skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an American, it's easy to blame this on HIPAA compliance, but IMHO it has just as much to do with the speed/method in which medical malpractice suits are managed in Brazil. NPR had an article in which it took 17 years for a family to finally collect payment for medical malpractice. I also read a legal brief on the topic which indicated how this is slowly changing in Brazil.

On the other hand, in the US, many physicians are afraid to push the limit from the norm because they are afraid of being sued. That's not an unwarranted fear.

Some links on medical malpractice in Brazil:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/11/05/359830235/b...

http://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
> For some reason Verizon Fios has avoided LA proper but laid out Fiber along the outskirts and in Ventura County years ago.

Not sure what you mean. I have Fios and I live in Los Angeles proper. The whole city doesn't have Fios, but parts of it certainly do.
If someone wants to prove they are Satoshi Nakamoto all they have to do is sign a message with the private keys from the genesis block. Until then it's a little pointless to guess.
Deleted my FB and Twatter for this reason. I don't understand why someone can't just build a simple product and leave it be.
Cordova iOS 4.0.0 with support for WKWebView
One that bugs me, is IIS with .Net projects, such as WCF where condition validation fails returns a 500 error, instead of a 400... I've come to implement a global exception handler to inspect the exceptions to handle these things, so only actual server-side errors return 500... others will wrap out.

Mainly because I got tired of seeing certain classes of errors showing up in my main error logs, when they are being caught, but throwing 500 errors... mainly pen-test/bots trying to get in.
NN Playing Atari Games Gets an Upgrade – With Code, YouTube Demo
A good developer :)
Inflatable actually implies a burning inner-tube or raft.
I can't imagine you were ever really a Python programmer if you enjoy progamming in Java. It's almost the anti-python
The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard got funded, goes Open Source
ESPN is a big company.
> Java is built on language concepts that are now 20 years old.

Name me at least one language, even remotely mainstream, that is built on language concepts which aren't at least 20 years old.
Same! I can't tell if the writer is a master of irony or really that dense.

I'm going with the former.
Pretty much. There's a syntax and grammar to the syllables involved that leads to the ones that will probably never happen, but are still amusing to read. With its layout, you can determine what the injury is, if it was intentional, how many times the person was injured, etc. It's a pretty dense, nicely designed coding format that some people just don't understand.
System.out.println("Foobar");

Either you're referring to something else or you misunderstood the language. The `out` stream is static so there is no need to create your own class first. (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/System.ht...)
Reading the other comments, this is apparently how they are designed. Except, instead of objects and verbs it is a sequence of related instances.
I almost exclusively use a non-official mobile app to access Twitter. It doesn't seem to have been affected by their "Facebooking" changes, but I wonder how long until that shoe drops.
Tell HN: New Uber user, Saturday night surge $200 to get home
I'm a new Uber user, and I've never had anything but praise for it.

Sat night however, out late in the city, need to drop my friend home and then back on to my house. I live in the suburbs so it's a long cab ride. I've had a few drinks and fumble my way past the surge pricing notification on Uber.

Next morning, check the email from Uber to see how much it cost to get home. I was expecting it to be quite alot - maybe $100.

$200 to get home on a Saturday night - ouch - I could have flown to a different city for a night out for that.

I don't blame Uber - they gave a super clear warning to me. However my pure joy honeymoon with Uber is over.
A docker container to clean up your docker containers
As a recent LA transplant from SF, I found it ironic that TWC offers such a fast, affordable internet service, yet SF - arguably the modern global hub of tech - struggles with slow, expensive internet, almost throughout.

As a tech worker, this is easily one of the better LA v. SF advantages.
My favourite version is glHack: http://glhack.sourceforge.net

It has nicer 2D tiles than the QT ones IMO and you can toggle between the tiles and ASCII mode (with a few enhancements) by pressing tab.

Too bad it's so old. I wonder if there's any chance of it getting ported to 3.6.0.
I am one of them. But keeping your timeline manageable takes trimming (much like RSS). But maybe that is too much work for some people. Facebook (they make a selection) and Snapchat (it disappears) take care of that (but I don't want them to).
I know someone with a really similar name. He should take photos of the Richard Prince ones in a gallery, add a caption or something to claim fair use, and sell them as his-similar-name originals. Sounds like the key to plausibility would be to sell e.g. 10 at $100K rather than 100K at $10, plus it would be a lot less effort.
I'll argue there was a later screw-up on the desktop browser (and really mobile too): Unite sucked resources from much for a long while, failure to tackle some of the technical debt (things that manifested itself such as the integer maths used for percentage values in CSS, contrary to every other browser out there, and that went unchanged as layouts became increasingly complex and the web relied ever more heavily on CSS), and in later years general lack of investment (while Opera was posting record profits on a quarterly basis) in Presto leading it to fall further and further behind the competition causing ever worsening site-compatibility issues.
The other thing we have here that the valley is missing is lots of good looking people. Downvote me you will...
Which large companies have you worked for? I've worked in both environments and seen way more failed projects on the enterprise side.

However when an enterprise ships something, the shipped product tends to be more stable. There's tradeoffs to be made and large companies often prioritize stability and their reputation over time to market and spending money.

As a startup, I would look for people who have less specialized experience and are able to cover as many of my bases as possible. Can the developer field a page at 2am and login to the production environment to fix a problem? Can the developer help my sales people with a desktop support issue while the lone IT guy is on vacation? Can the developer make the product work on a single AWS micro instances until we get some sort of traction/funding?

The theme here is a scrappy, do-whatever-it-takes mindset that's often missing in the enterprise where people learn to CYA lest the bureaucracy come down on them for cutting corners.
I came here to say "oh god not again", but then I read it and found out gwern was involved in the investigation. Suddenly it's quite interesting. :)
Because the apps ecosystem is getting more and more locked into Play Services, which are not part of AOSP.
Dear Twitter, please retain real-time properties in a subset of the platform, e.g. lists. If content is not being read in real time, it is less likely to be posted in real time. Today, there is unique and timely content on Twitter, unavailable elsewhere. If that original content is lost, Twitter will subside into the churning sea of republishers.
i hate inbox. when they shut down gmail, I am going to write google off from my life.
This is so ridiculous, it's literally unbelievable. My home city, Kiev(Ukraine), has multiple 1 Gbit residential broadband providers for $6 - $15. Not joking.
There is good evidence that dolphins can see inside other mammals with their sonar and determine if there is a pregnancy. They can get information about your innards.
"35% per 10µg" expresses a linear relationship. If someone says that's what it is, I'm going to assume they measured a linear relationship. It makes perfect sense if that is indeed the reality, and I see no reason why it cannot be.

Unless you've got some actual conflicting data, it just sounds like you have unfavorable agenda.
You're comparing an OS independent language to an entire operating system? I think you're probably right, I don't think there is a sane comparison. But I don't think that's what the parent was referring to.

I'm not sure there are too many languages that provide (eg via slf4j or JMX) extremely customisable, universal logging and monitoring across multiple libraries that are used together in a single application. That's not a function of the language itself though, just the maturity of the libraries and ecosystem around it. Combine that with the tooling (eg IntelliJ IDEA) and no matter how much you might think Java as a language is verbose/clunky/crappy (which I tend to agree with), it's pretty hard to beat for large, complex, maintainable systems.
You're probably getting downvoted because it's factually not true.

System.out.println("Hello, world!");

No new classes there.
Sorry, "this" is a reserved word. ;)
For purposes of discussion, let's take it as a given that a work-hire tests are the best way to screen candidates.

The effort required to administer an on-site work-hire test is non-zero, therefore I cannot administer such a test to every applicant.

I therefore need a way to determine who to bring on-site, in order to administer such a test. I cannot phone screen every single applicant due to the cost involved.

That process could also be a work-hire test of some sort (e.g. a remote coding project), but regardless of what has been said on this thread, many good applicants will drop off at this step. I know this empirically, because I've experienced it, many, many times.

Additionally, the people who tend to drop off because of this extra effort tend to be senior applicants, who often have multiple offers from multiple companies due to the competiveness of the current hiring market. It also disproportionately drives away passive candidates, who are often the best candidates, because the best candidates are often not looking for work (since they are good, people who have worked with them previously want to work with them again, and they get poached).

So I need some method of sourcing and filtering candidates down that is non-intrusive to both our development team AND the applicant. This is the reality. This simply has to happen in a startup's hiring pipeline.

Currently, most companies do this by looking at resumes. That is obviously sub-optimal.

Any suggestions for alternatives?

EDIT: spelling.
There really is... diff tools that point to the compiler (or a parse tree for dynamically-typed languages) could be so much smarter than what we have now.
Lots of headlines at HN from Mozilla these days.

They're having a developer conference so big announcements are concentrated.
This one is tricky. H1B visa holder salaries are transparent. And, they tend to make less than their US citizen peers. But, I guess it would need to be transparent for everyone for it to work out. There have been companies that have done it, but they've often already been focused on treating everyone fairly before or as part of the move to transparency. If the goal of the company is not to engender a team spirit by treating everybody as well as possible, but instead to maximize profits, then it would likely tend toward executives trying to keep pay low across all employees and would limit their willingness to hire outliers who demand very high salaries.

I don't know, is what I think I'm trying to say. There hasn't been a lot of data...very few companies are open about the salaries they pay, and there is a definitely hesitation among employees about discussing their salary (and it is often discouraged by the company, to boot).