skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Improving transit is a large opportunity space. Reducing the need for civilian-ownership of vehicles

- reduces cost of living (cheaper than car ownership)

- reduces number one cause of human mortality

- frees up tons of parking-lot space for additional housing

- reduces strain on roads offsetting transit maintenance costs

- reduces pollution

Focusing on optimizing and improving quality of transit rather than just having it for the sake of it makes a huge difference in the quality of life of the area. This can be done in non-traditional ways by having a fleet of transit vehicles that operate like UberPool instead of along fixed routes, etc.

The other space I'm thinking of is a lot harder for startups to attack, but is worth thinking about anyway -- international labor mobility. This requires world-wide cooperation to work, but there are countries like Japan and Sweden with declining population but still fairly difficult immigration procedures. The world's resources would be used so much more efficiently if it were easier to redistribute people based on their skills, needs and desires with places that had the space and resources to support them and benefit from them. Technology can certainly help here, but it needs a lot more logistical ingenuity than technology.

Another one is reclaiming human resources -- prisoners and the destitute. Majority of these people are able-bodied and/or able-minded, yet it is nearly impossible to gain any value from them because of how society is structured around their status. If we had dedicated, streamlined processes to appropriately assess and reinstate these people back in society, they'd turn from a economic burden into an asset.
My concern is that they already are that.
Indeed, the approach and result are without argument impressive.
Yes, Alice is the 10x programmer.
According the announcement they are not getting rid of Web Start.
Well, you can make chess engines give you a numeric evaluation for several possible moves. These are typically tuned so that the value of a pawn is around 1 point. A grandmaster 1 or 2 points ahead can routinely convert to a won game, assuming he doesn't blunder.

So if the best move has an evaluation of +0.05 and the second best has -0.02 , the difference is probably a very subtle positional improvement (and the first move may not in fact be better; chess programs aren't perfect). If the best is +3.12 and the second is -0.02, and you can't see why, there's a concrete material tactic you're missing (or, less likely, a major, obvious positional devastation).

But, it can't tell you what you're missing, just the magnitude of the difference.
The article kindly submitted here has the date October 7, 2015, referring to a study in Science Translational Medicine, and just today a group-edited blog post by Dr. Steven Novella on Science-Based Medicine[1] brings us up to date on a very recent study published by Nature.[2] As Dr. Novella puts it,

"The study is based on the observation that with solid tumors, like melanoma, there is frequent dissemination of cancer cells through the blood (metastasis) but these cells are very inefficient at establishing a metastatic tumor. One reason for this is the immune system using ROS to essentially kill metastatic cells before they can be established. They found that cancer cells that do establish tumors tend to have mutations that make them resistant to oxidative stress.

"Most relevant to this topic, however, they found that in mice exogenous antioxidants promoted distant metastasis. This suggests that if you have cancer and you take antioxidants, your chance of developing metastases is greater. Keep in mind most solid tumor are usually present for 2-3 years before they are diagnosed, so the risk potentially exists even for those who have not yet been diagnosed with cancer.

"This has alarming implications given the popularity of antioxidant supplements."

[1] https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/more-trouble-for-antiox...

[2] http://www.nature.com/articles/nature15726.epdf
Though I'm several orders of magnitude less well-off than Mr Buffett, I still have more than enough that I could stop working now and survive well enough the next 50 years.

I continue to work because I genuinely enjoy what I do.
And good luck if you re-install more than five times (on the same hardware, no less). "Too many activations. You must purchase another license." I called, they 'reset the counter', giving me five more activations. Called. "I see we've already reset the activation counter..." "Yes?" "Hmm..."

Never mind - I'll buy Fusion.
I'm intrigued by the idea of a basic income, but usually when people begin to talk about it, I see a certain argument presented.

A simplified version of the argument is as follows: "In a free market, if a certain subset of people start making significantly more money than they used to, the demand for things that this subset of people couldn't afford before is going to increase substantially. This increase in demand will inevitably lead to higher prices for the things that they can suddenly afford, which will essentially put them back where they started."

Can anyone briefly explain to me why this argument is wrong? On the surface, it seems fairly reasonable. For example, the ridiculous cost of education is often attributed to the creation of federal student loans. Unless that attribution is also mistaken, it seems to represent a valid example of this phenomenon.

Please note that I'm not condoning or even agreeing with this argument. Its just something I've been wondering about for a while. I figure there are plenty of smart people here that can probably explain it to me.
Let me bring front and center something that has gotten a surprisingly (to me) small portion of this discussion:

ENABLE MORE REMOTE WORK. Why am I living in a high cost area? Because this is where the jobs are. Why are costs high? Because thousands of other engineers essentially _need_ to do the same thing.

So to answer Sam's original question with another question, in addition to merely making this a one sided "businesses must be more accommodating"; What can engineers do to increase remote worker availability for startups? (Companies in general, but inverted Sam's wording for more poetic "fit") What pain point solvers, major technologies, processes, etc are missing that would make truly distributed teams less of a risk, or more desirable? While I certainly think there are already great reasons (you get access to more talent potentially lower cost, more "diversity" out of box, more flexibility from your workforce and less overhead per employee) I'd be curious to hear how this dovetails with what the powers that be think are missing.

(In the case that one thinks there are intractable problems re: remote, I'd also be curious to hear those for the purpose of confronting this problem regardless.)
It doesn't make HTTPS a requirement; it just shows a red lock.
Allegiant also has several fees that are similar to Ryanair.

https://www.allegiantair.com/popup/optional-services-fees

(I believe they charge for water onboard.)
It's fascinating that you seem to find the "largely middle class white" part racist but not the "largely African American" part racist.

Also, saying the Ferguson protests were about "not paying bills" is like saying Occupy Wall Street was about "skipping work". It smacks of either absolute ignorance or some sort of deliberate agenda.
Google could open source the profiler at some point.
Please name at least one conference which has a similar number of participants, ah forget that even 10% would surprise me. The CCC was political since its beginning.
Many people think "a series of tubes" was a hilariously bad analogy for the internet too. It has always seemed reasonable to me, and some others. [1]
Maybe I'm just too interested in actual communication rather than mockery. But "Be liberal in what you accept" etc.

[1] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/taking-stevens-ser...
Please look past your possible distaste for the source, but Zerohedge has an interesting angle on the situation regarding the composition of the board. At least take a look at the bottom half of the analysis, but make sure not to read the comments.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-27/beating-dead-unicor...
Does America need to change how it elects its presidents?
I am not optimistic about this project, which seems to involve people who don't have much of a track record in secure programming trying to refactor a giant blob of C code.
This is the key because it drives up the cost of everything in a vicious cycle.

This is theoretically the one of the easiest big problems to solve - just stop preventing developers from building new housings and they will gladly build as much if not. Ore than we need.

Unfortunately in practice it would take something like a revolution. Are there any examples of this happening? I only know of examples where we make the problem worse and worse.
A dozen years ago the phone frequently interrupted my coding in JBuilder and I patiently explained how to install Java since our website used an applet solely for the purpose of correctly printing small PDF shipping labels on thermal printers. Those were the days. I was really happy when we finally hired a technical support person to handle the majority of the calls.
Aereo Founder Is Back with New High-Speed Wireless Service
Hahaha, obligatory NBN complaint :-D

I agree, NBN has been turned into a joke, however, I would be surprised if most people around Sydney and its suburbs don't have access to fast enough broadband to use email and other online services they require - but yes, bad internet infrastructure would prove to be an issue and would need to be addressed.
> I'll also add that you can't undo a bad diet over x years in much less time.

You can certainly lose massive amounts of weight in a relatively (compared to how long it took to put on) short period of time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/progresspics/top/
Hey, how can I contact you?
When reading such news I always get the feeling that the game is stacked in favor of the computer. Not in the sense of rules, but in the sense of media coverage and interpreting the results. It seems like a lot of people in AI and IT are pretty desperate for validation of their notions about human (un)intelligence.

Watch 'Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine' for a good description of what I mean. And yes, I bet many people here hate that movie. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

There are a lot of relatively simple chess programs that can beat most amateur players. Personally, I cannot beat the Go program I have on my cellphone. (I am pretty horrible at the game.) None of that seems newsworthy. And yet after 5 wins against a pretty strong (but not world's best) Go player, and it's suddenly a "breakthrough" that changes everything.

If some new chess player have beat Deep Blue 4 to 2, would we revert the perceived status of AI to what it was before that match with Kasparov?

I'm not saying this advance in AI is unimpressive. I just don't see a fair evaluation of what it means. There is too much one-directional hype.
Let's see... I can't run FreeBSD or OpenBSD and I can't create any VMs myself? I can only run -- untrusted, by the way -- VMs that I download from some web site?

Yeah, no thanks.
Sure. I'm brandon@cardiogr.am.
I feel like much of high level engineering work isn't having knows (sic), at least beyond a certain level. It's being able to grok a narrow problem domain from first principles, write code, then forget it to learn a different narrow problem domain the next week.
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> "Human neural intelligence is not that complicated and current algorithms are touching on keystone, foundational aspects of it."

Of the algorithms used in this work, which would be touching on foundational aspects of human intelligence, in your view?

Thinking about the variant of MCTS used in this work, for example, it's not clear to me that tree search, no matter how clever, touches much on human cognition, at least significantly more than deep blue did.

On the other hand, the idea of bootstrapping a network with huge numbers of expert interactions before 'graduating' it to more complex training and architectural enhancement might turn out be an important part of the Game Over algorithm, as you call it. Even if it doesn't resembles much how humans beings learn.
No offense meant but why not get the app?

I understand not wanting an application for a news website or something like that but something you use often like google calendar it would seem like the application would be better than the mobile page.
Relay and Falcor both remove the need for Flux, I believe, but those solutions involve the backend I believe.
I think it's quite dangerous when there's a company that says "we have breakthrough science, but we definitely can't tell you what it is", which was Theranos's M.O. for a long time.

Working in medicine is hard, working with biology is hard, not just because of regulatory hurdles, but because fundamentally the problems in those fields are much more commonly questions of basic science than engineering.

Good science leads to good companies, and if you can't do good science you're probably going to fail in this space. Good to see solid research institutions creating spaces to nurture good science at startups.
If your comment were to be somehow combined with jimrandomh's, they would instantly combine, leaving nothing in their place.
Are you sure? Here's the sentences I read:
"when ... pose immediate jeopardy, CMS requires the laboratory to take immediate action to remove the jeopardy" ... "10 days to with a credible allegation of compliance and acceptable evidence of correction".

I see the part below that makes it sound like just a plan has to be filed, but I interpreted the text above as meaning they needed to comply within 10 days to even file the form. My interpretation may be wrong.
So? One of the things about being a contractor is they're supposed to be able to choose the fares they want. They're doing the economically rational thing of choosing fares that net them more profit.
Food and shelter are limited resources which cannot be given freely. If the cost is not remunerated to the provider (in this case government) it imposes an unsustainable burden on the provider to find new resources. There are only so many houses that can be built on this planet and only so many people willing to do it.
"Stockholm has produced more unicorns per capita than any other city in the world"

I don't know where this fact was sourced from and why it keeps on getting repeated but it's obviously not true. According to http://fortune.com/unicorns/, Sweden currently has 2 unicorns, Spotify and Klarna. Add in Skype, Minecraft and Candy Crush Saga as unicorns that have exited and you're up to 5.

In contrast, San Francisco alone has 34 with more in the greater Bay Area.
interesting to compare FBs responses with psychology's basic emotions -

FB 6 basic emotions - angry, sad, wow, haha, yay, and love

Humintell's 7 basic emotions - anger, sadness, surprise (aka wow), joy (aka haha/yay?), fear, disgust, contempt. those last 3 aren't buttons on FB for obvious reasons :)
"VMware has to follow their own rules" ... or what, exactly? I don't think you can buy a support contract for Fusion.

And what exactly is support? Major improvements? Bug fixes? Security?
Wow, I didn't even know that was a thing. Thanks for taking the time to post that.
Status page is not responding either:

https://status.github.com/
Show HN: WinMerge for synching SQL Servers to version-controlled scripts
I may be in the minority on this forum but I am not worried about the information that I willingly provide private corporations. The corporations that have my data continue to exist because people find their products valuable. When people talk about the power Google or Facebook have, they speak as though these are companies that have been around for hundreds of years amassing ever more power. I feel like I have more choices than ever as to the services I use and the power of these corporations is very fickle. Apple has lost over 10% of their value since this year began and about 25% in the last 6 months simply because expectations are that they are losing favor in the public, or at least that's my hypothesis. Every generation had a different country or corporation that they were afraid of.

And then we have the Congress in US with an approval rating in the teens and a re-election rate in the 90s [0]. Since there appears to be little accountability in the public sector and the monopoly on violence the government holds, I am much more concerned about that.

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/reelect.php
So they're employees, just part time. Problem solved, without needing yet another classification that will end up doing nothing for workers.
If you want to see a long list of those "Theranos should ignore the haters" statements, just check out Elizabeth Holmes' own Twitter feed's Likes. She basically curated her own handy list of everyone who was holding their fingers in their ears and saying la-la-la-can't-hear-you:

https://twitter.com/eholmes2003/likes
Building up and downsizing unit size is the natural solution to expensive land (i.e. just use less land per home). While building up has some costs it is zoning/planning regulations that prevent this in practice.
Supply is limited. Always. Increase demand enough, and there MUST be an increase in "friction" somehow to limit demand to match supply; otherwise, supply runs out fast favoring "first come first served" and suffering waste while "real need" goes unfulfilled. Raising prices is the most natural and appropriate (if arguably imperfect) way to apply such friction, generally equalizing the cost value to the buyer with the reward value to the seller.
> Have you honestly been told that if you were really hard right now, you'll be able to retire soon?

snicker
As an agency recruiter I've been underwhelmed by some of the software on the market. Is Lever designed for use by agencies as well as hiring companies, or is it specific to internal hiring? There would be a fair amount of overlap in functionality, but significant differences as well.
People Thought Machine Guns Might Prevent Wars
They aren't laws, and they have ten days to submit a plan, not to execute the plan. Are you sure you know enough about this sector to weigh in on whether survival is likely?
I hope you guys replace Taleo as soon as possible. I can't believe how many companies use that garbage. Whenever I see it, I automatically back out.
It would be neat if the device could store some samples locally, so that you could throw it into a faraday cage (completely isolated from all noise sources), make some measurements, then later look at the measurements on the app.
As someone who does the same, it's not a forced line. In fact, not talking about work feels far less forced to me. Sure, there could be moments where something is so interesting you want to share it—but that requires talking to someone who won't just stare blankly at you because they lack the requisite knowledge and background to have the conversation.

More often than not, there's nothing so interesting happening with work that I want to talk about it. Before I was self-employed, I frequently hated how going to lunch with work mates meant having to spend time talking about work. It felt like lunch was just another meeting, instead of a break from work. I'd much rather have more meaningful and personal conversation—like, about books, art, traveling, relationships, whatever. Something that elevates us out of our role as workers and focused on our non-working selves. Conversation that helps increase our knowledge and understanding of each other. To be sure, that could mean work-related topics come up. But it gets seriously boring to talk with people who only want to talk shop.
Github is down. Post github.com on HackerNews, that'll help them. =P
For another side, UK here.

Pretty much the same but:

1. Loads of free ATMs, the ones that charge are privately owned/run typically and in shops. While banks may run them and slap their logo all over it, it's effectively just advertising, it doesn't matter which one I go to. The idea that it would matter seems really weird.

2. No fees for bank transfers, most will complete within the hour I think and are generally immediate.

3. Chip & pin has been required for quite a while now, contactless cards are extremely common.

4. Pretty much everyone has some kind of bank account, I'm not sure how it works if you're homeless or have absolutely no proof of identity/address, but there might still be things that can be done there.

Most accounts are also free, though sometimes with usage requirements (deposit at least £X + have two direct debits is common), and many will pay you ~£100 to switch to them.
Probably yes but I feel that general education is, especially in this community, a little undervalued. Democracy fundamentally depends on its population being educated and in more ways than just STEM. Better socioeconomic decisions are made if more voters are educated in areas other than programming (figuratively) and this is only achievable if this type of education is a viable path for young people, for example through tuition-free universities
Seemed to work for me, although it took a while to load and said "All systems operational"

edit: Now says "19:32 Eastern Standard TimeWe're investigating connectivity problems on github.com."

edit2: "19:47 Eastern Standard TimeWe're investigating a significant network disruption affecting all github.com services."
Why do they have an angry unicorn on their outage page?
Servantt is the WinMerge for comparing SQL Server Databases to Version-Controlled Scripts.

It allows you to:

- Reverse-engineer your Database objects into a standard
and logical structure in file system
- Compare Database objects to the Scripts folder
- Differences can be either applied to the Database (updating objects)
or to the Scripts.
- In a single click you can launch WinMerge
and easily compare the Scripts to the Database

It supports and encourages best-practices in software development:

- Keeping Database objects under version-control
- Removing access rights from developers
on production environments
- DBA review of changes in procedures/views for performance
bottlenecks and naming standards
- Naming objects using fully qualified identifiers
and correct delimiters

Any suggestions (or criticisms) are welcome.
Did you read the page I linked to? My referer was https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=What%20Is%20My%2...
>They also avoid paying their portion of the payroll taxes,

No, they don't. They might avoid being assessed the payroll tax, but the economic incidence (the reduction in purchasing power after prices have adjusted in light of the taxes) is, per a well known result, independent of who assess the tax on, and completely dependent on the shape of the supply/demand curves.[1]

"Making" employers "contribute" half of FICA is just a shell game. If (on normal employees) you made employers pay all of it, they would (likewise) just cut wages by the exact same amount, as everyone's after-tax income would remain the same and no one would have reason to deviate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence

>>The key concept is that the tax incidence or tax burden does not depend on where the revenue is collected, but on the price elasticity of demand and price elasticity of supply.
This may have hit the nail on the head: nobody is arguing about Bob and Clyde.
Re:ChildCare

Solution: Childcare Visa. Many women in other parts of the world would LOVE to come to America. We need a special visa for them, and perhaps they can take care of your children from 8 to 6PM M-F in exchange for room and board and weekends, or some type of arrangement.