skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full transparency could have negative unintended consequences. For example, if surgeons knew their success rate were public, they would be incentivized to take easier cases. Who would take a difficult case if they knew it would constitute a bad mark on their record almost for sure?

Fundamentally, the issue is that it's impossible to observe for any given patient if that patient's outcome would have been better with a different surgeon. This is the same challenge we face with evaluating drugs: many more people who take aspirin survive than those who take anti-cancer drugs, but this likely reflects the kind of person who is taking each (people with headaches vs. people who have been diagnosed with cancer). To solve the problem there's no way around randomized trials. So, one idea would be to randomly assign patients to surgeons.

(Transparency might still be better on net, but important to keep these issues in mind.)
I can't explain Benigni's Oscar. I will not say categorically that it is impossible to make Holocaust humor, but I will say that Benigni had not discovered how.
There's still lots of Dalvik based devices in use.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
The gold standard for ethical behavior isn't to magically not let bias affect you when making decisions. It's to identify conflicts of interest and avoid them. Someone who knowingly allows a conflict of interest to exist is behaving unethically, no matter how hard they try to avoid letting their bias affect their decision.
You nailed it. The thread is full of doctor-blaming, as if doctors really relish in calling for useless scans. In fact, most doctors hate it and only do it to protect themselves against lawsuits.

The other blindspot many people in this thread have is that just as you can have shitty doctors, you have many more patients with shitty knowledge of medicine.

My own view is that once you pick your doctor, stay informed but at the end of the day, you need to trust his judgement. If you don't, find another doctor. Why? Because ultimately, no surgeon can guarantee a successful outcome. So if you don't trust the doctor or have any doubt about him, if the outcome is poor, you will be inclined to blame him irrespective of whether he is at fault(more times than no, he's not at fault.)

This is not very different from being a developer. If I am hired as a developer, I will take my client's input on the big decisions and let him make the decision if he wants to for certain things. But if my client wants to micromanage me and pick the names of the variables I use in my code or question my coding style, well, he'd be better off with another developer. Ideally, he should have never hired me based on my sample code.
True, but the sites it's working against aren't the content providers, just the advertisers. As such, it's not intending to help you violate anyone's TOS in particular (except maybe and advertiser).
Estrogen can be administered with other compounds to reduce the chance of cancer from interaction with oxygen radicals:

http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/publications/in-vivo/Vol2_Iss10...

Anyways, there's always something that's going to cause cancer in your body until we determine a way of hardening the cellular death and reproduction systems.
> It destroyed the morale of Athenian commanders and led indirectly to total defeat a year later

Foolish crowd; perhaps most of them are.
Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts?
Mine are Radiolab[1] and Hardcore History[2]. Have yet to find any others remotely as good, except maybe This American Life.

What are your favorites?

[1] - http://www.radiolab.org/

[2] - http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
There's a difference between saying "medication works" and saying "medication works by correcting a chemical imbalance".

> Docs seem sorta-OK prescribing amphetamines in combination, but vastly more hesitant to even consider opiate treatment for depression.)

Ketamine is currently experimental for major depression and anhedonia.

Opiates are currently the med most used in death by suicide in the UK, (#1 opiates, #4 opiate and paracetamol combination) so it seems reasonable to be cautious about prescribing opiates to a group at increased risk of suicide.
http://fideloper.com/hexagonal-architecture

Another page about it, also couldn't get to the linked article.
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There is a lot of churn in this space. Frameworks, languages, operational methodologies. When we were recruiting at Blekko and we explained that most of our code was written in Perl5, it had an interesting effect on candidates. Either relief because they knew we weren't going to pull some specific set of technologies out of the millions and demand 5+ years experience, or angst because they knew that working on code at Blekko wouldn't add any of those dozens of technologies to their resume.

At some point there is an operational advantage to having a consistent set of core technologies. If we make it so that the only way engineers can be successful is by constantly looking up answers on SO or elsewhere, then I think we've failed as an industry.
I honestly thought the "pattycake" gag was funnier. There's also a bit where Roger flips through the photos rapidly making them appear to "move" and thereby getting all meta about the medium of animation itself.
Amongst other things, including the new avenues for filing breaches of copyright against web sites and content providers.
> It seems like a lot of otherwise ok or fun activities could create the risk of a harmful social effect.

I think society has the right to regulate lots of different things that create externalized risk.[1] That does not mean that society should ban anything that creates risk.

[1] Note that certain things, like insurance arrangements, are not externalized costs.
Also: in the US foreign (or at least European) movies seem to attract an aging demographic.
The FSF/GNU ideology is silly, and we'd be better off without it
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It does. The problem is simply solved because Elixir has preemptive multitasking [1], and supports millions of processes on a simple server. So let say you have a blocking function fetch_data_sync, and want to execute it in a non blocking way: just spawn a process:

task = Task.async(fn -> fetch_data_sync() end)
do_some_other_work()
Task.await(task) |> do_something_with_data()

So you can mix 'red' and 'blue' functions as much as you want. Problem solved.

[1] Erlang/Elixir multitasking is often called preemptive, but in fact it is a little bit more subtle than that. It is however a good first approximation when writing code.
To think of the simplest and silliest example - you can get a shovel and dig as deep as realistically possible. Even our most advanced rovers dig hilariously shallow holes(due to technical limitations) and our science would be improved tenfold if we could simply roll over a couple rocks and punch a few holes through the ground.
For mechanical theorem proving there is ACL2 which integrates machine learning into the system. See http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3034 also Coq has machine learning add ons
http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5467
What JavaScript needs (and other languages need, too) are first-class continuations. First-class delimited continuations to be precise. If you have those, you can implement whatever control flow you'd like, such as coroutines.
I'm of the mindset that most people actually like advertising when the advertisements are highly relevant and not in-your-face.

My first job was at a movie theater and we lined the wall with movie posters of the movies coming out. People just walked over to them and checked them out to see if there was anything of interest coming out in the next few months.

One of the activities in the city I live in now is a movies in the park which is sponsored by some local company. They show a quick 2 minute ad or something and mention that the company sponsored the activity. I wouldn't ever pay to go watch the movie, and am always glad that the sponsoring company essentially paid for me.

It is unfortunate that most modern advertisements online don't try to take a similar approach and show highly relevant ads or just sponsor something they want to exist.

I run a site which is 100% ad-supported, so I'm obviously biased.
Yeah, we're sort of in this odd space: GitHub has a lot of us "big tech" happy to be in a space with a lot of people collaborating, but we're having to spend pretty big in order to be productive.
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There are distribution deals with studios for all distribution to a given location and/or media within different regions. There is some content that is negotiated individually, others en-mass. It is often per-movie, but this only makes things more complicated, not less.
- Dan Carlin hardcore history
- The startup chat [Steli and Hiten]
- The Tim Ferris show
- a16z
- Stuff You Shuld Know
- Startup Podcast
- Zen Founder
Rockets and People: memoirs of a contributor to Soviet space program
"Desperate" does seem like a bit strong of a word to describe a goal that is achievable with 0 effort.
There is a massive cultural pressure on women in America (and in many countries) to have children. Its in the movies, magazines, and comes up amazingly often in casual conversations. Regardless of what people say, it also comes with a social stigma in different cases.

The point of this type of attention is to highlight the validity of making this choice in the hope that it might reduce the cultural pressure. I'm sure many men don't care, since the pressure is generally placed on women.
Kids would probably enjoy the interactive sculpture installations of a nice playground like Dennis the Menace Park - or an interactive science museum intended for all age audiences like the Exploratorium.

Depending on what age the kid is, a natural history musume or modern art museum would probably be wiser than something full of oil paintings. Kids with internet access have seen art. Show them the world, science, fun. Oil paintings are not fun.

http://exploratorium.edu
Except in this case it's explicitly about class issues.
> Who cares?

Everyone trying to pressure these people into having children, apparently.
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Is there any info about the per connection memory usage?
There was a really big video store across the road from me. They made most of their money via porn I heard. Normal movies were 1 buck per day. It was very busy up to a year ago.

Then it moved down the road, a bit far for me to walk when I felt like being on the couch. So I stopped going.

It's still very busy though.

It also has a good website where you can look stuff up online. It was also convienient to grab a bottle of wine/beer and popcorn etc at normal prices (not insane cinema style prices). They have stuff which the big online video distributors have and it is more convenient in many ways.

But then again, this is Berlin... and there are still plenty of vinyl stores and such like. In a lot of ways it's the city time forgot.
Yes, but you could probably make a case for sending DMCA takedowns to the chromium repo because someone doesn't like that the old versions "circumvent" the ads at which point the ball is in their court. If they fail to take action, they now have knowledge and potentially "intent"
> Apple Records didn't have a problem with Apple Computer until Apple Computer started selling music.

Untrue!

> In 1978, Apple Corps, the Beatles-founded holding company and owner of their record label, Apple Records, filed a lawsuit against Apple Computer for trademark infringement. The suit was settled in 1981 with an undisclosed amount being paid to Apple Corps. This amount was estimated to be US$50–250 million, but was later revealed to be $80,000. As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed not to enter the music business, and Apple Corps agreed not to enter the computer business.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
From reading the article it seems to me that it's not you, but your sensors that post the colour. So you specify the min/max range of your sensor values, a colour which is mapped to middle of that range and then the colour changes depending on the sensors current value.
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Wireless Gestural Motion Controller Converting Motion to Sound
TZM Creative Lab introduces their first product, Motus – Creative Motion Enhancer. A wireless device converting motion to sound, a creative tool for professional musicians, dancers and artists, an intelligent toy for kids and grown-ups. Available on crowdfunding campaign now, for less than $100.

Everything about Motus including inspiring demo video is here: https://motus.io
Hulu is sort of doing this. They have their baseline Hulu+ ($7.99, IIRC). And now an ad-free (for most content, some licensing means there are commercials at the start and end of a few shows) for an extra few dollars. And now you can get Showtime (?) content for an extra few dollars.

Personally, I think it's brilliant (mostly). A multi-tiered platform with expanding, customizable content access. Add in a sports package and a few more premium content channels, and it's what cable should have become for a fraction of the cost.
Buying devices only from Google or Microsoft is a little better as it might remove one layer of involuntary data sharing but it would still be better wiping off Android and replacing it with something else that is more privacy oriented...
Show HN: Visualizing voice communication in league of legends
This is more reverse natural selection... i.e. the most intelligent career driven people seem much more likely to want to go kid free.
> It's defeated by cloud cover and fog.

Only on Earth we used it as one of the navigation systems to get astronauts on the moon.
Microsoft sells laptops from different manufacturers with Signature Edition. Those laptops don't have any junk.
> I'm sure many men don't care, since the pressure is generally placed on women.

As a man with a mother who asks when she'll get grandchildren at every opportunity, I'm going to have to disagree with you there.
Ask HN: How do I seek work as a self-trained programmer?
So unfortunately I'm not doing too well in my CS program, particularly in the mathematics. I enjoy the intellectual engagement but I have difficulty keeping pace with a full course load. At the same time, programming is one of the few skills I have and feel like I can consistently exploit, next to maybe report-writing and to an extent public speaking. AFAICT the latter are auxiliary to careers and are difficult to make as a primary thrust with living pay. (I'm not too confident this is 100% true, but I suspect that it is true.)

So irregardless of my academic performance I wish to develop my programming ability. Becoming a competent self-taught, self-marketing programmer seems like a fairly large task. I am wondering how the self-taught among us broke into the industry, whether the same industry conditions hold now as then, and how to go about finding gainful employment as a self-taught programmer.

If anyone has any insight or advice on these questions, I humbly accept it.
You may enjoy Automated Theory Formation in Pure Mathematics (2012).

https://books.google.com/books?id=qJrSBwAAQBAJ
My hope is that I can delete this in the future.

It's a scary place to be in when we're 1) dependent on a third party, 2) we have to follow GitHub and the API down the rabbit whole, and 3) we are just trying to enable our team to get going fast and hope in time GitHub can just give us all the right tools that check at least some boxes we need, i.e. very granular management to delegate decision making even more.
Pretty funny. The mop bucket as the droid.
I'd say it's there to facilitate communication, but as in all forms of communication, there are norms of etiquette to be observed.
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This sounds like some stuff I read from a Ha-Joon Chang book once. Who or where can I read more along these lines?

I am Peruvian so the topic is extremely interesting to me.
If done directly on devices too, I'm assuming runtime hacks similar to Xposed that swap code out right away.
Awesome job, guys. Keep it up.
His book "Get Smarter" is a pretty amusing read, too.
Good lord, did they trademark Crush as well?
Works fine on Linux. The IDE is Java based and it packages all the necessary tools with it so it should work fine anywhere.
Bingo. Good marketing teams usually spend more time deciding which campaigns/actions they shouldn't push out than anything else.

It boils down to that old rule of thumb that 80% of results come from 20% of actions.

When you get companies who think productivity in marketing is similar to other silos like engineering and measured in results pushed, (or when you get 'social media rockstars' who think the same) they create a ton of noise and no one is interested in what they have to say. You develop a style of almost ad-blindness to their posts.

It's far better to say a few things and nail everyone of them, than to say everything and botch most of it. It can be a challenging lesson and one that I think a lot of us have been guilty of in the past.
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As long as there is ability, and relatively common knowledge in order to create alternatives, there is less to fear. Natural monopolies aren't inherently bad so long as the ability to compete is preserved. That's just my opinion.

I don't think that the position that Facebook and Google in are inherently bad... but I do appreciate alternatives more than most. It comes down to freedom of information and accessibility of knowledge.
I used to be avowed "childfree" from age 19 through 30, irrationally fearful of losing my time and my "freedom" to parenthood.

In hindsight, I was an insufferable fool. What people like the former me fail to realize is that burning your health and your years on the hedonic treadmill is its own kind of prison, and arguably far less "free" than choosing parenthood.
Well, these "[stranded Athenian] soldiers" were relatives and friends of the crowd.

The crowd and the soldiers in the Athenian democracy were part of the same population of around a 30-50.000 people -- the Athenian citizens (although in some battles slaves also fought, including in this one, the crowd wound't be that tough on the generals if those were perished).
Promises also solve this problem. If you immediately resolve a promise it isn't actually resolved until the next event loop "tick":

new Promise(resolve => resolve("resolved!")).then(result => console.log(result));
console.log("next statement");

Prints "next statement" then "resolved!".
Yeah this was a thing in the laravel community last year when the leaders went through their PoEA phase.

It's largely passed now and CQRS has as well, its fun to watch though.
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Now factor in all the failures on the pad. Lets round to 400 Falcon-9s. And thats just for the ISS. To go to Mars, you also need to get off Mars. Here are some of the challenges to doing that:

Constraints are placed on the MAV by the Martian environment and the entry, descent and landing (EDL) system used. The MAV will have to endure daily temperature swings of up to about 100C with an annual maximum of about 24C and minimum of 111C. (These values were calculated using the NASA Ames Global Climate model for Holden Crater, which was the MSL candidate site with the greatest variation in temperature and is assumed to be representative of a MSR landing site.)Current MSR architecture places the MAV in a sky-crane type lander along with a fetch rover to re-trieve the samples. The EDL system constrains both geometric and mass limits on the system. The baseline design is a solid rocket. However, the thrust of solid rockets is dependent on their temperature. Additionally, any cracking of the fuel grain could lead to a cata-strophic failure."

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/marsconcepts2012/pdf/4342.p...

Also, and I will have nerd-sniped away any productivity now from you dear reader, all of NASA's papers are public. Here is the whitpaper on a Mars Ascent Vehicle:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2011001...

(be warned, this is going to kill any work for the day)
You can use Go with gomobile https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Mobile#sdk-applications-an... . It works okay but the lack of support for exporting slices really limits things.
Kids cost a lot spread gradually over time, for the most part.

If your monthly expenses increase by ~$100-$400 a month at first, that's reasonably survivable for the majority of couples, and other increases can be planned for.

If your month income suddenly declines by $10000 a month as in your example, you're probably fucked.
>this accomplishes all of your objectives

No, it doesn't. It doesn't at all! Establishing human presence on Mars is one of the core objectives of the whole program. It's one of the reasons we care about Mars. Hell, moving gradually toward making additional homes for human beings is part of why we do space exploration in general. Yes, you can gather rocks via robots and send back data and whatever else, but to claim that doing so exhausts the set of reasonable objectives for Mars missions is just silly.

Here's a thought experiment to confirm: How many probes have we flown to how many planets in the solar system? Any idea, roughly, when the first one happened, or the last? You may know, but most folks have no idea. Conversely: where in the solar system have humans been? Any idea when we first got there, or when the last trip was? Unlike all the many highly valuable probe missions we've sent, here, most people actually know something about it. This is because people care about other people and their experiences, in a way that they don't care about scientific results as such. Putting human beings on other worlds is an end in itself, and it is simply not accomplished by sending drones instead.
The study compared results at hospitals when senior doctors were away at cardiology conferences with the same hospitals when the senior doctors were present. They also restricted the study to "acute, life-threatening cardiac conditions" so presumably these were cases that could not be delayed until the senior doctors returned. That seems like it would eliminate most of the effect of case selection.
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Ask HN: How can I as a Developer network with the senior management
Ask HN: How can I as a Software Developer network with the senior management/leadership in my organisation so as to understand all the business development , marketing & strategy that is built atop all I code whether bug fixes or new features?
QR codes are legitimately great for what they're good at: barcode replacements.

And in answer to your question, yes, their usage has grown and expanded. While traditional barcodes remain for basic UPCs, a lot of manufacturers are utilising QR codes for expanded product information.

The way that QR codes failed is that marketers and technologists wanted to use them for everything. Website URLs, business cards, phone numbers, etc. You name it, they wanted to QR-codify it.

This failed because: (A) nobody wanted that information regardless, (B) QR codes were never well integrated into smartphones, (C) they abused them too soon and everyone got distrustful.

I'm glad "social" QR codes are dead. I'm also glad to have QR codes as a better barcode alternative for the medium to long term.
I think I did answer the question. He can't do business with us because our bank partners don't want to support certain types of businesses. If you are wondering why the banks don't want to support certain types of businesses, I could only speculate but I'd guess it is reputation risk and they may have seen that category as a front for other illegal activity in the past. But that is their decision to make, not ours.

For example, Stripe also prohibits adult content which is largely (I would guess) a result of input from Wells Fargo https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses