skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this bit from the article what you are looking for?

Of all the observed adverse drug events and medication errors that could have resulted in patient harm — four of which were intercepted by operating room staff before affecting the patient — 30 percent were considered significant, 69 percent serious, and less than 2 percent life-threatening; none were fatal.
I think a "no selling personal data" policy would make sense...user profiles, email addresses, credit cards, mailing addresses, photos, relationships with other users (e.g., if LinkedIn went out of business they shouldn't be able to sell the list of people to whom I am first-degree connected)

On the other hand, I think that proprietarily-generated data would be fair game if anonymized. A massive data set showing how people's usage of a given service varies based on age, geography, type of phone, whatever -- I think selling that to a third party would be morally and ethically defensible. [0]

There are likely a lot of edge cases here (the LinkedIn example above might be one), and it's an interesting topic. With all that said, recycling all of Homejoy's users' account info into a new enterprise without their explicit consent seems pretty plainly wrong to me.

Prediction: the fact that there's still no word from @sama or @paul probably means that they're working hard to provide a clear and decisive written response to this incident -- probably one that amounts to a new YC policy of some sort.

[0]: IANAL and not sure whether the possibility of an eventual sale of such user-generated data would need to be mentioned in the service's T&Cs from the get-go.
Very good!

Kill the big dog by infecting the body with a smaller disease that is lethal to the big dog but (slightly) less lethal to the host.

So this can either go the "World war Z" way or the "I am legend" way - that's a cheery thought
All I'm asking is: why are we reluctant to question it? Just question it. Not rationalize or control it (you can't, as the deeper feelings are way too powerful).

Decades ago it was considered normal to kill and get killed in a duel.
"Child installs eBay app to purchase dildos - news at 9."

I understand PR is an influencing factor in corporate decision making - but if Apple is choosing to cater to the Dateline crowd rather than satisfy their core audience, Tim might as well purchase dragon dildos for the entire staff.

Allowing or banning an App is PR worthy. Damned if I do or don't type thing. But a developer wasted time from his life that'll never be returned. Responsible adults who wish to use this functionality aren't able to. The proprietary nature of Apple's wall gardened is coming into question. That's the PR Apple should worry about, and this is a gross miscalculation.
I second the recommendation to look at Markdown/pandoc. As far as I know, good html from TeX/LaTeX doesn't exist.

I've had some success with ipython/nbconvert too (which in a roundabout way works like Markdown+pandoc, but doesn't use pandoc -- but outputs both reasonable(ish) html, and decent PDFs (via LaTeX).
Many people have priorities beyond romantic love. A sense of accomplishment or a sense of ethics can often be more important at times.
I love this article and it is a pretty great handbook on a variety of tactics you normally don't get much depth about. But I wish the whole thing was prefaced with, this mostly matters after you've found an audience. (Or product/market fit if you're pmarca)
Hi there,

These days, one doesn't need to go to Uni. I am like you and I love this, take your pick - https://www.coursera.org/browse/computer-science?languages=e...

All the best!
I called it clickbaity for 2 reasons :

1) The buzzfeed style (gotta have some digits!) didn't help because any reasonable person would have said "half".

2) While 1:2 is technically true it's also the scariest number they could choose and is useless out of context. the level of fear and outrage goes down upon reading the article.

also, it really does matter how many erroneous medication interactions you have - not just operations-with-at-least-one. Most of the errors did not have dire consequences (there were no fatalities in the study). Errors are bad, but it's not all errors are equal.
I think a lot of people feel trapped in a life of crime by their past, and in the case of the mafia, by most of their friends and family. If they can get a new past and new surroundings, they may take advantage of the chance to live differently.

This is a version of the same argument that people make about rehabilitation generally: people with a felony conviction find it difficult to get good honest work, and many revert to living and hanging out with the same kind of people who got them in trouble in the first place. Witness protection is an extreme version of what most rehabilitation advocates are suggesting: an opportunity to start with a clean slate (i.e. no felony record that hurts employment), and avoiding bad influences from one's past. The results of witness protection seem to validate these arguments.
I've been through this three times in my life, each time it hits me harder and harder, I'm going through it again right now in fact, my story could read almost identically to this one. I often wonder if it's the crux of ambition.

I'm not one for self help books or any of that bullshit, however, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell is an excellent read on this subject.

Finding your purpose is hard, really really hard, I firmly believe some never really do.
You're correct, but I think his point was that the Tor endpoint (i.e. the host connected to the Tor network) and, e.g., the host actually serving up the content aren't necessarily one and the same (although they usually are).

In those instances, an SSL certificate would provide encryption all the way from the "Tor client", through the Tor network, the rendevous point, Tor endpoint, and to the actual application server. Without additional encryption in use at the application layer, the link from the Tor (hidden service) endpoint and the actual server would not be encrypted and, thus, vulnerable.

To (perhaps) explain better, this would be similar to how Cloudflare offers SSL for all sites and while the path from the end user to Cloudflare is (can be) encrypted, the link from Cloudflare back to the origin server isn't necessarily encrypted. Alternatively, think of the link from an SSL terminating device to the backend web servers. Again, in most cases, this is a non-issue but there certainly are some instances in which it would apply (and this is probably more likely the bigger a site (hidden service) is).
Heh, true. A 200lb adult Cougar that can jump _40ft_ or 18ft up is 'perspective enhancing' enough. The first thing you notice is it's paws. Common in southern Arizona, but it's rare to see one and there are no recorded fatal attacks (here).
Kuna (YC W14) is hiring firmware and cloud devs to scale smart home security
Absolutely. .gitignore is a project-level declaration that "these files do not belong in source control". Keeping that in source control not only makes sure everyone gets the same copy, but also allows changes to be annotated by relevant commit messages.
Ask HN: What novels feature realistic computing?
We've all come across the hacker who is programming a worm in a time race with the three letter agency trying to trace their phone call. Or the descriptions of state of the art UIs that sound like a reject from a high-school UX module. Or computing as far-future brain-jacked retina-implanted VR mumbo-jumbo.

But are there good programmers or technical folks in novels too? Are there storylines that give you the sense that the author knows what he's talking about?

Any recommendations?
Neither is love stable, as this very post shows.

> There are probably many many authors who can wax poetic about this stuff better than me though, so I'll stop now.

Yes ... all those sad love songs come to my mind. Why do we cling to sadness instead of simply enjoying life?
Ask HN: What are your recommended books from 2015
What books have you read in 2015 that you'd recommend to others, fiction and nonfiction both welcome.

I'll start with a fiction book of "A Fine Balance"- Rohinton Mistry and a nonfiction book of "The Psychopath Test"-Ron Jonson
"Homejoy, the dead cleaning startup that shuttered its doors in August, has apparently awoken from the grave to email its customers about a new partner" ==> I was so close!
Nitpick, but "by definition" career criminals is incorrect. They are by definition witnesses, 5% or so of whom have done nothing wrong.
It kills me that it has no working GPU. :(

I found the wording about XFce to be weird: They claimed to not use Ubuntu because they needed XFce, but ...

http://xubuntu.org/
Feel free to question it -- but also realize that you may come up with the wrong answers.

I think it's wise (in most case) to defer to older generations when stuck with serious questions like these -- and I doubt you'll find an older person/person on their deathbed who would say something like "I wish I would have spent less time loving, trusting, and committing to others".

I get the feeling if you took the approach you'd describe, all you'd end up with are a bunch of loose acquaintance-like relationships, and nothing deeper. Generally the realization that all your relationships are shallow is what triggers people to seek out deeper relationships, which need/require love/trust/commitment. Also, even if you were able to become completely content with nothing but shallow relations, good luck not regretting it/wondering if life could have been something more.
"IMHO most of Instapainting's customers would be better off applying a "painterly" filter in Photoshop to their photos and have them printed to canvas at their nearest Costco."

That works quite well, especially if you use one of the better inkjet printers with six or seven inks, print on canvas, and finish off with a sprayed clear coat. This is called "Giclée".[1]

There's already an online service for this.[2] You can even see what the result will look like before you order. Price is about $30-$50/square foot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giclée
[2] http://www.canvaspress.com/
Agreed. And more example images. But neato none the less!
The Web Will Die When OOP Dies
Human are made to interact one each other, love and enjoy life. Even if you feel alone sometimes because you might do not have someone that can understand you, you should try finding a person to love.
Also love is the best feeling you can have.
1. They pollute the source history with code that doesn't relate to the project. Every time I see a repo for a trivial application that has 100K+ LOC I think, "wow... this person clearly doesn't understand how to use package management tools". Dependencies should be clearly outlined in the config and easily setup using a package manager. You can either download the deps source from your repo or you can download it from a package manager, either way you'll need to download it.

2. If your dist requires a compilation stage, it will likely generate binaries targeted specifically to the architecture they're compiled on. Automating the compilation stage enables users to compile the source to work on their specific architecture (ie hence platform independence).

3. Dependencies should be frequently updated and tested against the latest. Not doing so potentially exposes you to bugs and/or security risks that may be included in future updates. If your app has relatively good test coverage there's no reason you shouldn't be using the latest minor version for all of your dependencies.

Not doing so is assuming responsibility for the consequences of running stale code.
Have you ever been to Point Roberts?

There's a big marina with lots of traffic.

It's a very small community so you'd stick out. Many retirees. Lots of dual citizens. The US/Canada border isn't really as secure as you think mostly because it's not possible to seal such a long border. A big city is probably an easier place to keep a low profile.

I don't think there's a big advantage compared to any other random place. As long as your new identity is solid you're probably safe. If someone wants to get you at any cost and they know where you are this probably won't stop them.

Anyways, it is a neat place and you can often see killer whales from the beach.
Why doesn't OP move to Boston? If your daughters are the most important thing in your life, then moving across the US to be close to them seems like a no-brainer. One of the great thing about tech is that it's pretty easy to switch jobs/work remotely/branch off and do your own thing.

Maybe there were some reasons that couldn't be stated in the article, and maybe I'm being callous, if so, I apologize. Also, if OP was considering that but wanted to wait till he got a better grip on himself, that's fine too.
Great thought provoking read. Did you say "Hi" to anyone in the coffee shop?
Corollary: include an example config file somewhere, so new developers can figure out how the heck to get the app to start up properly.
I keep reading about things like the Kessler Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome) -- in fact, even here on HN.

Wouldn't launching numerous micro-satellites into orbit significantly speed up the accumulation of space debris that will eventually be hazardous?
Adolescence of P-1 - oldie, but goodie
I'd encourage you to question further.

Questioning love is not the same as blaming it. There is no right or wrong in the realm of animalistic feelings; no matter how much of a good perception/expectation you have of the underlying feelings of love, it ends up in dissapointment one way or the other. Why is this underlying feeling considered sacrosanct? If we can question religion, surely it is time to question the sacrosanct feelings?
It's too easy to get certs into the root store of most distros, which means they're not practically usable for secure communication. There's often no auditing of the CAs to ensure they are taking due care to minimise risk of a bogus certificate being issued. [1]

To be fair, some things have improved: Debian (and maybe Ubuntu) now have the Mozilla trust store plus one additional root (SPI). That said, all you need is one bad actor for the system to fail, and it seems the only reason why SPI is there is Debian infrastructure relies on it—but that doesn't make SPI trustworthy. [2]

[1]: https://plus.google.com/105761279104103278252/posts/eVdB6X3N...
[2]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ca-certific...
Submission statement: if you're looking to understand the economy, economics, technology, and their interrelation, I don't think you can do better than Brian Arthur. He's one of a number of researchers associated with the [Santa Fe Institute](http://www.santafe.edu), itself a highly unusual research organisation (see the [Wikipedia article for some background](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute)).

Arthur here describes how technology interacts with the economy, including both dynamics and limitations.

Part 2 of the presentation: https://youtu.be/7ctR7tKBCLg
Two robots with parachutes
Respected?

I don't think being an artist is "respected" even in the West, much less so in China, where everybody is focused on highly lucrative professions like business, finance, and ahem government service.
Apple Sued After iOS Update Eats User Data Allotments
I always do. My company has a canonical .gitignore that we update when we see things in git repos that should not be there. It now contains all of the stupid hidden project directories for all of the major IDEs, build artifacts we don't want, and a bunch of other stuff.

I highly recommend this approach.
Founders at Work from Jessica Livingston
Start with Why from Simon Sinek
Both are awesome books if you are starting a startup!
My fiance has it, should I worry about it?

Is there any proper cure?

I dnt want that me or our future baby gets it.
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." :) Its really a matter of faith whether you believe that or not, so i wont offer any argument other than to say i mostly believe it, and most peoples actions would show they believe it too.

I guess it ultimately comes down to a persons belief systems and emotions at that point, far beyond the reach of mere logical arguments. We are animals first, thinking human beings second (this is the topic of one my favorite songs, Apeman- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRHqs8SffDo)
While I don't intend to be rude, not sure how else I could say this -- you're not ruining other people's lives all three times right? There are a lot of I's and my's in your comment which makes me wonder how much empathy you're employing...

Also, have you tried to stop? Has it occurred 3 times unintentionally and this article was the impetus you needed to make a change?

[EDIT] - lightened wording around the last few questions, comments have noted that I was being too coarse, and ironically unempathetic
The Phantom dream the dream
I'm sure people said the Apple I looked ugly too. That didn't stop it from revolutionizing home computing.
It's always easy to say this sort of thing as an un-invested third party, but it's not super constructive. I'm sure Jesse considered it before choosing not to.
They responded with a no, even after further prompting that they should fix it.
USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research
I don't think it's a nice write up, in fact it arguably miscalculates every point it makes. It's exactly the article I was referring to in my original comment as having been thoroughly refuted, in (correct) anticipation that someone would bring it up, since it seems to be the only go-to source for PHP bashers.
> In C++, it's common for contained structs to be flat in memory, so accessing a data member in them is just an offset from a base address

JVM inlines virtual method calls as one of its optimizations.
See: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/whitepaper-135217.htm...
That's what submodules help you with. Locally stored version of the dependency, but it's not in your main project repository, and you get to send pull requests for bug fixes easily.
Introducing the Yale Quantum Institute and Start of the ‘Second Information Age’
I know, same. Unfortunately most of the advice we get in the US is from asshats who don't know proper driving technique. Regardless, the fact is that in certain cars, looking over your shoulder is totally futile anyway; accordingly, you'd best have an alternative solution!
I got the impression that an unspoken subtext of Jesse's essay was that, in the community he's describing, people always think they have the right answer (instead of considering that being humane is more important than being seen as an expert - cue the guy calling him out about PyCon).

It looks like your comment does exactly that again.

So, although I think you meant well, your comment is indeed callous as I read it.
The numbers don't add up.

Wiki says "As of 2013, 8,500 witnesses and 9,900 family members have been protected by the U.S. Marshals Service since 1971." The population of Port Roberts is 1,314.
Great article.

A similar, but much more in depth look at the GPU pipeline is available here [0] for those interested.

[0]: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
Sure, fair enough. Agreed.
Success isn't what it looks like. Meaning, the image of success is not true success (personally meaningful success), and true personally meaningful success doesn't look like the oft-projected successful image.

It takes real effort to figure that stuff out.
Reading into it a little bit I think landing the Rackspace gig was a Really Big Deal. I know it would be for me.
Wow. That is an intensely personal, and really thought provoking, post. I happen to be going through something startlingly similar, so this hit home pretty thoroughly.

I wonder if this is more common in our industry than in others. It feels like it is incredibly easy to get wrapped up in tech and, as Jesse noted, it seems like it is happy to take everything you're willing to give.
While I don't have any experience with Vuze, I do have high hopes for Aurelia. I've worked with the beta versions, and found the API to be pretty workable/clean.

I personally like the background of the main dev(s?) behind Aurelia. IIRC, they worked on knockout->durandal->angular->aurelia, and I think the apps they stopped-by in before conceiving Aurelia have just the right concepts and features to make for a really compelling large-ish framework.

A little dissapointed about how hard it is to bootstrap it though, I really like to start projects from scratch (empty folder), and found it a little difficult to just pull together easily (without downloading their starter-zip or whatever).
> makes me wonder how much empathy you're employing... Also, do you... want to stop? Has it occurred 3 time unintentionally and you just can't stop?

You really don't see the irony in questioning his capacity for empathy while minimizing his hardships and suggesting they're likely all his fault?
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Ouch! You're correct, it's probably the last article I should be nitpicking on.
> Feel free to question it -- but also realize that you may come up with the wrong answers.

Which is why sincerity is essential.

> I think it's wise (in most case) to defer to older generations when stuck with serious questions like these -- and I doubt you'll find an older person/person on their deathbed who would say something like "I wish I would have spent less time loving, trusting, and committing to others".

The older generation are no better than us in regards to enjoying life without sadness, loneliness, and so on ... and as such are not a reliable source to draw inspiration from.

> I get the feeling if you took the approach you'd describe, all you'd end up with are [...] relationships, and nothing deeper. [...] shallow is what triggers people to seek out deeper relationships, which need/require love/trust/commitment). [...] shallow [...] regretting [...] something more.

Words like "relationship" or "deeper" and "shallow" and "regretting" and "something more" are indicative of love in operation ... and questioning love means questioning those associated beliefs as well. Why is it necessary to relate to fellow humans when they are already here on this planet? Why not question the need to relate? If the ability to relate vanishes, what happens to loneliness itself?
Haha...Generalist myth

https://frontendmasters.gitbooks.io/front-end-handbook/conte...

Well, if you chase the latest complicated framework, it will become more difficult to be a "generalist". As you become more aware of fundamental principles & patterns, you are empowered to do more.
My partner cKaye and I are both part of Python and we've been considering these questions a lot lately.

In short: I don't think it's reasonable to treat love as though it were an emotion. Love is an act. Practice it. Do it. Do it well and with joy. But don't treat it like it's the same thing as happiness; it isn't.