skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the methods protocol [0] for designing version 6 of the Human Mortality Database being visualized at that link.

Notice how I explicity said the word _designing_ and not something like 'calculating' which would misleadingly characterize such a scheme as something that is objectively derivable from verifiable information with valid uncertainty bounds and without the potential for advocating policy with dubious constructed data.

If you've ever thought p-hacking was a riot in academia's social sciences bullshitting, wait until you read through stuff like this with think-tanks coming up with whatever numbers are necessary to justify a policy to secure more funding to shroud misinformation in a thin veil of perceived scientific validity to people who feel comforted if you just put on a white coat. Not only does it go through "careful rexaminations" of methodology with new versions every year tweaking subtle but fundamental things like "we used to assume uniform distributions of births across the entire year on v.5 and as of v.6 now we decided to assume a proprietary non-uniform distribution that flucuates per year (and our policy objectives...) because there were wars that changed reproductive strategies that we conveniently forgot to account for that last year and the error cascades through to every successive year's death risk. Stay tuned for v.7!"

On top of that and pretty much a direct consequence of this so called 'research' being complete bollocks, is that none of this junk is ever peer-reviewed. Couldn't even clear that hurdle.

Sorry to ruin your parade but the statistics accessible via think-tanks and public governments are a complete fabrication. Want to see actual life expectancy tables? You need to buyout a multi-national insurance conglomerate that has survived the test of time with financial crises and political cycles, peeking into actuary tables without the gimmicks of literal data engineering. I highly doubt you, nor anyone here, would ever get close to these secrets. And even then, the usual business model of such corporations that can attain that large of a risk pool and _could_ identify these stats are usually incentivized to profit from regulatory capture rather than the public-face tagline of accurately predicting the likelihood of risk to perfectly balance premiums against claims and extract profit from investing on the float.

[0] https://www.mortality.org/Public/Docs/MethodsProtocol.pdf
Yes but we're the ones who made the smartness possible, right ;)
> I am already very familiar with 2 interpreted languages, but not very familiar with any compiled languages. I'm doing the exact opposite of restricting myself.

Like, no, compiling to machine code is only one class of compilation. All the VM-targetting languages have far more robust ecosystems than Go, with good abstractions, performance and tooling to boot. _Any_ language that targets the CLR or JVM should suffice.
Prediction: There will never be a time when all air traffic is ADS-B out equipped. It's certainly not a current mandate, and is only mandated for aircraft desiring access to some select airspace after Jan 1, 2020. I will equip, because I own a hangar inside the mode C veil of Boston, but if I were 6 miles farther out, I may very well choose to avoid class B/C airports and not equip. Lots and lots of traffic will certainly make that choice.
In Pakistan, Finja did the same.
http://www.finca.pk/news/finca-launches-pakistans-first-ever...
I guess this is an English only tool. Does it account for non native speakers, like an Indian and Ukranian corresponding in
English? Either way, while I can see that developing tools like this is fun and engaging, I won't trust the results.
Agree. I have some beefs with the fragmentation of the framework though. I kind of hope that in the end we will end up with only two frameworks: mono on wasm for clients, and .net core for server/high performance clients.

But what is true is that there starts to be a lot of overlap and inconsistencies between multiple generations of the framework. You have object methods vs generics. You have async/callback methods vs async/await. You have ref/out returning methods vs valuetuple returning functions. etc. The language is starting to show its age even though the .net team has been adding to the syntax sparingly.
Here's the twitter link to the first shaded circles one:
https://twitter.com/Cshearer41/status/998606724817981441

Toppled square:
https://twitter.com/Cshearer41/status/1026837809716518912
I was replying to a comment about anecdotal data a user has personally noticed, with my anecdotal data about what I've personally noticed.

Also, the average cost of a unit (which most people live in here, by a factor of around 6:1 depending on source) is $490k, which is quite cheap for inner Melbourne. I rent a 2br here for $500pw, which was among the cheapest I could find in inner Melbourne. You quoted the average HOUSE cost, in an inner city suburb where houses cost a fortune due to being rarer and more popular among wealthy people. All of which is irrelevant, but if we're nitpicking over data in a casual comment about what I've seen, then we might as well be honest. It's not a "rich" area.

Context matters in both of the above. Of course anecdotal data is biased by the person's situation, location, etc. That's why it's anecdotal. It doesn't mean it's not still relevant.

In the context of sharing our personal anecdotal observations of a very expensive electric car made in niche numbers in another country, with zero local presence other than some "dealerships" (store front in a mall with some customer service staff), I thought it was still quite interesting that I regularly see them, that's all.
That's coming pretty soon actually. The EU is bringing new rules live in 2019 which will require everyone to do that stuff.
The major hold up on deploying SRI is that a lot of third parties aren't supplying immutable content.

Google Analytics or recaptcha for example aren't versioned. Deploying SRI is just going to break your site when they update the script.
This is how I did it twice over the years.
You're not wrong. The NSA acts on that information, but the comparison is meaningless. America launches targeted attacks on what it believes to be terrorist threats to itself. China murders millions of its own innocent civilians.
I am desperately waiting for Blazor to graduate from the "experimental" label so I can justify investing more time into it, but whatever little I have seen so far seems amazing. For someone who used to live and breathe C#, ASP.NET and Razor, this feels like a godsend.
That's too big a risk. Its just begging one phone call from a competitor to the authorities to wreak havoc on the startup. This strategy could work in yet uncharted territories (crypto comes to mind) but not in traditional systems like banks in this case.
I've been pulled over twice by cops. Once I was screamed at for driving a quarter mile up to stop under a light instead of the unlit part of the highway. The other time I was talking to one officer when I heard a click and found that his partner had opened my door and was going through my glove compartment.

No system is going to be perfect, but the problem is that when blatant abuses or violation of the law happen like in my case, the best course of action is to do just suck it up. If you take action against the police you are at best going to get money, but no action against the police. On top of that now you are a known "agitator" and have to be worried about every cop in that area being against you at worst or ignoring any calls for help at best
This instantly evokes ideas about distinct technologies from different sources coming together to form a greater whole:

Things like the Apple Watch monitoring your awareness and activity level, and sending it to the car which uses that information to influence how it drives, or when it vibrates the seats to keep you awake or wake you up, and so on.
Project Stream: New Google Service for Gamers
Most piston aircraft run on gasoline, which is far more flammable than Jet-A/kerosene.
I knew this discussion would end up discussing the type systems. That is really quite removed from business goals with very weak evidence that it will provide any real benefits to the business. It’s quite debatable even from an engineering perspective if the real world rather than theoretical benefits.
Build a simple landing page for each idea. Put a sign-up button on each page. Have it open a form that accepts email addresses as a way to register interest/receive updates. See which idea is more popular.
How does a deer hit the wing? Aren't they rather high? A small plane that's much slower on takeoff/landing than a commercial airliner?
> So - you can just borrow 13M and use the 13M as collatoral

wouldn't OP need equivalent collateral to borrow 13M even?
14 CFR 91.117 restricts aircraft to 250 knots indicated under 10K feet.
Put yourself in the founder shoes and think. He/She already has some way of doing things, which is working till now, and you are trying to break it. There will be some resistance to this inertia.

When you talked about the standard, people tend to make themselves as exception saying that "our case is different". Check if this is the case.

It seems that you are starting big. Trying to push the changes, which people are not used to. Start with small changes, something like statistical analysis tools or some small automated test case tool. Something which will be simple and not much time consuming for developers. Once they see its value, may be then they can "trust" you with big changes.

Then there is psychological approach for making changes. You can present your ideas in such a way that the person buying (in your case founder), feels that he/she has a choice or a major role in decision making. But then you present choices, such that the one you prefer comes out as obviously best. Check if this approach can work in your case.

Finally, it's your life and your job. Mental stability is more important that the company you are working in. Don't hesitate to fly away on first opportunity.
It was surveillance video that primarily implicated him, by showing his car. And then the Fitbit data showed that she had died while the car was still there.

Without the surveillance video, the Fitbit data would arguably have been useless.
I suspect the numbering will only be used for more or less backwards compatible standards. I doubt they will break compatibility with N anytime soon.
This works for stuff like uber and airbnb but will land you in jail if you try to do it in the financial or healthcare sectors
Find a smaller problem to solve that would require less capital and prove that you’re worthy of $13M.

You can likely do what you want by partnering.
Yet you can go on YouTube and see people fly them.
I recently re-watched some episodes of Transformers and GI Joe that I LOVED as a little twerp. Total garbage writing and animation, which makes me think anyone can make children's shows with some colorful animation and catchy words/songs. This Chu Chu looks like I'm waiting for the acid to kick in.
The presence of issues is not the main problem. Even the best system is going to have bad actors slip in on occasion or mistakes happen. The problem is that even when an officer makes an egregious and documented violation of the law, on purpose, there is no expectation any more that they will face the same punishment that the rest of the population would face.

It's a complete breakdown of the rule of law and leads to more and more disregard for the law, which is only going to be met with more authoritarian responses unless the police decide to actually apply the law to themselves as well.
The iPhone is responsible for many things but "bringing tons of people to computing for the first time" is probably not one of them.

The vast majority of iPhone users have a computer, it was even more prevalent in 2007 when the first iPhone came out, and was a luxury gadget that was mostly purchased by technology minded and wealthy people - a group who were vastly more likely to own home computers.
I'd make a video about how each one works, put it on their own landing page and market it like crazy. Email / signup is too high a commitment to ask from potential customers but people seem more receptive about giving anonymous feedback
Check his post history, he has been calling other commenters cucks and the like.
Ask HN: Why developers hate scraping?
Over time we've built products like : adplexity.com (5million USD annnul revenue, 100K annual expense)

But why aren't there more developers interested in scraping products?
Granted, the other reason was that because of Pajamacare, health plans that are "too good" get taxed excessively.
No need for a separate grid to deliver high voltage even in rural areas, the overhead or underground wires are between 4KV to 30KV anyway. There is a transformer to step it down to the end use voltage, whatever that is, eg 240 or 400.
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If you're interested in YouTube success stories, Swedish Babblarna[1] makes children's videos and their most popular video has 64 million views. Many of their popular videos have over 10 million views (about the population of Sweden). The difference is that they're only in Swedish.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmHatten/videos
Microsoft is Apple Now
There’s a Geoff Dyer piece about visiting the Lightning Field which is worth a read if you’re curious: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/18/poles-apart
My reading of that article is that what's currently being fought over is the secrecy of the recoring activity, rather than consent. That it is this level of nuance that is being argued in court suggests that the issue of consent is well seettled.
> and every single time productivity dropped significantly

I'm skipping job postings which require k8s. It just tells me they're not competent, falling for the hype. For AWS, ECS is way simpler and is a fully featured orchestration tool. I had an interview today, where I tried to educate why simple is better, and why they don't need k8s. No luck :)
Also what's the latest tech stack for easy scraping?

Most new developers are not able to scrap using regex, css selectors etc... So is there any new advancement in scraping field?
I was thinking that myself.

Many might think about ice-cold revenge, but most forget about it after a few decades. Fortunately.
I don’t think C# has superior async functionality, it used to, and certainly had for a long time, but not today.

Threading and tasks add unnecessary complexity.

Speed? What speed, this web assembly example is more than 5mb of .net libraries. We make apps for people on less than 3g.

Entity is one of the worst, least productive and most error prone frameworks we’ve ever had in our stack. Especially code first.

Linq almost made us stick with C# forever.
One person has a shortcut that puts the phone into least brightness, sends a text message to a contact and switches on the front camera when the police pull you over.

I tried it, but can't get it to activate when I say the phrase :(
I know a bunch of people here have said "partner with a bank" or get a license. That seems like a good option, but obviously you wonder how can a small startup or even a founder or two do that?

I have learned a couple things about being the little guy trying to partner with bigger folks:

- Josh Elman (from Greylock) suggested that when (I think) when LinkedIn (or Twitter, I forget) was small, they didn't go out to look for partnerships with big companies, because they knew those wouldn't pan out because no one in a big company would care. They mostly sought relationships with smaller companies with some audience, but who were more receptive to talk to team up to crush the big guys and offer better value. Smaller competitors in crowded markets like banking are always trying to find ways to become more dominant, so they are more open than the folks at the top of the market.

- Just make your offering really really compelling - the "offer you cannot refuse" kind. This is not easy. This goes against traditional business sense, because you might have to offer value at less than cost. But if this is what the existence or growth of your business hinges on, you have to bend over backwards. Goes to the good old Dale Carnegie stuff; focus on their value in the conversation over yours. They need to feel like working with you is a steal of a deal. There are plenty of ways and business models to do this, but offering human capital, co-branding, offering equity or some rev share, customer insights, etc. are all fair game.
Personally I was a Spideroak customer for 2 years or so and moved to Tresorit after the canary thing. They offer very similar features but their apps are a lot better. Spideroak always felt quite clunky. Also, the servers are based in Europe.

I don't think either is great to use with lots of data as upload and download seem quite slow, but for my use case of just storing documents it is fine.
You can download the original source video from YouTube later. I know it's not optimal but we're talking workarounds here.
> I read over a couple of the papers. The descriptions of them by the authors did not match the content of the papers.

So did I. The dog park paper more or less matches its description. The fat bodybuilding paper is exactly as described. The dildos paper is as described. Do you have any descriptions aside from the Hooters one that you take issue with?

> Yes, the methodology isn't that great, and the paper was rejected.

Sure, but lots of them were not. I'm not sure why you would focus on a paper that was rejected when they had 7 that were accepted.

> More generally, the "study" isn't selecting random journals to see if they could defraud -- it is instead aimed at specific academic targets and a "test to failure" scattershot mechanism is used. Thus we have no idea whether these journals are any more discriminating than, say, PLOS or Nature.

True, though I have a hard time believing you could get the same result in any STEM discipline, though i'm certainly open to data to the contrary.

> Ultimately, I had some sympathy for the Sokal experiment in that it seemed to say something about the interaction of literary theory and physics. I don't get the same sense that there's much here other than "confirmation bias exists, even among gender studies folks!!!" which seems like it wouldn't take 3 people 10 months to figure out, and could be done in a much more direct way, and honestly isn't that shocking or rattling a conclusion.

I think the point of all this is that the epistemology of the field is intellectually bankrupt. It's not just confirmation bias. It's that within the epistemology of gender studies, they aren't even wrong.
If this is so, then your media is doing huge damage to American society by reporting it the way it does. There's a difference between "some policemen in some specific states/cities tend to behave badly" vs. "police in general is your enemy", and the latter seems to be the common narrative.
What is the application for hundreds of thousands of batteries on a farm?
ARRL now in talks with FCC over this:
http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-fcc-discussing-issue-of-uncert...
I was discussing this with someone a few weeks ago, and swarms of drones (flying in formation) are a concern, and the only thing really stopping it is that no one has tried (as neuralRiot says).

Unfortunately, I don't really know how you would prevent it.
Or like Neptune. They predicted that from orbital perturbations they couldn't explain before they found it. Much better analogy than aether. Aether was trying to fix a theory, not a measurement.
If you have a reasonable internet connection at home this might be the moment to get your own server. Next to online storage (Nextcloud/Owncloud, Seafile) it can host your mail (postfix/exim w/dovecot + spamassassin + sieve), source repo (gogs/gitea), miscellaneous web things you might want to host, media streaming server (airsonic, ampache, etc), personal VPN (openVPN) and more. This gives you far more flexibility (and storage) than commercial online storage/sync solutions for the price of some work to set it up and the electricity to power the thing.
Took them until Wed. but finally they're "in talks" with FCC

http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-fcc-discussing-issue-of-uncert...
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>_Any_ language that targets the CLR or JVM should suffice.

That's a very bold thing to say when you don't even know what I'm planning to do with it. Like, NodeJS will "suffice". Why don't I just use that since I'm very experienced with it? Reasons. Why don't I use Java? Reasons.

I feel like this is going nowhere. I'll probably choose Go. Stranger on internet thinks I'm wrong. This is the story whenever the topic of programming languages comes up. Everyone thinks their preference is the one true preference.
The legality is complicated, the tech challenges are hard, and, to be honest, it just feels a bit off to profit from other people's work without giving back to them.

Question for you - why do you care what people think if you're making $4.9m profit a year?
Those criticizing the hoaxers are missing their central point: a real field of study wouldn't be taken in by stuff that outsiders with any hint of common sense would very swiftly recognize as laughable nonsense and garbage. The real horror story is that there are so-called fields that are nothing except laughable nonsense garbage. When you call rotting garbage food, don't be surprised when rotting garbage contributed by outsiders is impossible to be differentiated from your official garbage.
Said rogue scientist would need funding and infrastructure. Rogue government department or billionaire maybe.
I thought the same as I was watching this. Both of them.

The vocabulary, mannerisms, off-hand comments, even the sort of PG-nerdy-accent thing.

I'm also from the area so it's certainly not that.

It's remarkable.
From what I understand at the moment the problem is that many police precincts in the US cannot afford them (since they don't get enough funding -- you need to hire people to sort through the footage as well as licensing the hardware and software from Tazer and so on).

Quite a few cops who participated in trials of body cameras were super positive about them (and wished they could keep them) since it also protects them in cases where they are wrongly accused of some sort of malpractice. But in many cases they are too expensive to be able to roll out country-wide and few people want to pay more taxes.
Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset (2017)
I see this more clearly in hindsight. By pure accident I ended up in software development: My mother found this university, I did not have anything else on my mind at the time, just started studying, graduated and here I am 10+ years later professional sw dev. In school I was much more into arts and crafts so I never really anticipated that I would end up. All because of a small decision back then... ridiculous really ;) Some people really think they are in control of their lives ...