skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an ICU physician, I hate the NOAKs. The data may say that they bleed less. However, when they do bleed, I've got nothing that really reverses the bleeding.

Of course, novel reversal agents are coming and each one will likely only reverse one drug... and each one will cost an arm and a leg.

I understand why patients do it. I just don't like bleeding that I often can't directly control.
I also think you might be overestimating the number of positions in Silicon Valley for groundbreaking programmers or developers. The "rock star" stereotype is pretty weak.
* Source needed.
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/5/360.short

"Participants with low 25(OH)D levels (n = 230) at baseline were more depressed (P<0.05) than participants with high 25(OH)D levels (n = 114). In the intervention study no significant effect of high-dose vitamin D was found on depressive symptom scores when compared with placebo."

So it seems unlikely the cause is low vitamin D. Also, a sunlamp won't increase your vitamin D. More likely it is the normalizing effect of sunlight on the body clock.

Also, no supplement is going to increase serotonin levels in your brain. Your brain already has sufficient raw materials to generate as much serotonin as is required. That's just simplistic and wrong-headed nonsense, based on a lack of understanding about how the brain works.
I recently switched from all solarized-dark to all solarized-light. I definitely like the look of solarized-dark better but, (extremely anecdotal here) my eyes feel happier with light.
Yes. I know Arris bought Motorola's cable products, which is why I knew Surfboards are from Motorola, and said so. :P
PyUnicorn: Unified Complex Network and RecurreNce Analysis Toolbox
So, what is the most economical skycrapper that they can build in NYC? 20 stories tall? Ten stories tall?

How many buildings are at the economical height or taller? How many are lower?
The solution seems to be public awareness ad campaigns to remove the stigma surrounding talking to your GP about embarrassing conditions, while still outlawing the advertising of specific drugs.
I read it as a smaller buffer meant that when garbage collection kicked in, it was working on a smaller amount of memory and was therefore faster to complete.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/kasic...
For some reason there will always be some that feel that the people should conform to the documentation rather than that the documentation should be adjust to best describe the people. I can't understand this mentality.
Serverspec boilerplate for Docker(file) on TravisCI
Guess what linked studies I was saving to read after work... :P

Still interesting, though. I'll definitely take a look at this in more detail.
Was this really that big of a surprise to anyone? Eventually there was going to be some giant Kickstarter that failed to deliver after all the smaller Kickstarter projects that couldn't deliver. It seems like we've just hit the tipping point. Going forward, people are going to be a little more careful and a little less trusting and Kickstarter will continue on...
AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep
Unless you have security clearance, most likely above top secret, you have no clue what happens (and if you did, commenting on it in a public forum would most likely be a federal crime).

We already know there are secret courts that hear secret arguments that can't be refuted by defendants/targets. Oh, and if that court involved you, you're legally not even allowed to tell anyone.

We already know that the NSA/FBI/CIA/DEA uses parallel construction to actually prosecute crimes against US citizens.

How do we know this stuff? Someone with clearance risked his life, and gave up his freedom to tell the world. Oh, and the US said they MIGHT NOT waterboard him if he ever came back to the US to face his crimes.

And out of the thousands of documents he had, how many do we have access to? A few handful?

Sure...we know everything </sarcasm (as if you couldn't tell)>
not true i know someone making 250 k a month with a subscription box service lootcrate is a perfect example by leveraging social media you can make tons of money
Flexibility is a fine rule of thumb, but opening the door in those 10% of cases costs you things like time travel.

Quite a price tag! :)
Cyber ghost group foiling plots by feeding feds intel
I saw that issue. As I read it, it discards using 100 continue to solve the original problem.
My understanding of the article was that the amount of data that they could be trying to collapse had been up to 32 MB, and now was never more than 2 MB.

Doing a global operation on a large data structure takes longer than doing a global operation on a small data structure. Average throughput may be better if you do that, but maximum latency was the issue here.
Has the TPP Ended the Crypto Wars? Hardly
You're literally making a "think of the children" argument. In reality people respond to incentives. If we implement the system you are describing, I believe we would see even more immigration fraud - people bringing their children to the USA and illegally overstaying their visa, knowing that the children will effectively become US citizens. There is already massive fraud & abuse of the "birthright citizenship" system - see birth tourism by pregnant Chinese women.
The article is from April 2015 but still a good one to see out there. More developer articles about DNSSEC like this one would be good to see.
Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?
For the past few months building our app, we’ve used BugHerd for three main purposes:

1. Tracking issues

2. Posting to-do items

3. Noting new features

BugHerd is great for client websites, but we feel like it’s not quite right for a more long-term build.

Specifically, our lists get so long (we have a few hundred items in the Backlog) that it becomes difficult to find certain issues. Plus, organizing them isn’t that smooth.

I know some use Jira for this sort of thing, but it feels pretty old-fashioned. And, I know there are many other products, but researching all of them seems daunting.

So, I’m going to cheat, and ask: What do you use? Why? Do you like it?
Can anyone explain how they go from the flame graph to identifying the function of interest net_rx_action? I can't see anything that grabs my attention, but maybe that's because the graph is too small to highlight the issues.
Absolutely. US doctors have the highest income in the world. Even our supposedly underpaid GPs have higher salaries than specialists in almost every other country. And the public accepts it, even defends it! Yet our health outcomes aren't any better.
A microcontroller seems like an overkill for a NES controller...
Great to see this support added to the GNU C Library. Thanks for sharing the link!
Asynchronous Programming with Python 3
I know people who do that when they come visit America from the EU. High end brands are a lot cheaper here.
Those services are incredibly proprietary to AWS. I really question why companies would want to tie themselves to a single cloud provider.
What do they mean when they say this field is in the public file: "political party of last primary voted"? Does it map votes to voters? Aren't votes anonymous?
GOOD NEWS FROM ITALY ABOUT DIRECT DETECTION OF GWs
Dear ALL,

I would like to inform you that during the last 10 days in Europe the first direct detection of the gravitational waves from the binary system is discussed. The GWs are independently detected by VIRGO (European) and Advanced LIGO (USA) from the black holes binary. One BH companion has 10 Solar masses and other one is of 1.4 Solar masses. The detection is made at the frequency 125 Hz. The BHs binary is in Coma cluster at the distance ~ 15 Mpc. The discovery is expected to be announced in January 2016.

Best wishes,
AB
Amazon has been accepting scripts for years, if they run the same program, they can exercise an option to buy scripts for $250k for movies and iirc $50k/tv show.

I applied to Amazon Studios legal team when I found out about the screen play program (~2009) thinking it would have been a unique combo of tech and entertainment law. Never heard back...
Download working installers or fix your current version from popcorntime.io here
No, I'm making the 'be sensible' argument. At some point someone's roots don't matter any more but they become citizens of the country they have lived their formative years in in all but name.

If your immigration system is so malfunctioning that someone could spend pretty much their whole formative period - and not through any fault of their own - in your country then yes, you have just effectively gained another citizen. That the paperwork is out-of-sync with the real life situation is a formality, it does not in any way change the world in a negative way to synchronize those two where the paperwork is updated to reflect the reality on the ground.
See how much money your physician takes from drug companies.

https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/

As a physician I can tell you that this type of public reporting has radically decreased the amount of stuff that doctors take from drug companies.

Removing advertising from the TV will do the same. It is much easier for a physician to give a patient the most correct medication without these biases. Remember that in the US, we spend about 2-3X as much as anybody else for less length and quality of life.

http://qz.com/553181/americans-spend-nearly-three-times-as-m...
That is a myth (or depending who you talk to a purposeful lie by the Postal workers union).

They don't have to pre-fund for future workers. They only pre-fund over the time it takes for the worker to get a pension. But they have to fund the whole cost of the pension.

So if you are starting as a postman tomorrow, they don't have to save anything. But if it takes 20 years to get a full pension, each year they have to save 1/20th of the total cost of your pension (estimate for the next 75 years).

All government should operate on an accrual basis. I wouldn't demand they hold the funds, but it should count as part of the national debt.
You could eat three eggs ~150g for ~20g protein, ~200 cals and it would cost you about a dollar if you buy by the dozen. Going by UK prices, we pay <£3 for a dozen large eggs so 75 pence for 3.

If you fried them up as an omelette, you get a healthy breakfast with very few carbs. Chuck in a tablespoon of olive oil (again, we assume bought by the litre) and you've got another 100 calories.

Fruit is expensive because, per your locale, it's almost always out of season. Supermarket apples in particular are massively marked up; we pay £2 a bag here. Any orchard will sell you apples (seasonally) for much much less.
I agree. But I have only a superficial and rough understanding of the big ideas that underpin topology. What practical applications does it have?
I'm guessing with high likelihood that the people who are complaining about this feature are probably the people who don't even use Facebook.

Sometimes you break up with someone and even though you don't want to see anything related to them in the near, that doesn't mean you don't want to still be friends. Immediately you would just rather not see any updates from your ex and also not have to deal with the social aspects of having to unfriend/block your ex.

Unfriending them causes problems later on when you decide you're OK with being friends and also causes problems with your friends asking why you're no longer friends with that other person (the breakup was that bad huh?). No it wasn't but there was no other way to immediately not have to deal with that emotional aspect of a breakup.

Also unfriending someone does not prevent photos or other people tagging your ex from showing up, unless you _block_ the ex. Then now you are required to further explain why you unfriended and blocked your ex.

"Oh, Janice broke up with Tom and then unfriended him? And blocked him? Cold-hearted bitch."
"What's that? Alex broke it off with Jill and then unfriended her? Then blocked her? What an asshole!"

So there is more to deal with that an unfriend would exacerbate.

The comment about "engineering" people to be terrible at handling interpersonal relationships is... a weird way to consider this new feature. The generation before Facebook most people just didn't go outside or didn't pick up their phone to avoid dealing with the issues you face on a social network. But I do not see how either aspect is making people better or worse. Breakups suck, people were never really good at dealing with them.
A list of bullet points looks like a to-do list. Remember, most people have not used an outliner like WorkFlowy. Most people would think of this as either 'a list', or 'notes'. You are not delivering any other message. Yes, we can see it's hierarchical and has tags, but those are common features.

[1]: 'everything' <--> 'them' - Your grammar needs work.
> Family doctors are not likely to be treating a semi-rare condition.

Really?

I have family members with rare conditions - for example diverticul(it/os)is, which affects 0.74% of the population - and they don't see specialists. The family physician monitors it. And this is with a "Cadillac" insurance plan.

I don't think every rare condition automatically gets you in with a specialist.
I guess I'll be the one to go against the grain here. I've seen a lot of doctors over the years, primarily for mental illness, but my experience has served me well generalizing to normal, physical health. The model of a doctor as a paternal guardian who knows better than you so you should just do as he says is a very bad model. They're as flawed human beings as anyone else and the only person qualified to fight for your best interests is you. Doctors get complacent, lazy and fail to keep up with the latest information unless you press them to do so. You HAVE to stay informed and aware to get the best treatment. Ads can serve an important function of informing patients of new treatment options and if doctors could truely be entrusted with your health without question then there wouldn't be a need to regulate these ads at all since doctors would only be perscribing the best treatments anyway. Medicine works best when it's a two-way, active dialog. In my personal experience anyway.
Are Drones Going to Take Over Last Mile Delivery? (Spoiler: Not Any Time Soon)
I am from the UK. When I first went to the US in the 90s I was shocked to see adverts on TV for prescription meds. Sure I was used to an ad for some "premium" paracetamol in the UK but drugs to treat depression? nerve pain? Etc.

When I released it was the norm I wasn't surprised the US never established an NHS style system. Way too much money to be lost.
FWIW, Pivotal is hiring in our Big Data team, largely based in Palo Alto. Geode (incubating), HAWQ (incubating), Greenplum, Pivotal HD, MADlib etc are all mostly developed with engineering effort that we donate.

Hit me up with an email (jchester@pivotal.io) or visit pivotal.io/careers if you're interested.
> The average person seems to simply pay ''as much as they can afford'' for housing.

And the government has made the problem worse, by skewing the mortgage market with ultra-low interest rates and thereby making "as much as they can afford" significantly larger.

> The best solution is to redesign the economy

No, the best solution is to stop messing with it. If long-term interest rates were set by a free market, significantly fewer people would be able to buy homes, or at least homes of the size they're buying now in the areas they're buying now. So they would either choose to live in less populated areas, or they would choose smaller homes, or they would rent instead of buy. All of those things would reduce the average cost of housing compared to other things.
Here is a summary of the Bill: http://murphy.house.gov/uploads/MHOnePager2.18.15.pdf

Here is the text of the Bill: http://murphy.house.gov/uploads/HR3717%20Bill%20Text.pdf

Here are speeches and interviews about the Bill:
http://murphy.house.gov/helpingfamiliesinmentalhealthcrisisa... Information
Why almost everyone is embracing the digital doctor
Better babies: The long and peculiar history of the designer human
I think this sentence [1] helps to explain the difference:

> When you create a subscription, the system establishes a sync point. That is, your subscriber is guaranteed to receive any message published after this point.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/subscriber

With Kafka or Kinesis, I can write events to a stream/topic completely independently of any consumer. I can then bring as many consumers online as I want, and they can start processing from the beginning of my stream if they want. If one of my consumers has a bug in it, I can ask it to go back and start again. That's what I mean by an immutable stream in Kafka or Kinesis.
Kinshasa's Robocops
A business like this has a strong incentive to get you a decent job for a few years after graduation, because that's how they get paid. The incentives of a regular college or university are longer-term, and play out over the course of decades. These are alumni networks, alumni donations, legacy students, general reputation, and so on.

As a result, this business has incentives to teach you what will be profitable for them in the near future and neglect the medium to long term. A college's incentives favor the medium to long term, with a corresponding potential short-term sacrifice.
I've read Linus' numerous public outings of what he thinks are less talented developers, and it's childish, end of story.

Not the end of story.

I've read many of the same articles. Carefully. And most of the time I've learned something good about software development.

Not necessarily about how to express myself to co-workers. But about software development.
I would argue the opposite. By creating a separate class of individual that receives information about medicines we obfuscate what the options are. Under the current model a doctor could say "You should take <x>" and I would have little to no exposure to alternatives" .

IMO the real issue is that advertising (not just pharmaceutical) is not very informative anymore, we need a return to fact based ads. No more "sexy" women draped over whatever, no more saccharine smily women glowing after their husband took <y> ... Ads today are propaganda.
It's pretty amazing. Facebook whole strategy seems to be encouraging people to rip YouTube videos and put them in the Facebook player. A YouTube embed share on Facebook is just not given the viral weight a Facebook video has, and Facebook is doing nothing to stop piracy. They will of course crack down... when they feel like enough creators have moved from YouTube to Facebook.
If you use a PRNG to seed an incremental counter on every node, and you get one collision, you are bound to get zillions of them.

On the plus side, I think that means the risk that you get a collision is smaller.

Also, using bare incrementing counters may be a bad idea for different reasons: it allows attackers to guess IDs of future messages. You can counteract that by hashing the IDs using a good cryptographic hash function, but that effectively turns your ID generating process into a PRNG.
I agree with this for almost anything too. Yeah there's talent but if you're remotely creative at all, coding, drawing and making music can all be learned by doing.
This and important issue, but is not original analysis... for instance was discussed on The Weeds just recently

http://voxtheweeds.slate.libsynpro.com/are-we-counting-pover...

But it's an MIT student! OMG! Time for the front page of HN!
Not just labor -- expertise. Also, do you have access to fully furnished kitchen? Living out of a car or in a marginal housing situation where a kitchen isn't available (or you've got a microwave/hotplate and fridge) changes some of the cooking.

These considerations aren't conclusive, and I'm sure there are people who find a way to overcome them, and possibly we could use resources that help others to do so.

But on HN of all places people should understand the power of marginal gains. And marginal obstacles.
It likely sounds like a rare condition for you and your family members but that particular example happens to be something regularly discussed in first year medical school courses. See [1] for a discussion of how common this is.

Also consider that a family practitioner might easily have 2,000 patients. Thus, she or he will likely have direct experience with diverticulitis.

Further (and this is more inside baseball), your family members would need to be admitted to a hospital if their disease worsens to the point that a standard course of antibiotics won't help.

There might be better examples of 'rare' conditions than this, but the point stands - for any condition where extensive domain knowledge is required, you'll have a specialist involved.

Incidentally, diverticulitis is a very American disorder, likely attributable to our eating habits. You and all other readers should be sure to include fiber in your diet.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2780269/
Going Reactive: An Architectural Journey
I like to think that BigQuery is far far ahead of Redshift in terms of performance + scale + manageability + cost (but i may be biased).
"Though I drank tons of water during Soylent, according to the instructions, those missing 4 lbs of water weight indicate I may have been less hydrated when I came in the second time."

More likely: you carried a lot less liver and muscle glycogen by the end (a typical result of low carb intake), and glycogen binds a lot of water.

When I first keto dieted, I lost 13 pounds in the first 2.5 days, probably almost all water, much of that probably from shedding glycogen.
So now you're not only denying people relief if they desire it, but further saying their lives aren't constructive?

Even if that were true, I don't see how overriding personal choice is the correct move.
Yes, and ocean carriers' managerial accounting systems may actually assign credit to shipments that help reposition containers from surplus ports to shortage ports. So the actual cost of moving a container from Rotterdam to Shanghai might be $1,000 and the customer is only paying $500 but the office that sold the business can at least "break even" because they may also get a $500 credit for getting an empty box back to Shanghai where there's always a shortage, because of the opportunity cost of not having equipment available for the customer shipping from Shanghai to Rotterdam who will pay $3,000.
Android adware can install itself even when users explicitly reject it
Nope, it works perfectly fine as WiFi. Haven't activated the phone at all, but am able to do web browsing, email, google voice, bluetooth remote control, etc.
My understanding is they apply heuristics to the video and audio. They might be Google. Or others, I just don't know.
James Bond movies – Opiate for the masses
I would argue that if you purchase a Health Care & Insurance Service plan from a megacorp, that corporation should be responsible for providing medical education and advocacy services to their customers.

Eg. If you have a plan with Blue Cross, they should have both software and individuals that can advise and be a resource to you. Maybe these are medical students, or some 2 year medical advocacy degree, RN, pharmacist - someone with some experience working/studying in the health care industry. So you go to the doctor and the doctor says, this is my diagnosis, here is a treatment plan, you call up your Health Care Advocate and they review with you as a second set of eyes on the issue. Maybe it all checks out, maybe there is a generic that could save you a ton of money, maybe there is a new drug that works better and your doctor was just going through the motions and isn't up to date on the drugs for your particular issue, but either way, having someone else there to help you get the best care would be a huge benefit, and thus a huge industry opportunity.