skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's my point -- who decides what expectations are? Their results are incredibly dependent on the model specification. I imagine if they changed which indicators they used, the results would vary widely.

Here's another way to see my concern. Suppose you had a classifier that achieves 1.0 R^2; then since it perfectly predicts each school's expected value, it'll assign each school a score of 0. I'm pretty suspicious of an approach where the results get worse with better predictive power.

Even if you want to do "exceeds expectations", I think you shouldn't include variables that are school specific, only variables that are student specific. In other words, for my expected outcomes, which school is best?
We can make it one! Who'll launch the kickstarter?
The Threat of Telecom Sabotage
One interesting consequence of this is that the further west that you look within a timezone, the less sleep people tend to get.

> Examination of ATUS activity logs shows that workers experiencing earlier sunset also go to bed earlier and that this correlation between sunset and bedtime persists even if the worker goes to bed well after dark. Coordinated work start times translate this earlier bedtime into longer sleep.

Time Use and Productivity: The Wage Returns to Sleep, Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader
My university asked for my earnings only one time. The categories maxed out at 70k+. They might be higher on that list if they took a more precise survey.
>I would not recommend NoSQL for something like a banking
Many of the leading banks in the world have replaced Oracle with NoSQL (generally MarkLogic) for key systems. Abadi explained quite clearly why NoSQL is not incompatible with transactions and updates.
> Exactly the same as now: .... and the law.

One might assume that if the majority of car do not speed, do not make illegal maneuvers, do not drunk drive, and do not get into accidents then law enforcement will severely reduce enforcement.
> None of the great writers I know have English degrees.

Plenty of notable writers have English degrees; "None (or, equally, 'all', 'most', etc.) of the X that I know" usually introduces a statement that reveals more about the speaker's social bubble than the broader world.
I think he's saying that if you're going to make daylight-savings time permanent, it's become the "standard", so why not call it standard time?

Anyway, what the article is really saying is that people should work 8-4 instead of 9-5, because then they commute home before it gets dark and are at less risk for muggings, robberies, and rapes. Which is true, but it's kinda silly that to get there we should just change the meaning of time rather than the hours we work. Then again, maybe that is the most effective way to effect society-wide change.
If I were a prospective student interested in making a lot of money out of college, surely I'd still just follow this very simple model:

Take all the schools I could get into, look up their actual median earnings, and go to the one which is highest (let's ignore issues of cost of attendance).

If it turns out that the one which is highest isn't ranked high on this particular list, I don't see why that would suggest I still shouldn't pick that school. Imagine these are my options, for instance:

(A) A school with expected earnings of $90k and actual earnings of $75k.

(B) A school with expected earnings of $50k and actual earnings of $55k.

(B) will rank vastly higher than (A) in this study, but I'd pick (A) over (B) every time if I just wanted money.

In short, I don't actually see the value add here from this list. How am I supposed to act on these rankings? How are these rankings supposed to change any idea I might have about which school I should attend?

It seems if you want to know which school to attend based on earnings we already have much more reliable data for that: actual earnings data.
Because heroin sale and use was mostly confined to poor and minority communities. Now a different population is consuming them that happens to be white and suburbanite.
The automated cars will all be taking video of the incident, recording speed and direction info from radars and lidars, and transmitting all the data to some cloud server. At the cloud server, license plates will be read, driver faces identified, and the relevant info forwarded to law enforcement, insurance companies, and, of course, Youtube.
> Sadly, in my own experience, Policing and tech are never done terribly well.

This is a poor example of the two cultures not getting along. No IT person worth his salt would ever allow someone to come in and start deploying one off applications like this in a 911 call center of all places.
In what meaningful way are these two acts any different?
Plus the install attempts to steal away the user's default browser.
The 1965 Blackout: An Eerie Broadcast When New York Went Dark
Enslave yourself to Rocket Internet (or similar) and then realize you were better off in Silicon Valley! Good luck buddy.
I'd guess the stopped car on the right flashed to let them in. Often see people flash a car to pass them without checking whether it would be a safe maneuver - most commonly where a car waiting to turn left into a side road flashes you out of the sideroad, ignoring the fact that there are cars passing them to their right.
I guess if I were writing it, I might have made [how chaotic Twitch Plays Pokemon was](a link), but it's not exactly something to go complaining about..
Aren't cord cutters the one watching the ESPN app on apple tv roku etc? I blame the ESPN digital guys for not selling the ads on those channels and running house ads constantly, despite ample, growing audiences.
It does make sense though. I would love for everyone to change typical working hours to 6 to 3 instead of the current 8 to 5, but it seems unlikely.

Perhaps I'm subjective here -- but really, how often do you hear people complain about it being dark in late morning, as opposed to early afternoon?

(FWIW, I do set the wall clock forward, too :) it does in fact help.)
You'll need to cite sources for Chicxulub or any other impact producing temperatures like that globally.

It is thought that Chicxulub may have produced global firestorms, before a period of global cooling. The point still stands: it's not hard to build structures that can survive fire. Building out of concrete, with thick walls, a self-contained air supply, and away from any vegetation (or simply underground) should suffice, and will still be much easier than colonizing Mars.
European Parliament votes to shield Snowden from extradition to US
As previously noted, title is misleading. Also, pick a better document store (though you should note that rethink only guarantees operations on single documents as atomic):

http://rethinkdb.com/

Yes, "better" is subjective, but rethink has a good page detailing the differences (between rethink and mongo):

http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/rethinkdb-vs-mongodb/

Feature-list type breakdown:

http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/comparison-tables/

And pay attention to the guarantees that it provides/doesn't provide when you pick. I think this is a big part of what separates novice developers form middle-tier developers. There are always tons of choices, for just about everything in software these days, and your job is to figure out how best to solve which problem you're facing, in a way that future generations won't hate you for.
I guess that depends on how you define it. If by "digital health" companies you mean medical industry companies, you may have a point. But part of what is wrong with American health care is that health care is a polite euphemism for medical care. Grocery stores do not get defined as being in "health care," though eating healthy is clearly a cornerstone of good health.

But I think it is possible to want to do something health related, conclude that the medical industry is a nightmare, and find another approach.
I stopped producing trash and using toilet paper. It improved my life
Remote Mexican village uses solar power to purify water
(Apple) Research? What research? We're a design company.
4 Hour Work Week too strenuous?
This comment and the OP mirror my own experience(s).

Additionally, data interchange between competitors is a non-starter. Possible solutions (work-arounds) will be single payer or continued market consolidation (hospitals merging and then implementing one of the big systems like EPIC).

Not mentioned is that continued churn like HL7 v3, ICD-10, meaningful use, etc. are hugely onerous while adding zero value. A cynic might wonder if its just make work for the consultants.

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Source: My team designed, implemented, and supported the backend of 5 exchanges. Like this one:

MedPlus to Implement Clinical Portal and Information Exchange for the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (Jan 11, 2008)
http://newsroom.questdiagnostics.com/index.php?s=30649&item=...
Yeah, that is a popular meme.

> Being able to do that stuff isn't a magical attribute you're born with...
> The innate aspect is that he has a natural interest and drive to make apps, and put his time into that as opposed to other things.

Sure, many people fail due to a lack of effort but pretending everyone is equally intelligent is little more than an easily perpetuated self deception.

Genetics and early development [i.e. the first few years of a child's life] play a very large role in a person's ability to achieve things by the age of 20.
Yea, but embedded Fortran, and assembly of whatever architecture that voyager runs on is a different beast.
On a related note: with Linux as my daily driver, I don't understand how the average Windows user deals with Microsoft's implementation of automatic updates.

Say I just woke up, and I'm in a rush to boot up my computer, print out a paper, and get out the door. But--surprise! Windows Update ran in the background the night before, and now system startup is delayed half an hour or more to configure a new batch of patches.

On the one hand, from a security standpoint, I appreciate that the default is to keep users' systems up-to-date. On the other, it seems that Microsoft pushes this with little regard for their users' time or comfort.
I don't know that much about 911 dispatch centers, but highlighting calls as more important definitely sounds like a change in the operation procedures of the center, and definitely sounds like it should have been approved first.

Can you imagine the PR nightmare the captain would have had to deal with if someone died or was severely injured because one of the calls wasn't highlighted when it should have been? I think the captain was right here.
We had two massively destructive events that devastated the human population in the twentieth century.

The first was the development of reliable birth control and the second was widespread learning about fertility cycles. For the first time, people could be in control of their fertility without celibacy. Our genes programmed us to be mostly unable to be celibate but the allowed us to continue wishing that we could have fewer children so that we could care for them better and not see so many of them crowded in misery and starving. Once reliably vulcanized and molded rubber was practical around 1910, our wish for fewer children could be realized and evolution is slowly breeding out the desire to have a reasonable number of children and stop. The pill and rhythm just intensified the effect.

You mostly see evolution in the form of population replacement. Educated and modern Iranians and Egyptians, along with other Middle East and Sahel populations filled up cities and created an Islamic rebirth of learned culture, education, and prosperity in the early and mid 1900s. The people who stayed behind in rural areas continued having eight babies each while the urbanites averaged one. It's amazing to see the photos of free educated modern young men and especially women on the streets of Cairo or Teheran in the 1950s. Those people planned to educate the next generation into modernity but the next generation weren't their children; they were the children of the villages they left behind. Now we have a fertile and intensely fundamentalist, rural, and violent predominant culture in those nations and the renascence exists only in exile populations in the West.

European descended populations that plan ahead to have fewer babies are being replaced by more fertile populations from elsewhere across Europe and by native populations in Latin America. Within the USA, you can watch Mormons and fertile evangelicals expand their share of the white population every generation.

The demographic transition is a temporary thing. Evolution absolutely demands it. Creationism or Lamarckism is not going to just start being true because it would be convenient to our demographic comfort.
Star Magazine’s 'Scene+Stealers' Event 2015
Halloween’s Here: Software Development Horror Stories
Even the dig at Fortran is silly. Most numerical libraries and subroutines are still implemented in Fortran and you have to figure out how to call them from other languages (e.g. scipy, numpy).
I agree, it's nice to have a choice in end-to-end messaging services. But now that iMessage/Signal/TextSecure exist, seems like end-to-end messaging is solved. People need to move on to harder end-to-end use cases that go beyond OTR messaging.

I guess Tor will provide more anonymity, which is a nice plus.
EHRs are starting to open up more. EPIC (largest EHR vendor in the US by market share) just opened an API for some types of medical data. AllScripts and Athena also have open-ish APIs. 5 years ago none, and I mean literally zero, of the EHRs had APIs.
Amusing having seen, decades ago, detailed articles describing how op-amps were engineered ... and now practically the same article showing op-amps being reverse-engineered. The excitement of uncovering the past is just as palpable as the excitement was of creating the future.
Url changed from http://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/10/30/how-klo..., which points to this.
What Oscar Is Up Against (http://go.theinformation.com/152dc2)

> After two years in operation, the financial trajectory is becoming clear, both in terms of the growth and the costs. In New York, the company projected a sevenfold increase in premium revenue next year to $399 million from 2014. But it also projects a loss of 12% of premiums, equivalent to $47 million, according to regulatory filings.

...

> Oscar’s losses stem from two sources: higher medical costs as a percentage of premiums than rivals, and higher administrative costs, both of which are traditionally problems of scale in the industry.

> In New York, it projected that 91.5 percent of premium revenues would be eaten up next year by medical claims costs, among the highest projected ratios in the state. That leaves little left over to pay for administrative costs, estimated to be 17 percent of premiums next year, or taxes and fees. Included in administrative costs are the company’s engineering and marketing costs.

> History says insurance companies need at least 200,000 to 300,000 members in a state to be viable, according to Ash Shehata, a partner in KPMG’s health care practice; Oscar had 38,000 members in New York and New Jersey as of June 30, with plans to expand to Texas and California this year.

...

> But Oscar believes it can succeed as a sustainable and profitable business with only 80,000 to 100,000 members per state, according to a person familiar with the company. Though scale is important to contain administrative costs, the person said, Oscar’s plan is to avoid playing the big insurance company game of using size to negotiate lower claims costs with providers. Instead, it will curb claims costs by partnering closely with select providers to exchange data.

'Partnering closely with select providers' is probably the same thing you're referring to - pre-paying facilities for services.
Re: Japan - Economist Dean Baker makes the case that Japan's population decline is not all bad:

"The decline in population is in fact a benefit in many respects for Japan. It is a very crowded island with expensive land prices. A falling population will reduce the pressure on land making housing more affordable. It will also reduce congestion in cities. In addition, the decline in population will make it easier for Japan to meet commitments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions..."

http://www.cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/contrary-to-the-nyt...
Node-vibrant 2.0 extracts prominent colors based on Android Marshmallow Palette
Yes. And on the other side, you have dinosaurs stuck on using MUMPS, Cache (InterSystems), eGate/JCAPS, BizTalk, or some other monstrosity.
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There was an article awhile back, I think linked from HN, about this. Not about expecting self-driving cars to stop, but about the fact you can take advantaee of their "drives like grandma" behavior -- cutting them off, tailgating etc
Can you be specific? I'm a skeptic but just now learning about it.
Wise people know that they don't know everything and are able to realize that even if they know a lot, someone else may know more about X than they do and absorb their perspective.
Running

If you have a go workspace set up, simply build and run out of the box

But what if you don't?
I thought the Ancient Aliens series was interesting. A group of friends showed it to me and some believed in it. However, we started following the logic they use and it basically boils down to this:

We don't know how this was done so therefore Aliens did it.

So the most honest thing they can actually say is they don't know.
What’s new in robotics this week? Robots can now teach each other new tricks
> So the dataset excludes students who do not apply for loans? (i.e., this analysis penalizes schools who admit the folks most likely to make lots of money, and the schools that have the lowest expected student contribution.)

It penalizes (or at a minimum, undersamples in a nonrepresentative way) schools with their own, non-loan, aid programs.

This probably very badly hurts schools like Caltech, since it means that there (unless Caltech no longer has the essentially full-coverage need-based aid they had when I went -- unsuccessfully, I graduated elsewhere) they are only counting people who are making the unwise choice of taking loans when they have no need given their current resources.

That this will skew the data badly should be obvious.
It was originally a symbol of good fortune.
The biggest issues I've seen haven't been legacy/technological challenges, but almost completely political/incentive/motivation reasons on the part of hospitals wanting to build interfaces for many practices. On the part of vendors, many systems Nextgen/Allscripts/GE etc, can often charge an exorbitant amount to build and maintain the interfaces.

Even if a practice/vendor is savvy and deep pocketed enough to get past the politics and expenses, then you're at the whim of the competence of the interface teams which can range from incompetent to good, with the average being on the lower end. I've often seen something that should literally take a couple hours, take a year to get completed, if ever.

There are bigger initiatives taking place to try address some of these interoperatibilty issues, namely Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), although their economics remain unproven.

It's not all gloomy, I can honestly say that in the last 5 years, anecdotally, the hurdle to building interfaces feels like it's getting less and their sophistication and capabilities are getting higher.
a self-balanced surfboard?
> One might assume that if the majority of car do not speed, do not make illegal maneuvers, do not drunk drive, and do not get into accidents then law enforcement will severely reduce enforcement.

HA! Who will pay their salaries? They'll likely double-down on enforcement against "old school" drivers.
You missed setting up a bootloader, which often is the most tricky part, sometimes due to some funny update in the freshest version of the ArchLinux which wasn't fixed yet. Bleeding edge and all.
In 2005 I was creating a national 9-1-1 company for VoIP. It's understandable why people would be so conservative given the stakes. (Though sometimes they laughably underestimate the fragility they introduce, like initiatives to hook up every PSAP to the Internet and route calls that way.)

One PSAP in particular was very upset with our service. He insisted that we do not connect "Internet calls" to his PSAP, as "there might be viruses or something". Note that this was simply dialing the 10-digit number that's part of the public network - anyone can dial it.

Though it's hard to tell from the article if this was really just a procedural issue ("great software, but you must clear it and run through this checklist") or territorial/political.
The New Internet of Things
I'm not sure what exactly this is yet, but it seems kind of interesting. Is anyone familiar with the company that's behind it? (AdMobilize) http://www.iotforeveryone.com/
This really brings up the question of the ultimate carrying capacity of the world. Anytime you see graphs that hockeystick they eventually plateau and stagnation is usually caused by mass famine, disease, or other catastrophic circumstance; potentially war in the case of human beings. We haven't reached that point in any countries yet, and when the US/Europe throws away half of harvested food at the point of sale, I think its probably not something to worry about in the immediate. However, particularly with China just removing their 1 child per family policy, it looks like we may reach one of these issues sooner than later, probably not in our lifetimes, but I don't think too far off.
IHE has done good work defining conformance profiles on top of the basic HL7 standards that help to improve interoperability. Adoption is growing but still not universal.

http://www.ihe.net/
All else being equal it would be nice if the keys' casing were more tamper-resistant. But the article doesn't even touch on the tamper resistance of the NXP A7005, which is the part that actually matters.
I don't know if everyone can go to this extreme, but when you think about the fact that plastic can take up to 450 years to decay one wishes that there was less waste in most packaging. What I've really noticed in fact is just how many plastic items aren't even designed to be recycled. So an example every time you buy a dress shirt those collar stiffeners will be here in the 25th Century.
What is worse, it is not even clear that the captain is entirely wrong here.

If Clemans screwed up, he had the potential to have 911 calls be routed to /dev/null. If he succeeded, the department became more efficient. However the 911 system is already working "well enough". Therefore in terms of outside perception any win will be small, and disasters could be huge.

He is not the one who has been give the authority to make this kind of risk decision. The captain is. If Clemans screwed up, the captain would be the one getting fired. Keeping the captain out of the loop is irresponsible. It doesn't matter that it worked. It doesn't matter how good the system is. You need to work with stakeholders, and not behind their backs.

However Clemans seems like the kind of person who can never understand this point.
Is it possible to have an admin user v/s normal user where normal users simply get blocked/unblocked without the "page control" or any ability to blocked/unblock, etc.
Why did they start in New York? In order to do business in New York, an insurance company has to be headquartered (incorporated) there. (Edit: No other state requires this.) And New York is expensive.

This sounds dumb to me.
we had done the legwork to integrate with dozens and dozens of difficult legacy systems and was able to expose them in a single unified API

Bingo. That is precisely what our backend did for healthcare data. And the front end (portal) was really good for the time.