skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the abstract of the source report [1]

>From 2005 to 2014, overall breast cancer incidence rates increased among Asian/Pacific Islander (1.7% per year), non-Hispanic black (NHB) (0.4% per year), and Hispanic (0.3% per year) women but were stable in non-Hispanic white (NHW) and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women. The increasing trends were driven by increases in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, which increased among all racial/ethnic groups, whereas rates of hormone receptor-negative breast cancers decreased.

See also Figure 5, and the paragraph above it with the subheading of "Incidence" in the "Temporal Trends" section:

>Much of the historic increase in breast cancer incidence rates reflect changes in reproductive patterns, such as delayed childbearing and having fewer children, which are recognized risk factors for breast cancer.[22, 23] Incidence rates of in situ and invasive breast cancer rose rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s (Fig. 5), largely because of increased use of mammography screening in the United States. The widespread uptake of mammography screening inflated the incidence rate, because cancers were being diagnosed 1 to 3 years earlier than they would have been in the absence of screening, and screening also may have led to the detection of indolent cases. Invasive breast cancer rates stabilized between 1987 and 1994, followed by a slower increase during the late 1990s. The continued increase particularly among older women may reflect rising rates of obesity and the use of menopausal hormones, both of which increase the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, as well as further increases in the prevalence of mammography screening.[24] Around the year 2000, incidence rates began to decline among women ages 50 years and older; and, between 2002 and 2003, breast cancer rates decreased nearly 7%, likely because of the decreased use of menopausal hormones after publication of the Women's Health Initiative randomized trial results linking the use of estrogen plus progesterone menopausal hormone therapy to breast cancer and heart disease.[25-27] The decline occurred primarily in white women and in those who had HR-positive disease.[26, 28] The drop in incidence may also reflect in part the small declines in mammography screening since 2000. The percentage of women aged 40 years and older who reported having a mammogram within the past 2 years increased from 29% in 1987 to 70% in 2000 and dropped to 64% in 2015.[29]

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21412/full
Okay, fact updated. Doesn't change his point at all. I don't see the "goodbye peter" blog post though so not sure how anyone would know he left.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter/
Psychological lesson in that:

The best advice I've ever read for the spouse who is on the receiving end of a divorce request/demand and wishes for reparation is to acquiesce quickly and approach the ordeal as a business transaction. You'll find story after story of anecdotes of that working to allow a couple to repair relations and figure out what was broken. Much better than being very emotional and otherwise reinforcing the reasons for the divorce request in the first place.

I think FB is being wise in taking this approach considering how difficult it is to find the real "delete" as opposed to "pause" button.

That's a lesson I've applied to many areas of business to very good outcomes -- customers wishing to terminate, etc.
How can I help protect my parents from this scam?
"I robot" describes three laws of robotics. These laws were intended to prevent robots from killing all humans, and, surprise surprise, bad things happened.

Jesus' message largely seemed to be "the rules exist for a reason, and you Pharisees are focused on the rules while ignoring the reason." The Pharisees knew the letter of the law well, and they'd often try to trip Jesus up, getting him to break the letter of the law.

Rules may be necessary but they are clearly not sufficient. I think whatever the rules are, people will find ways to do horrible things, unless we all value something higher than the law.

Unless we talk about and promote values directly - and all try to act in accordance with the values - these sorts of outcomes are inevitable. This means mindfully considering context always - instead of outsourcing our moral decision making to courts and police and politicians.

A society where everyone agrees "injustice anywhere is a mark of shame on me" would be a very just society. This seems like the inevitable end of "not my problem" writ large.
People on HN are often interested in Math and in education. I'll mention the Journal of Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics http://www.jiblm.org/.

(Just from my personal experience: I teach the Intro to Proofs course in this way, and use a book on proofs that I wrote in this style http://joshua.smcvt.edu/proofs. It has a lot of advantages. One is that at the end of the semester everyone, even those on the lower half of the bell curve, is still highly involved and understanding everything that is happening. That's important to me; for instance some of the folks in the room will go on to be teachers, either in high school or in elementary school.)
Reminds me of the "IPE" project, Industrial Perennial Environment. I've successfully used that for a few things, some of which is still running without corruption for years now.
It won't be the same tho. The system doesn't detect it as a 'native' disc.
GETTING READY FOR HallOWEEN
In my mind, C very closely resembles what's going on in my mind's model of the computer. I "think" in C when I'm thinking about an algorithm. It's almost exactly the same as the fake language people sometimes use for explaining an algorithm. I think this property contributes towards the popularity. No "artificial" abstractions like classes, templates, modules, imports etc. Just think of the first step you would do to solve a problem, and write it. Then think of the next step, and write that. And you get fast, portable code that produces tiny binaries! What more do you need?
Hacker puts info of over 6,000 Indian businesses up for sale
I quit smoking a while ago for 4 months using a vape, then Thailand's military junta banned them and most shops closed.

It's been a couple years now and tonnes of online shops started to sell and I'd see lots of local vapers while having coffee, so decided to give that a go.

It's been a month since I've had a cigarette now since I've started vaping. Energy is up and sense of smell is coming back. Used to smoke a pack a day.

I do run the risk of deportation, jail or heavy fines/bribes if caught with the thing, but I feel it's worth it for health reasons.

Also gov just increased tax from 130THB a pack to 150THB a pack.
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There's a link to a live demo in the readme: https://tipsy.github.io/bubbly-bg/
That's what I meant by challenges; it's pretty much "can LLVM support the chip and then did someone put in the compiler work in rustc", rather than "vendors are directly providing Rust support." Your intuition is mine as well.
That's not what they expected. They didn't explain expectations. They didn't expect what happened though: FB notifications got more and more pushy over time. That's interesting to remark on regardless of whether or not you'd expect it.
Sure, it's strongly consistent on the server-side part (strict serializability), whereas for the mobile/web clients we make sure we move you through consistency snapshots with the real-time sync functionality.
> Why the downvote?

Smells like ring voting: 4 downvotes in < 0.5 min? @dang?
Here's an excerpt from the linked article[1] on the study (I can't find the study itself, but it seems to be rather politically motivated and useless as an engineering study).

I found the article difficult to read, but in short, they found that vibrations of the display case were very slowly causing damage. So they built it a vibration-damping vitrine, or glass display case, specifically to limit these vibrations. The new case has a specification for how much vibration it allows, while the headdress sits for years without moving in the museum. The study requires it to undergo no more than that acceleration during transport. Yes, to limit accelerations to 1.001g for an entire flight, you'd need a stupidly large case that would allow it to slowly move to the back and down as the plane took off. Just put it on some shock absorbers in a container and send it across the ocean, it's not going to be accumulating damage in shipping for decades as it is in the museum.

> The vibration-proof design of the case and mount resulted from the discovery that the headdress was losing many of the individual barbs that make up its feathers. They were found, to the horror of the conservators, lying on the sheet on which the headdress was previously supported. As well as deﬁning the speciﬁcations of its new vitrine, the conservation scientists who analysed the headdress also reported that the levels of vibration encountered in transporting it – by air, for example, to Mexico – could destroy its ﬁne and brittle feathers.

> ...report was prepared by the same Austrian engineering company ... based on tests of the vibration in the gallery under different conditions, from a crowd of visitors and a glass cleaning .... All this can be mathematically predicted, and the more the vibration, the larger the container necessary to counter that vibration, according to the laws of physics.

1: https://www.academia.edu/31390854/The_Inbetweenness_of_the_V...
Or the number of people interested would have dried up.
Sorry for straying offtopic, but what are some good resources to understand concurrency in general?
A group of people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are all perfect logicians -- if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. No one knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the rest stay. Everyone can see everyone else at all times and keeps a count of the number of people they see with each eye color (excluding themselves), but they cannot otherwise communicate. Everyone on the island knows all the rules in this paragraph.

On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.

The Guru is allowed to speak once (let's say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:

"I can see someone who has blue eyes."

Who leaves the island, and on what night?

There are many versions of this puzzle, this is the xkcd version (https://www.xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html)
US government is in no way limited to the federal government. State and local governments tend to be more corrupt not less.

Gerrymandering + loss of local news coverage = incredible levels of corruption get baked into the system.
Not criticizing you dude, just commenting on why there may have been down-votes; people don't like it when you imply even unintentionally that researchers are stupid and aren't looking at the right things. I have no expertise in this area so I can't point you at any relevant research, but you can bet if there's something you have a question about, someone out there has a PhD in that topic.
I think there's a couple preventative measures. First, don't go into things like nursing homes, elderly living communities, etc. Those are prime targets.

Second, if you have wealth, give it to someone you trust, or put it into a trust. If you don't have wealth, well, there's not much for them to try to take from you.
Discuss valuations for seed stage SAAS startup
Where is a good place to discuss valuations for a seed stage SAAS startup with a working product that is just getting the first clients on-board? I had heard $5-6 million, but this is not in the valley.
Also looking for how to award stock to founders pre funding. Thanks in advance.
You mean to tell me that investors don't actually want their digital Beanie Babies and are trying to pitch them to suckers after getting them cheap to make money? Colour me shocked.

It's like nobody learned anything from the early 2000s.
How to plan for/manage/reason about volatility in tech careers
I'm in my early 30s, the point when careers start to diverge. Spent my 20s going to college, working at Microsoft, founding a startup (acquired, not much personal return), and then working at a someone else's startup for 3 years. I was reasonably successful and happy doing all of them.

Many of my friends work at bigco tech jobs (Google/Apple/fb) and make $300k/year or more (this is not normal, these are exceptional people, many with PhDs from top-5 CS/ECE schools). I'm trying to compare this lifestyle to the spolsky/basecamp/bootstrapper path (for myself) and have realized a few things:

(a) Absent some sort of acquisition, there is a real shot of earning 3-4mil/pretax over the next decade at a bigco job. There is no viable path to do this out of revenue from a smaller, slow-growing business, esp. with employees involved. (Feel free to tell me I'm wrong about this, but explain why.)

(b) However, the mid-career options after getting into a bigco are...questionable. Spend your late 30s/40s as a middle manager whose career is strongly tied to a single company. Your tech skills atrophy because you spend your whole day in meetings and politics. You lose track of what's really going on outside the firm. And, you're one reorg away from being laid off, even though your employability somewhere else declines.

(c) It's an interesting problem through the lens of finance. The small business path is low-volatility, the bigco path has more volatility than people realize. How do people think about this? Do people in their 40s in management save a lot so that when a major dislocation happens, they can weather it? How do people do this in the Bay Area, with a 6k/month mortgage and tons of debt/school payments/other expenses normally incurred with a family? What's the plan?

Bottom line: if you work at a bigger company, you're going to have a bad year at some point (or 2). How do people plan for/account for this in career planning?
I think you have captured technical contract work accurately.

In my experience the people I've met who only wanted to do contracting appreciated the clear specification of the work required, the lack of competition with other people in the office, and the simplicity of working when they wanted to and not working when they didn't want to. That contrasted with people who wanted to be full time because they were looking to evolve with the job or experience a wide array of roles. They were looking to "grow with the company" either in a technical leadership sort of way or a company leadership sort of way. The founder/entrepreneur is a sort of outlier in that they have some vision/idea of what they are trying to build and their world is wrapped around that rather than their career or monetary goals.

That is completely different than the rise of locally outsourced labor where a company hires a janitorial company who contracts out for janitors. At least in the Bay area you can pretty much contract out almost all of the non-technical stuff, from HR to building operation and security. I hadn't thought a whole lot about that until the Times article about janitorial staff as employees and as contractors. I cannot imagine (although I recognize it is possible) a contract janitor for ABC Janitorial being able to ask a line manager if there were programming tasks they could try at the company. Or to switch from janitorial to adminstrative assistant or security guard to sales. Sadly, I don't have access any more to the contract I signed when I hired a janitorial company for keeping the Blekko offices clean. Because now I am curious if there were in prohibitions in that contract that would have prevented me from hiring any of their contractors as employees.
There's a pretty complete React Native library you can use to build with Firebase services, including Cloud Firestore: https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase

The Cloud Firestore integration is fresh out of the box, but I'd certainly recommend trying it out!
But you were replying to my comment questioning the outrageous claim that smoking's chief risk is cardiovascular disease caused by nicotine. You replied with only a link to a journal article, which could easily, at a glance, appear to back up that claim, although upon further reading, it certainly does not.

Do you see how that's kind of irresponsible?
Well, in fairness, JIRA has tried to evolve well beyond the role of a mere bugtracker. Between the complex workflows of its large existing userbase, the huge complexity of the code, and the desire to use it for project management, it has become really slow and painful both to use and to develop.

I've heard some horror stories and apparently the development team is pretty heavily pressured to fix a lot of things.
Yet another pathological outcome from a legal system that operates above the law itself. The "judges" here should be in prison for conspiracy, and everything that was sold should be recovered as stolen property. Yet because reams of paperwork were filled out, dated, and stamped, legal fiction continues to override the obvious reality! This system no longer exists to mediate between real people, but as an independent organism claiming unfettered control over us. Burn it.
The fact that they made it to old age in the first place shows that they know what they’re doing, in a way.

The stupid ones die early. Survivorship bias, etc.
This is actually based on top of gomobile. Gomobile provides language bindings and Matcha adds a usable component library on top of that. It serializes Go data structures into protobuf, passes it through to iOS/Android and creates the necessary views. Matcha also does all the layout, event handling etc.
I believe this is because it was used correctly (i.e. confiscating the actual profits of criminals), and started to be abused after (decades of) systematic under-funding of police departments.
What are the health risks of vaping with non-nicotine-containing fluid? I thought that it was just atomized vegetable glycerin with a bit of flavoring, but I've not done much research into the matter.
Your second sentence is pretty demonstrably false.
why not start another company? if your going to network why not network for a co-founder. and/or a bigger team. I imagine you could get a seed round again.
The article describes inadequate accountability, crony relationships in the legal & medical systems, nepotism, lack of transparency.

All of these are alleviated and addressed through proper governance measures. This is a problem that is solvable in large part.
God im so angry on how they basically evicted the old man and his wife. I might be finally able to contemplate why having a gun as final defense against such lawfull robberys is a good option.

This type of behaviour can happen at insolvencys in germany too. If you get a corrupt insolvency-manager, he will ride the remains of your company (even if it could be saved) into countless law battles with creditors - where the insolvency managers firm is the defending party of the company its managing. This can go on until the company-corpse is sucked dry.
When you speak of “parsing untrusted data”, do you mean to imply that “parsing trusted data” even exists? I for one would view any and all input as untrusted.
It looks like it's using the neural map from http://www.openworm.org/ to drive the robot around. What researchers have done is made a complete connection map of all the neurons in a nematode and what they do, allowing a simulation to be run that essentially emulates the brain and nervous system of the worm.
IANAL but If you want to fix this get your parents to sign a power of attorney over to you.
Milestone Mayhem. A card game for devs about the ups and downs of app development
My mother smoked for around 45-50 years herself and quit immediately after her heart attack last year. As a former 17-year smoker myself who started vaping almost 6 years ago when my kid was born, I'd been trying to get her to replace the cigarettes years ago. Didn't work.

Another spot of anecdata, when I was a smoker I couldn't go a few hours without a cigarette. After 6 years of vaping, I can pretty much go 8-10 hours with no real craving.

It's unreal how much less of a hold vaping has on me versus cigarettes when that nicotine isn't coming along with a few thousand other chemical compounds.
That doesn't help against corruption on the SD card itself from unexpected power down or cheap power supplies... especially the latter has bitten me more often than I can count.
They're saying they expect to generate $100M revenue this year. I think that places them a bit further off the $1B _exit_ than 8x, although if they raised further funding potentially that could be done at an amount that suggests a $1B value.

I wouldn't want to be competing against AWS Pinpoint, and the problems Twilio have suggests this is a technically difficult space. Seems like quite a big bet from the VCs involved.
This is great. I had a feeling something like this was coming given most firebase people were pretty open about what the shortcomings of the Realtime DB were and AngularFire received some much needed attention to its database API last week.

That said, I really hope there are plans for some full text search ability beyond the current suggestions[1]. I would very much like to ditch Elasticsearch in favor of db engine provided search. Even a small subset of the Elasticsearch/Solr feature set (similar to the full text search capability now available for Postgres[2]) would be a very welcome addition.

[1] https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/solutions/search
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/textsearch.html
It doesn't surprise me a bit that this happened in Nevada. That state puts on a good show of being governed by the rule of law, but in fact it is corrupt to its core. And they don't just screw the elderly and the gambling-addicted. I learned this the hard way back in 2011:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2010/12/cosmo-and-me-part-1.html

http://blog.rongarret.info/2011/01/cosmo-and-me-part-2.html

http://blog.rongarret.info/2011/12/cosmo-and-me-part-3-how-w...

And the denouement:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2012/01/i-am-about-to-be-silenced...

The last post is entitled "How Wall Street Screwed Me" because Deutsche Bank was the principal actor, but they could not have done it without the Nevada legal system as a co-conspirator.
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