skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real life doctor here. Your question sounds simple, but the answer is complex. The heart disease risk from smoking probably stems from damage to blood vessels caused by toxins generated in the tobacco burning. "Toxins" is really the best word here, even though it's so general. I use it to encompass thousands of different chemicals like free radicals, known carcinogens, etc.

Current thinking is the body repairs that damage with clots and cholesterol. But, these repairs accumulate over time to occlude a blood vessel (atherosclerosis). If red blood cells can't get through, oxygen can't either, and heart cells downstream to the occlusion will die in minutes to hours.

Marijuana most likely generates a significant amount of toxins as well. However, marijuana smokers generally smoke less than cigarette smokers. Given that heart disease and cancer risk increases with the amount smoked, it would be reasonable to assume marijuana smokers are much less at risk (though the risk is nonzero). But, we don't have a clear conversion between marijuana and cigarette smoke yet. You may also consider that marijuana may be contaminated with other plants or chemicals.

Electronic cigarettes are possibly more safe than non-e cigarettes in terms of cancer risk (this is theoretical as no significant study has been done yet). However, some in vitro (cellular) research suggests nicotine may play a role in atherosclerosis discussed above. Also, nicotine can precipitate a heart attack if a heart is already diseased.
Schools in England Are Teaching 5-Year-Olds Coding
I've been using Homebrew throughout the Yosemite beta test period and it's been working fine. Yes, there are some formulas that need to be updated, but now that Yosemite has been released, I expect those will updated shortly.

Also, Apple has been updating Xcode and the command line tools all along, so just getting the latest versions should be all you need to do for developer happiness on Yosemite.
> [...] Children that grow up in high income families have better IQ results than children living in poverty.

Yes, because high IQ parents tend to make more money and tend to get high IQ children (even if those children got adopted away or orphaned early on). On the other hand, if high income families adopt children of low IQ parents those children end up with an IQ resembling that of their low IQ biological parents.

The research has been done.
This may be stupid, but I am slightly concerned about visiting anything related to Tor or security because of my fearful suspicion that the NSA will flag me for closer observation. That said, me frequenting a site called "Hacker" News probably sets off some red flags somewhere anyway.
Again, you're basing this on a rational assessment of the different drugs in question. That's just not the mindset that we're talking about here. When you grow up hearing your parents and your preachers and your teachers all telling you that alcohol is okay in moderation (for adults) but that using other drugs is wrong (and thus illegal), that can have a real impact in establishing your moral compass for those issues. Those influences are pretty much the defining source of your community's norms and traditions.

So if you're the sort of person whose inclination or upbringing leads you to strongly honor your elders and their ideals, it's not a matter of "irrational circular argument". It's not even a matter of "argument" at all: proper morals and laws aren't based on reason, but on received wisdom. In this view, Moses wasn't supposed to ask, "Why not covet my neighbor's house?" It's enough to simply be told what is wrong and what's not.

Once again, I personally do not think that way, and I'm sure that I'm misrepresenting the perspective of folks who do in multiple ways. But my point here is simply to explain why arguing about these issues based on rational consistency or benefit/harm calculations is so often unproductive.
Snarkiness aside, think about what the "value" is/was that cable brought to the transaction. The value of cable was that you could get channels (and thus content) that you could not get from 'over the air' stations. Early cable adopters people with poor or non-existent over the air reception. Then cable added the equivalent of UHF channels (sorry if that is a US centric thing but all of the channels on that band in the US were a bit 'off'). Then came the 'movie' channels which you could only get on cable and the reason people paid for cable was that other content which they had no other way to get.

Internet service was never a threat until bandwidth got to the point where you could watch video on it with the same fidelity as bad TV, then suddenly other ways to get alternate content were available. Netflix dropped into that change just as affordable 1 - 3 mbit bandwidth was hitting (the whole ADSL revolution in the 90's) and since the bandwidth race that has just gotten worse.

So cable, which you paid for, was the only way to get this "other" content, which carried free over-the-air content with its concommitant advertising as a 'favor' to its subscribers so they didn't need an antenna (and they did get better reception, but not HD, but that is a different thread). Now folks are dumping cable for things like Netflix and Hulu because they can get content "ala carte" and Netfix on demand is better than all of the 'budget' movie channels on cable (think Encore, Starz, or Cinemax) and now they go back to over the air reception (now digital) of the free content. Comcast is disintermediated because they don't bring anything to the party (except, to their pain, fast internet access).

That is the sea change that is going on here. Fat pipe providers as a commodity, and a bunch of different services being content providers on demand.
I'd have to agree - maybe it's different when you use it, but based on the screenshots, the UI seems like a step backward.
You're not alone in this exact behavior.
Side-by-side: http://i.imgur.com/vGmlRj3.jpg

The photographer is in over her head. She owns her photo, but she doesn't own the "idea" of the back of Rod Stewart's head. Not even Rod Stewart owns that "idea."

And while we can't just copy her photo, we can take another photo that expresses the same idea (Stewart's head). And since there aren't that many way to photograph Rod Stewart's rear-dome, the photos would have to be essentially identical for any copyright infringement. The photos here are not identical: the light is different, the hair is messed up differently... it looks like a losing case.
The concept is called multi-IMSI. It's been possible to do this for a while now.
I just ditched it. It's so close to being good, but there are a ton of small bugs that can add up to being quite frustrating. It's no where near the level of a tool that will be used as much as an editor.

And now it looks like they have found something else more interesting to work on anyway.
Canceling a pledge is possible as long as the project is live (click on "manage my pledges", the cancel button is at the bottom).
I'm in the US - I am able to download now as well.
I don't think it's "just engineering". Plasma physics is quite complicated.
I don't know about python, but Javascript works great. The killer app for me is using the editor as an integrated repl for JS.
> most people I know who were developers before the bust are either millionaires or still rocking

My experience varies. Of the (admittedly few) people I can think of that I knew personally and who were trained-on-the-job during this time none are still developing software (though one works in QA and one is a project manager of a tech company last I heard).

> I would argue bootcamps are a step towards understanding the true needs on a global scale

Yeah, I buy that there's non-zero insight to be gleaned from some experience running these code camps for the industry at large. But we'll be doing that on the backs of people who guinea pig these programs in the short term with misaligned expectations, and relatively short term desires for new employment.

You're selling people something they can "sell" to others (marketable skills). The people being expected to evaluate (and then pony up for) the value proposition here are by definition uniquely unqualified to do so.

That's why it feels like a scam. If Facebook decided they wanted to run people through these programs for free because they thought it might have some value and solve a real need for talent that they have, I wouldn't be complaining.

As a matter of fact, it's telling that they aren't.
Well you nailed it pretty much on the head. UK is already placing mandates that begin enforcement next year that state secondary schools must supply a rudimentary coding education to all students. Other EU countries are soon to follow, and the US government is essentially running tests across certain districts of similar ideas.

Problem at the moment is that we don't have teachers in the world who can code, much less teach it. We actually launched the first pieces of a platform today that approaches this issue. We'll be releasing more news soon about our efforts to collaborate with schools and governments to Teach Teachers to Teach Code!

http://bit.ly/teach-the-teachers
Oh come off it
Totally agree. Do you have a link to the patch in progress? I would love to test them out.
It's very annoying. If it ain't at least quad core, it shouldn't be an i7.
I wonder what the average power draw is.
Destructuring in ECMAScript 6
I'll acquire them for $10. Oh wait, they do probably say no, because their exit strategy was to get acquired by twitter or someone else for millions upon millions. Any money is better than no more, and the market is willing to pay what it's currently worth, they should sell it to the highest bidder and be done with it.
Ask HN: Browser add-on: Have you or your friends made any money from them?
I have a few ideas around Browser add-ons but from what I read earlier, browser add-ons are hard to monetize or very hard. Do you have any experience with monetizing them? How much did you make. What is so tough about monetizing them?
Wow, 500k for a project which wanted only 7500!

Clearly shows there is need for such a product.
Sure. But I don't let Seagate off the hook if my hard drive dies just because I have my data backed up. I get a warranty with that.
You're on their list for that comment alone.

The TLDR of the situation is that you shouldn't worry about what the NSA flags you as. They flagged everyone. Just assume you're on their list because you probably are anyway.
Um, it's an Onion-style satire? This is not exactly on-topic for tech startups. :(
The photographer isn't claiming that the new image is a photoshopped copy of the old one.
Bear in mind you may have set the display virtual resolution to 1680, which affects apparent font and icon sizes etc, but the phydical resolution it's being rendered at is still the full retina fidelity. You shouldn't be seeing jaggies on curves the way you would on a real 1680 display.

I'm in the market for a retina iMac but expect to turn down the virtual resolution a few notches to make the UI a bit more readable. I find the system text on the non retina 27" machines a bit small, but scaling it up on those panels makes it look crap due to scaling artefacts that just shouldn't happen on a retina panel.
Anybody know where to find release dates for driver updates and things like that?
When businesses shut down it's legally acceptable for customer data to be destroyed. Your pictures are just data, and if those images are so important then you should have backed them up in another place. Furthermore I'm positive the EULA you signed when registering covers all of these events.

Expensive artwork doesn't get thrown away, but you'd be amazed how often it gets donated away when a business can no longer operate and can't find a buyer. And this is art that has actual monetary value, not the random sorts of things that find their way to Twitter/Twitpic.
hint for non lawyers-------if you want to understand a document or a legal set of rules-----skip ALL THE BULLSHIT FIRST---------go straight to that part of the document which describes the 'default' or 'termination' and those rules pertaining to 'recourse' 'punishmnet' and 'jurisdiction' .

knowing what defines the actual breakage of the agreement, or when something breaks, ---what happens.

then you can go back and read all the boring crap that your laywer might need to know at some point after you did whatever you wanted to do.
Startup lets you try on tattoos online
U.S. Military's Mysterious Spacecraft to Return Home
Hahaha, I see your point. But casually designing something that endangers people's lives really isn't much of a comparison.

yes, you can absolutely argue that developing the next piece of medical software for defibrillators is of equal importance, but if I'm sticking to coding front-ends of ecommerce shops and happy being great at that and staying on top of it as it grows... I'm not sure I see the point...?
Even those apps can have multi GB caches. Facebook alone is 500MB in extra data on my phone, iMessage has a 1.5GB, etc.
Collected taxes don't necessarily have to be spent by the government. Have a look at the idea of an unconditional basic income.
I'm basing it on http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/laibson/files/most_reported... but will concede that I misquoted and that 'Most' vs 'All' is an important distinction.

The most current information I see is Rietveld published 10 days ago.
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/06/095679761454...
and that paper claims to have found an explanation for ≈2% of educational attainment and cognitive function.

None of the reported snps (rs9320913, rs11584700, rs4851266) have been mentioned in any other publication. So I don't yet see a basis for "the hits seem to be replicating pretty well".

I do not doubt that genetics plays a significant role in intelligence, but I expect that intelligence, and the proxy of educational attainment, is an overly broad phenotype. I also expect that epistatic effects may be important and would necessitate unrealistically massive sample size or a very different experimental design.
You just described a dream I had 2 weeks ago... I need to stop watching House. :-p
Lawyers Researching Possible Class Action Lawsuit Over 2011 MacBook Pro Graphics Issues

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/21/lawsuit-2011-macbook-pro...
The system would also need to be global, through international cooperation - otherwise one who spends the same amount in one country would end up in a higher tax bracket than one who spends the same amount divided between two countries.
You can easily remap it in System Preferences: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13742
Ask HN: I have traction, revenue, team, and I'm in SF, who shall I talk to?
Hi guys,

I'm the developer/founder of Javelin Browser, this is my 3rd startup and my first time in SF trying to raise a round.
Javelin is bootstrapped up to this point from Singapore.

Today, Javelin has more than 300k downloads (with very healthy MAU and various other metrics), as well as a healthy MRR.

I'm looking to speak to angels and investors, does anyone know of anyone I can talk to?

I'm living at downtown SF, but am willing to travel!

I'm contactable at (415) 629 6580 or hello@javelinbrowser.com if you can help!
Ask HN: Can I get feedback on my site?
Just a simple one page wondering if I can get some feedback.

https://scrape.it
OSX as an OS is weaker than Windows at games performance. For example, Valve officially supports Mac & Windows in-house, and running the same game (e.g. TF2) on the same hardware in windows will see framerate increases of 20%-100%.
Here's the full article: http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/

It doesn't really say, but I would guess it has to do with when you start to see individual pixels.
> Although it is unknown why 60 was chosen

Oh come on. This is not rocket science.

There is an easy way to count to 12 with just one hand: place your thumb on one of your phalanxes. There are three for each of the remaining fingers: hence, 4*3=12 possibilities. Babylonians counted this way, hence the duodecimal system.

You can use your second hand to count to five, as usual. 5x12 = 60. If you show one of the fingers on your left hand, and one of the phalanxes of your right hand, it really clearly communicates a number from 1 to 60.

This is why the base 60 was chosen.
Sadly, even then I thought the title was about how CCP (makers of EVE Online) were using LightTable in development...
Only 3090 on steam. Which is ~1/3 of the while windows back log. And a large chunk of the imported games are older games, so Linux and Mac both are making steady progress.
I'm sorry, I'm literally terrified of the people coming out of your organization after watching the video at the end of your post. I really question your organization's judgement in evaluating developer talent if you're seriously suggesting things like this (literally from your video):

- "Googling for solutions is key"
- "Marketers are the best at research"
- "#2 is copying cool things"..."this is a key philosophy for you to understand how to use other people's code"

Ah yes, because that's exactly how professional software engineering works. I don't disagree that what people build is an effective way to judge them, but I question your organization's ability to effectively judge a project through the lens of professional software engineering.
No, you just do what you had to do before: get a SIM-card from your operator, and put it in your iPhone.
Did not know that WebRTC used, it, but did know about the NAT and firewall problem. That's the part I find unfortunate: a reliable general purpose datagram-based protocol is a shoe-in for so many application protocols, yet vendors tend to do bad things like this for no really good reason.
Take typical nerd, add mild depression and zero social life. I can ensure you that being trans will not make it much worse and will improve relations with authorities significantly. And in their cases it was 'administrative decision'.

I argued a few times in person, results were unpleasant for my person, I am not going to do it again.

65% graduates are women, men do not even have universal voting right in US. Google is your friend.
RStudio has the Open Source AGPL v3 version that, ostensibly, is only different from their commercial offering in that it there is support for the commercial version, I'm perfectly fine with it.

This MRAN looks to be a similar situation (that is, it's available on their OSS offering Revolution R Open)
It's probably a CDN thing… the files have to propagate, which I'm guessing is happening as quickly as possible.
3 Ways Data Should Inform Your Financial Projections
5 fingers, 4x3=12 phalanxes to point with thumb. 5x12=60.
I run one. I tell anyone who complains that's legal, explain Tor, and send them the form letter, and then never respond again. Three years running, and I've never been sued or otherwise affected.
Interesting, thanks for the citation I hadn't seen it before. It does look like pretty solid evidence, so I'm less sure of the triglyceride hypothesis than I was before.

A couple cites of interest:

http://cpr.sagepub.com/content/3/2/213.short

http://www.ahjonline.com/article/0002-8703(86)90296-6/abstra...

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/85/1/37.short

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664115/

There is significant overlap in the explanatory power of these variables because they are not independent. So it is possible that "high" cholesterol has covariance with triglyceride:HDL ratio in the majority of the population sample (seems likely). In that case we should see people with "high" TC still have better mortality outcomes. Which we do see:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11502313

But like I said, the Framingham study does seem like reasonable evidence. I'll look over the entire thing later.

There is also this interesting development, but I don't know enough to speak intelligently about it:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2796.2006....

It is interesting to note that apo-b levels VERY closely track HDL:Trig ratio.
this person is obviously full of shit. nobody becomes a trans woman to receive "better treatment."
Sure, they can block access to the file from their web interface. I'm asking how they block access to a specific file when someone does a "git clone" or "git pull".
eitland, I'm sorry I was rude towards you, you didn't deserve it.

I'll try and make this constructive. Would you agree that human intelligence centres around pattern recognition? If so, which patterns would you class as hard to teach?
I think it's that ./b2 was not run.
> A representative government is supposed represent all of its constituents equally

Supposed by whom? Certainly, even ignoring ways in which the practice deviates from the overt design, the US government doesn't even pretend to be structured in a way in which all citizens have equal representation.
The thing that bites a lot of naive protocol designers who use UDP is that it doesn't guarantee order either. So you can get delivery out of order, and that gets more likely the more your packet crosses IP subnets. In part because some folks do traffic shaping, in part because UDP traffic is considered "less important" by a lot of ISPs, and in part because new switches, like the latest compilers, have enough cpu in the control plane to play games on packets flying about.
Javelin Browser was previously #1 on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8368199
MBP retina 1st generation. Latest GM is better than 10.9 (don't really remember 10.8 crashes though) regarding crashes. Initial betas were bad (2-3 reboots a day) now latest GM seed seems quite stable. Haven't rebooted in days (except to update the OS)
Later on in the article, the purpose of copyright is further discussed, specifically the "moral" side of copyright.

For example: "Samuel Beckett’s restrictions on the staging of his plays is a well-known example of the exercise of copyright as a moral right." and "...although the buyer of a work of art may destroy it, he or she cannot deface or otherwise alter it." as well as the inability to copy or publish out of print books. None one of these is referring to the money making side of copyright, but rather to the "moral" side that you own your creation completely, and others only get to "consume" it.
Yes it worked, it is not about being comparable, they just sink bellow radar as a men.
I would define "better-than-average driver" by the expected value of deaths, injuries, and damage you will cause in the next year.
That's true on conventional panels, but the whole point of retina is that the pixels individually are smaller than the human eye can resolve. I'd be interested to see in practice. I suppose it depends how far your eye needs to be from the screen for it you count as retina in that way.
This one is a little harder to swallow since the alternative is shutting down the service with no cash in hand. Surely there was a deal on the table to keep the service running?
SIM = Subscriber Identity Module - it's just what identifies you to the network.

To be on multiple networks at the same time with current technology you need multiple modems and RF equipment.
This article is telling me that the majority of Americans are overestimating their exposure to the Ebola virus, while a few weeks ago I read an article in the same vein stating that Americans have a bad sense for how quickly viruses can spread. Is this a change based on the actual perception of Americans having changed or rather just differing opinions formed from differing source information? I am speaking in generalities of course, as I have not linked the other article and would not begin to know where to find it.
Professional surveillance usually outwits amateur thought self-policing. May as well enjoy freedom of thought instead. With more anonymous traffic, all parties are incented to raise their game.

Does HN support Tor?

Edit: read City and the City by China Mieville?
My point is this - what happens when some kid with 6 weeks experience leaves gaping security vulnerabilities in your ecommerce shop (yes, even with front-end code alone) that results in financial damage to your customers?