skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember about an Australian medical economics study from approx 2 years ago which specifically removed "easy" to treat cancer (skin cancer + some leukemias) then tried to compute the average cost and average survival compared to abstention for all remaining cancers.

IIRC, it was about $1 million per person for at best 1 year saved on average.

Is $1 million when facing death still worth it, for less than 1 more year?

If it's your money and you've got plenty - or if it's someone else money, I am sure it is.

I'm sorry I can't find it back - only some midly interesting investigations on the subject like http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/fraud/able.htm

If someone can find it back, I'd be really interested.
I think most people use Whatsapp for that. There's a built in feature.
Ad datum means "to (toward) the given (item)." You probably meant ad diem, "to the day (or date)."
MIT probably has 100,000+ emails registered. A couple thousand accounts that each get one email sent to them doesn't make much of a dent. The post mentioned the purposeful renaming of lists to avoid being obnoxious. Combine all that with it all happening earlier sunday morning and I doubt it had much effect on the network.
Attaching the MIT brand name to cheating doesn't make it hacking. Most, if not all of the techniques described in the post are pretty well known.

Dropbox initiated the Space Race as a gesture of goodwill to students, and it's hard to fathom how or why people won't receive it in the same vein.
Dude. Best thing to do is not read HN comments about any article concerning gender/race/etc. It's always depressing and no good will come of it.

And honestly, do you think the person who posted this Tumblr cares what anyone on HN thinks?
another posting of this that seems to be getting pushed down for some reason http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679965
How is this different from 'Find My Friends' by Apple[1] considering that this is iOS only at present?

[1] - http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/find-my-friends.html
Just curious - what search engine, if any, do your relatives recommend you use instead?
Does Afghanistan qualify as a has gotten out of poverty country?
Of course nothing is ever final, but publicly announcing something like this is already sort of a "fuck you" to Oracle, so I'd be surprised if they weren't a 100% sure of their plans to switch.
reply to lutusp below because reply link takes too long:

You're just saying my definitions of things are wrong etc. etc. You just want to disagree with anything I say. My views are laid out clearly on the comments in this thread. I don't see what your views are (except to disagree with anything I say).

edit: replying to lutusp

You keep arguing that I'm just personal opinionating and that I'm wrong. I can't figure out what your views are - maybe I'm really dumb and you're really smart. You win.
> "it seems you bogged down parts of the network"

It's MIT and Dropbox... I'm sure internally MIT can handle a one thousand new mailing lists at any given occasion (until they are deleted), and I'm 100% sure Dropbox didn't even notice a blip on their network as a result.

And also MIT don't have to check for anything. They deleted everything when they were done.

I don't know why it was such a big deal for some MIT students to feel like they have to win the Spacerace either, but I did actually enjoy the article, although I'm not sure why the effort was made in the first place either.
Where's the evidence? The linked source refers to closing test cases, which makes it more closed source, not open core.

Also, it is highly entertaining that most PostgreSQL news here tend to dwell to MySQL.
I suffered a mini-panic-attack halfway through reading this, and had put my head on the floor until the nausea passed.
What would be the point of manipulating the data used to make a prediction? How would that influence the final event - the number of votes cast?

Seems like if you have the ability or money to influence the search traffic, you could find plenty of other areas related to the election where you would get a higher rate of return.
"Math is about learning to apply a variety of available solutions and processes to solve a problem."

Isn't programming about exactly the same things, only more entertaining, because interactive? For example: http://jeremyshuback.com/learning-math-through-programming/
The topic of universal health care is actively debated in the US. Some people have adopted a position that universal health care is less ideal than our current fee-for-service model. As they explore the merits of their position, they try adopting various arguments. He tried adopting the argument that universal healthcare leads to more access to care, which leads to more interventions between diagnosis and death for people with cancer. However, and perhaps our responses help persuade him of this, that argument ignores the vast middle ground of people who survive several years or even are effectively cured for life. It also, as my prior comment pointed out, ignores the value of routine screening, especially at the extremes of age.
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Like the idea and liking the app. Solves some of my issues I'm having with find my friends.
Would love to see some kind of location requests and settings on how often my location is updated.
I'm keeping an eye on this app.
I've been working on Errbit for a while now, and that started as 'scratching an itch'. It's great to be part of an open source community, where everyone scratches their own itches, and their contributions improve the software for everyone else.

As @tisme said, 'Not everything in life has to be commercial'.
You need to look up "false equivalence".
As the son of an engineer who built milling machines and died from lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium dust, I agree.
Fighting malaria is the example, but no mention of a political campaign against DDT? According to this comfortable American, the two available options are mosquito nets and a subsidized vaccine?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ddt-use-to-...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124303288779048569.html

Next!
the lists of pgsql contributors and committersdoesnt look that big
http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Committers

Are they gonna hire them all :)))
I bet most of their hires will be ppl who never touched pgsql
very cool. wish this had come out 2 weeks ago. we hacked together something from github borrowed code for www.cereal-and-code.com admittedly not pretty, functional enough for our audience.
I just started doing CNC machining. So far I've just been making silly things, but feel free to message me if you've got questions. For the simple one-off stuff I've been doing mold-making is too much of a hassle, but the above guide certainly encourages me to try.
EBay 'pays £1.2m in UK tax' on sales of £800m
Brazilian press to Google News: pay up or leave our content alone
And there were photosharing apps with filters before Instagram. Sometimes solid UX, strong brand, and focusing on what users want can mean the difference. I think these kids are on the right track.
What VCs Are Looking For In The Next Great Social Network
not HN
I noticed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_heap had a (slighlty) improved version of the binary Heap copy pasted from the same book.
I have to say I have more of a problem with the advertising exchange that is allowing this to happen than the "adware" company itself. Rubicon has to not only represent the campaign buyers interests but also maintain publisher brand safety to sustain a business model. It's just a matter of time before real publishers will inevitably leave Rubicon if they continue to disregard this fact.
the domain is gold
I think you might find industrial vacuums that draw that much power. Those floor buffer things do at least I think.
How 60,000 websites moved to use Html5 chat?
The chat arena is a crowded space. However the new trend in that domain is html5 chats.

RumbleTalk a chat platform company, transformed their JS chat into html5 and added various chat themes to offer their customers.

The big boost came when WIX choose RumbleTalk to be their partner (back in august), since then RumbleTalk (which is free service with limitation) has powered 60,000 websites with their chats.
A lot of the link-baiting articles or headlines just seem to be gaming the Hacker News hivemind. I don't know whether that's a problem with TC or HN, frankly. Probably both.
You will only usually only know the MAC address of the last hop since a new layer 2 frame is generated every time a packet hits a switch or router.

For example if I watch the source MAC address of incoming HTTP requests to my server it always reports the MAC address as being the one for the router/firewall in front of the server even though the source IP addresses will vary.

The only way I can think this would be possible to achieve would be to require a signed certificate and HMAC (message authentication code) from the the originating client to be sent with every IP packet and make sharing private keys a serious criminal offence. Even then it would probably be basically unenforceable on any kind of scale.
Wikipedia: skeuomorphism is when a product imitates design elements functionally necessary in the original product design, but that becomes ornamental in the new product design.

So CSS that emulates terminals / phosphor displays is still skeuomorphism - the definition mandates only that the design evoke older designs, not necessarily "real-world" designs.
Arch PKGBUILD would be much easier with a version number too...
> You're just saying my definitions of things are wrong ...

Locate where I said that.

> You just want to disagree with anything I say.

No, I want you to grasp some sense of reality -- not virtual reality, the other reality.

> My views are laid out clearly on the comments in this thread.

Yes, but your views are not compelling on what science is, as just one example. You expressed the belief that science's definition depends on personal opinion, which is false.

> I don't see what your views are ...

Then read. I explained what's wrong with defining science any way we please. All you need to do is read the words.
Try using FMF and share with me (Android user) and the HN audience here with a link your location for an hour. I'm also hoping these kids come out with Android soon. Moby guys.. can you promise the HN audience an Android version soon?
Perhaps even more ironic is that they allow their page to be indexed by google. Much like Alanis Morisette song about the same subject, there isn't much irony in the page.
I think the original title referred to how this was some group of teenagers' first coding project. I think the mods should change it back - this shouldn't be viewed with the same harsh eyes as many startups are.
Then you think... shit... it's 2012. :)
Since Google Books seems to not always want to display the code, here's a screenshot:

http://imgur.com/q7TII
Every Christmas season, I design, program, and construct a dancing musical lights display. Info at http://jahnchristmas.com
I base it on the fact that I genuinely like bands as they are small, and then as they make their stuff more "accessible" after signing a big deal, in order to expand their user base, it loses a lot of appeal for me. I prefer music to be pure and not be changed in order to cater for people who aren't prepared to spend time enjoying it. Each to their own, and if you like mass-appeal stuff, but that's not for me. Similarly, TV shows. Stuff like The Wire, which doesn't patronise the viewer and expects you to pay enough attention to draw your own conclusions, I find much more satisfying than stuff that hands things to you on a plate.
Maybe, but I feel that learning to code is a prerequisite to learning to program. Or I should say: one of possible prerequisites, just the most fun.
It should implement a "Launch in Maps app" feature for Android and iOS on web interface. This will help users to get directions and make this 2x useful.
Perhaps a site called TorrentFreak believes that BitTorrent is more efficient than cyberlockers.
This utility REALLY saved our asses a few days ago. A++++
We get what the story is about. What the preceding comment points out that the story in question lacks important context in an effort to impart the wrong messages and ideas. This is not OK.
Whenever you connect to a P2P system you are advertising your IP address publically, so it requires no conspiracy to get them and certainly no violation of privacy.

They want to educate customers about not running open wireless networks etc so they find it more difficult to argue "oh, my wifi was open so it wasn't me".
Smooth as Silk "Transient Electronics" Dissolve into Your Body or Environment
> And how will people understand that some cancers should be convered while others shouldn't?

I don't understand the question. All cancers are covered. If a cancer is treatable then it is treated. If there's no hope than palliative care is provided. If it's in the quite wide margin then the patient and the doctor talk about current best practice, and decide based on what the patient wants.

If you're asking about how the people paying the bills decide what treatments can be funded and what treatments should not be funded, well, you develop a measure. That measure is something like "years of quality life" - Quality of Life Years is used in bit of English planning.

You have an independent body assessing evidence of effectiveness, vs cost. If something provides X QoLYs it gets permission for funding; if it doesn't the patient can fund it themselves.[1]

They then publish their documentation, and it gets reviewed every few years.

That's a transparent process, allowing people to review and challenge the choices made.

This can lead to some odd decisions. Treatment for some forms of age-related macular degeneration used to be limited to one eye, because being blinded is bad, but being blinded in one eye is not as bad. That decision was later changed.

Alongside that you tell people to stop smoking, and you offer them free smoking cessation services; you have strong H&S COSHH laws, and you enforce them; you educate about the dangers of too much sun[2]; etc etc.

[1] The UK had an unfortunate situation where drug companies were creating cancer treatment drugs that would provide maybe 30 days of extra life at a cost of tens of thousand of pounds. They then set up and funded patient advocacy groups who would call for the drugs to be funded on the NHS. Providing information to those groups was an effective way to bypass the strict laws against marketing to the public. The weird choice the government at the time made was to change a law so that if someone wanted to "top up" their treatment with one of these expensive but useless meds that person would have to fund all their treatment, not just the cost of those extra meds.

[2] Vitamin D is very important, and helps avoid some cancers. You only need a bit of bright sunshine (or better diet) to get it - sun bathing for hours everyday with no sun-screen is too much.
Not sure why it was changed. This app was coded by Berkeley freshman as their first app in honor of a professor that passed away this year who wanted this app when getting picked up by others to visit the hospital often. You can read it in the Apple Store notes of the app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moby-simple-location-sharing...

"This application was made in honor of Professor Yale Braunstein (1945 - 2012)."
Quick notes from Startup School 2012
Thanks for the great critique, geuis.

I'm absolutely in agreement with you about unpredictable markets, the massive power of market forces to effect change and that no one entity has (or should have) control over those forces. No one -- certainly not me -- is advocating any form of socialism and central control over economic resources.

What I'd argue instead, however, is organizations (companies, NGOs, whatever) that create meaningful value for humanity actually create MORE value for themselves. It's really, really hard to foresee what is meaningful value. Facebook was similar to MySpace, but (at least for me) creates infinitely more value. Microsoft was born because IBM miscalculated the value of DOS. The list goes back decades and centuries.

However, I'd wager that today we have more clones than original work. Now, maybe bit.ly 4.0 will be what Facebook was to MySpace, but my guess would be no. Instead, if an entrepreneur chose to work on, say, cheap rockets for space -- something original, regardless of immediate perceived value -- I'd wager that'd create far greater value, probably both for themselves and humanity.

My goal was to less tell an entrepreneur to do something more socially correct -- I'm an entrepreneur myself and I probably wouldn't listen to anyone _telling_ me to do anything -- but rather to try building riskier, original stuff.
Look at the case description - I wouldn't be surprised if the total bill was at least between 100k and 200k - for 20 days of useless care which ultimately resulted in the patient death.

This is exactly why universal health care is a good idea. For each person gaining little from expensive care, there are many who can be saved or get a better quality of life from cheap and relatively minor medical services they otherwise may not feel able or comfortable to pay for.

If you put all of those experiences into one huge melting pot and manage it properly, you get a positive net outcome, as demonstrated by numerous countries.
Ask HN: Best island to live and work from?
I would like to try to live on an island for a few months (with my girlfriend who needs to finish her thesis). The timeframe is from January to March 2013.

We have looked at Curacao, Bali, Cahuita and Seychelles.

Does anybody have any experiences doing this? If so what would you recommend and what are the pitfalls?
That no longer works either. Dropbox is not a good way to share pics to potentially large groups of people. Just use imgur.
I dont remember exactly, but I think it was something like "Mo.by: first coding project by a group of teens"
I don't get why people hate online ads so much. They're easy to ignore and rarely if ever become intrusive these days.

For my own part, I don't mind text ads; but animations or movement of any kind completely kill my ability to read. It's just the way I'm wired. I can't focus with movement or animation in close peripheral vision.

I also have no time for pauses or delays. I can't watch TV or listen to the radio at all any more because of ads. I just can't do it; an ad break comes on and I just want to turn the thing off and do something different.
Are you capable of cogent thought? How is this racist or sexist? If you had taken the time to investigate you would have seen that both men and women along with people from different ethnicities support this program.

Was it racist or sexist when Andrew Carnegie took it upon himself to personally fund the Tuskegee Institute of Technology in the early part of the 20th century to address the same problem?

Now do yourself a favor and put some thought into your comments before you decide to speak again.

If you happen to be a nerdy kid in a school of jocks and happen to form a club for nerds to address the issue of isolation and lack of "nerdiness" in said school - is that reverse discrimination against jocks?

The story was posted to highlight the fact that the founder did what every entrepreneur (not "wantrepreneur") does - identify a pressing problem and solve it.

If you have a way of addressing the fact that there are few women of color in the tech space, please post your link.

We would all like to see it.
A couple weeks ago, I did an analysis of TechCrunch by analyzing the data from its Facebook page: http://minimaxir.com/2012/10/questions-equals-reponses/

In that analysis, I found that month-over-month, response rate (in terms of average Likes and Comments on news stories) seem to be stable, and increasing. While an increase in pageviews may be caused by linkbait titles, if people are responding to articles more frequently, we can assume that they're "relevant", in this case.
Great point. I can how it may evolve there.
> When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor with a sneak attack the US did not storm the Japanese embassy, they did not hold Japanese diplomats hostage. They did not claim that the Japanese diplomats were secretly spies. Etc. That sort of boorish behavior is not and should not ever be tolerated. If you cannot tolerate the continued presence of a country's diplomats in your country then you eject them, you do not hold them hostage. Period.

Roughly 400 Japanese Embassy staff (including diplomats) were actually held by the FBI and used in trade for American embassy staff who were stuck in Japan. Same was done with German and Italian diplomats. They were reportedly held comfortably at resort compounds the government took over. While they were treated much better than other Japanese in the US at the time they were still held against their will, and were used as currency to recover American staff.

> They did not claim that the Japanese diplomats were secretly spies.

No idea about the Japanese but several employees of the German embassy were arrested for 'spying'.
My calculations might be wrong, but 2.5 kW * 24 hours * 31 days is 1860 kWh, and the utility bill sitting on my desk says I'm paying about $0.10 per kWh. That's $186 a month, which pays for an awful lot of vacuuming.

I'm sure that they're quite efficient compared to other high-traffic websites, but this is a pretty silly way to show it.
Why not? You're trying to say there's no place for humanitarianism in HN?

A man was wrongly imprisoned and tortured, had his life torn apart. Now some people need to tell his story in order to get funding so he can get help to get up on his feet. What's wrong with that?
Better examples would make this better eg: if you applied the terminal style to the rest of the login page for example so it looked like logging into linux looks.

It's cool that this exists and hopefully someone will have a use for it.
classic problem and a good project to do some side programming (I think these guys executed nicely). my own variant is a slightly less polished version running in the browser: http://geoteo.net/
Wix launched an app market, RumbleTalk chat platform is the first 3rd party app
What Can You Really Know?
Not sure about the car idea. It's quite useful to have one.

Alternative hints :

- thumb rule "if you have had this stuff for 6 months but have not used it yet/removed it from its box and installed it/repaired it, then it's a waste of time and space - throw it/give it/sell it."

- then try to remove "things" from your life to measure how you feel about not having them. You'll be surprised about how many things are not really making you more or less happy. Hint: the really important things are what you usually take with you when you travel, like a toothbrush - and by improving these things you use daily you can create a much better experience for yourself

- when you move to a new place - only take 2 bags worth of stuff. Pareto law- the rest is certainly not that important to you

- in this new place only buy stuff you need - and after needing it twice, without writing down a list. If you can't remember to buy it, you don't really need it.

- experiment! Each person has "important things". What is applicable to me may not be to you. I mostly eat fresh food at home, and only cook with a microwave. I don't need any other "cooking paraphernalia".

OTOH, the most important thing to me is shower gel - I buy a bottle with a different smell each week :-]

For the author - if you want a tropical place with friendly people and great coffee shops, come to the FWI :-)
Bali-I sepnt a couple of weeks there for "Startup Abroad" and connected with the local scene. There is a new 'Startup City' in the process of being built, theres co-working spaces, lots of great ex-pat locals, foods amazing, money goes far, its paradise, people are amazing, local culture is rich and evident, cheap to do small weekend tours to Indonesian Islands etc.

Contact me if you want some more thoughts / have any questions.