skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can amateur journalism bring justice to Rio's favelas?
> For many cancers, the authors argue for a greater focus on the early detection of the disease rather than on prevention of its occurrence. If misinterpreted, this position could have serious negative consequences from both cancer research and public health perspectives.

> In principle ... nearly half of all cancer cases worldwide can be prevented

I am not sure what to take from this article. Lung cancer prevention is already in progress. At the same time prostate cancer has even higher mortality (for non smokers) and preventive checks are not even covered by most insurance companies.
Many years ago, I remember being absolutely enthralled by learning about how the first version of Photoshop was developed by the brothers, John and Thomas Knoll, in Dr. Dobb's Magazine.

"Tom is really a super programmer. He's one of the best engineers I know. He just wrote this terrific, great code."

"It became much bigger than we thought it would, but it kept getting better and better."

The original source code (thank you, Computer History Museum!!)

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-...

One of the characteristics of brilliant engineers (and engineering teams of the likes of Jeff Dean's) may be that that they create the opposite of technical debt as they work...

> From the time he decided to stop school until Version 1.0 shipped was almost two years. It became much bigger than we thought it would, but it kept getting better and better.

Tom is really a super programmer. He's one of the best engineers I know. He just wrote this terrific, great code.

Version 1.0 was a usable tool largely because I was trying to use it to solve real-world problems. I would run into something that would just stymie me. There's got to be a way of doing this, and then Tom would scratch his head and go, "That would be hard." He would think about it a while. I would talk to him a few days later and he would say, "I was thinking about that and I had this great idea."

I was goading him a little bit, too. I would say, "You know what I really want to do? I want to make one of these selections so that I can like select some area and then the paint only affects just the area selected." Tom would say, "Oh, thats going to be impossible to make that go real time. It's going to be really slow." I'd say "Oh, come on, Tom. I'll bet you can do that." About a week later he would say, "I was thinking about it, and I think I've got a way." It was often a whole lot of exchanges like that where at first Tom thought it would be really hard, but he would keep thinking about it. He's brilliant that way, and he would come up with a clever solution to the problem...

"A Conversation with John Knoll"

http://www.drdobbs.com/a-conversation-with-john-knoll/184410...
Posts revolutionary technology to HN, get's feedback on website.
That's a very impressive case of double think.

Google codes Chrome in order to make it more useful for various kinds of customers, such as customers who have virus scanners.

And this becomes "Google putting its own interests ahead of its users"?

Back here in reality, that's called the customer is always right and is a fundamental tenet of business.
You can implement Bluetooth 2.0 without EDR, so how is it meaningless? If you explain, maybe we'll see if indeed pointing out "optional" is the opposite of "fundamental" is indeed "non-reasoning".
Superfish is not a man in the middle, by definition. It's running on your local computer. That's not the middle. That's the start. Consider that Superfish could have just done binary patching on the browser binaries instead of fiddling the local SSL configuration ... it's put there by the computer manufacturer so they can do anything they like.
Sorry, I don't understand. What does it mean that I am browsing a web site with a Facebook Like button that I don't click on?
It's not just that the OEMs wouldn't like it. The US DoJ sued Microsoft (and tried to break it up) to prevent it from having any control over what they do. In fact, Microsoft doesn't know what OEMs are installing as "Windows" unless it goes out and buys one of their PCs.

Otherwise, some OEMs have tried installing versions of Linux, with negative financial results. A few are still trying. The real problems are selling and supporting them.
I can't remember the last time I had a poor interview experience. I get to talk with nice people, maybe learn something, etc. Afterwards, I tell my friends that they should try to work there.

The pre-interview part of the job search for companies that don't use outside recruiters leaves something to be desired.

Advice for companies trying to hire:

1) Remember that you will probably be hiring again - don't piss off your future applicant pool because you don't need them for your current position. Treat them how you would like to be treated i.e. communicate with them even if it is automated.

2) Post a salary range - If you want to know what range applicants are looking for "so we don't waste your time". Post a range, problem solved. Oh, posting a range will upset your current employees? Maybe you should pay your current developers at the market rate.

3) Do the work. I realize that making candidates jump through arbitrary hoops is an easy way to limit the number of resume's your hiring team has to look at but don't be surprised if the best candidates go to companies that actually put in the work (read the cover letters, look at the portfolios, talk to the candidates, etc).

I would love to know how long a position has been open. I've seen job ads running for months, possibly years. Obviously this wouldn't be in the interest of the hiring companies. For a job searcher it would be a way to weed out the companies that aren't going to hire anyone.
I would put De re metallica [1] on the list.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_metallica
Cancer is like Nuclear FUSION;
What would've been great is having code snippets/examples in the main readme page.

Over all it looks like a useful library but I think a lot of developers would prefer seeing how the API is used.
Is it a myth that prostate cancer is something you die with, rather than die of?
Why did someone feel the need to have a photo of a topless 11 year old on that article?! It's not something I expect to see on a page about planes
Sigh. The title made me think this could have been a great article, but it was just a puff piece about some reactions of women to finding out that photos get retouched. No examining how photoshop alters our view of reality, no thoughts about how this might shift what is normal, no insights into potential backlashes and what we might do as a society to fight this, no consideration to how this affects women of color or (gasp) men. Just a few words and links showing that photos get retouched and that this is bad for women? I'm not sure, the author never really makes any point.
One example - I use the ebay app on Android over the web site. It's miles better due to native integration. It remembers my login better than websites do (probably a security risk, but my phone's encrypted), it integrates photo-taking direct into the app which is handy for selling and buying e.g. buying: if you have a minor dispute with a seller you can just blast off a photo in the built-in messaging system. It sends notifications for watched items. The UI is also better than the mobile site - the click targets are nice and big and the lists scroll quickly - but that could possibly be improved in the site. The native integration is mostly what makes it nice.
This. If "civilisation" (as we know it) had to be rebuilt, it would not be possible. All the easily extractable resources have been used. The equipment needed to get out the remaining would not be possible starting from stone age technology.

Any rebuilt civilisation would not be technological. The "best" we could "hope" for would be agrarian based, with 0% unemployment, people living in cohesive communities, with active fulfilling lives....

wait a minute.........
Any countries with totally new economies in the last 25 years?

China comes to mind, along with other east asia. But it's natural to exploit what you've already got.

And most of Russia's non-military industries turned out not competitive.
Stripe launches Bitcoin support
Good riddance! Your link "List of authoritarian regimes.." is exactly the kind of links I don't want to see on HN. Your competitor "Interactive go..." is exactly the kind of links I DO want to see.
It does not crashes iOS 8.3.
I personally prefer https://nixsrv.com/llthw - it's concise and the focus is on more on important details... I also enjoy the attitude and explanations on this site. It forces you to learn to learn and explore on your own - which is essential to learn Linux/Unix.
Show HN: Girl: Check your GitHub READMEs for broken links
The assimilation, via evolution, of tools as an extension of our physiology is pretty easy to contemplate and understand. Not so straightforward is the evolution of emotions. I believe that love, anger, awe, longing, etc. are not learned emotional responses. They are also passed via DNA and therefore, evolved attributes. If one accepts that our emotions are evolved and that, for us, evolution has been suspended by our use of technology (basically since adoption of agriculture), then our emotional response patterns are the same as our prehistoric ancestors. But the inputs that drive those response patterns are not.

This is a weighty discontinuity, since we are not living in a prehistoric world. Considering this discontinuity helps a great deal in understanding the, many times, illogical behaviors of myself and others. Take the affinity for team sports, for example. It is a huge business, but why? I've spent many Sunday afternoons screaming at the TV as the quarterback throws yet another interception. Why do I get so worked up? Why do I react so much like I am participating in the team's successes and failures?

My theory is that, emotionally, being part of a team of people that accomplishes tasks that individuals could not accomplish is key to my survival. With a team, I can take down a mastodon, kill a marauding saber tooth tiger, fight off enemy clans. Alone I'd have little chance. So evolution selected for teaming behaviors by using emotions to provide both the reward (elation when the team succeeds) and punishment (despair when it fails). Couple that with the need to belong to a group of people (loneliness if I don't), and you have 'fanatics' or 'fans'.

There are many such thought experiments. So when I get some free time (ha, ha) I want to take a course in evolutionary psychology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
I believe that it's something elderly men commonly die with rather than of (especially allied with medication to suppress the tumour) but it's not a universal truth either.
Oh you're right, I forgot about those threads.
i just realized another big difference between the traditional devaluation/inflation solution and the wage reduction :

In the first case, savings and capital in general are affected as well, whereas in the second only workers are.

So i guess wage reduction would restore competitivity but would also increase the inequality in the country dramaticaly (unless you dramaticaly increase the taxes on higher revenues and on savings as well).

Another thing is that if a country changes its currency to be able to devaluate, you can be pretty sure that all the savings will immediately leave the country's bank and convert to stronger currencies.

I guess every solution is a bad one.
2014 Global Go to Think Tank Index Report [pdf]
For those stuck with windows for some reason, note that Cygwin[1] is a not too painful way to get that *nix feeling. Note that things get a little weird if you start, e.g., running python from Cygwin.

[1] http://www.cygwin.com
I think the real problem is more of that people hates fees. Any kind of fee, no matter how small it is. That's why most Facebook/Instagram stores in Thailand always have at least 2-3 bank accounts for the buyer to pay to, each from different banks. Inter-bank transfer cost from 25 THB to 35 THB (about $1) depends on bank and amount while same-bank transfer is free.

This fact plus how hard it is to get payment processor to talk to you is really hurting the credit card adoption rate, despite acquiring a card is very easy here in Thailand (I have 5, 3 of which they ask me to have one). For example, K-Bank Payment Gateway requires you to sign lengthy documentation and need to pay them 200,000 THB ($6,500) as a reserve fund and still require redirection to the bank website to make payments (with 3DS, success auth callbacks and all.)

Using PayPal is possible, but transferring money from PayPal to bank account here still isn't very straightforward. It involves either cheque, or routing the money through BBL NYK, each with its own set of fees. I'm not sure if this has changed because it has been a while since I used PayPal to accept payments, but for social network merchant it is still a hassle.

In Thailand (and Vietnam) there is http://get.page365.net/ who tries to tackle this problem about managing social network stores and payments. I've heard a lot of their successful stories, which may implies there's still a lot of opportunities in this market. (Disclosure: one of their founder is my close friend.)
>The company itself doesn’t make any judgments about what might constitute illegal trafficking behavior. That’s up to investigators to determine, as there are adult women who want to do sex work and aren’t being trafficked.

Pretty weaselly.
Actually, the direct brain interface and AI are kind of orthogonal. There may be a direct brain interface that would allow to replace mouse and touch interaction, for example, so the interaction method would be purely mechanical in this case. Passing non-spoken words or thoughts to the computer instead of speaking is a different thing.
Also possible that a Lenovo employee was at a coffee shop using wifi connected to the corporate CMS using http"s" and someone unrelated to Lenovo linked their fake repo on his/her behalf.
Yep. And the deletionists where more often the "majority" culture and male, which resulted in a feedback loop for the nonminority and female. New minority turn up, have a bad experience and leaves. I think it was studied let me see if I can find the paper. I know the results were replicated with comment bots.

Update, not the ones I was thinking of but a good read.
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pdf/item/5605.pdf
If civilisation ended all the materials we mined would be on the surface except the things we burnt.

Gigatonnes of metals even the completely rusted out remains would be far easier to refine.

Not to mention all the other stuff.

Hardest problem would be energy as we have consumed easily available fossil fuels but that's not intractable, we in the west of built our way of life on profligate fossil fuel consumption, there are other ways.
The mach_vm.h header has been replaced with a dummy version in recent iOS SDKs, so you’ll have to copy it from your OS X SDK and adjust the include. Just updated the post, and also removed VM_PROT_EXECUTE from the mach_vm_protect call for compatibility with non-jailbroken devices.
SIM card makers hacked by NSA and GCHQ
Seems ok at a glance.

If you want a classic though, check out Unix Power Tools at O'Reilly
Quick ad-hoc hacks? Obviously you don't understand the Unix philosophy of do one thing and do it well. If you were ever to learn how to write scripts, you'd find this to be a god-send and you wouldn't have it any other way.
Since it's Vogue they of course use it because of the popularity of the term "fashionista". Both -ist, in English, and -ista, in Spanish and other languages, comes from Latin. The English use of -ista do come from foreign groups, but the meaning is somewhat different. In English an -ist is generally someone who does something or holds a certain view, while a -ista is someone who supports or follows something.

Artist - Someone who makes and/or performs art.
Modista (in Spanish) - Some who makes clothes, i.e. a fashion designer. (Mod- means fashion in many languages).
Fashionista - Someone who follows fashion.

But more than anything, as I said "fashionista" -> "Snowdenista".
Wow. Just yesterday I was searching for info Tent & Eris to assess building something similar (I think combining payments with this would be sweet). Great to see!
Well non-competitive isn't quite correct. Certain industries indeed were non-competitive (i.e. automotive, which btw boomed domestically post 1990), but as a whole they were torn apart by privatization and corruption.

One reason being that the way these business and industries transferred into private holdings was always somewhat dubious (and hence the very real risk of losing these holdings with the next change in political winds e.g. Khodorkovsky). Anyone that got their hands on a piece of the soviet-pie tried to get as much out of it putting as little as possible into it.
Interesting, that's potentially very good news! To be sure, could you try again with the latest code snippet? I forgot to remove the VM_PROT_EXECUTE flag for non-jailbroken devices.
"Considered harmful" considered harmful ;-)
Hi.

Nice! I think it would be nice to be able to group and cluster the countries, rather than just sort them by name. Either geopolitical clusters based on the data, or just by region might make it easier to spot some interesting connections.
Powershell is a Unix workalike. That's why you like it so much.
Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC
I dont know. But in Europe preventive checks are highly recommended (and covered).
You probably have a hardware problem or kext.
Haven't had a KP in years.
The modern web is scriptable and the days of "no javascript" are over. If you turn off javascript, you are one of less than 2% of the web that does so but you know what you did and the consequences so you also know how to fix the problem.
HN is strongly moderated, censored, has a biased ranking system and a very biased community.

It's not a matter of fair. It is what it is, and it works the way the owners and most users like it. And it is done very, very well.

Personally, I think the bias has become so strong that the lack of a viable alternative or reddit-style autonomous subs is really starting to grate.

HN has become a homogenous echo chamber in which saying the "wrong" thing will get you buried or even slow/shadow banned.

But usually the manipulation is more subtle in avoiding those discussions altogether, and this may be a typical example of that. (Which in itself would an excellent example of good, subtle moderation.)

The great irony is that on a platform that considers politics to be off-topic, political and ideological bias dominates almost everything but the most neutral of scientific and technological topics.

But I suspect most HN-ers, including the moderators, are barely aware of that bias because they operate inside a bubble of like-minded people within a very narrow ideological spectrum.

But "fair" doesn't come into it. It works as intended.
You're right that monitor pixels aren't individual wavelengths, but the spectrum of a reproduced image can be very different than the spectrum of the natural image. My point was just that you don't want your flat lens harshly filtering that natural image by only working one 3 wavelengths.
The author makes a few references to the idea of "scientific consensus", which I find curious. It's a phrase that I tend to cast aside as politically motivated. Politicians in the climate change debate like to point to "scientific consensus" as a way of saying, "look, all these intelligent people whose work we personally don't understand agree, so they must be correct."

But one tenant of scientific thought is that truth and factuality are not measures of an individual's or society's belief, but rather, they are discovered by experiments whose results can be replicated.

> People distrust science when it conflicts with their valued beliefs, or when science suggests a solution or intervention that conflicts with their beliefs. People are happy to trust science when it does not conflict with their ideology or narrative.

I agree, but those same people generally rationalize those views to themselves in the way Adams noted: by pointing at reasons to distrust science or scientists. They get caught up in issues like "climategate", they assert that results about medical science are distorted by financial pressures, etc.

In short, the rationalizations of individuals who reject scientific results often point to the scientists behind the results, their interests and motivations, instead of the results themselves. This isn't exclusively true, but I think the tie in to the idea of "scientific consensus" is this:

Perhaps science would be better served by a decreased emphasis on the individuals carrying out scientific research and increased emphasis on the results themselves.
Commonplace =/= prevalent. What wars are you thinkint of? No snark, just curious.

In terms of prevalence, I don't think there is an apt comparison in the historical narrative for the US. I heard, but cannot confirm, that we blow off more rounds for target practice than the active conflicts around the globe use in combat. Even if that statement is incorrect, I can think of no other nation with an equivalent saturation of small arms.
the site is well designed! looking forward
You're right that monitor pixels aren't individual wavelengths, but the spectrum of a reproduced image can be very different than the spectrum of the natural image. My point was just that you don't want your flat lens harshly filtering that natural image by only operating at 3 highly tuned wavelengths -- that's not going to be enough to capture natural images, despite the fact that we can reproduce them with 3 components.
I have learned that little things in a start of a relationship will multiply over time. If somebody is just a bit dishonest early on, the relationship might explode in a couple of years due to lack of trust. With the people who have the same core values as me, I have the best long-term relationships that are good for both of us.
I am sure that some of those planes look like their designers.
A piece of data that appears to corroborate this article was recently on HN. It concerned a Greek island where people have unusual long life[0], and followed a man who was diagnosed in the US by 9 doctors with terminal cancer... only to survive them all from his island where it is believed several lifestyle factors play important roles in longevity (and cancer prevention/recovery for this man).

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-...
Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel and VC Investors?
I think you're missing an r, it's libertard.
And then the Spaniard carpenter go out wearing some extra furs and chase some dinosaurs for dinner, END.

> Because the Spanish workers aren’t as good as the German at optimising chair-making

> This is not necessarily because the spanish workers are lazy

Oh, thanks, thanks. You are so kind... Except that the spanish workers are not lazy at all (you can find some lazy workers here, and in Germany of course) this is what the troika and little friends want you to think for fun and scamfit. They had called us even the PIGS countries... Portugal Greece, Spain, Italy... ready for sacrifice, "they merit this, they are lazy, stupid, living la vida loca with our money"...

> There’s just one problem. Those damned voters

Yeah, the bastards that we had looted are soo unpredictable that now they don't want to vote us again... this is what they call it democracy I think, stupid democracy...

This article is just propaganda repeating the same dated ideas. Spanish workers can buy the machines they need and the materials they need. We don't live in the XIII siecle. And just for the record, spreading the picture of a spanish (or greek) carpenter sitting under a fig tree working exclusively on "olive wood" is so silly that can not be casual.
Thanks - it's a great idea. I'm not sure about geopolitical connections, but geographical clusters would make sense.