skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks!

They're definitely a bit on the low side, it still seems hard since most programmers despite making crazy sums of money often complain about spending even $10/m on something haha.

I'll think about raising the prices a bit once I have some exclusive features. I thought having a free plan would be good on the marketing front, and maybe it will be, but I definitely need some features to differentiate the plans
Wooow! That's lot of lung cancer deaths, counterintuitively coupled with air pollution elimination.

I wonder how this correlates not with tobacco smoking, but especially with smoking of factory-made cigarettes? Because as I understand those contain virtually no tobacco and you end up smoking garden fertilizer-soaked paper.
Even still, it's rather difficult to accidentally fatally overdose on just prescription opioids. The majority of prescription opioid-related deaths involve a mixture with some other depressant -- typically, as you say, alcohol or benzos.

Heroin is a different story, since there's no telling how potent a particular batch will be until you do some -- if it winds up being significantly stronger than what you're used to, it can be easy to do way too much. You also have various adulterants to take into account, including fentanyl which is often added with "worthless" adulterants as a cheap way to keep the qualitative potency of the effects up while significantly cutting the product. The thing about heroin is that you really don't know what you're getting -- this is a very different story when you're getting pills, unless you're happening upon counterfeits.
Exactly: muscle memory. In your car, do you move the turn signal lever up or down to indicate a right turn? It actually takes longer to answer this question than to do the action in real life.

Another example: There are several passwords that I can type instantly, but I wouldn't be able to recite them.
Absolutely, though I'd argue that this is simply one consequence of the war on drugs rather than separate larger issue.

The war on drugs is a masterful play. It's a free pass for law enforcement to circumvent your rights, to search your vehicle (via warrant dog), to enter your home (via anonymous tip), to review your doctor's records, to surveil your activities, to seize your cars, cash or real estate without due process. It's the master key for an authoritatian police state and the selective targeting of undesirables.
From the article: "Until the late 1930s, stomach cancer was the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Now just 1.8 percent of American cancer deaths are the result of it. No one really knows why the disease has faded — perhaps it is because people stopped eating so much food that was preserved by smoking or salting. Or maybe it was because so many people took antibiotics that H. pylori, the bacteria that can cause stomach cancer, have been squelched."
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The claim is that the large does are time-release. But your point re variable need is still relevant.
Cancer is caused by swelling?
Agreed, PagerDuty and SMS are on the list.

SMS is the only annoying one really since it's freakishly expensive for what you get (~6$ / 1000 SMS or so), most people seem to have SMS credits that you purchase which just seems annoying to me. I'm thinking about adding SMS to the larger plans though without any weird credits.

Thanks!
That seems like a bit of circular reasoning.

We use RFC 6091 because it’s the best fit for our problem, and allows us to avoid the needless complexity of X.509 certificates, which has caused many bugs in the past (in essentially all TLS libraries).
Installing a bouncer means following technical documentation and having a server free. The first requirement kills the interest of people who want a single app install. The second kills the interest of people who want the service free and run by a third party.

These are not enormous barriers but they were enough to put me off of setting up Quassel on a VPS for a few years. Now that I've done it I don't want to go back, of course, and I don't see it as a huge chore to do it again. But that's what's making it "not actionable" - the perception that this is going to end in a nightmare of configuration files and Stack Overflow searches.
International Payment Companies and Banks on the Race to Iran
Example? Ways to reach you?
It's true that ADHD adults have higher mortality from auto accidents, more health problems, higher divorce rates, greater unemployment, lower educational achievement than non-ADHD peers.

Despite all their disadvantages, rate of ADHD occurrence in the population has been stable as far as can be determined. The inference is reproduction is not impeded, and may exceed the population mean in light of anticipated losses as you describe. I haven't specifically looked into this, not recently anyway, but data may well be out there.

Anecdotally it's a common pattern to see ADHD adults having had numerous partnerships which are not sustained beyond a few years. Not surprisingly, an ADHD parent can wind up with children from these several partners as a result, leading to the hypothesis that instances of high birthrate offset the fraction of ADHD adults with low birthrate.

Obviously, even a small positive offset in birthrate of all ADHD vs. controls would be sufficient to keep incidence of ADHD constant.
Ask HN: How to *really* learn concurrency,parallelism?
Hello,

I've been interested in concurrency for a while now and I've been picking up bits and pieces by stumbling across great posts/videos once in a while or working with them at my job. So far I'm sort of comfortable with threads (not the gory JVM details though) and Akka, and a tiny bit of futures/promises and co-operative concurrency type stuff with pythons tornado.

I want to go deeper, really grok all the different models and be able to make informed decisions about which model us appropriate when, understand how they map to lower levels, generally gain a comprehensive understanding. I'm currently going through Java Concurrency in Practice.

My question - what resources will help me get a comprehensive understanding of concurrency & parallelism? what toy project would you recommend where i can implement the same thing with lots of different models to understand the difference?

Thanks in advance!
I'd agree with that (though I think Hired has a little more going for it as well, especially from the epmployer's perspective).

I might add StackOverflow Careers to the list of effective job boards, especially outside SV. It was the only place I could find decent senior talent when I was hiring in Bangalore.
I made my point. If internet advertising is an overvalued sector of the economy -- which it most certainly is -- then all your favorite companies need new business models. What more do you want to hear?
Weird. Why would lung cancer go the opposite direction as smoking prevalence? I understand the dynamic of "cancer only kills people who outlive every other cause of death", but for the discorrelation to be that strong?
1. Does it look like legitimate "referendum" to you? http://pda.pravo.ru/store/doc/image/20160316120226.jpg

2. Constitution of Ukraine states that only citizens of whole country and not only locals can decide such questions, _ANY_ local referendum regarding sovereignty is illegal.

It is how russian troops work and it is not legal anyhow.

Re Syria: it might sound good but when we track who russians are bombing we might notice that it is just helping Asad to save his power by killing all people who want freedom even civil ones. In the end russia is supporting isis by supporting Asad.
It'll be back 20 years later just like VR and a lot of other technologies.
The double-edged sword of bouncers is that they try to strap the behavior we're looking for on top of IRC which forces them to do it in a convoluted way.

Connecting to multiple networks with a bouncer has always felt like a kludgey disaster to me because of this. I don't want to have to define another connection from each of my actual clients to my bouncer to add another network, I just want to add another network. When I get a new system or reinstall an old one I don't want to have to set up a half dozen connections.

Quassel gets this right and keeps things separated. All IRC network settings exist at the server (bouncer) only, the client needs nothing more than a username and a password for the server and gets everything else from there.
"The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky

"The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan

"Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount

"Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David Einhorn

"Confidence Game" by Christine Richard

"Mouth Matters; How Your Mouth Ages Your Body and What YOU Can Do About It" by Carol Vander Stoep

"Adventures in Stochastic Processes" by Sidney & Resnick

"The Great Deformation" by David Stockman

"Efficient Electrical Systems Design Handbook" by Thumann & Franz

"The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt

"Notes on Discrete Mathematics" by Miguel Lerma

"Stochastic Calculus with Inﬁnitesimals" by Frederik S. Herzberg

"Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" by David Mackay

"Coming Apart" by Charles Murray

"The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter

"In Other Words: The Science And Psychology Of Second-language Acquisition" by Ellen Bialystok and Kenji Hakuta
One of the many weird things about the stock market is that it doesn't really reflect how investors feel about a given company, so much as it reflects how investors are predicting how other investors will feel about a company in the coming years.

So, a slightly more optimistic way of looking at it is that investors think that other investors think that there's a dark future ahead, but may not believe so themselves. It's quite possible that no one really believes in that particular dystopian future, but everyone thinks that everyone else does.
stomach cancer was spiked due to h-pylori. water treatments put a huge dent in that
I made my own app to learn the kanjis from the book; it was the same as the book but I'd just flip cards on my phone and I'd learn more than in any lesson
Great job man!

You've mentioned something about automating. Can you tell me more about it and which you've decided to not use?

As for competition, how do you specifically handle this?
Graphene-Silicon Photodetector Could Enable the Internet of Things
True in the technical sense that a person cannot just unilaterally decide to have children RIGHT NOW. But most people, over the course of their life, have the opportunity to have children. In the developed world, a huge portion of these people decide to have 0 or 1 child.
I stole the following from a colleagues `.vimrc` which finally allowed me to learn `hjkl`. Now I forget I have this set, and when I do accidentally use an arrow key it makes me laugh.

map <Left> :echo 'damnit!'<cr>
map <Right> :echo 'you suck!'<cr>
map <Up> :echo 'this is why you fail'<cr>
map <Down> :echo 'nooooo!'<cr>
I love seeing little projects like this, and I wish I were better at finding time to do them myself. It’s all too easy when you’ve been programming professionally for a long time, often working on the same projects every day for months or years, to lose that sense of wonder at what we can achieve in a few hours with a modest amount of code. Sometimes it’s good to just sit down for a day or two and hack together a kind of program you’ve never written before, whether that’s a text editor or a puzzle game or rendering a pretty 3D fractal landscape or an IRC chat bot. It’s always nice to see someone else who’s created something that way too, so thanks for sharing.
Many reasons.

Smoking coats the lungs with a layer of tar and heavy, chronic smokers have coated their lungs to such an extent where there is drastically reduced lung area in contact with
the environment (and irritants/allergens). The tar acts like a shield in this case and prevents immune response that can lead to constriction in the lungs and phlegm production.

Moreover, active smokers have destroyed the cilia in their lungs (which start to regenerate when one quits smoking)
and it's the cilia that do most of the cleaning and phlegm
expulsion. When one quits smoking, he goes through weeks or months of coughing and increased phlegm production as the cilia start growing back.

Finally, a lot of active (and ex) smokers do cough up phlegm. The co-factors of phlegm production are simply too many for a definite answer. You also have asthmatics and those who suffer from COPD/emphysema.
It's possible in OCaml to use a preprocessor (eg. camlp4) to integrate another language at compile time. I did this with PG'OCaml (combining Postgres's SQL & OCaml). At compile time the SQL statements are sent to the DBMS to be "described" (syntax and type checking), and then we insert the necessary glue code to prepare the SQL and convert OCaml values to and from SQL columns and results. The result is type-safe across the two languages, and free of SQL injections. You literally cannot write non-well-formed or badly typed SQL and have the program still compile.

http://pgocaml.forge.ocamlcore.org/
But you can't compare entrepreneur activity in Israel with Spain? Do you?
Hey, I'm glad you're business is doing great! Can you give me some tips about marketing when just starting out? From the first customer to the first thousand?
They don't give a lot of directly comparable examples. Hangouts, for example, might not be getting a lot of development love right now with Allo and Duo being prepared for launch.
Rules Design Pattern in Automated Testing
Yes, pricing with SMS is tricky.

Just my 2 cents, but with Apex being dev-friendly and all, maybe you can just ask for a twilio API key and just fire the message across?
If you're like me and like to click on links to the economist, you might not be able to read the full text of this article.

http://www.geektime.com/2016/06/30/is-the-startup-nation-run... has some details (and looks like it was written before the economist article).
It depends... if technology evolves fast enough, it could satiate human desires to the extent that even the people with the most extreme instincts to breed will lose interest.

Evolution often can't work fast enough to thwart the pace of technology.
Just using a CPU intensive application I work on (GAP, a computer algebra system), on my laptop.

I'm hoping we can kill our current windows build, and require people install bash for windows.
The cancers that involve "lumps" are not swelling, but performing angiogenesis [1]. Not sure about the blood cancers because, well, I'm not an expert, but I believe that all cancers involve unrestricted cell division of some kind, at least some of the time as a result of a DNA or RNA error.

I believe swelling is typically caused by individual cells or tissues (or even pockets in the body) building up fluids of one kind or another. Unfortunately cancer can cause this kind of swelling when your liver and/or kidneys shut down. Source: My mom died of breast cancer, and things were not pleasant near the end.

If OP is talking about systemic inflammation...then there may be a link between the two, but it's certainly not the only cause. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiogenesis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_inflammation
The Hacker Is Watching (2012)
Perhaps he means inflammation. Inflammation has been linked to certain types of cancers.
Yeah, germany helping greece was mostly to save the over exposed DB, and I don't think it's over yet on that front. then there's the italian front, which is more of the same, and on top of it brexit has messed up euro value even further. It's going to recover, but that burned a lot of non indexed capital
Really? Dropbox is the only company that I know of and when Dropbox started in Ycombinator they were already a two-man team? I'm really interested in knowing the other companies that were only funded as a single founder company
It actually says right there in the article that it's in reference to quantum teleportation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation
There is a book "7 concurrency models in 7 weeks". I haven't read it (yet) but I assume that it's a good fit for what you want.
I was having a browse of the website and think it would be really beneficial to have a comparison of all the products on a single page (e.g. a feature matrix). It's too much hard work clicking into each individual product to see why you'd want to spend more. Good luck with your project!
On the other hand, autoimmune diseases have been increasing in prevalence over the last century. While these diseases are rarely immediately fatal, in severe cases they can have a major impact on quality of life. Onset often occurs in early adulthood so the cost of treatment over a lifetime can be extremely high. The usual treatment, immunosuppressive therapy, also has serious risks of its own.

While there has been much progress on finding new treatments, their scope has been limited to new and creative ways of suppressing the immune system. There are a multitude of theories which attempt to explain the causes of autoimmune diseases, but we seem to be quite far from truly understanding them.
It's your personal ravings about "US owns Ukraine". Ukraine is sovereign nation despite russia which constantly tries to destabilize, detroy and "own" it.

I am disgusted to read this crazy russian delirium.
Type 1 diabetes is increasing:

http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/51/12/3353

The reasons are unknown:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23733895
Them and everyone else :)
I've been really interested in Nim recently, although I don't think it has a unique selling point, but gives the best (or close to) of several worlds: readability of Python, speed of C, expressive power of Lisp/Ruby, and type safety of (whichever).
Offtopic but lenta.ru is not an opposition media anymore.
Pike is tending to his current scope.

The thing about people like Pike, from my perspective: When that scope changes, they tend to be effective at addressing this and coming up with practical, efficient solutions.

I don't expect better from him than from myself: Tend to the problems at hand.

In fact, I too often get too lost in the "big picture". Maybe one reason I don't have a comparable level of achievement.

Not that Pike doesn't see the big picture. Maybe he just chunks it better. :-)
> People I know here in the US have no issue having real friends, people they hang out with and regard as equals, who are ethnically Asian, Indian, African. In other countries, this simply wouldn't happen.

Either you haven't travelled very much, or you have but spent most of your time in resorts and tourist attractions.
smoking rates was dropping quickly since 1945, during the period lung cancer rates were going up significantly.

death is a bad stat to look at; incidents would be more useful
I've been seeing this logic quite a bit this week and I don't agree with it.

For one, the numbers I've seen for per-capita are around 88% (2014, I think), not 112%.

However, the number of gun owners is estimated from anywhere between 12-33%. So no, number of guns in the country can't be used as a rationale for the probability that an officer will encounter a gun in a stop. Gun owners are a minority.
True true!

I've actually been using IFTTT for my PagerDuty replacement since I can't afford it hahaha, unless I'm missing something they don't seem to charge for phone calls etc
Japanese citizenship is actually much easier to get than other wealthy countries -- if you've lived in Japan for five years on any non-tourist visa and you're willing to give up all other citizenships you hold, you're in. The thing that's so notoriously hard is permanently living in Japan without becoming a citizen, which usually requires marriage or descent.
I think parent meant: how is the Internet usable with javascript turned off? How can you bear it?
Notice how I never demanded anyone do anything. I simply stated how I would feel. Now it's up to the professor to decide whether it's more important for them to do their job correctly, or make sure everyone knows how they feel. Just because they're allowed to make their students uncomfortable, doesn't mean they should.

And naturally I'd assume you'd have no problem with a professor wearing a "white lives matter" shirt? And that you'd respond similarly to people who complain if one does?
If I were to guess, the results lag behind the prevalence. It takes many years for someone to get cancer. If you were to push back the graph by 20 years it may correlate strongly.

Edit: Also, the U.S. banned asbestos in 1989. That's the turning point of the graph.
It is never one thing; your lead assessment is probably a serious contender among other pollutants. Then there is better hygiene via food handlers, stiffer USDA rules, cleaner water, less smoking and second hand smoke, more people exercising too.
I'm sad to see such poorly written blog post with a clickbait title get all these points.

I'd suggest that you instead read this well thought out (and rather complete) paper about the biomedical ethics at play within 23andMe's two-sided market business model.

(no paywall to download the paper)
https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s129...
I dont think it's quite that simple. Quality matters. Having fewer, wealthier kids can be an evolutionarily superior strategy, given the greater future potential of higher quality offspring surviving cataclysms and being the founders of new populations (e.g. a Mars habitat).

My only concern is welfarism, where modern political dogma insists that everyone must have equal income, irrespective of the personal investment they and their parents put into their developing their productivity.
its less caused by diet than lack of mobility. we spend most of our waking day sitting down now. active over weight people with 'bad diets' are healthier than skinny inactive people. but its hard to legislate that, and much easier to pound the shoe on the table about sodas than it is to tell people they need to get up and move
Sorry, but I'm going to have to say [Citation Needed]. From what I can tell, large doses of Beta Carotene (one kind of Vitamin A) and Folic Acid (a vitamin in the B family) are correlated with higher cancer risk. But if you avoid mega-doses of those, it's all good.

Here's my reference: [1] Key Quote:

>One of the largest, longest, and most carefully conducted human trials on multivitamins, the Physicians’ Health Study II, showed that the daily consumption of these supplements over 11 years reduced total cancer incidence by 8%, better than any pharmaceutical drug to date. This could translate into 130,000 fewer cancer cases in the U.S. every year.

[1] http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/feature-story/vitamins-do-not-cau...
You mean the field that predicted the last 80 of 8 recessions.
I like this, it's really really cool.

I have some questions. Who puts content in your site? Who placed content in the site at the beginning, just yourself?

How did you learn how to host your own ads?

Btw, which office design do you like the most?
Should have explicitly said 'most' other countries. I have lived as a digital nomad around most of the world over the last 3 years, actually.
iOS 9 adoption is around 90%.

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_9

That makes software development much easier. ios 10 will reach the same adoption level by this time next year.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman ODed and died because he didn't know what he was getting.

Is this true?
Other big problem is people going to rehab/getting clean, then relapsing after a while. Tolerance is much lower, but out of habit they are likely to do a dose similar to before.

This would be equally as possible with oxycotin.
Thanks for this. I've been looking for an excuse to buy a chess clock.
I don't think you'd see any significant evolutionary responses in the timeframes the article is talking about (<100 years or 4 generations)
yes, I meant that, and no - nearly all cancers are linked to inflammation. the differences are in what causes the inflammation.
The poster probably changed his bash to use vi editing mode with set -o vi. In this mode, <ESC>k would put the text of the last command entered back on the prompt.