skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~48hrs across 3 people.

coincidentally i help organize a 48hr hackathon called nodeknockout.com
I spent my first 25 years in India and the next 15 in the US. Widespread corruption in India was one of the things I hated most. I think in the end it comes down to just social norm, peer pressure and the prevailing environment. There are kinds of behavior that would be completely unacceptable and looked down upon in India and there are other kinds of behavior that is unacceptable in the US. Corruption is one of the behaviors unacceptable in the US but prevalent in India - and people just learn from the environment they grow up in.

I think many people in India, who consider themselves to have morally 'good' - wouldn't bat an eyelid while offering bribes. They don't get push back from peers either. What irked in India is when you try to do the right thing - i.e. not take the corruption shortcut - my peers would tell me I'm stupid or naive or something to that effect. In the US if I say that I attempted corruption, my peers will probably tell me I'm morally depraved. So you need a critical mass of people that enforce and most people just follow along.
This varies by specialty/subspecialty, state, and even zip code (I'm an resident).

Rates are tough to find. I found a carrier in California that publishes their rate ranges, but California is one of the few states that has malpractice reform and damage caps. Their rates are considerably lower than in other areas. Physicians can safely carry $1million/$3million policies and be adequately protected, and as a result, premiums are much lower.

http://www.gallaghermalpractice.com/state-resources/californ...

By contrast, in Massachusetts, many HUGE verdicts have come out against physicians recently ($14 million against a radiologist in 2014), so now $3million/$5million is becoming the minimum, with physicians taking out ever larger policies in more litigious specialties.

To get down to brass tacks, the only physicians reliably making $500k annually are orthopedic surgeons these days. Their rates range from average $25,281, with minimum $10,995 and max $56,363. That's 5-10% of their pre-tax income just to practice medicine.

I know of obstetricians that had to sell their practices and join the local academic center because their individual malpractice premiums hit $120k a year.
agreed, we'll be adding public comments to the site soon (in addition to private feedback)
One of my first jobs was at a startup founded in the late 90s. We had a compiler to transpile UIs and business logic to C#, JSP, ASP.NET and Java, depending on what the end customer's requirements were.

Was this a good idea? Separate question. But that's one story of why a startup might write a compiler. I often think startups do things the hard way just to turn a boring task into an interesting one. Conveniently, good startups have technically strong people who can do this without it being a drag on productivity. This company had no shortage of talented folks--their staff have gone on to work at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and at least one YC company.
BTW, the authors effectively embraced having the functionality of using `cat` instead of < .

> The use of cat to feed a single input file to a program has to some degree superseded the shell’s < operator, which illustrates that general-purpose constructs - like cat and pipes - are often more natural than convenient special-purpose ones.
I used to flash different ROMs on my HTC Desire frequently a while back. I was experimenting with MIUI ROM and accidentally flashed a Chinese ROM. And, it so happened that I had to travel and I wasn't able to flash an English ROM back for a couple of days. I was surprised that I could manage just fine for a couple of days with a Chinese ROM (I don't know Chinese), I remember thinking about the UX because though I couldn't read the menus, I could manage just fine using the icons, for example a trash can in messages menu is definitely delete message.
> At no time did we say that Wes could not write up the bug,
which is less critical than several other public reports that we have rewarded and celebrated.

There is no bug more critical than one that results in complete access to Instagram infrastructure.
Sure, the bug is stupid, but you are fooling yourself.
Aaaand it's merged!
Interesting hypothesis, but apparently Chinese and English read at the same rate http://persquaremile.com/2011/12/21/which-reads-faster-chine...
Or you know... it's a symptom of needing a menu.
As companies grow bigger, the de-modularization of the economy increases. Not something to be very excited about.
>Surely... if they know how inaccurate their measurement system is... They must have used a more accurate system to work that out right? Why not just always use the more accurate system?

That isn't necessarily true. You can make a connection, send a known file and meter the connection on the home computer/router. Then see what the Comcast system measures.
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Surprisingly bug free so far.
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I guess if they're just a joke, they're not really death threats. But I've seen lots of things worded like death threats, that were clearly jokes.

Example: http://zedshaw.com/archive/programmers-need-to-learn-statist...

That's a joke, isn't it?
Oh absolutely! I think the main issue with the garbage is that there aren't alleys where you can have dumpsters and trucks that run through them. Doesn't mean it's odd to see trash bags on the sidewalk. Their culture of trash seems to go beyond cleanliness too actually. There are no public trash cans anywhere, not even in bathrooms (all blow dryers) and they expect people to take their trash with them.

With the robots, I think it's more of an issue of deciding what type of robot is "right". Do we want to focus on robots that can walk and act like humans? Or those that can make ordering food easier? Cash wasn't difficult to deal with, but it's tough to argue that cards and magnets aren't the future.

I don't want to come off as someone who says cash is dead in 20 years. It was really easy paying that way, and doesn't have the tracking aspect like the US has, whatever that's worth.

But still seems like Japan is missing things.
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It's irrelevant who the NPGVAN CEO supports: The decision to cut off the Sanders campaign was made by the DNC, not him.
Depending on how often I use it and the audio formats, it could be. Maybe not for someone with a 300GB/mo cap, but I'm stuck with 15, so every megabyte counts. Either way, my point is that there's no reason for it to use any data at all to control devices on my own local network.
How much is your rent?
I heard through the grapevine that one of my employers (who drug tested at time of hire, but not after that) said "I can't do random testing, I'd lose half my staff."

Another one joked that "We used to drug test at hire, and if you didn't come up positive for ANYTHING, we'd fire you." That was based in a state where medical MJ is legal, and their drug policy was the most reasonable I'd ever seen. "What you do on your own time is your business, and we only start caring if it affects your work performance or interactions with coworkers during work hours."

Meanwhile, the place where I spent 12 years not only tested at hire, you were under the constant "threat" of "random" testing, and the same policies applied to everyone - from rig workers and truck drivers, to programmers. The only time I got "randomly" tested was after a coworker on my team had blown his "random" test... A couple of weeks later I was "randomly" selected; at least HR had a sense of humor about it. "You won the piss test lottery! Go down to XYZ as soon as you get in this morning and pee in a jar..."

This meant that my first and only time I've ever tried MJ was at the age of 40.
I would love to see the financial analysis of this move. Paying for the leases on 20 737-300Fs is not going to be cheap, but it must be letting them cut costs somewhere important.
why chinese is so damn hard? (http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html)
If you're saying this to suggest that students from Stanford or similar schools are able to attain better offers, then sure. If you're saying this to suggest that companies give students from Stanford vs students from "worse" schools better offers, that's not true.
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I don't think anyone makes $200k base at Netflix after 5 years as a serious SWE. "Starts with a 3" is what I've heard pretty consistently.
How many businesses use Google for email and document storage and run their entire system on AWS?

Private in-house servers are very expensive to set up and maintain. Nearly everyone stores vital personal information on someone else's servers.
Comcast has pretty significant overlap with AT&T UVerse and Verizon Fios. Not in all markets, but in enough.

The real problem is that comcast is correct, most people don't use nearly that much data. So even if all the people who are effected leaves, you are only talking about losing 5% of their revenue. It's probably a net-positive in congested areas.
You should spend time with actual poor people and tell them about how comfortable they are.
"Why do you want to 'grok' them? Just use them."

You remind me of my first ground school instructor. I'd asked her why it was necessary to use rudder in a turn, and she waved her hand dismissively. "Just step on the ball" she recited, referring to the turn-and-bank indicator. No thank you, I'd rather know what's keeping my plane stable, so I found the answer elsewhere: Langewiesche's awesome Stick and Rudder, still relevant 70 years after publication.
What does this mean in layman terms? (I'm genuinely asking for a simpler explanation.)
There certainly does seem to be a difference between depression vs bipolar/schizophrenia. Major depression is a lot more prevalent than the others, and stress seems to be a much greater part of the etiology. Having seen various family members with clinical depression and schizophrenia, life events were always associated with the depression, but not for the schizophrenia.

My own view is that depression is an evolved response to negative stresses and situations, and that clinical depression is the far end of this scale. Depression is therefore your brain's way of telling you that you need get out of a bad situation. Schizophrenia seems to be akin to a flaw resulting from some evolutionary aspect of the brain's operation, perhaps due to creativity/intelligence.
Interesting! Maybe the plan is to launch drones directly from the flying 767 the same way military planes drop vehicles!
But we aren't talking about all GNOME software, we're only talking about GTK+ and perhaps supporting libraries like glib, gobject, pango etc. It's not hard to write gobject-based C code which compiles in msvc's c++ mode. I know because I have done it myself.

On a cursory grep through the gtk+ codebase, I can't find a single use of "new" as a variable name and only a scant few instances of "class". The gtk+ coding guidelines already recommends you to write "klass" instead of "class" probably for this reason. Replacing the remaining bad names isn't an onerous task. It's a days work for one person at most.
The company name is one of the least important things you should be worrying about at this point.
That is odd. Don't most airlines work through a 3rd party that actually purchases and owns the planes?
Well, for one: QWERTY is not the only mode of input. I have a 23-Key chorded keyboard[1] that can produce all 101-keys of a standard U.S. keyboard.

[1] http://twiddler.tekgear.com/
Icons, but not text, can be language agnostic and probably more resilient to cultural variation. Obviously well-recognized icons like arrows fit this property more so than time and culturally dependent things like floppy disks for save buttons.
You can lease those class of aircraft for about 100-150K per year, might be even cheaper for cargo configurations.
A 20 year old 737-300 today would cost around 4-5M these days, so a fleet of 20 would cost Amazon around 100M which while is allot of money is some pretty much pocket change for them.
This is in direct contradiction of the usual consensus among harm reduction practitioners, as explained on erowid:

Ketamine and Bladder Health

In some cases, chronic ketamine use has been associated with urinary tract symptoms that can include increased frequency of urination, urinary incontinence, pain during urination, passing blood in the urine, and reduced bladder size. In several reported severe cases, surgical intervention to remove the bladder was deemed necessary by clinicians. The wide dose-response range leading to documented cases suggests that individual responses to ketamine may be idiosyncratic and unpredictable, making it unclear what level and frequency of use may lead to urinary problems.

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ketamine/ketamine_health.sh...
> You have to teach the user what the icon means

Who's in charge here? The software works for me, not the other way around.

I don't want to be learning your glorious new UI, I want to be using its essential feature and getting out ASAP.

I understand that for progress to be made, ideas must be explored and risks must be taken.

But leaving out a label is not progress, it's just someone trying to save screen space on a cluttered design, and it doesn't help me.
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I'm not sure if that makes a lot of sense... how would they recover the drones? Drones have a pretty short range.
And here I expected this to be an article about New Topographics, given that the 40th anniversary of the original show just passed: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/feb/08/new-topo...
It may have been said elsewhere, but even if it has it should be said again. There is a huge difference between a tech "Big Company" like Google, FB, Amazon, Apple, etc., a Startup Company and a traditional non-tech "Big Company" like, oh, you know, most of the Fortune 500 in virtually every other industry - retail, pharma, insurance, transport, etc.

A tech Big Company values engineers and pays accordingly.

A non-tech Big Company simply does not value engineers or tech and consider both to be cost centers instead of drivers of growth.

I would plainly say that jobs at either a Startup or a tech Big Company would both be better options than a job at a non tech Big Company.
Are you really talking about ghc extensions? I think it's quite possible you'd feel that if the haskell library state of the art just had advanced in a strictly haskell-98 world.
Poverty certainly aggravates things like mental illness and drug addiction, and is strongly correlated with homelessness, but I think he means it is possible to be materially comfortable in the sense of food/clothes/shelter, at least relative to places in the world where that isn't possible. But... welfare could stand to be higher, as could the minimum wage.
That's where the sharks come in.
Yes ! Really looking forward to having native upsert instead of custom functions.
I discovered shodan.io recently when I was tailing the logs of a vpn server and saw a connection attempt from an IP I did not recognize. The IP was registered to shodan.io and tried to connect without authentication credentials. I looked up the IP of my box on Shodan and sure enough, there it was, right on the wall of sheep.

Of course I blame myself for not whitelisting IP addresses, but I did not appreciate the connection attempt. Passive port scanning is one thing, but actively trying to establish a VPN session is another.

I was under the impression that port scanning IP addresses on the open internet without prior authorization was illegal under the CFAA. Obviously that's a provision commonly ignored by researchers, but at least they disclose any port scanning activity with some discretion and acknowledgement of its potential illegality. I'm surprised how blatantly upfront Shodan is about its operation.

Does anyone know the deal with this company/website? Why are they not worried about prosecution for their mass port scanning?
Success makes a company's name good.
> Anyway, at my last job, IT decided that the computer on my desk should run Windows 7, which only has the icon in the bottom bar.

It's generally a good idea to look through the settings or search on the internet if you don't like something on your PC.

Windows 7/8/8.1/10 all allow using labels and text for the taskbar buttons.
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Very true, but I'm not sure what you mean by the other way around.

I definitely noticed the busybody jobs. Bunch of people working at the subway stops for safety I guess? Trash collectors on the streets sweeping leaves into their collections. People guarding semi-obstructed parking exits to make sure no accidents occur, no matter how easy it is for the drivers to see the sidewalk.

Then again, it's really hard to know that much about a culture in only a week. And these are pretty giant generalizations we're talking about.
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monads are not unique to Haskell. read the source for webdriver.io and you'll see that monads exist in js, too.

at that point, you might say "but this thing they're calling a monad in js is just an object.". well, these things we call monads in Haskell are just type classes.

now, a more fundamental question is "why do we care about types so much," and I don't have a pat answer for that one. suggestions to try out lisps for comparison makes sense, tho.
What this article left unsaid was that the project was started before the time of Margaret Thatcher but ended in production during Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Margaret Thatcher is well known to oppose the public rails and all other kinds of public works. It would have been very easy and popular then to vilify any large public project as a boondoggle.

The result is that the English still use trains (because their large population requires them) but get to import their trains from France, Italy and Japan.
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Amazon Air ® .... They will probably buy the planes and lease excess capacity to FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, et al.
If they can solve launching a drone from altitude from an aircraft without a rear cargo door at 250MPH without shredding it to pieces finding an efficient means of collecting them would be an easy task.
"Avoid success at all costs" is haskell's unofficial motto (coined by SPJ), so this is a little joke.
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> I think my biggest takeaway from Japan was that it's stuck between two worlds -- one 20 years ahead, and one 20 years behind.

Sure but you can give examples of that for just about every country. The Britons will laugh at U.S.'s card payment infrastructure. The Koreans will laugh at metropolitan U.S.'s mobile broadband infrastructure.
I'm pretty sure Amazon is not going to invest in a fleet of 20 year old airplanes.
Don't forget to support them if you like their stuff - I just remember several posts from that site on HN:

https://www.damninteresting.com/damnload/
Clinical medical illness is often fabricated. Most of the research and analysis and awareness is also funded by the companies that sell the drugs. Calling ADD or Depression "mental illness" is asserting that it's not normal and is a treatable illness randomly encountered - it's almost often a factor of your environment and psychology.

It's interesting that the Ketamine research comes to the conclusion that depression is not a mental imbalance but is a product of the environment causing structural changes in the brain - this seems more in line with what eg ADD and Depression ACTUALLY are - it's not that I can't focus because I caught something from my neighbour - I can't focus because I'm berated with stimuli and I can't pick just one thing to focus on. I'm not depressed because my brain isn't producing enough seratonin, it's because I've been wore down supressing my wants and needs and extended myself trying to make other people happy or overstimulated myself or whatever.

We don't know but the picture is getting clearer - depression isn't a common cold that you need drugs for - it's more like liver disease caused from chronic drinking. Stop drinking, and let your liver recover only science just barely understands the processes of the psyche and environment that cause those physical changes in the brain yet.

Addiction itself is very much an obvious facet - it's not a degenrate behavior but a degenerative structural change to the brain that cause inner behavioral and perceptual changes that need a physical restructuring of the brain to overcome.

It will take time but science will get clearer. The problem is that there are many motives - the whole "sitting is the new smoking" awareness is evidence that we focus on the wrong things - why is this just coming out now? because there is no profit motive to fund that research.
Icons can transcend different languages though, a huge boon for small devs.
Make no mistake, drone delivery is not planned to be the way most amazon packages are delivered, ever. It's a high-cost "I need it now" service, that's it.
>My own view is that depression is an evolved response to negative stresses and situations, and that clinical depression is the far end of this scale.

How do you reconcile this with cases of clinical depression where the person's life is otherwise fantastic, and yet they suffer from crippling depression anyways—absent any negative stresses or situations?
Companies start doing everything themselves instead of contracting pieces out to other companies.
Aside from kanji, Japanese has two phonetic alphabets. Their language is complex, but it also seems to have a lot of redundancy built in, even if romaji doesn't count as an unofficial extra Japanese alphabet by now.

Quora has an illustration[0] of a keyboard with english and hiragana characters mapped, and conversion to kanji by software. It seems awkward, but not to the degree that it would stifle adoption considerably. Admittedly, this is a naive view on my part.

[0]https://www.quora.com/How-do-computer-users-type-in-Japanese
> Charging for network management traffic initiated by Comcast? That's a paddlin'.

> Charging for MAC headers solely for Comcast's network equipment? That's a paddlin'.

I would love to see them set up a cable modem with nothing connected to it for a month, and then use its data numbers to tare everyone else's meter.
Yes, but that's purely a capex to opex move on their financials, in the same way that the cloud enables enterprises to shift server capex costs to Microsoft or Amazon.