skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you subtract out deaths due to drunkenness, cars kill less people than bathtubs.

In case anybody actually thought this might be true, here are some statistics that show it almost certainly isn't.

Accidental motor-vehicle crashes account for slightly more deaths than accidental drowning and falls combined; in America, about 35,000 people were killed in car crashes in 2013, while about 33,000 died by falling or drowning [0, 1]. Alcohol was involved in less than a third of traffic fatalities in the same year [2].

Meanwhile, figures for 1990–2010 show that only 9.7% of accidental drowning deaths occurred in bathtubs [3]. So roughly three quarters of all fatal falls must occur in bathtubs if we're going to reach the number of deaths caused by car crashes in which everybody involved is sober. I can't find figures, but the number of total deaths that occur in bathrooms suggests that it's not close.

0. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm

1. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf [PDF], see Table 10, p22

2. http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impai...

3. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db149.htm#x2013;2010...
1) You don't get to cherry-pick a "safe area of Brooklyn" and compare it with the whole of Elyria.

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Elyria-Ohio.html

There are "safe areas" in Elyria that have a crime rate of 6 (national average: 286, according to this site's measurment methodology)

2) Elyria has over 50,000 people. That's hardly a representative suburb.
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the intent is to limit the liabilities (financial and otherwise) to the corporation. If the corporation takes on debt and fails to pay, the lenders can't come after your personal assets. There are several ways to ruin your corporate protection, pierce the corporate veil. For example, if you personally sign for a loan, then you are personally liable for it. Its like a mine field. If you can navigate it properly, you can protect yourself. But, if you step incorrectly, you can really ruin your day.
Keep some of the floor. You may want to one day have it tested for formaldehyde levels.
Wasn't this a strategy one empire used to control the territories it annexed? Take over, split the population, and move them to other cities. Forced them to integrated, and made revolt impossible.
> There are no "brain enhancers"

I wholeheartedly agree with you that the article is indeed one big garbage advertisement, alas there is a large number of non-stimulatory substances which reliably enhance cognition in measures that can be readily quantified and telling people otherwise is spreading ignorance and misinformation.

First of all, virtually all Adaptogens are non-stimulant cognition enhancers, of which these are the most notable:

Bacopa - http://examine.com/supplements/Bacopa+monnieri/
Rhodiola - http://examine.com/supplements/Rhodiola+Rosea/

Second, there are the profound alas very situational cognition enhancers, such as:

Piracetam & Noopept in stroke victims, former Alcoholics (quite common) and as you pointed out the elderly.
NSI-189 & PRL-8-53 for poverty-stricken adults who grew up sleep deprived and/or malnutritioned (common).

Then there are substances widely reported as helpful in healthy subjects, alas with insufficient studies:

Tianeptine, Centro & CDP/GPC Cholines, Sulbutiamine ...hell even Creatine is a slight cognitive enhancer.

Now - to your point: are any of these life changing? In damaged individuals, perhaps. Alas like you said in healthy young adults, many of these substances will produce either mild improvements or no improvements at all save for extreme neurological outliers.

But to claim that Stimulants are the only cognitive enhancers especially when you seem to've done some basic research... why?
I think that until 50000 people per year are flying to orbit, the race is not yet over.
We can get close to measuring culture, but I don't think we'll truly ever be able to in a way that's valuable. Some companies use eNPS (employee net promoter score) to gauge overall happiness, and it is a good high-level indicator overtime and to see when it drops and spikes. But ultimately you're measuring happiness, and with this OneVest metric, you're focusing on retention; both get at the core of whether or not culture's doing its job but that doesn't really mean it's "measuring culture". Liked the perspective though, thanks for sharing this!
Oh I totally agree. I really dislike interviewing with anyone that I'm not going to be working with. It seems like that is a one way interview in that case. Why ask questions if the people who are answering them have no clue what the answers really are?
Ask HN: Employee equity on the cheap
I run an early stage startup and I have my first employee coming on who's working for peanuts. I want to do right by him and give him a chunk of equity but don't have the $'s to make him an official employee where I suspect I'll have to deal with health benefits, payroll, etc.

How though, can I put in writing that as of x date, he starts a 4 year vest of x% of outstanding shares in a way that's official and should sh*t hit the fan, he has something in his hand that he can point to and get what he deserves for getting in early when there was (is) a lot of risk?
Ask HN: As a candidate do you ask your interviewer algorithmic questions?
I have been doing quite a few technical interviews lately (for a Software Engineer position) and I have slowly
begun asking my interviewers more and more technical questions when it is my
turn to ask questions. These are generally related to the algorithm question
that they wanted me to solve for them, but I have slowly been branching out to
asking my own algorithmic questions. I have, surprisingly, been met with varied
reactions like:

1) Awkward silence

2) A flat out refusal to answer any of my algorithmic interview questions

3) An excuse not to answer my questions, usually mentioning that we are running
out of time

On a few occasions the interviewer willingly answers my questions and we end up
having a great technical discussion and both parties involved learn something.
I think it is great because it shifts some of the nervousness back on the
interviewer to remind them that the candidate is probably nervous as well.

I am wondering why the power dynamic is so skewed towards the employer in these
situations? Is what I am doing considered so faux paus?
I'm sure he's written a couple of checks that wouldn't be considered out of touch.
Apparently I haven't been clear enough, so let me rephrase: What DNA is to a virus, money is to EA. Selling games is how they get their money, which is then used to infect more games and destroying them all in the process. Well that's at least how my analogy was supposed to work.
What are the numbers of deaths related to these? You quoted 39% of auto deaths as being alcohol related elsewhere. If we determine there was a problem, we should seek to address it. At the moment, it sounds like you're just trying to sidetrack the conversation.

We can measure blood alcohol so we can estimate the degree of impairedness. Furthermore, it is already illegal.
Further investigation would show it's OK. The main losers would be the investors who believed the false information. So that's not a problem.
use baculovirus to serially and temporally express telomerase and keep the telomere count between 3000-8000 for all cells in the human body. Then figure out some way to flush out senescent cells
Actually there is something wrong with the concept of families - it's unfair that some children do not get the same level of love and attention (and dentist visits) you provide for your children. However, families are not obsolete because there's no obvious solution to the problem of unfairness between families, and given human nature perhaps there will never be a solution.

But outside the family there is a solution: Just treat everyone equally. There's no biological reason why I should care about the passport of a man I have never met, any more than I should care about his race or tribe or religion.

Yes, mass immigration would mean that you would be worse off and the immigrants better off (although spreading the immigration period over say 50 years might limit your costs in this equation). But isn't that the right thing to do? Do those people deserve to live in absolute poverty? If not, doesn't that mean you have an obligation to help?

Nationality is not yet an obsolete concept, but society is slowly moving in that direction. I think Charles Darwin said it best:

"As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races."
How about including this context-controllable content summarizer: http://genopharmix.com/TuataraSum
well /usr/bin/env existing is a mandatory posix thing at least
I think he's conflating two very different problems. One is the issue about liquidity and the other is the so called tech bubble. The liquidity issue is real, market bubbles are not.
Amazon Cognito Streams
"Everyone was in or new someone who was in"
Does "satisfactory" include able to be uploaded to Wikileaks by an Army Private?
> if they are so unusual, doesn't that make confounding
> more plausible

What does confounding mean in that sentence? Anomalous results on small sample size?
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Bioware has had some major issues under EA as well. DICE works because they create games that work really well with EA's strategy: hollywood-esque action games for the masses
Weaknesses in Air Traffic Control Systems Are a Serious Issue for FAA
Early ARM was more purely RISC and strove for simplicity. No modern chip that's actually a serious contender in the marketplace can be cleanly classified as pure RISC or pure CISC; that debate has been mostly set aside for causing too much philosophy to get in the way of real-world performance.
This story was only about security, others have been about the legal issues. On Hacker News the security angle is interesting, but the bigger picture is that only using her personal email for State Department business almost inevitably broke the law.
I, for one, was extremely disappointed in Mass Effect 2 as compared to the original. As a result, I didn't buy the third.

Mass Effect, was, in my opinion, truly inimitable. While the sequels may have kept the setting and had very high production values, at their core they were little more than a sequence of cover-based setpieces and cutscenes.

Dragon Age 2 was even more of regression from Dragon Age: Origins. Origins may not have had quite the same depth as truly old-school CRPGs such as Baldur's Gate or Planescape: Torment, but it took many ideas from that heritage and translated it into something indubitably modern.

I wouldn't call BioWare a laughingstock, but they certainly haven't fared well creatively under EA.
HP as well, but without the innovation.
Depends where you are - because of the way it triangulates, it's more accurate towards the equator.
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You're using statistics in a misleading way.

Total VC investments in 2014: $40 billion
300 largest pension funds control: $12.7 trillion

Total annual VC investment is 0.003% of pension fund value. That doesn't even include insurance companies and other smaller pension funds.

It doesn't mean anything when you say half of VC funds come from pension funds. It's still a miniscule amount when looking at the total value of pension funds.
Ask HN: I'm not a developer but I got an F8 invite. Should I go?
I'm the head of marketing for an acquired startup here in San Francisco. I'm pretty technical (was trained as a web developer back in the day and can hack things together). I just got an invite to this year's F8.

Should I go?
The former, it seems. (Page F-80)

"Revenue is mainly generated from commissions on sales made by listed sellers and from the sale of advertising on the Company’s website"
I was about to post "can't outrun a fork" too. Hour of running five days a week burns only enough calories two account for two super-sized Big Mac meals.
The point is guys like Musk need people like us to work and pay taxes to keep the system humming along.
From my experience, I develop fastest when I have the following, in order of importance:
1. Adequate and frozen specifications.
2. Tools.
3. Libraries.
4. Testing tools.

Even if you are working on your own pet project, get off the computer and write some specifications whilst pretending you are the client. For the other three I mean the thing itself and your experience in using those things.
There are two true answers here.

1. Very large investors actually don't do anything different. The best game in town is the efficient frontier (modern portfolio theory; essentially, spread the bets around so some zig while others zag). Once you have more than $10 M or so, it becomes worthwhile to start optimizing at the margins; there are things that can be done with tax efficiency that have tiny but real gains, and there are things like exploiting the short rebate and negotiating for special concessions. But as a passive, financially-oriented investor, you're basically playing the diversification game.

2. That said, very large investors almost all get to be that way not by the diversification game, but by the concentration game. Think about the wealth generation period of any industrial fortune: it comes from highly concentrated equity holdings in a corporation undergoing a massive change in valuation (archetypally, profitable growth, although many an investor has done well by changing the valuation through other means, see ESL and K-Mart).

So. The way a person gets super rich is by doing something very different than what you are (should be) doing. And so while they are in that period, their portfolio looks very different. But once they are super rich, if they go to the world's best advisors, they are likely going to get something that looks like a well-diversified asset allocation according to modern portfolio theory.
No I have not done this before but I think this is a great idea
I worked at the Department of Justice in 2003. We had properly archived and (reasonably) secure email systems then. I'm not sure how/why the State Department would be any different.
http://calicolabs.com

http://humanlongevity.com

http://genopharmix.com

http://sens.org

http://buckinstitute.org
Wow, lame reporting by Wired. The author obviously wanted to run a negative piece, so he cherrypicked his sources.

Both computer security experts he talked to--seriously, experts, Matt Blaze and Jonathan Mayer do great work--explained that this isn't necessarily insecure. But most of the story belongs to this whining Soghoian guy from ACLU, who doesn't appear to be a computer scientist, software engineer, or even IT admin.
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I don't think the LSM tree approach really panned out (in a sense that the benefits don't outweigh the drawbacks). You get much better insert and update throughput at the cost of significant production stalls. Most people don't need that level of insert throughput (and if they do, they can get it by scaling horizontally). Even if you need that throughput on a single box, most people aren't ok with long stalls. Facebook has been doing some work to minimize stalls in an LSM storage engine, but this is a significant engineering effort that only really makes sense for a few companies.

RethinkDB's storage engine uses a different architecture -- it gets you better insert/update performance on SSDs without stalls (but not as good a throughput as LSM-based engines), in exchange for significant engineering effort to make the engine bulletproof. Again, most of the time, people can get that by scaling horizontally.

I think that in 99% of cases a traditional storage engine approach works just fine. We all tried to reinvent the wheel, but ultimately it turned out to be a lot of work for fairly little benefit.
Ask HN: How do you find a job with a startup?
The title pretty much says it all. I'm at a point in life where taking a risk is entirely acceptable, and I'm looking for a funded startup to join.

Any thoughts on where to find them?
Do you think you're going through Gurgaon to be able to some position else as well as going in the position within the city only gathered from one of near family members associates definitely to another?
Packers and Movers in Bangalore or http://www.expert5th.in/packers-and-movers-bangalore/
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It did block an IGDA chair! One who had deep connections to MRA sites, responded by tagging in #gamergate to get his friends to take up his fight against this "unfair" censorship, and shortly after this incident found himself to no longer be associated with the IGDA.

System working very very much as intended there!

The only /real/ false positives it's ever generated that I'm aware of are a handful of people closely following hate group leaders to report on them, all of whom easily passed through the whitelisting process, and support the blocker wholeheartedly.
If I were an interviewer, I'd welcome it. I always like a good, spirited discussion about interesting problems.
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I don't know how useful this information is, because it's purely my opinion.. but, besides 'experience' and 'open mind' that are two pretty obvious ones, there are a few things I always look for and probably just as many that are unconscious;

* What they are motivated by [the motivation itself gives you clarity in their personality. Lack of motivation does as well. None are bad traits, they just reveal things]

* Posture and body language

* Eye contact and eye movement when speaking

* How they speak of other people, good and bad

* Lying [everyone lies. some people lie about important things]

* Reaction to criticism/blame

* Evidence of perseverance

* Dealing with silence [some people call them 'awkward silence'. That's pretty revealing ;D]

* Balance of aggressiveness and passiveness

* Ambition or lack thereof [no right or wrong here]
* Levels of child-like enthusiasm for passions versus task driven enthusiasm

* Social interests [again, unsocial introverts aren't necessarily a 'bad' trait. Just something that adds to your personality]

* Instability

I just wrote those up then, it's hard to verbalize, admittedly.
I'll probably get down voted for this, so be it. I worked in the Clinton whitehouse in the mid-90s. Every time you sent an email, which was on a cluster of VAX servers, you got a full screen notification about the presidential records act, and you had to agree affirmatively if something was, or was not an official record. If you said no, it still got archived, it just got flagged so a FoIA might not be valid against your email. We simply backed everything up to tape, and sent it to NARA. My first week there we got subpeoneDed. I remember being asked to volunteer to go up to greenbelt Maryland to help restore tapes for records requests.

There is absolutely no way she or anyone else that worked woth here didnt know your needed to archive emails. Subpoenas happened regularly, and everyone knew Emails = record. Years later after I left I landed a contract with a government contractor to recover thse tapes, against federal lawsuits, emails are records and the courts want them. Par for the course. I'd argue the Clinton whitehouse was the first administration to truly face electronic records retention effects with the courts. Nixon maybe being the first with audio tapes, the clintons got email Subpeonas.

So when I hear she was running her own email server and staying outside federal records retention requirements, I both nodded knowingly that I would expect nothing less from the wife of a man that learned first hand: keep no records, and then shook my head ruefully knowingly why she did it:

Keep no records.

When public leaders avoid record keeping requirements, this prevents public scrutiny, and that means they no longer work for you because they aren't accountable to you. Maybe you agree with her, but you'll never know what she did in your name. Hillary knew what she was doing. I have no doubt of this, as I said I would expect nothing less. I would be shocked if she didn't do this. Stunned really. I'm still paranoid about what I put in written form (text, email, etc.) to this day.

This was calculated, to keep her unaccountable and off the record.
The SimCity reboot and The Sims 4 were a bad joke. So it's not surprising. It was definitely EA's fault to guide SimCity and Sims 4 in the wrong direction. Less content, fake simulation, even more DLCs, always-on-DRM, smaller game worlds, more casual gameplay. EA was also named the worst company to work for in the U.S.
Those are different issues entirely. Chelsea Manning essentially walked out of the SCIF with a bunch of disks - there wasn't any email hacking involved. Otherwise it's unclear what your point is.
> if they are so unusual, doesn't that make confounding more plausible?

That is a very good point.

> Also very interesting, and counter to the usual narratives about health. (Everything is heritable...)

And yet this need not lead us to the conclusion that self-improvement is futile. Consider the scenario where diet is highly heritable and also extremely important to health outcomes. If people could be convinced of the latter, they would, to varying degrees, improve their diet and therefore their health. After smoking was tied to lung cancer, I imagine that people (at all levels of genetic predisposition to smoking) greatly reduced the amount that they smoked. Smoking levels could have been 100% heritable both before and after the revelation, but would have been reduced over time.

> 5. fat percentage: -3.3 (!)

I'm not sure why you singled fat percentage out as the least significant (in the colloquial sense). The -3.3 is a reduction from 24.0, so the percentage change is ~14%.

> 2kg of weight? I fluctuate more than that on a weekly basis...

To take your quip seriously, I don't think this is a good comparison. If a specific intervention increased lean mass and decreased fat mass by equal amounts (say, 10kg), it would be highly beneficial and yet count for absolutely nothing with respect to BMI or weight. The specific changes cited here are 1.4kg lean mass and -3.3kg fat mass. I would actually count that as a 4.7kg improvement!
https://mail.clintonemail.com/owa/ also appears to be an Exchange 2010 setup.
I quite like sim building games. My most recent favourite is Banished http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/game/ Not nearly as complex as sim city but still very enjoyable
you're right in part. only flaw is: if you're going to buy content, why but aol?

it's like saying you're going to buy a rotten tomato because you're hungry.

in my opinion, they should buy user generated content. or do it right.
What's your location? Just any IT-related event from meetup.com has hiring in their minds (and everybody complains it's hard to hire people!)

Also what about 'jobs' tab here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
One option to fund this would be to team up with some storage provider like Bittorrent Sync. They would sponsor the device, I would provide hard disk, network and electricity. Sponsor would get 20-30% of my disk space for their purposes and the rest would go for Internet Archive.

A bit similar to what Fon was doing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON