skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're curious about the risk modeling research literature, here's a good example of models built for 30-year risk prediction:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/119/24/3078.abstract

The models tend to be close to equivalent in their inputs: either total or LDL cholesterol (small-particle LDL is the one that drives atherosclerosis, but if the model includes HDL cholesterol, then it doesn't make a big difference in accuracy whether the other variable is total or LDL cholesterol), HDL cholesterol (seems to cause a protective effect, although randomized trials of HDL-boosting drugs haven't shown improvements, so may not be causal), blood pressure, and smoking. People also sometimes include newer biomarkers like triglycerides or hs-CRP, but they don't consistently show accuracy gains (LDL, triglycerides, and hs-CRP are highly correlated, so each one individually is a good predictor but having all three doesn't necessarily give you a more accurate model).

There's still a lot of active research to find out which of these variables are causal and which are merely associated with heart disease. For example, LDL-lowering drugs like statins do reduce the risk of heart attacks in randomized trials.
This is interesting, but I wonder what the results would be if you compared the dog, and baby, to your best friend. In other words, I wonder if the dog would have closer matching results to the baby, or the friend.
No, it is full of examples of groups that established themselves as the new elites and continued maintaining the same type of semi-feudal systems they replaced.

Many of them used rhetoric about redistribution to placate the masses, yes. But there was little different but names in the methods for allocating capital in Czarist Russia and the Soviet Union: The decisions were in both cases taken by a privileged elite insulated from the effects of their decisions.
There was another tool called General Edit (http://www.quadrivio.com/ge.html) which used to be available for the Mac but is now defunct. It was one of the inspirations behind Binspector and sounds very similar to the tool you mentioned.

edit: grammar
Seconded. I have worked remotely for years, I don't have anything on GitHub. My work is all for smaller companies that have proprietary systems, or boring web sites that pay the bills but don't generate any code I want to show off. No one ever asks for my GitHub profile when I am hired for a job -- the people doing the hiring are focused on whether I can solve their problem or not.

There's nothing wrong with having the GitHub account available for companies that want that, but using that as the only authentication and perpetuating the "GitHub is your CV" thing limits the site to that slice of companies and potential employees who know and care about GitHub -- mainly the startups you read about on HN. The other 95% of IT/tech jobs don't work like that.
Economics reallocates resources to humans as surely as the hydrological cycle reallocates water to lakes and rivers.

Cash flows. It circulates. And as long as it keeps moving, there is usually enough for everybody.

Wealth inequality is like a small group of people continually siphoning water into bottomless private cisterns. Eventually, the rest of the world becomes a desert. The problem isn't that the cisterns exist, it's that the water flowing out is nowhere near the amount flowing in.

I see the problem as too much lending and investing and not enough spending among the wealthy. It's like demanding that the people whom you charge to drink your water can only piss in your toilets. When you spend the money, you give up control over what happens to it next, and that is what allows the next guy to spend it freely. When you lend or invest, that next guy still owes you. No businesses can afford to cater to him, because the money he has isn't really his.

That's why the lavish spender is not the problem. When he eats a $500 steak, that money goes out to support servers and busboys and chefs and butchers and cattle ranchers. And it goes from them to television actors and book authors and electricity workers and personal trainers and dog walkers and auto mechanics. The cash flows. It circulates.

With the guy that buys a 50% stake in the restaurant with his cash, without providing any actual competitive advantage to the business, that money doesn't actually help anyone unless the previous owner can improve the business with it. Except now he has half as much incentive to do so. All those people down the chain only earn money if the restaurant can sell more steaks. If putting your name on the front door doesn't convince more people to walk through it, buying part of the business is not benefiting anyone except the new part-owner.

That's why I oppose both consumption taxes and income taxes. Both discourage the free flow of cash through the economy.

A tax based on the increase in one's personal wealth would be far more useful. It discourages only excessive hoarding. Philanthropy that yields control of the cash is the best, as the services and goods obtained don't even count against your own balance sheet.

The big spender is actually the good guy, provided that he is still able to spend as much as he earns. That's the real job creator. His willingness to spend money is what makes people want to sell him goods and services. If he only invests, those businesses still need to find actual customers who are willing to spend their money.
wouldn't it but sense make.
Hmm. iPad Mini, iPad Mini 2, iPad Mini 3, iPad Air, and iPad Air 2. Wasn't one of the key insights that Steve Jobs had when he returned to Apple that they had too many variations of their products with no obvious differentiation? As much as I love their products, it seems like they're rapidly slipping back down that slope...
That advertising gives us all free news is a lie: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458522
FBI Director: If Apple and Google Won't Decrypt Phones, We'll Force Them To
What a great way to get detailed demographic data of the HN crowd!
Interesting that family history isn't included. I'd have thought that was a pretty important factor.
> low latency is far more important than strict ordering, as with most fast action games

On the other hand, in that situation TCP is the worst choice you can make, as, especially on bad lines, like say Whistler in the canadian mountains, it's easy to get TCP into a state where it builds up a massive latency because it insists on trying to push every single packet through.
What evidence is there that superhumans will lead to "improved quality of life"? Even though you are just dispensing snark, I am glad you used this example so I could show what I meant.
"we should never have invented that damn cotton gin" said the cotton pickers.
"we should never have invented those damn superhumans" said the humans. What is being outsourced is the entire spectrum of human ability by what is essentially another species and not just machines that we are fundamentally in control of or own.
Moxie,

Nothing I like more than watching you destroy snake-oil companies endangering user privacy, like this one and also Telegraph etc. Let's hope TextSecure/Redphone/Signal when they merge into one brand will get the amount of users they really deserve. This stuff is never just about gossip in Washington DC, it's always about the bigger picture of people in Sudan, China, Russia etc who are led into a false sense of security.

Man, I would love to see some of the pushers of this snake oil software crap in court some day as a result of the dangers they often knowingly expose their users to.

BTW - I've been meaning to drop you a secure mail about some other stuff but will do it next week.
I tend to think excessive consumption and mal-investment is worst for society. Also, the bar for bribing is not particularly high, so even the lavish spender could do damage that way. Lastly, a spender is probably more likely to do these kinds of political contributions.
Eh, I can see that argument with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+, but in this case we're just talking about keeping older products alive at a lower price point.
I agree with your point about the time scale, but OS 9 and OS X are entirely different OSes with basically nothing in common but the name "Mac OS". It's more like releasing an entirely new OS, not shifting an OS by 180 degrees. Maybe the difference between DOS and NT is a similar comparison.

At any rate, if having a program run unchanged for the longest period of time is our gold standard, then I think MS wins. They have harmed their platform significantly by their total dedication to backward compatibility. By comparison, Apple has emphasized the quality of the platform at the expense of convenience to developers. I think Apple made the better choice for consumers (and even for developers in the long run), but it's certainly arguable.
Honestly, I don't want to be contacted by a recruiter.

I want a list of companies that are looking to hire. I want a list that I can individually research, then find a way to contact them.
Same reason writers tend to carry around a moleskine, or artists a sketchpad. Ideas don't always come when you're absolutely ready for them, and being able to get something out right then and there is a lot less frustrating than trying to remember that idea hours later when you're in front of a "proper" device.
Seems like this article is more about Pond than about DarkMatter. Rightfully so, IMO, as Pond looks very impressive.
27" Retina iMac at 5120x2880 which they are calling "5K"

edit: Dell previewed a similar screen last month[1] a "world first" but won't ship til December (5K iMac shipping today if I heard right?). No price on Dell screen, rumor was $2,500 but Apple's throwing in a computer for the same price so I doubt that will hold up.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8272702
...seriously awesome news.
This is news to me. Do you have references? Intel, MS and HP are all still present.

HP has downsized in Ireland in the past, Galway in particular, but that's a chain reaction from it being Digital, then Compaq. But they still have a presence there too.

Dell left Ireland, but I don't recall any connection being made with the Lisbon treaty vote at the time, and don't see much evidence in searches. I think it was more down to newly-joined Poland being cheaper.
iPod Classic, iPod Mini, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch...
Hybrid Cloud Management Strategy Is Essential and Should Not Be an Afterthought
This is editing the genome to be smarter, not sterilizing stupid people.
Huh. So it's the no-minivan version of UberX?
Our Tools Have Changed Our Genes for Millions of Years
Nice post. iperf is a pretty good tool for playing around with this stuff. In my limited testing with EC2 instances, packet size and send rate both have very large influences on packet loss. Usually loss will be stable up until some threshhold and then it will go nuts with 40-70% dropped, probably from some buffers somewhere filling up. I'd be curious to see more tests with those as variables.
So you're stating that the two Pro Hac Vice applications were just pointless pieces of paper?

It was filed in accordance with state and federal law, but you'll pay attention to the fact that the notice was served in three countries, as well as via the website. You should also notice that they had the individual registrars (in other countries) execute their process. Why would those non-state parties even agree to act on the process if there was no obligation for them to do so?
From the comments on the site:
>>>A poor person, will spend all his income on consumption of food, clothes, water and all the basic things that he can pay.

>>>A rich person, will only spend a small fraction of it's income, so in the end, proportionally, poor people end paying more taxes then rich people, and that's actually something that's hurting poor people here.

^^^This seems to actually be a sensible argument for there being a problem with a simple flat consumption tax.

A solution might be to have a progressive tax on consumption which becomes more meaningful when levels of spending on consumption reaches a level beyond that of the lower 33% of the populace or something like this. The problem would be figuring out how to apply this tax since it couldn't be done through the sales tax as it currently exists.
For a fuller picture:

• Timestamps are necessary: UDP loss is bursty, when any component anywhere along the path (including the endpoints) is momentarily too burdened (buffers, CPU, wires) to forward every packet.

• Try packets larger than the 'path MTU' between the two endpoints: any packet larger than that is fragmented somewhere en route, and then loss of any one fragment causes the full UDP packet to be lost.

• Try alongside other traffic on the endpoints, and note that TCP streams can't find their achievable rates (or split the available bandwidth amongst themselves) without hitting the packet-dropping pressure that also affects UDP. So perhaps try with 1, 2, or more TCP streams trying to max wire-speed, between the same machines at the same time.

Note also you can create arbitrarily-high loss rates by simply choosing to send more than the path and endpoints can handle. (Let one side send X thousand in a tight loop; on the other side only check for 1 per second for X thousand seconds. Many will be lost, depending on how much you've exceeded the available bandwidth/buffering between the send and receive.)
Really? You think we should restrict how people can give their money away? If you are going to go that far, why not restrict how people can spend their money also (because why should rich people, or people in general, be able to decide what kind of businesses are more deserving of their money).

In fact, why have money at all, lets just let the government take care of everyone and not let anyone own businesses or property or anything. Oh wait, because this is a horrible idea and removes a main motivation for people to actually work and contribute to society. What you are suggesting is communism, not democracy.

Democracy doesn't mean that people can't choose to do what they want to do with their money. It just means that the government representing the people has been elected by the people (at least in a representative democracy, like the United States). It doesn't mean that the government should make all the decisions for everyone or control how they spend their money.
One warning--

"Cholesterol" tends to get used to mean two different things, and even otherwise clear writers like Gary Taubes don't always explicitly denote which one they mean:
1) the amount of cholesterol in your blood, which is mostly produced by your liver. I.e., if my blood cholesterol is 300 mg/dL, should I be worried?
2) cholesterol in your diet. I.e., should you avoid eggs?

I'd say the scientific consensus is that blood cholesterol (particularly small-particle LDL) drives heart disease, but cholesterol (or saturated fat) in your diet doesn't drive blood cholesterol (<10% effect).

So low-fat/high-carb diets were a fallacy and are not "heart-healthy," it's fine to eat eggs, but you should still try to reduce your LDL cholesterol if it's high and boost your HDL cholesterol if it's low.
I've seen UDP fail drastically (dropping north of 50% of packet loss) on controlled networks. Once you hit a certain congestion on a network or a network buffer fills up you suddenly things go a bit sideways. I'm not sure if switches and OS's consider UDP lower priority then TCP or simply that TCP has mechanisms to recover from packet storms, but TCP continues to "function" where UDP starts hitting the floor en masse.

Conversely I've pondered using UDP packets as a "canary in the coal mine" for networks to monitor it's health.
Finally.

Really, I'll probably buy this, but it's more important that it takes desktop computing is finally moving on from ridiculous low res displays.
That page shows Mavericks, not Yosemite...

Screeny: http://i.imgur.com/r6F7f5x.jpg
Not all my time, but as much as I can bear. Everyone needs to relax and enjoy themselves. I do watch movies and tv shows, but I generally try to choose forms of entertainment that have some educational value (even if it's social commentary, such as in the Simpsons and South Park). Between Netflix and Amazon Prime (and Vimeo and Crackle and all the other options) there is no need to go to see a movie in the theater. I do not go to concerts any more, there are free ones available on YouTube. I read free webcomics like Dilbert and XKCD. I buy PC games during Steam sales. Some forms of entertainment are egregiously expensive in my opinion. That level of inefficiency deserves criticism.
I'm not upset or surprised by this. However, it's not the tracking Whisper and similar apps do that upsets me; it's the trashy content and vituperative gossip produced by their users.
I guess the counter argument to that would be that those products are all clearly differentiated by their names and appearances. The iPad Mini 1-3 all look identical barring close inspection, and their names give no indication of what the differences are other than that one has a higher number.
Replace "wealth" with "intelligence", "attractiveness" or even "physical strength", and you get similar threats. Big, strong people could hurt us at any time, and "it's only through their continuing mercy that they haven't"; intelligent people could manipulate or persuade us, while attractive people could seduce us for their own benefit. And yet, we still let people go to the gym to work out and go to school and read books, even encourage them in most cases.

I find this idea of "disarming" rich people for "the safety of us all" to be itself highly dangerous, and a slippery slope. People should be punished according to the law for the illegal things they have done, not the things they could do.
It is FTL Jit?

http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/05/safari-webkit-javascript-l...

https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/FTLJIT

Or is it something else?
Watching CBS over lines owned by Comcast (who owns NBC) will be interesting.
Beware the BitLicense: NY's Virtual Currency Regulation
In order for GitHub to be presumed to know that the forks are also infringing, the takedown notice would have to specify what in the repo is infringing so that GitHub could compare the contents of the forks against the instance that the takedown notice is filed against. If the notice doesn't specify any particular files in the repo, then GitHub can't be expected to remove any fork that has any deletions in its history since the branch. The ease with which the accuser can check the forks for infringement also shifts the burden away from GitHub.
I haven't seen one yet, but I highly recommend knowing your cholesterol numbers since those will give a much more accurate result--both BMI and ABSI are very coarse-grained measures of what's likely to be happening inside your arteries.
I often think that Microsoft must be seriously annoyed at Apple after Apple have been working for years to kill the os upgrade cash cow.
I didn't see a mention that it's 60 Hz yet but we'll see.
Leave feedback in the box on the site once you feel it out, many of the features you see have been at user request and anything goes!
> That sounds pretty middle class to me. Professional people - lawyers, bankers, management, etc.

Professional people (as people who are predominantly workers, but usually not on living paycheck-to-paycheck and often with small capital holdings that may suffice for a comfortable retirement) are general middle class, yes.

> The US doesn't really have an upper class at all

The US actually does have an upper class, people who are primarily capitalists rather than workers.

> In Britain you can be penniless but still be upper class, or a billionaire but still working class.

You seem to be describing a pre-capitalist, essentially feudal view of class (in a capitalist society, meaningful class distinctions still aren't exactly about money, per se, but more where that money comes from, though there's a relation between the two -- you can't be penniless and be maintaining a comfortable standard of living primarily from capital -- whereas in a feudal class system its more about station of birth independent of money, though, in societies where such a class distinction is meaningful rather than a mere historical artifact, there's a close association between that station and both money and how you get it.)
The mid-'90s Apple product line was an unholy mess. There were dozens of Performas and PowerMacs with random 4-digit model numbers. The PowerMac 7600CD might be succeeded by the PowerMac 7300, which would be sold as the Performa 5200 in another part of the world... [1]

An incrementing product revision number is a bit boring, but certainly nowhere near those depths of marketing misery.

[1] This example is semi-fictional because nobody could possibly remember the actual model numbers from that era.
IPP Everywhere
iMac with Retina display announced
With a fusion reactor, the only proof that's adequate would be a press conference at a facility where there's a large object under a tarp and a big red button to push. By itself, a press release on the subject just doesn't convey any actionable information, no matter what it says or who it comes from.
Welcome to international contract law. You are guilty (and are expected to make reparations) until proven innocent.

The legal system is more ripe for abuse than anyone really knows. Another reason contract law should be taught in high schools
Your authentication sucks
HP is killing all remaining Palm webOS devices on January 15th
Apple announces 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display, 5120×2880 screen resolution
To give a counterpoint, I have been unhappy with each successive size increase of my phone for the reasons listed. I'm sure there are people who are happier with a larger device, but I don't think the issue is so cut and dried.
UDP is just about as reliable or unreliable as IP. It's a shim on top of IP to let unprivileged users send IP datagrams that can be multiplexed back to the right user. (Hence the name: "user" datagram protocol.)

Lots of people talk about a "TCP or UDP" design decision, but that's usually not the relevant question for an application developer. Most UDP applications wouldn't just blat their data directly into UDP datagrams, just like almost nobody blats their data directly into IP datagrams.

Typical applications generally want some sort of transport protocol on top of the datagrams (whether UDP-in-IP or just plain IP) that cares about reliability and often about fairness.

That could be TCP-over-IP, but some (like MixApp, which wanted TCP but not the kernel's default implementation) use TCP-over-UDP-over-IP, BitTorrent uses LEDBAT-over-UDP, Mosh uses SSP-over-UDP, Chrome uses QUIC-over-UDP and falls back to SPDY-over-TCP and HTTP-over-TCP, etc.

The idea that using UDP somewhere in the stack means "designing and implementing a reliable transport protocol from scratch" is silly. It doesn't mean that any more than using IP does.

The question of SOCK_STREAM vs. SOCK_DGRAM is more typically, "Does the application want to use the one transport protocol that the kernel implements, namely a particular flavor of TCP, or does it want to use some other transport protocol implemented in a userspace library?"
It's interesting to look at first sons if you have a long family tree. For me first sons of first settler's lineage... governors of NY and CT in the civil war era.

Down less fortunate birth (from same initial ancestor) fighting in the civil war as a conscript.