skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if there is a need for a national insurance pool or not -- but you are quite right. If the issue is getting procedures right, then insurers should have to pay up so they have an incentive to crack down on procedures.

However, I think the tort caps exist because when big bad insurance companies are involved, courts decide to play Santa and inflate damages to huge amounts. Caps are a crude way of getting around the problem though.
I don't live in NYC anymore, but I did for a little over a decade. I recall The Book of Mormon had an enormous buzz as well. I had friends stay at my place a couple times so they could come to town to see the show.
This is the #1 problem with anything based on voice recognition and natural language processing IMO. It has to work 99% of the time to overcome this issue, but it seems like the nature of the technologies ensure that it will only asymptotically approach this threshold, and is currently stuck at 75% reliability at best.

Plus, even if it did work, it's just a really inexact and inefficient way to do anything. You always end up trying to see through the abstraction layer (natural language in this case) to the much more well-defined hidden system underneath. It's like reverse engineering an expert system, as a UI paradigm.

Programming languages made to resemble natural language face a similar poison pill, AppleScript being a prime example.

I totally get the appeal of trying to make software understand people better instead of forcing people to understand software, but in practice it just ends up being one more abstraction layer users have to struggle to get past in order to unlock the functionality of the underlying system.
Because nobody knows X, Y, and other values before they start. It's years of training. Budgets change, rules change, people move to other regions, ...

When you're trying to decide what to do before you start studies, realistically you can't predict your finances and earnings in 10 years. There are some trends you can look at, but that's just one component. Even then it makes more sense in private sector than one funded in very creative and politically dependent ways.
The extra profit is going to the scalpers, not the show's producers who could presumably sell them at higher prices given the demand.
YC's values are so diametrically opposed to my own that I thought it would be interesting for everyone to have me go through the program.

As for my demands to get paid, I had a clever idea about how to use the money, and I'm miffed that I won't get a chance to do it.
Does anyone honestly think the performances can only sell out because of scalpers willing to nobly buy large quantities for resale?

I strongly suspect they want it this way: promoters and performers like the aura of hard-to-get tickets, long lines, and sold-out shows. Plus, they can risk public derision and boycotts if they actually tried to sell at the market clearing price -- people are more tolerant of paying a big markup from some random guy for the exclusivity than buying it openly at the same huge markup from a faceless corporation.
The point they emphasize in the article is that Viv is supposed to allow you to say "get me pizza, flowers, a bottle of wine, and two tickets to the opera" and then it helps you figure out all that stuff and handles everything for you without you having to make any phone calls, type anything, or open any apps.
2¢: I wouldn't take it that way.

I upvoted your comment. There are a couple of things you ought to consider when reading the replies.

1.) People want to believe that they'll know when they're "off their game". That doesn't make them brutalist thugs. There's plenty of cognitive bias to go around.

2.) Saying it is "out to lunch" to manage one's own care is lacking in the context department. It seems to me that there are plenty of situations where the patient is in a strong position to "manage" their own care. Is that always the case? Certainly not, but it's not patently false. It depends.

There's been talk in the comments on this story about modern aviation, copilots. The relationship between a patient and provider ought to be adjusted to find the best outcome. Finding the right mix is difficult, but I think we can do better than "The patient is always right" or "The provider has absolute control."
I can't answer your other questions competently, but at ng-conf today, in the keynote [1], they announced improvements that drop Angular2 down smaller than 1.x, and that they have plans to continue

[1] 9:02 mark in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdlpE9vPQFs&t=9m2s
> "This cattle-killing sounds crazy but since she was right about some other low probability events..."

Ok you have a story. I can tell a different story: "My tendency towards religious/supernatural belief that has helped me and my ancestors form moral codes and act tribally has in this case caused me to embrace a belief that will lead to the ruin of me and my people. These religious/supernatural beliefs are inherently anti-statistical and lead to lots of incorrect ideas like witchcraft and rainmaking, but these systems of belief are selected by evolution because they overall increase our chances of survival."

Now we have two stories, two narratives. Why do you believe yours over mine? And how can we objectively decide which story reflects the truth about the human brain?
Number of errors versus expected value of errors is important. So plenty of the right kind of medical care would be an important qualifier.

Routine preventive medical care with no fee-for-service perversions creating incentives to over-treat, perhaps more errors, but each of lower consequence: live to 95.
He used SOCKS proxies. :)
>> And after a while the muscle memory stuff comes in as well - a typical alert can pop up tens of times a day with very high false positive rate.

Do the best tools able to solve this in a satisfactory manner(the tool issue, the organizational issue) ? How ?

>> whereas manual curation takes years (even when only codifying best practices)

Can't this be done in parallel ? and why are resources an issue for such an important thing with a clear health ROI and maybe financial ROI ?
Jim Tcl is available in the distros; at least Debian, Ubuntu, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, openSUSE, Source Mage, Fedora and Gentoo have it.
I think what the writer is trying to say is that the musical is leaving money on the table by not charging the market rate. The wording make it sound like it's the scalpers' fault, but they've helped to reveal the price buyers value the tickets. So, they could up their premiums.

"It’s become such a problem that the show’s producers are considering almost doubling premium-priced "Hamilton” tickets to $995 to keep more of the profit for themselves, according to the New York Post."
> As of close of market today, the company’s market value was around $2 billion. However, due to its reserves of approximately $1.5 billion of cash on hand, analysts estimate that Zynga is actually worth around $500 million

How does that work? If it has $1.5 billion in cash, surely it's not "worth" just $500 million, then anyone would go buy it and take their cash.
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250,000 people a year are killed by medical mistakes. 11,000 are killed by guns. So you're 22 times more likely to be killed by a medical professional than someone with a gun.

In fact, since there 19,000,000 medical industry employees in the United States, and 300,000,000 guns (and probably somewhere around 100,000,000 gun owners), you have a 1.3% chance of a medical professional killing you and a 0.01% chance of a gun owner killing you.
Embedding other languages in C seems like a path worse than system(). You are better off just writing in another language completely.
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It's not even remotely interesting that a mail server used (unofficially) by the State Department would be accessed from around the world... many of their officials travel constantly.
My feeling, (like Colin's, I think) is that even if the announcement could have been clearer on this point, it implies that votes & comments wouldn't be the only deciding factors.
> the same way an older person is bewildered by something like snapchat.

Damn. At just (now) 35, I'm apparently an "older person".

/me pours another glass of bourbon
You win the internets today.
It also flies in the face of the "meritocracy" narrative that's so often brought up when talking about tech culture.
Ask HN: Any CTF contest with an actual flag?
I know there are plenty of "CTF" contests online where you need to get root on a system, yadda yadda

But are there any CTF contests where you there is actually a physical "flag" (more likely an LED) that you need to "capture"?

It would be cool if you could "host" a CTF competition by setting up a raspberry pi with an LED in it, and a webcam stream to the raspberry pi. The goal of the CTF would be to change the color of the LED.
The NYC Ruby users group just replaced their email list with Slack, it's great, it's cut down participation by about 80%, messages that are not seen immediately go forever unread, and what was once a valuable community for me to reach out to as a freelancer is now worthless. But at least we're on the coolest new billion dollar valuation closed source tech. And we have some great new channels like #general that no one ever posts to. I can't imagine anything better.
Yea, no. Grocers in low income areas shoulder the burden, while grocers in high income areas don't. The poor, subsidies the poor. Brilliant.
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That explanation is so backwards in reasoning it would be humerous if it weren't so pathetic. Sadly you see people citing data over common sense all the time. In this case, the choice between human life and hospital efficiency and "trust" produces a false trade-off: The dire consequences of one choice all but force you to take the other option.
Ahh. Do you think it will really add value to re-take the course under Scheme exclusively?
If you're willing to raise the $20K for 1.5% of Pinboard under the same terms YC offers (minus access to YC & its resources) - I'm willing to make that happen; no guarantees, but pretty sure it's possible.

If you're interested, let me know.
Yeah I was tracking that via the API. It's interesting how close #2 and #3 were along the way. Neck and neck for hours.
>I am not sure what is a redeeming quality of Hillary as a democrat, she seems like an establishment GOP candidate in her positions, excluding social issues, more than anything.

You just said it yourself: social issues. That's the only thing where mainstream Dems and Reps differ. They use these "wedge issues" to give the illusion of differences between the parties and keep us distracted from the real issues.
To be quite frank, the fact that the node community hasn't adopted vendoring as a standard practice speaks volumes about that community.
Are you familiar with the work of Atul Gawande (a surgeon) and related work around checklists? [1] I would highly recommend you take a look at those and see if you still feel the same way about checklists. They are not about minimizing physicians' training & expertise. They're about procedural rigor, process standardization, and reducing inevitable human error. They're about shifting mental loads away from "rote" or "routine" tasks which are amenable to checklists and instead over to those complex thought processes that really need the specialized years of training.

I don't think people are trying to suggest doctors are maliciously saying "XYZ error rate is good enough, we don't need to do better", but more that there is some ego at play in the reactionary shunning of checklists, when in fact checklists can be a relatively easy way to produce better outcomes.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/hospital-checklists-are-meant-to-...
How so? Depending on where you live, going cold will kill you far far quicker, than going hungry. If the arguments are on need, then the need for shelter here in Canada trumps the need for food, by a long shot.
> You seem to be suggesting that someone arguing that US law ought to be held material to the case is somehow demanding that the Brazilian judiciary hold itself subservient to the US courts.

Allowing a company to break Brazilian law because US law demands that the company break Brazilian law would absolutely put the Brazilian judiciary in a subservient position to US law.

> You also seem to be suggesting that a Brazilian state judge has any business interpreting the law so as to "send a message" to the government of another nation, which is simply and patently untrue.

Brazil decides what is and is not the business of Brazilian state judges.
Can't really compare a touring production to Broadway, though. Different cast, different light/sound/scenery design, etc.
Agreed 100%. I felt the same way 10 years ago when people would always bring up the Minority Report UI as some sort of holy grail we should all be working towards. It looks cool (or demos well, in the case of conversational UIs), but outside of a few very specific use cases it would be horribly inefficient to use all the time.

Conversational UIs almost seem like the ultimate form of skeuomorphism to me- it's only an illusion that it works like something from the non-computer world that you're already familiar with (talking to another person, in this case), but the reality is something far more complicated and far less robust than it leads you to believe.
Lisps and MLs can be really good parsing languages. I needed to parse some stuff and took the "easy" way of just using clojure's instaparse library and wrote a grammar which the library turned into a parsing function. After that you write your transform functions to manipulate the resulting parse tree. My target text wasn't a programming language but it would have been a nightmare to do with regexes.

I had never tried to write a parser before and it took about a day to go from no idea what I was doing to "I can pretty much see where to go next were I to want to write a toy language". Something you might want to take a look at is http://norvig.com/lispy.html
We have to value the company's assets and liabilities. The $2B market cap is a good perceived value of the company as a whole. If there's $1.5B cash on hand, then we can value that cash at $1 per $1 of face value (it's cash, which is easy). That leaves $500M in net value that the company has not accounting for that cash on hand. If the company owns the building, and the building is worth, say $550M, then factoring that out actually puts the value of the rest of the company at negative $50M.
It depends on what percentage of tickets the scalpers are buying for each show vs. how many are available to actual fans. The article says in one case, a ticket broker managed to buy 20,000 tickets.
Holy moly! The oddly curious decision to add 'CSW' to a message that was otherwise chosen by the 'audience', had been bothering me all along! Thank you for drawing attention and offering insight on that!

I think it's purpose may be even a little more devious than just ensuring the outcome wasn't always success (VERIFIED) in the off-chance the audience chose to test with other inputs.

I think the first failure that happened was intentional, planned, and part of the setup -- intended precisely to register into the audience's mind that they had witnessed a negative test case (failure) and a positive test case (success) in normal operation.

It’s easy for someone in hindsight to ponder if the software was compromised to always say VERIFIED. But they would recall having witnessed a negative test case and a positive test case, and it would quickly squash such a doubt and take away focus from the possibility of corrupted software!

And similarly, during the demonstration itself, it would remove the need for the audience to request additional tests with incorrect input, because they had already witnessed a failure -- which when corrected, led to success!

The Wired article says “At first, the Electrum software's verification of the signature mysteriously failed. But then Andresen noticed that they'd accidentally left off Wright's initials from the message they were testing, and checked again”

Note it says "they'd accidentally left off" -- it doesn't say "he'd accidentally left off", which to me suggests Craig was participating in the verification. It’s interesting that it was precisely the addition of the CSW that was ‘accidentally’ left out. It wasn’t a typo or extra space or incorrect upper/lower case that was the mismatch.

If that is indeed the case, that is frighteningly shrewd.
Looks like an almost verbatim copy of https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
Pinboard's YCF application being perceived as a joke is due entirely to Pinboard's YCF application.

YC has no responsibility for that at all.
Thanks, but $20K is about three weeks of revenue for me. It's not as funny if I sell a piece of the company for peanuts to anyone else.
> It's just as insensitive for a judge of a foreign nation to suggest that all foreigners must consider his rulings when making decisions under their own sovereign laws.

If you are operating in Brazil you have to follow Brazilian laws, including judges' orders. Just because I decide to do something in the US doesn't mean it's automatically legal when I do it in Brazil.
It was pretty clearly an experiment, and it looked pretty obvious to me that they were reserving the rights to tweak and nudge and basically run it as they saw fit. It's not like it was a cereal box competition or the lottery or something where you just win some money and that's that.
I just picked a random date in June (Tuesday the 14th). Single orchestra tickets range from $931-$3712 through ticketmaster resale, or $1350-$3300 on stubhub.

You might be able to find better prices for, e.g. a Sunday matinee when LMM isn't performing, I suppose.
The problem of patients not trusting doctors who use checklists seems solvable , maybe via education maybe via other means. It's just a matter of will.
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No one communicated that Pinboard, the company, was a joke. I feel quite the opposite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441978
Given the other data points, you can assume javascript.
I don't work at Tesla, I'm just familiar with the situation through close acquaintances. People are getting REALLY tired of hearing "next quarter will be different and we'll start putting processes in place..."
The alt text is golden: "No white guy who's been mentioned on Twitter has gone on to win."

...and the streak may continue all the way to 2016!
Trump does little else but play identity politics. Clinton is betting Don't Pass/Don't Come, that's all.
bingo: I'd feel much better about paying $1000 for a ticket if I knew it was going straight to LMM and the rest of the show's cast/creative, instead of some random dude on StubHub.
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Your reply to Kevin in the cited conversation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441978) was 3 sentences long, where you graciously accepted praise for being compared to Berkshire Hathaway -- arguably one of the big corporate success stories of our generation. Are you willing to share the details of your subsequent good-faith conversation....?

I voted for pinboard... and I'm curious why Kevin decided that it wasn't in the spirit of the program.
That section didn't make sense to me. The Blumenthal account was at AOL, so if Guccifer was mining data there, how could that give any clue about who was on Clinton's server?
Could Toil be extended to work on something like say Mesos maybe using the Marathon scheduler, or would you be better off to write a toil framework instead?
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Apples vs. Oranges.

An electric car requires hours to charge vs. a minute to fill gas. So you need several hundred times as many Electric charging points OR a comparable number of battery change stations to be remotely comparable assuming service as a metric
They already have, and I'm not cheaper because I'm currently focused on node.
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That is the case. Only when the store is very busy will they have dedicated phone order takers. The rest of the time the drivers who are waiting for the next delivery, the pizza makers, and/or managers handle the phones.

Used to work at a Dominos, though it was pre-internet days. Not sure how much online business the typical store now gets, I know I still always call when I order pizza because it's faster than dealing with the website.

Annoyingly at Dominos they now also have an automated attendant answer the call initially, which reads off the daily specials. That's a big reason I don't often order Dominos anymore but instead call a competitor who still has live humans answering the phone.

When I was at Dominos we had a standard of no more than two rings before a person picked up. People would sprint across the store to get the phone before the third ring.
Medical error–the third leading cause of death in the US
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I suppose, but would you refer to General Electric and Telemundo in the same interchangeable way? Same difference. If I were applying to a job in GE's aviation research division, I wouldn't mail my application to Telemundo.
In the late 1990's when they started, around the same time as Metafilter, maybe Google was honestly trying to rank websites based on href's, as some perceived indicator of website popularity.

But over time how much has Google itself influenced the product of its own "Pagerank" algorithm?

If Google places a website as a first search result for some frequently searched term(s), even if by accident, then that website is going to become very popular, very quickly.

Opinion: Google determines the popularity of a website.

In the early days we believed they were presenting results based on the relative popularity of websites. At some stage Google itself became the determinant for the popularity of websites.

Stories like this one support this idea.

One could argue Google is running what amounts to an online version of the Yellow Pages where the ads can be changed or rearranged hourly, daily, weekly, etc. Instead of calling a telephone number to place an ad in the Yellow Pages, one has to enter an opaque Adwords auction for words instead of ads.

But for the small business, especially those who do not bid on words, it gets worse. A business listing in the search results will likely never been seen if it is not in the top 10, i.e., on page 1.

Imagine if this were true for the Yellow Pages, which is organized alphabetically. Businesses with names beginning with numbers or the letter "A" would receive a grossly disproportionate share of calls, because no one would ever get past the first page of listings.

As crazy as it sounds, I think there's an argument Google and not the user is effectively doing the choosing. Whether it's intentional or not is irrelevant. The way the system is implemented and used, this is the effect. And this only benefits Google.
Gitter is becoming standard in Developer community with Slack practically dying. No surprise given Slack's inferior UX. Fragmenting my teams and asking separate passwords for each? What a stupid idea!
I think Berkeley's EECS curriculum starts with functional programming instead of imperative. Need someone to confirm.
Rescale pricing: "Price as low as $0.04/core/hour" - if I am reading this correctly, training on a K40 Nvidia GPU (with nearly 3000 cores) amounts to about $100/hour.
Bit pricey, no? Or am I not reading this right?
How can I install a custom python package? I've been using tflearn for my models, is there any way to use it?