skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I think the fusion will eventually happen (and ITER will help), I wish it wouldn't.

I think having fusion is a danger for our civilization. People will use this energy for stupid things, like moving mountains; eventually, it will either heat up the planet or produce huge amount of toxic waste or use up all the water we will be able to find. It will be like with carbon fuels but order of magnitude worse.

I would much rather see our civilization to learn to live with the plentiful, yet on decent timescales sustainable, solar energy.
The passenger seats of certain cars use electric field sensing in the seatback to determine if there is an adult passenger present, to decide whether to enable the passenger-side airbag. (Though simply sensing by weight is also common.)

For an example of an electric field sensor, check out the Motorola MC33794.
Interesting. Can you share anything more about this program being used for medical device software?
Firefox Developer Edition vs. Chrome
I'm stuck with chrome and planning to move to FDE. But something keeps me pulling back to Chrome. What do you guys use and why? And why did you ditch the other option?

P.S. Please mention the OS you develop on as well.

I know some people use different browsers for normal browsing and development. Keep web development in mind. For normal browsing, I would love to switch to Safari :)

* Basically, convince me why I should switch to FDE ( Chrome's a battery sucker on my macbook )
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And your answers are fundamentally why >2 person marriage isn't coming anytime soon. All of these solutions are basically break the entire slew of existing financial setups around marriage. Do you think a company would be willing to put 5 married people on the same spousal health plan? Do you think Social Security is going to be OK with 1 person's benefits potentially outliving them for decades as they carry on to multiple spouses?

>2 person marriage is fundamentally different from existing marriage laws in a way gay marriage is not.
I don't know, I get the sentiment but at the end of the day you're pitching your company. It will vary a little, but not that much. When you pitch VCs 95% of the pitch is the same VC to VC. When they ask questions it becomes different, of course, but you don't have to recreate your pitch from the ground up going from person to person.

This process works. You may have a better one with no scale, but I've used this dozens of times and it works every time, even at big publications, and have developed many relationships using it.
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Social unrest is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable. The same way chemotherapy drugs are supposed to make you feel sick.

Government overreach and police abuse are comparable to cancer. In both cases you have a part of a system that when functioning normally will maintain stability. But the local components become confused about their instructions and act in a way that is counterproductive to the health of the larger structure. The malady will spread and convert nearby healthy cells into cancerous cells. Because the culprits are normal parts of the body it is difficult to isolate the good from bad and the cures that are good at removing the bad cells have the side effect of damaging or disrupting good cells. But a temporary manageable pain is better than allowing a destructive impulse to destroy the body from the inside-out.
Early treatment for brain inflammation could prevent schizophrenia
If anyone is familiar with the X game series (space flight simulators ala Elite), they had an illegal alcoholic substance called "Space Fuel" that you could make a lot of money running as a smuggler. This reminded me of that.
I'd be curious if it's really an unprecedented magnitude (not impossible that it is, but I haven't seen numbers). For lodging, for example, it'd be interesting if someone could estimate at least approximate numbers for what proportion of the paid travel-lodging market was served by formal hotels vs. informal lodging arrangements in various cities over the decades. From what I've read of New York City (but no numbers), there has been a pretty wide array of lodging besides "proper" hotels in various periods, ranging from families running a few spare rooms as a boarding-house business, to large-scale "flophouse" operations. And, like today, it has been a political issue and led to debate over regulations periodically.
> I’m UTTERLY SICK and TIRED of dealing with MILLIONS of tech entrepreneurs (these days there are a HELL of a lot of you) and (some) PR people who have ZERO clue how to pitch me/TechCrunch/the media.

His business is writing about (or dealing with) tech startups. He make money doing this by being paid for advertising, etc. If he is sick of dealing with us, that's his problem to solve, not ours. Coaching us to target him better doesn't mean that we'll be successful with another reporter with the same approach. Asking us to improve the efficiencies of our pitches only serves to increase his own success - it doesn't actually raise the chances we'll get the exposure (given probability and math happens).

And yes, this general approach would work with PR firms, but then again we're paying them for that service. I had a call with a PR firm a few weeks back and they were struggling to understand what a container stack was and why it is important. They eventually got it, but it took some time. Sometimes complexity happens.

Instead of offloading his work onto us, why doesn't he figure out a way to scale what his is suppose to be doing (listening) better? I have no idea how to solve this, but it doesn't start by telling us his is sick and tired of dealing with us and how we can do a bunch of work to make him not sick of us. That's just rudely blaming us for something that brings him suffering.

BTW, I totally get where he is coming from, but still. Tone it down a bit.
These implantable LCD lenses could replace glasses and contacts forever
A few years back I met a kid in rural Michigan who was ticketed for driving without his glasses which had broken. When he was unable to pay the ticket he was fined in excess of the ticket by a judge. He had to drive to work to make the money to pay the ticket and buy glasses. And of course when he raised some money he paid the fine first rather than buying glass because it kept him out of jail.

Judges are supposed to have leeway to take these kinds of things into account.
This could be a real shot in the arm for the Russian space program
The full headline on BoingBoing is much better than the abbreviated version: "DoJ to Apple: your software is licensed, not sold, so we can force you to decrypt." The HN headline just means that DoJ hasn't given up the fight; the full headline makes it clear that there's a novel legal argument involved.
I guess this depends on what you consider low socioeconomic status. There is also a disparity in tertiary education. Women have higher enrollment and completion rates and thus get more degrees, even though sex ratio is skewed towards boys at birth.

For example in 2010 in the Netherlands (from http://barrolee.com/) 45% of women aged 30-34 have some tertiary education and 31% have completed tertiary education (31 / 45 = 69%) whereas the male statistics are 39% and 25% (25 / 39 = 64%). This is then offset by women working fewer hours per week (from Eurostat): in the Netherlands men average only 35 hours per week, and women only 25. Dutch working hours are a little extreme, but the general trend is worldwide.
I'm surprised I don't see any comments about the FHIR api here. It's a project seeking to standardize a RESTful api for clinical encounter data that's gaining a fair bit of traction.

If the existing EMR companies don't manage to subvert its goals, the problem of data interoperability will be largely solved within the next 5-7 years.
That sounds awful. I'm sorry you had to be a party to such an event. Even if there were all these other older and more experienced people who should have acted intelligently, it sounds like you're still feeling guilty that you didn't do better. It's hard to realise that in most situations you do have to trust that in your instincts, instead of being able to think that all these supposedly more senior and responsible people actually have a clue... It shakes your faith in people and your sense of security. I'm sad that you had to go through that.
Where does Google Cloud fit in the IaaS market?
What I’ve learned from my late grandmother about life and Owntrepreneurship
The wording that the link discusses is in the pdf[0] section 1.a. on pg 13. Which, for reasons beyond my understanding, argues the point "Apple is not 'far removed' from this matter". The DOJ is discussing a phone that pre-dates iOS 8.

I think the main argument in the linked document is that Apple has the ability to unlock pre iOS 8 phones, and has done it before. Again, that "Apple is not 'so far removed from the underlying controversy that its assistance could not be permissibly compelled.”

The OP seems wrong but IANAL.

> it doesn't have the technical capability to do so;

Is factually incorrect in this case... Right?

[0] https://ia801501.us.archive.org/27/items/gov.uscourts.nyed.3...
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Three days that saved the euro
http://codepen.io/heero/pen/wylhv
New study shows flight delays can be distributed more equitably among airlines
And to be clear, implementing OStatus (http://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/Main_Page) is probably the best way to move this forward.
The police are the chemo and the cancer is crime.
Just because they died doesn't mean someone:

1) Did the Heimlich manoeuvre

2) Performed it properly

3) Continued proper behaviour after the Heimlich manoeuvre failed

There is a good chance the people who died were alone, that everyone around them panicked and froze up, or that nobody realized the person was in danger (people who choke are actually more likely to leave the room than try to tell someone). People often don't call 911 until it's too late.

I do see the OP's point that potentially education and teaching of what to actually do in these scenarios would be more effective than buying a vast number of these devices. I took a first aid course and I can say that while the majority of people know what the Heimlich manoeuvre is, I don't believe they'd behave properly in a chocking situation.

That said, I think these should definitely be put to trial runs to find out :)
Very well said.

A clean data model, one aligned with business needs, and sensitive to the nature of machines, makes the best architecture.

Far too many decisions are based on what is trendy and fashionable rather than what is right for the domain.
Clickable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433793
I'll put it out early next week. It is a very basic rails app at the moment, and to avoid running background tasks, the endpoint exposed is a blocking controller. Email if you want me to notify you.
Is that column independent of "gravity"?
Emailed code snippets have this problem when emailed using some email clients (Outlook, looking at you)
The short answer is that Etsy started as a marketplace for purely handmade goods and then kept changing the definition of handmade till it ended up being flooded by cheap, counterfeit Chinese mass manufactured goods. Naturally, Etsy sellers who believed in the original indie creed felt betrayed.

This is the rough timeline over which events developed:

In October 2013 Etsy redefined handmade and allowed Etsy sellers to get help with making and shipping their items. [1] [2]

In early 2015 Etsy did an IPO as an effort to grow much faster.[3]

Over time, a lot of China-based sellers piled in and started selling counterfeit goods at low prices - something that Etsy chose to do nothing about.[4] Its stock price tanked and class-action lawsuit was filed.[5]

Sensing an opportunity, Amazon stepped in with its 'Handmade' category and lured in a lot of Etsy sellers for its launch on Oct 8, 2015. [6] Ironic, huh?

[1] https://www.etsy.com/teams/7722/discussions/discuss/13091813...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/opinion/etsys-industrial-r...

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/29/unpacking-etsys-s1/

[4] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-15/etsy-count...

[5] http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/11/investing/etsy-stock-fall-co...

[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/business/amazon-challenges...

Wired has good coverage on how things evolved at Etsy over time:

http://www.wired.com/2012/09/etsy-goes-pro/

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/why-etsys-future-depends-on-lea...

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/etsy-not-good-for-crafters/ (Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9092872)

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/etsys-surging-ipo-shows-losing-...

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/etsy-embraces-mass-manufacturin...

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/amazon-takes-etsy-see-whos-auth...
I made my first offer to a full-time employee, who could add necessary medical expertise to the team. She chose us over an existing offer and gave notice to her current employer.

What happened to this employee? Just curious...
Why not? The military has successfully done aptitude testing for decades, it's a quick way to see whether further investment in a direction is worthwhile. (Edited to add this, similarly if you have a budding interest in basketball but you're not going to get tall, you should probably not shoot for the NBA. Keep dabbling if you like it, but have realistic expectations, statistically you won't be another Webb, who was still 5'7". It's irresponsible for people to say keep pushing hard and as long as you're having fun you'll eventually get to the NBA.) Official tests are best but there are a few ok online ones that can at least quickly set approximate expectations. If the OP has already done ACT/SAT tests, it's even quicker to fetch the highly correlated IQ value.

I would be very surprised if people on the level of Carmack or Torvalds or Woz or Knuth or the many others I know of, famous or not, were under 2 standard deviations above average. It's absurd to think they're under one, which is just 'slightly above average'.
Option 1) $200MM loss today, $200MM gain tomorrow, $0 taxes in April. Net result: $0

Option 2) Keep your $200MM today, $200MM gain tomorrow, $70MM taxes in April. Net result: +$130MM

Why would anyone want Option 1?
I deploy a pretty small app with like 2 instances per deploy and 3 deploys (beta and 2 production versions for different clients) and Kubernetes is 100% worth it for the rolling updates and the ability to build the image once and push it different places.
This is more or less what I'm doing right now with Dropwizard. I started building this app as a set of separated microservices, but was finding it to slow me down more than I wanted it to--so I flipped it upside-down and loaded every "application" into a single Dropwizard service. Which is uncomfortably like application servers, but I'm using this almost exclusively to get around doing the inter-service wire-up that I'd have to do manually, rather than letting my DI container do it. Each module's still separated, and if we need to fork services off in the future, it's about twelve lines of code.
I see Taco (task list aggregator) but I haven't set it up properly with Wunderlist so it just shows my Trello boards/list.
So, what's the most common standard for PHR information?

I've only heard of HL7 which is basically paying money for a bunch of XSDs (of course)
I think in 2015 we should be pretty good at writing code without race conditions, especially considering the tools made available to us by our programming languages.
Git man page generator
I have mixed feelings about USGS topo maps these days. On the positive side, they are producing revisions much more frequently than in the past and they have made available high quality digital images of these maps for free.

The availability of high resolution image files is really nice if you have a big screen and a powerful computer handy, but not so nice if you are scouting for berries on logging roads in a pickup and need something that you can stuff in your pocket. The USGS stopped doing big lithographic print runs of their maps, and the new inkjet prints are garbage in comparison. Whenever I find a lithographic print of a quadrangle I am interested in, I buy two or three because I know I may not be able to find them in the future.

Also, the newer revisions (the ones including satellite images) seem like they get much less individual attention from the cartographers. Labels and symbols are less intuitively laid out. The difference between the new and old map styles is similar to the difference between musical scores generated by a computer and lightly edited by a copyist, and scores created by a master plate engraver.

I vastly prefer the maps from the 80's and early 90's.
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The factor that the Comet Lovejoy contains ethyl alcohol and a simple saccharide is not unexpected; this paper does however mark the first identification of these organic molecules in a comet. Astronomers have previously detected both of these, along with plenty of other complex organic molecules, in other regions of the Milky Way (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circu...).
You can thank good marketing for that.

According to Roger White MD of the Mayo Clinic and American Heart Association (AHA), "There was never any science here. Heimlich overpowered science all along the way with his slick tactics and intimidation, and everyone, including us at the AHA, caved in."[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_thrusts#History
They should re-fund Persona with this spare change. :)
The future of dieting is burning more calories than you consume. Just like it has always been.
you can often as easily deploy a monolith to multiple servers and grant different subtasks different cpu and memory for their work. for me its just a matter of adjust with the supervisord config for each server, how many of which workers start and run on that machine.
Woo-hoo! Party at Comet Lovejoy tonight!!! Who's with me? (Go to the Alley Door on the Comet, you'll see the bouncers at the top of the stairs. Dress warm, it's chilly inside)
> It is clear that they are testing the minimum height you can drop someone from a parachute in the same way

Are you joking? You can do that much easier with a simple weight. You don't need a beaver.
I was thinking along the same lines. If the problem is that there is no structure to acquire the data he needs to do his job, then isn't that one of the use cases that computers are very, very good at.

Make a submission form, let them fill out the answers.
If a company raises $20MM to solve a big problem, that's news. It means there's a company with $20MM in their pocket trying to solve that problem. Previously there wasn't.

It's not as big as the news if they do solve that problem, but it's still important news.
No, sorry, I should have mentioned the parking deck closed early, and was signed (though not in an prominent way) as such. So we could not get out. We made no witty reply, but did have a good laugh about it later.
The map doesn't show elevations. Medieval maps work that way, they only show notable hills and cliffs, but no slow descents.

Here's similar from Norway

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/old-map-norway-11431502.jpg
Given we're 320M people you could say "we've spent billions" on many many things and not solved it. We've spent billions on food this week -- and we're still gonna get hungry!

"Billions" is a scary sounding number that doesnt mean much anymore. Show me 10s and 100s of billions.
I'd disagree, at least as far as internal transparency is concerned. My experience in founding and running GrantTree for the last 5 years has been that total internal transparency of all business data (including the finances and individual transactions) has huge benefits in terms of both building trust between staff and the company, and in terms of forcing the company to face important issues and solve them properly rather than "hack" a solution via secret pay raises and bonuses.

If you want to build the kind of company where people stay because they love to work there, rather than the kind of company where people stay because they're getting paid a lot, I would say that total internal transparency is essential.

As far as external transparency goes, that is more thorny but I think a strong commitment to transparency helps there too. Customers don't want you to pretend you're perfect. Shit happens in business. Things go wrong. Customers want to know that when shit inevitably goes wrong, you'll own up to it, take responsibility, and fix things competently. If you have a habit of pretending everything's ok when it's not, well, that's a bad sign. If, on the other hand, you're noticeably transparent about your business, that's a good sign to customers that this will carry over when shit happens.
Google's recursive nonexistence problem
> But there is no collision. In the example I'm making, the people chose to humor me, they chose to introduce a collision because they always have context information.

Collisions are allowed precisely when other parties humor you. Warren Buffet's bank did not do so; it resolved the collision. I'll bet that you can come up with many examples where people will not humor you if you introduce yourself as Warren Buffet, so I'll not belabor this point further.

> How do you learn about the website in the first place? Most likely online.

Actually, my parents told me.

Look, if you'd rather assign non-human-meaningful names to principals instead of human-meaningful ones when the security of one approach versus the other are otherwise sufficient, then please don't let me get in your way. However, I think your preference is in the minority, and I think there is plenty of historical data on things like domain name prices that backs my opinion up.

> And by the way, even if you really, really insist on binding human meaningful names to keys, all you really need is a Haber Stornetta timestamping service. No need to bother with proof of publication, which is where the blockchain gets most of its bloat from.

That's effectively what the blockchain already does, no? It provides a hash-linked list of all blocks, which in turn must contain a set of well-formed linked lists of of signed transactions consistent with Bitcoin's protocol rules for each key with a non-zero balance. The proof-of-work scheme stops weak adversaries from doing the equivalent of (1) publishing an adversary-chosen hash in the newspaper, and (2) replacing some of the archived copies of the library with different ones with invalid hashes, all in order to trick you into trusting the wrong documents. Also, if it wanted to do so, a newspaper could publish every kth block's hash to help lend credibility to the longest chain.
I think you define passion too narrowly. It's hard to monetize your passion if the only thing you enjoy is drawing pumpkins with charcoal on the walls of 18th century buildings.

But flexibility helps. You could, for example, make a living working on V8 or SpiderMonkey, and work on your programming language as a hobby.
HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project
If I understand your question, probably a CCDA. I think the real problem is no system has a reliably comprehensive picture. After that, it is challenging to find a reliable global patient identifier. Epic says they have the health records of 175M americans. I would say they have parts of records of 175M americans and probably a lot of dupes.
We've never had to break an API to make a change. Changes to the API should not break existing consumers. That's just as true for monoliths as it is for microservices.
The National Library of Scotland has a great online collection of old maps as well: http://maps.nls.uk/ - going back to 1500, with slippy maps, side by side views, all sorts. It's not just Scotland, but the whole of the UK. A lot of them are georeferenced so you can easily flip through time and see how your local area changed.

Licensing isn't as simple as USGS's though.