skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db293.htm

“Life expectancy at birth decreased 0.1 year from 78.7 years in 2015 to 78.6 in 2016, largely because of increases in mortality from unintentional injuries, suicide, and Alzheimer’s disease, with unintentional injuries making the largest contribution. This is the second year in a row life expectancy has declined (1). Changes in death rates at younger ages have a larger impact on life expectancy than changes at older ages. The increases in death rates at the younger ages from 2015 to 2016 resulted in the decrease in life expectancy observed during that period.“

PS I got this link from another commenter here.
It's probably because life expectancy, like maternal deaths (of which the US has U.S. the worst rate in the developed world), can't be faked and spin-doctored by government sources as easily as can unemployment rates.

And by "it's", I refer to the fact that this is known, not to the reason why this happens. Unemployment rates, declining middle class, bleeding working class, and people working shitty subsistence jobs that count as "full employment" would be my guess for the latter (and all that comes from eat: low self esteem, depression, drinking, drugs, poor health coverage, homelessness, et al).
> then some point-and-drool twee bloggers made it unfashionable.

Outside of newspapers, it was always unfashionable. I mean just look at a book, magazine, or even this site.
Easier: … is ⌥+;

Shift+Alt+; is Ú
That would be clear insider trading, with SEC prosecution and jail time. Unlikely if the executive has half a brain.
Sure, if you're 100% sure you will never move, you can ignore the financial aspect. But people do move, for many reasons. If you owe more than your house is worth, now you're trapped. Hard to ignore.

I assume this is one reason we have zoning rules -- so you know what your neighborhood will look like in 10-20 years. Important with a 30 year mortgage.

(If your point was those with 2nd homes or investment properties that they don't live in -- that's an issue. See Vancouver, and various Bay Area cities.)

Edit: by "investment", you might mean someone seeking an appreciation of $500k vs $300k. I was thinking of $0k vs losing $200k. It happens.
If your project depends on a bash script and that script depends on bash4, it wont run out of the box on a brand new macOS machine.

A posix conptible shell script has no such limitation. Thats all im saying. Im not arguing the merits of which bash is better or what a project might need.
I doubt that it can be explained in less than fifteen pages.

https://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2015/REUPapers/Macor.pdf
Thanks! At first glance that looks pretty good. At least, no flames or propaganda (so far).
Dense cities are the one weird trick to human civilization itself.

China has seen unbelievably explosive growth in its cities and has also seen 1 billion people lifted out of poverty during exactly the same time period. Coincidence? People flock to cities because they can get paid five times more than they could back in their home village – they're not cavorting, scheming millionaires. Trying to strangle your cities because cities are bad is the dumbest thing you could do in terms of economic growth other than than trying to strangle trade on the theory that those scheming foreigners are going to take all of our money away.

I'm sure downtown Shenzen is more expensive today than it was when it was a small fishing village. Would the world be a better place if it had been kept as a small fishing village?
> I learned to type on an IBM Selectric, I use mostly mono-spaced fonts, and two spaces after a full stop makes perfect sense.

It's still considered fine to do that when using monospaced fonts, just as using the prime symbol (') instead of an apostrophe (’) won't raise any eyebrows in that scenario.

When your goal is to make something that looks like it was typeset by someone with an awareness of typographical conventions, then understanding those can be helpful. ("Twee bloggers" didn't invent them.)
I think we've just hit the "give up" point in some areas. Even if you can find the money, you have to question who is benefiting, as you end up helping out these employers who offer low pay and benefits.

The SF bay area seems to have finally hit that point where the restaurants and so on are being forced to raise their wages because they can't hire people, and that generally seems like a good thing. It's better if the wages reflect the costs.
Sure, they can (but should they?)
The problem being that when you have to use four marks to indicate an ellipsis leading to the end of a sentence, you get an odd triple followed by a space….

(That doesn't bother me, to be honest. I'm justifying my own quite arbitrary taste)
are you sure about the addictive nature ? http://www.depression-guide.com/seroxat.htm says no

there are clear withdrawal symptoms (no one should drop this treatment without gradual dose lowering) but addiction seems the wrong word
>Other countries went through the Great Recession, didn't recover as well as the U.S., and are not suffering from the problem.

Other countries (in the developed world at least) don't do as a shitty job dealing with welfare and healthcare, or have people feel like shit for not being "winners".

>and has since ended, with unemployment low for the last two years)

Unemployment is the easiest thing for government to sweep under the carpet. Heck, if they could fully get their way, working 12hours/day for $1/month would still qualify as employment.

Even so: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/great-r...

Or:

Economist Logan said that when he looks back, he sees a permanently changed economy. The downturn "left a lingering impact on jobs and on some sectors that never recovered," he said. For example, just before the recession, about 14 million Americans worked in manufacturing; today, that sector has about 1.5 million fewer jobs. And millions of families saw their home equity wiped away in foreclosures, Logan said. "A lot of people lost their jobs and their net worth. And then they had to take a lower paying job. ... It was a blow that they never recovered from," he said.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/14/570556990/unhappy-10th-annive...

https://www.salon.com/2017/11/21/the-great-recession-is-the-...
See what happens when people use en dashes when they mean to use em dashes? Total chaos!
I got asked a lot of hard questions in recent round of interviews about the one gap out of a history that's quite long. Haunts you if you don't have a good story up front.
> It's that we should stop using email pretty much altogether. Like I said: it's archaic.

Claiming that some piece of software or set of protocols is archaic is probably the least persuasive way to argue against continuing use.

> [...] with occasional cold inbound introductions that quickly transition off into some better medium.

Cold inbound introductions alone are a reason for continuing plaintext email well into the future.
Essentially blogspam.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/797 is the original source.
I'm definitely a Magic Leap skeptic, but these Karl Guttag posts do not read like posts from someone who is trying to do an objective analysis of the tech, they read like posts from someone who has an axe to grind. Often, when I see posts from very smart and technically savvy people that call things "cons" or "scams" it's because they have very high personal standards of technology and are disappointed that others do not share their views.

Frequently in these situations, it turns out that the mass consumer market is still satisfied with the product, since their expectations of the technology are more modest than those of a tech expert.

I guess only time will tell whether Magic Leap will end up being a "con" or, instead, whether they are able to put in place some crude mitigations for these technical challenges that allows them to still release interesting and usable technology. In the latter case, the technology would likely still have flaws that Karl would find wholly unbearable, but may nevertheless allow for compelling products for ordinary consumers.
I wonder how such drugs can make patient take different treatment options for cancer. My uncle did his best after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, at times he wanted to try things but very often he ended up rejecting ideas.
It tackles the issue of "trust".

All of us at many points in our lives have to trust people or companies that we can't (and should't) trust, for example we give credit card numbers to some random websites on the web.

In theory, blockchains are supposed to get rid of that need, because instead of a single entity owning everything, everything is decentralized.

This means people don't have to put trust on entities they shouldn't have to trust. This will probably get rid of a lot of inefficiencies in the world.
> given a complete and confident structure of the target, we have (non-AI, reasonably reliable) chemical modelling methods to see whether and how a given compound will bind; iterate molecules until you find one that works and you've found your "key" quite cheaply.

I am a researcher in the computational chemistry/biophysics field, and from what I can tell this is not the case (would love to be corrected if I am mistaken; my research is not directly related to drug design). There are various computational ways to to test whether a molecule will bind to a target site, but they are either too inaccurate or too computationally expensive to claim that this problem is "solved" by chemical modeling methods. Pharma companies are still wasting money sending drug structures that have been validated by computational methods to organic chemists to synthesize that end up not binding as expected.
Why do you have command and option reversed? Are you using a non-Apple keyboard?
Death masks were already a thing, castings of the faces of the dead. I guess they'll wonder why we started storing them in the caskets.
Because it hasn't been mentioned yet, here in California / San Francisco there's finally a bill being put forward to mandate higher density near transit: https://sf.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/1/4/16850000/transpo... .

The challenge really is that people block this kind of development. Most of San Francisco is 2-3 stories with 3-6 units per building. Given the value of the land beneath, that sets a floor on pricing greater than $200k per unit. Then you have to pay for all the legal and development fees to push this through the planning process, and work with the community. The reason developers make small buildings is that they don't stand a chance at getting larger buildings through community input, discretionary reviews and so on.

It's not clear to me that this new bill attempts to address that angle. FAR (floor area ratio) isn't nearly the burden the article makes it sound like, but DR (discretionary review) from neighbors certainly is, and often rightly so. Presumably having a transit bonus on the books will encourage planning to tell people "tough shit" if they're trying to oppose larger projects in transit dense areas. Expect bigger projects in SOMA and the Mission :).
That's interesting about the London Phil part of the score. It's amazing how many compelling pieces of music have fortuitous back stories like that.
Yes! I use em dashes quite often. I tire of commas and parenthesis. I do prefer two short dashes together, because I enjoy ASCII. I also use short dashes as parenthesis sometimes, -like this-, but this doesn't always work well as some UIs use that for strikethrough.

EDIT: Do please put whitespace around em dashes.
From Wikipedia[1]

"In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available free, before and/or after a paper is published in a journal."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprint
Leatherman Squirt. I used to carry a small pocket knife but realized the squirt was smaller than it and had a lot more functions.
When I'm outdoors or on my motorcycle, I carry a Leatherman Titanium. For general carry or "self defense"* I carry a Benchmade 710

* It's unlikely one is trained enough in knife fighting to defend oneself. Even most military aren't trained enough for a knife to increase their safety in a physical altercation.
It feels reasonable to assume that a majority of his teaching has been for boot camp style instruction and not the traditional, 4-year formal academic route.

I say this because, across the board, I know my staff would gaff at the prospect of trying to incorporate JS into anything other than an elective. Honestly, even to that, they would throw their pinkies in the air in retort of the thought that JS be taught at all in a 4-year institution. “Nay, let it be relegated to the community college.

...I know I know, ‘burn him at the stake’
Getting rid of parasitic middlemen
How does it actually tackle the practical issue of trust, though? If I buy something in a block chain based currency and I don’t get it, doesn’t that mean I’m just SOL? On the other hand, with a credit card I can just do a chargeback.
You can store dependencies in version control so you can continue working when there is problem with remote package manager repositories as you just checkout last working version with all dependencies from git.
There's such a thing as an en-dash too: http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/en-dash.html

I don't know enough about punctuation to know whether he actually meant "em" when he wrote "en" in several places, but I'm going to assume he actually meant to refer to em-dashes some places, and en-dashes others.
It's unfortunate how despised JavaScript is on Hacker News, because JavaScript is objectively the best language suited for teaching people to program.

Want to work with data from any API? Well JSON, industry standard data protocol, happens to already use exactly the syntax you're familiar with!

Want to give them a sandbox to mess around in...take your pick between jsfiddle, plnkr, codesandbox, etc. Many of these let you collaborate realtime with people to help them work through problems directly. Most people learning to program have 0 familiarity with using a terminal, and having to go through the process of getting an environment set up correctly ALONE is enough to turn off the vast majority of people to programming.

As the author already mentioned, rendering a UI in JS is going to happen on the most ubiquitous platform on the planet: the web browser. If a programmer starting today goes into UI work, the odds are that they'll be building UIs for a web browser is astronomically high, the odds that they'll be using a one-off python toy library is highly unlikely.

And last but not least, the syntax of JavaScript is very much like the syntax for Java and C. Learning JavaScript first makes it very easy to read code from other mainstream languages and have a good idea of what's going on. Particularly with ES6, there is very little to complain about in the syntax of JavaScript.
I think you're just like most everyone else - and it's not really about ASCII. There's only one easily accessible dash on the keyboard. The distinction between hyphens, en- and em- (is there a better indication of the level of minutia involved than the fact the latter two not only look nearly the same but are also pronounced almost identically?) dashes is important for typesetters and typography enthusiasts. Everyone (statistically) else just smacks the thing near the top right of their keyboard and it's fine.
I'm not sure what you mean - what's the relevance of a kernel thread (or threads in general) here?
Two hyphens is plenty. Three is calling attention to it. One is pitiful.

While we're on this subject, wide spacing between sentence-ending periods and the next sentence is the Right Way (tm). In ASCII that's two spaces. We're not animals. Let's behave accordingly.
I think in a tightly bound organization where all incentives are well aligned, that can be true.
Well, excellent though our ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) is, I can't claim to peruse their data that often! But from what I remember from news reports that come out on slow news days, my weekend ladder-foray onto the roof in bush fire season to remove leaves & branches is far more dangerous than any animal. Then although I don't have pets, there's a dog on the shared property I see most days - she's more likely to kill me than a snake is.

But far and away my most dangerous daily encounter will be with other road users. If I drove a car, that would be my highest risk of death. And that's multiplied by about 30 (IIRC) because instead I ride a motorbike. It's Japanese, not Australian, and poisonous to nothing but the atmosphere.
I find space-less em dashes hard on the eyes. The extra whitespace around the em dash helps denote the "aside-ness" of the remark.
There are some weird edge cases in physics where you can move faster than the speed of light. We don't have any means, yet, to move faster than light in a vacuum, but light slows down as it enters materials (0.75c in water, for example). One effect is Cerenkov radiation, which is light emitted when a charged particle moves through a medium faster than light does. You see this in nuclear reactors. It's basically a 'photonic' boom that happens in the wake of the moving charge.

Your scenario works for things that are far enough away that the travel time of the photon is significant. Another poster mentioned the Sun. While that example is wrong (the Sun moving), it's true that if the Sun was whisked out of existence, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes. An example of this is supernovae in very distant stars. We see the flash of the explosion many years after it happened.
It's just a database, but it's distributed, with integrity maintained through public keys

Coins, inventory, cars, loans, art, crypto kitties, sensor logs, records.. anything you'd put in a database, you could instead put into the distributed ledger and forget about it (at a price, the amount of data has to be very small but you can also buy hosting separately). Others can then have assurances about the integrity of that ledger without having to trust you either

The cherry on top is being able to write transform functions (ie programs) that all of the nodes simultaneously run so the ledger state can intelligently change based on conditions
"you misspelled ..." is often a way to be funny. I suspect colanderman was making a point about em dashes being mo' better than en dashes.
I use DevonThink for full text indexing of PDF, web links, docs, RSS feeds, etc as part of a local knowledge base. Syncs to mobile as well, so I have access to key info when traveling. I organize content into logical groups for various projects or research areas.

http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/devonth...
Thanks. Given the example of Bitcoin I think I understand how this works, but could you explain how the blockchain solves the issue of trust in your example?

Specifically how with the blockchain could I give a company my credit card information without me having to trust they don't misuse that information?
On *nix with xkb, you can get these by selecting the 'us(mac)' layout. You'll need an AltGraph key (i.e. Option), which is usually on AltRight in Windows fashion.
Watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k53LUZxUF50

It does a good job of explaining how trust evolved in the world and now that we are comfortable using computers to organize our lives, it makes sense to have a global ledger to keep track of "karma" we owe each other.
This is the fundamental point of blockchains. Operating without large, trusted (for the time being) third parties.

Here's a specific example:

Blockchain-powered systems are an alternative to the censor-prone nature of the current networks (Internet, but also financial networks).

Governments and large corporations hold significant leverage over the omnipresent communication mechanisms that are available today. This wasn't an issue when the Internet was invented.

If a government disagrees with the existence of Wikileaks, Wikileaks can be excommunicated or financially strangled to death by applying pressure to third parties (banks or internet service providers) that allow it to function.

Blockchains and P2P networks provide an alternative to this.
Install WinCompose and it's right alt + three dashes (---)
I realize this is a left leaning site and I'll get down-voted, but here is a different pov:

-the reasons things like this are both expensive and 'bad is: the GOV.
Remember that time when the GOV. had this idea to increase home ownership? And '08 was the outcome. That was funny. After GOV f-ted that up, part II: we the tax payers paid the banks. Lots of laughs that was.

- Here is NY creating jobs: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/politics-on-the-hud...

What would happen if, now hear me out.... the GOV just went away; lets say something far right: and reduce regulation. Like how many stories you can build in Bay Area. It be like, market would fix it by self. And we would have cheap and affordable housing. Instead, the left uses the gov. against their neighbours.

No?
So for the leftists, just recite your 'narcissist prayer'.
New York City did a large-scale study of traffic patterns, and concluded ridesharing services brought more people onto the road who otherwise might've stayed home (or taken mass transit).

http://www.schallerconsult.com/rideservices/unsustainable.pd...
Democracy can't fail until we actually try it. Public opinion has about the impact of statistical noise on public policy: https://www.globalresearch.ca/study-congress-literally-doesn...

Personally, I'd characterize the US as a plutocracy.
> six figures in permit costs

This is exactly what cities should be doing to grow in a smart way: collect those fees to improve city infrastructure, to accommodate the new housing (and business). Improve transportation! Widen roads, add bike lanes. Add schools and parks and libraries. Add water/sewer/electrical/internet that connect to the developments -- that isn't free. How else are these paid for?
Yeah? So? First, it does not say that one must not use spaces around em dashes. Second, so what if it did? This is English we're talking about. The main rule of English is that there are no rules. If you want a rule for English: it's to speak and write in such a way as to be understood -- who would fail to understand the whitespace around an em dash?! Not I. But missing whitespace around an em dash can be confusing -- is that a compound? did the author mistype a hyphen? Ugly. Whitespace is nice. Use it.
Hacker News eats the second space. Which is fine. I'm not saying that typesetters should show two spaces between sentences, rather the edict against typing two spaces between sentences is wrong. Two spaces even has a (small) amount of semantic information. i.e. "This is a full stop and not part of an acronym or radix point, etc."
The blockchain's (current) prime use case: triple entry accounting. In double entry accounting, a ledger only contains debits and credits. With the blockchain, the blockchain's attestation of the validity of the debit and credits is the third entry. This removes the need to trust whether the credits and debits were correct in the first place. Were financial systems to be based on blockchain design, an Enron situation would not be able to occur. It might even prevent the likes of Madoff. This technology is only getting started. While there is hype, this hype is necessary for the market to test out many ideas and applications, until those that make sense remain standing.
Indeed just getting most senders and servers to use TLS would be a good start.

That said, lots of businesses deal with sophisticated attackers who are trying to steal trade secrets, patents in progress, etc. Sometimes these attackers are state sponsored too (I would definitely suspect China, US and Russia for this kind of crimes).