skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clemens is in the comment thread. It seems like the system he wrote read out of the 911 call database and displayed all the active calls. Then highlighted calls based on keywords so the head dispatcher could more easily see high priority calls ( crimes in progress ? ).

This seems very safe. The captain in question is just protecting his turf. Even if he saw the benefit he would never admit it because it wasn't his idea.
It's The Stranger — a local Seattle rag with huge and transparent anti-police bias. You have to take everything they write with a huge grain of salt.
What you describe is absolutely the wrong way to start a business

It seems to me that what I am describing is exactly what (at least some) disruptive businesses -- like AirBnB -- do: Redefine the problem in order to find a white space because the thing they are doing did not exist until they did it, so there isn't really any competition.
I parse that as 'There is a database. Which we use as source for the style/rendering process. It's a subset of our data, which means the style cannot even access everything we got. We might expand the subset/render from the real thing in the future'
A closer look at Square's IPO
Clememns is in the comments explaining how the system worked. He just reads the current calls out of a database and displays them with some highlighting. There is no write.
It's my understanding that Disney is reigning in ESPN's spending.
Unfortunately, I switched to an Xbox One and, last I checked, Plex required a rather high yearly fee to work with it. I think it was the Plex Pass you mentioned which came with a ton of features I didn't care about and would not use. All I wanted to do was stream from my PC to my Xbox One and I'd have paid a reasonable one time fee for a piece of software to do that. But not a high yearly fee for a package of services I have no need of. Not sure if it's changed since I looked.
I think what they mean is that the previous Standard map style, which is produced by Mapnik, was rendered in such a way that the rendering process didn't have access to all of the possible OSM tags. But in the future they can use Mapnik to render more tags than they have in the past because Mapnik has improved in some way.
Yes I did. It was focused on AI, which is a branch of software development. AI is the front of software that humanity is on right now. Therefore saying Apple isn't propagating AI = isn't propagating software = bullshit.
> policing culture is very territorial and operates at extreme levels of testosterone fueled territory marking.

Business culture is that way. Heck human culture is that way. To be successful and / or engender change you must learn how to deal effectively with that culture. Hint blowing up and cursing aren't how.
Most? Do you have ANY proof to back this up?
Your sentence appears to be lacking both a subject and verb.
I had two thoughts while reading this.

1 - The need for the web to be profitable in some way makes 'single tools' hard to build. You have to grow users, add features, etc, etc. So even if you have an API or something useful it likely won't scale economically. Unless it's government supported or behind a foundation of some sort. The Twitter API comes to mind here.

2 - This is tricky because for the web to meet the UNIX philosophy, everyone has to agree. You can't have the team that manages the equivalent of the `ls` website decide to change their output, or strike up a deal with the `diff` team to force `diff3` out.

Once again, capitalism ruins everything fun. That's hyperbole, kinda :-)
If the tasks only take 10 minutes, why not just do them instead of asking for someone else to do them?
You don't think HL7 v3 being somewhat of a markup language was an improvement?
This comment could be attached to any proposed system of accountability based on a simple metric.
This is why so many startups end up in financial trouble
"This was the reality of prison. The biggest threats don’t come from the obvious places—the sex-crazed guy who jumps you in the shower or the muscle hired by the bookie to collect debts. The biggest threat comes from the myriad quotidian interactions that can go horribly wrong, for reasons unfathomable to the uninitiated."

I suspect that the risk is increased when one uses phrases like "quotidian interactions" in normal conversations.
Cosplayer and Gamer Girl Asensasian from Toronto, Ontario
Perfect article for CNN, FOX or CNBC, however it is a total waste of time for us. No new information discussed.
I think you misunderstood what was my point, my point wasn't that developer suggests chromebook (I don't personally),My point was if chromebook would have ordinary stuff (like you said) it was much superior influence on developers (almost all of developers I know, would jump into linux base desktop if google can provide perfect DE), because of google's open source background. the influence neither microsoft or apple don't have.But sadly the are missing such huge interest on market , just because of their ego, it took 7 years to understand Google need a desktop operating system.if they do not provide operating system, someone like microsoft and its smart ceo Nadalla would come and steal whole their web based user base in long term.And effectively can kill google.

p.s. look at how small was canonical. whole canonical investment on ubuntu is something google can throw away.just for securing its user base.
You make good points. Although, disengaging when you release the wheel sounds like it could do as much harm as good. If anything, I'd rather it discourage this behavior using a nag alarm, possibly followed by automatically slowing/stopping the vehicle somewhat safely. As you say, people are stupid, and I can see some idiot trying to grab a beer out of a cooler in the back seat within the grace period (or deal with a dropped cell phone, pebble in a shoe, spider on the window, etc) and ending up careening off the road or into oncoming traffic.

I agree that this feature isn't useless. I'd love to have it, myself. As you say, it does need work to idiot-proof it, and possibly a re-branding.

But still, I would much much rather see full autonomy, as soon as possible. Wouldn't want to see us stay bogged down in the halfway stage. And I'm a little concerned that the first fatal accident caused by inappropriate use of driver assistance systems like this will unrightfully poison minds against fully autonomous systems, and take us a huge step back.
If programming is poetry, then I write limericks for a living.
Part of my comment was about his statement that the Unix philosophy is something of the past, which is false. Parts of the rest of my comment dealt with what he said about the plethora of "one size fits all" tools people are using now instead of the simple tools.

Can you not make the connection?
Whew! Thank goodness he got that community service time and 10 days in jail for ruining a man's life for 25 years!
I’m in the digital health space (CEO of Omada Health).

Agree completely on the IT & product integration barriers highlighted in the article. This (& more) make health care a nuanced place to build a business.

There are simply more stakeholders to manage:

- Employers (Google, etc; those w/ >500 emps usually carry financial health care risk)

- Plans (United, etc; both carry risk and administer employer plans)

- Providers (Sutter, etc; deliver care, can carry some risk, contract with plans, and sometimes contract directly w/ employers)

- Benefits Consultants (Mercer, etc; guide employers, more)

- Societies (AMA, etc; build guidelines, unify provider voices, more)

- Patients (you; remain frustrated w/ system complexity)

- Consolidators (McKesson (Rx logistics & channel), Express-scripts (pharmacy benefit manager); add leverage and efficiency)

- Regulators (HHS (HIPAA), FTC, FDA, etc; define ground rules for all these players)

- Suppliers (Pharma, device, digital health; sell value into this space)

This # of important stakeholders makes it difficult to “trace a dollar” and figure how who is your buyer. It's important to understand the basics of the financial, contractual, and regulatory relationships between all of these.

But it’s also very, very fascinating. And once you suffer through some of the learning curves can get quite fun. There are enormous financial and impact opportunities to be had. The wall can be a little high.

I'm always still learning, but if you need help on your idea and how it'd fit in, email me at sean@omadahealth.com.
Front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478745
Why high-speed rail doesn't work in the U.S., from a professional in the field
Maybe it did go thru full review. I can't tell from the post whether it did and the police chief just decided post-hoc that no changes could be made without their express approval (i.e. in the future), or whether Clemans bypassed existing protocols.

And sure, maybe his changes were imperfect. But surely lots of changes made by others there could have had terrible consequences.

Or maybe his "highlighting the most critical calls" was simply visualizing info that the dispatch personnel were already entering.

Still, I can't tell whether he did anything wrong from the post itself. And I guess I'm inclined to believe he didn't, but maybe my prior belief is inaccurate.
>Are you saying that, unless we can travel to someplace that is very hospitable to life, that we shouldn't bother?

No. I'm saying that if the threat of human extinction is the GP's concern, a mission to Mars is very low on the list of solutions that will effectively mitigate that threat.

> How are we ever going to develop the technology to go to such a theoretical place if we're not working on the technology already and constantly iterating on it?

I never said or implied that we shouldn't work on such technology, what I'm saying is that there are more immediate problems to deal with if one's primary concern is the continued existence of the human race. Colonizing Mars does not scale as a defense against an extinction event, and human colonization outside the solar system will remain impractical for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever.

>Let's say we're going to be hit with an asteroid that will kill all / most life on Earth.

I'd take my chances on a post-apocalyptic Earth before attempting to tough it out on Mars or the moon which are even more susceptible to celestial collisions considering their atmospheres.

> Are you saying there is no such thing as an extinct level event for humans simply because we can live on Mars? I'm not sure what the point is that you're trying to convey here.

No. I'm saying that Mars as an environment is already an existential threat to humanity in its natural state, and any problems we might face on Earth will certainly be present on Mars, except Mars is also hostile to life.
Did you ever make it to a 510(k)? I can see Lucene making their head explode too...to say nothing of validation without checks on overwriting patient info, etc
The title implies that there is the other, “unreal” problem. What is it?
I was starting to wonder if I lost my mind, reading over the first 3rd to half of it the article felt... empty. Glad I'm not TOTALLY crazy.
People mean a lot of things when they say "one thing". "Do one thing" can mean "replace all occurrences of one string with another". Or it could mean "browse the web", which of course isn't really one thing but a thousand things.
As an engineer, I assume you use a programming language and the libraries from its ecosystem to solve problems. Unless the latest features are essential to solving your problems, I would say this is unnecessary worry.

We use both ES5 and ES6 (via transpilation) where I work. I had to write a lot of the tooling to support ES6 because a lot of front-end engineers were asking for ES6. To this day, I have yet to hear one engineer justify their "need" for ES6 with one of the features that make something easy that is hard or cumbersome with ES5. Pretty much every feature engineers were wanting to use were simple sugary syntax features like the spread operator that is trivially dealt with with a library like `xtend` (the irony is seeing these same engineers continue to use _.each on arrays instead of Array.prototype.forEach)

There is a corollary to Wadler's Law in here somewhere:
https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler's_Law

In any debate on the merits of migrating to ES6, the
total number of times an ES6 feature is cited as
justification to migrate to ES6 is proportional to two
raised to the power of its position.
0. Semantic features
1. Syntax features
2. Lexical syntax features
3. Lexical syntax of comments features
Not too long ago, I lost a job cause I didn't know Fortran.
I'm not saying that each college you attend has no effect on earning power. It's just that I can perfectly predict the effect of each college on your earning power. Does that make sense? If I have an oracle that tells you

"if you got to Harvard, you will make $80,000, if you go to MIT, you will make $86,000",

and the oracle is exactly correct, then under this model, The Economist assigns every college a score of 0.
They hired Clemans as a programmer and already implemented some of his ideas - I don't think jealousy is a motivating factor here.
I'd love to read an 'AMA' style post, or even just an interview done by another programmer, to learn more about what exactly he did, and how he did it.
This whole scenario, and the one Dan Grossman experienced, is just awful and customer unfriendly. I really hope someone from Amazon fixes this.
I think if you want a Director or better kind of position in the technical side of any organization, what you need probably isn't necessarily more technical "depth", but a demonstrated track record of delivering value by proactively applying both technical and organizational/managerial skills to solve business problems (or capitalize on business opportunities; two sides of the same thing), preferably problems or opportunities that you identified for your organization. (You'll probably also gain knowledge, at a high level at least, of all the technical areas involved in that solution in the course of doing that, and you can dive into those more deeply if they are interesting to you, but they aren't the things that are likely to be most critical at getting the positions you seem to be looking for the industries you are interested in.)

And, of course, the people skills to sell an organization on both your past track record of doing that and your ability to do the same in their organization.
I don't think you'll get a role as Director or VP simply on technical knowledge.

This is what the Harvard Business Review has to say (pretty light on actionable advice though):

https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-new-path-to-the-c-suite

Another article:

http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Career-management-The-...

I guess an MBA could be of help, but it's useless unless you already have connections and all the other requirements in place.

http://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/6-must-have-ski...?

A recurring piece of advice is having been a consultant.

The other is building your relationship-building prowess.:

"Strong project management skills are critical to running a successful IT shop. But if you're hoping to climb that corporate ladder, it's important to know how to build relationships up, down, and sideways. In fact, according to a recent poll from SearchCIO, conducted of 875 senior and mid-level IT executives, CIOs who earn the highest salaries make building relationships with top executives more of a priority than managing IT projects.

"Being a CIO requires an ability to develop relationships in all directions--with your boss, outward with one's peers, with other C-level executives, heads of business units and relationships downwards as well,"
Developing in Stockfighter with No Trading Experience
>The data tells us what to sell, when to sell it, what to price it etc.

Does it actually? I believe this is conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley, hence the billion analytics startups, but where is the actual paydirt? How do we know that data analytics produces anything other than cool graphs?
Iranian birth rates started falling rapidly around 1985 which should be counted as a major achievement of the current regime. Still, it was thirty years too late for the post-WWII liberal rebirth of Persian culture to survive. Maybe a return to fundamentalism in Iran was necessary to motivate the people to kick out abusively nasty Western-sponsored dictators, though; that was an ugly period.
Google’s new ‘Who’s Down’ app shows which of your friends are free to hang out
How do you know Clemans has Aspergers?
Which is a book inside a smaller book which is inside a smaller book ...
> Well, someone does, because they're charging for it.

Good point; I should have said, I don't think they are things that earn you money.
The Go Programming Language shipping on Amazon next week
Many (most? all?) windows apis that take absolute paths can take extended length paths. Extended length paths (just add \\?\ to the front of your normal local path, or \\?\UNC to the front of your UNC paths) allow up to 32K paths.

I'm not really sure why node doesn't use them internally to solve the issue.
Reinventing the afterlife through artificial intelligence
news apparently...
Robots in Depth: Michael Rubenstein on the Challenge of Building 1,024 Kilobots
The part he agrees with is that it is a waste.
"Marxist PLO members are screaming "Takbir!" and wearing Hamas armbands. I watched this happen in the US around 2003."

You watched US PLO Marxists join Hamas in 2003?
Based on the Kardashev scale of technological advancement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale), I think we should be trying to use more energy and resources, not less.
Scientist Claims He Has Found Evidence of Other Universes
tl;dr Prisons are designed like their goal is not reform but waste containment. Also, your sentence doesn't really end after your release due to housing/job restrictions, societal biases against ex-cons.

A pretty good read but nothing that hasn't been said before. Skip it if you've seen Orange is the New Black or Vice's "Fixing the System"
Fill your moats.
I agree on the face of things, but what the web is missing from the unix philosophy is an equivalent to |.

Without the ability to string multiple, focused tools together even tools that did one thing well(i.e., Evernote) will continue to add features until it does a bunch of things meh.
The equivalent would be to bug the internet and phone of the target. That's something they can already do and which is reasonable.
You can use npm@3 without upgrading node - we use npm@3 and node 0.10 at work, although we mainly use it for out build tools and haven't migrated out node microservices - yet.
There's the core OSM database (plain ol' Postgres), which contains all current OSM data plus all historical edit data. This is what you change if you click 'Edit' on OSM.

There's also the rendering database (PostGIS), which contains a subset of the current data, with freeform tags moved into Postgres columns, and with PostGIS geometries created from the raw OSM geodata. This is continually updated from the diffs of the core database. It's used by Mapnik (rendering code) to create the images you see on osm.org.

The proposed change is to add an hstore column to the rendering database, which will be populated with all the tags for each object from the core OSM database. This will require a complete reimport of the data.
Yes, Your Dating Preferences Are Probably Racist
Wow. Fascinating to see so many stakeholders involved. While I'm not in the health care space, I'm going up against an industry who's fairly closed off (residential real estate) and am wondering if you have any ideas/advice on what are the key things for breaking through industries that are very tight/complex? What's key for managing all these stakeholders?
mv mirrorlist mirrorlist.bak
rankmirrors -n 10 mirrorlist.bak > mirrorlist
Intel Shows Off 3D XPoint Memory Performance
Reminded me of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary...

This article is fun, but big food companies are gonna use everything they can to get you to enjoy something that costs them less to make (and is potentially worse for you).
So are they actually leveraging Klout[1]?

[1] https://klout.com/home
Are all of your questions rhetorical? Or would the answers to them change whether you think Clemans should have been fired on the spot?

If any of those answers were any different than what I expect they are, it would have required the participation of the larger IT apparatus at the SPD. In which case, his boss probably would have been suspended as well.

Would it matter that, as badly as Clemans may have behaved, he was significantly better than the other IT staff that worked in the centre?

better? That is positively dripping in thoughtless elitism.

But for the sake of argument, better than the other IT staff who worked with their superiors to define solutions to requirements rather than railroading their pet ideas through? Better than the other IT staff who understand the extraordinary intolerance the public has for acute and sudden failure in public agencies? If this clueless cowboy had brought the 911 dispatch system down, heads would have rolled. Clemens can waddle off and get a new private sector job, but what about everyone else caught up in the mess?

Just based on the post, I don't expect its author to even know enough to ask any of the questions you have. Why are you assuming the worst? Is there anything specific that makes you think Clemans was irresponsible?

The hissy-fit he threw when he didn't get his way? Why, based on this article, would you ever give Clemens the benefit of the doubt? Especially when he's pitted against a public servant who has most likely risked his life on more than one occasion in the line of duty?
>The only sensible way to fix this that I can think of is to build in an extension layer into node so that binary packages don't use raw v8 APIs (since those seem to change a lot). Then that layer can be made (more) stable, even in the face of constant v8 upgrading.

That already exists, it's called nan: https://github.com/nodejs/nan
The last thing you want to be doing is saying, no no, not .com .io. People will just get confused. Also, because of how most of the search engines work, you may wind up pushed down the results unless someone adds 2-3 extra terms to find your specific brand. For example, an overly dramatic example, but pick Microsoft, with all their history and branding out there regardless of if you could use their name in a brand, would you really want to compete against it?

So even though you might be able to trademark it and get a domain, it doesn't make it worth it. Pick something totally unique that you can stand alone as a brand on. Otherwise you will spend a lot of money setting up marketing differentiators.
RSS, Yahoo Pipes (RIP), ... come to mind as potential candidates for your pipes. Not a well-supported ecosystem sadly.
The cascade of efforts at error handling, which I think at one point involved a macro and a magic method name, rather than getting on with higher-kinded types to allow them to do it right.

Allowing "return".

Mandating braces for functions and control flow constructs.

Rust iteration, which is both more limited and less safe (laziness) than the scala/ruby style of passing a closure.
You are a manager but you didn't state anything in your story about the people you hired and developed, the projects you led or rescued, or how you contributed to your peers, managers and companies success. Do that.
The Startup Myth of Overnight Success. 12 Companies It Took Years to Succeed
From what you've described, it sounds like the majority of target customers tend to be large companies? It would make sense with the longer cycles and probably less of an urgency to take a risk on new technology.
Every vim I've ever played on has respected `ctrl-z`. In fact, I use `ctrl-z` to jump out of my vim (to restart a server, ls the local dir, etc).
Pleasantly surprised by this post. Interesting project that could be applied to other archived publications.