skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. This is one of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of medicine today.

AFAIK, it's actually true. If we live long enough, we'll all get cancer. In the case of men, it's a near certainty we'll get prostate cancer if we don't die of something else first.

Also, 85% of us have Cytomegalovirus, which basically executes a DOS attack on the memory of your immune system, eventually resulting in immune deficiency. However, the progression of CMV is so slow, we'll almost certainly die of cancer before this happens.
Ask HN: How does PayPal access my Bank Account
PayPal, asks me for my bank information and than can withdraw funds for my bank account. If I wanted to program this on my own how can I achieve that?
Is that a rounding?

1337 * pi/100 = 42.00309...

[] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1337+*+pi%2F100
If it's not accessible via browser, it doesn't exist to most people.
"The other direction requires more thought: how do you coax such a simple language into providing the features we expect of a modern programming language, such as numbers, Booleans, conditionals, lists and recursion? "

No, the other direction requires simulating a Turing machine with lambda calculus.
No, it's something they'd like to know, and would be useful to know, but there's a difference between that and need to know. So long as everyone (within reason) has the same information and that information is honest, then the market is fair because they're all in the same boat.

After all, where would it stop? "Jonny Ive has had a break up with his other half and is really down, he's meant to be working on the new iPhone but he's really off his game...". "Inform the shareholders!"

It's similar to the difference between "in the public interest" and "the public are interested".
Ebook Formats, DRM and You — A Guide for the Perplexed
The coolest one I've seen (I forget where, unfortunately) presented the user with two faces and asked them to pick the more attractive one.
There is always some overlap between these types of software, but R and Octave are fundamentally different products. R is a statistical tool, while Octave is a numerical analysis tool. Depending on the problem you're trying to solve, you may find one or the other to be more convenient.
What's wrong with conventional medicine in the US is small compared to what's wrong with how we finance it.
What's your point? Or is this just some throwaway Zen?
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Naming Your Startup
Now you can get snow blindness in summer.
26% of AT&T iPhone Owners Going to Verizon
Great thoughts. I've also always been fascinated by the choices people make in careers. There are some professions that are almost exclusively concerned with creating new value in the world. There are others that focus on taking value that others have created and consuming it directly or moving it around. There's a whole continuum in the middle.

Sounds like a whole new blog post of it's own.
Everything You Need To Know About Tim Cook, Apple's COO
"Barendregt is a helluva drug."

Not sure I agree: his lectures are quite sleep inducing these days. Though reducing programming to something so simple and mathematical does open lots of possibilities...
I haven't visited Slashdot for a long while either; I recall it being good for throwing in some fun "science" stuff in addition to the tech.
I don't fully understand lambda calculus, but i inferred a stack overflow from his tattoo?

Went to buy the book and its beyond my budget at the moment ($215 on Amazon).
right at the bottom.. "© 2011 Andrew Gwozdziewycz. I like community. Powered by Modest. Not tested in IE, because it sucks." .. i agree totally!
GET vs POST in terms of security
You Can’t Force Viral Marketing
Amazingly Accurate Guessing Game
This is where I sympathize with transhumanist ideas.

We should seriously research the possibility of transferring the human consciousness into a machine "body". Our organic bodies will fail us eventually.
great explanation of how subclassing works in 1.5! now you can extend / overwrite jQuery in extreme isolation without polluting its global namespace.
How is Xeround MySQL Cloud Database Different from Amazon’s MySQL Offering?
In Xeround's latest blog post, Razi Sharir illustrates key differences between Amazon RDS and Xeround's MySQL Cloud Database.
Dark surfaces radiate the minimum amount of heat, though. A perfectly black body will absorb all incoming radiation and re-emit it back by a Boltzmann distribution (according to its temperature). Less than perfect surfaces would reflect some the incident light/heat; if they reflect at the same constant or regular angle, we recognize it as 'shiny', while if it's a random angle, our eyes recognize it as matte/solid white.
Pretty much. There's actually quite a bit of overlap between the two. If you're doing statistical work then R is a natural. For engineering tasks Octave/Matlab is more convenient, particularly if you're doing a lot of linear algebra, where Octave's syntax is ideal. You'll also find more third-party code available if you stick to the language closest to your problem domain.

R's graphing facilities are superb though, and easily outdistance Octave's. So if you want to build complex visualizations that might trump other concerns.

Numpy/Scipy can do most of what R and Octave can do but their syntax isn't optimal, since they're built on a general-purpose language.
And cancer isn't one condition, it's many many conditions, so if they cured prostrate cancer you'd likely get another one. The chances of a single "cure for cancer" is basically zero.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd042009s.gif gives a nice summary.
-Actually the TC visitors returned less than the others.
-I got more Twitter followers during the TC-HN spike than in the others.
-The visitors who returned the most are from xatakafoto, it seems they really like the Flikr channel.
same impression
You are presuming that becoming a billionaire is the end game.
How "Delay" Function Works
I can't answer precisely, but I can give you some pointers to start your research:

1. International: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interbank...

2. America: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Clearing_House
random first second thoughts:

as i scrolled down the page, I lost the text to image connection. where does the text belong to, the image above or below.

does not show the mobile interface. or is it just a website that you call "app"?
I'm a little blown away at this myself. I knew they were extremely agile, able to make changes on a whim, but this sounds a bit crazy. Might check in with my buddy who works at FB to see if this matches up with reality. The sheer stress of working in an environment where perfection is not only desired, but required, would drive me crazy. Some of the processes, though, sound like they would be a dream. Working on things I want to work on would make me 100x more productive. Of course, it also means some things may never get done.
Calling it marketing doesn't make it so. Depriving the owner of their revenue is theft just as much as deciding to occupy a seat on a train without paying is depriving the train operator of revenue and is theft, claiming that the seat is unused or that you doing marketing is bogus. You are depriving them of revenue and are committing theft. If the term of usage is pay to use then not paying is stealing, if you don't like it then don't use it.
Some inaccuracies pointed out by another FB engineer
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f3u0n/how_faceb...
Thanks Armando.
I'll keep that in mind. When is Georgia a best option?
The hash tags let you link to specific slides.
How can one tell from side-by-side captures that aren't even the same frames and where it's not clearly stated whether or not they're even comparable bitrates?
That's why I use Drumlin. http://www.drumlinsecurity.co.uk/
This is probably an atypical type of thread for HN but I figured I'd share anyway. It's pretty obvious once you read it but I was a bit curious on the topic regarding SSL/https and sending data via GET. I'd never thought of posting an "image" (or whatever) for an admin to see that could contain harmful data in its URL.
This seems to fit how I view Facebook as a whole. I find some of their technology extremely impressive such as their blazing fast search or HipHop. However, a lot of their user experience is extremely flawed and there is a big lack of consistency and intuitiveness. Examples: clicking your friend requests on the right side of the home page pops something up that tells you to click somewhere else, events are no longer notified so you have to manually check to see if you received new ones, the distinction between adding a page to your interests versus Like'ing it is not well defined, or if it is, many users are unaware, making an event for a Facebook Page is very convoluted... etc etc. I feel that issues like these are the reason why product managers and designers exist. I think Facebook is starting to really fall behind in this regard as more and more features start to clutter and complicate the site.
we are planning to add some features that depend on that email address (some sort of advanced client profile)
They'll sell today and tomorrow they'll see it's lower, think it's a bargain and all buy it back... These are not bright people (or rather they often are demonstrably very bright people who just hide it well with their words and actions).
Thanks, There is a lot of information in the links. I will go over them in detail when I get a chance.
Good work! Well executed and simple.
It's a great list of questions, but don't take the translations too literally. Usually when VCs ask "what's your exit strategy" they're just checking to see whether you've been thinking about, not looking to take you out as CEO. If you go into every conversation expecting the person you're talking with to be evil, it will really warp your experience.
Climate change may be responsible for the rise and fall of Roman empire
Well, more specifically 26% of survey respondents said that. I think the original article is actually a better read:

http://www.investorplace.com/28029/impact-verizon-apple-ipho...
I seriously think that he is at the company because he likes his job. He probably identifies strongly at the company and feels that it is his responsibility to stay with the company.
Good point.

But, those are exactly the language features that make it easy to implement a Turing machine.
I don't think anyone here is asking for his white blood cell count or wants to know the name of his doctors and what kind of medication regime he is on.

I would imagine everyone here agrees with his right to privacy on the details of his illness; however what some of the GPs are saying is simply that the overall status/summary of his health (i.e. he has cancer, or not) needs to be disclosed.
Oh no - I'm fine with individual users saying it, but I'm saying I hope the company doesn't ban me all together.

I'd also like to be able to show them how many miles I drive a year (ALOT!) - mostly highway out of state, so I have a far higher chance than the average person.

A simple 18 months figure (ZipCar's) doesn't get the guy with one ticket 2 years ago who barely drives with no experience. Also, I'd like to be able to show something like my credit score as it's an indication of my level of responsibility. Of course - it's a pipe dream...
They wish. And by they, I mean AT&T and Verizon. AT&T needs users to switch to Verizon so the network can finally get some relief, and for the PR outbreak that will happen when Verizon users finally realize the limitations of CDMA. Verizon needs this to secure the revenue from iPhone users, as well as to prove the resiliency of their network. Consumers are going to win this battle. The carriers will lose.
Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave Again
It's a tattoo of the call-by-name Y combinator.

You'll get a stack overflow in a strict language, but not a lazy one.
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There is also this same service in France, VoitureLib and they have a pretty extensive FAQ that you can translate from French:

http://www.voiturelib.com/page/guide-pour-louer-voiture-entr...

My friend in Paris has listed his vehicle and gets tons of requests all the time. The demand is there for borrowing a car temporarily. (I-go, and zipcar), but there are legitimate concerns for sellers.

One way to do this is to ask for a deposit. This can be upwards of 3000 Euros which makes the seller appeased but also adds a barrier to the buyer. I wonder how this P2P model will work when one catastrophic event could ruin the business and reputation. There seems to be so many barriers. Not sure if the amount of revenue justifies the risks involved.
Maybe its just but I couldn't get any connection between flying planes and coding from the article.
But I do have learning to fly planes on my to-do list
Why Crowdsourcing Should Be Called Group Powering (And Why Its So Powerful)
Remove DRM from ebooks
Yeah, I wouldn't want to run my company like this:

re: surprise at lack of QA or automated unit tests — “most engineers are capable of writing bug-free code. it’s just that they don’t have an incentive to do so at most companies. when there’s a QA department, it’s easy to just throw it over to them to find the errors.”

It does explain how facebook ships with bad documentation etc. -- well, now we have enough knowledge to know how to compete with it :)

Kasparov often remarked how a good process is more important than the actual participants. An average human and pretty good computer with a great system won the championship against great computers and against great grandmasters.

Google believes in this, and their products are very well engineered, with full documentation, videos etc. (although admittedly, many haven't taken off). Yahoo definitely understands this. But these are the same companies that are losing to facebook because of social.

If google and yahoo understood the dynamics of social, we would all be better off.
We have storms that leave snow for several days once every 17 years or so. I wouldn't worry about it here so much.
There are so many examples of Apple doing something weird and reversing direction, with or without Jobs at the helm. Especially picking out a minor detail like stripped icons seems akin to reading tea leaves. The iTunes and Mac App Store UI and the iTunes symbol have been “universally derided”, too.

(I would also like to note that, on the grand scale of things, your examples are minor. Sure, they matter, but they are at least rectifiable at a minimal loss.)
The point is that bus driver is not a derogatory term but that people that drive buses do important work and give direction to a 10+ton vehicle that would otherwise be going nowhere and take responsibility for the lives of their passengers.

Calling a CEO a 'glorified bus driver' is an attempt at playing down the importance of bus drivers and CEOs at the same time when in fact in both professions the responsibilities are substantial and the price for fuck-ups is immense.

Buses and companies do not drive themselves and if there is nobody or a bad choice at the wheel the corporations, their shareholders, the buses and the passengers will suffer.
Flying is easy, paying for the lessons and gas is not.
Copying the main points here, from Reddit user "epriest":

The article is has a few inaccuracies:

There is mandatory code review for all changes (i.e., by one or more engineers). I think the article is just saying that Zuck doesn't look at every change personally.

People do not get called out for introducing bugs. They only get called out if they ask for changes to go out with the release but aren't around to support them in case something goes wrong (and haven't found someone to cover for you).

Getting blamed will NOT get you fired. We are extremely forgiving in this respect, and most of the senior engineers have pushed at least one horrible thing, myself included. As far as I know, no one has ever been fired for making mistakes of this nature.

We have automated testing, including "push-blocking" tests which must pass before the release goes out.

We absolutely do not believe "most engineers are capable of writing bug-free code", much less that this is a reasonable notion to base a business upon. If this is a real quote, it comes from a very junior engineer. It is empirically untrue.

The nine push phases are not concentric. There are three concentric phases (p1 = internal release, p2 = small external release, p3 = full external release). The other six phases are auxiliary tiers like our internal tools, video upload hosts, etc.
Having worked at Apple for a large chunk of the last decade, I'm not sure that Steve Jobs is necessarily all that integral to their continued success. Certainly, Apple will never be without Steve what they can be with him, but my interactions with Tim Cook, Ron Johnson, and a handful of others lead me to think Apple will be in very good hands once Steve's out of the picture. Apple-without-Steve will very likely still be head-and-shoulders above everyone else in the industry.

It's not about one man. It's about the culture.
Love the simple interface. One UX issue that comes to mind is, when I delete a tag that's present on only one note, just redirect me to Dashboard instead of saying there are no notes left and providing a link to Dashboard.
That thick yellow book rocked my world once upon a time.

Never saw him lecture though.
I thought unladen swallow was dead, someone correct me if I'm wrong
LCD Projector Used to Control Brain and Muscles of Tiny Organisms Such as Worms
That's a lot more big generalizations. Citations would be nice.

And it is getting away from the main point. Which is the claim that women are bad at abstraction, versus my concrete evidence that they are capable of it.

If you need another data point, back when I was in grad school something like 40% of graduate students in math were women. From my experience, they weren't the bottom 40%. And were quite capable at abstraction.

I truly don't believe that women aren't in CS because it is too hard for their pretty little heads. OK, sure, most women wouldn't succeed in CS for that reason. But the same is true of most men.
Plus, Apple announces earnings after the market closes tomorrow.
Why Your Startup Should Have A Retreat
Interestingly in the article the author notes that she was positively influenced by a professor that regularly said "let's hear from some of the girls" -- something that sounds condescending and like it's unfairly singling out the girls/women. Presumably that was countered by the positive effect of actually forcing them to talk. And the Imposter Syndrome (which I see sited very often by women) implies that while the damage to self-esteem might be an issue, girls (and women) will still probably self-inflict that damage to their esteem regardless. Which is to say, removing barriers won't counter this (might not even be that important), rather it takes some assertive effort.
Could it not be the other way around: perhaps your doubled app sales provoked a huge increase in piracy?
Goldman Sachs Thumbs Nose At SEC, Sells Facebook Deal Outside Its Jurisdiction
FTA: "lighter colored pavement". In any case, it's not like any "white" (walked-on) pavement would stay that way very long.
He teaches classes at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, specifically my "Languages and automata/machines" class. He has a "zen" something going on with lots of interesting comments.
Proof that SEO link spamming works wonders with Google
I think you should start a blog series or maybe write a book on interview and negotiation techniques. Just reading this post had provided me more information than all of my job interviews added together.
> iOS 3 brought the universally derided striped icons, which sounds like a minor point, but is actually the sort of attention to detail Jobs brings.

Well, under Jobs, every damned official Apple icon is either a blue rectangle on iOS or a blue circle on Mac OS. Maybe Apple just suck at icons.
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Perhaps this is a good example of how much of that professional "seasoning" is actually unnecessary or gets in the way of building successful products and high-caliber responsible teams, i.e. "throwing over the wall to QA" etc.

edit: Can I ask why this is being downvoted? Because I am disagreeing with the parent poster? I don't think I am raising poor points or somehow not contributing to the discussion. Facebook seems to not do a lot of "standard" things because they view them as counter to their goals of building their product. I am merely stating that perhaps there is a lesson in there about the value of what some of the convential wisdom in our industry dictates.
Maybe but a simple get well soon and our thoughts are with him and his family would have been better rather than an unsubstantiated prognosis.
"COBOL dies"

Now that's a headline I wouldn't mind seeing.
"As far as (non-mission critical)web frameworks go, I think these days you have two options: Python/Django and Ruby/Rails."

I wonder what the author means by "non-mission critical?" Someone considering writing a web app in Django/Rails that is used by thousands of customers might be scared off by that statement.
This is only a tiny part of the company and we're far from knowing if any profit will be realized.
How would the destination of a driverless bus affect its path? I think the major path affectors would be things like concrete barriers, buildings, other vehicles, bodies of water, or large rocks.
DIY sous vide immersion heater. 1hr, $50.
For uploading Android applications, Amazon's Appstore UI wins out
> these stories themselves look all the same

I think if everyone is using the same argument, then it is something many people believe in and therefore should be looked into.
Dear AT&T customers,
All the great things you hear about Verizon are lies. Please, don't come over to this network - it's really horrible, I swear! That's why I'm a lifetime Verizon customer. I mean, er...

Signed,
A VZW Subscriber Panicked about AT&T Refugees
I don’t really see the connection to Minecraft. It managed to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed without any artists, isn’t that just the point?

The main difference between Notch and EA is not that EA has 900 "thoroughly average" developers, that's the point. If EA has 900 developers it's probably because they have dozens of projects going on at the same time. The difference is that EA's approach to game development typically requires a diverse array of specialized talent, which incurs administrative and organizational overhead, which is costly and slows everyone down at least a little. But, the goal is a game that could not be made by just one person. The number of "notch-like" developers they may have would just be one factor in the success of the game.

EA is old, enormous, and there is almost certainly full of bureaucratic inefficiency and mismanagement that a single programmer won't have, but "900 thoroughly average developers" aren't representative of those resources.
I hope the money does not come with too many strings attached in terms of reporting requirements and so on.

2.3 million euros is pocket change for the EU but for Odersky and his team it is a very large sum of money to be able to use to expand their team and to put more power behind the scala effort.
Poetry written in Perl, using Perl, or about Perl
The article says this: "A paper by Odersky states that the EU funding will mainly be provided for the definition of domain-specific languages (DSLs) in libraries." and refers to this blog post: http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8579

Is that the same thing?
Health IT gets $27 Billion stimulus spark
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While you are correct, in the case of dark pavement with patches of snow lying on top, conduction will be a far more prominent transfer mode than radiation.

(Although neither will be really large, and I think the blinding effect from a light pavement would be a more important issue here.)
I think we can safely rewrite the gp to read 'and what you're driving in to'.