skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my comment below; to that I add, have you tried delivering these as paper? I.e. general history on one page (although in my experience that's normally that's covered in a single page of checkboxes), and lab results in both raw and condensed spreadsheet form for the relevant ones?

Note that absent a really difficult medical history, no doctor has time go back through a long history by (many) other doctors trying to find what's relevant and what's not. A "just the facts, mam" summation of your history is a much better start.

I fact, that's exactly what my current psychiatrist got from my previous one who'd seen me for a decade before I moved back to/retried to my home town. Probably took the former a few extra minutes. but he preferred that approach and I'm sure it was easily condensed to a page or so, even a paragraph or two would be sufficient.

That said, my mother was an RN and my father managed the business affairs of a bunch of doctors while I was in middle and high school, and one was our primary hunting partner. And I was on a biology track before I discovered how much better I liked chemistry. So I'm on top of this sort of stuff a lot more than most patient will be, but I suspect this sort of "just the facts, mam" approach could be more generally applied to our current system with benefit.

And if I were you, I'd fire those 9/10ths of ... overly focused doctors until I found a good one like your old one. Did just that after I found a very good one who then went to work for the man in the ER room before the multi-doctor practice he was in failed, then I had to fire two doctors who would not stop forcefully pushing statins, and finally found one who was willing to rationally discuss them, e.g. respect that I had enough of a biology background to balance the picture presented to him by the usual suspects.
Definitely a whale.
How can I get my DeLorean to 88 miles per hour without a train?
I thought I would completely agree with this post (since I do believe that coding academies are indeed nonsense), but it's so full of stupid comments.

The author seems to not understand what coding is (despite his 15 years of experience as being repeated several time, as if to make it true maybe). Coding is not just building a stupid app, coding is not translating English into some weird language. The language of choice in programming is just a detail, anyone can learn a syntax in a couple days. The real challenge is in the understanding and the modeling of the problems, the design of the solution to have all the pieces fit together.
Not following...
What is the difference between GPL2 and GPL3 that makes this impossible from a legal POV?
In the original mental rotation test, there was no overlap between men and women: https://brothersdiamond.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/menwoman...

The Vandenberg and Kuse paper[1] followed up on this using a test that was easier to administer to large groups. In that study, the average male score was the same as the 85th percentile of female scores.

"Significant" describes this difference much more accurately than "slight."

1. http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/peters%20(1995)%20a%20re...
An Algorithmic God
First 2 comments:

> It is amazing what "cub" [rookie] reporters refer to as "solid" earnings. Not one mention is ever made in reference to free cash flow, the cost of capital or return on invested capital. Let's be honest, the continuation of money printing by the world's central banksters is fuel behind the recent market melt-up.

> A new air for an unsustainable bubble. As [the commenter above] mentions, the profit reported by Amazon is ridiculously small in relation to its market value.

Google re-direct link to the article:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Stuff like aaa123
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> especially given people tend to use common words

You don't pick the words yourself, you choose them at random. That's the whole point.

> Given the sort of compute power you can obtain cheaply nowadays, attacking 4-word schemas (especially given people tend to use common words) is not hard.

If the password is hashed with bcrypt with a work factor of 10 (the default in Rails), it would take ~5500 years to crack a single xkcd-style password on a single modern CPU core. Maybe 4 words aren't enough to protect you from the NSA, but they're enough to protect you from Joe Botnet and his db dump.
People still think rainbow tables are a thing. So they add complexity to make rainbow tables too huge.
Well, if you put in xuui-659995!?)) then it won't let you use this either. How does that make any sense?

Edit: In fact, interestingly I used a pseudo-"random" generator made up in my brain. And there you have a big problem - I couldn't help myself but I grouped letters, numbers and special characters.

I have to ask - if most of us do this, as we pick our own passwords, then don't we by our very nature make it easier to crack our own passwords?
This is more dreadful, than ageism. From linked paper:

For example, longitudinal studies have reported between 1% and 2% annual hippocampal atrophy in adults older than 55 years without dementia (e.g., Jack and others 1998). Other regions also atrophy in late adulthood, including the prefrontal cortex, caudate nucleus, and cerebellum, at estimated rates between 0.5% and 2% per year.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575139/
Sven put this crudely, but he isn't wrong, nor has he said this explicitly as an insult; he has merely made an observation.

That said, the CEO is also the face of the company when it comes to high profile companies like Google. Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon also share this trait. Having a flat out boring CEO isn't in there best interest; they need someone with the right amount of ego: not too little, not too much.
To my knowledge Southwest doesn't sell such a 'voucher' product, though.

It seems possible that this company was just selling 'vouchers' and, when it came time to fulfill the 'voucher', they were just buying a plane ticket with cash.

You could get away with this for a while by booking flights only for the people who wanted the least expensive itineraries and only on sale … and by taking in new money promised against future months to pay for the current month's sales.
Enjoyed this episode, particularly the habits/building momentum vs setting goals philosophy :)
Have you looked at Joyent's Triton service? They claim they can run containers securely on bare metal, since the underlying kernel is Illumos (but it can run Linux binaries and thus Docker containers). So the trade-off between isolation and efficient resource usage would disappear.

On the one hand, they don't have all the same higher-level services as AWS, like ELB, let alone managed database services. On the other hand, I don't think I'd sleep well running anything based on EBS ever again, since EBS is so notorious for cascading failures.
Let me translate into economist friendly speech for you:

Rather than "regulate", you want to "internalize externalities". Make bad things (like emitting carbon) more expensive by making people pay the estimated true cost of their actions. And don't be afraid to apply it to sacred cows, like agriculture. For example, it's probably tillage that is the most harmful thing that is done by modern agriculture. Tax that. Sure, that will definitely make food more expensive, but now you can use the proceeds to help ensure the poor don't starve. But leave it to farmers to figure out how to grow food without tillage -- it will likely require more labour.

To augment your second point, what's the difference between a "starving artist" and an unemployed person? In some ways there's very little difference, in others there's a huge difference. We need to stop categorizing people without traditional jobs as 'unemployed'. There are so many other labels that could fit: artist, student, parent, hobbyist, activist, open source programmer, et cetera.
Another ridiculous drug policy.

Opium is considerably more dangerous than Ecstasy (which was noted as being 'no worse than horseback riding' by the head of Britain's drug advisory board).
The fear in itself might not be totally irrational, in the sense that it seems beneficial to have the capacity for this type of fear (for evo psych reasons, etc.)

However, I'm sure you'll agree that the fear in its context is irrational (which is what defines it as an anxiety disorder).
Show HN: Your bracelet is your datahub
What I'd like to see is machines on the street (like drinking fountains) that dispense (at no charge) nutritious meals. I'd like to see a global network of (robot cleaned) rooms anyone can go into at any time, (at no charge), and sleep. I'd like to see free transportation. Free education. Free places you can go work. Free places to go watch a movie. The best medical care at no charge. I'd like for people to completely have to stop worrying about providing for biological needs and have those met with 0 friction.

And... I'm pretty sure all this will happen with time.

The problem now is we have this myopia about money. We think it's something more than just the symbol or variable it actually is. But really it's a fairly new invention. We have done without it for most of our history.

Don't get me wrong... the invention of money as a concept has allowed great leaps forward in technology and progress. But the concept isn't eternal and it has it's downsides. One is that it creates a certain amount of friction. You have people spending too much effort playing with the symbol rather than what it represents.

Ideally, I'd like to own absolutely nothing. Except for a great big sack. When I need something, I'd tell the sack and out comes the thing I need. When I'm done, it goes back and the sack and disappears and no more worrying about it. That's how I think it should be.
That is terrifying. I'm 32. That means in slightly over 20 years I am going to slowly become brain dead.

By the time they cure death in my 70s, I will be too old to enjoy it unless they also can reverse this.
:-) I know that's a rhetorical question, but I can say that I tried Scratch briefly on a Raspberry Pi and not the slightest worry about keeping my job ever crossed my mind, and that from using NLTK the following blog post is spot on:
http://spacy.io/blog/dead-code-should-be-buried/

I've tried teaching programming to friends with STEM university degrees that were doing it as part of their jobs, and the results are in almost all cases dismal. Maybe I'm a bad teacher, but otherwise it seems that indeed a tiny percentage of the population has talent for (or maybe interest in?) programming.

More and more substandard code is and will be written; the more people writes code the more work there will be for me to clean the mess at consultancy rates. I'm not afraid at all of losing my job, and welcome any and all interested learners into programming.
Happened to me this week. "Luckily", they also implemented the "feature" where they can send you your password by email directly after you set it, so when I couldn't get in with the password I set, I reset the password, got a mail with a new password, logged in, changed the password to a new random long string, and this timeasked them to send the password to me. The password they sent was chopped off. That told me their limit, so I could set my password a third time to get something maximally secure.
I suspect it's a memory problem, but I just noticed this about 2 days ago and is there a way to make chrome not do this? I like having many tabs open
Agreed, being tactful is a good thing. But what is implied in that statement is that asking pointed questions and making accurate observations ( which could be damaging to your beliefs ) equates to being an asshole.
Theoretically it's possible. Realistically no. The leagues vote on team ownership transfers, and they are unlikely to allow a sale that upsets their apple cart. Which is why only one team (Green Bay Packers) out of the big three sports is owned by a government body.
I had barely opened the tab when a mouseover started causing an infinite element resize loop!
If we repeat for another four years, resetting the scores to zero, the relative rankings of people in the first group have swapped around, but the relative rankings of the second group has not (or at least, has changed to a much smaller degree). We could run this experiment over and over (two periods of four years), showing me only the relative rankings of the participants in each paired period (i.e. I get to see the results of the two random trials together, and the results of the two competence-based trials together), and I'd have a very good record of identifying the luck based competition from the competence based competition.

The real world is a mix of luck and competence, but if I see the same names coming out top in each periodic batch into the future, I can safely assume that they are not operating on luck.

Given enough people there will always be someone who tosses heads twenty times in a row, but the majority of luck-based achievers will perform averagely in the future, while the competence based achievers will perform according to their competence.
You might be interesting in Plain Text Offenders' browser add-on. It warns when you're browsing a site that is known to store or send passwords in plain text: http://plaintextoffenders.com/
All subjects took a benchmark cognitive test, a kind of modified I.Q. test, at the beginning and at the end of the study. Although improvements were observed in every cognitive task that was practiced, there was no evidence that brain training made people smarter. Scores on the benchmark test, for which subjects could not train, did not significantly increase at the end of the study.

That's what I suspected.
C++: Using Variadic Templates Cleanly
"six weeks of brain training, with 10-minute sessions three times each week" - this seems so insignificant amount of practice that no reasonable person would expect it to have any effect. More interesting thing would be measure person's IQ before and after doing their quantum physics PhD studies - few years of intense work should do the trick of making you smarter.
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Just cross reference with people who've posted that XKCD comic
This reminds me of a zenhabits post about The Myth of Discipline [1]:

[1]: http://zenhabits.net/discipline/
Luke Chips Is Back Online
Have you already checked out the Intel 750 series? They are more expensive (the 1.2TB is $0.87 per GB vs $0.69 for the 512GB of the 950 PRO), but I think suitable for an application such as yours.

Here are some benchmarks:
http://techreport.com/review/29221/samsung-950-pro-512gb-ssd...
The male versus female is amazing, but what about that drop in ability from age 29 to 33. I know one of the video game FPS coaches said that after you turn 30, one is out of the game, but look at that drop. There should be studies to figure out what causes that; it is impacting male and female.
I was skeptical of your claim, but in fact, 5 trillion is an underestimate:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+gdp
U2F looks very promising. The prices will probably go down as the standard will get adopted and there will be more competition.
I don't think anybody knows whether there is a real difference, but the increased strictness of GPL3 such as its anti-TIVOization (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization) clauses certainly make a lot of lawyers concerned.

Where exactly the border lies between and not linking is a grey area, legally, that hasn't become clearer with GPL3.

It wouldn't surprise me to see bash go from the standard install, too. Apple is slowly removing all GPL code from its OS.
Those items (cheese, wine) are not covered by copyright, as they have no literary or artistic value themselves. The composition and painting would be the artist's creative work.

For other cases, fair use also plays a role depending on the circumstance. It isn't entirely binary. I support expanding fair use in ways that benefit the public while not hindering artists.

But the article mentions selling a derivation of a company's creative work, and I don't think the rationale is particularly better than liking the work and wanting money by using a popular brand. They are, more or less, directly competing with the original author. I think the societal benefits are questionable.
And the new one isn't? At least the original was from the article, instead of editorialized by the poster/moderator.
How long does it take to crack a 4 word password, vs a 3?
Preemptive commit comments
Please use the original title which is more informative and even still very clickbaity.
This isn't even enough time to significantly increase your strength at a gym, which we know is possible and observable. Why anyone would think this is enough training to produce noticeable effects baffles me.
A breakthrough in replacing silicon with carbon nanotubes
I'll really appreciate that $10,000 UBI I get from the government. It will help offset the $20,000 in extra taxes I have to pay for UBI.
My view on grammar Nazis
It forces people to use Password1# rather than just password. There are many, many more people with an easily guessable password than there are with entirely random 8 char passwords.
Paypal does this
>Endurance 400TB = 800 cycles per NAND cell

Why not 8000 ?

The 850 pro has a 6000 "NAND P/E Cycles"[1] ( P/E = program/erase cycles ) and rated at 300TB ( 512Gb model )

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/print/8239/update-on-samsung-850-pr...
all right :)
Bravo to them for publishing negative results. Bias towards only publishing positive results is a problem in academia. At the institute where I work scientists are often reminded that "No results are also results!"
*2b and only .25 acres of land would be exempt. (Of some other generally agreed amount)
I think you'd be hard pressed to find anything in his post by which to dismiss nilkn's (and the medical community's) assertion that the fear comes from "no rational reason".

This is, after all, a defining feature of anxiety disorders.

Note that he doesn't say that this kind of fear in itself is not rational (propensity towards it might come in handy in certain social situations), but the degree of this kind of fear in the contexts that a diagnosis demands is totally irrational.

Even if we set aside the fact that the disorder in question does not deal with rational things, one can easily argue that (in this context) the text is more permanent, and can potentially reach many more than unrecorded spoken language.

Downsides include the opportunity to get stuck in a loop of doubt and rewriting the entire post. Misinterpretation of the written word is also common.
Therefore, the trademark anxious rumination is not less likely to occur by virtue of the medium alone.

Some sufferers of social anxiety might be anxious in these settings, others might not.

All in all: interpretation based on assumptions helps no-one.
Ask HN: Luddites in hackerdom?
Is it possible to get so consumed in technology and the web that any attempt to make sane judgements about its future is always biased towards some sort of unholy AI race that ends up killing us all?

I feel this way lately about the web, and have been knee deep in hackery since I first pressed a key on a keyboard. But lately, my fascination is starting to wane, and it all looks very depressing. See this: http://fffff.at/

Make sure to listen to the Transmediale audio about losing the apparent 'war' hackers have with the NSA and how a bunch of hackers have literally "given up" their efforts of having fun on the net.

This narrative is all around us, but the hype of the web seems perpetuated by online services who are the only ones left in the game it seems, and are milking the net for all its worth before selling and finally being able to buy a Tsunami-prone piece of beachfront property in the Bahamas for their efforts.

What am I to do? Go Luddite and just delete everything and take up farming? I feel helpless.
I live in the UK. Around a decade driving, have never been pulled over once. Thanks for your reply, it was interesting. Higher than I anticipated.
You do get situations where rivers cut through mountain ranges - it can happen when the river existed before the mountain range and as the mountains were pushed up the river continued to cut it's way through:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antecedent_drainage_stream

[NB I sure Tolkien would have approved of the idea of rivers being older than the mountains they cut through].
I've long called this the "Dr. John Theory of CEO's" - I was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time.

Take McDonald's for example. Their stock was up a bunch yesterday on nice earnings, and everyone cheered that the new CEO's turnaround was seeing results. Yay! Except this is a global company with over 30,000 stores, and the new guy had only gotten the job in March. And magically, he gets 100% credit for the good news, even though all he can reasonably do as the CEO is tinker around (eg Egg McMuffins all day - yippee). Ditto Ruth Porat at Google, same thing. She had been on the job for all of seven weeks when Google reported great earnings, and when results were good everyone was like, "ZOMG RUTH IS INCREDIBLE!!" Or Marissa Mayer...the list is endless.

It's almost comical how lazy people are at attributing success and failure to executives who simply showed up at the right time and took credit for the inevitable.
I'm taking his machine learning course [1] and it's absolutely fantastic. It's one of the mondern wonders of the internet that you can have such a tutor for free. Plus it's fascinating to see what people go on to do after the course [2].

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/

[2]: https://syrah.co/joshdickson40/5604e5e10fc1786b0152a51a
It seems pretty clear that PCIe-based solid-state drives using the NVMe protocol (and U.2 or M.2 connectors) will have much higher performance than AHCI/SATA over the next 5+ years (for both latency and throughput).

Since coreboot (with TianoCore or SeaBIOS) and the impressive nouveau and radeon projects, there's fewer places binary blobs can hide on a modern computing system.

One of the bigger exceptions is the drive controllers (which processes AHCI/NVMe messages and things like wear levelling). Besides restrict freedom and performance experimentation, it's also a security issue, given the scope for man-in-the-middle attacks [1]

Now at the start of NVMe's reign, it's probably an especially good time to start a project to make an open-source replacement to the proprietary firmware blobs of SSDs/flash memory! :)

[1] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
Iran’s First Operator MCI in Talks with Two Foreign Bidders
The drop is probably multiple factors, including aging. The study was done in 1975. Someone 28 years old would have been born in 1947. A 33 year-old would have been born in 1942 –the darkest days of WWII. Prenatal nutrition was likely an issue then. Ditto for those born earlier, as they had to deal with the great depression.

Also, the sample size in the first study was rather small, as they were just trying to answer the question, "Does the time it takes to mentally rotate an object depend on the angle of rotation?" (Answer: yes.)
We're talking specifically about weight loss and the accuracy of CICO in weight loss, not nutrition in general.

I'm not at all sure what your point is in that context.
I'm interested in what medicines and supplements people are taking to improve their brain plasticity.
Humans use dice to generate randomness. They throw 5 dice, to get a five digit number. They look up that number on a list to get a word. They repeat this process until they have a 7 word phrase.

So, there are weaknesses if humans roll the 5 dice and get 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 and then say "That's not random, I'll roll again"[1] or they roll a number, look it up and say "I'll never remember 'zerg', I'll roll again".