skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it were really over, Kasich would have dropped out too.

It was over for Kasich a LONG time ago, but he stayed in.

> Kasich will be an easy win at the brokered convention if that happens, so he's staying in until Trump reaches 1237.

...I feel like we've been watching different races. With different candidates. On a different planet.

> I wouldn't be surprised if the GOP pulls some really dirty tricks to deny Trump the nomination somehow. Face it, their survival depends on it.

Both parties have survived worse nominees. The Democrats survived Mcgovern after all.
> after just 1 OS release like Microsoft

Can you give an example? I always found Windows' backwards compatibility to be stellar, though I haven't developed any desktop apps since the Windows 8 introduction.
I think it does require locking, because in PostGres (or Oracle) readers do not block writers and writers do not block readers. So to be sure you update the same version you read, you have to select...for update.
It might explain how the middle swings at least to some degree. Perhaps just acting as a contributing factor or a catalyst.
To make this right just make an additional YCF spot for Maciej, call it the "People's Choice" award, and be done with it. You can't hold a popularity contest and deny the popular candidate. Curate from the rest, sure, but people are always going to feel ripped off if the popular winner gets arbitrarily disqualified. That's why 'people's choice' awards exist. Plus if this is an experiment, why not run with the unexpected?
> the few times I've seen Sanders on TV

Well, that's my point, that's passively. It's not like he's not getting reported on, of course, but kinda like the bare minimum. I found this speech after the Indiana win very interesting for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHjiYU6RQw

I don't mean charismatic as in super suave, but as in, a stand up normal person, not someone first and foremost in it for the power. I guess charisma is subjective. And he isn't trying to be anything he's not. He's not trying to be folksy, he's just himself. That's what I see and what I like. Sure he has to play politics, but he doesn't put on a mask on top of that.
Elon Musk: people have to revolt against propaganda of the fossil fuel industry
> although IRC is still common

I am sad to see an open-source tech get replaced with a closed source one, but I am glad that the default IM system for talking about code is no longer one that prohibits multi-line comments.

Considering the amount of skilled time and effort that good UX takes, I suppose closed-source was the most likely thing to happen.
I get persuasive writing, but calling "Slack: King of the Enterprise Tools" because it went from 0% in 2014 to 1.2% in 2016 is absolutely an over statement.

Apples-to-apples on the chart? I'd bet a Tubman that 70%+ of the readers didn't catch the scale differences as they went chart-to-chart, following the writer down his/her path.

Everyone draws the line somewhere on this stuff, and I'm just surprised where Priceonomics (who's stuff is normally AWESOME) and YC placed their collective line. Then again, maybe I'm all alone out here with this concern.

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*If that wasn't bad enough, did they search for other potential "enterprise tools" or just the ones that are trending today? Curious if Yammer, MS Excel, MS Office, Jira, charted in an "significant" way?
After Arvados (http://arvados.org) Toil has the most complete support for the common workflow language http://commonwl.org) which is an emerging standard for writing portable workflows that can run on different platforms, instead of being tied to a particular engine or grid/cluster/cloud technology.
False compassion
> Not OSS != no source access.

Furthermore, no source access != no way to fix problems.

People have been fixing things with no source for ages, EULAs be damned. If the fix is literally flipping a single bit, the decision is easy. Just do it. The vendor doesn't need to know nor care what we did to fix it, but often giving a detailed description to them of the problem --- one that comes out of the process of fixing it --- will help them fix it quickly and distribute to their other customers too. I've had this experience a few times.

Obviously, "the byte at 0x73F441 of somefile.dll should be 31, not 32" is not how you should communicate such things to the vendor, but they do appreciate your effort in debugging the issue instead of immediately blaming it on a fault in their software. ;-)

(And relatedly, no source access != no way to find problems either, as the security community shows quite plainly...)
Barbarian Days
Are you in a position to share a raw, granular form of the data (potentially with more anonymization)?
I completely agree, although the attitude at facilities where this has been done extensively is always "how can we reduce the alert/popup/notification burden" because it always invariably slows things down and annoys people. 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.

An automated "checklist generation" is easy via subscription to data vendors, whereas manual curation takes years (even when only codifying best practices). And we can't just have one set of alerts for the world because everyone's (patient demographics, risk appetite, clinical sophistication level, computer skills, political situation) is different.
Ask HN: How can we improve the “luck” factor in Show HN?
See this : 4 points / 0 comments -> 100+ points / 80+ comments

http://i.imgur.com/Lqs0tk1.png

This guy was fortunate (probably got a mail from admin requesting a re-post). Is there a better way to not let good posts slip by ?
I'm honestly not sure. I was under the impression that it was limited... but thinking back perhaps I was thinking of the software that usually doesn't take advantage of multiple processes. Also half joking :D
Clicky : http://i.imgur.com/Lqs0tk1.png
Feyman Nano is not doing anything new or innovative. In the materials world this is old technology with a very old spin.
"He made me feel uncomfortable" is like slide 3 of every "unconscious bias" training workshop ever. As we slowly try to claw our way out from a deservedly terrible reputation in our industry, high-profile retentions for, basically, "lack of culture fit" send a dark message to every person in existence who fears they might not leave you "energized".

I realize it's inadvisable to wade into this discussion, but this just leaves me indignant and disappointed on behalf of my whole industry and profession.
Facebook opens another office – this time in Malaysia
Thanks, I was not aware of this :)
Yeah a thread will eventually have someone comparing someone else to Hitler or Nazis. It is Godwin's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
I didn't see this set coming outside Casepad. Interesting. Will be more interesting to see how they do from here on out. One little benefit was that I had never heard of aquaponics until now. That's really neat stuff.
This parallels a lot of my experience. I moved into physics because I realised that I loved coding only when the problems and technologies interested me. While I found CS problem sets boring, being able to use my coding in physics was endlessly exciting. Even more than that though, being able to apply a CS mindset to physics problems when no-one else in the lab would was always fun in itself.
Anybody know of any good self-help/research communities or forums?

Search engines are filled with clickbait these days.
The industry buzzword for this is 'service virtualization' as mentioned above.
It's comments like this that are the reason YC's communications here are so upsetting. Pinboard isn't a joke. It's how the guy pays his rent. Not only that, but it's a valuable and important service. I use it every day. Less than I use Google, but more than I use Wikipedia.
> Meet one or two of those victims and you will never support tort reform again.

Remarks like this are really counterproductive and frankly bizarre. Were character assessments ever relevant in lawsuits against tobacco companies? It's not hard to find unlikeable plaintiffs.

However it is increasingly hard to keep your rights to a _public trial_ in a courtroom when it's a tort case [0]. When doctors ask you to give up your right to a public trial, then the rest of society (in my view) demonstrably loses out.

And in fact, per-capita, Americans file fewer law cases now than in the 1840s. [1]

> If this were a problem of gross negligence, then I would agree with you that we should focus there. But the problem isn't gross negligence...

Gross negligence is literally the problem in the medical industry. The Johns Hopkins study found "medical errors account for more than 9.5% of all fatalities in the US." I'm uncertain that any "business as usual" by doctors is really a problem, but rather the checks and balances once offered to patients is being severely eroded.

[0] http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/suing-for-justice/
[1] http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/suing-for-justice/6/
Pretty neat spreadsheet. Thanks for posting! Are there any that particularly interested you?
I work in a gigantic company and I feel I get a lot of flexibility and the scope to be creative. I worked at a startup previously and I was tightly bound by the technology stack and had to deal with silos.
You mean, like a "browser" ?
Dave Chappelle had a 2-ticket limit, where the purchaser and a guest was allowed. The tickets were purchased via Ticketmaster, and whomever was at the door was checking the tickets against our IDs. As a matter of fact, they went through the line ahead of time to match tickets to IDs to ensure we could get in quickly. Just adding this, so as to point out that it's even possible via TM.
Yeah, NP-complete.
Very much agreed. Allowing vague, largely unexamined "gut feels" to drive decision making is antithetical to what we want tech culture to be, and also precludes objectivity. It is by a very wide margin the most common tool used to restrict diversity - in all its forms - and keep something a closed club by making its decisions vague, nonspecific, and by its nature unchallengeable either from within or without.

Gut feels are often valuable signals, but without further examination and specificity they are a gigantic bias bomb waiting to explode.

An organization that widely permits this type of vague assertion to pass unchallenged is institutionally incapable of improving inclusivity or diversity, and one has to wonder if it's institutionally interested in the same at all.

Some concrete questions: what is YC's policy on ensuring employees/partners have received training re: bias? Have YC decision makers all participated in de-biasing education? If not, how does this reflect on YC's apparent dedication to improving diversity in our field?
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"Asshole VC associate" is not the bar YC is trying to clear.
During my phone call with Kevin this was one of the questions that came up, and the answer is yes, Feynman Nano applied to F3 through the traditional route. But we got buried under a lot of other applications.

Based on this alone I'd say that Apply HN should count as a success: It allowed YC to catch a startup which fell through the cracks of their existing system.
Especially considering the amount we're talking about is peanuts, by VC (and YC) standards. Some startups pay more for a chair.
I tried to use something in the real world to explain something on a computer.

Actually 90% of the features come from using preexisting libraries like Node.js etc. The business logic and UI/UX are usually different between different apps.
Also the "reservations" are not contracts. If the Model 3 is significantly delayed, some number of those will not follow through with a purchase. Especially if there are other competing options on the market by then, which there almost certainly will be.
>...they prefer the warm, personal experience of calling up a real human to book their plane tickets or whatever instead of punching their credit card number into some newfangled machine.

That was before they turned calling up a company into an audio version of the 90's internet.
I don't subscribe to the school of thought that
values engineers lower on the stack more than
those higher up

Meaning developers who understand low-level details vs. developers who just wire up high level libraries?

I've done the full range, from entire games written in assembly language and embedded C code, through high level full stack development with NodeJS, Python, and other languages.

The low-level coding is far more skilled work than the high level coding. Instead of most of the work being "how do these plug in to each other?", it's how exactly does my code function with respect to all of the potential events additional threads, and how all of the edge cases interact, and what is causing this obscure bug?

While that may not seem intrinsically harder, none of these are typically something you can Google or search StackOverflow for the answers on. So you're really just on your own. And developers who have grown up on "Google all the answers!" often hit a wall when they need to apply real problem solving skills.

Luckily I can find enjoyment in many levels, since a lot of the jobs I've found recently have been more of the "full stack" or "mobile development' category. It's easy and fun work.

I also have little problem piercing the magic and understanding how things fit together, but that means that I end up with opinions on many topics divergent with the crowd. For instance, I avoid writing Android/Java or iOS/Swift, and instead use cross-platform development stacks exclusively. Yes it means an entire extra layer of complexity, but it also means I write the app once for all target platforms. Far too big of a win to ignore.
We will have to agree to disagree on many of your points as they are mostly personal opinions, but the last one is flat wrong. Tornado has for a long time had great support for fully leveraging all CPU cores. Happy to show sample code if you like.
Why not combine solutions; similar to airline seats - the cheap saver version, non-changeable, non-transferable, and non-refundable also must show original ID and credit card to enter and then the super-flexible scalper-special with two wildly different price-points. You can also have a wait-list on the night for those who bought the non-refundable and are no-shows.
Its not just the hidden functionality, for me Siri will frequently assume I want to call somebody when I ask it something. Explaining why I accidentally called someone I hadn't talked to in years (and by the how are you doing?) makes playing with Siri a high risk endeavour.
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This is 1 month old...
Thanks, I've got 3 or 4 YC rejections and now 2 fellowship rejections (single founder). Finding a co-founder in Houston is not easy.

I believe that my YC applications were better written than the very limited writeup we got here, but I should revisit that before I release the robot army to avenge me.
No. Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try to crack this nut again. I'll check them out.
> That has nothing really to do with Internet sovereignty (whatever that means).

If you don't know what "internet sovereignty" means, then how can you possibly claim that something had nothing to do with it?
New UK anti-extremism powers to be included in Queen's speech
Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism
Read the mdn post I link below as well and it should become clear.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/open...
I'm more shocked at ebay being listed as a "fallen giant" when most of those shitty startups would be lucky if their business at some point generates at least 1% of ebay's revenue.
> They are already educated and don't have time for checklists to remind them of every little detail they learned during their 10-year long training program.

Medicine is not a static field. Evidence-based guidelines and checklists save time, money and lives. Time: because over-worked docs already have a hard time keeping up with new standards and guidelines. Money: because best practices reduce errors and poor outcomes, and ultimately reduce malpractice premiums. Lives: because good medicine is based on evidence that reduces harm, and not based statically on what was learned at the start of a career.

If you want to hold the most problematic doctors accountable, do away with the tort reform that protects them. The faster the incompetents are driven out (and not just relegated to a state with lower standards and more protection), the better we'll all be.

Overwork contributes to all kinds of problems, but it's not an excuse to avoid practices shown to produce better outcomes. It's roughly equivalent to a coder saying "I shouldn't have to run unit tests because I'm already working 60 hours a week and have 16 years of experience, and I got into this field because I like to write code." There are other ways to attack the cost of education and the doctor supply, but they are slow to gain traction because of professional protectionism.
It's de jure unethical for another lawyer to directly contact someone who has a lawyer. I would say it is de facto unethical for law enforcement agent to try and end-run around someone's lawyer. That undermines the specific roles law enforcement agents and lawyers have within the justice system.
There's a number of risks associated with ETFs that isn't associated (or less) with individual stocks.

As a rule of thumb you might assume that if the index goes down, the index fund will add 1-5% going down (large index funds only), and if the index goes up, the index fund will "lose" 0.1-0.5% of that value going up. ETFs are similar. Why ? Lots of reasons:

1) gating (during periods of heavy activity, the adding or removing shares process can block. Additionally, due to new regulation the management of the ETF can impose this without recourse for you. So if the ETF drops 20% in an hour, but you notice this 5% into the drop and want out, chances are good you won't be able to)

2) slippage (due to time delays, contracts, fees, the fact that fractional share ownership doesn't exist, ...) $100 added to an ETF does not result in $100 increase in ETF value. This affects smaller ETFs more than larger ones, but it means that when the S&P 500 goes up 10%, SPY goes up 9.9% or so, when it goes down this makes the drop worse (so, say 10% -> 10.1%). There have been cases where slippage has been large, especially in smaller ETFs).

Note that the reverse is also true, unless you're a billionnair (or at least dozen millionaire). Maintaining "your own", say, SPY equivalent account by owning individual shares will likely cost you more in fees than it would cost you to own the equivalent SPY shares. Additionally if you have less money than the ETF, you'll have to have a rougher approximation.

4) slippage due to add/removes from the S&P 500 index. Since the ETF will have to make suboptimal (very large) trades when the index changes, this will cause the value of the ETF to "slip" compared to the index itself. Putting it separately since it results in bigger amounts.

So the SPY index tracks something between the S&P500 and this list : http://siblisresearch.com/sp-500-additions-removals/

This has, in the past, affected the difference between an S&P 500 index and an ETF more during recessions and that will continue.

5) Global synchronization. Many people use an ETF like SPY as an alternative for a 50% bonds 50% stocks portfolio. Needless to say, this is less diversified, and carries more risk.

6) Generally speaking, an ETF is of course vulnerable to the same risks as the individual stocks, to a lesser extent. However, bad things will happen to the ETF when bad things happen to any large holding. The thing is that the odds go up much faster than I bet people would expect.

Let's say the odds of something really bad (getting economic sanctions, default, bankruptcy, ...) happening to a top-10 S&P 500 company are 1% (happens once every century). We all (should) know the formula that determines risk across SPY as a result of that, but do you know what value it gives for this scenario ?

It's just shy of 10%.

So under these assumptions you can expect a 6-7% drop in the SPY etf every decade that won't be reflected in the index (index can, "for free", just remove failed stocks and replace them, the ETF can't). I hope you agree those are reasonable assumptions.
Is there some reason a scalper can buy tickets before you? I assume they are camping out to grab the tickets as soon as they are on sale. No reason you couldn't do the same and score a few.

Now, if you don't want to sit in front of your computer at 5am to buy tickets before they sell out, then the scalper is offering to do that for you for a price.
Doesn't even need to be a traffic infringement, most jurisdictions have loose catch-all minor crimes like "disturbing the peace" or "disorderly conduct", with pretty low burdens of proof.
Helpful FYI: If you're interested in learning about Machine Learning (so you can use TensorFlow and Rescale, etc), I've found this to be an incredible resource: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/
If only everyone has your mindset. Patients do complain - a lot. They never think that waiting another 1 hour is okay because it makes things safer - what they think is that they (or the insurer / government) have paid us handsomely, they want to be treated ASAP, anything slower means they don't get what they deserve. Less prominently but still important is that individual departments are usually under pressure to show that they are progressing to be both safer and faster / more efficient - thus they might make slippery and controversial trade-offs.

There are important KPIs related to patient health and public health that depend on speed, such as length of inpatient stay, transit time in the ER / ED, time to first antibiotic treatment, turnaround time for medicines and supplies. Compromising these KPIs may lead to non-optimal care too regardless of patients complaining.
In some places people will hail the Uber driver and bypass the app altogether.
I'm not trying to downplay his contributions and tenacity. His work is truly impressive. I am an American male speculating. I think both his and my solutions are better than plugging oneself up with sawdust and leaves.

I wouldn't expect this man to know about these cups or women in rural India to have convenient access to not only the cups but also to plastic bags, clean water, and soap. For those who do, however, my solution is lasting, secretive, and feasible.
God forbid that someone so known for his sobriety in all things should on this one occasion have a jokey response.
Couldn't agree more.

I don't even enable JavaScript for google.com, not since they integrated the pile of crap that is/was Google+ which added 10% usage load on my CPUs.
If someone had invented self-driving horses, we could have skipped the whole car thing.

Is Waze for horses patentable?
FYI they said at today's ng-conf sessions that with the recent release candidate, they have cut that from 200K to 40K and that there's still more room to shrink.
People who work at pizza places make far less than a dollar a minute (assuming you have a very complicated, very small order.)
> I don't feel entitled so I'm not complaining

Is it because you don't feel entitled? Or because there's a vast chasm of difference between "5th place" and "1st place by several miles in each of two separate races"?
> So you're saying it's OK for Brazil to send a SWAT team to raid a house in the US?

No.

> The judge's order has no validity outside his jurisdiction; just like a US judge's order has no validity in Brazil.

Which is why the judge only banned WhatsApp from operating in Brazil.
No one should have to use proprietary software to talk to their government
Hedging with options is great... if you know how to hedge with options. Most people don't so the six months of cash on hand is more broadly applicable as a rule of thumb.