jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If this story is true (and I have some doubts), you'd think this would have been a no-brainer to not try to keep critical data like this in the cloud.

But even for non-critical medical data, non-tech savvy medical folks (and this includes some physicians, although in general physicians are more tech-savvy than most managed care decision makers) are going to get into increasingly serious trouble if they don't think through these kinds of things very carefully.

Driven by electronic health care mandates and incentives, companies are pushing portable devices for medical data gathering (portable as in tablet, ie without local data store), and some groups are going to be knee-jerk tempted into buying into this without thinking through the ramifications of not owning your own data -- and by that, I don't mean vague marketing-speak hand-waving that "you own your data" through the simple mechanism of password-protected access to your patient's data living on someone's server farm.

By actually owning your patient's data, I mean strongly considering restricting your local practice to use of on-site media.

If you don't, you'd better have complete confidence that putting your patient's data on the web reflects a reasonable standard of care/privacy, that retention policies don't bite you in six months when your cloud provider goes out of business (or changes hands or farms out data storage or backup to some "economical" third-party), that you're going to have access to your data when you need it, that your cloud provider is going to audit access and changes to your patient's data and report the results of that audit to you accurately and regularly, that legal requests for data are not acted upon without you or your patient's consent, that backups are subjected to the same levels of security, etc. etc.

Electronic medical records are a good idea. It can be done right, as systems such as the Veteran's Administration's VISTA system have demonstrated. However, there is a fine line to walk here. Implementing EHR for the sake of government incentive, or for the convenience of insurance companies, or even the convenience of walking into an exam room carrying a light-weight tablet (which have their own disadvantages for data gathering) rather than a laptop with a hard-drive isn't going to cut it when you put your patients and your practice at risk of harm.
i did not understand what is this. A better introduction on what it does will more likely make me register and give you my data. If i do not know exactly what are you going to do i will never let you get in my account. More info.
1. to me crm != profitable. if email suffice, why not use gmail with labels & filter instead, isn't that enough? you setup filter for each customer/group, labels to things to do/follow-up, etc.. i am not really a fan to use crm as a tool to generate/convert new sale, there are too much other things we need to do just to convert a lead to a customer.

2) not really. this space is really crowded.

3) we know that the money lies with your existing customers and mailing lists, if you have a crm that can milk $$$ from these 2 sources, or perhaps an entire new channel/platform to generate $$$, probably i would pay for it. e.g. exchange, co broke, lease, etc.
I hope they keep the IT, they need it
The blog post I talked about is now published and can be found here: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/html5-levels
Isn't it more fundamental than that? You're giving someone with huge incentives to cheat access to the hardware. How can you possibly make that system secure?
In Chrome, it's somewhat less impressive than Google Docs. Here is the entire user experience for me:

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Not saying the iPhone is ugly. However, you are comparing old non-Apple hardware to new Apple hardware. Technology progresses fast, so after one year, the next generation of phones tends to be much better than the ones before.

Not sure about notebooks - theoretically there should be nice ones, but a lot of vendors seem to screw it up completely.
No, it's pretty standard to have a round chambered with the safety on. For some models having the hammer cocked is also correct general carrying procedure, depending on the firing mechanism the particular gun uses. I do still find it worrying that a firearm would discharge in this manner. Most have multiple internal safeties to prevent accidental discharge during things like a drop from a height.
Yeah, one consequence of hiring exclusively based on technical skill is that you end up with some employees that are empathy challenged. My employer recently added one "are you a human?" interview to every loop presumably for this reason.
> You can help people reach reasoned conclusions without telling them what conclusions to reach.

In theory, &/or to some degree.

It's also worth noting that "reasoned conclusions" are not necessarily what is True. Rather than desiring that humanity strives for Rationality, wouldn't it make more sense to aim higher? To instead desire that humanity pursues Truth? This way, we can improve all people: the members of our outgroups and our ingroups.
Cosmopolitan binaries aren't interpreted. They're just flat x86 binaries. It needs a 12kb runtime that's written in C. All the runtime does is (a) polyfills magic numbers for the SYSCALL instruction and (b) boot-load from BIOS to long mode on metal w/ linux kernel style negative memory page tables. So basically, it's just glue that takes care of the ugly low-level system details so you can bolt on whatever high level language interpreter you want. For example, the Wasm3 engine recently adopted it.
Never mind, forgot that it's bad for SEO if you try to accommodate case-insensitive finds for stuff such as permalinks (which is what I needed it for).

We should be redirecting to the lowercase URL instead. Using Refraction to do that which is an awesome gem (http://github.com/pivotal/refraction)
That is so remarkably far from the truth that it feels like the work of an optimization algorithm.

I don't know if Thiel has any leverage over YC, but if he does it must decay awfully quickly with distance, since I've never noticed any with respect to HN and I'm pretty sensitive about that. In fact the very notion strikes me as absurd, which I mention just as a data point.

As for YC supporting Trump (or rather YC people; I don't imagine YC as an org would support anybody), the data is both prolific and exactly the opposite.
pretty soon apparently. but why rich only?
No need to twist everything, the question is about knowing if this is data the DMV has on their computer, or is that something that was noticed by looking at them. Where was this data known? This is the question.
>> They cant claim Vegan if there is animal product in and on it.

Then there's really no such thing as "vegan". All fruits, vegetables, grains, flours...have a certain number of insects in or on them (especially if they're organic).

It would be possible to have some definition like the one for Kosher rules (fundamentally, less than 1 part in 60 doesn't count, though there are many nuances on top of that), but 100% absence of animal products is simply not possible.
It's amazing how often I still see "I didn't know that!" to this fact on Twitter :-)

There was a brief fad of writing entire sentences using this style of shortening words earlier this year, so I wrote a quick script to "decode" them if anyone is so inclined! https://gist.github.com/peterc/bf495244dd098cdd7ddca241dab33... .. by this I can also see i18n could also cover interdifferentiation or intercrystallization..
I think I understand what you're saying, but could you elaborate on it to make clear who suffers the downside and why?
I am over 40 right now, and, frankly, I don't see too much of this problem right now.

As you get older, you need to understand that you need to adapt. It's easier to get in the trap of thinking that the old ways are better (and sometimes, indeed they are), but it doesn't matter. You have to go with the flow.

Another important thing is that you shouldn't get too attached to technologies. Move with the times, be aggressive with learning.

Appreciate new languages, new paradigms. Yes, it sucks when you spent hours honing your skills with Hadoop and then one day you find out that all the cool kids are doing spark. But, the thing is, the people that are doing spark now are the people that were doing Hadoop yesterday, some of them even older than you. It was you that got in the comfort zone and didn't see that the field was evolving.
While you were satisfied doing Hadoop, some people were thinking of how the job could be done in a different way.
And I am not telling here that you should be doing open source, but you should have kept yourself on the loop.
It is not unfair, and it's not unique to our profession. there was a time where lobotomy was the hot thing on psychiatry, people probably spent hours honing their skills on it, and then, someday, science evolved and we figured out that those skills were not only useless but also dangerous. Maybe this happens way faster in our profession, but also it is a lot easier for us to keep ourselves current on the state of the art than for a surgeon.
Nobody is throwing Irving in a gulag, but he did spend a year in a comparatively nice Austrian prison. And I think the kind of responses to 'heresy' PG is talking about is more along the lines of mild censure, opprobrium and deplatforming/firing anyway. Anti-vaxxers et al get plenty of that, more so than serious discussions or replication attempts in the scientific literature.

Institutions which pounce on 'heresy' might be doing so because they're insecure and that insecurity might be driven by fear they're mistaken, but sometimes their reasons to fear the other side winning the rhetorical argument are good ones. The result of self-styled heretic Andrew Wakefield appears to be a measurable increase in childhood measles [and no decline in autism...]. And going back to PG's original argument which was more about the fruits of 'heresy' rather than pluralism, what the nature of that risk is might be something to consider before going beyond questioning authority to promote 'heresy' against a particular cherished idea.

And certainly it'd be good to avoid the confirmation bias that people actually being angered by what you're doing is a sign you're looking in the right places.
What follow on test for suspected lung cancer would risk the life of a not insignificant number of people?

An MRI without contrast has no impact. An MRI with contrast has relatively little impact. A biopsy would only be done if the MRI with contrast lit up areas of concern. At the point a PET is ordered, you have narrowed the false positive pool substantially and probably want the scan no matter what.
I wasn't the author of the original comment. SSH ain't a problem for me. I was talking more about system responsiveness in general.
There's really not much point. Perl 5 is 99% backwards compatible with Perl 4, so if you think Perl 4 was great, just use the Perl 5 compiler (but none of the new features).
>There is absolutely no reason for the NSA to give a flying fuck about what you or I think.

True. But that's not what this is about. What the NSA care about is what resources he has, which they would want to use for their own purposes - this is why they monitor such individuals as work at major ISP's. Its not about thought - its about action. What actions can they perform if they gain access to this persons electronic life - in the case of sysadmins for major ISP's, there is much to be gained from infiltration, exploitation, and subterfuge.
As a consultant, I can see the value for someone who writes at least 1-2 reports a month. I tend to write a single proposal every few months so it wouldn't make sense for me personally on a month basis.

That said, I would recommend not lowering the price to capture low volume customers like myself. You are often better off with fewer customers who can easily justify the price vs. a larger volume of "cheap" customers. The "cheap" customer are often more demanding when it comes to support so in addition to paying less in the first place, the cost you more to support.
I looked at two of the Algorithms I'm currently working with and found empty entries?
Once upon a time, there was nothing to read on an airplane but SkyMall. SkyMall held it's audience captive, and all but the most foresighted of us, whom thought to bring a book or some similar textual vessel, were held hostage by it's mediocrity. But then, one day, the great and powerful Science came. Championed by it's favored son, the Internet, Science set the passenger's free of the evil SkyMall's iron grip on airborne eyes. "But smartphones cause interference with airplanes for some reason!" SkyMall's proponents cried. "No" said Science, "Do gas stations explode when you receive a phone call?" it asked. "Yes" said the SkyMallians, "Of course they do!". "Please die and don't reproduce" said Science. And all was well.
Thanks for the suggestion. We discuss it briefly, and one of the programming assignments is based on Ripple. It could use a deeper discussion, I'll work on that.
I would not be surprised. Insurance investigators already have access to black box performance metrics leading up to accidents (last X seconds of RPM level, brake pedal force, accelerator position, accelerometer readings, seatbelt indicators). Getting software versions, checksums, etc would be trivial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_data_recorder
There are reasons beyond money to use free (as in freedom) software.
So wouldn't this be trivially defeated by not always posting as the same user? If you control N users, then to promote a story:

1. Pick U out of N. Submit the story as U.

2. Pick [U1, U2...UX] out of N, and upvote the story enough to carry it to the front page. Let the random front page upvotes do the rest.

3. ...

4. Profit.

Also, why not write a bot that randomly upvotes stores for your N controlled users (presumably, they are not real people)?
It doesn't have to compete on just price. Trello is free (and I use it constantly), but using it still means having all of your data on remote servers. I can't use it at my job, for example, due to legitimate security concerns, but we could (in theory) use this new software instead.
Before you decide checkout the Laravel PHP framework.

http://laravel.com

http://laracasts.com

Taylor has done a great job on it.
Gravatar looks interesting - will check it out, and see if we can incorporate it. Thanks for the headsup.
That's be much easier if there were some decent reflection and metaprogramming support in the language.
I also disagree with his “inherent ability” argument. I think that interface design is a learnable skill and can be improved through practice. Which of us is right? We’ll never know, as it’s not really a testable assertion.

In my opinion, that makes it a pretty weak argument that detracts from the rest of his article. Besides that, it could have the effect of discouraging people from trying, as they’ll just think “Oh well I can never do that because I don’t have the genes, or whatever.”

My opinion is that programmers in particular have a hard time with design because they’re not presented with a systematic way of thinking about it. That’s what I’ve started to try to do with my site http://www.visualmess.com . It tries to instill the “user-centric” mentality and provide a framework for thinking about design based on the brain’s visual information processing capabilities.
The profile image brought in from Twitter was broken when I tried it out.
I mean, just stay one day at the airbnb and then negotiate with the landlord for a month or two. I've done this multiple times and gotten very good prices. So It's not like airbnb properties are deadweight, they can (and do) get converted to medium or long-term rentals all the time.
Added to https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-loginless.
I've been doing strength training for the last few months with both bodyweight and dumbbells and am really loving it. It's amazing how fast you can go from feeling completely hopeless as a beginner to making significant improvements with almost every workout if you stick with it, are consistent, and don't get hurt. It has fixed my back pain, neck pain, wrist pain, hamstring tightness, and improved my posture. The desire to keep improving has also motivated me to eat a lot better.

One thing that has made it more enjoyable for me and helped me avoid injuries (I initially had some nagging shoulder issues) is to stop caring about the number of reps. Obsessing about hitting a certain number causes form breakdown, injury, a stunted range of motion, and discouragement when you can't reach your goal. It's far better to just do as many as you can on each set with good form and not focus too much on what number you hit. As long as you're pushing yourself on the last few reps, your muscles won't know the difference, and if you're consistent in your workouts and diet, the numbers will take care of themselves over time.
then why stop at 2^128...why didn't they use 2^256?
Even though it's not related to IP, this may open precedence for making the creators of a given AI system be responsible for any outcomes of said AI (maybe that's the way to go).
That said, car companies may prosecuted if their AI driven cars cause accidents (again, maybe that's the way to go).

This discussion is on it's first steps and has a long way to go yet.
How about remove money and visible numbers and instead make people watch an ad, then have a lootbox style reveal of whether their message is sent. The retry rate is limited by ad playtime. The odds are set as described above. Still icky.
If I had to guess, this is related to Brickset working with LEGO to sell those custom sets recently. They're probably going to sell extra stuff occasionally through it and maybe some exclusive parts etc. Leaving the reselling alone. Just a thought.
Having depression is not a moral failure. But often it is caused by a lack of knowing how to handle moral dilemmas properly.

The brain is just a conduit for the soul and this connection is called the mind.
You copied some data to the clipboard and then accidentally overwrote it. That's no longer a problem, it's still there!

You need to copy a few bits of info from one app to another. Rather than hopping between them, copy them all first then paste them in the order required. Easy.
Worst of all, you can't claim to have forgotten it.
I see no problem with that, that looks perfectly legal. Democracy and legislation has decided that certain forms of income are to be taxed at a lower rate than others. And the CEO does lots of that "other" form of income, hence the lower rate.

Why, what problem do you have with Democracy, err, I mean this tax-rate?
This is an important point. I recently learned portuguese with a 45 hour course and five weeks in Brazil. But I'm fluent in Spanish, so it was not hard.

I certainly couldn't have done the same thing with Mandarin.
I wouldn't call this the "secret" to learning a foreign language as an adult. Obviously immersion in a language is ideal, and the fact that he had already learned Spanish is even more ideal.

I'm currently 2 years into my attempt to learn Chinese and I can say that many of these tips don't apply to all languages:

1. Listening to music won't help with comprehension of tonal languages like Chinese because songs will usually ignore the tones so that they sound better set to music.

2. Reading children's books in character-based languages like Chinese will only be helpful if you're already proficient in a few hundred basic characters. Since there's no alphabet, there's no way to sound out words the way we can in English.

Otherwise, there are some great tips here. I agree that listening to classroom discussion and hearing others' mistakes is a great way to learn. It's also important to do daily, focused practice in the mornings when your mind is fresh and not muddled by other things.

Overall I think it's a good Quora answer but not necessarily a "secret" to learning a language.
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value" -Albert Einstein
I believe they had each of the 13 studies independently reproduced by 36 different labs. If you can't reproduce it across such a setting I think it's safe to discount the original work.
Probability says that it won't be duplicated, but what if it is? You can't say "no, sorry, you can't choose this password" because that leaks information. This is even ignoring adversarial attacks to try and get this or any birthday attacks.

In my thinking about this problem from the IoT space lately, I've been thinking about servers assigning credentials to devices, rather than devices telling you their creds. Assign a UUID and let the device generate their password/key, and the pair gives you a multiplicatively large space.
I wonder what the reason was to move to Vue in the first place.

We had similar discussions in a company I worked for, but most of the senior devs decided that trying to align frameworks for the sake of everyone working in the same one didn't make sense. Given our size, there were more than enough teams working in React/Vue to keep people happy, but moving everything to one or the other felt like a colossal waste of time rewriting existing applications versus executing against our business goals.

This reads the same, you went from React -> Vue -> React in the span of 2 years? Sounds like a colossal waste of the company's resources.
Well, it sounds like inexperienced bootstrappers like me have a lot to prove to our potential employees given that we have neither much funding or experience. Hopefully some early cashflow from an MVP can help make that easier
I didn't know that, that's awesome and definitely worth further consideration. Thanks for the information!
I can't find the exact paper that cites it(Anyone who have heard of this plz chime in). But, I can cite you apollo syndrome which basically is putting the best and the brightest on a team with the assumption they will do well.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hsri/emergencycar...

Also, other example of where if it ain't broken don't fix it is Founder CEO. Founder CEO tend to perform better than Professional CEO even though they have less experience and knowledge.
http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/enabletech/2010/04/28/ugc-foun...

Somethings are counter-intuitive. Although it is possible with some research to get to heart of things, doing so might be prohibitive in terms of cost and time.
Laziness? Plus I like the fact that it's integrated into the browser itself. That might be irrational though, not sure how well integrated plugins can be in core browser stuff.
Odd that you got downvoted for this when under your normal account you usually get upvoted...
Wait a minute, can I use heroku/indextank to build a better search for hacker news with this? I like the real time part of what i see Reddit has with indextank. Can we include votes to help sway search results? Or is this a project that HNs won't like me working on? Am very new to this.
I don't know. You don't have to be 18 to win 10k at a chess tournament.
If you just want to download the bookmarks you can simply execute

$ curl https://user:pass@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > delicious.xml

I was running it from cron to do daily backups.

EDIT: I've just noticed that somebody has already posted a similar command, so sorry for a duplicate.
Delicious as a search engine is far superior to google for many types of content.
My school (Rochester Institute of Technology) had a huge coop program. The major difference I think is that coops are short term, paid work. You're supposed to be treated like a short term Full Time Employee (as opposed to someone who is supposed to go make coffee). People in technical majors would often get coops with Microsoft, Apple, Google, Cisco, etc. To complete your Computer Science degree, you were actually required to have completed 4 3-month coops.