skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> CDC reckoned they reduce the risk by about 40-60%.

curious, Do you have a link to this by any chance?

According to this

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693492/

After looking at "328 households with 1441 members, including 839 children," for an entire year (2011) these authors determined that there was a difference of 4/10ths of one percentage point between those who received flu vaccine and those who didn't.

The infection risk was 8.5% in the vaccinated and 8.9% in the unvaccinated.

According to this CDC study
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/64/5/544/2758477

"We observed decreasing vaccine effectiveness with increasing time. Maximum vaccine effectiveness was observed shortly after vaccination, followed by a decline..... Vaccine effectiveness remained greater than zero for at least six months for influenza A(H1N1) and influenza B and at least five months for influenza A(H3N2) viruses."

They say "greater than zero" , far cry from 40- 60% :D

Cannot post more replies atm, but for people saying 5% is still something.

> Going from 8.9% to 8.5% is a 5% reduction in flu cases. If this translates to 5% fewer sick days during the flu-period and a 5% reduction in doctor visits that are due to flu symptoms (some people go to the doctor for everything), that can absolutely be a reason for the government to want people to get their flu shots.

This line of reasoning assumes that there are only positive effects from vaccines. There are many many side effects of flu vaccines.

Just to quote one,

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

"Hospitalizations were slightly more common among subjects who were vaccinated than among the others"

"hospitalizations for pneumonia and influenza, that were 47% more likely among subjects who received the tetravalent vaccine as compared with those who were not vaccinated."
It's an awfully apt metaphor for many elected government officials.
Crafting the Perfect Twitter Bio and Profile
> "Around 40% of unmarried Japanese are still virgins at the age of 34."

That's a pretty damning statistic for a secular country. Is that a world record?
Node.js / GitHub Pages / Travis CI
Cuba bids goodbye to the revolutionary generation
Interesting. It appears to be kept in an extension, the regular CN field is for .cloudflare-dns.com:

Not Critical
DNS Name: .cloudflare-dns.com
IP Address: 1.1.1.1
IP Address: 1.0.0.1
DNS Name: cloudflare-dns.com
IP Address: 2606:4700:4700::1111
IP Address: 2606:4700:4700::1001
> ...my phone detected one of those satellites earlier about 2-3 weeks ago. Interesting, especially considering I'm nowhere near Japan.

Could be an error, but you could just be in Australia or just about anywhere on the Eastern hemisphere. The orbits are geosynchronous and thus very high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System#...
Thank you for pointing that out. I was not aware that the content is actually stored on Telegram's servers. The first example picture looked like typical link-sharing in some IM channel and I kind of overlooked the download buttons.

Still, that does not change my critique of the article's style.
Principals of the Indian space program are on record stating the system was developed to assure access to GNSS during conflict. There is no mystery regarding the motivations of the Indian government in deploying this system.
Surely the implication is that when you 'burn whatever is behind that UserID' you would delete the records of who DeletedUser4510 was friends with (and who was friends with DeletedUser4510).

If all you do is rename someone to DeletedUser4510, you pretty obviously haven't deleted all the data you hold on them.
> This manner of advertising doesn’t serve the public

This is not true. As a receiver of targeted advertisements, I often appreciate and enjoy them. It's companies that I respect releasing new version of the products I love and I am genuinely thankful that I learn about them without the need to follow the industry's publications. I often buy something because of these ads and they serve me well. (If you're curious, for me, it's mostly ads of new plugins and sound packs by Native Instruments and other similar companies.)
Facebook runs on Facebook. When I was there it worked really well.

You need to use it properly though. The feed is pretty much useless. Groups are where it’s at. Facebook has Company FYI groups, org-level FYI groups, Product team workspaces, etc. You tune notifications to catch the “must read” stuff and filter out the rest of the noise.
What are Bitwise Operators
In Greece you can buy little metal plugs for your sealtbelt socket so you don't have to use the seatbelt and don't get the error beeps from the car.
I'm sure it does contribute to the fatality rate.
This logic would effectively kill all photo-sharing services. I guess, noone wants to blur people's faces in their Instagram posts,so a regulation following the old Islamic hadith not to depict humans is really terrible perspective.
> But an apprehensive US official turned down the request and told Kalam: “Sorry Dr Kalam, we will give you good lunch and dinner, but no Craig computer.”

> Kalam came back empty-handed, but went on to develop the Pace Plus computer with help from the Indian Institute of Science and others in two years. And, Pace Plus proved to be 20 times faster than Craig!

This type of thing sounds incredibly childish and jingoistic to my American ears. Does it read better to folks who learned to speak English in India, or is it just really awful writing?

Also, as best I can tell, there is no "Craig" super computer. Does the author mean Cray? And if so, why was the scientist asking the USG? You would normally want to get such computers from the manufacturer, not a foreign government, however friendly.
That HN Bingo is a great idea for a browser plugin that adds a board to the HN page and fills it automatically as you browse
The intent of the term is simply to call attention to the problem with a bit of hyperbole.

I don't think many people think you can actually stand on it.

The "scientific term" is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
> If there was a product that could tell us the trail of actions that the customers followed, it'll make debugging vastly easier.

Sentry.io may be a good start, perhaps?
Every early stage startup’s goal is to reach PMF.  Here is the formula
Ask HN: How many of you have used Orkut?
Yes, but that should be a configurable option on the client. Send me the damn text then let me decide if I want to look for URLs or substitute smileys for images.
Come hell or high water, the paper has to be on the newsstands the next morning. It is the very definition of mission-critical computing.

I worked on the Graun’s website/publishing backend in the late 90’s. Lots of Tcl/Tk.
The article appears to be the opposite of this.
Centralized, proprietary solution so easy to block. What did you expect?
They may find that Amazon is keeping USPS alive.
I would say, if it's not open source it could be a no-go for some people/companies
> But as more people were cured and there were fewer infected individuals to spread the disease, sales began to languish.

I hope for the sake of all humanity that nobody discussed addressing this particular problem directly.
Do you really think 100% of the plastic we consume makes it to a recycling plant or a landfill?

No matter how efficient waste infrastructure is, the more plastic consumed, the higher chance for pollution, and the higher chance it can end up in the ocean or some other natural environment.
Product Metrics That Actually Matters
Well, just as San Francisco has a population of only ~850k, the City of Sydney only has a population of ~200k.

In both cases there is a distinction between the city proper and the metro area. Both Sydney and San Francisco are extreme cases, other cases, like Brisbane, Australia or New York City the disparity between city proper and metro area are less extreme.

San Francisco is also somewhat unusual in that its metro area has a different name ("Bay Area"). But that isn't universally true of American cities (it is not uncommon, but not universal either.)

I'm not convinced that there are any fundamental differences between US and Australian usage here.
They've got my email. They can send me an email notification.

Methinks they don't want to do that because lawyers.
America’s cryptocurrency tax policy is confusing everyone
My kids are a little older, but I've used the same strategy with bicycle helmets. There's never any argument about using them, because they've simply never been in a bicycle without a helmet, not seen me ride without one.
What Merchants Need to Know About the Signature Optional Change
You could still get run over by a car, self driving or not, and not die but just break your legs, so you'd still need insurance.

Actually you need it more than when you'd die if you don't have any dependents.
That's the usual state of news reporting. People just love discourse of conspiracy over here.
The underlying "cause" of cancer is the cells reverting back to their ancient state of independence and non-cooperation, and all the fail-safes that keep this from happening failing.

The reason for this happening is stress on the cells. And there are more and more things that can cause us cellular stress.

It is a bit of information overload, but if you separate things into "my great-great-grandparents were exposed to this in their daily lives" and "my great-great-grandparents were not exposed to this in their daily lives", you may begin go see a pattern.

And by "exposed to this", I mean looking closely at the exposure type and limits. They might have had wine, and even hard liquor, but probably not available every day.
Pushing a big 3.5yo into a rear facing seat is hard, even in Sweden, and I doubt it's very common to keep kids rear facing up to 4 here. We do listen to authorities but it's nearly physically impossible after they reach a certain length. I believe most start using front facing seats some time between ages 3 and 4 depending on size.

One problem with rear facing seats and large children is that it requires a LOT of space in the car, if you want to fit more people in it. A rear facing seat for a 3yo behind the front passenger seat will make the front passenger space tiny in all but the largest cars.

If you look around europe you'll find that countries that traditionally use small cars (France, Italy, Britain) probably don't use rear facing seats as much. What part of this is cause and what is effect I don't know, but you won't find many families with small children driving compact cars in Sweden like you do in say the UK or Italy. I saw someone in the UK describe a golf as a "family hatchback" at one point. That person hadn't been in the front passenger seat of a Golf with a rear facing child seat behind (The front seat is then nearly touching the glove compartment).
> Every single driver I've ever asked (in 1000s of rides taken over 7 years) has always said they prefer the freedom of being able to work when and where they want. Students, retirees, stay at home parents, and others who do specifically do not want to have a FT job.

I always hear this line about the sheer variety of backgrounds of the drivers, and that an Uber job is a way to collect a bit of extra cash. That they have something going on that is far more preoccupying, and that the Uber job is a mere sideline.

In my experience, 9 out of 10 Uber drivers in London are 25-60 years old, from East Africa or the Middle East, and do the job full time if you include working for other mini cab companies. It's their main occupation.

Might well be different elsewhere and probably is, but I can see why Uber might prefer to push a certain story that doesn't reflect reality.
Now only if we can get them to block Twitter..
Here’s your correction.

> Correction (February 22nd 2018): The original version of this article said that around 40% of Japanese were still virgins at the age of 34. In fact, that only applies to unmarried Japanese.

They could also be lying on the surveys.
A peace movement blooms at Google
EDIT: Nevermind, misread the thread
> One strategy is to think of annoyances you have in your life

In this way you will only end up with consumer products.
I did this when I was 12 and ended up building a fully automated "egg cutting machine" which solved my annoyance (and created a ton more) but had little market value.
The B2B market is huge.
I am most interested in solving hard problems that large organizations have with their internal processes.
Unfortunately I don't work for one, so the annoyances I want to solve are not my own.
This is a PR stunt for Telegram.

It’s not the first time Russia pretends to fuck over the Durovs.
Well, I've seen worse, at least no one gets threatened. But it doesn't suprise me one bit. About 6 years ago I started to abandon comment sections altogether, because every second poster or so had some agenda politically, religiously or some esoteric nuthouse BS. This directly affects the quality of the other (genuineley interested) postings, because they started to argue with the trolls and shills. What once were intersting fora of conversation became snake pits. Not everywhere, but to a significant degree.
Is that necessarily a bad thing? Protecting one's sovereignty is essential in this day and age.
And health care was a lot worse in the 1960s and before. Let's not pretend that before the 1960s were some golden age. In 1965 infant mortality was 24.7 deaths per live births, in 2016 it was 4.3.

Sources:
1965 number from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_20/sr20_020acc.pdf
2016 number from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...
Cloud REST APIs for Manipulating Complex Excel Worksheets
Reddit CEO said racism is okay
I think there is actually the opposite effect in action. There used to be a time when doing simple arithmetic was thought of an expression of intelligence. When machines learned how to do it much better than humans, this notion was quickly dropped.
You do not find them individually, which means you have to separate elements with close chemical properties.

More often than not, the deposits contains relatively low concentrations of the stuff along with other minerals.

To quote Wikipedia¹

> (...) during the extraction of the ores from rocks, a significant amount of water usage and wastewater production. Also, acidic substances are used during the extraction process, which can leach in to the soil and surrounding environment. In addition, due to the low abundance and varying spatial distribution of REEs, the mining process uses a significant amount of energy(...)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element#Environment...
> The interesting point here is that Sci-Hub isn't really a threat to the publishers.

I'm not sure if you can say that. Consortia of universities in both France and Germany have recently decided not to renew their contracts with one of the big publishers, and although it's hard to pin down to what extent motivations contribute, one could very well make the case that they have been able to do so because they have less pressure from academics to retain subscriptions - thanks to Sci-Hub.
System76's Pop_OS Exploring Intel's Clear Linux Performance/Power Optimizations
Yes, it is.

But, you know: billions.
What makes it unrealistic?
Something more west than Parramatta?! I would have guessed the next main CBD would be North.

Granted I was lucky when I lived in Sydney, I was able to afford to live close enough to walk everywhere. I hated driving though, the traffic mainly but always fearful of accidentally turning onto a toll road. I'm still dismayed about the governments insistence on big toll highway projects.
In the last week I've received packages shipped via DHL and via Fedex that used SmartPost, where the USPS actually delivers the package. I don't remember ever having a UPS-to-SmartPost shipment. If the USPS is cheaper than these global shippers for the last-mile deliver, it might be a sign that they're not charging enough. At least in my town, they also don't seem to be very efficient - two Saturdays ago I was working in the yard and the post office went by four times during a six hour period. I can understand that the package delivery might be a different than their normal service route but shouldn't the three package deliveries have been one vehicle on our street one time? UPS is a master of route efficiency.
Inequality, Innovation, and Patents
Never thought I would see such xenophobic comments on HN. This is really sad.
Father of two twin kids at 3.5 years. Its not hard at all. They climb in themselves, and if u have a seat with adjustable iso-fix bars you get enough room for the front seats.
Smartphones with 512GB of internal storage are coming; Huawei may be the first
Even where patient don't negotiate, insurance company could. I have seen itemized lists of hospital stay where band-aid or temperature measuring costed ridiculous money. Not everything costly is death vs life choice.

I think a lot would be much cheaper, if there would be better price transparency. The bad transparency is not so much about bad feeling of putting price on it, but also that it is profitable. The same entity that hides prices will turn you back if you are not insured without visible bad feeling.

Also, plenty of people are uninsured or under-insured and money they have to pay out of pocked hurt them. They postpone doctor visit till the last possible moment, they take half dosage etc.
Lệ phí nhập quốc tịch Mỹ và lưu ý cần thiết
Tại sao nhập cư Mỹ đã là giấc mơ của số đông người đến mức độ đó? dễ lí giải khi mọi người nhìn thấy khả năng tài chính cũng như kế hoạch, ưu đãi và một môi trường sống quá phù hợp và thoải mái, tương ứng để hình thành ngôi nhà và mở rộng cuộc đời. đối với cá nhân người tham gia có thẻ xanh Mỹ, ngoài vấn đề thừa hưởng lớn quyền khác nhau về y tế, xã hội, dạy học,.. sẽ được năng lực bảo lãnh người thân cùng qua để đoàn tụ gia đình giống như người có quan hệ hôn nhân, con từ 21 tuổi trở xuống chưa lập gia đình. Chính con cái của người bảo lãnh cũng sẽ có thừa hưởng các ưu đãi về chương trình dạy học ở giáo dục Mỹ. mặt khác, điều đặc biệt là quý khách nhận được thời cơ được nhập quốc tịch Mỹ nếu có thể hoàn tất hoàn thành quy tắc và vượt qua khảo sát trở thành người bản xứ. Việc được thành công dân Hoa Kỳ, dự phần vào những phương diện chính trị Mỹ ví dụ quyền cử tri thật sự là một điều tuyệt đẹp.
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It's not dependence, it's preference. Americans (and most everyone else) like to control their 4-vecor.
I rather enjoy never having gotten smallpox or polio.
I believe that you have obsolete information about the company’s owner: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chris-hughes-sells-new-republic...
I wonder that as well - I recently made https://whereisscihub.now.sh, which parses the Wikidata API to always link to an available version of Sci-Hub. Technically, it just transform content from one location to a different format, but yeah... It might stop working if Wikimedia would be forced to remove their links.

Anyway, Alexandra Albakyan (who is behind Sci-Hub) is unlikely to defend it with anything else than written statements, given that she's from Kazakhstan or Russia and is unlikely to come to the US given several earlier injunctions against Sci-Hub.
We May Own Our Data, but Facebook Has a Duty to Protect It
Yes, but I was referring to the tendency of a few simplistic memes for showing up in most discussions about Japan: "but what about their suicide rates!", "but their economy isn't growing at a billion dollars an hour!", "but their declining birthrate!" and so on.
I'm assuming you meant to share the following: https://infogram.com/road_safety_progress_2016
Yeah, that ought to skew the results a bit. Looks like the top countries remain the same though
https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/transport/road-safety-annual-...
There are a lot of ways to slice the data, and each of them tells a different part of the story. Suppose two countries have the exact same number of fatalities per km, and the same population, but one country drives twice as much. It is still a relevant fact that the country that drives twice as much has twice as many deaths. Policies that discourage driving will help reduce death rates in that country.
The top-level comment proposes banning political advertising, but this link talks about commercial advertising so (honest question) surely it doesn't apply?
Give your money to Theranos! Alternatively, see who your children know from high school.
User Onboarding Flows for Web
> Russia’s media watchdog to block the messaging app Telegram for its refusal to share users’ information with the government

Wondering if whatsapp is unblocked because it already is sharing users' information?
That's a 0.4/8.9 reduction, about 5%. However, flu vaccine isn't useful to the general population. In many countries is usually administered to people that are most likely to develop complications such as pulmonitis.
Also the Theranos defender.
I mean... That's theoretically funny, but I don't think anyone who knows what a .onion is had any problem finding Sci-Hub's.
Going from 8.9% to 8.5% is a 5% reduction in flu cases. If this translates to 5% fewer sick days during the flu-period and a 5% reduction in doctor visits that are due to flu symptoms (some people go to the doctor for everything), that can absolutely be a reason for the government to want people to get their flu shots.

Personally I have never had a flu shot and am not inclined to start doing so, but I know people who have and according to them, if they do get the flu it affects them less in the years they get their shots vs. when they don't.
So assuming that the flu vaccine is harmless and the cost is not too great, it can make sense to get it even if the effectiveness rate is low.
You are jumping from one extreme to the other. Creating a public institution with no pressure to make profit is a disaster waiting to happen.

You can certainly keep a 'competitive' environment which is regulated with incentives. And I do agree healthcare needs this, and shouldn't live purely by the free market.
Hacker Can Steal Data from Air-Gapped Computers Through Power Lines
I don't get why anyone would want that. At no time in the two decades I've been driving a car, I've never, ever, ever thought to myself "This seatbelt is annoying, I wish I didn't have to use it."

I don't even recall ever thinking that as a child passenger.
Amazon Apologizes for Shipping 10k Copies of Comey’s Book to White House
Maybe it’s from a Russian who doesn’t like Twitter?
Just out of curiosity - has anyone tried logging and analyzing Facebook traffic from their phone to see what kind of voice traffic it picks up?
Concerns teen being 'railroaded' in privacy breach to cover government slip
That is classic Luddism: people don’t understand how something work, so they want to get rid of it rather than ask how it works and how it can be improved first.

Targeted advertising, like any recommendation system, works fine if you give if positive and negative feedback and if you can inform it at a higher level. Click-through and plenty of X-out, with a preference control like Facebook’s makes ad genuinely enjoyable. Try it for a week.

I agree this drives data gravity and a strong monopoly position – but I don’t think the solution to Standard Oil power was to ban the combustion engine.
Only on the US store, unfortunately.