skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Infant mortality plays a huge role. It has dropped significantly in the past century.[1]

"It is true that life expectancy in the Middle Ages and earlier was low; however, one should not infer that people usually died around the age of 30. In fact, the low life expectancy is an average very strongly influenced by high infant mortality, and the life expectancy of people who lived to adulthood was much higher. A 21-year-old man in medieval England, for example, could by one estimate expect to live to the age of 64" [2]

[1] http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/images/mchb_infantmortality_pub... [PDF]

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
Thanks for the link. I skimmed through the article and found this bit of unit conversion amusing: "... compared
with 40 km (87 miles) per year in the United States ..."

That's a shockingly low number of miles ridden per year. I will no longer think of myself as an underachiever on Strava :)
Ah yeah, I'm in Winnipeg. You guys are getting the nice weather this week, while we get around 0C :(
No, saying he is a founder is misleading. He played a critical role in Tesla and it surely would have failed if he were not involved but his initial involvement was as an investor in an existing enterprise.

There was a settlement that allows Musk to call himself "founder" in exchange for, I presume, some compensation. There was no legal ruling on facts only a private agreement between parties.
I'm not convinced this is the case at all. A lot of the problem comes down to expectations, so people can persuade themselves that they're just looking for what they want when being totally unrealistic.

My anecdotal experience would be people that have had the most trouble are those that actually seem to be trying.
How is putting an A7 inside a "tiny" iPad Mini considered to be impressive when they already put it inside the much tinier iPhone?
but it only lasted three years...
Apparently Cloudant is a couch-compatible cloud-scale database. It would be nice if they mentioned this somewhere on their site, especially after having named their product PouchDB.

A question that remains unanswered for me is how do they go about storing the local data in the browser? Do they use local storage? Are there size limits? What's reliability like?
This hackathon is part of Dreamforce (http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF13/), Salesforce's big annual user / partner conference. Dreamforce normally costs $1199 to attend, but that was way to big of a cost barrier for a hackathon, so they created a $99 pass that doesn't include sessions or the concert, but does provide access to the developer area (all of Moscone West) and keynotes (Sheryl Sandberg is a headliner).

I'd ask yourself not if $99 is worth it for the hackathon, but if it is worth it to attend Dreamforce as a developer. I have found it to be a useful view into the world of enterprise software-as-a-service, both in what solutions are and are not available, but also in the way they are marketed to businesses. You might even get an idea for your next startup...

And if $99 is too expensive, there is also a free pass that provides access to the keynotes and expo floor only. But not the developer area where the hackathon is located.

Full disclosure: I work for Heroku, a Salesforce company
Java to Scala is definitely an easier and more natural transition to make. I agree 100% with your sentiments.
You are either...

1. Extraordinary, and able to achieve what others cannot.
2. Lucky, and by chance successful in an area where success is hard to find.
3. Being told that you have no chance of accomplishing things that are actually not very hard.
4. A living example of how anybody can do that which they set their mind to.

If you're 1, then other people can't use your experience as a guideline. If you're 2, then people can't use your experience as a guideline. If you're 3, then people can't use your experience as a guideline.

If you think you're 4, then you're either 1, 2, or 3, and just don't realize it yet.
This answer makes the most sense.

And if you're a corporate developer these days, $99 is really not very much money at all.
API call - url=http://whatever.com
reply - src=http://s3bucket of image
bonus
crop - auto crop image based on params (500x500)

Would pay $10/month for up to 300 images - $25/month for up to 3,000

2 biggest pains/wants for this
1) WordPress Blog that I could build a plugin (or u) so I can embed a screenshot for reviews
2) for apps I build that embed a link - pull a screenshot and auto embed so it looks pretty

Would love to be your first customer - lmk johnmurch.com
Ask HN: Why would I switch from PHP to Python for web development?
Besides "is a better language", what are the real advantages of switching from PHP to Python for web development?

Please avoid arguments like "if you learn Python you can also use it for other things", "indentation > brackets" and "Python have Django". PHP5 frameworks are mature and solid, if you don't know about PHP's ecosystem evolution please avoid posting here. We all know Wordpress suck, just let it go.

Being honest, the reason I'm considering moving our team to Python is because of all the hate on PHP and the opinions that "PHP is the reason we can't use better languages". And I can't see a reason besides "it's a better language". I'm working with good PHP devs, TDD improved your codebase immensely and we have no problems scaling our tools and apps.
To some extent - but if you've got a battery life of 9 hours (rMBP) or up to 14 hours (Air), then the distinction starts to melt away. There can't be that many people who won't have access to power in that timeframe.
Calculate creditrates
If you haven't head about them doing it, then that surely means that they must be even more talented at it.
An individual man may earn more than an individual woman, but in broad strokes, with more women graduating college than men, you're going to see more of them in "professional" jobs, especially in younger cohorts.

Credentials are an imperfect, but reasonable, proxy for career trajectory; if you have two big groups of people, and one has a lot more degrees than the other, you'd expect that group to be more successful over the course of their careers.
I enjoy this short point Zizek makes about the role of intellectuals today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdGZeQV4eZc
you must factor in the sfp+ module, around $200. So a complete port would be $350, $700 for a point to point link. Thunderbolt is cheaper
There are some awesome notebooks out that demonstrate exactly that. Here are a couple of good links with combinatorial optimization and TSP:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/fonnesbeck/B...

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/TSPv3.ipy...
Have you considered using http://urlbox.io - Screenshot as a Service api?
http://pouchdb.com/faq.html addresses many of these questions.
Maybe the receptionist is also going to school and this is how she's paying for it.

Being college educated doesn't mean much these days in america. read the statistics about college grads and how little they know. Of course there are exceptions, but most US college grads are about as well educated as typical Finnish high school grad.
Why is dating a game?
Allies do this all the time.

France spys on the US: http://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarc...

Israel spies on the us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

Germany undoubtedly keeps tabs on us, too.
>edit: This wasn't clear in my post, but I was speaking for myself. To each his own of course. :)

It doesn't make you sound like a very nice person.
Yes, "that logic" being just plain old "logic". Jobs didn't start Pixar he invested in a spin-out of a division of an existing company.

From wikipedia

"the group, which numbered 40 individuals back then,[1] was spun out as a corporation in February 1986 with investment by Steve Jobs shortly after he left Apple Computer.[1]"
Talent Search - Kids
Baby/Kid Talent Search!

Have you ever thought your baby was so cute that he/she can be in a commercial, a calendar, or a play?
Well here's your chance to find out!
Writer/Producer/ Director, Evon Latrail is looking for the cutest kids!
All you have to do is send your child's name, age, date of birth, and cutest photo to latrails@outlook.com

There is a $4(entry fee) that must be paid thru PayPal. The PayPal email address is evon_latrail@yahoo.com You must pay the entry fee to process registration. You must be the parent or legal guardian of the child.

Good Luck!

We're also looking for three judges. Judges will be paid, but cannot be related to any of the contestants.

No phone calls, please!

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Shrug. As a thirty year old career driver successful programmer, it's hard to find a thirty year old woman with even half a brain.
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"Almost one in three women aged 30 to 34 and a quarter of late-30s women do not have a partner, according to the 2006 census statistics. And this is a growing problem."

Why? Because birthrates are declining? Or because people "need to" have a partner?
>>Effort

Well, sure, effort is important. But there are also many "hard-coded" factors outside one's control. For example, I'm 5'9", which makes me average in that category. To make up for it, I need to dress extra nice and be athletic/muscular. Whereas someone who is, say, 6'2" will be attractive to women solely on the virtue of being tall.
While interesting, the whole article really only applies to men and women who want children. I wonder if the trends would still hold if people who didn't want or couldn't have children were studied.
LINQ is a fantastic DSL akin to Scala's collection types. Odersky gives C# the nod as one of the few other traditionally imperative languages to have such a rich way of transforming data in his Functional Programming with Scala coursera course.

I do prefer Scala's collection types and for comprehensions over LINQ though. I find them much easier to read and more powerful.
Which version should one use? I went digging thru the FAQs, but the 1.5 series is still listed as experimental.

It's not immediately clear which is stable and which is developmental.
"Second prize is a set of steak knives."

"Third prize is you're fired."
I think tech people are overestimating how much people enjoy having their own car, as well as driving it. We see everything as something to be optimized, and rightly see driving as a huge waste of time and energy. But, I'd venture to say the majority won't give up their own cars in favor of driverless taxis. Just think about how many people underutilize mass transit available to them in favor of driving their own car.
Light Table Python Tutorial
Bay Area's 1 Percenters
This looks very useful for development and unit testing, but I wonder what performance overhead it incurs for performance code. Then again if you need screaming performance you'd probably be looking somewhere other than python.
just be yourself!

from someone who figured it out only slightly later than average (mid-20s) but can empathize to those who had a much tougher time, this kind of non-advice advice is the worst kind of advice because it deludes you into thinking you don't have to change.

yes, keep going to reddit meetups! you will surely get laid there if you are having trouble understanding how sexual dynamics work!

if you're having trouble romantically or sexually, seek actual help from the endless resources available to you in the year 2013, don't listen to this kind of drivel.
America has this unfruitful competetive-combative attitude to everything. You could instead think of dating as a mutual cooperative process of finding out if you two should really get together. The hate and dumping and gloating and sex exploits don't maky any normal emphatic person happy deep down.
With a higher level of fitness you sweat less. Cycling at lower speeds is easier than walking and and at higher speeds produces it's own wind.

> Where I live is too hot and humid to bike most months out of the year

That's such a defeatist statement, "too hot and humid to bike most months". I have a lot of faith in you. You could probably think of a way! It's not literally impossible! Maybe you could ride in the morning, before or just after sunrise. Maybe you could ride in a set of clothes, wipe yourself down in the bathroom, and then change into a fresh outfit to work in. You should try those things and three other strategies that you think of and then maybe I'll accept that statement "it's hard to bike during the summer".
At times, it feels more like hazing.
> Maybe you should harden up and accept that life comes with the occasional slight discomfort.

Harsh!

Perhaps start-ups need to offer showers and changing rooms and safe bike storage, instead of ping-pong tables and air hockey?
In this case, the word "lazy" is being used as a sort of tongue-in-cheek reference for "efficient." I don't think it's meant to be interpreted as being literally lazy.
Innovation is saying "No" to 1000 things
Ask HN: Which Monitor should I buy for long hours coding?
Recently, I've been coding a lot on my 14" Dell Vostro Notebook, and I find it straining on my eyes.

I am planning on purchasing at least 23" Monitor, and I am having hard time deciding which one should I buy.

So please recommend which monitor should I buy, primarily for long hours coding.
40km != 87 miles, as you note.
This appears to be a transcription error in the article from an earlier 140km, and it should read 25 miles per year.

(at least, if the graph is correct)
Laws vary significantly by state. I'm pretty sure it's legal to ride on bike paths at night. In Washington you're required to have a forward-facing light and a rear reflector. It's also legal to ride on the sidewalk, unless you're in Everett.

As for biking on the shoulder of an interstate, there are areas where the only paved road going between two points is an interstate highway.

And of course there are very common borderline cases where I want to get from point A to point B, and the path on the interstate is 50 miles, while the path avoiding the interstate is 150 miles. So a trip that I ordinarily need to allot one day for becomes a 2-3 day trip unless I'm willing to pedal at top speed or for more than 8 hours. I don't want to bicycle on the interstate, but most infrastructure assumes your bike is a purely recreational vehicle.
I don't buy that at all. I think you are making excuses. Life was feasible before air conditioned automobiles.

If you shower before you ride then you have twelve hours or so head start on bacteria - it takes them that long to multiply, excrete and cause a stink. So even if you are glistening with sweat at work then you can change your clothes, wash your hands and face, sit at desk, work, no smell needed. If you do stink then maybe it is because you lack fitness and basic hygiene, which is nothing to do with there not being a shower at work.

When was the last time anyone washed a seat in a car? Never! A car seat is one of the most disgusting places to sit. Would you not change the sheets on your bed for years? No. Yet sit in the same seat in a car, year after year, with a greenhouse around it, sucking in carbon monoxide from the tailpipe in front - no idea why people think that is hygienic.

You need to get practical!
Sounds like you need you some Deluge.

http://deluge-torrent.org/
I think what matters most is what languages the people around you are using. I switched from PHP to Python simply because all of my friends and close connections were using Python. The qualities and negatives of either language could be argued both ways. But when it comes to collaboration and working on projects together, what matters most is getting things done, and doing so quickly and effectively. So the question you should be asking yourself is: which language will help me accomplish that the best?
There's two important issues at work here:
1. "Pairing" is basically a barter market where every good is unique, information on them is noisy or downright deceptive, and you only get to trade once (hopefully). That's a recipe for having problems getting clearing trades and feeling good about a trade you've made.

2. Behavioral psychology says we all tend to "high water mark". We want our eventual partner to be better looking than, smarter, more successful etc than the partners we had previously. Especially if you're getting older and your appeal is perhaps declining, that's going to make it very difficult to find someone who meets your standards, because your standards have risen over the course of your dating life.
Removed delete/update/edit. Agree, it was fun and surprising to see URLs roll in!
You can't. Or so I think...

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
I think this is a bit misleading. You hear tons of scandalous stories one way, but no stories, scandalous or otherwise, the other way. Which is truly less socially acceptable?
Ha, you know, I started reading this reply and thought "This really reminds me of TLP's writing." Then I saw the link at the bottom. Cheers.
'LinkedIn Intro' iOS app can read your emails in iPhone - The Hacker News
I do a bit of algorithmic composition as well (mostly microsound/granular synthesis) using NN and other graphical models (e.g. HMMs) for higher level compositional control... for grammar inference check out:

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/neco.1992.4....

Abstract: We show that a recurrent, second-order neural network using a real-time, forward training algorithm readily learns to infer small regular grammars from positive and negative string training samples. We present simulations that show the effect of initial conditions, training set size and order, and neural network architecture...
Crashes..

This could be a great product in advertising if you can a) simulate traffic / browser from another location

Take repeated screenshots throughout the day.

Advertisers love to know where their ads have been running and this is a really easy problem that has not been well solved yet.
Yep. I'm a heavy Aperture user (~5-6 TB of data at this point). They change the underlying database schema about every other point update. There is no backwards compatibility there.
Your app seems to be down at the moment.
I think the author is saying that women have to put in the effort and act on what they want long before men do if they don't want any sort of repercussions. A man can just play the field and focus on his career until his mid 30s without losing much desirability to women ages 25 and up. It doesn't necessarily work the other way around, right? You don't hear about 25 year old men marrying successful 30 something women because the lady is successful and charming. Not to say it doesn't happen, but its certainly rare.
AskHN: Did the HN favicon change?
Or am I just going crazy? Looks like the Y part is thinner now...
He makes some good points, I disagree with his use of the word "obsolete". The definition of obsolete is:

"no longer produced or used; out of date."

In which case C is not obsolete by definition.

He does make a strong case for C being unnecessary, though I think embedded programmers might roll their eyes a bit, but really it is a question for Linus. The best reason for knowing and working in C is that the most ubiquitous and important OS is written and C. Until it is not it's a pretty good reason for knowing and being good at C.
>>Whereas someone who is, say, 6'2" will be attractive to women solely on the virtue of being tall.

Lol no. As a 6'2" man with social anxiety, being tall is not some magical doorway to getting the ladies.

Effort is more important, grooming is more important, being able to hold a conversation is more important, etc.

edit: I'm not saying height isn't an advantage. I'm saying that there are MANY other factors which matter MUCH more than just height.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
In an existential sense, "experience" is all there is. Maybe the largeness of the term renders it meaningless. I guess my point is that Apple's communications generally don't focus on a device so much as the human experiences the device enables.

Think of the jogging dude ad where the entirety of classic Mac/iPod music sync and Nike Plus integration was displayed as a little slice of life. Sure there are some devices there, but they aren't saying these devices are better than Brand X devices or laying out a feature list. The communication is about how there is an attainable experience of a technologically enhanced life.

There is generally an iCloud featured on the box of Apple's devices. This represents the integration of services to the device (itself an integration of hardware and software). So even at a level focusing on the day of sale something larger that what is in the box is being sold.
Dreamforce is typically free for most attendees. They even advertise it as free: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pr1q10lp58j4kfu/2013-10-25%2009.26...
Honestly, if somebody needs to tell you why you need to change, you really don't need to change. If you want to learn a new language that is fine, Python is amazing.

But if your team is comfortable and productive with PHP, and you have no other problems with the technology then why change for the sake of changing?

PHP is not my platform of choice, but if I was comfortable with it and it works, I would stick with it, until a REAL problem with it comes along.
Why Online Dating Sucks For Men
Angular uses dirty-checking, KO uses change listeners (which is why KO is objectively worse because change listeners cause a lot of problems)

http://stackoverflow.com/a/9693933/20003
Jekyll - GitHub Pages (w/ custom domain) - Lagom theme - GitHub issues for brainstorming ideas - No comment system

It is free, super fast, works great for Markdown/plain-text editor. I never have to dick around with anything (security, caching plugins, spam, etc) - I can just write. And sometimes nice people send me pull requests to fix typos :)

https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com

https://github.com/swanson/lagom
From the discussion board: Winners will receive American Express gift cards payable in US Dollars.
Unless you're independently wealthy, you can't be self-sufficient. Is depending on your spouse really any different than depending on your boss/corporation for money? I'd argue that if your spouse "pays the bills" you actually have more independence because you're free all day to pursue entrepreneurial options and/or family and hobbies. You can take risks and be independent in a way that an employee cannot.
Women don't lose the dating game. Men don't win it either. There's just a lot of really sucky players and a few people who got lucky. Stop playing the game and you'll find yourself a lot happier for it.
Guide: How to Publish from Xcode 5 To The Apple App Store
Windows is only a quarter of MSFT's income. Not insignificant by any definition, but not bread and butter either...
I was needing a service that took a screenshot of a site but at a wide width. Every service I found online took it at like 1000px or right at the cut off of the layout and I wanted it to show more. It's crazy in Chrome I can't seem to find a decent tool that takes a shot of the entire web page.
The demo didn't work for me, Firefox 24.0/Windows.

It just greyed out the screen, I could draw but I had no tool icons to do anything with it. The only way I could recover the page was to resize the window.
Show HN: PeggSite - Something We Had To Build
Because you are not the only person on HN.
1.5 is current. If it's listed as experimental somewhere, that is out of date.
I have been to a few Toastmasters with different groups. I really enjoy it. The people are all pretty positive and friendly. It helped me with my networking and with public speaking. What area are you looking?
What concerns me more than the pricing is their monthly limits. $99/m can only allow 300 feedback forms collected in each month. That is only 10 per day
It looks like it's literally a hardware implementation of Riak.
I wish US roads would become more bicycles friendly.