skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"pediatric malignancies"

maybe, or you can use the full Armitage and Doll model I described above and replace t with something like a discrete exponential decay where N(t) = number of divisions since zygote as a function of time. Ie
N(t) = N0(1 - k)^t + 1
where
N0 = N_birth - N_adult

That is, take the difference between division rate at birth and division rate as adult and fit a constant k between zero and one. It is just a first approximation at best because data on division rate by age in various tissues doesn't seem available...

https://s18.postimg.org/9cn5vi8t5/div_Rate.jpg
So, like 100% of all media coverage of it.
Also, lots of older people are single, divorced or childless.

Someone who is in their 50s could have kids who have already grown up and moved out.
I'll add another nice academic resource with visualizations of data structures and algorithms:

https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.ht...
On the other hand I tend to prefer women who use little to no makeup . It's not necessarily a one-way discrimination, though I agree the reaction is more of an automatic response people in this culture will hold towards men who choose to do so.
https://www.interviewcake.com/ is a great site. Eventually you need to pay, but he send out a question almost every day you can try out.
Wing – A minimal, responsive CSS framework
Interesting article. Thanks for the link.
Hey everyone!

This is the official Hacker News launch of Wing.

I'm a 13 year old maker, and I've tried the VARIOUS other solutions, there are seriously way too many CSS frameworks out there. But even with that, I was searching for a simple one, with nice typography and a useful grid, and surprisingly, I couldn't find one.

I didn't need the bloat and weight of Bootstrap, and as a maker, I decided to make a CSS framework. It got second in Product Hunt.

Please leave me some feedback, and let me know if you use it in a project!
I think this is done poorly and misses the biggest issues on demand startups face.

The largest issue is failing to understand the difference between a commodity and a service, and how easy a substitute is to find.

Others vs uber(and uber like companies) are different

Uber solves an extremely hard problem that looks easy, it also has very few alternatives. The other services solve a problem that is less urgent, had many substitutes and is largely less valuable.

Uber provides transportation when and where it is needed. If you simply need (using the most well known detivative business) to borrow a skill saw from your neighbor for a tool sharing site you have many options. This project may be planned in advance, you may be able to purchase a used tool, and you may be able to borrow kne free.

The issue is how variable a service is. Uber can generate transportation for where and when you need it. However it may appear that the commodity is transportation, but that is the variable. Finding a user and providing them transportation from an unknown location, to an unknown location, immeadiately is hard. A ride from Logan Airport to south station is much different than a rake/hammer.

Each ride has a large amount of logistical constraints. Out toolsharing example has to solve all the same problems except a tool is always the same tool. A ride is never the same ride. It makes it much less valuable, and much easier to compete as there are often many substitutes and less expediency. Therefore coverage & on demand has a sup/demand musmatch, is prohibitively expensive and can only take a very small slice if value.
The problem is that some people never got the memo that says that chanspeak is not acceptable in polite conversation. So the chans end up being a continual generator of sexist, racist assholes who think that it's OK to be sexist, racist assholes. Lots (but not all) gamergaters fall into this basket of deplorables.

Which is not to say that your comment is not valid. Society needs a release valve where people can feel free to vent their creativity along with the darkness in their souls. Imageboards are really great for that, as the ephemeral anonymous nature lets the good ideas survive and the bad ideas fade forever into the aether. Without the fear of consequences or prejudice, the human spirit is unbound to create stuff. Naturally, 90% of everything created is crap.

It's just a terrible place to learn socialization. And a few too many do that.
And nothing of value was lost. The center of the internet cesspool wandered away from 4chan at least 5 years ago. Eventually, the site will shut down after passing through six to ten more hands. This will not affect 8chan, 420chan, anonib, 7chan, or any of the other dozens of sites that have popped in and out of existence for nearly as long as 4chan has existed, a number of which that are still around being only a couple of years younger. There will for the forseeable future be a place to post what you'll do when the id of a reply ends in 7, Jennifer Lawrence's hacked nude selfies, or your deeply held and extensively researched views on issues involving ethics in video game journalism.

It's never going to be anyone's money factory, which I guess is what "CNN Money" would be concerned about.
When I last used online dating (4+ years ago), I saw a decent number of height requirements stated explicitly from female profiles.

I always found this interesting, not because of the idea itself, but because they chose specific heights as cutoffs. It was particularly common to see women pick 6' as their cutoff. Many of these women were significantly shorter than 6', even if they wore heels.

If you're 5'4" (say), can you really tell the difference between 5'10" and 6'? Are those two inches actually a dealbreaker? Walking past men on the street, can you actually filter out all men under 6' accurately and precisely? It seems extremely unlikely that anyone could do that unless they were quite close to 6' themselves.

And yet it's trivial to filter out every guy under 6' on a site like OkCupid. The site provides built-in functionality to do so. I'm willing to bet a significant percentage of women stating they require a height of 6' or higher would often be willing in real life to date men much shorter than that, because they probably don't even know what 6' precisely looks like.

It's also been convincingly demonstrated that men on dating sites inflate their height by 2 full inches on average. Suppose you don't really know what 6' precisely looks like and go on a date with a 5'10" guy claiming to be 6'. You may not realize he's not actually 6' and believe the claim from his profile. From here on out, your idea of dating "6'" men becomes reinforced based on faulty data.
If you are comfortable with a little bit of coding; I think both Apache Solr and Elastic Search will allow you to index and search pdfs.
You might be interested in Programming Praxis https://programmingpraxis.com/, a blog that posts a few exercises per week, with solutions. Some of them are more interesting, some of them less so.
Yes, of course there are other alternatives. This isn't "simple game theory", this is the real world. Economies are not independent; a declaration of war against a major trade partner is effectively a declaration of war against yourself. There are thousands of unknowns.

The most obvious potential solution is some sort of tit-for-tat diplomatic agreement where both sides appear to win while both lose something. If your requirement to believe that is likely is for me to draft the proposal then your fears will be validated because I'm not qualified to do so.

To me it is more than far-fatched to believe 1) that the end-game of a highly multi-faceted socio-political issue has only a dichotomous outcome with no middle-ground, 2) that the "Law & Order" bully candidate would abandon the missile shield even though he admires Putin, or 3) even if the worst comes to pass that Russia would put itself into a position to fight the world's strongest military + an entire continent it neighbors, all with a questionable economy.

Of course you could call me myopic for not believing your scenario. 9/11 Truthers could say the same. But I'm not the one betting on a super long-shot hypothetical while ignoring the near-certain other negative outcomes that a Trump presidency brings. To ignore those factors can only be done from a place of privilege where his white male supremecist rhetoric isn't interpreted as a personal threat to your own well-being.
> The idea of heaven with 72 virgins always ready for sex with the died fighters is also quite non-comparable, but explains the motivation for wishing the death.

It's there in christianity as well, it's just not so explicit - if you die for a christian goal, you'll get into heaven, same as their muslim counterparts, and heaven is an awesome place that you really want to be.
> (1) a lack of growth, (2) work/life balance, and (3) competition.

I founded/co-owned many companies and non of these ever stressed me; the only thing that stressed me is lack if funds which has not been because of 1 or 3 but rather because of management, either lacking or it being bad. But the actual stress factor is always money. Competition I consider good and competition we can fight in different ways, aka you can do something about it using different stratgies. If there is something fundamentally wrong with your management team it is far harder to fix imho.
I didn't downvote. But I don't believe google does paid search manipulation.

The only time I've heard google accused of that was the Hillary and Trump liar autocomplete thing, which was completely false.

Of course there are people manipulating search results from the outside, SEO is a job. But are you saying you have evidence that google is doing manipulation, or just that other companies do it?
Their 2 pillars are: opposing corruption in game journalism, and opposing political attempts to discourage violence and sexuality in games. There are many women who support GG. The angle about it being anti-women was consciously created by a woman who was caught in a scandal, and published a fairly high-profile PR article in order to protect her reputation.
Cat attacked me while streaming :(
Most, if not all of introductory discrete math, logic gates, basic CPU logic, data structures* and algorithms can be mastered without a computer.

Most (all?) CS students learn this early on in university anyways, so it's natural to study if your friend is interested in computer science.

He can also spend the time to master math, especially linear algebra. Getting a firm understanding on math never hurt any budding programmers and opens a ton of doors.

* Once released, he can play with different DSs and experience their asymptotic performances for himself.
A word of caution: "Learning to code" is a pretty broad subject. You should have him think about what he actually wants to accomplish with code when he gets out and have him study topics related to that. He can pickup ancillary things when he gets out; for now he likely wants to be working on something that will help him hit the ground running. If he wants to develop web pages, you should send him some books on JavaScript. If he wants to create mobile apps, there are specific books on this subject for iOS and Android. Most programming languages share concepts like OOP etc anyway, so by learning one he is laying the groundwork to much more easily pickup others.

Also, you should give him realistic expectations. Learning to code isn't the panacea that many think it is. There are many broke but talented programmers out there, and most don't have the extra baggage associated with a felony conviction. If he doesn't truly have a passion to create software, and is just looking for a way to make money, there are more efficient things he can learn about - like the psychology behind viral marketing (The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell and Purple Cow by Seth Godin might be good for example). I know someone that couldn't write a line of code to save his life, but makes 6 figures per month creating Facebook pages around ridiculous topics and using them to drive traffic to affiliate offers and his own Adsense pages. Your friend can always hire coders when needed if creating software isn't what he actually wants to do.
Hey, might be interesting to solve. We are solving something like this for India, as a part of a larger initiative. My email is takenottie at google's mail.
It does entail a belief in divine beings, though.
Ask HN: GitHub projects for the job search
Hi,

I have heard various things about the role of github in the job search, but it seems to be more important. I am about to graduate school with a Mathematics degree and lots of informal coding experience but few completed projects (that I can share; most of them are research work done for hire).

I need to put something on my github. If you are an employer, or if you were starting out fresh today, what sorts of things would you write and release? I can make pretty much anything; I know how some of the most advanced 3d algorithms and machine learning methods work, and my research is in dynamical neuroscience, but finding ideas for code that people outside my field will actually want to use or read or care about is nontrivial ;P. I also want to control scope so it can be done and polished in a few months' time.

By the way I am pretty new to HN so I have no idea how to submit this to the right category. I just edited the title; does that work?
I accuse the government, and the political parties, of gross incompetence.
When it's illegal. There's no underlying abstraction. The law is ad hoc.
The model of TIS-100 is more like the blocking channels in Go.
Canadian Thanksgiving
Would the nanotubes become airborne if the battery exploded?
Most businesses that are one-off type businesses tend not to work well. Uber works well because you will use it often enough and is basically a similar model to other transportation services like Bus and Train transit.

A lot of businesses require subscription or other predictable recurring revenue to truly work. Even golf courses, bowling alleys, heating and air repair companies, bug terminators, advertising, etc. tend to rely on recurring revenue as the major source of revenue.

Even restaurants and bars rely on recurring revenue. You show me a restaurant or bar without regulars and I'll show you a restaurant or bar about to go out of business.
Changing the BIOS on, say a late model Thinkpad would be difficult. Doesn't the update utility verify the signatures before flashing?
Haven't read the article yet. Will soon. But it occurred to me years ago that people should be the "currency of nations". If people were able to freely and easily move between countries -- and countries should generally want this b/c people are their greatest asset -- then the quality of life ought to rise rather rapidly as countries compete for citizens.

Of course the problem is our current systems rather suck. They don't have any idea what to do with people. For the most part they are just wasted assets, and new people are often thought of as "drains on the system" instead. If that's truly the problem then it's the system that is broken, not the people.
Thanks for your interest. I should write it up. I also visited an organic mikan farming co-operative not far from Fukuoka's farm on Shikoku and stayed there a few days. Actually he suggested it to me.
Eron Gjoni publicly accused his girlfriend Zoe Quinn of cheating on him with several men, whom he named. One of the men was a games journalist who had once written a few sentences about a free game Quinn made, in a larger article. (Several months before he allegedly slept with her, by Gjoni's own admission.)

This, alone, was taken as proof positive that gaming journalism (and the gaming industry in general) was in the pocket of corrupt feminist interests, and founded an entire movement based on rooting out and exposing examples of same.

The story somehow became that Quinn was openly sleeping with half the games journalism industry in exchange for good reviews of her games. Now that the facts are out, the smarter Gamergaters try to downplay the Quinn episode or pretend that it never happened, inventing an alternate, less embarrassing origin story about ethics in games journalism. Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to be buying it.
I don't necessarily think that saying "Google sued over refusing to employ engineers over 40 years of age" implies guilt or innocence - it merely states the subject of the lawsuit. Nonetheless, you are right, it is an editorialized version of the actual article's title. I have changed the title.
I was just reminded these ever existed 9 hours ago by Crash Course Games: https://youtu.be/ZEwbHWspFWY?t=2m35s
> So, ultimately, there's a long history of the GNU folks not anticipating ways in which people have their computing freedoms infringed and basically going "Well you're doing something wrong, stop doing that."

RMS agrees with you! From his Reddit AMA a while back [1].

All in all, I think it is a mistake to defend people's rights with one hand tied behind our backs, using nothing except the individual option to say no to a deal. We should use democracy to organize and together impose limits on what the rich can do to the rest of us. That's what democracy was invented for!

> very little support for a freedom-respecting web browser

I mean 15-20% market share for Firefox doesn't really sound like much but it's much better than the 2% that Linux has.

> possibly because Stallman doesn't use a web browser

Not that it really matters in this discussion but that's not really true anymore. He supposedly uses Firefox with Tor.

> not running JS is better

He's not exactly wrong. Just from a security perspective alone, would you feel comfortable running random binaries downloaded from the internet? You're putting a lot of faith in your browser's sandbox. Outside of F/OSS libraries most JS on the web is proprietary. The LibreJS [2] project is something that's supposed to counteract this (and I support it on my site) but it's beyond niche even in tech circles.

[1] https://redditblog.com/2010/07/29/rms-ama/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/
Top comment on that thread cites the Dilbert strip that I immediately thought of.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12363081

Posting this comment not for karma, but just to reiterate the citation of that strip -- has always made me chuckle. I miss the original old beards.
- It's easier to convince young people to accept lower salaries and work long hours (e.g., if they have no family to support or spend time with).

- It's more expensive to buy health insurance for an older pool of employees.

- Young people are probably less likely to be dissatisfied with cheap work accommodations like open-plan offices.

On the other hand, there are increased efficiencies associated with older employees:

- People earlier in their career might have significantly higher job-turnover rates.

- Older employees have more work experience, and can prevent lots of problems before they happen.

- Older employees have had the time to become better at what they do. I don't think the best developers reach their peak skills after only working for 5 years.[1] Learning from your mistakes takes time.

(I'm a developer in my 50s, and I work with lots of older developers who are good at what they do.)

[1] See, for example, Peter Norvig's "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years": https://norvig.com/21-days.html
If this is a typical american prison, smartphones (any phone for that matter) is considered contraband.
This is likely a conflation of two different facts.

On one hand, the Syrian branch of what later became ISIS has a lot of Chechen fighters, mostly associated with Doku Umarov and his "Caucasus Emirate"; indeed, one of the groups that united to become ISIS was founded by a group of Chechen separatist commanders. The aforementioned contractors pegged them as the best fighting force that ISIS currently possesses, due to both high morale and experience.

On the other hand, Russia has been kinda sorta reviving the "savage division" traditions of the Empire, specifically with Chechnya as a source of recruits. They were used in Ukraine (ironically, sometimes fighting against Chechen separatists who came to join the Ukrainian National Guard volunteer battalions), and now also in Syria. But they're usually not former anti-Russian insurgents from the most recent war (the one that started in 1999). Many of them were separatists in the first war (1994-96), but switched sides in the second war, like the current Chechen leader Kadyrov.
I sent one of them this link: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/finger-drumming/ (NOTE: vulgar language)
> Many disagree votes (in comparison to Like votes) result in a warning text above the post: "Many people disagree with this comment". Then, if you read the comment and agree with it / like it, you'll know it's important that you also read the replies, so you'll find out why others disagree. — This is how it looks (scroll up a tiny bit to see the "Many disagree" warning):

I think you are being overly optimistic. Seeing a warning that "many people disagree with this" will mostly fuel bandwagoning and dogpiling. This is what happens, e.g. on Reddit and Ars Technica, where heavily downvoted comments attract more and more downvotes, even if the comments are entirely reasonable. All it takes is a few initial downvotes and the snowball starts rolling.

> Another purpose with Disagree is that, well, I'm curious — I want to know how many people like or disagree with something. Imagine that a friend of yours makes a speech and you're listening. Afterwards, when you've formed your opinion about what s/he said, I imagine you'd find it interesting to know how many of those listening, agree or disagree with what s/he said in the speech.

Actually, no, that would not be interesting at all, because it's entirely meaningless. On the Internet, you can always find x people to disagree with y. It means nothing without knowing who those people are and why they disagree. More importantly, just because a "dislike" button has been clicked a certain number of times doesn't mean that that many people have read, thought about, and disagree reasonably with the comment. It's just as likely that it's a thoughtless, knee-jerk reaction or that it's a form of retaliation for some other comment.

> Yes that's a problem. There can be a grace period before Bury votes take effect. E.g. 10 people must have read a comment, before Bury takes effect.

That can still be abused. Just don't bury anything. If it breaks a rule, flag and delete it. Otherwise, let it stand on its own merits.

> You mean they can downvote already? Yes, and they should still be able to do it, so this vote is (still) needed.

No, I mean staff can flag and delete posts, etc.

> Many disagree votes tell the reader that there's likely a good rebuttal among the replies

No it doesn't. It tells the reader that a certain number of HTTP POST requests have been made. It means nothing.

If there's a rebuttal that's better than the comment it rebuts, let it be upvoted.