skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"United States is the worst place to live if you are poor"

Uh, that's not even close to true. Not even close.
As someone who has shrunk several dress sizes and no longer can eat the huge meals typically required by my genetic disorder, I don't agree with you. I did what I could to heal my gut and that led to me being less hungry and eating less.

It's more complicated than that, but I think you are wrong.
Masturbation and heart disease
Well, this is the notorious ICD-10 "upgrade" from ICD-9. Which has some "wonderful" codes, e.g. try https://www.google.com/search?q=icd+10+codes+funny

Everyone's unfair favorite is "V97.33XD: Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter."

Unfair because that doesn't mean you were stupid enough to do that twice, but had to see a doctor after the first visit.

"W55.41XA: Bitten by pig, initial encounter" is OK, it happens. But "W61.62XD: Struck by duck, subsequent encounter." WTF??? I'm from a hunting family, and I've never heard of smallish birds like ducks harming people in this way. Ditto "W61.12XA: Struck by macaw, initial encounter" and "W59.22XA: Struck By Turtle" (now, being bitten by a big snapping turtle is horrific, but being struck by any turtle???).

But this remains the most bizarre of all I've heard: "V91.07XD: Burn due to water-skis on fire, subsequent encounter​."

OK, at least we can laugh about ICD-10. For now.
I can see how people think this, but once you live here you see the reality. There are sectors though where Japan is still pretty damn advanced, but you don't necessarily notice it in daily life. A great example is precision manufacturing - they are awesome at it.
I don't mind to sound crass, but it sounds like you implemented microservices poorly. You could s/microservices/threads/g on your post above and it would point much more to a problem with your implementation rather than a problem with threads.
This is allowing companies like Kno2 to make quick inroads into the space though.
What you didn't know about Enum, Flags and bitwise operators
>It's much easier for people to be principled when their self-interest is not at stake.

You are certainly right about that.
On the other hand, Tolkien had no clue about geology. If you think about how rivers flow from mountains to oceans, the map of Middleearth is unrealistic. Anduin heads straight towards hills and mountains (Emyn Muil and Osgiliath)? In the north west, Luhn/Lune flows south to the Grey Havens instead of the short way to the northern ocean? The sea of Rhun and Nurnen are both dead (no outflow)?

(disclaimer: I still love and respect Tolkiens work! Especially the Silmarillion.)
GOP Lawmakers Want to Make Gun Silencers Easier to Buy -- to protect hearing.
oeis.org is one of my favourite resources

i am equally pleased to find a sequence in my research matches one in the oeis as well as finding ones vacant from the collection
For future reference, go to hospital. The lungs are a one-way system and can't digest things - any object going in either comes out the same way or sits around. That lump of food will have rotted, and would be a significant infection risk.
O'Reilly is addressing the community of people who are reading his company's books and reading his blog because they intend to create something. He's suggesting that they work on stuff "that matters".

I can think of no reason to believe he is intending this advice to apply to every person on the planet, or you in particular.
I didn't name the column "by", I just gave the field the name that the API uses for it.

And to make everyone's lives easier (including mine), I copied the [by] column to an [author] column, so you can do a

>select ... where author = ...

instead :)
This seller is no longer on Etsy.

https://www.yahoo.com/makers/exclusiveetsys-richest-seller-e...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/business/media/etsys-succe...
You haven't seen such a thing because wages aren't flexible, wages are sticky. Everyone of course knows that from direct experience. However it drives post war economists completely mad+ so they invent concepts like voluntary unemployment to explain it away.

+ Post-war economists are obsessed with linear equations and closed form solutions that look like the 'laws' the guys in the physics department rely on. However once you take into account that wages (and rents!) are sticky, that means changing a workers wages from $10/hr -> $11/hr is different than $11/hr -> $10/hr. And then you're nice happy linear equations go out the window and you enter the land of Chaos theory.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440886
Famous Micro-App CMS
Ask HN: What do you want to see on your browser's new tab page?
What do you think would be most useful? When you open a new tab, what would you like to see?

An image? A text editor? Frequently visited sites? A clock? The weather? Something else?
Hacker News chose to hide comment scores some time ago, but I still wanted to find a way to rank comments. The good news is that the API gives you a "kids" column that ranks comments in the order they should be displayed - that's how I can find what's the top comment for each post (as shown in the linked notebook).
My team's been using a project management tool to document dark corners and eccentricities within our systems. It sort of works as a searchable DB of notes, and the more I contribute, the more I get the same "who's ever going to read this" feeling. We've also experimented with wiki. I'm not sure what the solution is to contextualizing knowledge, but it certainly feels like the tools available are in their infancy.
You think $20k is enough for every road, electrical line, sewer and misc. utilities that serve your home? Not to mention paying the officers that protect you (in theory anyway), the firefighters that are ready 24/7 to put your house out, the teachers who educate your children, on and on and on? Federal spending is out of control (mostly in defense) but local spending, the spending that actually matters? You think the measly share of that $20k that your local town gets is nearly enough to cover all that?
The Death of Paper
Racial and Gender Occupational Segregation in the Restaurant Industry [pdf]
Study Finds Segregation Still Prevalent Among California Restaurant Workers
Nice try San Marino stealth marketing council.
Link to Study (pdf) - Racial and Gender Occupational Segregation in the Restaurant Industry
http://rocunited.org/wp2015b/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Race...
> Money is like gas in the car — you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road — but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations!

See, he acknowledges the importance of money. But once your basic needs are met, you can start discovering what matters to you. Music and creating your programming language are just to points in a huge space of things you could potentially enjoy. There are many jobs that, even though they don't sound sexy, allow you to explore this space and gravitate to things you like. The choice is not always between being a slave or dying from starvation.
Social Anxiety
That is funny.

The wide range of codes is a great setup for coding errors: errors of omission, imprecision, using multiple codes to describe an event when a more accurate single code exists, etc.

In the best case scenario, every doctor/nurse/PA/etc would have a technician follow them around just to manage the coding on EMRs.
Why record-breaking hurricanes like Patricia are expected on a warmer planet
Parent comment was deleted, but given the grandparent comment I'll guess you are asking how is BigQuery different to Redshift?

There is an ongoing conversation about this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/bigdata/comments/3jnam1/whats_your_...
DoJ to Apple: we can force you to decrypt
There is clearly demand present, given that we have not (as an economy) reverted to 100% subsistence farming. In any case, you don't need to expect an increase in consumption to invest - one can simply expect to steal customers from the other guy. Uber's investors didn't expect Uber to create new rides, merely to steal riders from the cartels.

Of course, if you are correct that no one will invest, then all the money from QE will be funneled into consumption. This will have the same effect as the helicopter drop, modulo distribution.
There's very few uncontacted tribes, and more importantly, uncontacted tribes themselves are outliers to the general human population.

They also tend to defy most evopsyche gender stereotyping anyway because they're totally different cultures with wildly different understandings of things.
OK - I had to confirm the water-skis. You're not kidding:

https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/staticpages/i...

Has Monty Python taken over the ICD?
I think it showed great vision on the part of MLB. If you are going to build a platform for delivering your content, you might be a platform provider for the same. Strikes me as taking the lessons of Amazon and AWS to heart.
This makes a really nice introduction to BigQuery (which is to say: BigQuery is nicely discoverable, given an easy-to-understand dataset).

Is there a good way to find the story to which a comment belongs? This dataset raises the issue of recursive query (e.g. "with recursive" in SQLite or PostgreSQL, or "connect by" in Oracle). The only approach I see in BigQuery is specifying a fixed level with something scary like:

SELECT p0.text, s.id, s.title
FROM
[fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p0
JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p1 ON p1.id=p0.parent
JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p2 ON p2.id=p1.parent
JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p3 ON p3.id=p2.parent
JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments] p4 ON p4.id=p3.parent
JOIN EACH [fh-bigquery:hackernews.stories] s ON s.id=p4.parent
WHERE
REGEXP_MATCH(p0.text, '(?i)bigquery')
ORDER BY
p0.time DESC

For this particular data set: linking each comment to its story might be a good denormalization.
Many thanks! Could you put up a magnet link so we can download the data ourselves? It would also be useful to have the submission id as a field in the comment table.
I must have misinterpreted your reply. If you're homeless and hungry because of health problems instead of choosing to do what you love, then why did you even bring that up but to seek sympathy?You're the one who is whining, and seemingly trying to "one up" me and belittle my situation by demonstrating that you have it worse.
"A U.K. company named Johnson Banks has come with an ingenious way to include English pronunciation in Japanese katakana characters."

Unfortunately, learning katakana characters doesn't get you anywhere close to "learning Japanese" (as the article's title suggests), since katakana is the writing system that's used for foreign words and other specialized uses.

According to Wikipedia:

"The katakana syllabary usage is quite similar to italics in English; specifically, it is used for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words (collectively gairaigo); for emphasis; to represent onomatopoeia; for technical and scientific terms; and for names of plants, animals, minerals, and often Japanese companies."[1]

To understand Japanese, you also need to learn kanji (the thousands of Chinese-derived pictographic characters) and hiragana.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana
That's pretty neat. If you built a similar circuit with off-the-shelf parts available today, it could be good for 8 GHz or so.
KDE brinks the oldest Earth globe to Android
The link is set to start at 3:22 but its the whole Humans video if you start from the beginning.
Nice, I've never heard of this "dechoking" method. I'm guessing you need one of these types of vacuums: http://www.tipa.eu/fotocache/bigorig/08850298.jpg and then you put your mouth around it?
I saw someone die by choking when I used to work in a restaurant. This device would have been helpful. It also would've been helpful if anyone did anything right in an emergency.

There were 3 hostesses standing next to the phone. I was the bus boy.

After a manager told me to go all the way to the back and get another manager, I told him we should probably call 911 first.

The fire dept was across the street.

When I walked up to the phone, none of the hostesses had called 911, because no one told them to.

I called 911, but it was too late.

The man died.
I agree with what you are saying, but of those two options there is no quality option for people to choose. Both those machines are the new vertical modular style and are one of the worst designed washers ever. On an average trip to the scrap yard there are several sitting there even though these just came out a few years ago.

There is Speed Queen though, and I'm doing a bit more research on them now. I just found out that though Whirlpool made some machines for them, Whirlpool does not own them, so I updated that in the post. It's very difficult to find and purchase Speed Queen appliances. So there is an opportunity there.

I'm going to email you in a few.
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Wages are sticky? If only I thought of that - then I probably would have said "recessions are caused by workers refusing to accept work at a lower nominal wage and instead become unemployed" in my very first post.

I'm glad we are in complete agreement (apart from mood affiliation).
You Google "Martin Fowler" and the snippet of text that accompanies his personal website is "Object-oriented programming expert and consultant, one of the leaders in refactoring, author of the book 'Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code'"

He's a self-proclaimed "expert" and a "leader". Yes, he's basically saying right there that he is an authority on writing code.

That being said, I've read some of his Refactoring book awhile ago, and it's mostly good advice from what I remember.
That's interesting -- my understanding is that Heimlich was explicitly intended to supersede the "slap on the back" technique.
Writing multi-threaded code is hard, writing micro services is even _harder_. I don't think your argument holds here.

Micro services are hard to write, so don't write them unless you absolutely have to.
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Oil is solar powered. If it didn't take so long to form we wouldn't be having the discussion at all.

I don't see why you would expect animals to evolve a way to "capture sunlight" (though some do: http://umich.uloop.com/news/view.php/77109/4-incredible-phot...) when it's far more efficient from the standpoint of the animal to eat plant matter.
You are right - I'll prepare a new release with that data.

My oversight, sorry! :)
Jason here! I totally agree - the name "Memory Hole" doesn't really make any sense at all given what it means -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole

But something about it always made me laugh, so that's what I called it.

Anyway, I'm so glad that someone FINALLY got around to building the damn thing! I guess the lesson here is that if you want something done, either do it yourself, or ... be prepared to wait a really long time. ;)
I would say our Egyptian forefathers used a font more along the lines of Wingdings than papyrus.
Nice work! I think we need to bring you on the show.
>Could this be a coincidence

It could be aliens, but Occams razor. Criminals cannot commit crimes if they are in prison. It is quite revealing that people willfully deny that and the narrative is the cop is the perp and the perp is the victim.
I meant "question".

I guess, it is difficult (not impossible) to empathize with what other people go through, when you are able to breeze through such interactions. Just to give an example, I (a male) can point out that women should present ideas in a better way when their ideas are trivially dismissed in meetings. But that would be brushing aside the sexism in workplace/society. Similarly, in this case we should look at the numbers, which overwhelmingly suggest that people of color (or a specific religion/region) are questioned much more frequently. I am sure that many of such people can speak with clarity and question with respect.
I'm not sure about the laws you refer to. It seems to me that the constraint is that for a twisting ribbon-like plasma they had to have an integral number of twists or half twists in a complete circuit, not twisting too sharply, not too gradually.
A 46 Gigapixel Map of Space
He was locked up for 6 years or so, right? What did he get away with doing?
Jak to Darmowe Ogłoszenia
Court orders TSA to publish “rules” for use of body scanners
It has worked really well for me for dozens of different companies. Your mileage may vary, but it definitely, de
definitely works.
That is probably the reason that you lose your license after three speeding tickets in a year.
If you're interested in US Healthcare, I can recommend "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care". I was surprised to learn that France, for example, has private doctors, private hospitals, and private insurance companies (gee, somehow thought they had 'socialized medicine'). It spends half what the US does per capita and is ranked #1 by the WHO (the US is ranked #37, just behind Costa Rica).

How do the French do it? Well, it's not that hard. All other developed nations using the Bismarck Model (like the US, feel free to google that or any of this) have a few structural differences from the US. The first is a particularly obvious one: insurance companies are non-profit (though privately held and operated). Fees are entirely standardized and printed for all to see ("reference pricing", structurally like medicare/aid). Doctors and hospitals make a lot less money (Doctors drive volvos not porsches). Doctors don't pay for medical school. Claims are never denied. Doctors are rarely sued. Doctors are paid very quickly (3-14 days). I'm not making this up. In essence, the system squeezes all of its players to be as efficient as possible.

In the US, the exact opposite is true. Most of the players are incentivized to drive costs up. A private FOR PROFIT insurance company (which no other developed nation allows) by definition wants to suck all the money it can from the system and pay none of it out (to wit: when an insurance company pays a claim, it is called a "medical loss"). Hospitals are in an arms raise of acquisitions (to better negotiate with insurance companies) and over-built, fancy facilities (to attract patients and justify the exorbitant costs). Doctors start their professional career by having to pay off huge student loans. Insurance companies, hospitals, and (to a much lesser extent) doctors collude, in effect, to steal money from all the other employers out there (in insurance premiums) and from patients (co-pays, denied claims, and an ever-growing number of out of pocket expenses).

None of this is the fault of insurance companies, hospitals, or doctors. It is entirely the fault of our incompetent no-account and utterly failed political system. US healthcare is corrupt because the US political system is corrupt. To fix it, we need to fix that. Entrepreneurs cannot fix US healthcare in the current regulatory environment. The incentives are completely wrong.

EDIT: added a missed "system" after a "political".

EDIT2: I forget to mention the most relevant piece. The French, since 1998, have had 'La Carte Vitale'. It is an electronic medical record they carry around with them. Every doctor's office has a reader. It is a government standard, government owner, and government operated. Epic makes money by _NOT_ sharing its data if it can get away with it. Switching costs are its friend. It's called 'vendor lock in' and its why the government should be doing this small piece of it. It's like building an interstate highway. It lets commerce happen.
The video makes no claims of how small the tech is, but I agree it's unlikely to be in a consumer package at this stage. The display itself is mainly passive optical components. The input light can come from a single optical fibre from a pocket-sized smartphone-like battery/compute device. Scanning single-optical-fibre projection has been demonstrated by people now at Magic Leap - see the 1mm projection midway down this page:
http://gizmodo.com/how-magic-leap-is-secretly-creating-a-new...

Magic Leap have clearly put out mocked-up, offline composited videos before - they are clean, have perfect tracking, and do not use purely additive blending for the virtual content (they look much like Microsoft's HoloLens "live demos"). In both cases I have no doubt those are fake.

However this one definitely looks genuine to me - it's got all the hallmarks we'd expect from a scanning light-field display such as described in their patent application - in some frames it's possible to see two frames of virtual content in one frame of the video, suggesting a 60fps refresh of the content. The graphics on show are not beyond the capability of smartphone-type devices, and 3D depth cameras have been available in consumer elecronics since the first Kinect. I'd expect the demos are currently driven by desktop-type PC hardware, but there is nothing on show here that seems unrealistic to me.

Of course the watermark in the top right and the text at the bottom was composited afterwards but I'll let them get away with that.
I don't blame you, I should have tried that myself.

I'm still trying to figure out how that could be a legit code. Jet skis, of course. But ... ah, while trying to see if anyone else had a brainstorm, I found a better one that eliminates a lot of possibilities:

V90.27XA: Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning water-skis, initial encounter

Got that from http://skepticalscalpel.blogspot.com/2011/09/icd-10-codes-dr..., which suggests:

I have come up with an answer. Someone, possibly an actor from the Jackass series of movies, sets up his water skis on milk crates in the back yard. The skis are positioned over a kiddie pool. He mounts the water skis while an accomplice sprays them with gasoline. The skis are lit, and the man jumps or falls from the burning skis, submerging and drowning himself in the process. Luckily there is an ICD-10 code for that.

Maybe we're being trolled? You know, there are trolling motors, but they're (all?) slow, battery powered ones to avoid disturbing fish, not at all suitable for water skiing.
I did see your "fuck off" before you removed it.

Ironic that you would be so openly ugly to someone worse off than you after starting your argument from a place of accusing O'Reilly of being overprivileged and stating he should give you a big check so you can work on things that "matter" -- to you and no one else at all.

But it also isn't surprising.

I'm done here.
Imagine an human whose work is do lift rocks, one day he no longer can't lift rocks, they always fall from his hands how could he do it until dead? Use the rock to crush him? That would be suicide not actually "working until dead". What I'm saying is that dead is a slow process for most beings, not a sudden event, therefore "working till death" is a silly concept.
Not an oversight — just a different use case for the data! And I wasn't sure if BigQuery had a generic approach here, but it looks like not.