skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HL7 compliant client... which was emr agnostic

In my experience, there's no such thing. HL7 is a spec in only the loosest sense of the word. Half the time you had an 80-character console output dumped into the "freetext" fields. Then there's all the codes used for different drugs, tests, admission/discharge (plus differentiating when they're standardized or user-entered with appropriate typos).

Point is, all the costs were really in the integration. Getting access to the HL7 streams wasn't bad once you got far enough in the sales cycle. Once you had it, it was a one-off project to parse the specifics of the messages. And that was just for a read-only analytics system... trying to generate compatible messages to feed back to the EHR is a whole other beast.

That's the challenge getting into this space if you're a web or cloud engineer... you come in with the mindset that "oh, HL7 is a messaging standard, I'll just read the spec and use it." In practice, there's an infinite amount of variability. You really need to treat each hospital as it's own one-off integration, plus all the politics needed to get access to the messages in the first place.
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That's not what the rankings are ranking schools by. It's entirely about value v. expected value. For example, say College State University had an expected income of $0, and the median income of their alumni was $15K. That would be a top 10 school by this methodology, despite no sane person thinking that it would represent an upgrade over going to a school with an expected income of $75K and a median income of $74K.

Think of it as a supplementary rankings system, rather than a definitive one.

The biggest problem with the methodology, to me, is it doesn't consider average cost of attendance to students at all.
FYI: The source code to the nextval() function:

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/71fc49dfe1d99bd83c...
There's a bunch of people right now who are willing to risk death at sea to try to get from Syria to Europe. A fair number of them would probably accept a one-way ticket to Mars, even with the risk it involves.
Maybe a non sequitur, but maybe a future step would be putting the radar at every intersection and linking it all up to the cloud and then to cars. It would be like Google Maps traffic except super granular. If every car had data about what cars were coming up the street and generally at what speed, perhaps not only could accidents around corners be prevented, but automated cars could just go anytime it's safe without regard to traffic signs.
It's amusing to me that works of criticism like this are jam-packed with the same questionable labels that it seeks to debunk. German Jews, white Americans, Trancendentalists, Cold War liberalism, Anti-Communists, Marxists...

Who are these people? Why are these labels any less problematic that the label of "Enlightenment" assigned to a certain group of philosophers in the 18th century Europe?
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> Now and long the usual criterion of performance is big-O notation, and that is what I considered, with the Gleason bound and heap sort and, thus, showed that, with various common assumptions, can't do better than heap sort. As far as I know, I was correct.

That's a little short sighted for real life performance. Memory access patterns, cache performance, and the hidden constant factor are all relevant for real performance. For example there's a 200x difference between main memory and cache access times. log2(1000000000000) is ~40, meaning poor cache performance can impact performance by more than a factor of log(n) in the Big-O notation.

There are also many cases where algorithms with better Big-O performance have constant factors so large that they perform worse for common problem sizes. Matrix multiplication is a good example. Strassen's algorithm has a better Big-O than the straightforward algorithm, but the constant factor is large enough that it only becomes faster on matrices larger than maybe 100x100. And there are algorithms even better than Strassen's, but their constant factors are so big they're effectively never better than Strassen's on real hardware.
Unless you specifically want parallelism, I wouldn't recommend Node.js. You'll end up in callback hell. The various solutions to callbacks still aren't that readable or easy to use. Combine that with lack of strong typing and decent static analysis, and Node is going to be a huge pain.
Same bugs on different platforms are extremely hard to find.

Different bugs on different platforms are like an early Christmas present:

You don't even need to write tests which include your "expectations" of the result anymore.

Just call the code with randomized inputs for both platforms, and if there is a difference, you found a bug.
Reminder that people only started caring about police brutality when it became common knowledge that the cops could break down your door and shoot your dog with impunity.

The decades of brutality against the poor and racial minorities before that triggered no such reaction and was applauded by many.
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That doesn't make this ranking list bad. The rankings system explicitly explains, in painstaking detail, that the system is designed to measure return on degree, empirically. That means they must use empirical data.
This is of course a classic "swastika as a building" pattern controversy:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/09/28/391393/--Accidental...

It comes along controversy, conspiracy theories, and insinuations of Nazi infiltrations into the US govt., a fun read altogether.
If not only me who shares the same perspective on something but many others in the community, I could see a good case for outlawing a certain substance or certain practice. Of course, it is not about me but the community as a whole
> (Insurance was originally for catastrophic care where the cost for a major illness or surgery would get too high.)

Agreed 110%.

> Having prices so high that only insurers can pay them means only insurers DO pay them and since hospitals and clinics know this they can charge whatever they want.

I've explained this in more detail on another recent HN thread, but basically: prices are 'so high that only insurers can pay them' by design, but it's not for the reason most people think.

It is generally illegal for providers (hospitals/doctors/etc.) to charge different rates to different patients based on their insurance status[0]. However, it is not illegal for providers to negotiate standard rates for specific payers. Combine this with the fact that providers lose money on their publicly-insured patients[1], and it becomes clear that they have to overcharge the rest in order to end up in the black.

So what they do is set absurdly high sticker prices, knowing that the private insurers will negotiate those down (usually this is done in multiples of what Medicare pays - e.g., Aetna will say, 'We'll pay you 150% of the Medicare price for billing code 99481 this year'.

Uninsured patients are stuck with huge bills as a result, though this is basically an unintentional side-effect of the fact that hospitals can't give them lower bills initially. It's also the reason that hospitals are almost always willing to negotiate with uninsured patients. If they know to ask, they can almost always get that down to 10% of the original rate. That bill isn't meant for individuals, they don't really expect individuals to pay, and they'd much rather negotiate a discount and have it paid in full immediately than have a patient default, which has negative repercussions for their bad debt ratio.

Privately insured patients end up having higher premiums as a result, because their insurers are paying higher rates to subsidize other patients who are not paying any premiums at all (publicly insured patients)[2].

[0] There's a little nuance to this, but that's the general idea.

[1] Medicare reimburses less than the actual costs of services provided per-patient, before accounting for any overhead

[2] This subsidy happens at the claims level, so it counts towards the insurer's requisite MLR.
Don't listen to this
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EU tech companies certainly need all the help they can get and that angle makes more sense than pretending that the NSA won't get the data, hell EU governments will hand it to them as they work so closely on intel.
>This is obviously wrong.

"The analysis goes against my gut feeling, therefore it's wrong."

Did you bother to read the article?

The Economist’s first-ever college rankings are based on a simple, if debatable, premise: the economic value of a university is equal to the gap between how much money its graduates earn, and how much they might have made had they studied elsewhere.

That's what they did, and those were the results. They even say it's debatable. Using a different analysis or metric, the results would be different.

>In summary: Bullshit.

As opposed to the anecdotes regarding your Alma Mater and rich friends.
It's relevant because his entire scheme was fueled by personal greed. It also displays the scale at which he operated and the reason that he is a notable example of the kinds of lawyers bringing this type of litigation.

As to the greed factor, he invented plaintiffs in 150 cases - in fact he used the same paid plaintiff in over 70 cases. He knew he was breaking the law by doing this and simply didn't care because there was money to be made. In the video I referenced, it explains that he was only caught because it just so happened that this particular plaintiff got caught in a $17 million insurance scam involving the staged theft of some rare art. When he was caught, he rolled over on Lerach.

He employed criminals to extort companies and made hundreds of millions of dollars doing it. His actions were seen as so repugnant that the federal government passed a tort reform law that many Congressional staffers referred to as the "Get Lerach Act," although the law unintentionally added jet fuel to his business. The whole thing just smacks of seedy, greedy criminals (Lerach among them) that were out to soak companies for every dime they could get.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M &

would be worse. `shred` is slow.
This is the fundamental problem. As an engineer you have to weigh every single dependency as a cost. If you take a dependency on 200 packages, then NOTHING is going to save you long term as things break.

More or Less, Joyent was mostly doing what they were doing for a reason. What the io.js team is doing also has validity but fundamentally you will always see these issues to some extent because of the philosophy behind it.
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Off-topic, but I came across this tweet today.

https://twitter.com/flexlibris/status/660108123487789056

> TSA at Boston airport tried to take my Yubikeys away from me to a second location "for a test". I refused & they backed off but FYI people.

If you have your Yubikeys with you while traveling, you might want to be careful.
Unfortunately, Vi is on the Arch install disc, but Emacs isn't (unless it's changed very recently). Though they of course could install it.
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Did you have a sense of dread while watching it? I agree it doesn't include almost any of the standard tropes, but it made me feel a lot more uneasy than most 'horror' movies did/do.
Don't you think it is prettier with the space?
In fact, that isn't a senryu either.

Haiku and senryu count morae, not syllables. The mora is a unit of timing; a short syllable is one mora and a long one is two morae. So 'tokyo', which is two syllables, is counted as 4 morae since both 'o's are long. Similarly, 'Nippon' is counted as 4 morae - 'ni-p-po-n'.

Confusion about this is why English haiku tend to be so long: compare

furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

to

wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault
Very good point. I'm hoping the "personal cloud of wearables" becomes reality at some point in my lifetime. Reading the Shadowrun v4 player's guide seriously influenced the kind of technology I want to experience.
http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2015/01/26/meet-the-first...
> this is way too high a number

I assume you've never lived in Southern California? You'd be astounded at the number of casual surfers (by that, I mean someone who surfs at least once a month) who own surfboards. And that's just one high concentration surf area.
I believe Moxie left Twitter back in 2013.
And Amazon API Gateway, potentially the request routing layer for a heterogenous set of Lamdba-backed endpoints. Seems like that may have been particularly a service jenkstom was referring to. https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/
There's little value in discussing energy and carbon footprint per person when you're looking at the next 50 to 100 years.

Are the Africans noble savages who are so in tune with the land that they have a smaller ecological impact? No, they desperately want better health care, clean water, and more modern amenities. They want a bigger footprint, and we shouldn't begrudge them that. In 100 years, it's very likely that the impact of a US citizen will be very close to that of an African.

There is no dichotomy between population reduction and impact reduction - most advocate both as unsustainable. This is poorly masked white guilt.
Isn't that an inherit flaw in the system? It is also based on the assumption that everyone prioritizes money over everything else. If I worked in the Yale marketing department I could easily spin this as a being caused by the high character of Yale graduates who are more willing to dedicate their life to lower paying but higher impact jobs like academics or public service while those greedy kids from Harvard only ever chase money.
Redis can do a lot more than 12k operations/sec. Bottleneck is not the backend here at all.
Ouch! Too close to home.
> Rust itself isn't particularly influenced by Scala

Agree! Sadly, they didn't use all the lessons Scala could offer them when designing their own language. :-(

Painful to watch as they introduce stuff where Scala developers already know that it's completely broken.
Alcohol and strongly addictive drugs are not the same. You can consume alcohol moderately without jeopardizing your health (Even wine and to lesser extent beer is reported to be good for your health overall) while on the other hand, cocaine or heroin have a tremendous net negative effect on your health.
Yeah, that's definitely overkill, but those are cool for applications needing the bandwidth. For comparison, the ESP8266 costs ~ $5, so that's "little money".
I'd forgotten Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes existed, thanks for reminding me of it just in time for a LAN party this weekend. My printer is going to be working overtime tonight.
Nice article, would be interesting to build something that HexView did, in fact, find "nearly indestructible". Full disclosure I'm a fan of the Yubikey, I think that something like it will be the future of operational security for networks. Requiring the key be present to answer challenges helps a lot.
Guns are basically outlawed in Canada, yes.

You are allowed to own a handgun, but it has to be locked up 100% of the time unless you're at a gun range or out hunting with a government license.

You can own "long guns" too but that's a different and much longer story.

Still though, you're definitely not allowed to carry it around with you walking your dog and shoot any coyotes you see fit. In suburbia at least.
Not entirely sure what this is doing at first glance beyond providing a plain textfield for text entry, and some controls to save it as a file.

Compared to something like this:
http://jsoneditoronline.org/

Which has auto-parsing, auto-formatting, and relatively intuitive controls for manipulating the object structure inline.
Neither, really. It should just be 12m (meridian). "am" means ante (before) meridian, while "pm" is "post" (after) meridian. So, midnight should be both 12am and 12pm ;)
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>>He's saying that...<<

Please let Veedrac speak for himself.

Veedrac's saying a bunch of stuff -- saying it doesn't make trash-talk into The Truth(TM).

>>fastest benchmarks game programs cheat, relative to the slowest ones<<

So programs that are compiled cheat, relative to programs that are interpreted?

Seems like "cheat" needs to be in scare quotes.
You may well be right, but I think it's possible that as self driving cars proliferate, insurance rates across the board may drop. It makes sense that rates would be lower for self driving vehicles than human driven, but just as each individual (no matter their vehicle) benefits from a lower incidence of accidents, they might also share the lower cost.
As a long-time Texas resident and qualified applicant for Rice University who likely could have attended (if I hadn't refused taking SAT IIs), I'd also like to note your esteemed alma mater is likely the most picky University in all of Texas, and, if US News' numbers are correct, just a shade less picky than Johns Hopkins. In short: Selection bias is not to be ignored.
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Would you consider The Shining a horror movie? I seem them as very much in the same vein. The Shining of course, being the better of the two :)
Absolutely. Cost of living in an area will have a massive impact on exit salaries. The economist did not realize that the South and Mid-west have the lowest cost of living when they wrote the following:

> Its upper tiers are dominated by colleges that emphasise engineering (such as Worcester Polytechnic) and attract students with high SAT scores (like Stanford). The lower extreme is populated by religious and art-focused colleges, particularly those in the south and Midwest. This number represents the benchmark against which we subsequently compare each college’s alumni earnings to produce the rankings.
> Yes, but isn't it expected to find that information in the "About" section of the main site instead of needing to search for it?

No, not really.

If I launched a new language based on objective-C I wouldn't bother putting in an explanation of what objective-C is. Target audience already knows.
Adam does ruin everything.
I think population control is worth discussing, but I do not see its implementation as ever being very feasible. I also don't think the demographic transition will last long. People are as affected by selection effects as any other animal. Those who choose not to have children will be out-breed by those with a more deliberate need for children. To the extent that this deliberate desire is heritable, (either genetically or mimetically or both) it will eventually reach fixation. As a side note, the way modern people riducle Malthus (both libertarian and liberals alike) is very arrogant. Of course there are temporary boons, even very large ones. His point was gains will eventually be eaten. In the absence of outside intervention by an agent with more power than any individual, there are very general reasons to believe he will be correct in the long run.

However, I'm one of those nutters who thinks a technological singularity is reasonably plausible. So I think an AI speciation event (a sort of Cambrian explosion of non-biological intelligent agents, a key point here is selection operates just as much on non-biological agents and much faster) is more concerning than a population bomb.
And the other 4x states that don't have a coastline don't really contribute any data.
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Protip: apologies added as an introductory clause to you talking about your rightness do not come across as very good apologies. It looks like a way to deflect negative response, not honest sorrow for trouble caused.
I would like to believe that. The Ars piece, however, defines rewilding as: "to meddle even more by (re)introducing species to a landscape in order to help it revert to a healthier, pre-human-impact state". (Italics mine.)

That easy confusion is why I don't like the term "rewild".

BTW, just now I researched some of the history. http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/MES/rewilding.pdf from 1998, which Wikipedia's "Rewilding (conservation biology)" describes as a refinement of the idea, by conservation biologists Michael Soulé and Reed Noss, characterizes the two eras of human involvement in the North American continent; the megafauna extinction from 11,000 years ago, which killed off 50 species of large mammals large in North America, and the post-Columbus wave.

That ends with:

> Sooner or later it is necessary to find the resources to incorporate wilderness and the entire pre-Columbian set of carnivores and other keystone species into reserve designs. Absent these, the long-term success of the continental conservation network in North America is doubtful.

So it's goal is to restore the pre-Columbian era ecology, but says nothing about the involvement of the one species which defined the character of that ecology - humans - other than to argue that it should be minimized.

You commented, "which in many cases turn out to be the presence of apex predators." My point boils down to the observation that humans were one of the apex predators.
It's a good example because even if you know you can win to a high degree of certainty, the cost of fighting is much higher than the cost of settling. This applies to a great many kinds of litigation. Patents are not special in this regard, just a clear example.
And yet other research says we should start studying/working later. Can't have it both ways.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/08/why-sch... http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/sep/0...
As any engineer knows, most software applications have APIs; it’s simply a business choice whether to publish them or not.

This makes it sound like opening an API up to the public is akin to flipping on a light switch, which as we all know is rather misleading. There are significant investments and expenditures (documentation, support, etc.) to make if you want to properly serve up a public API and no, not every company does those things as a side effect of developing a product.
Ok, we added 'some' to the title.
I think my brother still hates me... first time in our lives we were alone (I think I was 13 or 14, my brother 11 or 12), dark stormy night with lightning, my father was going out for a few hours, so of course, I got to choose a (VHS) movie.. it was Event Horizon.

He couldn't sleep for days (I had a nightmare but I could sleep), my father was SO mad.
I hope I don't have to explain it depends on the machine.
Do you think they didn't verified it off-road? Beta (in this case) doesn't mean faulty or half-assed, but you cannot possibly encounter all real-life situations on your off-road closed track, hence the name Beta to stress that point.
As far as I know there wasn't any issue with the autopilot when respecting the limitations stated by Tesla. Now if a driver want to disregard those warnings, He is being highly irresponsible, not Tesla. It's like blaming an auto manufacturer because you are able to do 100mph with your car in 30mph zones.
Every other publication's college rankings prioritize "everything else" over money. The Economist just came up with a different ranking based on expected value.
:sarcasm: Nothing to see here just some sensors, actuators and few lines of embedded code in action. Thousands of kids do it with Lego mindstorm every days.
Yes. I found Ex-machina distinctly uncomfortable to watch, I don't get that very often.
I found it interesting since as a user you can't see the PCB. Of course the designers knew about the tradeoffs, it's just nice to know what those tradeoffs were.