skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USPSTF recommendation in your link is from 2007, so it may perhaps be out of date.

Also, the recent study directly challenges the USPSTF position [1]:

"The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) have reported on benefits and harms of aspirin use for prevention of specific diseases like colorectal cancer (CRC) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, they have not investigated overall benefits and harms based on all major diseases."

I assume the figure of 130,000 lives saved over 20 years takes into account the increased risk of intestinal bleeding and stroke.

[1] http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/07/30/an...
There's a speculation that he was suffering from mental fatigue, and I think it is right. More than anything like keeping the honor/face, this seems the most likely cause that killed him.

A thing that people outside Japan often don't understand is how harsh and concerted a media frenzy is. Unlike the U.S., things quickly get very personal here. And there's not much protection. He was already a heavy target of the gossip media, and I can imagine all kinds of nasty treatments he got from people around him, formally and informally, including a nasty look or verbal harassment in a public place. They're usually subtle but once you're a target it's very consistent and ubiquitous. It's pretty much how kids are bullied here, but this time it happened at a national level. I think that could be too much to handle for a sheltered scholar who dedicated his life for science.

The irony is that, this kind of media frenzy is what they initially sought until the debacle happened. Now the untamed beast, which is the Japanese media, bit them back and they're still in rampage. I don't like how the media handled the whole thing at all, but this is how it is here. (edit: also this is how smart kids learn not to stand out in Japan)
Yes, but I've heard good things from those that actually use them. Preforce mated to GFS, lightning quick check outs and builds that work lazily, you can make a change to the code base even if you don't own it, and code review requests will be sent out automatically as well as tests run to ensure you didn't break...Google.
The two main consortia developing Common-Core-targeted testing are both aiming for computer-only. Among other things, it enables new question types that are still objectively scorable but have more flexibility than the traditional single-selection multiple choice question. (Although, all of the new question types that I know about are mouse/pointer-based, not requiring keyboards, so maybe they're talking about some other thing. Perhaps the subjective-scoring portions (i.e. the essays)?)
To be fair, Ethereum is not strictly a cryptocurrency, in the sense that its exclusive purpose is not payments. Sure, coins will have value convertible to fiat currency, but that value will be derived from cost of various applications built on the protocol. The primary purpose of Ether is to be the "fuel" for these applications.

So, high interest in the crowd sale likely derives not from speculation on the value of ether/USD exchange rates, but rather on the value of the cash flow across the many applications being developed on the protocol. As long as developers build these applications, people use them, and they facilitate money changing hands in the form of Ethers, then each Ether will have a set value. Unlike with Bitcoin, consumers will also have a reason to spend Ethers, as they will be the only accepted exchange mechanism of Ethereum applications.

Encouragingly, this will likely act as a self fulfilling prophecy. Investors in Ethereum are motivated to see the ecosystem of decentralized apps develop, so they will build them, and they will use their Ethers. The big problem I could foresee is that because the real value of an Ether will derive from the aggregate value of the Ether "app economy," investors may want to wait before spending their Ethers. But I suspect this will be mitigated by the fact that the apps will only accept Ether as payment.

Ethereum will be successful as a protocol once it gets its "killer app." At that point, there will be no turning back and the value will skyrocket. Surely the market cap will be more than $12.7mm. In fact, by writing this comment I've just convinced myself to invest.
Bad analogy. The rights / obligations are upside down.

The company leasing the fleet of vehicles was responsible for installing the odometer.

In LinkedIn's case, the company was obligated to account for the hours worked (which presumably the employees reported correctly, since the employees won the case).
14? Try 450+ https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/views/all/ And this list is not even exhaustive. It is dead easy to create one: fork and change a few identifiers in the source code. But to make it successful is another problem.
>>Even if we don’t find an UberPool match for you, we’ll give you a discount on your ride.

That's huge.

A huge problem Hitch faces is having enough demand-side riders on the market to make the marketplace viable [1]

Uber is going to be subsidizing the demand-side of the marketplace until the marketplace matures and demand fills in.

[1] http://www.crewlab.net/uberpool
This probably answers your question and corrects something. There are far more than 14 crypto currencies out there: https://coinmarketcap.com/
Single page link:

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/08/whats-t...
Awesome app. I have a feeling this will be the next Yo[1]. Someone with a ProductHunt account should also post it there :)

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/yo-yo/
It sounds like your IT director didn't support the teachers use of the iPads well (or the WiFi for that matter). Reading Fraser Speirs' blog (http://www.speirs.org) about how he did a 1:1 program for his school (he was the computer teacher and IT professional there), it's clear that you can't just hand the iPads out and that's it.
In terms of what has measurable effects in the classroom there is a very rigorous study by Hattie: "A synthesis of over 800 meta analyses relating to achievement"
In it, things like computer assisted learning, simulation and games, testing etc have a very low effect. Primary is things like feedback and other things that come down to the teacher. A partial list is contained here: https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/proflearn/docs/pdf/qt_hattie.pdf
That said, a big theme for what works seems to be personalization, custom feedback, custom progress, and computers should be great for this. It'll still be hard to beat a great teacher: in grade 1 alone there are close to 20 different reading levels that each student needs to be supervised through on their own pace
Wow that was fast! I saw your request and emailed you your invitation link. Happy (paid) emailing!
A lot of the things raising headline generating amounts of money have not even created a new cryptocurrency.

E.g. Look at "Bitshares" by some of the same people behind ethereum— raised money on a whitepaper. When its "investors" later needed liquidity to cash out their investments they did some search and replace on a a copy of Bitcoin to create a "cryptocurrency" which implemented none of their whitepaper features but which would be redeemable for shares in the future system (if it ever comes into existence)...

It's in some ways optimal to _not_ create a cryptocurrency for these investment stunts: if they create something then there is something concrete, something with flaws and limitations, something which (hopefully!) is constrained by internal consistency, security considerations, implementability, etc. But if it exists primarily as marketing then there is no limit to the qualities which it can be claimed to have...
What exactly is this comment supposed to mean? I'm reading a severe level of disdain for valuing one's family, and I strongly disagree with that, but I don't want to get into that discussion if that's not how you meant that comment.
Well, at the very least the data resides in memory and the CPU cache. We could discuss whether that constitutes "storage" but I do think it's significantly different than the personal memory of a police officer. A more appropriate analogy might be a traffic camera looking for the specific license plate.

EDIT: Note that the purported benefits of these collections programs (according to many of the slides) is that the selectors can be determined after the fact. So they must be keeping data somewhere.
Is there any way to verify these have really been sold? Is there any third party involved that can verify? Something doesn't feel right and we know Cryptocurrency users are suckers for juicy hype trains.

But I do like the concept of p2p distributed servers.
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Just the amount of funding generated for this has to be a good sign for its success. They just funded a ton of development hours. Or I suppose they could just run with it. Do they have any further incentive to see this thing take off? Is there any penalty for disappearing with the Bitcoin?
It's Gilfoyle[1] from Silicon Valley!

[1] http://silicon-valley.wikia.com/wiki/Gilfoyle
Yes they are, but there is no better way of finding those papers that can’t be found using keyword searches. I have found hundreds of critical papers over the years by using this technique that I would never have found in a thousand years using any other search method.
NetSuite dodges legal battle over 'manifestly unusable' software
The parent specified recommending to anyone who isn't a developer. I'm just pointing out a use-case that has been forgotten.
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How about satire? You could support Die Partei [0].

[0]: http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21610332-election-satir...
How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb and Groupon acquired their first users
Are you meaning to suggest that some of the people involved might have borrowed funds with promises to return them, or offered some parties deep discounts in exchange for temporarily putting up full prices on large amounts of share, in order to falsely prop up the 'market' value for these assets and create the social proof needed to dupe larger numbers of inexperienced investors into participating?

Inconceivable!
> If you built a house one month after you died,

Nice trick, that.
My God, I love Posner's opinions, even a trivial one like this. You have to appreciate the part where he calls out the estate as having "enlisted [Amazon and other booksellers] in a boycott of a competitor of the state, and boycotts of competitors violate the anti-trust laws. ... It's time the estate, in its own self-interest, changed its business model."

Ouch.
Yeah, the altitude restrictions don't really apply to commercial flight. You can conduct a test yourself, you just need to get a little higher and travel a little faster than your typical 757.

Try attaching your cell phone to a rocket travelling over 1200 mph or above 60,000 feet, you'll find that your GPS unit basically shuts down. That's not to say that your GPS hardware is incapable of operating under those parameters, it's just designed to shut down so it can't be used to guide ICBMs. Commercial airplanes typically operate at half the altitude and speed which would trigger the condition.
I never understood why an iPad - why waste money for the apple name? Nexus 7 devices are much cheaper and equal or better.
You'll even find extremely knowledgable American history professors who use the term to describe Native Americans. Their graduate students, however, will tell you separately that they want and expect you to use more politically correct terms instead. Just has to do with the times.
You really don't think Uber will be asking riders to rate their fellow passenger right after the ride? And then start displaying it to potential riders to help them decide if they want to take the share?
I hadn't heard of this, more info:

http://boards.bootsnall.com/sleeping-pills-benedryl-allergy-...
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i've sold some bitcoin for much more than i paid for it. i guarantee you, it wasn't painful.

i have no thoughts on etherium. i guess 12M is a lot of dollars, but it's within an order of magnitude of the daily BTC volume. maybe if one guy used 12M worth of BTC to buy this, i'd share your suspicion.
The apostrophe is inserted automatically by most spelling engines (even if they get it wrong some of the time). If not automatically added, you can put the apostrophes in pretty easily when you go back to review what you wrote (because you read what you wrote before you hit post, right?)

A keyboard is an obstruction when you just want to read, paint, or do non-text-entry work (and even for some text-entry work like dictation).

I found the best of both worlds was a Logitech "Ultrathin Bluetooth Keyboard": it attached to the iPad magnetically like a Smart Cover and provided a keyboard and stand when you needed it.

Ultrabooks don't work so well in portrait orientation. It's hard to type on them when they're sideways. On the other hand, my iPad + bluetooth keyboard weighed more (and was thicker than) than my 11" MacBook Air.

Ultrabooks are also harder to read on, since vertical space is at a premium. I prefer tall narrow pages, rather than short wide pages. The main orientation on an Ultrabook is "short, narrow" pages (a format that photographers love, but there's no talking sense to photographers and their fascination for "square" pictures).
I posted it to PH. Should be there tomorrow morning.
It takes time and effort to do a writeup. And it is easy to procrastinate. That reminds me...

A bit of a plug here. I have a cute nearly-minimal perfect hashing algorithm designed to have good cache-friendly properties. Briefly, it is somewhat similar to hopscotch hashing, only you pre-calculate the positions of the elements to put them into the 'best' spots by solving the assignment problem. Works for up to about 50k elements. It feels like it might have good theoretical properties too, might be even optimal, but it was a while since I've taken the algorithms class.

If anyone is interested to do a writeup and publish clean source code - you'd be welcome.
Are the contaminants dangerous? Or just normal microbial flora that you'd get on kitchen glassware?
$399 laptops rarely last more than a year and are rarely robust enough for any type of work. I could make practically all the same criticisms about a $399 laptop as an iPad.

That being said, I don't know who would replace an laptop with an iPad in any sort of robust, non-mobile workflow, so I'm inclined to call BS on your statement.
Why does the target market need to be young, single and childless? It would work for couples without kids, or parents with kids who've left home or are being left with a sitter. Or families where the children can go 30 minutes without needing food or entertainment. Or older people who aren't keen to drive in a city or deal with parking.

Obviously those with young children specifically are in a different position and that's likely to be hard to address. You'll have a particular pram/stroller you use and specific snacks. You're more likely to be tied to your car if you don't want to be packing and unpacking each time. I get it - I have a car with a car seat for a 2yo. But there are also loads of times I'd use an Uber service alone or with my partner or even with a child if it were prevalent in my city.
Hi Kingnight,

Firstly, thanks for trying the app :)

Which artist were you trying to search for?
I'll try to see if there's a way to get access to that particular artist's page.

Regarding search...

Currently is a "general" search. Meaning, it will search both song titles AND artist names.

Howeever, the LastFM API also has different types of search eg. search artist names ONLY, search song titles ONLY etc. This might solve the problem (but also maybe not).
I will incorporate a more advanced search once I think of an elegant way of layering into the interface.

Another alternative is to have also use another music database (eg. musicbrainz) which might have better artist information.

Any suggestions for improvement / stuff you like / don't like, I'd be delighted to hear.

Thanks once again!
Sprockettyz

PS: Full functionality mainly means ability to save / share playlists, last.fm scrobbling (upcoming release), as well as early access to experimental functionality (one of which is "radio" feature, which I'm quite excited about, because it really works quite well.).
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Twenty-year-old (and even much newer) commercially successful comics, cartoons, movies, and music are, in fact, widely used in advertising, etc. -- heck, with comics and cartoons, they are used as pitchmen for toys and junk food from day one.

So, I think the cultural terror you refer to is the status quo even with effectively perpetual copyright.
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Stop trollin'. No one is that dumb.
It's incredibly easy. There are open source projects to create your own.
This could easily be extended to larger vehicles (minibus) plying regular and popular routes at peak times. Do a pick up from a few square blocks and drop in a particular work district. Could be more convenient than a bus and eventually approach the same pricepoint.
I think you have it exactly backwards. A reasonable length copyright (like 10-20 years) would be awesome for culture. You'd see loads more great new comics, cartoons, movies, music books all remixing, reworking and drawing inspiration from an renewed and thriving public domain.

Advertisers and branding wouldn't find much use for them because they were public domain. They gain value from these things by limiting the use through exclusive deals enabled by copyright.
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Ethereum isn't just another alt coin. It's a bit...different.
> One of the points of the gov't in the case is that the EFF is arguing that the filtering is a two step process : collect all data, then filter it. But the EFF doesn't know that's actually how things are happening, and it might not be. So the lawyers are actually refuting the plantiff's main line of reasoning.

EFF directly points to (multiple times) that the NSA had a specific redefinition of the word 'collect', did you miss it?
Once Ethereum takes off, there will probably be millions of "cryptocurrencies" - o rather "crypto-stock" for start-ups that crowdfund themselves through Ethereum with their own "coin". Think Kickstarter, but where you actually own part of the company, by owning their coins. When the company gets bought for $2 billion like Oculus did, the value of their coin should go way up, too, making the backers' investment worth it, too.
> No, some people do.

He did not say all people. He said "people". You are saying the same thing he did, except you said "no" in front of it. My own anecdotal evidence is that I don't know a single person that won't use their cellphone while driving.

> It's illegal and I'm all for increasing policing and penalties to stop them.

That's a blanket statement that isn't true. Certain activities on the cell may be illegal in certain states, but hands-free talking generally isn't—as far as I know isn't illegal in mine.

I use my cell phone for maps and music while I drive, and will continue to do so even if people like you get laws passed to make it illegal. As far as I'm concerned, the cat is out of that particular bag (and it's undeniably safer than maps and music in the days before cell phones).
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They already have! http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/

*Note the date
It could be those things, or it could just be that Google gave them a bigger discount.
Don't both speed and altitude trigger the block? The gps must be over a certain altitude AND be going faster than a certain speed.
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The IT director's prophecy is self-fulfilling.

If you don't put some effort and funding into application selection, you're going to have teachers using the iPads and ChromeBooks to teach kids lessons from free & crappy web sites that have no idea how to present lessons in a clear, concise manner with correct spelling and grammar.

If the person responsible for a particular technology isn't going to spend time supporting colleagues using that technology, they're basically abandoning the technology.

There are a multitude of language training resources on the App Store alone. I'm sure that someone in the US education system has done a review of various course material available through the App Store and Apple University (plus all the online courses) and determined which ones are best in particular brackets of student age, course price, etc.

That a teacher was resorting to crappy web sites rather than the best available resources indicates that there were problems outside the technology environment: I'm thinking either management support or financial.
I bought Chromebook for my Dad who is 66 (who never used computer before) and my daughter who is 8. Both have been using chromebook regularly with little to no help from anyone else.
It sounds similar to robin hood hashing. Is there source code anywhere?
I think iPads could be great for K12 education, but only if they are used effectively. You can't just take the current curriculum and stuff it with technology hoping to make it better. You have to pair the content and methodology with the technology. It seems like they are just buying iPads/Chromebooks/Whatever, shoving them in classrooms, and hoping they make a difference.

It might be more effective to start with iPads outside the classroom, not inside. Inside the classroom they have access to a teacher. No current or near-future technology is going to be able to replace the benefits of a teacher.

But at home, many kids are stuck with boring paper homework assignments and static, old (sometimes 10+ yr) textbooks. If we replaced paper homework with interactive questions, and textbooks with engaging iBooks (or other iBooks like) textbook[1], that could make a real difference.

Apple had created great interactive textbook creation software, and it seems great paired with iTunes U. However, there don't seem to be great books coming from it. Apple probably should have made many demos (instead of just 1) to give educators and the public an idea of the potential interactive homework and textbooks could have on student engagement.
Do not be too much impressed by big names and buzzwords.

The [very] successful process of developing the Linux kernel with nothing but git, mailing lists and a small set of simple rules (no meetings, no Scrum, no BS) proved to be good-enough.

It is not only Linux kernel, there are hundreds of other "decentralized, no-water-fall" projects, notably FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Xorg, LLVM, Golang, CPython, Ruby, you name it.

It is much better to consider the differences between a commercial organization (a corporation) with all that bureaucracy obsessed with keeping its positions and budgets, etc. and a team of enthusiastic professionals with their own "inner" motivations and goals.

Corporations are producing products to make profit, while teams of enthusiasts are producing (evolving) tools and services for themselves.

The difference is the same as between McDonald's and family/home-made-for-themselves food.)

Consider, for example, LLVM/Clang (backed by Apple) as high quality and no-cost alternative to VS. Its used as a primary compiler for OS X, iOS and FreeBSD and optional one for Android NDK.

And, look ma, no bureaucrats, no meetings, no Scrum.