skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As well as being a data point raised in an attempt to refute a distribution (which never works), there is a radical ambiguity you are leaning on: "they have lots of guns there" when applied to Switzerland does not mean anything similar to "they have lots of guns there" as applied to the US.

In Switzerland guns are mostly long guns that are heavily regulated and are under very tight storage restrictions. In the US guns are mostly hand guns that are unregulated and under no very tight storage restrictions.

So if you want to make an argument from Switzerland, it would necessarily be of the form: "To reduce gun deaths in the US we should pretty much eliminate handgun ownership and require that all long guns be stored under lock and key in a specified manner, only to taken out on state-permitted occasions for military use."
We don't need to do that and can't because the technology is incredibly complex and even if you understand that stuff your curtains could be the real fire hazard in your room.

All of this is covered by consumer protection laws very successfully - recalls.gov has just a handful a day across everything, Amazon alone sell over 200 million different products.
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I don't see a "security" page. Did I miss it?
I watched my mum, who isn't even close to Betty's age but is not exactly part of the new tech age, unwrap her Nexus 7 (2012) tablet for the first time and go through the introductory tutorial. After correctly doing everything on the screen, she still didn't know how to use the device.

I gathered that despite the focus on certain tutorial buttons, she wasn't reading the text beside it because it was long sentences with small text which she paused to read for a short time. I guess she read it but didn't really understand what they meant?. So she was just following the big blue buttons 'Next'.
I actually wonder how common it is to retire early? First of all what is "early"? If it is before 65 then a good number of people do.

Getting to the spirit of the article though, a good chunk of the people that I know who don't "have to work" anymore, don't, or do so infrequently. I think it is rare indeed for someone to become a billionaire or hundred-millionaire without the manic drive that this article speaks of, but I do know plenty of millionaires who either don't work or take it very easy.

It actually would make sense that a lot of millionaires wouldn't work anymore. Presumably they make most of their money in a one-time deal (i.e. their company gets sold), if they were a solid software engineer, etc at said company it might not seem worth it to go back and work another company doing CRUD. Maybe the right opportunity comes along, maybe it doesn't, but why pressure yourself if you don't "have to work".
In fact, "to bypass GC completely" is impossible because you still need on-heap objects to access the off-heap stuffs. Note, there is always "no magic".
Has there been any more recent analysis of author contributions to research articles? It seems like an obvious thing to do, but there is very little data available on it...
Yes, the biggest benefit is when the tooth is forming. It's like boro-silicate glass (pyrex) or steel; some atoms in the crystalline structure of the base material are replaced with others, which improves the overall strength of the result. So, like boron improves glass and carbon improves iron (to make steel) then fluoride improves the tooth structure.
Being able to do

foo = bar.x || 3;

rather than

foo = bar.hasOwnProperty('x') ? bar.x : 3;

is nice.
People often cite Switzerland in gun arguments but leave out the fact that in Switzerland, owning a gun is an outcome of completing compulsory military service for men - Which means that they are trained in proper safety etc.. I recognise that it still raises the opportunity for crime but I believe the training is an important distinction to make.

Some communities in Switzerland actually offer somewhere to keep the bullets in the town hall instead of at home, reducing accidental deaths.
I originally wasn't going to say anything... but I will say that it did strike me as an odd thing to do.
Honestly, I'm not interested in this kind of device until Google manages to unify Android and Chrome so we have a real ecosystem to work with.
- Because the criteria of "merit" usually "just happen" to be a description of the people who get to define them and evaluate others.

- Because measuring only at the finishing line while ignoring how far people have had to come is in fact unequal, not equal treatment.

- Because the concept victim-blames those who aren’t allowed/enabled/supported to succeed according to it.

- Because it's a really astounding statistical anomaly that all those "meritocratic" communities "who don't care about gender etc." are in practice ridiculously less diverse than the population in general.
"At the same time, there is a depressing message for the rest of us: Maybe the fact that you would even consider retiring to a life of luxury at a young age is a sign you aren’t going to succeed at a high enough level to make that an option."

Now wait a second... didn't the author just finish talking about diminishing utility? This sounds like the mindset of someone who really doesn't understand just how little it takes to work and/or retire comfortably. The vast majority of people don't need to travel the world in a private jet to enjoy retiring luxuriously in their 50's (or in most cases even earlier).
Meh, I like 'hen'[0] a lot, wouldn't mind seeing a concerted effort to introduce it in English as well. I doubt it would go over well in the states, however.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_%28pronoun%29
Still trying to sell Javascript? I guess it's getting harder to find cheap engineers willing to put up with it.
Hilarious. Worth the click.
Yup. Absolutely horrific.

I'd hope that someone inspecting some of the digital missteps the NYT has made would at least get their website right...
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They need to give it a PR spin like "sustainably shot" or something like that.
I have lived in 2 cold climates that differ greatly in temperature comfort. Canada, with its R-2000 "standard" and China with its build-concrete-boxes-as-fast-as-possible method. The difference is incredible. Though Canada experienced colder and wetter weather, the indoor comfort was ideal. Whereas in a drafty concrete box, one relies on "heat people, not places" and it is uncomfortable much of the time. Especially during typing (gloves and keyboards don't mix)

I'd say the 3rd paragraph of the article is the most important. If you have the choice, live in or build an efficent, insulated dwelling. If you're already stuck in a drafty box, this article has some good insights for you.

I wish it would give more hints on how to keep typing fingers warm though.
One way to achieve radiative heating (heating surfaces instead of air volume) are far-infrared radiation panels.

Unlike other IR heaters they don't need to glow red-hot, but they need a larger surface area due to low power density.
Kudos to your efforts to help cancer patients and their families.

1) These types of experiments have long been go on in labs all around the world. Why did YC think your approach was unique? Why didn't they just fund one of the dozens of academic/industry labs in e.g., Boston, already doing the same?

2) Many people have doubts about the utility of the results obtained from treatments on ex vivo tumor cells relating to the in vivo situation. Was YC aware of this?

I'm all for YC going into new areas, but those two points above make me concerned that they are considerably out of their leagues when it comes to the biomedical sciences.
A little tired, but here are a few things that gave you a very big advantage in your Haskell endeavour IMO.

- Knowing to start from scratch and assuming it's some install issue with ghc-mod (this probably saved you a lot of time)
- already knowing partial application and that you can use backticks to take advantage of it in Haskell
- just knowing what pointfree means
- knowing about hoogle
- knowing how to search hoogle and what type of function you needed
- having an interest in the asthetics of your code leading to experimentation that seems pointless but teaches you a lot
- having confidence/knowledge of being able to just plugin functions/types.

As far as conclusions, I'm mostly commenting on the conclusions you simply made from the types... what people sometimes call "type tetris". Knowing you needed `(a, a) -> Bool`, searching hoogle, then coming to the conclusion of I'll implement it myself and moving on.

For a while it seemed like you were going to get caught in "point free hell" and give up on your task... something I've sadly done in the past.

Then knowing to ask for help in #haskell and /r/haskell really helped you.

I know I haven't really answered your question of "what conclusions you'd say they are"... what I was really trying to say is you made a lot of conceptual leaps I wouldn't expect someone with very little Haskell experience to make.

If I remember I'll try to come back to this tomorrow and look for a few examples of those conceptual leaps.
5 hours later ... still there.
I can only think of the value of your list of active customers. That's a targeted bunch ... and you already what they have and, perhaps more importantly, what they don't have. Press on!
Is there much crime in/on Alameda? The prices look great, so unless there is some major draw back, I would probably go there. After looking at it, I could take the ferry or BART from Alameda right to where I would work within 40 minutes which is fine for me.

Thanks for pointing me in that direction!
I wonder how much time he spends out of San Francisco, because as someone who lives in Texas and has almost no grasp on how the internet and Silicon Valley have influenced San Francisco over the years, it's still quite unique to me and I consider every visit there to be a treat. It's all relative, I guess.
> You can't just sweep away sexism under a rug.

Stereotypes are different than sexism. Some stereotypes are sexist, but assuming that someone is a man when it is likely that he/she is isn't sexist.

Maybe irritating, and rash judgement - but that's stereotypes in general.

Sexism is a belief that one gender is better than the other, or that some gender is bad in some way. Does assuming that someone is a male programmer make them sexist? Not really - not unless you _also_ assume other implications like "women can't program", or other such nonsense. But that's a leap to make.
This is a stark example of correlation not equalling causation. Yes, guns are taken from minorities when an authoritarian regime decides to turn a ghetto into a death camp. And you know why? Because they have zero power already. The system is very thoroughly rigged against them. Those guns aren't going to help them. What could a handful of rioters do? If they fight, they might win a few days reprieve. And then the army rolls right over them.

You can't solve that kind of problem by escalating firepower. I mean, even if they did have the power to fight the army to a standstill (cf: ISIS), they would be the bad guys in everyone's eyes.
> I don't particularly get why anyone would want to shoot a more-or-less captive animal: for me and every other huntsman I know, the fun really is in the pursuit

If the land area was large enough you could have the best of both.
Thanks for sharing. I think you have a lot of bases covered very well. Landing Page | How It Works | Pricing is a great start. Free trial offer, and choose your own price to boot, is an interesting approach.

I understand your product. I'm not sure I'm up for the requisite effort to keep you informed of my kids toys, nor am I personally all that concerned with recalls, so for me it wasn't worth signing up. Car seat, stroller, bigger items, those I would want to know about recalls, but those aren't "toys". If you're going to do kid-safety, I think you have to cast a wider net.

I went to 'How it Works' and clicked continue. Entered a fake name and clicked continue. Left email blank and clicked continue... I just wanted to see the actual product, you know?

So then I see 'Example's Toys... All toys safe' so I click 'What toys am I tracking' and the screen flickers and now says 'Attention required... some safety concerns.' So something is wrong there, I wasn't able to actually demo your product.

Maybe instead of 'Sign Up' and making me jump through hoops, flip the model around. Start as an anonymous user, fill in some toys, see if there are issues, then to get the alerts and save your toy list, then you can click to sign-up. If someone puts real toys into the list, they are almost certain to want to save it instead of throw the list away.

Also, you might not even need to make the user create an account with a password. The alternative, more old-school Craigslist model, is just collect the email. If you ever send an alert, include a link which lets the user login. In the welcome email, include a link to edit your toy list. Once in a while, ping to ask for new toys to be added, and include an auto-login link. Just something to consider.

Also, this is probably asking too much, but can you please share the scatter plot of what people are choosing to pay for pricing? That would be incredibly interesting.
But I suspect that, dependent on the land in question, those inputs may vary widely. Nothing that can make you a modern living can be done with no footprint. But I am pretty sure just from examples of relatives and friends that this will definitely vary. Does that scale? Probably not well. But people have been ranching - even dryland ranching - since before fossil fuels were a serious consideration. Ever see the "ranches" towards Laredo in South Texas? My goodness, that is some rough country. Every living thing there is somehow armed or very, very fast.

Here is why I say these things - my piano teacher's father in Northeast Oklahoma was one of the ones who reintroduced bison onto his land. Cattle are different from bison, but not that different. There's a Vast ocean of grass from the Rio Grande well into Canada, and four-legged critters eating it, making food is remarkably efficient.

I can indeed point you to the book "Cadillac Desert" which does a rough sketch, with respect to the Central Valley farmers. This doesn't make them bad people. It just means these things are messy.

We call the noodge "eat your vegetables" because it's a cliche. I eat good vegetables with great gusto these days; my taste has matured. But all things in balance.
I always call it Twin Peaks. I guess it's wrong.
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That feels like a betrayal of trust. If you sign up for a service that is intended to protect your children, that is not a business relationship, it is personal. It needs to be treated as a personal relationship. Breaking that trust would be not only bad business, but just all around badness.
Agreed. And unless I'm reading the document wrong, this would also be prohibited in strong mode:

let x = {
keyA: "valueA"
};
x.keyB = "valueB";
They get an unspeakable number of applicants and finance requires horse like work ethic, a high tolerance for boredom and detail orientation. A high GPA is a strong signal of all of those and also has a very high correlation with g/IQ/processing speed.

Work sample tests might work better but at least in the UK they do multiple rounds of structured interviews followed by free form interviews after filtering by class of degree/university prestige. I bet their false positive rate on hiring is very low even if the false negative rate is high.
I think I've only seen "they" used as a gender-neutral pronoun once or twice, outside of contexts where the topic itself is gender neutral pronouns. So going by that experience, I don't have much faith in broad adoption if the term can't seem to penetrate usage in writing outside of contexts where people are actively discussing the term itself.
Interesting how you focused on "he/him/his" when I said "He/She" and "his/hers", noting that either gender based term can be used in a gender neutral manner, but that "traditionally the masculine form is used". My point was to indicate that it is common enough that insult should not have been taken to the original post.

I certainly never said anything about "The One Correct English Way".

As for the condescension; yes that was intended. The response was overly hostile and out of line so the condescension was deserved IMHO. Don't worry yourself though Mike; I spread around the condescension equally to all genders.
Really? I think it would all be down to the execution.
I encourage you to email us and ask about the HN readers discount.

Further, Amazon S3 is a better comparison, as far as pricing goes - we're fully live, online, random access storage - not nearline or weirdline like google/glacier.
If your definition is not simply equivalent to social outcomes, there should be an experiment that can potentially measure power absent social outcomes. If so, what is it?

I.e., suppose a group has good outcomes but low power or vice versa. How can I find out?
I stayed at a startup where I was early way too long even when was clear we were headed into the ground. The most depressing five months of my life.

If it's clear you're doomed now, you should leave whenever something better comes along. Your call on whether this is the new startup, or something else.
I just got an eye exam at a LensCrafters a week and a half ago.

I received my prescription from the optometrist without asking.

The only thing missing is the pupillary distance measurement. There is not even a place for it on the prescription form I received. I didn't know it was something I'd need until reading this thread and checking out zennioptical.com.

I will be calling them tomorrow to get that.
He's almost like a performance artist, making manifest the potential of nascent technologies. It's perfectly true that anyone has been able to build a sort-of-OK firearm for a century or so out of stuff you can buy at a hardware store, but soon anyone will be able to 3D print (via laser sintering) a really effective firearm.

I'm not a big fan of American gun culture, but the reality is that we are headed toward a world where anyone will be able print a decent weapon, and nothing is going to hold back that tide because the economic advantages of 3D printing are too large even now to regulate it out of existence. Wilson's antics--and they really do look like antics to me--are forcing people to face that far earlier than they would have to do otherwise.
I believe that is exactly the idea.

Google as the ecosystem provider (ChromeOS) does not really want to compete with the companies that are intended to use the OS.

Google does not want to compete with Dell, HP, Lenovo or Acer, but to convince them to use ChromeOS.

Google creates hardware as a reference for others to follow. This is very important, as there is a before an after the release of the Nexus phone.

Google releases high quality hardware with their OS to prove that a good machine could be make with it, but at a price that does not compete with others.
That's a big leap to go from in vitro to in vivo. That would usually not even be sufficient to enter clinical trials.

Besides, given GBM's heterogeneity, I am not sure it's clear which cells you are growing and how representative they are.

Is this FDA-approved?
Maybe it is just not targeting the "average straight up consumer".
There should be a product for everyone..
(Random and probably a little minor) But what about those keyboards? How about those Ctrl and alt keys? Have both on each side? Actually in the same order, and spaced well for programming / emacs? That's the reason I hate my Mac pro so much, and I haven't seen a win based keyboard doing much better. The CB key layout is the best I know of.
I don't think so. It sounds like the audit hasn't begun yet, and they don't expect to have anything to publish until the summer.
The good old days? Seriously? Hearkening back to a mythical golden age is your response?

This is the code of conduct: https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/

In particular, I think this was the part that was violated: "All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks."

The jokes were about forking and big dongles; they were obvious sexual references. The maker of the joke, the overhearer, and the people running the conference all agreed that it was a code of conduct violation, so there's nothing really up for debate about that.

That you don't understand why these codes were created or what practical benefit they have means little other that you haven't taken the time to learn anything before opening your mouth.
(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

--Politics and the English language by George Orwell: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
Fun fact. I have a daughter who goes by Lexi and a former (male) co-worker (Aleksey) who went by Lexy.
The Future-Facing Products page is the most interesting.

The bottom row of icons includes three non-advertising sources of revenue: merch, events and eduction. The merch is self-explanatory. It's what musicians rely on, too. The events parallel how tech blogs make their money. And the courses are an echo of how the Washington Post relied on Kaplan for its profit, until Bezos solved that problem.

Like most things tied to the NYT, the self congratulatory tone often obstructs a clear view of reality. This sentence, for example, is laughable:

"That same year, the Times launched its Chinese website, with staff based in China. Though later blocked by the Chinese government, it has been largely considered a success."

Losing access to 99% of all Chinese-language readers is the opposite of success, and implies that the NYT deeply misread how little its coverage was aligned with the rules of Xi Jinping's regime.

The man they wanted to lead the Beijing bureau ended up stuck in Hong Kong for lack of a visa, and is now the nominal head of the IHT newsroom there.
That's interesting to me - I posted this up because I'm doing a small app right now and was getting frustrated with the amount of code I had to write to get React to do what I wanted (basically, editing a large, fairly complicated data structure via a big form). Rivets cut my codebase by about 2/3 and made it easier to understand, but I have to say that given everyone else's positive experience with React I feel like I must have been doing something wrong.

I'll have to revisit it again later I guess. One thing that was particularly annoying with what I was doing was that the whole form would fail to render on any error, and I'd often be left without even a console message to tell me what React didn't like. How has your experience been with debugging React apps?
> You're just testing for efficacy, not safety

The drugs being tested are all already approved, so safety would not be really a concern.

> Insurance companies (Medicare/Medicaid included), won't pay for cancer drugs unless there is proof

After some time to collect the data, you could fairly easily compare outcomes of patients who undergo this test versus those who do not.
Coit tower looks a lot blander to me. It just isn't distinctive and mostly blends in with its surroundings. Whereas Sutro has a nice interesting design, is high enough that it can poke out from under Karl the Fog, and it can be seen from a great radius around SF. I've also seen it from the East Bay.