skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think everyone who has gained an education should then be burdened by an inescapable bondage to a particular high-paying career?

What if they decided they would rather be a teacher? A musician and band director? A serial backpacker? What if they are injured and can no longer take the 40, 50, 60 hours in a chair at the office it would require to maintain the level of salary?

Just because a college degree is often a great ROI doesn’t mean that it can justify the expense for all students, or even for all students with a "wise" career in mind at time of enrollment.
A chroot is simply a Debian install, not sure why it would be slower or bulkier than a normal Debian install.

What do you want out of a Linux phone?
It's almost as if the tech-interview process, supposedly designed to prove that someone actually has studied and internalized mystical knowledge about inverting trees, can be gamed with a bit of effort and actually isn't a reliable approach!

(that said, bootcamp grads and other people who were self- or unconventionally-taught, in the sense that they don't have CS degree, do seem on average to be better than the people who have CS degrees, probably for the reasons the article gets at)
Seems cool, if you have this in production it would be awesome to have a link in the readme. A screenshot is the next best thing.

On mobile, supet tough to get a sense for what it is. I am familiar with the toolset, but a "production" website push to start would be pretty helpful if it was well done. I have no idea what this looks like on mobile, and even downloading the repo and running it without a screenshot might be a barrier.

cheers
I think in addition to a win/loss/draw judgement, it would be good to require a comment (and hence username) for each application. That would at the least give a way to trace if the Elo ratings are being gamed or users are biased.
Lots are talking about the tech bubble but I feel this is a much bigger bubble.
You are very right in that a product in this space has to meet a very high bar before it is useful compared to other things like Matlab.

I have functionality to do things like differential equations, linear algebra, FFTs, but not really hard math things like symbolic integration. So, right now my targets are users that need something more powerful than excel but don't need the higher level features of matlab or python. To help acquire those people, I am writing a server side on AWS to let them solve large problems and simply pass the cost they incur on to them (for now). In this way, I can target small companies and let them solve some large problems without having to buy large servers.

I am hoping that this side can pay for the development of the CAD system.
Right, being "on" Facebook isn't a prereq for being under their umbrella.

Snapchat, Vine, and other networks are not under that umbrella, meaning it's still a zero sum game. These companies are competing for your attention, for which there is limited supply.
Trump bashing is lame. Trump has used words in his speeches that you probably couldn't define. I heard him casually use PROGNOSTICATION a couple weeks ago. He's not dumb.

It's actually a sign of intelligence to use the simplest language necessary when expressing yourself to a broad audience (many with low education). People who use unnecessarily large words are usually doing it to try to sound smarter than they are and to build up their own egos.
What about autonomous mass transit? Why are these two things mutually exclusive?
Zak Khalique, cofounder here. Let me try to weigh in on this.

Right now, you don't have much power with FB. When they rolled out the newsfeed, or instant personalization, or made site changes there were huge outcries, but it didn't matter. If you want to customize your profile, or get paid for your content, you can't.

If you're a company, you have to pay just to reach your own fans: http://readwrite.com/2012/11/13/mark-cuban-facebooks-sponsor...

If you're a developer, you live in fear that the platform can kick you off at any time or compete with you: http://mashable.com/2011/06/01/twitter-photo-services/

There is a story trending on just how powerful FB is: http://blog.naytev.com/facebook-is-king/ and it's bought Instagram and WhatsApp to consolidate even further. More centralization means less power and choice for the end user. And if you're an end-user in Africa or India or somewhere without a megabit connection to the global internet, your community can't even connect with each other. A local network would work much better.
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Mainly interested in openly vetting the launcher itself, but also doing reasonable system planning for the LEO satcom/sensing portion (which has evolved a lot over the past years). I have some experience in satcom myself.

(frequency access is probably the main issue there)
Thanks for the questions, Charley!

The incentive for the advisor would be to gain new business (increase AUM) by being more competitive with their array of services in proposals (not to mention hopefully having some great metrics from WorkPlay401(k) to include) as well as maintaining current business by rolling out our financial wellness platform as a new service for existing clients. I think the latter is just as important as companies are constantly courted by advisors to switch their 401(k) provider.

Here is a very quick video that gives an overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-FmUImG3U

Basically it is a series of questions (kind of modeled off of how TaxAct works) for the participant after which a financial plan is created for them. Then can continue to use it with any transactions or information they enter modifying their goal progress, outstanding to dos, financial plan, and budget. They also receive emails that let them know how much is left in their monthly budget, account balances, the next steps they need to take, and content based on their goals, age, and personal financial situation.

I'd like to get a little farther in my sales process before making a full decision on this but I'm thinking it will be more co-labled (ABC Advisor powered by WorkPlay401(k) than a complete white-label situation. No self-hosting as I cannot even imagine the support needed to roll out to everybody from banks down to one man RIA shops. I know some compliance managers would prefer self-hosted but I have found that they are changing their tunes as their advisors are demanding to use cloud-based software and their I.T. departments are starting to use cloud based Exchange and whatnot.

The advisor has a dashboard they can access and then we will tie in with the most commonly used service desk software that the larger or more technologically advanced ones use. For compliance purposes we can also set it up to BCC them on any email sent to their participants.

Right now I have a list of 1844 advisors (though lots of firms have multiple advisors under them) that I have imported into Close.io and have begun reaching out to. I'm getting some nibbles and am learning a lot about what message to use, the kind of materials they require, and the most common objections.

The target market to begin with are advisors that do provide some level of participant education rather than the advisors that only pick investments and hand everything else off to Fidelity.

If you have any other questions please ask them here or email me at will at the domain.
Give us a screenshot, genius :D
What places are not welcome to you? I am genuinely curious. Is it regular high-price places (3 star Michelen restaurants, business lounge in airport, five star hotels) or closed clubs and such?
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Great comment and examples. The CPU's are optimized to try to do everything kind of fast a step at a time within specific constraints, often legacy. The FPGA's let us build just the right hardware for our computations using components that run in parallel with fewer constraints. The result is often some amazing performance/circuitry ratios.
At least at its best. They don't always reach that ideal. (Eg when they do some funky monkeying with the media and censorship.)
The amount forgiven is counted as income for that year and is taxed as such. I believe this is what the preceding commenter was asking about.
There are some payloads which work well in a launcher like this -- bulk materials/fuels, tiny satellites for LEO. Other things will never work -- big satellites, humans.

ULA = extortionists. SpaceX should do fine. (Also, if Elon wanted to build this, I'd be perfectly happy to work with him; I just want the 100000th ticket to Mars.)
Where did $132K/mo figure come from? The only place I see that quoted is in an annual savings number.
And everyone on their phones in the front? Is the digital zoom enhancing their view?
Volume and efficiency are great, but nobody likes a shit cannon.
1) Hasn't REALLY been proven (the chemical and light gas guns are farther along; the ramac part not as much).

2) Until SpaceX, the idea of entrepreneurial space didn't exist.

3) Payload uniqueness -- this never will work for human passengers, so NASA won't fund it. The value of 1 x 100kg into LEO every hour every day for years on each launcher is not yet established.
How does this compare to Datomic? The model seems similar.
I made a comment to this effect as a reply, but I don't understand why the government charges so much interest on these loans (and then only lets you deduct a small portion of it from your taxable income in some cases).

Let's assume you actually do end up bettering your life by taking out student loans and getting a degree. Although it seems almost memetic these days that you'll sink 100k into a school and wind up flipping burgers, in my situation it was actually the opposite. I was a cook for a catering business making very little money such that my federal tax burden was virtually nonexistent. After finishing school I make quite a bit more money, but I'm paying very high student loan payments (not complaining really, I was aware this would be the case) and the interest on my student loans is higher than on my mortgage! These are federal loans as well, not private.

By providing me a loan the government has essentially won! They've turned a tax burden into a source of revenue. My lifetime earning potential is much, much higher than when I did not have a degree and was working as a cook. Why are some of these interests rates as high as 6%? It seems insane!
Diesel puts out more torque every day of the week. The reason you use electric in Seattle is because of cheap hydro energy.
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You imght like to learn about Futarchy: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html

No AI necessary.
I doubt I'm the only one who spots that "bloat" is highly subjective, thus defining and categorizing bloat depends on who is doing it.

As a developer, I frequently categorize and define bloat as large amounts of extraneous code from libraries and other tools that are not directly used by any part of a given application, but are nonetheless imported or installed by a project. Here, I typically go pointing the finger at requirements files, sloppy imports, and other dependency-related smells.

As a manager, I may define bloat as anything in the above dependency realm when I'm working with developers. Alternatively, anything in the realm of features and functionality that do not have a defensible position as being built for and used by a majority of users is sure to get some dirty and suspicious looks from me as bloat. This is typically triggered when a client or other project stakeholder suggests Feature X be added so Person Y (or Customer Z) doesn't have to use some other Tool B. I push back hard on such suggestions until there's a demonstrative case to be made that this kind of bloat won't become a major liability in the code from a long view, or a stumbling block for the majority of users.

As a user, I often define bloat as any number of features I don't personally use and, through various interactions and use-cases, feel get in my way, clutter up my UI, whatever.

Everyone involved (except users) is responsible for the bloat in their own domain.
GitHub deleted our issues today and has now restored them
.. which means it is slower than it needs to be and has a more cluttered interface than it needs to have for that user.

If those problems don't interest you, then it's hard to imagine what your idea of good software is.
"I promise, there is a diamond somewhere in this bathtub of shit".

Efficiency is great, but there still needs to be some quality standards.
> Sensor pixels and display pixels also aren’t little squares [...]

They're pretty damn close, modulo the Bayer pattern for most sensors and RGB stripe arrangement for most displays. Calling an LCD's subpixels rectangles is certainly an approximation that's valid on the scale of the distance from one pixel to the next.

> [...] and treating them as such (whether for font rendering, photo capture, rendering line drawings, or any other purpose) is pretty much always worse than treating pixels as a discrete approximation of a continuous image.

Whether treating those pixels as rectangles or points is worse depends as much on the software/analytic approach you're using as on the physical reality of their rectangular geometry.

> Unfortunately 2D approximation is inherently more complex than 1D approximation, so you inevitably get some artifacts even when you do fancy computationally expensive math, and the choice is about which type of artifacts to privilege.

True, if you're unjustifiably constraining yourself to treating computer graphics only with the methods of a generic signal processing problem. Bresenham's algorithm is radically simpler than anything involving Bessel functions and also happens to work very well in the real world both in terms of speed and visual quality. Adding antialiasing to it leaves you with something that's still extremely simple and is easy to explain in terms of pixels. An exhortation to never treat pixels as little squares is just plain wrong.
Because you can't just safely step off of a plane? Come on, that's a terrible analogy. Taxi cabs can't suddenly re-route you to the police station against your will.
No, this wasn't intended to slyly indicate that "Trump makes murder respectable". Were I to make that bold accusation I'd want to debate that on another forum than HN and base it on things Trump has actually stated.

Regardless of politics, Trump has a very idiosyncratic approach to speaking. His mastery of this approach reminds me strongly of the Orwell essay linked above.

I've no desire to debate Trumps policies on HN, but find his approach to speaking quite interesting.
Not even in the old sense of the word.
If the Hacker Dojo didn't have all the recent drama and upcoming move going on, I'd recommend swinging by there. They have a tech event or two every night. You typically see people hanging around and coding on their project.

Top floor of the red rock cafe in MV is another good spot.
I'm the principle author, I can answer any questions
so how do I make money from this?
You mean of the loaded page? It is a boilerplate so, there isn't much to see. Or did you meant the build happening in the terminal?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4bs537wvtvri4r/Screenshot%202016-...
Apply HN: PaySQR – the new secure way to pay
Problem – Credit card processing is becoming increasingly complicated for merchants due to PCI compliance regulation and criminals compromising systems with sophisticated malware or physical credit card skimmers. Merchants don’t have the time or expertise to secure systems properly to combat these threats and generally just want an easy way to accept payments from customers without worry.

Solution – using the SQRL protocol which was designed as a password replacement for website authentication see - https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm and turn it into a new secure payment system where authentication/authorizations are done on the customer’s device. Since the merchant never has access to the credit card information this will remove the merchant as a target for fraud and eliminate the need for expensive PCI compliance. For brick and mortar merchants since authorizations are performed on the customer side no internet access would be needed on the point of sales reducing monthly expense and system complexity. This system would also enable digital payments that have so far been out of reach of most for things like vending machines and laundromats that currently have high threshold to entry and being unmonitored can be easily compromised by credit card skimmers.
this looks useful, but I'll be hesitant to invest any time in making it part of my life.
When people make this kind of assessment they seem to be implying that because a college education is less surefire than it used to be, that it's useless.

This is demonstrably false, and a college education is still the best bet a person can make on his or her future. In the same breath people say "all our manufacturing jobs went to China" and "why not go to a vocational school and pick up welding?"
Actually, you can probably find people who feel that way in Singapore. (And probably in very brainwashed countries, too, but they'd be less justified.)
The problem I have with Google tech, especially after the new Nest stuff has to come to light, is that there's no guarantee they'll support it for very long. It's entirely possible that I'll incorporate this into my workflow, just for Google to kill it off a year later.
Really? The best description? By that definition pretty much anyone in politics is an activist.

I think it's much more accurate to describe ÓLG as a literal constitutionalist.

He read the letter of the law and followed its mandate.

He's undoubtedly upset the established older. I'm just objecting to how that gets framed, which you can just as easily frame his actions as "nobody serving as president before him had actually read the constitution" as "he's using unprecedented powers as president".
I'm strongly with you but it's hardly the last bastion of acceptable racism. It's one of very many we still have. Adequate education in any form or at any age, he kind that is crucial for access to college, is flat out unavailable for many people in underserved communities.
Are you willing to bet? I'd give even odds we won't hear about him involved in a Panama Papers related scandal in the next 12 months.
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Feels like they missed a prime opportunity for Keep integration here.
I have a feeling this project will end up in the dust bin. I'd rather use something like Pocket, or just my browser favorites/bookmarks. Then at least I know they'll be there next year, and it's more convenient.
del.icio.us 2.0?

I've already lost all my saves once.
Anyone want a free wooden Apple Watch Band?
It is so oddly ironic for the idea of wanting assets and property to be so anathema on HN.
Some third party clients already support comment collapse :)

I'm keeping a list of all HN clients here: https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news/

You can bookmark it, filter by web vs. mobile vs. native, etc.

For comment collapse, I'd look at Premii's client in particular.
The newish Arty board has a 7-series part and is only $99
I'd actually like to start a device-free "Startup Social Club" in San Francisco, where people can go to chat with real humans around them directly. Mail me if you're interested in this...
Hi, the Texas data which is publicly available to download, only has individual visits. While the HCUP data (california state datasets) has information for ED, Ambulatory Surgery and Inpatient visits linked to a unique patient identifier spanning over multiple years. Using this data, you can set up complex query types such readmission following a hospitalization with a DRG. We do not offer these results online. But you can see an example (fake data) of readmissions following sub-endocardial infarction (a heart attack) in which the patient underwent intubation in the next visit. http://www.computationalhealthcare.com/N2/HCUP/Entry/D41071_...

>> Is your goal to build a business or a non-profit?

We plan on building a business. We plan to operate a publicly available service for researchers and physicians that also acts as marketing vehicle. In addition to the central platform and we will allow individual enterprise users to run it on their premise with their own dataset.

>> Who pays for it?

Hospital, Insurers and Government agencies already have their own data in same format as we do. We plan to create a simple hosted drop in solution. By creating a single platform for all three types of customers and a public platform we can divide the development costs. Further we plan to offer add-ons specific to requirements of each customer type.

We do not "own" the raw data. The "raw" data is merely licensed to use for specific use cases by the government. We plan on using the data provided by the government to generate insights in form of aggregate statistics. These insights are then in turn provided to physicians and researchers.
Thanks, I changed it.
Where to make a cheap pcb
Hello everyone. I'm an electronic engineer, and i have designed a pcb, but i don't know where i can get them produced because many of the companies do not produce small quantity pcbs. Any of you have ideas?
It's bugged me too, almost to the point of me thinking I was crazy. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how people were handling these problems with WordPress. And frankly I'm still baffled. I'd get these looooongggg schpeles about workflows tangential to the actual problem and then finally the admission that you just write down or remember the changes you made on staging, and make them on prod as well.
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You’re still buying into the myth/propaganda that higher education is only good because it makes someone more employable by providing skills (and/or connections) important for job-seeking.

Wouldn’t you much rather create and live in a world where higher education was free or nearly free, so that your neighbors, fuck it, even those you will never bump into, those on the other side of the country are better educated, better able to reason about the world, more likely to understand evolution and spot marketing and persuasion techniques around them, less likely to believe the blowhard on the radio who is promoting conspiracy theories, and more likely to have gone through a period of rapid personal growth during which they met and grew with people from diverse backgrounds? … without obligating these strangers to a lifetime of bondage to a particular high-paying career?
1) Describe the team and why they're qualified to build a distributed database from the ground up.

2) What is the advantage compared with Postgres + Postgrest[1]? Considerations:

a) Extensibility (e.g. PostGIS)
b) Hosting (for large enterprises, cloud database may be a non-starter.)
c) Stability
d) Community
e) Documentation
f) Security

Databases are scary.[2] As a developer, you would have to convince me that nothing would ever break since I damn sure am unqualified to be monkeying around in that code. As a CEO, you would have to convince me nothing would ever go down and this provides a significant advantage over Postgres. As a technical co-founder, you would have to convince me that you aren't going anywhere and will be able to build a substantial community.

[1]: https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest
[2]: That isn't a reason not to do it.
Ouch, that first example. "Hard to figure out for people"?
What are people already doing in this space?

Specifically, are there any technologies out there or in development that aim to reduce infection rates related to the use of medical devices?

What remediation processes are used to reduce infection rates, that are not technology based? What is the cost for these, and how does that compare to the cost of using your technology?

I really like the idea of improving outcomes by simply swapping out one piece of equipment for a better piece (especially as you are not making the process more complicated, it's a straight upgrade).