skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in this space for a very long time. Here are my thoughts on health data integration [0]. In a nutshell:

"At it's core the government need only do one thing to encourage innovation in the interoperability space and it is this:

The government, by means of regulation and incentive, ensure that any vendor of data systems that create or store data make adequate interoperability features and documentation available for said system.

I call this the Core Mandate. The core mandate must be unequivocal with no loopholes. What do I mean by "interoperability features"? Simply:

- If a system creates data, the ability to read that data is fully described in documentation.

- If a system stores data, the vendor will provide an API and/or SDK, with accompanying documentation, such that authenticated requests may create, read, update or delete that data programmatically as appropriate.

A system is defined as any software application or hardware device."

[0] http://siculars.posthaven.com/health-data-integration-regula...
by "people" you mean Dmitry, who was hired by Adobe and subsequently wrote Snap.svg (perhaps with others, though he seems to be the primary maintainer of both libs)
The Q-Carbon age... This will be a revolution in tooling if they deliver and it can be made cheap enough.
The old 4 quadrants of products was for an early 2000s Apple that staved off bankruptcy, not 2015 Apple that uses its supply chain mastery as a competitive advantage.
Because you have to basically implement half a browser for SVG. You need to parse the XML into a DOM and apply CSS that you also need to parse (also javascript in case of animated SVGs that use JS)
> Groovy creator Guillaume Laforge blogged that, “an acquainted Groovy eye would immediately notice the inspiration the Swift designers took from Groovy.”

Guillaume Laforge is NOT the creator of the Groovy Language, James Strachan is. And Swift did not take inspiration from Groovy.

What else is inaccurate in the article? 6 months after it was written, Pivotal voted against Groovy's diversion into static typing and Android development by retrenching Laforge and the programmer working on it.
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I can't find the link (though I'm sure it was on HN at the time...), but there was a talk by the Sony PS4 compiler people that touched on this a while ago. They ended up open sourcing as much PS4 stuff as they could, not because they wanted to as such, but because it was taking them too much time to do the merge each time they updated their copy.
I'm a little confused. Do you need some kind of smart phone holder that has a slot for your phone and lenses in front of each eye? If so, where do you get that?
Movie theater popcorn is still the gold standard, right? 900-1900% markup, according to this[1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/movie-theater-concession-pric...
I think it's a spectrum.

For me the ones I consider "more bro" than myself are those that exhibit subtle sexism that they are clearly trying to be joking about but it just comes off as ... PC bro. But I'm sure I have plenty of Bro qualities myself.

I've seen enough unintentional sexism in my experience to think the claims of prevalent bro'ness are not entirely unfounded.
1. ForeignObject support still sucks.

2. WebGL and even Canvas are significantly more performant. I realize that's comparing apples and oranges... Still, if I had a choice for any data visualization project today I'd use WebGL rendering, or ThreeJS etc.
It causes trouble for non-constructive logics, too. Any logic with an identity principle will be made inconsistent with the inclusion of `fix : forall a . (a -> a) -> a`.

By yours are you referring to `forall a . a -> a`? I don't see how that principle is troubling at all.
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Ah, good to know. My last Mac was m68k (Performa 630CD, one of the very last m68k models), so my memories include seeing plenty of CODE resources when playing around with ResEdit.
I supervised a team of people and two of them made more than I did. I simply brought it up as another point in my argument for why my compensation should be adjusted a long with a very conservatively calibrated payscale report. I got a 30% raise as a result.
We're living in the social construct that we constructed socially over hundreds of years.
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Oh man, am I pissed when FB learns something from my current Googling subjects and advertises me this creepily specific stuff. I always report it and ask to hide it, it's super offensive that it would do that. I try to keep FB use restricted to an incognito window for this reason and this doesn't often happen.

But this wasn't what we were talking about, I thought surveillance meant that the conversations you have on FB might be less anonymous than having them in real life - that's what it means to me. Except that the consquences are the same: none. la-de-da.

to turn it right around: "If the target doesn't feel the need to change their behavior, are you really restricting his/her freedom in any way?" Plus, it's not "need to change their behavior". Participating on FB is new behavior.

it's like having a chatty new friend, but who is gossipy. You know what you're getting into when you're talking with them, could still be worth it, and for billions of people including me, it is. I'm much more concerned with what FB shows my friends (i.e. my privacy settings) than some nebulous phantom objection to the fact that it's not all encrypted in a way that is end-to-end between clients, hiding the traffic even from facebook, generating dummy traffic with friends you're not actually talking to etc.

That would be the actual answer to the "surveillance" objection, and I guarantee you that even on this technical forum, the previous paragraph is the first time you even heard of this off-the-wall idea that nobody is suggesting. Stopping FB surveillance is just a non-issue.
"Google Cardboard."

Verizon is handing them out free right now, as a promo with Star Wars.

The New York Times sent them free to every Sunday subscriber, a few weeks ago.

Amazon has them, too. Also, here:

https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/get-cardboard/
I tend to read everything so I usually make light of the delay involved by saying something like "I'm sending this to my attorney for review now" (at which point I put on my glasses, head down and page through the doc for while..).
How is instapush similar?
Most of the weight you lose is water, you lose ~100 grams of weight from carbon loss (0.22 lbs, from 0.012g of carbon per breath).

Veritasium has a nice video on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2e0rWvjKI
what's the deal with multicast?
Would bitcodin be handling the takedown requests?
Agreed. For them, offline-first is very likely to be more important.
What do 12000 people do at Facebook?

Edit:

(Apart from sitting around and downvoting me).

Does it really take 12000 people to run a site where people write about what they're doing, and upload some photos and videos? Instagram had 13 employees when they were acquired by Facebook.
>every card set we have rendered as a pngcrushed png (except for the absolute largest size) is a smaller than the SVG source code.

Considering SVG is XML and PNG is binary, I am not totally surprised. Does that still hold after gzip compression?
I didn't name names because I didn't recall who did what. But when we were looking for people with SVG experience, I went down the contributor list to both projects and something like the top 10 were all now at Adobe. This is my recollection from over a year ago so I may have some details slightly wrong.

I think the more interesting aspect is that Adobe hires so many developers with vector graphics experience that it is harder to find them in the SF Bay Area (from the talent pool who is interested/willing to work at a startup). Obviously, this is conjecture.

But definitely a huge thanks to Dmitry for his work and for sharing it.
I wasn't ignoring them, or at least only as much as you're ignoring the points you're responding to. There's a "hidden" population of qualified workers between firms hiring and the general population. Comparing the latter two without comparing to the former gives some information, but does not necessarily point to where the disparity occurs. It could be occurring in education, or hiring, or both. Ignore either one at your own peril.

Also, your first article is covering a topic that's not even relevant here -- How many STEM bachelors continue to a PhD. That doesn't mean that women are entering nor achieving STEM degrees at a proportion comparable to the general population.
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They don't make it easy to do what you're asking.

Mostly because it's a panorama. Also because it's a single jpg, but it only shows the left eye. The right eye data is embedded as a BASE64 encoded JPEG that is stored in the XMP data of the image. Yup.
(Disclaimer: I enjoy coffee and alcohol but am not addicted to either.)

Hmm, call me cynical but somehow I'm always disinclined to believe these perfect results. For once, I'd like to read - I gave up alcohol and turns out I was wrong. So I went back to 2 beers a week I ended up much happier.

(Aside: You can psychoanalyze my comment to fit any narrative you want, but I think I'm pretty good at introspection.)
Why?, what did it say, and what do you expect to happen?
It's funny how so much of political debate can boil down to this fairly simple idea.

Not really, it's an irrelevant distinction. If you have the right deprive me of food, shelter, etc. then I have the right to kill you in order to take those things for myself.
Indeed. As I note in the post, this wasn't something we _needed_ to do at that time, we were just curious.

Replacing a function with a faster implementation is trivial; its just another deployment and we do several of those each week. Changing data format adds operational complexity - two codepaths need to be run and maintained and we increase system load and lower response times for the duration. (The data format is versioned, so that's easy - no architectural problem there).

Its totally worth doing if you need to, and we're not afraid of that, but you don't do it on a whim - it takes proper planning and testing and needs multiple people involved.
I actually think that term "pet" alone is politically incorrect as it implies that an owner is somehow superior. I prefer to call my non-human roommates "companions"!
look into gstreamer. The HLS segmenter is kind of crap, but will handle basic stuff with no problems. It has bindings for python among others.

I'm working on a better one and hopefully I can convince my client to push it to up stream.
How does KiCad compare to Eagle?
Yeah, I wasn't thinking of the 30 minute delivery in this scenario, but rather an efficient next-day or same-day parcel delivery system. It'd presumably be much more efficient than door-to-door service. If we can perfect driverless vehicles also (driverless delivery trucks, anybody?), this would probably be the ideal delivery scheme. Heck, with that level of automation, if you time things right your trucks may never even need to come to a complete stop.

That said, you could probably extend the range of the 30-minute service with a strategy similar to this. Just bundle orders for 10 minutes, send vehicles 10 minutes out and then the drones fly 5-10 minutes to deliver the package.

Additionally, you could probably keep delivery trucks stocked with some of the top items as well and surprise/delight the customer with "Hey, we just so happen to have 30 minute delivery available now if you want it." I'm no SCM expert, though, so that could very well be a waste of more-valuable space.
In both cases, it's a hassle (compared to the rating system in Uber/Lyft).
<< Says a habitual coffee drinker who came to the habit late in life, and who is very happy he's moderately dependent on a substance which is highly unlikely to kill him >>

Coffee will do more than not kill you; it was recently found to confer a "reduced risk of dying from heart disease and certain other causes"!

<< Compared with abstainers, nonsmokers who drank a cup of coffee a day had a 6 percent reduced risk of death, one to three cups an 8 percent reduced risk, three to five cups a 15 percent reduced risk, and more than five cups a 12 percent reduced risk. There was little difference whether they drank caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee. The association persisted after controlling for age, alcohol consumption, B.M.I. and other health and diet factors. >>

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/coffee-tied-to-lowe...
You're right, Microsoft has pushed a lot of changes upstream to projects in the past for it's own selfish reasons. That doesn't mean said changes are bad, a lot of times they're fixing problems that they're tired of having to provide support for to end users.
Testing on Linux, if ran as root it does, but if you are running ps auxwwe as normal user, it is only showing env variables for that user.
Saying that "He's rich he can give a lot. I'll give when I get rich."

When in fact the OP is already in a position to give, he just needs some perspective.
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Are you saying they should make a huge breadth of products because supply chain?
From people I know in the trucking business, the problem with delivering to Amazon's warehouses is inefficiencies in getting the trucks into and out of the yard. They're just not being run well. Stories of 50-truck-long queues being run off by the local police for blocking entrances to other nearby businesses..

Hopefully this will help, as the trucks can deadhead[0] to their warehouse and do a drop/hook[1], with the trailers being positioned to the warehouse doors by Amazon's own employees acting as yard dogs[2] for loading/unloading the contents. This lets Amazon manage the activity in their yard themselves and hopefully be more organized.

[0] Drive just the truck portion, without a trailer.

[1] The cab (only) portion of the truck drives to where the trailer is, hooks up and drives away with it. Upon delivery, they park the trailer in the yard, lower the landing legs and unhook.

[2] A yard dog is a specialized truck that is shorter and more maneuverable, able to make tighter turns in the confined spaces of a yard.
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I have. People tend to forget about you unless you keep talking, but that's easily solved with video conferencing.
I agree with your sentiment, though I feel you could have been a bit more terse. However, I agree with SamReidHughes, is this really that much of a problem?

Also,
"The chief complaint..."? Are you representing more than your own opinion here?
> That $15 billion is going to have to come from somewhere.

While governments may tend to think that way, it's ridiculous to assume that once they have a source of revenue it must never go away. That $15 billion could just go away.

More to the point, they already don't currently derive that level of revenue from taxi medallions; those medallions have already been sold. So the only question is whether they try to invent a new source of revenue by adding targeted taxes on something that isn't currently subject to targeted taxes.
If my son is lazy and live on my $45B fortune after I pass away, he alone can't effect Joe's living cost. So how would giving my money back to the society end up helping Mr. Joe? If I make $80 per hour today, and my CEO makes $1000 per hour, are you suggesting that putting all that $45B back will eventually turn a similar me salary to $200 per hour, while the CEO continues to stay at $1000, so closing the wealth gap, 60 years from now.
Can anyone explain to me how they know there's a dark matter knot there?
Encouraging rich people to fritter away their money on ephemeral objects instead of investing in technologies and equipment which would improve per captica productivity would be good?
I think coffee is vastly overpriced compared to Europe. I always drink gallons of the stuff whilst in Europe for several reasons, not the least of which is that it's better over there. The experience is nicer. I have a favourite small European country where I can literally buy two espressos or two cappuccinos for the price of one here. I grew up in Europe and have always preferred the European idea of cafes to the North American variety. I can also usually get a decent meal in a European cafe, albeit a one or two course meal. One can still smoke outside at the tables in quite a bit of Europe. North Americans have their knickers in a twist over smokers.
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Thanks! I've wondered about that from time to time.

Here's a link to Minsky's Law (actually two):

https://edge.org/response-detail/11644

If I recall correctly, it's also mentioned in The Society of Mind.
Animations have also been a pain point for me - part of the problem being the lack of SMIL support in some browsers as well as differing behavior and support with regards to CSS animations.
"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the 'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves." —A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
Not sure if the author of the blog post is around but I am curious how you applied for the week long stint. I approached these guys (prior to the name change I think) and didn't get a clear answer for how one gets into the short-term residency program (my memory is fuzzy but I seem to recall they said it was invite-only at that time).

Wish there was something like this in the Bay area. We have cool communities like Hacker Dojo and meetups, but I quite like the idea of taking a week or two off from work and getting deeper into technical topics alongside other experienced developers.
I understand that some folks don't like dishwashing. Just countering the hyperbole that gets thrown around. I too washed dishes for a decade. I didn't end up resentful and angry.
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There is something particularly horrific about being killed in a political purge. Getting killed by a falling bomb isn't personal; you just happened to be under the wrong piece of airspace at the wrong time. The people who died in the Reign of Terror or Stalin's Purges or the Cambodian genocide lost a pernicious game of playground politics. Their executioners knew their names.
so many assumptions there.
Then I must have the right to kill and loot you after you get done killing and looting them.

This is starting to sound like Fallout. Or maybe we should get onto welding spikes all over our vehicles and wearing hockey masks and assless chaps and go for a more Mad Max vibe.
No no no, remember, the official story is that all whites are interchangeable members of an oppressive conspiracy. :|
What about the fact that you're removing them from their families? Yes, the children may have a better future but they also become disconnected from their communities.
In your experience, how often do startups try to play these sorts of equity games? My feeling is that it's overwhelmingly common, but this is based only on interview experiences with 2 startups and on previous HN discussions.
Interesting, thank you.
That first graphic is terrible data vis. Four columns. First one is for 80 years of data. Second is for 30 years. Last two are for 8 years.

Then they draw conclusions based on the differences??
For SVG to truly rise, it needs better font/text support. It should be easy to programmatically determine the width of a string of text in a given font. Unfortunately, it is not. You can go look how libraries like D3.js do it. But ultimately, pixel-perfect text with SVG is difficult/impossible. I'd really like to know if I'm wrong about that.

On the positive side, ReactJS plays great with SVG. I'm working on some basic line charts that I want ReactJS-managed so I can render them server-side too. My line chart isn't done but I tried the server-side rendering and it's working great.
AmigaOS was a lot better designed and had full preemptive multitasking, etc. Too bad Commodore sucked at marketing.
Please do! I'm on FiOS right now, and apparently Verizon doesn't want to have to maintain it, so they've sold it to Frontier who I've read are terrible and also won't do anything new with it. I would love to have a non-TimeWarner/AT&T option that's as fast as FiOS.
Yeah, there are better debuggers out there for node. Hopefully others will come along and make a list, but there's a number of graphical ones you can find with a little searching. Even visual studio has step through debugging at this point.
Perhaps you should read the submission. The larger point here is that even if you set up a network in the first place which is genuinely airgapped, as time passes and systems evolve there will be constant pressure from within and without to re-establish a network connection somewhere in order to make everyone's lives easier and eventually, whether deliberate or inadvertent, a connection will be made (and of course, we know that the NSA has a variety of infiltration and exfiltration methods to get across air gaps, such as dropping flash drives and waiting for an insider to be foolish enough to bring it inside).

Believing that an air gap exists or will continue to exist indefinitely is hence setting yourself up for some unpleasant surprises in the future, and encourages weak security designs where the network/system is crunchy on the outside and all delicious and soft and gooey on the inside. (Which is more secure, to have your local WiFi set up with WPA or whatever and have employees telnet into servers, or just go Google-style and have fully encrypted end to end links without requiring any belief in security of the links?)
slatestarcodex is the tech version of David Brooks.
"deprive of" is not a synonym for "not provide". It's completely consistent to say that you have an obligation not to actively hinder someone someone from obtaining food/shelter/etc., but no obligation to provide it to them. Stealing someone's lunch is generally considered worse than not giving them your lunch.
> You don't get a degree in theoretical physics and complain that since structural engineering is just a practical application of theoretical physics your physics curriculum really should be more focused on practical engineering.

I sometimes feel like we should just call Computer Science what it really is, Applied Computational Mathematics. Because, you're exactly right, there is a disconnect between the teachings and expectations of most CS programs.

Then again, my CS program offered lots of 'practical' courses, like iOS and web development. They even created a BA program that removed most of the math requirements and replaced them with those vocationally related classes.
25 different computing devices also places huge amounts of demand on their stores and Genius Bars, and it's really starting to show.
More than 2 years.