skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Recent research has highlighted the plight of less educated whites, showing surges in deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, liver disease and alcohol poisoning, particularly among those with a high school education or less.

Why is the article mentioning accidents and diseases? Is it implying that these are counted as suicide? I.e. is this the same research, or a tangential discussion of some other results?

If liver disease was not considered suicide 30 years ago, but is counted a suicide, you will have a jump in the numbers.

More people dying of drug overdoses can easily be pinned on the War on Drugs, which creates an ecosystem such that only brutal criminals get to distribute drugs, and they don't care what they contain since they don't even bat an eyelash when they murder. Overdoes don't prove increasing "plight"; they more directly confirm increasing junk on the streets. Not to mention, new kinds of drugs!
It's because he's better at empathy than us. :)
You're shoving words in my mouth. I don't care about bag taxes, I think it's stupid we pay so much attention to them and ignore things that are far more harmful. And we do ignore them, so it's not simply a case of being able to do both, the bags really do seem to be capturing attention from more pressing issues.
Things are still pretty bad. Underemployment still hovers at around 15%. Unemployment numbers are pretty useless when someone who lost their full time job, is trying to find another one, and is working a handful of hours part time to get by in the meantime is counted as "employed".
Empathy doesn't exclude shared experience.
There's also http://www.gistrun.com , which executes all code on the client.
Please describe the threat model in which fingerprint is insecure because it can't be revoked. Without threat model, evaluation of "security" is useless
The problem with self-administration though is misinterpretation. Not to mention that the logic of cheapness/convenience -> more data -> better health doesn't always hold. The more features you screen for the higher the chance of false positives, and most people don't know how to put correct readings into medical context.
The idea of the commons is outside the realm of markets. It's like saying my local garbage man is a failure because he did nothing about the orbiting space garbage.

Markets deal with private property and the fact that economists try to mix that with the idea of the commons tells us more about their shallow theories than it does markets.

In my view, there should be no commons.
The motivation is keeping people from being dangerously cheap.

Quite a few kitchen appliances draw 12A for long periods of time, and people love to get cheap extension cords and outlet strips that cannot handle that amount of load. These same people will plug multiple high power loads into the extension cord, making the cord get dangerously hot before the breaker trips.
But it doesn't even connect if it can't find a camera and microphone. Because everyone has a camera on their desktop.
FTC: Federal laws for developing a mobile health app
I think a more radical departure is needed. It's about time to acknowledge that the web is increasingly being used to access full-blown applications more often than "webpages."

Web browsers have more or less become mini operating systems, running elaborate virtual machines. There's way too much complexity for everyone involved — from web devs and browser devs to the users and the people who maintain the standards, then there's the devs who have to make native clients for the web apps — just to deliver products that don't have half the power of OS-native software. Everyone has to keep reinventing the wheel, like with WebAssembly, to fix problems that don't have to be there in the first place, not anymore:

Thanks to smartphones, people are already familiar with the modern concept of the standalone app; why not just make downloading an OS-native binary as easy as typing in a web address, on every OS?

Say if I press Cmd+Space on a Mac and type "Facebook" in Spotlight, it immediately begins downloading the native OS X Facebook app. The UI would be described in a format that can be incrementally downloaded, so the experience remains identical to browsing the web, except with full access to the OS's features, like an icon in the Dock and notifications and everything.

TL;DR: Instead of investing resources in browser development, Android/iOS/OSX/Windows should just work on a better standard mechanism to deliver native apps instead.
> Unfortunately the market has spoken: material value.

Society is what we make of it. We still have a choice.

Also, kudos to everyone up the chain in this subthread; this is the discourse I expect when coming to HN.
I think it's more like: made a decision about god? if yes and believe there is one then theist else if believe there isn't one then atheist.

A lot of people I think don't care to form a belief one way or another. I'm not sure what that's called.
Ascribing my disagreement to "combativeness" is both combative and presumptive. I've said exactly what I meant, and why.
There's nowhere to register the key, tor is decentralized. They simply start conducting their business using the key they found. There's no waste of key space for the unused keys, merely a minuscule chance of collision with other random users. I guess you could think of attempting to find hash collisions as a race condition of sorts, but it is a very long race for the attacker.
I don't think I like most podcasts enough to pay for them, save a couple of exceptions. Podcast playlists/etc have become the new "TV playing in the background" for me. I just typically always prefer to have something playing or going on in the house, and podcasts have filled that void now.

I give on Patreon for The Morning Stream, mostly for the perks, though.

I also occasionally subscribe to Twitch channels I enjoy (Geek and Sundry). But it's not consistent. Again, mostly for benefits (sub-only chat, emoticons, and watching previously recorded videos directly on twitch)
This could be useful for web app remote user testing and development.
Be glad you're not dealing with the DOB in NY, esp in Brooklyn. The code is so thick that's it's impossible to not violate it in some way... worse yet the decisioning of the employees that approve them are arbitrary.

Friend of mine were forced alter the plans to include sprinklers in the build even for a single family without a CO change. This was before this was a requirement for all new single family. They just decided that you must do it. They even got a FDNY waiver, DOB didn't care. So they had to add it to the plan (at about 40k install) just to move the process along.
"Charges" is rather generous, isn't it? They don't even charge the property before seizing it.
I've always found the way security/terrorism issues are portrayed in movies or the news, especially in the U.S. to be really "cute".

The manicheism of it all made me believe that either every news anchor really has no clue about how it works, or that they're exceptionally good actors.

I also found that many times, events tend to be seen as discrete things that live in a vacuum rather than rooted to some previous event (isn't it interesting that these documents are resurfacing during a transition period where the U.S. is turning its back to Saudi Arabia and warming it up with Iran? Small pieces of content and info injected here and there).

An interesting piece if you have a few minutes to spare:

https://20committee.com/2014/09/25/what-if-everything-you-kn...
You knew GCHQ tapped Google's datacenter-to-datacenter links?
The people I know with jobs that provide autonomy, respect, satisfaction of intellectual curiosity, socialization and decent compensation don't seem to want to retire at any age, and are usually forced out due to physical limitations. On the other hand the cubicle-dwelling worker bees start to lust after retirement in their 30s and 40s. I think this heavily depends on the job and is more of a reaction to specific employment environments rather than the concept of any professional work period.
I agree there's value on the visualization side. Most scientists still do a poor job of sharing results to the public and other scientists (other than by printed images in your article...)
This isn't an age thing, and isn't a majority thing.
> I've no clue about the trailing NUL on the record itself, perhaps a safety feature?

Could be. Or perhaps there's enough code paths in common between string parsing and document parsing that they decided to put a trailing null byte on both.

Stepping back a bit, though, the fact that BSON is optimized for "direct" use in C code is really scary. That suggests that any failure to completely validate BSON data could open up vulnerabilities in C code manipulating it.
Thank you for this. The official ubuntu box is broken with Virtualbox when running on my pc, this one works.
> when he has free time, he does nothing with it.

Is he sad about this though or does he enjoy doing nothing?
Yours seems to be the most sensible interpretation.
Everyone is more productive, smarter, more successful than you on HN.
Many states have voter initiatives, they don't succeed in the way you hypothesize, sadly.

Looks at CA. The voters are even worse than the legislators.
So, Mozilla has already dedicated the necessary resources to handle performance. What are they to do with the rest of their company's resources, and most importantly, what can they do to grow the company?

Mozilla recently jettisoned Thunderbird, its email client, mostly because of its impact on Firefox development (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.governance/kAy...). Wouldn't a great native email client be a better way to grow the company than features like this? And shouldn't features be added to make the product better, not just because there are people sitting around with nothing else to do?
you should open source it
Soo... roll out your own crypto?
You might appreciate

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertaria...
Thanks, that was the explanation you could have given several posts ago. While skimming the Wikipedia article, I noted that he got a statue in Madrid, then skipped the rest of that paragraph, which was the only one that hinted at this controversy, and even then did not give the reason you give here. Please excuse us for not following the Spanish news so closely, and then downvoting you for your sheer arrogance.
Did you really need someone to explain the purpose of a file called test.html? Seems like the filename explains it.
Why I Believe the American Dream Just Died
Well that's what I was trying to figure out, but as far as I can see (based on a quick look at their population growth figures) that's basically what happened.
If you're super paranoid you shouldn't trust any version of truecrypt. Read the fascinating story of Paul Le Roux...

https://mastermind.atavist.com/

He created E4M (which truecrypt was based on) and is rumored to have been one of the creators of truecrypt. Apparently he's also been a US government asset for a while.
Unlikely. Unless a single function corresponds to a possibly infinite set of nodes, most programs are not trees.
Do/have something worth promoting.

Break down why its interesting for people to learn about it.

Make a list of people who have the ability to reach many others at once.

Write an email that shows them why what you are doing is interesting. Include a good summary of your "thing" as separate document they can use as a base template.

Email those whose address you find. Buy some targeted ads on linked in or facebook for those you cannot.

Rinse and repeat.
Libertarian Police Department and the case of the missing Bitcoins (2014)
Your argument is with English, not me.
Doesn't logging in to a site like facebook full of your personal data sorta defeat the purpose of tor(attempting to stay anonymous)?
What are those two regulations? The California Electrical Code 2010 has that no point on the wall space behind a countertop can be more than 600mm (24in) away from an outlet, which actually means an outlet every 4 feet (2 feet space are allowed either side) (Article 210.52). I don't see 18 in in there.

There's a good diagram of the regulations here: http://buildingincalifornia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/R... ... but there's similar drawings explaining this in the code itself.

I'm not doubting that there's weird inconsistencies in the rules, but the 18in thing struck me as weird from my own experience of remodelling my house recently, so I looked up the CA code. Apparently SF are still fighting Carl Malamud to stop him putting their building code online. https://archive.org/stream/gov.ca.sf.electrical/ca_sf_electr...

(edited to fix 300mm to 600mm. I know 600mm isn't quite 24in but that's what the code says)
Here is a sample visualisation of how Bangalore India's mobile internet looks like (consumer's view, when paying for 3G service): https://goo.gl/W3Qqqv

We don't have the API or the Android AAR published yet, though we have modeled the first pass on the Facebook Network Connection Class API; https://github.com/facebook/network-connection-class
> I agree that Firefox's performance is quite bad these days, but Mozilla is already working on that (with Servo).

I've checked out servo and compiled and started it in release mode - it required 600MB RAM and 700% CPU to load google(!) with the same speed as my little firefox with tons of extensions - forgive my ignorance but I've expected more from the hype. I've tested some other websites but no luck - Servo is a heavy and slow beast.

> I am throughly impressed with Rust, the language, the ecosystem, and most importantly the way it's maintained by Mozilla.

Rust programs consume so much resources that it could just use a GC instead of the complex manual memory management. The syntax and the standard library is as 'modern' as in cpp - I'm not as impressed as I was a fan of Mozilla.

> Personally, I continue to use Firefox as my daily driver, because it appears to respect my privacy more than Chrome, despite its performance issues.

Search the internet for optimizations, my firefox feels like as fast as chrome - sometime even faster. It just needs some tweaks. Even if ff would be much slower I wouldn't leave it because of firefox's wonderful extension platform and its nice complete theme suites.
Why do we give robots female names?
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The solution, right here, $40 from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Tensile-Desktop-Kitchen-Socket-Customi...
Not everyone in Germany has a 300kph car. Be that as it may, self-driving capability and V2V should do away with speed limits as well as traffic lights. And, as in high-speed rail, I expect crashworthiness to give way to crash-avoidance. So cars will be lighter and sleeker than they are now.
You still can't admit to atheism in many (most?) areas of the country without pretty severe social penalty.

Hopefully this is changing, but I think it's less that is atheism growing and more that people are becoming comfortable admitting what they really think.
even the sites using one of these 3 CDNs probably specify aa specific minor version of jQuery from this list http://code.jquery.com/jquery/

(OK, so I doubt many sites are specifying the beta or uncompressed versions, but there's still a pretty good chance that somebody hasn't downloaded the relevant version from the relevant CDN recently enough for it to be in their cache, especially if they're browsing on their phone)
Feature request - be able to make the editor's height taller.

Other than that, awesome job!
What is a social interaction service, ans why can't it be federated or peer to peer?
"The only reason Veronica was able to carry out her experiment was that I had the flexibility to spend hours struggling through paperwork, and because I had a social network of scientists I’ve developed as a science writer. This was an exercise in privilege."

No, it was an exercise in barriers. Everybody [1] has enough "privilege" to do this experiment, by which I mean the experiment itself without the "fair" elements, with little more than a slightly-interested science teacher. They just aren't allowed to do it by the science fair. Being able to speak with "actual" scientists about counting bacteria is at most a slight bonus; it is not necessary to the process, learning about it by reading would be a fine education on its own, and even failing at the process would be educational in its own way, as the author describes in his own experiences. (Science fairs have a major role to play in the pernicious idea that science is only "successful" when it obtains the positive result the experimenter was looking for... but that's a separate rant.)

This isn't someone being born with silver spoons in their mouth. This is regulation thoughtlessly applied with no thought about the costs. If "privilege" issues were as easy as just removing some regulation, we probably wouldn't be talking about it so much.

[1]: Everyone plausibly within the scope of this article, anyhow, which is places that have science fairs at all. That would be a separate issue.
>The solar panels are effectively free, because they will pay for themselves in energy savings

By that argument, anything with a return on investment is 'free'. The problem here is that you are forcing new homeowners to be forced into investment with a certain ROI that may not be where they want to spend their money. Maybe a family would have benefitted more by using that money to send one of their children to a better school.
People with lots of money and little taste are, sadly, to be found all over the world.
This is a non-story. As the article explains, Sephardi Jews (even Orthodox ones) have been eating kitniyot on Passover forever. The Ashkenazi position was that it's forbidden, but there has never been consensus about this.

Happy Passover!
Death by drug overdose would tend to be counted as accidental death. But it's easy to see that it could be a death by suicide. So when people talk about the suicide rate they tend to also mention the suicide deaths that are hidden in the accidental deaths.

> More people dying of drug overdoses can easily be pinned on the War on Drugs, which creates an ecosystem such that only brutal criminals get to distribute drugs,

Lots of US drug overdoses are people overdosing on prescribed opiates. (I agree the war on drugs has caused very great harm).
I've never heard the term "hosting design" before! As a charitable gesture let's assume that's what was meant rather than "looks old so must therefore run like a 1974 Datsun".
> Markets can and do take care of these problems. Businesses employ loss prevention and security staff, install security cameras and do a myriad of other things to prevent these problems from happening. Furthermore, when preventative measures are not enough, insurance is also available.

Yeah. Businesses pay for something. Consumers pay for them.

But unless you actually create a crime-fighting unit, then you have innocent people paying for the crimes of others.

Look, if you're going to go anarcho-capitalist, please at least do the correct response and talk about "Dispute Resolution Organizations" or voluntary "Arbitration Courts". Because talking about those anarcho-capitalist concepts at least demonstrates to me that you're following the argument.
My first exposure to Robert's Rules of Order was "OMG! Wait til gamers hear about this! It'll be like crack for them."
I really don't like this sort of comments, trying to make us feel guilty for criticising something. The stupidity of big browser producers makes the web worse for everyone, so it should not be allowed, even if done with good will.

About since 1992 there is a very good tool for sharing tabs: their URLs. Anything that can't be shared with a URL is probably too private to be shared anyways.

I'm a user, I don't care about Rust. Firefox may well be implemented in some object oriented brainfuck, but as long as it does not tuck into its interface irrelevant stuff that I can't remove, I won't touch Firefox. I actually recently considered a switch, and tried FF45, and what I saw: Pocket and this Hello, there, impossible to actually remove. I'd be fine with an addon that they officially developed/backed, and it'd be okay if they advertised it a bit, but this way, no. They certainly lost some people other than me with this inconsiderate manners of theirs.
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What is the hassle of using tor? You have to download, configure, and run some software, just like you'd have to to connect to a vpn, but you don't have to, yanno, set up a vpn... You also don't have to rely on the integrity of a single proxy.
SignAloud: Gloves That Translate Sign Language into Text and Speech
If I understand correctly finding an "equally good" domain name starting with facebook<something> should be equally possible yes.

Finding that same one again? Not likely.
Riding the Edge of Technological Change-Interview With Wired Founder Kevin Kelly
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Job Applicants
Just wonderful. Another housing regulation which will further disencentivize a greater housing supply.
Check out the addition of parallel plus code example.
The largest provider where I live in Southern California does not support IPv6. The largest cloud providers don't either. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all lack any IPv6 support at all.
They were talking about raising the retirement age in the US during the election debates also.

Whenever I hear this I think "fine, I like working, but it's hard enough getting hired after 50 never mind 60". What are they expecting all these 66 year old people are going to be doing?
Sorry, I'm going to be dismissive about the whole thing. "Arbitrary and wacky dietary restriction slightly less wacky" is what this comes down to. I do not understand why people in 2016--2016!!!--adhere to these restrictions to begin with. To think that the Creator of the Universe would be some out put-out or offended that you ate some rice is weird.

I was raised as a catholic (but am no longer). The "no meat on Fridays" (at first always and then only during lent...oh yeah, and "fish" isn't "meat" for this purpose) has nothing compared to the Jewish dietary laws, but I don't have a lot of contact with observant Jews where I live. When I ask catholics around here why they still do the "no meat" thing, I don't really get responses that I think would resonate with anyone not already on board. It seems that most do it for tradition sake and I have a hard time getting on board with something like that. (And few others will say something like "the pope says not to, so that's good enough for me.")
> Well, you can repair the damage from plastic bags.

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe you can, but the costs to the environment involved in doing so are prohibitive. In any case, I don't think it's totally obvious that this is actually possible ATM.

> If your model contains infinities, it's automatically unhelpful; that takes you into Pascal's Wager territory

Yeah, well, reality > model. Unless we colonize space, destroying earth = infinity. So the implication of your statement is that pricing is a bad model for certain types of environmental damage. However...

> would justify draconian measures against even trivial risks of too many plastic bags.

...the realistic impact of most types of irreversible environmental damage has no known bound, but is not infinite.

Difficult-to-bound unknowns also make it impossible to quantify damages a priori at the level of detail necessary for pricing. Again, reality > model, so accurate pricing is a bad mechanism.

I think there are reasonable arguments against plastic bag bans. But trying base policy on an accurate accounting of the cost of long-term or irreversible environmental damage is a fool's errand in many cases.

(Also, note that my point is that in general, pricing environmental externalities is weird. Plastic bags aren't even nearly the best example of this, but are illustrative of the most common solution -- don't price, disincentivize.)