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Any discussion on cancer is very incomplete without an acknowledgement that pre-civilization cancer was much more rare, and in some hunter-gatherer societies almost unknown. Good Calories Bad Calories has a good discussion of this and other health issues in some remote areas. Some members of those societies lived into old age, and some members of our society get cancer at young ages. Along these lines, I would be very interested in reading about cancer rates of animals in natural environments. One must assume that the talk of mice getting cancer is referring to lab mice.
Think about an emergency vacation. Will fix things to just get away from it, no internet connectivity, etc. I love short cruises for this.
I love seeing these examples of product development: begin with a very specific niche at the edge (not tackling the mainstream head-on) and "target non-consumption" - that way, you have no competition; and it's not a zero-sum game where you beat someone, but creating value that never existed before. This is possible not because it's good, but because it's cheap (and good enough):

> primarily a low-cost tool ... for local youth sports .... and financial results of local public companies ... “Mostly, we’re doing things that are not being done otherwise,”

Then, once you have some customers - any customers! - you improve it, bit by bit. It doesn't need to be perfect in the first place; it doesn't need to be perfect in the end. It just needs to be good enough to be useful.

> [customer] worked with Narrative Science for months to fine-tune the software

As for the technology itself, we're not told anything of its details, just what it can do. This is a marketing article, not a tech report. It would be interesting to see the models they use for stories, and whether they use grammars for the overall structure. These are very narrow domains, which are the easiest to start with: you could enumerate all the standard cliches, understand when they apply, and tweak the model. That's where the journalist expert domain knowledge of the two founders would come in handy. BTW: "easiest" is only relative - it would still be very difficult (almost impossible), and kudos to these guys for actually doing it - and even better, making an actual business out of it.

It reads like a 50's Asimov story - the future is finally arriving.

But a Pulitzer in 5 years is absurd, either cynical puff or visionary bravado. Theoretically possible, I think, maybe in 50 years - the figure I've long given for strong AI. ;-)
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I agree with you on many points, but there are a few things for which I prefer to have a dedicated shortcut. Specifically, basic functionality such as copying a line. More importantly, by your logic, we shouldn't have the C-k shortcut either. Wouldn't we be poorer for such a lack of divergence from bedrock abstraction?
I did write, "The problem with this is that I don't think it scales." before the quoted line. It was a stretch.

Lenders weren't detached from the consequences of their decisions by the government. They were detached from the consequences of their decisions by selling securities based on the loans they made to dupes. That it was done at a massive scale without the dupes properly pricing in the risk caused a meltdown.
Funny thing, I thought it was fundamentally about the nature of humans' interaction with history. (Though it also made me more interested in math.)
I found this was a very good review. I liked that they kept the part where the browser was buggy (I never had that bug on my SGS2 btw.), and that they explained how the browser uses the GPU.
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I enjoy using the wonderful lazy list implementation here: https://github.com/pkrumins/node-lazy IMHO, it has abetter interface than streamjs
His description of how differential signaling is used is totally whacked too. His link to Wikipedia's "Phase Difference" page has "phase" in the title, but is irrelevant to how and why differential signaling is used ("puts the out-of-phase signal back in phase, then compares it to the "real" signal" Huh? Not.). He should have linked to "Differential Signaling" instead.
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We don't need computers to do this, people do it already. Most "news" channels spew out such a monotonous train of thought, that it makes me wonder if switching to a news channel these days is even worth it.
For now, I am able to get my news and information online from a variety of sources that offer me interesting views on both sides. Even if one day all of this is content produced by machines, I think its the individual's responsibility to make sure that he/she gets information from both sides.
Vim is better designed than Emacs for editing. Emacs is just better designed for everything else. To this day, there is no better way of scrolling text than j/k. That doesn't change the reality of Emacs' incredible flexibility.
If you don’t like to read, either learn to or find yourself a new career.

This is so true. About two years ago I realized that a significant chunk of my time was reading. I would read howtos, api docs, in depth analysis of things, both directly related to my job that day and programming in general. I did an analysis and realized that I was easily reading the equivalent of a 1000 page book a week. I have since taken efforts to both increase the quantity and quality of my reading, and it has paid off. I actively seek out topics I am ignorant of, and deeper articles on topics that have interested me. I also try to look at tools I don't expect ever to use. In all these cases I just read. This has given me a breadth I hadn't enjoyed before, and I suddenly have access to a whole new understanding when I and my co-workers encounter problems -- "hey let's look over here for ideas, that field has encountered similar problems"

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I disagree with this. There is a point at which I need to just be done with an issue for now. This give me a chance to background process the problem. The number of times the answer "just comes to me" while doing something else has given me a certain amount of faith in temporarily walking away from the problem. A lot of people call this the "shower solution".
There are a few that already exist if you just do a quick Google search:

http://www.lifesta.com/
http://www.dealigee.com/
http://www.dealsgoround.com/
http://couprecoup.com/

Now if you're talking about non-Groupon type coupons as well such as regular retail coupons, there are a few of those as well including the major bargain aggregating communities.

Some are definitely successful businesses. Whether or not it's a good idea is up to you (it's going to be subjective for everyone). Just because you have an idea for a social network doesn't mean you'll be a Facebook. You could be one of the other thousands of unknown networks. It's all about how you execute.
I wrote a binary tree that used node counts in a similar way. However, the insertion rules included checking whether a rotation on the inserted node would result in a subtree that could again be rotated by the same rule. This gave a cutoff ratio of left-to-right counts, below which it didn't make sense to rotate-- and hence kept every subtree pretty nicely balanced.

Another benefit to having the node counts-- and this, I think, was the original motivation-- was it made the tree "binary" not only for looking up a particular key, but also for looking up the Nth key-ordered entry (which was important in the application).
Did they write an entire two page article while ignoring the real leader in this space, in my opinion: http://statsheet.com/
I agree, but I need to share my mouse between my Ubuntu and Windows PCs, so that's the only solution I know of.
One thing I don't understand, which the article just mentions in passing...

What is the difference between "high-speed" HDMI cables and standard cables? Are high-speed cables worth the extra money?
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do you happen to know if they refund across the globe or just in the USA?
I totally agree with your premise. I used to work at google, and every time I go back there / talk to my old friends it breaks my heart a little.

That said, you've made two claims in your post:

1. All groups will get worse over time

2. Therefore, we should keep government as small as possible

The refutation to the argument is that many other modern democracies have (proportionally) bigger governments than the US. These countries certainly get advantages from big governments (like social welfare, decent education systems, state sponsored medical attention, etc) but don't seem to pay much of a cost for it.

As an Australian citizen, I will get paid a dole if I can't find work, all my important medical expenses are covered or heavily subsidised, our schools are decent everywhere, and so on. My taxes are a bit higher than yours, but not unreasonably so.

I suspect the important difference might just be scale - Australia has just 20M people. Most European countries have similar sizes. Maybe if the US were lots of small countries instead it would work better? Its hard to tell...
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Ask HN: Too many costumers, no time
I would like to ask you what would you do if you have too many costumers. Now my business have a great attention from target group. In our inbox there are 5000 emails asking for our premium service and ready to pay. But I have only three workers, and I can't answer all of my costumers. I need more workers, but I can't do it because I have no time to be a CEO of my company. I am a medicine student, everyday I must study, read. Would you think about a University drop-out?

P.S. sorry for my bad english, I am from Germany.
True, it's not inconceivable, but arguably having a system that is an effective investigative journalist is AI-Complete:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete
When I visit a landing page, I want to know quickly what it's about. There is some excess wording - How about changing "Are you like me and..." to "Do you..."

I don't know that I'd use this, but I could see the usefulness if I looked at a few more news sources on a regular basis. If I used this, I would want the source links on the left to do something different. When I click on "WCBS-TV", I want the results on the right to filter so that I only see the news items on WCBS. I don't want to see a whole list of items from the sources you have selected.

To clarify, replace the source links on the left with a checklist. I can check three sources, and the feed only contains items from those sources. Now this becomes my news feed for NY instead of me looking at your news feed for NY.
If a computer had written this article, maybe it would have mentioned how useful this technology is for spammers.
>In my case I can't stand people walking around me,

I've had people threaten my job because of my similar positioning of my monitor "What are you hiding", etc.
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A calendar or a formal todo list are both too formal for me. I use Post-It notes, or a pad of paper on a busy day.
In a truly free market system too big to fail can occur. Bank runs, financial panics and collapses occurred for centuries before governments made explicit or implicit guarantees to banks or other large enterprises.

That there wasn't a total collapse of the banking system in 2008 was precisely because of government intervention. Everyone would have withdrawn their funds from banks had it not been for FDIC. Imbalances can't be prevented. What can be prevented is a total collapse and the effects of imbalances can be mitigated. This is one of the main reasons for the modern interventionist view of governments with regard to market regulation.

The goal is to prevent millions of small bad decisions ending up adversely affecting the whole country. This is my problem with libertarianism. There is no mechanism for dealing with the scaling issue. Negative externalities are not dealt with.
Race and IQ are not scientifically precise tools. Both are fundamentally subjective. Why do we say that Barack Obama is a black man and not a white man? If we are to have a logically precise definition of race, both statements are true or neither is. In a genetic context, most African-Americans are just as much white as black. But in a study comparing disease rates among ethnic groups, African-Americans and Caucasians are treated as disjoint sets.

IQ is just plain subjective. You would likely get similar results by sitting the designers of the IQ test one on one in a room with someone, and then having them rate the people they talked to by how much they were interested in the conversation.

I don't think that Turkheimer is saying that you can't look at race and IQ in a scientific context. What he's saying is that the concepts of race and IQ are more grounded in opinion than fact, and when we see them in scientific studies we should be wary if they are not mentioned in the same breath as other subjective classifications like religion or political affiliation.
I added an "elevator pitch" column, would be great if everybody filled it out. Makes it easier to know what everybody's doing.
A computer never would have missed that.
The Greeks had it right - "democracy" to greeks was competent people drawing lots for the jobs to perform in government. No politics involved. You did your job right because it was your responsibility, and you'd hate to see the job done improperly.

Randomness creates self enforcing systems, like the "I break it in half, then you pick" method of splitting a candy bar.
Giants protecting minnows? Reminds me of middle ages. You swear allegiance to the local lord which in turn protects you from other lords.
i do see they have refunds, but "ticketed events" are not refundable after the day of purchase.
Sometimes it's hard to know how secure a system is before anything happens

However there are many ways to look at a system and see weak points, before you get hacked. Are you vulnerible to SQL Injection attacks? (You have already been shown that RoR sites can be vulnerible to SQL Injections attacks and your ignorance of that fact http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973796 ). You cannot just say "Nothing in 100% secure" as a way to shut down conversation. Yes, there are unknown problems that could happen, but there are known security weaknesses. Are you covering for them?
Landing page - shorter "Do you" lead ins will let you increase font size, making it easier to see what the site does instantly.

Replace the text links with buttons - if you have made the newsqast concept clear in the lead ins, you don't need to say what the locale links do. Just make a grid of buttons with large text - Austin Chicago New York. As a visitor, I can see what clicking on the NY button will do. The last button could be "request a market near you". That would let you build a potential user list as well. Right now, the biggest link is the google chrome link. Your locales should be that big, and that appealing to click on.

Last, I like the sketch idea. Just simplify it a little. Just keep the (news weather traffic)->(newsqast)->(web mobile twitter)->(happy user) parts, and give them more breathing room.

Good luck!
Very nice review.

Despite being a tech guy in the Valley for a long time, I've never been a gadget guy... But the progress of Android OS and Samsung's phone have got me going a bit gadget/phone crazy. I really wanted an SGS2 until the rumors of the Droid Prime started to circulate. But, whichever variant of the SGS2 or Droid Prime (sounds as though it could be a monster phone) comes to Verizon, I can't wait to upgrade.
The fundamental underlying reason they could sell those securities was that they were exploiting the arbitrage from being able to dump the mortgages off on the FMs, at which point everybody knew they were unrealistically guaranteed by the Federal Government. I would point out that here in 2011, that's no longer a theory or mere rhetoric; it is now historical fact that the mortgages are in fact being covered by the Feds, as manifested by all the bailouts. Check out the FM's current financial situation if you need more proof. Without that risk sink in the system, they would never have been able to fly as far off the handle as they did. The securities were just ways of slicing up the stuff that was broken by the government-created risk sink.
I would love to see that in ClojureScript.
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Edit: Why am I being downvoted? Am I wrong?
Without a distribution, the algorithms generally match what one would get with a uniform distribution, and convexity is a very small relaxation from a unit cube. These by themselves don't change much, provided the shape of the region is nice. Edit: actually, the convexity might - but then to actually use the convexity property, you'd have to move to theoretical distributions and maybe something like veb-trees.

What do you mean by total unbalanced tree? For an exponential distribution, a complete tree would naturally be suboptimal. The real trouble, as I understand it, with k-trees using the median heuristic is that there is no total ordering in more than one dimension, barring special cases, and so binary partitionings can no longer keep all sought nodes inside them.

If your larger point is that assuming a uniform distribution in octrees (instead of using a balanced tree structure) is vulnerable, then yes, I agree fully. If not, I'll conclude that you're talking about some sort of clustering, where the partitioning is spatial but the sought points are not necessarily described by a range. That's interesting, too.
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I agree with the general sentiment of more respect for the users privacy. However, if you don't block all facebook social widgets completely, facebook will receive that information anyway and then this just seems like an inconvenience. Right?
Can you maybe re-write your 'Would you think about a University drop-out?' sentence?

If you are asking 'should' you drop-out? The answer is that it depends on what you want in life, and what your goals are.

If you've always wanted to run a company, and love the field that your company is currently involved in, then I'd say drop-out and go for it.

I assume you can always go back to school if you want to. You won't always have more customers than you can service. Consider yourself extremely lucky to be in the situation you are in.

I guess the question comes down to.

a) if you leave school, and work on the business,what are the positives and negatives.

As a positive, you'll learn a ton as a business owner, and be more rounded outside of the medical field. This could be VERY valuable in the long term even if you go back to medicine.

The negatives?? You may never go back to school (your choice though) or your degree may be delayed. You are taking a risk and hoping that financially you'll come out on top, but if customers are so keen on your product, that risk is probably small.

b) you stay in school. Will the business fail absolutely? do you care? Will you be wondering what would have happened had you taken a shot?

From an outsiders point of view and considering that you've posted this on HN, I think most people would suggest you go for the business.

Another way of looking at it might be to ask what you would do if the business didn't have so many customers right now? Would you still be operating the business because you enjoy it and it is't too much drain?

If the problem really is that their are too many customers to service, that is an absolutely amazing problem to have. Maybe try adjusting the parameters of the situation and see what you feel most comfortable with.

Example, can you take less classes to lower your school workload? Can you limit the number of customers you service, and raise your price. Can you create a wait list type situation for your service? Can you hire somebody to answer the emails for you?

If I misunderstood your question, I'm sorry.
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Yeah, don't follow other people's guides to get started. Just realize that org-mode has so many features (including Literate Programming) it's easy to get lost.

Just start by using it as an outliner, when your files get too big or you need to start keeping TODO lists, look into agenda views, then capture, then ... well you know.

Start as simple as possible, and when things break, or don't do what you need, spend 15 minutes and make them work.
Why is the S2 only available in US now?

I can definitely recommend it, although I don't like the stock Samsung software/Touchviz that much. I put MIUI on it, which in my opinion makes it the best phone on the market (best hardware by far/software nearly matches the iPhone).
>Maybe if the US were lots of small countries instead it would work better? Its hard to tell...

I'd just like to point out that we don't have a proper social welfare system here in the US, so it doesn't make sense to say that it might work better if we were a smaller country. The US has to actually enact a European-style social welfare system before anyone can empirically claim that social welfare doesn't work in the US.
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Below is the link I used to originally find out about the radio series.

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