skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be partly because breast cancer survival rates are shorter and lower. In short breast cancern is far more deadly (I also believe it is more likely to affect younger women but I have no source for that).

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/overviewguide/brea...

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostatecancer/detailedguide/pr...

You should also read the article I linked. The point is not simply that the PSA test is ineffective and treatment can be harmful, but that prostate cancer itself is not a big enough threat to justify treatment in most cases.

> not prostate exams in general (i.e. rectal exam palpation). And like mammograms it depends on the population of interest and repeated tests.

BTW do you have a source that shows this is true.
Having signed up myself out of curiosity, I can't actually find any method of paying for the service, which I find strange as you mention you're making a lot of money from this venture.

For me, it just sounds like this project is merely a throwaway project and the aim is to get banned, at least then to get onto the Ads API where they may have another concept, but couldn't get on it any other way.

Might be me, might just be extra dubious, but it doesn't look right to me.
I feel the title is inaccurate and misleading. This is not a full review of the new release, but rather of the search options of the dash and the music player.
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An edited group blog post by a medical doctor who researches breast cancer treatments has a good discussion of the science behind mass screening trade-offs:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/once-more-into...
You're conflating two separate issues -- that of software fragility and software lifetime. Some software breaks too easily. Some software ages too quickly. Those are separate issues.

> Just wondering if anyone ever developed some more in-depth thoughts of the possibilities of "anti-fragility by design" ...

But that's classic computer science. There's no debate about manual and automatic testing and intelligent error handling -- all software needs to have it.

> but building stuff that somehow "gets better".

To "get better" without human intervention would require a computer system so intelligent that it creates local violations of entropy, sort of like people, and that imitates evolution and natural selection.

We haven't remotely gotten to that point yet -- computers and computer languages would need to be much more powerful than they are. They will eventually be, but more time and energy will be required.
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Anyone knows what happend to them?
Another problem is that people are more compelled to write bad reviews.
For the record - I used to be a an Engineering Manager at Yelp, and I've had my Yelp work emails searched in discovery during big lawsuits about the review filter. So did all of my colleagues. The result of all that should speak for itself.
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Yeah, you use the A (is for attribute) filter on the directive instead of the E (is for element) filter.
The chances of him partnering with Twitter are close to nil. This is a very dumb move by his part that will probably lead to a loss of income for the next few years.
Oh definitely. But I named her because she was the last official figurehead with the 'pharaoh' title.
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It's not just because doctors are ignorant. It's largely in part to a health issue that has become an overwhelmingly political issue that ignorantly preserves the status quo of "more screening = better." For doctors not to abide by such screening procedures then if their patient gets breast cancer and were encouraged not to screen given the low yield and high risk they can be sued for negligence.
"Actually, having a workaround by definition lessens the severity, as if someone wants to still run Skype, they can."

I don't think everyone is on the same page about Ubuntu being a consumer distro and not a hacker's only distro... I have definitely noticed a decrease in the stability of Ubuntu releases over the years and it's attitudes like this that seem to be in part responsible for it.

EDIT:

Oh I kept reading, this is better:

"Rainer, a better solution for international calls is to stop using Skype (which is closed source, and frequently has problems with its Linux client) and change to a service that supports standard protocols (SIP etc.), e.g. using Ekiga"

Yes, the client should change their software and infrastructure to better suit your product...

This makes it pretty much impossible for me to "sell" Ubuntu to any of my friends who aren't programmers AND tinkerers (many of my programers are too busy being productive to be interested in dicking around with making things work anymore, and increasingly I hold this view).
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Another fancy term for this is "keeping track of technical debt". And it's an excellent idea.
I scrolled to the comments section of this article looking for exactly that! Do tell!
This is what I tried to tell a conference promoter. He listed companies for his mobile conference, as speakers, that had all published bad or failed apps.

He response was to delete me from the mailing list. Best way to deal with a dissenting voice, delete it.
Spam has been fixed for the most part, this has to do with actually getting a response for your message, especially when contacting a person who gets a lot of email. Paying an incentive to the recipient puts a value on their time, just like you would when paying for a doctor or a lawyer offline, you're paying for their advice otherwise why else would you be trying to contact them.
>And if you think I am paranoid,

Yes

>I am not. I had a personal experience 2 years ago. My “employer” was tracking me sometimes during the day while I was working for a state department in my country. I won’t tell you the details (it’s a little complicated how I find out he was tracking me), but long story short, he simply always “magically” appears somewhere nearby and what is important without making a single call. However, after I start removing the battery from my device he “magically” stops showing where I was.

Sorry, that story did not change my mind.
I just setup a mail server on my new slice yesterday and after a few hours of research I settled on RoundCube as well.
Same. Terminal + Tmux + Vim + launcher (Gnome-Do or Synapse) + Vim keybindings for everything (browser, anything else) = couldn't care less what desktop I'm running (minus privacy concerns like embedded Amazon searches).
While I've seen the filtered reviews issue and think the claims are somewhat true, my bigger problem is that yelp does nothing for reviewer quality.

So many times, I've seen blatantly false and misleading information tacked on to someone's reviews. The site allows both the microcomments "Food, okay. Waitresses, hot." and the long, trailing rants about how the steak tasted rotten. This is a problem, and not one easily fixed. Being an "Elite Reviewer" just means you give out more idiotic reviews than the rest.

Yelp is a joke to anyone who really cares about food.
If you want to see both sides of that, I actually track positive and negative mentions and do some analytics too. Same company: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/1/hostgator/
I think the ethos of the copyheart as expressed in this website needs to be a little different. Sure, don't restrict your audiences' ability to copy and distribute your work, but when somebody sees the ♡ symbol, it should be a call to action for the audience to ♡ the work and the artist(s) creating it. If that involves supporting the work financially, then so be it. The audience of a work is responsible for nurturing, caring for it, and supporting it's production. This is what copyright tries to do it, but fails because it focuses too much attention on controlling distribution.
You're right, we'll add a "why wood you need this" section soon.
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The Anonymous Angel strikes again! Another informative article
> $13 is way too much to pay for a light bulb

A bulb that never needs replacing (assuming you stay in residence less than 10 years) and pays for itself (and more) in energy savings? Sold. Easy.
With good quality cables you can go a little beyond the rated maximum

This sort of thing is designed with a very, very comfortable margin. I'd expect if you wanted, you could get quite a lot beyond the rated maximum.
Maybe somebody named his String variable string?
They're not as unequal as this says.

http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/breast.html
http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html

23.0 deaths per 100,000 women by breast cancer
23.6 deaths per 100,000 men by prostate cancer

But, yea often prostate cancer isn't enough to warrant it because more likely than not on autopsy you'll find some kind of prostate cancer on a guy that didn't cause his death.
We have abstraction layers precisely so that you can use things without understanding them. It's not just computers, every day we use all kinds of technology without properly knowing how it works.

Of course, sometimes those abstractions are leaky, and we have to change a tire or apply an update. But suggesting that typical users should read up on SSL (and therefore asymmetric cryptography) before they use online banking is as ridiculous as saying that every new driver should study the detailed workings of the internal combustion engine. Someone needs to know how it works, but my mother really doesn't.
If you build a business model that knowingly showcases the worst ignorance of an anonymous Internet public, and ask for money to help mitigate the inevitable damage, how is that any different from a protection racket?
How to reject this code review?
Yeah, I actually sent the post to Heroku and NewRelic so they were the first to see it. I think someone from NewRelic submitted it to HN (just a guess).

Curious: What other method would you suggest for reporting deeper issues? I can't think of anything else that would allow for free-form writing like blogs.
can someone explain why this (of all the flamebaity/controversial comments I make) is getting downvoted?
Cat6 and cat5 are recommended to go no further than 90 meters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_6_cable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable

Links are full duplex nowadays, the bus architecture is long gone and hubs are rare (usually just old), switches are dirt cheap so no reason for hubs.

The limiting factor is simply the ability of the electronics to recover the signal reliably. You can go way beyond the specs if you are willing to accept ever increasing packet losses due to degradation of the signal, one way to improve throughput over such links is by shortening your MTU.

Another simple solution to make longer runs is to use a fibre-optic repeater (for instance this ancient 10 mbit device: http://www.blackbox.com/resource/files/productdetails/10542.... but there are tons of others, more modern gear: http://www.signamax.com/mediaconverters/13-10100basettx-to-1... as an additional advantage, fibre optics don't suffer from electrical interference and act as an optical barrier for electrical signals which is very handy in industrial environments).

Or to forego cabling entirely and to use wireless with directional antennae.
Did you measure both when the (remote, physical) phone
of the called party began to ring, and when the caller
began to hear a ring, or just the latter?
Obamacare and DHS removed plenty of regulations streamlining many things. What people really complain about is regulating new things not the overall complexity.
I think he wants to be shut down because he feels guilty about being the last one standing despite being in clear violation of the TOS ( I suppose, though I haven't read the TOS and I'm not sure the author has either - can he point to which clause he is in violation of? )
If somebody started a very successful business on your lawn in a campervan, would you not want them off? It's not about them being successful or not - it's just that they are on your own property. Even worse in this case, because not only he is camping out on their lawn, he is actively cutting into their profits.
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So.... you're saying that it's a bad idea to trust what people say about businesses on the internet, because it's often outdated and lacking detail?

What does Yelp do again? I forget.
I'd guess that he's 100% prepared for this and has weighed the risks.

I'm making a big presumption about his intelligence though.
There is also Dangle (https://github.com/fullscale/dangle), which is D3+Angular backed by ElasticSearch. So, if Radian cannot be open sourced, perhaps Dangle can pick up the slack.
On kWh costs, don't forget that when you reduce use, you reduce the last kWh first. Meaning, in a tiered pricing model, you reduce your most expensive electricity first.

So, the price you would use to calculate savings is not your average price / kWh. You should use your max price / kWh.

That's also why if/when you install solar panels on your roof, you recover your investment faster if you don't quite cover your entire electrical needs.
Ah, the "if the victim is that dumb, they deserve it" school of thought.

Note that you can substitute all sorts of adjectives for "dumb".

E.g., "those nerds are so unpopular they deserve to get beaten up". Or, "those people are poor enough that they deserve to live next to a toxic waste dump".

Basically, it's a way of taking whatever characteristic you pride yourself on and then making yourself feel even better about it by enjoying when shitty things happen to other people.
Yes. GNUemacs is an example. It avoids fragility by being so extensively configurable - entirely configurable some might argue because the source code is available. There are few other programs that have survived thirty years, let alone been among the leaders of their field that long.

Compare this to the fragility of an iPhone App. Apple can change the OS. They can change the TOS for their store. They can produce a new incompatible model, or one with additional features. A competitor can create a better combination of phone and marketplace. People can get tired of the limited thing an app is allowed to do.
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You can't just brush off sales reps claiming to be able to improve reviews. If Yelp isn't paying them enough and getting crap, that's Yelp's fault. If Yelp has out-sourced his to someone else, they have out-sourced their reputation.[1]

[1] http://www.popehat.com/2011/12/27/outsource-your-marketing-o...
Which last I looked was super hidden and required a captcha to even read.
Can someone explain the EU's reasoning here? If Google promotes it's own services or even mixes ads with with search results, how is it "unfair" or in this case illegal?
There is no argument over non-profit file sharing as it is already unenforceable. If you profit from other people's work you will be smacked down, rightly so. It is not that complicated. Anything you want (digital) can be gotten for free if your time has no value so it comes down to being lazy/cheap.
> Or to forego cabling entirely and to use wireless with directional antennae.

but then comes the weather factor.
Not quite. Following people is always opt-in.
2 other data points from (disclosure) someone with ties to Yelp:

1. Ongoing independent research / A working HBS paper found no connection between advertising and filtering (see last page of: http://hvrd.me/ZNpuOy)
[Why do we see advertisers are more likely to have their positive reviews filtered?]

2. A simple Google test like this: http://bit.ly/15QV1WS [Why are these advertisers not using their 'Delete negative review' button? Hint: because it doesn't exist. Which begs question -- If it doesn't exist, is there a rational incentive to sell it?]
Not sure, will look into it but loved the concept and the design as well.
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Thanks for that link, it's really interesting data. I noted though the difference in the age distributions. Breast cancer does seem to have significantly higher incidences at younger ages.
The ads Google sells are marked as advertising. Spam isn't; it's usually not too hard to tell, but it mucks up the search result space.

"Featured reviews" for paying customers essentially become a form of paid advertising, but they are not clearly marked as such. That puts them closer to the spam side than the ad side.
Over links up to a few kilometers this is usually not a problem if you can get a line-of-sight setup.
Yes, I did, if you look above, which references several studies. You on the other hand have cited none.
I suppose you could have an even less centralised system to resemble Tor hidden services. This transcript of Assange and Schmidt's meeting discusses this at a certain point, just grep for 'hash'[1]. That way the domain name itself is proof of its authenticity.

Couldn't you also have something akin to bitcoin's blockchain, where the identity of a domain is agreed upon by the majority of the creators of the blockchain? I don't know what the equivalent of mining would be though. Assange also suggests how domains could be made hard to make, so that they can be 'mined', creating scarcity so that "some arsehole" doesn't "register every short name themselves"[sic].

[1] http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt
you sound like you believe censorship was not the whole idea behind it
All startups start by scratching the surface. Clerky doesn't plan to limit itself to startup deal docs forever.
The one thing that has me worried about using Flask is python 3 support; the last I heard, Armin had moved on and it wasn't looking like he would be putting much work into Flask. Does anyone know if there is ongoing work to bring Flask to python 3?

I've been playing around with Bottle, largely because I want a python 3 web framework, but I would much rather build with Flask.
Almost certainly will be nuked before the end of week, perhaps by end of day.

There goes $50/month/customer, for someone with supposedly hundreds of customers. He probably could have gotten at least a couple months more without being shut down and some free publicity on Hacker News afterwards complaining about being shut down, but he traded that for a maybe 1% chance at some kind of introduction.

And, I guess, a HN post in a couple hours complaining about being ingloriously shuttered.
Favoriting is now a misnomer. In practice, its value is as Facebook's "like" button on a post. That is, to signal to the other person. So yes, it destroys the usefulness of favoriting.
It's been a while since I worked on some Java but I believe it has something to do with one being a type (like int) and the other being an instance of the class String. I was always taught "just use String" but I'd love to know the real difference.

Google is not proving fruitful for this question.
Use Time's previous "Most Promising Startups" for their success rate:

2012 - http://www.timeinc.com/pressroom/10nycstartups2012.php

2011 - http://www.timeinc.com/pressroom/events/10nycstartups/

But then, how do you rate a startup as successful? Number of users, revenue, is being acquired a good or bad thing?
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Feigning ignorance due to intimidation is not better than simple ignorance. Doctor are morally responsible for doing no harm. I do recognize such is not always easy, for reasons you have mentioned.

My 40something wife would love it if our HMO would stop calling and emailing her 6 times a year to get a mammogram. She has explained clearly to her gynecologist her reasoning, that she is absolutely not going to get a mammogram before age 50, but the annoying calls do not stop. (We shut off our ringer, and use a Google voice number for people we want to her from.)

Much as I sympathize, breast cancer survivor groups have many characteristics of a religious cult. They have paid a high emotional and physical price for entry, and as a result they are so bought in to the idea that the treatment-torture saved their lives that they have only a limited ability to think rationally about health issues anymore.
I guess I find the icons and fonts sizes for the default Ubuntu desktop are (for lack of a better term) Fischer-Price sized and I just can't comfortably work with it.

While I can deal with installing additional packages in order to gain control over such settings it just strikes me as a little ironic that such things are not easily configurable in one of the major desktop focused Linux distributions.
I will have some SFW/NSFW filters in very soon. There isn't a comments section (yet) on purpose.
> It's not just because doctors are ignorant.

So, doctors are ignorant? That's news to me, I know a few doctors and they don't strike me as ignorant at all.
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I would think the heaps of money PSY made from YouTube royalties, including those from other people's videos that use his song (thanks to ContentID) and iTunes sales (where his song was #1 for many, many weeks) were among the things that put food on his table.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cashing-gangnam-styles-youtub...
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MR16s (the type of bulb in the parent's video) are tough because of their size and limited surface area relative to their lumen output. Most retrofit lamps such as the A19 (the form-factor that most people think of when they think of a light bulb) have 100% passive thermal management. That said, there are a few really good fully-passive, high-output MR16s on the market.

I believe switching capacitors in the power supply are what limit the lifetime of most LED bulbs - electrolytic caps being one of the worst offenders. Good thermal management helps mitigate these problems, but a lot of failures are chemical in nature - caused by the degradation of the capacitor's electrolyte. This is why we've all seen the capacitor choice in motherboards and PSUs used as a marketing item.

Full disclosure: I used to work for a well-known LED lighting company, but please take the above with a grain of salt as I am not an electrical engineer. [Edit: And of course, these views I've expressed are my own and not representative of my past employer.]
The only application performance a SSD provides is initial load time, and write times.
I agree. The actual title is: "Ubuntu 13.04: No privacy controls as promised, but hey - photo search!" It doesn't seem like the website is even claiming it to be a review of the OS.
Sorry, but the naive one here is you - a bunch of pirates telling a bunch of other pirates about this awesome new thing they should pirate doesn't really help you, the creator. But by all means, rationalize away.

Also, why does the one who purchases it have to not spread the word and pirates do? Is that how this whole argument works? A paying customer is probably just as likely to inform other paying customers about this purchase he just made. More likely, in my experience.

Look, there is likely a critical mass of piracy that is concurrent to a rise in purchases as something grows in popularity and becomes part of the cultural zeitgeist. I remain unconvinced that the piracy causes it, and isn't just a sign that whatever is being pirated is good and would is gaining awareness and marketshare, but sure, I'll just go ahead and give up on that argument. But if you don't reach that critical mass, which by and large, most don't, then you are just gaining an audience that isn't helping you at all.

Also, just to be clear - I don't view all piracy equal. When I talk about it, I'm primarily talking about game piracy.
A few years ago I've had one for my office, I don't remember the exact location but it was in the 2-5km range, terrible reliability during storms and snowfall.