skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just did the calculations, if we ignore the money saved and assume the projects total expenses are going to be 4 million, then it only needs to save at least 1198 people to beat the top rated charity on GiveWell (Against Malaria foundation).

Looking at the data (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1306801) there were 721,800 what they call health care associated infections in 2011 (I couldn't find newer data). If the rate goes down at what the article suggest, (75%) then we will save 541350 people a year using this method whereas it would cost more than 1.8 Billion dollars to save the same amount of lives using the Against Malaria foundation.

This is almost 500 times as effective!

How do we get this knowledge to people who have 2 million dollars to spare?
161 days of rain per year.
Canonicalization is tough, and requires you to define some common ordering on your units.

Systems will use an array of unit powers, so that if the array were defined as <Joules, Seconds, Newtons, Meters>, then acceleration would be <0,-2,0,1> and watts would be <1,-1,0,0>. Addition and subtraction require that your arrays are equal, and multiplication and division are pairwise additive/subtractive.
Is there any reason why you're intentionally not using the email denoted on the news page?
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If your point is, "Finland does broadband better than America," then well done you. It can join the club with just about every other first-world nation on the planet.

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for anything that looks vaguely like a solution to that problem, and not merely gloating about it.

EDIT: I'm sorry for the tone, but I see no value in pointing out flaws and failings without offering solutions to them. It's plenty easy in today's world to hate on the US. Most of it is probably even deserved. But it doesn't make anything better, so I don't see what it contributes to the discussion, beyond an opportunity for smugness.
Every time you drive a car you do sort of it. You cannot concentrate all your attention on one small thing -- you rather should do deconcentration and observe many objects at the same time.

Another example is searching mushrooms. If you do concentrate, you're not effective.

There are much more examples in the life.
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I've an iPhone 5 purchased in January 2013 with a new battery from iFixit from this past February and there are just certain apps that absolutely kill battery life regardless of which release of iOS 8 I use.

Though Apple has made their new software versions for their new hardware I think overall performance since early iOS 6 releases has been consistent on iPhone 5+ with the various exceptions for bugs. The problem I see is with devs for large deployments (Google, MLB, Yahoo, etc.) ONLY take into consideration the new hardware. My MLB.tv subscription which includes At Bat app has become such a drain on my battery since the start of the 2015 season. Even streaming radio broadcasts will use 50% of my battery after 5 or 6 innings with the screen locked as in NOT DISPLAYING ANYTHING! 2 years ago a Red Sox/Yankees game (4+ hours) would use maybe 20%.

Weekdays, I get a couple hundred emails plus 10-30 calendar notifications per day from personal and work Google managed domains. Easily that takes up 20-30% over an 8 hour workday with all the fetch. Previous employer with Exchange and push using Active Sync was maybe 10% usage per 8 hours. Weekends of course I rarely see the drain at all in regards to mail.

Point is, I know I'm at EOL with iPhone 5 but I at this point can't really blame Apple as stock (and on weekends unless streaming a ball game) battery life is as consistent as the day the phone was purchased.
In Brussels you can rent bikes from public transport at numerous stations in the city. Either be a registered citizen or allow them to put 150€ on hold on your credit card (and pay 1.60€ per day as long as no ride is longer than (I think) half an hour). It's easy to use and popular, so I don't think it'd be a problem.
How about this: "suitcase word" means one word, different concepts to different people. Which seems aligned with your definition. "Essentially contested concept", on the other hand, I can't think of an example of two people contesting the same concept. I'm sure examples exist, I'm just drawing a blank.

My own experience is that all the words I listed are surprisingly problematic in conversations / debates. An example of difficulty. Take the question, "can a machine be conscious"? You would expect that the tedious arguing could be shut down with the statement "maybe that's like asking whether a submarine can swim." But there is endless debate on the subject. Consciousness is a suitcase word. And it seems, an "essentially contested concept", or is it? The utility of the term is still unclear to me. Id love to hear examples, I'm probably not seeing the full picture.
What I see is Bitcoin fans pointing out the glaring problems in every altcoin, but not admitting that every single one of those problems applies to Bitcoin as well.
The question then is: how do you find such books especially as a layman?
Is it as cheap as these[1] mass produced mini segways that have become popular? The linked products also have a range of 8 miles and a top speed of more than 9mph.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
How Snapzu is trying to improve on up/down voting and the “disagree” down vote
What's the business model?
Friends, family and girlfriend live here but yes I could live anywhere though Vancouver is a good city if you can afford it. My tax rates are prov 40.7% and 27.3% federally though it's a marginal and progressive rate depending on income level and ridiculously complicated. I still pay employment insurance and 4.95% CPP too, plus 12% sales tax on almost anything I buy, except for wine which is almost 100% taxed through government owned liquor store markup so your $10 California wine is $26 after tax and exchange plus GST 7%.
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> Your [sic] shocked to find out that the pay is literally half in Vancouver.

I think this is changing. There are great new companies to work for in Vancouver who depend on access to top-tier talent and are willing to pay for it.

We [1] have hired several folks from SF and most of our alums tend to head straight to the Valley, so it's clear that we're competing on the global stage for talent. This by nature means average compensation that must be competitive. Others must be seeing this too.

[1] Axiom Zen: https://axiomzen.co
Cute. I didn't know nameservers had so much personality.
> Actor model does not require concurrent data structure to be effective. Actually that's the whole point of it...

That's complicated. Actors don't require concurrent data structures for the bits that don't require concurrent data structures but they do for the bits that do :) That's why Erlang has ETS. That's why you still need a database.
Everything you are saying is technically correct. The issue is that Erlang is trying to solve a different problem than you are describing. It sounds like you are hoping to perform some large but single task and are disappointed that Erlang can't defeat the Amdahl limitations inherent in your task. That's not Erlang's goal.

Erlang's goal is to take problems that are embarrassingly parallel in theory and make them embarrassingly parallel in practice. Serving a billion independent http requests in a distributed, parallel manner can technically be done in Java or C or assembly. But, it's very hard to do well and very easy to screw up in painful, confusing, life-wasting ways. Erlang makes it much easier to do well and much harder to screw up.
> The main engineer, Saito and his team at Cocoa Motors plan to launch the WalkCar this autumn and the expected price is somewhere around 800 bucks.
Nice article, and for an Elixir fan, provides a nice little snippet on something I've been having issues with but hadn't really put my finger on until I saw it:

"[...] and I really dislike that Elixir tries to hide immutability. That does make it slightly easier for beginners, but it’s a leaky abstraction. The immutability eventually bleeds through and then you have to think about it."

I don't think it necessarily tries to hide it (at all), but it does have some instances where something feels like a mutable structure. Those can be, at least for me, a bit confusing to reason about if you're expecting things both be and look immutable.

I suppose now that I know exactly what's weird, I should just go dig through the code and figure it out. Problem solved?

... One other thing, because I see this in the comments already, is that BEAM isn't the tool for every job-- but for some jobs, it is the only tool to do it well. Is the JVM faster at general tasks? Hell yes, but that's not the point, it's not even why BEAM is around.

It's about:

* Small concurrent workloads. Really long running CPU intensive tasks aren't going to be good.

* Low latency. Not just low, but with a very very small standard deviation. Your application's performance will be consistent.

* Fault tolerant.

The list goes on, and here's a nice summary of it (both bad and good):

http://blog.troutwine.us/2013/07/10/choose_erlang.html

There are times when I choose the JVM, there are times when I choose BEAM or MRI. I just try choose the right tool for the job, but some tools, make some jobs, very difficult.

cough ruby cough concurrency cough

Edit: One thing for people not familiar with BEAM, a "process" is not a Unix process, from the Elixir documentation:

"Processes in Elixir are extremely lightweight in terms of memory and CPU (unlike threads in many other programming languages). Because of this, it is not uncommon to have tens or even hundreds of thousands of processes running simultaneously."
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Depending on what you're observing, it's only statistical probability you actually observed anything. There is no such thing as an inductive proof; there is no way you can prove anything exists to another person.

I suggest Hume and the writings of the logical positivists. This will wipe the idea of being able to "prove" with science or observation right out of your brain. No matter how much information you have, you don't have enough to predict the future. If our planet collides with some huge energy burst, all the people who said "I know for a fact that the earth will still be moving around the sun at the approximately same rate and mass" will have been PROVEN false. But there is no such trick to prove anything about tomorrow.
Sure, but you can have those millions of processes on the JVM, too and scale better because of better access to shared data than ETS.
Internet History (1997)
I'll second these picks as having lots of information wrapped up inside engaging writing.

Ignition: http://web.gccaz.edu/~wkehowsk/ignition.pdf

"Excuse me, sir...": ftp://www.fourmilab.ch/pub/etexts/www/gergel/isopropyl_bromide.pdf
When would you choose Erlang? (2013)
That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket
Ask HN: How do you choose the next book you'll buy?
I just browse Amazon until I find something that interests me. I don't really like Goodreads.

Usually I have a subject in mind, for example, I want to buy a book on physics. But sometimes I want something more specific, like a book on star interiors or supernovas or exotic stars, and then it is more difficult to find something worth my buck.
> Erlang makes it much easier to do well and much harder to screw up.

That's a feature of the language, not the VM (compare with Clojure, that does a similar thing on the JVM). You could still do all that on a higher-quality VM (simply because the effort put into it is orders-of-magnitude more than into BEAN; not because OpenJDK's people are smarter or anything).
Yeah, like most other people on here...color me unimpressed.

libmingw if you want lightweight, msys if you want an env + mingw, cygwin if you want something with a nicer unix env.

No matter what env you have, if its on win it going to suck a bit.
> Can you name other "career paths" where are more technical & creative challenges open to solve?

Fair question. Once I was in graduate school (math program), I went down the scientific/large-scale computing path. It isn't a very large field of course, compared to consumer-facing software. It was more of a personal drive.
Unfortunately, I dont' know any peer-reviewed proof of PoS (im)-possibility, threat model etc. Time is needed here probably, we got good formal framework of PoW only in 2014, 5 years after Nakamotos' WP(I mean Backbone's paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/765.pdf).
The real mini-Segway: electric monocycle Solo-wheel.

http://www.amazon.com/Inventist-SW1-Solowheel-by/dp/B007Q3FZ...
This is the first time I've heard about the SpaceX, OneWeb and Yakiny low orbit small satellite constellation projects. It says they could allow for viable low latency, high bandwidth satellite internet.

It sounds to me like the coverage of such constellations would allow for a satilite phone to actually deliver on the promise of working anywhere around the globe.
That depends on the claim. For example, I can easily prove the (negative) claim that Bigfoot is not in Times Square. The proof goes something like this:

1. If Bigfoot were in Times Square, someone would notice.

2. No one has noticed.

Therefore it cannot be the case that Bigfoot is in Times Square.

That proof works because of the particular properties of Times Square (e.g. that it's full of people 24x7) and doesn't apply to the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
What does it mean to "bring" medical images to Watson? Does Watson actually do anything, or is it a name for a bunch of services that IBM relies on other companies to construct?
Sorry, but you stated the inexistence of bad investments on aggregate, and you support that extraordinary claim with a rant about stores of value?

Anyway, that rant makes no sense. You can't just informally move from real and nominal values at will, as you can't claim that in a population, if everybody lose any amount less than 100% of their wealth, everybody would get richer. Or better, well, you can claim it, you just can not make it real.
Weird. Carphone Warehouse (UK) has some news too: "Personal details of up to 2.4 million Carphone Warehouse customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack, the mobile phone retailer says."
Disregard the reviews. Trust me. Take a leap of faith and check it out. I don't have a magazine body, but I did lose 50lbs 4 years ago already and they aren't coming back.

It's faterday saturday btw, "on top of the world eating doughnuts, its a mother fucking cheat day, so what?" -Murs
I suggest if you're that confused you try linux again...you obviously didn't dig into it very hard.

There are shells, environment, terms (ttys), package managers, and then there a bunch of emulation packages on windows.

Go back and read the docs for each tool to understand what it provides (shell, environment, terminal support, library, or package manager).

Clear as mud?

That's why I suggest trying linux again.
Difficult social problems are still difficult problems
My grandmother is also experiencing declining mobility. She'd probably break her hip getting on this thing, or hopping off to stop it.
Anyone interested in the life of a dwarf at Auschwitz should read Primo Levi's excellent memoir, whose title has been translated both as "Survival in Auschwitz" and "If this is a man". Levi himself was not a dwarf, but he encountered one in the year he spent in Auschwitz, and the entire book is very well written. http://appliedsciencefreelibraryguide.org/view.php?id=388132
Yes, but in the summer it seems like less than a week of rain over four months. :-(
It's true, it looks to be better in every respect (especially price). The only downside to the Chinese electric unicycle is the size (the Japanese one fits in a backpack).
I love watching tourists crash on those things here in Barcelona ;P. I see them as being too unbalanced, compared to the small scooter bikes that are being rented as well [1]. I see the similar thing with these "platforms". The wheels almost reminds me office chairs :), and i know how bad the sidewalks are for example, not to mention holes and other objects.

1: http://bcnshop.barcelonaturisme.com/shopv3/en/product/21110/...
My thought, exactly. This model obviously isn't suitable, but with a rapidly aging population here in Japan (and elsewhere), I'm glad to see new(-ish) innovation being made.

Once the tech is there, the need will drive the eventual designs.
If only there was some secure & magical internet money thingie which works on a push not pull basis /sarcasm
> I know multiple foreign nationals without degrees who have held engineering or even engineering leadership positions at YC companies.

You may be either talking about an O visa case (or H1B with all kinds of evidence that the person has irreplaceable qualities, which is difficult on its own right, basically you need to prove that you are as worthy as college graduates). Neither of them are easy. Sometimes even if you are covered on The New York Times you don't make it.

Don't just throw these things online as if it's easy to do this just because you saw some YC company do it. If you look around there are tons of other much more talented but unfortunate people who couldn't make it and had to go back to their countries.

These types of misinformation literally hurt people who are not knowledgeable about the matter. I can sense you have no idea about this just based on how you write about it. Are you a foreigner who have gone through the US visa application process? If not, don't say it's easy.
If you have cancer, and have been sick for months or years, and are in great pain, is death the worst thing to happen to you? It may be bad for your family and loved ones - but for you, it may very well be relief.

Mercy and palliative care is something I think forgotten all too often in medical care in the US, we focus so much on the cure at all costs, and less on the outcome or realistic outcome rather.
> [...] science is not about proof. Mathematics is about proof.

Mathematics is a science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_sci...
They aren't referring specifically to engineering. Sales, marketing, finance, and operations proportionally grow as a business scales. Engineering (R&D) trends downwards to 6 - 10% of expenses (whereas at a seed-stage it could be 50 - 80% of expenses). Senior leaders for these business operations are not readily found in Vancouver or any other locale without a critical mass of public / mature technology companies. This is actually part of Silicon Valley's enduring success: a readily available workforce for all stages of technology companies.
I was calling BS on the statement that it would be a staggeringly expensive undertaking to provide universal broadband access in the US. It is not, and this is the most important part, expensive on a per subscriber basis which is the only measure that matters. Sure, it would require a total capital outlay which would be large, but that's not the real issue.

The US has roughly twice the population density of Finland. Thus it would be roughly half as expensive per subscriber to wire up the US compared to Finland. The key takeaway here is that Finland has shown that it can be done and has been done.

As to whether it should be a should thing or not, it most definitely should be. The regulatory framework already exists for it, it's called the Universal Service Fund. The only thing lacking is that it is not being used for broadband. That needs to change, but as you said there isn't a legal regime mandating that...

In closing, population density isn't the real issue. Otherwise we would not be lamenting that you can't get broadband in California.
Excuse me? You want to be able to launch an attack, unprovoked, against a server you don't own, without permission, and you want the owner to be cool with that?

You want the owner to be cool with you disrupting business, causing untold financial damage?

PEOPLE like you are the reason that relationship is strained, and the reason the CFAA was written in the first place.

So please do keep "pen-testing" sites you down own without anyones permission, I'm sure you'll end up with a great life that way.
Where did you get 15mph from? These have a max speed of 6.2mph. That's equivalent to a fast jog.
What you are stating is a truism. The unspoken assumption you are responding to is that there is a shortage at the wage they are willing to offer. However you are replacing it with an assumption that wages should go up until sufficient positions are lost through attrition by being too expensive to fill.

I don't think this is a very useful hair to split because it doesn't tell us much about what dynamics are actually going on. As someone with a lot of experience on both sides of the tech company hiring equation, and I think there are two main issues.

First is notorious difficulty of quantifying tech skills. It's worse than a market for lemons, because even the potential hire themselves is prone to misestimate their own skillset. Second, tech skills aren't really fungible. Yes, we often talk about how a skilled engineer can easily pick up a new language, but it's not just languages, it's also problem domains, and work environments which vary widely and can greatly impact the utility of a given person. With job tenures being so short these days, it's difficult to invest a lot in training someone when you fear they will leave in a year and you'll be back to square one. I might be willing to raise the salary dramatically for the perfect candidate (who may not even exist), but I can't compete with Google and Facebook for the undeveloped talent because my company just doesn't have the cash flow.
First of all, how do you even know I'm an American? Nothing in my post, my bio, or anything mentions that, so that's quite a sweeping generalization, and baseless assumption.

Secondly, why are "non-americans" cool with breaking other peoples shit without permission?
Designers, Morality and the AK-47
i think a lot of power gets wasted on self balancing. this things balancing gets taken care of by the four wheels and frees the battery into pure propulsion. also maybe it can recharge on downhill slopes, something a self balancer cant do.
Erlang generally encourages shared-nothing architectures. Of course, in some cases you want regions of shared memory or some other concurrent global resource, hence ETS. I see nothing wrong with ETS, it's well optimized for the Erlang term format in particular and gives you serializable updates.

Scalability and large actor counts aren't the definitive features of Erlang, though. It's supervision trees, the distribution protocol, the OTP framework, the primacy of tuples and lists as your main and highly flexible data types, a great pattern matching engine for binary formats and regular Erlang terms alike, module-level hotswapping, a crash-only programming model, the ability to have external programs benefit from Erlang semantics via external nodes and ports, so on and so forth.

Yes, not all of this is thanks to the VM in of itself. A lot of it is runtime and language features.

But it's already there in a cohesive whole. There is absolutely no reason to switch to the JVM when the EVM is a beast of its own.
A shortage due to med school controls won't be relieved by more people deciding to apply to med school, because the numbers there are fixed. To fix that you need to get the controls relaxed.
Oh, of course there are some areas. I also can name the one or other. But when you want max-out your chances, to get hired and are not a star-programmer in such an area, you will possibly find yourself in some dull and boring area, how I found myself one day (I must admit, that I had total different expectations about the job, but that is a long story by itself ...).
Claiming that the word "proof" can only be used in the formal sciences is just vocabulary nitpicking.
I thought this was an interesting read. Have you read any Marcus Aurelius?