skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually looked this up earlier, and here's the summary:
In 2002, guidelines from some government agency said that people whose risk of heart disease outweighed their risk of bleeds should take it. Essentially this meant most men over 40. At the time, there was no evidence that daily aspirin decreased total mortality. In 2009, they revised it to exclude a lot more people because of the risk of bleeds. Now maybe they'll exclude even more people. I'm not going to dig the sources up again, but that's what I found.

I don't know how long they've been telling people to take it, but I know my dad was taking it in the 80s. His risk factors were being a man in his 40s and mild hypertension.

This fits in with a pattern in which doctors jump to conclusions and tell everybody to do something which turns out to be useless or harmful based on scanty evidence.
It might be an "oops" from a single programmer, but I thought a high-profile site like this would at least go through some basic code review. The bug isn't that subtle, either.
I installed a firewall at a doctor's office last week. I set the defaults to block pretty much everything so I could whitelist sites the office staff truly needed. The following Monday, I sat around and whitelisted things as the staff stumbled on what they needed. I was amazed at how many third party sites were being hit from health insurance and government sites. This stuff is supposed to be secure, but everything from login to home page to submitting claims had requests to third party domains. I'd say less than half of these third party requests appeared to CNDs.
Apple: Underage Workers May Have Built Your iPhone
keep on bailing UK, the ship of state control is sinking
It's not you. They don't get it.
Absolutely. Will do.

Also note that this article quotes an administration official. Everybody who voted for this administration should write them and tell them that this is a Very Bad Idea.
So many of his points are patently false. I wonder if the author is aware of the bubble in which he lives.

In fact, when trying to get through this manifesto I was constantly reminded of this Bill Watterson quote in his Kenyon speech:

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them.
i think the point is just to attract attention.
> Asian countries have been doing this for years with remarkable success and it is a policy which we clearly need to copy.

Even if Asian countries can consistently do that, which I doubt (there's a serious case of survivor's bias here), that doesn't imply that the US can. The American political class is fundamentally incompetent.

After watching the health care discussion on Friday, did anyone think "those are the folks who I want running something important"?

Whenever I see a politician, my reaction is thatt I don't want that person in charge of anything having to do with my life.
Seems it is pretty popular at the moment:

Heroku | Backlog too deep
The application currently has too many requests in its backlog.
It seems that this is nothing more than an (average) attempt at providing self-help type information in the form of a conspiratorial stab at public education. (Seven Ways to Blah Blah Blah.) Notice that he immediately derives the goal of public schools from a result: people become complacent, therefore the "system" intends to brainwash people to be complacent!
How about this: allow me to play with the tool without logging in or creating an account. If I do create something, set a cookie and show me a big nagging message at the top of every page on the site from then on saying "you have unsaved work - you can view it here, but you should create an account to save it permanently".
I really like Modern Arnis (10yrs). Repeating patterns everywhere, and soo much variations. The drills have logic, and I assume that programmers can vary their movements much better, as programming values flexibility.
I heard somewhere this is used by chat roulette - would love to know more about how you'd set up a streaming video / webcam service using Cherokee.
Yeah, sorry about that.

It's the first time the site's gotten enough traffic to cause any issues, plus the examples page is pretty resource intensive. It's time to work on some optimization.

Edit: Since this is using Heroku, I just cranked up the Dynos. Heroku is truly amazing.
A queue would be a nice addition before the site goes live (it might be possible to employ a Redis list to do the job).

I'd love to see how far NodeJS could cope without the use of a queue though. I'm still something of a NodeJS novice but I'd guess that reading/processing every chunk inside a process.nextTick() callback would cause more disk IO problems than memory ones.

When I get the app running I might do some load-testing, the results would be very interesting.
You could still handle file uploads and other complex requests traditionally, and only use a queuing solution for the most important traffic. Then, at least part of the site would stay up during upgrades even if corners of the site went down.
I get a feeling if he did that, people here would say something along the lines of 'why are you nagging me to save my work - just let me play with your service and decide to create an account on my own.'
Jungle Disk can use your own encryption keys ;-)
Mathematical functions in our environment
Right. To be a participant in a global marketplace means having specialties you can trade on. This is why a common strategy of the emerging economies of the world, past and present, is to heavily protect and subsidize infant industries so that they aren't crushed by foreign competitors. As they establish themselves, the barriers can be gradually lowered until the industry is competitive on the open market.

Free-trade policies tend to be most beneficial to the market incumbents; but I would note that even when a foreign company simply comes in and exploits cheap labor, the workers will get better wages, and even if that doesn't directly benefit their own lives, it can give their children a better lifestyle and education.
I understand the article appeal to the would be entrepreneurs, but still, I feel somehow warped "marketers" thinking behind it, something I would call a disrespect or disdain towards an actual work.

For example, I have been working in a team of about 1000 people, consisting of software developers, testers, QM people, sales and management, who together worked on a large software system deployed in hospitals.

There are several companies fighting in this niche, and all of them are big corporations. The magnitude of the task just doesn't allow any small startups to compete. And yet, most of the people working on it are employees, because just that is the way the work is organized.

But let me ask, why should some marketer call it "compliant work"? Why it doesn't deserve to be called just a "work", at least?

Maybe what Mr Godin doesn't realize is that what he calls "compliant work" is something which allows him to survive in society - food he eats, clothes he wear, or doctors who care after him... most of this is "compliant work"...
> Because having individuals with limited resources independently pursuing their own goals doesn't necessarily maximize overall utility, or even any actual individual's utility.

If folks would rather spend their money on Viagra than antibiotics....

> It's entirely possible to have a scenario where, say, nobody would individually pay for something to be researched, but everyone would be willing to chip in a small portion of the cost if everyone else did the same.

The problem with that theory is that it doesn't account for the claimed observation that eyelash extenders get funding while antibiotics don't.

So, either the theory or observation is wrong.

> I don't understand the mindset that sees a problem that, by elementary game theory, doesn't have an optimal outcome reachable by simple self-interest, and proposes that what we need is more self-interest.

Are you actually claiming that the vast majority of people have more self-interest in eyelash extenders that antibiotics?
1. I disagree that risk aversion is not the same as risk seeking. If you are not avoiding risk, you are exposing yourself to it.

2. Even if I accept your premise, risk-management is, as foldr says, a middle of the road proposition. I choose to manage my risk by safely working a job and allowing myself, and my children, to pursue other interests fairly comfortably. Besides, someone has to work jobs. To paraphrase Office Space, "If everyone did what they loved, no one would be a janitor because no loves cleaning up shit."
Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu. Fighting is without strikes, instead you have holds, locks and chokes. You win by submitting your opponent, usually on the ground.

It's like chess, but with your body. Combat is very close, but still not aggressive. Many technical and tactical aspects.

Develops strength, endurance, balance, timing and a feeling for moving/rolling. Makes your body slick and flexible.

And it makes you enjoy a better in sex.. seriously ;-)
Wow, a fellow Kendo-ka
yes i find that martial arts helps overall in all aspects of your life.
Wonder if the author is aware of Amazon's Mechanical Turk and other crowdsourcing ventures.
I seriously question the quality of work he's receiving, and if its decent then I can only imagine the "deal" he's getting is short lived.
What's wrong with a comfortable life? I mean, from a genetic perspective, what I really want is for my child to have children. Having and "average, comfortable life" has, thus far, been a pretty good way to achieve that.
That seems to be a problems with Ferguson. His book, "Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power", was annoying in that he makes quite a few generalizations of more complex phenomenon. In it he comes off as pro-colonialist, but completely disregards the view from the colonized. Essentially he says that the British Empire was good because it gave everyone a common basis for the modern world. However, he completely ignores all the ills that empire created.

He is pretty renowned in the Historical circle, but that book put a bad taste in my mouth.
> Everyone should try the model, I think, of tax funded TV.

I'm not interested in paying for your Olympic coverage. If you're not willing to pay what it costs....
Hey Matt

best of luck with the app. It reminds me in some ways of an app that I'm building at the moment, so I take encouragement from any success that you have with it.

It's good to see niches being carved out by creative people. Really, the idea is one thing (and this is probably an idea that many people have already had), but the execution of it is another thing entirely.

cheers!
I'm looking into runit, too. freedt (http://offog.org/code/freedt.html) is a similar alternative.
Ask HN: Does an index fund count as diversifying?
So, I'm average joe programmer. I contribute to 401k, and I have a high yield savings account for very short term stuff. I would like to start investing in something that will be usable in the short-medium term.

I don't know much at all about the stock market, and don't want to learn. I am thinking about putting some fixed amount of money per month in a single index fund (a large, broad index fund).

Is this enough in terms of diversification, given my other investments? Goal is to either:

1. Be able to take the money out in short-medium term (3-6 years maybe) as a down payment for a house
2. Go "all the way" and provide funding for an early retirement.

Is contributing $100ish per month through a standard online broker (scottrade, etrade, sharebuilder, whatever), to a single index fund a smart choice for somebody like me?

Some base stats:
Age: 26
Immediate liquid capital: low 5-figures, enough for 6 months of living, in a random high-yield savings.
401k contributions: ~10k/year

The obvious "put more in 401k" I don't think applies to me. I am already contributing a pretty substantial amount, and I would like to potentially have access to the money much sooner than a 401k would allow. Picking a single index-fund seems to make sense for me, since I'm going to be doing repeated small contributions, and thus will save on brokerage costs.

AAAAAAAAND I'm rambling. Any advice would be appreciated.
Diagramming Product/Market Flow at Lean Startup
To achieve a product/market flow state (fit), a balance must be struck between customer development and product development. If a startup’s focus is too problem-oriented or to solution-oriented – drifting too far along one of the axis without iterating – flow cannot occur
The caching aspect is one pro to using these services, but by using these CDN's, your exposure to failure is greatly increased. Instead of factoring in the risk that your own server or network may be unavailable or slow, you now need to account for 1, 2 or 3 other networks that you are grabbing files from.
It's not so much that girls lie; rather, it's well documented people in general don't understand themselves all that well. Self-reports of internal motivations are notoriously misleading. That's why research like this (or just common-sense observation of what people DO, rather than what they SAY) is useful.
It's been done on sensor motes too. http://planete.inrialpes.fr/~francill/Papers/Code_Injection_...

It's not surprising that it's practical; it's basically just a souped up ret2libc attack.
martial arts is not just about the practicality of techniques, the difference between a '-do' and '-jitsu' is just that e.g. kendo - kenjitsu, judo - jujitsu.
jitsu's are primarily focused on techniques and kill, where as do's are focused on the spirituality.
there are mutual benefits for both programming and martial arts, with the mind set of a programmer you tend to question and try to understand how your body works as a system.
Personally regardless of what martial arts you choose, you will get the same benefits, other than the techniques that you learn, you will find out more about yourself. Whats more important is who is your teacher/master/sensei and the attitude of your peers.
I can't really tell if this is something legitimately new and scary, or if it's just a mix of political grandstanding and journalistic FUD.
I would bet that this solution is much much cheaper considering the time needed for a person to translate an article and the cost of around 20 cents.

One thing I do wonder about is the quality of the translations.
As someone who has worked with many incompetent translators and often had to completely redo their jobs, I'm a bit surprised that you're willing to risk getting total crap from these random people. Perhaps this isn't a problem for you if you are getting very low-value articles translated, but I don't see how this scales to "real" translation jobs.

A good translator will proofread his/her work and make sure everything is covered. They will ask you when they need clarification instead of skipping over a passage or assuming they understand it (their assumptions very often being way off base). Unfortunately, I've worked with plenty who are simply out to make a quick buck, hoping that whoever is paying them doesn't actually know the language and won't bother to check.
Surely then, programming also is not an art. Don Knuth, you are wrong.
Getting benchmarking right
I don't think the olympics get it... granting exclusive rights for coverage of well everything.
The real trouble with bad translations is that, often, you don't even KNOW if it's bad. Reputation goes a long way in this case.
mturk does not work for translations. You get about 80% machine translated stuff.
They don't mention it in the article, but if anyone gets a chance, I would suggest they read about his activities as a board member for The Washington Post.

When Buffett joined the board, Katharine Graham had just taken control. Her husband had recently committed suicide and she had to steer the company at a time when there were virtually no other females running companies of that size in America. He taught her everything from reading balance sheets to guiding the company in good capital allocation practices. Those things helped her get the assurance she needed to run the company.

The lessons are pretty applicable to business today. Your advisors should be people who are smarter than you, at least with respect to filling in with areas you are not too knowledgeable about. Rather than picking yes-men/your friends who will only reassure and agree with you.
Very nice! Never underestimate how hard it is to make something complicated appear simple.
Most online places charge about $10 per trade. So even if you're putting $200/mo in, you're losing 5% immediately. Best choice would be to save up for several months and do fewer trades.

You really need to do better research, your statement that you don't want to learn about the stock market is a good way to guarantee that you never really make the kinds of returns you should. If there was a reliable, easy no-knowledge way to grow your investments, people would already be doing that.

A better option may be to look at some money market accounts. We have accounts with Ford Motor Credit and GMAC (now Ally). Check out http://www.ally.com/money-market-account/index.html it's not going to be the highest possible return rate, but there are no fees for "investing" your money, the funds are liquid, and as you get to higher balances you can get better returns. This is where we keep our "accessible" funds (low 6 figures).

Also, I'm not sure how much you're contributing to your 401K, but it may be worth bumping that up as well. You should probably at least be doing 10% of salary.

High-yield CDs would also be something to look at.

In short, for the dollars you're talking about, I would NOT consider anything that charged a transaction or maintenance fee, it would eat up any potential earnings.
Matt were you at barcamp boston a year or two ago talking about this idea?
The post would have more impact if it showed examples of the translations.

If a lot of Second Life players discover this market for their services, as entrepreneurs discover this source for their services, the price will surely rise if they are any good at translating.
I would like to see some benchmarks, please.

My experience is that Cherokee is a pet httpd for a few devout newbs who find Apache to heavy on Windows XP, and pretty much nothing else.

Saying it's faster than nginx is a big claim, and I would like to see its proxying, load-balancing, URL rewriting, and big file serving performance. For starters.
He's posting translation jobs in Second Life. Details on how this works would make for an interesting post.
Could this be intentional? There might be a legitimate reason to select/copy/paste the text here.

RE: Firefox text selection -- there is a browser-specific CSS rule that controls for that: -moz-user-select

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-user-select

Of course, this has no effect in other browsers, like Opera which I'm using right now.

In the past, I've been able to circumvent this problem by overlaying any text with a 1x1 transparent gif which captures the click before it can hit the text. Not sure what web devs use to deal with this problem these days.
I like ten.tld. It seems more memorable and unique. Plus I could see the logo having a lot of first impression impact.
of course.
Still, pretty good humor "We've got our spies in there" ...
ha, that was good.
Google update
is hacker a reckognized language?
google has added it to thier list on search engine, but its not in the hacker's dictionary.
All governments go through systematic devaluation of their currency -- every single fiat currency has gone through this process. So if the government can:

1. Get people to refer gold/silver amounts by a certain name: Deutsche Mark, Pound, Dollar etc.

2. Then they can debase the money at a later date; converts to less precious metal.

3. Then they can move to a fiat currency, move completely away from precious metal.

4. Then they can inflate to their hearts content.
Spot the spelling mistake too:

// Genereate random browser order
I've even had trouble when I asked someone else to review the translation work. Sometimes these people have a tendency to want to justify the cost of hiring them, so they will go through the document correcting irrelevant "mistakes" and otherwise try to prove themselves smarter than the original translator. In fact, I've had a few who made the translated work demonstrably worse.
My favorite historian about the British Empire is Peter Hopkirk.

His books primarily deal with central/southeast Asia.

Some books he's written:
1. The Great Game
2. Setting the East Ablaze
3. Like Hidden Fire
4. Trespassers on the Roof of the World.
Maybe do half s&p 500 index fund and half vanguard bond fund. That way you're more diversified.
This is the country that abolished the Right to Remain Silent and also deems that for certain crimes the accused does not have a right to be tried before a jury of his peers.
searchyc's results are more relevant for me enough of the time that I now choose to use it over google out of habit.
That's the interesting thing; it's such a good deal you only have to be interested in one or 2 programs and it's worth it :)

I can believe people actually pay for US cable... it's insane :(
With Joe Biden as a member of this administration, it should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Biden opposes encryption, loves the patriot act, and wanted to legalize permanent detention of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review (this was Feb 1995, before the war on terror). Is it any surprise that the government now wants control of the internet?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html
I feel the same way about ESPN 360. My ISP / cable provider doesn't pay them, so there's no way for me to get it. Even if I wanted to pay them myself, I can't.
I really like this idea. Creating a life timeline is something that I have thought about doing in the past couple of years when I realized that I couldn't always remember when such or such event happened. (e.g. "did we move in 96 or 97? It was definitely after Junior High but…")

However, I have to admit that for my personal use I'm not sure I would want to use it, just because I don't like the idea of putting a personal timeline in a service that might not be around in a few years, let alone in a couple of decades.
> when assaulted, you are trying to do something

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."
--Mike Tyson
One day you'll be on a sidewalk, she'll figure it out and ask why you always insist on being on the side with the traffic

Or, more commonly, you have a conversation like this. Not that this is from memory or anything:

You: (doing the 18th pirouette spin of the day)

Her: "What are you doing?"

You: "I'm protecting you from traffic and scoundrels!"

Her: "Forget that. It's annoying. And I can protect myself, thanks"
Negative. Preceden is about four months old from the first line of code to now (I started on the flight back from Startup School).