back at their own lives, and think they got wealthy / powerful through sheer willpower and hard work. In reality it turns out a nice inheritance helped, going to an Ivy League helped, being lucky to invest at the right time in a market worked, having the right friends at the right time worked, etc.

What has happened in that case is the privileged person re-wrote or re-interpreted their own history to make it better and more agreeable story (rather than, well I got lucky and inherited a bunch of money, it ends up with, I set up a successful hedge fund with my college buddies etc).

But I was referring to "privilege" not just as wealth but as being in the tech industry, where wages and demand is much better than other industries. Good programmers can often ask for high salaries. They can work from home, etc. That is not comparing with Donald Trumps out there, but comparing to those that work for TSA, or McDonalds or Amazon.

What often comes out of it is well meaning ideas like "teach coal miners to program" and so on, because looking back it seems like programming is pretty easy and with a bit of free time on the weekend one can easily end up with a 6 figure jobs. In reality things are different and a lot more goes into what makes a person now successful.
The Cloud Drive terms[1] don't sound like they're particularly interested in the contents of your photos, however they are somewhat vague. Section 3.3 seems to have the meat of it:

3.3 Our Use of Your Files to Provide the Service. We may use, access, and retain Your Files in order to provide the Service to you and enforce the terms of the Agreement, and you give us all permissions we need to do so. These permissions include, for example, the rights to copy Your Files for backup purposes, modify Your Files to enable access in different formats, use information about Your Files to organize them on your behalf, and access Your Files to provide technical support. Amazon respects your privacy and Your Files are subject to the Amazon.com Privacy Notice located at www.amazon.com/privacy.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?ie=UTF...
I don't see why it's silly. Just because they're doing the bare minimum doesn't mean they can't do better, especially when they very obviously have the resources to be able to.

We very much can consider whether Amazon is indecent. Whether Amazon is lawful is a decision for the government regulatory boards.
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Wow, this is great. I didn't know stuff like this existed, strangely. I made a few of my own in my free time at http://projects.namanyayg.com/gyan (all open-source).

Does anyone has more links to simulations/visualizations like these? Is there any way I could contribute to places like Wikipedia with mine?
Would've been better to have not been Android at all, actually. As it was, they offered up the usual Android APIs, but only as a trap: as the version numbers ticked up, they broke and removed them. I tried to develop that way, and it was one of the most incredibly hostile development experiences I've ever had.
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That doesn't count as a dupe because it didn't receive any discussion. Please see the FAQ.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Agree with the 'Shipped is better than perfect' and also the notion of isolating the dirty parts.

I've been adopting this rule of thumb that the first pass at a new product I can just dive in and treat it as a throwaway, since I probably don't understand the domain well enough to develop an ideal conceptual model anyways. The key here being to treat it as a throwaway and then return and do a rewrite from scratch once I have a better understanding of the problem.
Maybe stop seeing migrants and refugees in general as homogenous group.

Some will not integrate and has other purposes than to flee either war or poverty. Some do it unconsciously. Either way I wouldn't say immigration from certain cultures has served Scandinavia well. I'm from one of them that's been a huge burden. The future looks bleak, for everyone involved. Worse for those stranded between Islamists and Assad l obviously.
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Ok, we changed the URL from http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-we-cant-stop-the-enormo... to the more substantive LA Weekly article. Thanks.
Well then Chennai is North India!! A lot of people don't realize that Bangalore is actually south of Chennai.
So many submissions, so little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10807836

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806201

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806154

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10804856

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801597
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For a Growing Africa, Hope Mingles with Fear of the Future
From my experience education doesn't dictate how well they integrate, culture does. Obviously anecdotal but I know doctors that feel like apostates should hang. They may pay their taxes but in long run its a loss for the host nation.
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I completely agree with everything you said; however to clarify what I meant originally, I say "ecologically unfriendly" because of all the ways to do distributed consensus, proof-of-work is the least efficient mechanism when compared to the various proof-of-stake algorithms and Ripple/Stellar's cascading consensus model.

They all have their own individual tradeoffs (some technical, some political), but when talking about energy consumption, there's no argument that PoW is the most costly.
Abstraction and conceptualization are at the core of what makes us human. Some people think technology is cold and hard and inanimate, but when I look at it I see the exact opposite.

A great way to be motivated to write abstract code is to first understand how cool it is!
I realize that this is another topic, although in a somewhat similar context, so I thought I may just ask: Have there been any advances in reducing the page walk latency?

I'm thinking of the virtual address translation costs having impact on the run times of common algorithms, e.g., as demonstrated in the following work by Jurkiewicz & Mehlhorn: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0703

The recent research I'm aware of is, e.g., Generalized Large-page Utilization Enhancements (GLUE) mechanism, proposed in "Large Pages and Lightweight Memory Management in Virtualized Environments" (from this year's Micro):
slides: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/36554102/BPC-1.pdf ; paper: http://paul.rutgers.edu/~binhpham/phamMICRO15.pdf

Admittedly, it focuses specifically on one aspect (the Double Address Translation on Virtual Machines issue in the Jurkiewicz & Mehlhorn context).

What I'm wondering about is: Has there been any progress on that on the "practical implementation" side, in the recent/coming Intel (or other, for that matter) CPUs?
That's why DigitalOcean isn't ready for production (unless hiding ip address behind, lets say, cloudflare is an option in your case) and that's why I decided not to use their services anymore.
Good point. Changed. Thanks!
This is the one I was thinking of: https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/193835/

It was 'libopenjdkjvm' not 'libopenjdkjni' as I recalled.
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Sidecar will cease rideshare and delivery operations
Email from SideCar

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Moving forward, drivers will still have the ability to view and deposit available earnings from the driver app. If you were a deliveries driver and wish to be contacted regarding future driving opportunities with our shipping partners, click here. For any additional questions regarding your account, please contact support@side.cr.

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2/10. You have to use condescension to add insult to something innocuous, not just toss out an insult.
This isn't really helpful and doesn't add to the conversation. It's just a spoiler. Anyone could look this up on Wikipedia.
Yes. 100% this. The API / object modeling is nearly the spec and the main thing to nail down. On past projects we've used Apiary as a pretty good option for getting a nailed down API Spec before any coding is done: https://apiary.io/. I think here more out of the box best practices around APIs will make these API specing tools even more effective.

I know what you mean about changing underlying data structures too. There are ways to fix the issues after the fact. E.g. wrapping existing concepts in other ones, and then gracefully deprecating the old ones. But, it definitely creates all sort of weird tensions with customers that are using the old concepts.
I have read mountains of professionally-edited prose in my lifetime, and I still use the "logical" punctuation when I write. I know damn well it's not the "proper" style here in the States.

Hell, my attachment to logical punctuation extends past quotes. If I'm ending a sentence with a hyperlink, the period goes outside the [link]. Except in the rare cases where I'm linking to something with a period in its name.

I wonder if Mr. Yagoda is still giving students a point off for ever use of logical punctuation in their papers, or if four years of fighting his futile battle for MLA/AP usage has finally worn him down.
I think you make an implicit claim by citing these numbers that taxing those 400 specific Americans more is not the solution to solving problems related to the state not having enough money.

But isn't there an argument to be made that when these ultra-rich are stripped of their billions, they are less likely to spend money trying to do things to bend laws to their benefit?

If Koch brothers / Soros did not have the billions they do, they'd spend a lot less gaming the system, thereby the larger population of non-rich having greater power in the system, in essence ensuring better democracy, do you agree?
Agree. Conceptual Debt is the domain of Product Managers, and they're the ones responsible for preventing it and fixing it.
I'm not clear as to why anyone thought this tool was needed or was any more complex than a simple script. This functionality is built in to most platforms.
Yep, that's exactly the point. Somehow in the heads of some people the process of becoming a software engineer looks like this:

1. you were born a white male
2. magic privilege stuff happened to you
3. you got a cushy job with perks you dont deserve
4. now shut up and check your privilege
5. we need less people like you here

Nowhere in this chart is tens of thousands of hours spent thinking about numbers while non-techie people went to parties to play and drink.
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Amazon could be pretty easily compelled if the white collar workers joined up with the blue collar.