skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better home food (popularity of brown bread vs white bread), better take out food (not just McDonald's and diners anymore), and more indoor working conditions (less exposure to pollution) likely play a big part.
Occupational licensing is the biggest job killer and one of the reasons why the poor stay poor. It can cost more to become a hair dresser than an EMT all because of licensing and schooling. Worse many licensed jobs explicitly exclude felons which means many cannot even get a job on the outside that they would otherwise qualify for. Call the indirect tax of mega proportions.

Entire industries are supported by this licensing and it really is more pervasive than you would suspect. For something closer to home go look at the issues Uber, Lyft, and such have had. All because heavily regulated industries protect businesses established but not workers.
It was almost entirely quotations from you, I guess you can't remember them.
Is it hyperbole when a taxi company has someone with the title "Global Threat Intelligence"? I can picture Danny DeVito yelling at Judd Hirsch and Tony Danza now. "Find out about this lawyer!"
I find that my procrastination comes from tasks that my brain thinks are too hard, so what I do is I make todo lists, I break the task down into smaller more manageable tasks until they're small enough to digest easily. The more tired/cbf/bored I am, the smaller I make the tasks.

Also, for avoiding distractions I usually keep a piece of paper on my desk titled "distractions", if my mind wanders, I write down the thing it wandered to, if it happens again I put a dot next to that thing, surprisingly I never get more than a few dots before it's completely out of my mind for the day.

I kind of feel like this is somewhat related to the whole concept of mindfulness, rather than being stuck in your own distractions you observe them and move on... These two things help me immensely.
BigData toolset, libraries, and frameworks weekly roundup – July 11, 2016
How much effort would be required to reimplement coLinux as a pico process?

Will it be possible to implement alternative syscall handlers with a future version of the DDK?
Maybe the causal relationship is a myth, but that's enough to create a self-reinforcing phenomenon of inter-related property values and perceived school quality.
I'm not going to list all 42, but here are the highlights:

How to Read a Book (Adler)

World Order (Kissinger)

Der Grundrisse (Marx)

The Grand Chessboard (Brzezinski)

Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky)

Gulag Archipelago (Solhenitzyn)

On War (Clausewitz)

The Hidden Persuaders (Packard)

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Dennett)

The Strategy of Desire (Dichter)

Skills acquired: intentional syntopical reading, prediction of geopolitical hinge points, and identification of absent context in media... I'm always looking for another book to read.
Nailed it, working class people are heavily affected by this. And regulation/agencies only seem to grow in scope and power rather than adapt to change or responding to the measurement of the positive/negative results of their work.
I wonder how much of this is due to Greece's financial problems. I have read that German banks lent Greece a lot money the country has not been able to pay back.
He is doing B2B sales.

It is wise to hide his small size from companies he sells to. I have seen countless stories that large companies act like bullies and take advantage of small companies on a routine basis.

That may not be what he was thinking. But it is in his own best interest.
there are plenty of situations that only exist in nightmare scenarios. that doesn't make them any less scary. someone brought up seat belts further up, and it's a decent example. why wear a seat belt? it only protects you in nightmare scenarios
Sincere congrats on your success.

Found this the other day: nomads: people who have larger collections of coffee shop wifi passwords than clothes - @jongold
Only in plain text mode, sadly. If you send an HTML message, a plain text version gets included, too, which isn't auto-wrapped. It's encoded as quoted-printable instead, which keeps lines short enough to be legal for SMTP but can be turned back into the original text by the client on the other end.
Door Signs at KansasFest
I grew up in Atlanta. I just wish in-the-perimeter wasn't such a ghost town. I think this is changing with the massive number of apartments being built lately (and the Beltline), but it would be nice to have more of a "bustling" downtown (compare the number of pedestrians mid-day in SF vs mid-day in Atlanta). But then again, I've always been partial to the concept of European walking cities.
My eyes lit up when I saw "Judge Rakoff"[1] mentioned in the article. He's not someone who suffers fools gladly. Uber better hope that they succeed in their motion to compel arbitration, otherwise things could get very "interesting" for them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_S._Rakoff
Yes, when 16% of available housing is abandoned things tend to get pretty cheap.
Cool :)

But editor without undo/redo is a bit surprising these days, next release?
Haven't studies shown that high stress (like concentration camp) has immediate effect on next generation's DNA? That would indicate that it's at least potentially possible for evolutionary adaptation to work pretty fast.
"Flexible labor markets" is just a euphemism for worker insecurity. Real class war stuff here. You can't have an underclass without oppression.
2 weeks ago I launched a platform for reading and writing interactive stories as a single founder. It's called Yarn (see: https://www.useyarn.com). None of my numbers are very large (yet) but the response from users has been great.
Are you planning to delegate editing and is it purely for reading?
The first time you do it you probably underestimate the actual amount of work it is. Second time you are probably weary from past experience.
Outsourcing Our Opinions
FastCGI/SCGI were obsoleted by having app servers simply speak HTTP; the web gateway just needs to function as a simple reverse proxy. HTTP is about as simple as it gets to parse - you can write a passable (not quite production quality, but works) parser in about 10 minutes.

A lot of the difficulty in webapps is because every webapp is inherently a distributed system, which are always hard. Single-page apps with no connection to a server are actually quite simple, but they're also about as commercially viable as DOS programming (i.e. not at all).
Ask HN: Why not sign text resources on the web?
With the blockchain, we now have an immutable, globally available datastore. Why not make a browser extension that allows authors of resources on the web to sign them? The signatures could be stored in merkle trees whose root signature would stored on the blockchain. That would be, in some sense, "the root authority" for checking the HMACs.

And if the files are going to be the same, they might as well be addressable by the hash or magnet url scheme. Why is something like this not available as a browser extension for those who care about the files they load always being the same?

Caveat: of course, signed files can still dynamically load other dependencies which can change at any time, but we could apply this logic recursively to any network request. That would allow authors to sign "bundles" on the web, like they do in the app store. If a web app did something malicious, it wouldn't be because rogue Javascript was injected by a third party. Users would be able to trust the real publishers of apps.
The same problem was posited for China. Yet, as their quality of life improved, the problem had, essentially, resolved itself.

Similar trends have been observed elsewhere.

There's no reason to believe that Africa will be an exception from that rule.
It was mentioned in the article: "H. pylori, the bacteria that can cause stomach cancer"
If you're using Python, you might also want to check out Kappa [0]

[0] http://github.com/garnaat/kappa
Arch Linux: Pacman GUI Front End
Economics Nobelist Paul Krugmann, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, and Financial Times Columnist (with masters in Economics) Tim Harford and others have been writing about this.

It has to do with "rent-seeking" using politics to create artificial scarcity, in this case scarcity of housing though zoning density restrictions and overuse of historic landmark status. The rent-seeking creates microeconomic market inefficiencies. Ultimately, I believe there will have to be federal laws to break up the "rent-seeking" in cities.

Another example of "rent-seeking" was the artificial limit of 13,000 taxi medallions. The market value of a single medallion rose to $1.2 million until Uber/Lyft came along and increased the supply of taxi-like vehicles. Now the market value is <$700K.

See: Build Big Bill by Glaeser:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....

Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199926514
Riding Rails: Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and so much more
Wearing a seatbelt protects you in very real and measurable ways. Crashes happen many thousands of times per year. You can't say the same about your anonymous data being used.
Capacity seems like a killer flaw to me. Just doesn't make economic sense compared to rail.
The OS X equivalent of an iOS passcode is FileVault. Its current incarnation (v2) uses full disk encryption and doesn't have a (known) backdoor. (v1 used per-user encryption but didn't protect the rest of the disk, and v3 might use AFS to encrypt the whole disk in a way that users can only decrypt their own data and shared areas of the filesystem, not other users' data.)

Firmware passwords are more like Activation Lock for iOS. They make it harder to reuse a stolen computer and stop some less-invasive tampering, but don't offer any guarantees about protecting your data.
Research does show that having kids is correlated to having a longer life expectancy:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/iage/201410/having-chil...
Austin has [...] affordability

Lived experience and countless local articles scream otherwise. Of course, when you compare to NYC and LA, just about everything looks 'affordable'-yet this is the most common refrain to Austin: "It's cheaper than NY".

What city in the US that isn't greater-LA, SF or Seattle isn't?
I finally developed a daily meditation practice by starting small and focusing more on developing a habit first. I read somewhere that if you do something every day for 45 days you create new neural pathways. I don't know if the research backs it up but it's a nice thought.

So for six weeks I committed to meditating for any amount of time every day. I didn't care what the time was though I strove for five minutes.

After successfully doing that I bumped it up to a minimum of ten minutes every day for the next six weeks. The next six weeks I upped it again to 15 minutes. And on and on.

I actually found when I got to 25 minutes that my commitment felt like it was waning a little. No problem, I dropped it back down to 15 minutes. When I feel I'm ready I'll start increasing it again.

That all started last October and I've only missed two days. More importantly, I feel better than I think I ever have. I think soon I'm going to apply the same approach to exercise.
(As an aside, it is already illegal in the US to deny someone a job or insurance because of their DNA)
All the points are gems. Thanks
Its a great app idea. Will you release it for iOS using CocoonJS or PhoneGap? I haven't found a good one yet.

I'm also with you on Backbone there. Good job and keep on going.
FYI the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 prohibits the use of genetic information in health insurance and employment.
You could say the same about, for example, the NSA wiretapping your calls and listening in on them. Until you get caught in some bizarre situation as a result, you'll be happily oblivious. But your rights are still being violated.

That data (your profile) is yours, and yours alone. No one has the right to package it and sell it without your consent. Now, it is possible that you may feel gregarious and offer up your data; but that would be by choice.
No, just that it does networking on a different thread. This is my main (but not only) problem with mutt. I'm not opposed to going in the direction you suggest, but think more mosh less stallman.
This is a direct result of the Android API's being fucking bizarre.

It's been quoted that they expected Android development frameworks to be built on top of them, so they didn't make them developer friendly - but they also reach up so far (see the Activity / Fragment nightmare) that it's complicated to make a development framework on top of them.
> For example, surgeons are more likely to recommend surgery than non-surgeons. Radiation-oncologists recommend radiation more than other physicians. This is known as specialty bias. Perhaps in an attempt to be transparent, some doctors spontaneously disclose their specialty bias. That is, surgeons may inform their patients that as surgeons, they are biased toward recommending surgery.

> My latest research, published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals that patients with localized prostate cancer (a condition that has multiple effective treatment options) who heard their surgeon disclose his or her specialty bias were nearly three times more likely to have surgery than those patients who did not hear their surgeon reveal such a bias. Rather than discounting the surgeon’s recommendation, patients reported increased trust in physicians who disclosed their specialty bias.

Every time I think I've figured out the depth of human irrationality, it turns out there's more.
That's the problem with many cancers though: there are no symptoms until it's very late. And biomarkers fail to show clear signs for detection in most cases as well. He was 39, even if you have cancer in your family history, it's still relatively unlikely you would get it THAT young. Apart from certain types of cancer, the biggest factor for developing cancer is Age.
I have a set of mandatory activities, which I do for one hour and forty minutes.

When I have motivation or interest, I pushed on.

With this, I released a rewritten version of a factorio mod(thank god that I didn't decide to try to rewrite all of it). I am also on the last leg in completing a story.

However, I got whacked with a computer hardware failure, exiling me from osx and data...

Now, I'll have to find other activities worth doing in lieu of a working computer until it get fixed. :(
Yes.
letsencrypt.sh is a nice case study, spending a lot of effort to parse json with essentially bash & grep. It works now but is full of assumptions ("this array of hashes will not contain [ anywhere").
There is nothing in POSIX that's well suited to manipulating json in the way that jq is.
This is phenomenal.
The US needs families, er, the labor pool to uproot out of communities[1], er, be more flexible for the whims of global capital.

Why aren't you doing this, labor pool?

Sincerely,

The Managerial & Academic Classes

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ttxGMQOrY
Obamacare / ACA didn't set that policy, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 was passed almost unanimously by Congress and signed into law by George W Bush. It's a very popular, bipartisan policy.
Top White House Economist Dismisses the Idea of a Universal Basic Income
If all religion is good for is winning the population war against non believers, then religion (and the people who view it as a way to take over the world demographically) are a colossal piece of shit.
Anyways, the conservative (in general) view that the ultra religious will outbreed us heretics has been around for ages. A lot of those groups you mention are rather small, and in the grand scheme of things, its uncertain whether or not mainstream conservative Christians who have above replacement levels of children, whether or not those children continue as adults to be uber religious.
Imho it's a network effect. Peer pressure is real. Do you want your kids to be peer pressured into high paying careers or into minimum wage jobs?
The q12h dosing is patented.

The regular dosing is generic.

That's all.

OxyContin would not exist if not for q12h dosing.
Again, you can't sell deposits. Chase assumed the business of WaMu, which included liabilities - mostly deposits. Deposits are a liability and it is impossible to sell a liability. So saying "they sold their deposits to Chase for less than the amount of the deposits" is entirely inaccurate. It's somewhat counter-intuitive because deposits "seem" like assets and loans "seem" like liabilities - but it's actually the other way around on the balance sheet.
And yet demographically they are insignificant.
Consumers don't buy advertising. Companies do. Consumers don't want advertising at all, and they don't really understand that all their tech products/services are subsidized by ad revenue. Would they pay recurring fees for those products/services without an ad subsidy? Some would, but most won't. So if and when companies (that actually produce something) decide that their investment is better spent outside of search and social media, and if consumers don't then fund those products directly, it will be like an earthquake in SF. This is exactly what happened to newspapers, by the way.
I dread the slow insinuation of "the web" into email. Specifically, the need to use a rendering engine like Blink or Gecko to read an email.

Is there anything I can do to tempt you to switch back to plain-text emails?
Yeah I don't think so. I've got three kids to fund through college. It is extraordinary important that we get this right. I know we could send them to private school but there are tradeoffs just like with everything else. It's a huge ugly balancing act.
Why do you think people are supporting Trump ?
What learning algorithms can predict that our physics theories might not
I keep reading about the decline of the Japanese population, and I wonder: what are the major causes of people not producing enough kids? Is it that there's not enough bonking going on? Stress from work? Long hours at the office? I mean, sex is one of the most fun activities nature has given us, for free. Why aren't enough Japanese having sex? Is it something in the culture? The comics, maybe?

This is a serious question. I often wonder why something that worked for millions of years, is suddenly not working.
Yes, there is extensive research on this subject in ethology.

One hypothesis that seems to be fairly strong is that homosexuality is, essentially, just one manifestation of the broad altruism strategy.

Think about what makes altruism in general persist, despite it been seemingly harmful for its carriers long-term: they might not maximize the likelihood of survival of their own progeny, but in sacrificing that, they increase the likelihood of survival of progeny of people from the same family, tribe or larger community - which have a certain amount of shared genes. If you think of the natural selection game as fundamentally centered on the genes rather than their carriers ("selfish gene" etc), this strategy makes perfect sense - your altruism may result in a lot more people surviving and carrying genes shared with you, and down the line, the end result is that population in the future will be genetically more common with you than it has been otherwise - so your genes "win". If so, the tradeoff is in favor of altruism over selfishness, and altruism becomes a selected trait.

Now, homosexuality can be seen as an extreme example of that. Every homosexual pair that adopts children (and there are a lot!) is, essentially, forgoing spreading their genes directly, and spending the effort that would normally go into that on the genes of some other person. Now, in this day and age, children often get adopted across large distances; but historically, and obviously in nature, adoption would be from geographically and genetically close populations; so it's a form of altruism that can be favored by natural selection. If you unwind back even further, before family was a thing, any tribe members that don't have children of their own have more time to spend watching, feeding and protecting others' children.

Now, you might wonder, why homosexuality rather than asexuality, since the latter would produce the same result? Evolution, due to the mechanisms that drive it, generally takes the path of the least resistance at any given point, even if it results in a very long-winded trek long-term. And it's simpler, from an evolutionary perspective, to "neutralize" the sexual drive by changing its target, than it is to switch it off completely. On top of that, there are some benefits other than children to be derived from sexuality in social species - bonding and mutual assistance, facilitating communication (as e.g. bonobos often use sex) etc.
Because you don't "get the best of [all] worlds" that way. There's very much a hurdle to building a strong team of remote workers and while some places manage to do it, it's neither automatic nor even the most common outcome. I have productive teams in 3 cities across 3 continents. It takes real effort to get to that state, and all else being equal, I'd readily take my teams all in one place. And this isn't even "remote worker" but rather "remote offices". Remote individual workers would be even harder, IMO.
some people hate the idea of surge pricing, but it guarantees quality of service. it would be impossible to get enough drivers to satisfy demand
The sarcastic tone of your response suggests that you're expecting me to be an idiot and/or a hypochondriac. I may or may not be a typical 23andme customer (and wasn't suggesting I was), but we had very specific, actionable reasons for using their services:

Of course we didn't do a second scan, that would be silly. My wife carries some recessive genes for inherited conditions common among Ashkenazi jews, and because I don't know half of my ancestry, we simply wanted to confirm that I was negative for them. They're not particularly common, hence "no surprises."

Checking the embryo for diseases such as Tay-Sachs typically require chorionic villus sampling, which comes with a 1-2% risk of causing a miscarriage. Spitting into a tube and sending it for SNP testing is cheap, easy, and low-risk. Had I been a carrier, we would have had CVS performed. The 23andme results let us safely skip having an extra procedure performed. Net win.

(Note that this is not going out on a limb: screening for Tay-Sachs is strongly recommended by ACOG when both parents are known to be carriers.)

There are screening panels designed to specifically hit only the carrier status markers we were interested in, but for me, the extra ancestral information tipped the scale in favor of the more general information.
It blows my mind that they are actively opposed to supplying Javadocs. There is a 3-year issue regarding sharing documentation, with the only response along the lines of "just look at the source". The item was finally closed when other developers created servers to host the javadocs, though many of the method names don't have any documentation besides their method signature (ie method name, input types/names, and output)
I suppose it depends on how you define a "city area", but there are a great many with more than the NYC area's mere 20 million people. For example, Shanghai, Karachi, and Beijing each exceed that within city limits alone!

(See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_..., though some of the data on that page is out of date)
A company isn't paranoid if other companies really are out to get them.
> Smoking rates are only decreasing in developed nations.

Except Japan when selling tobacco is still a very healthy business and there is no cancer prevention whatsoever. Lobby has been super effective down here.
>>I wonder why a job would require I come to an office downtown or close. When I can do all of the same work from my home

Power. Their power over you. I switched from an employee-employer relationship because of this.
Doesn't seem to work on mobile safari. Tapping links doesn't do anything.