skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I agree, I think gun ownership is weird and horrible, and I wish the US would dis-arm. You'd see a dramatic drop in completed suicide for one thing.

But even in the incredibly violent US, with poorly trained gun happy police, only 5,500 dogs are killed each year. That's way too many, but parent said "you should be afraid of this" - no, you really shouldn't. If you own a dog you should be far more worried about the risk of the dog being run over; or of the dog being over-fed (half of American dogs are overweight or obese) or of all the other far more common stuff that kills dogs.

(All these numbers are estimates, so who knows how good they are).
Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3
Last month, we decided to reserve a few spots in the next Fellowship batch (F3) for the Hacker News community to decide who they’d like to fund. Startups applied publicly via HN and the community “interviewed” and voted for their favorites.

Context:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627

We ran a poll for the top applications and the voting was so close that we decided to fund one extra startup. Here are the winners:

AutoMicroFarm (264 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11454342

Feynman Nano (208 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11443122

Casepad (200 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452884

I’ve talked to the founders of these three startups on the phone already and I’m really excited about working with all of them. We’ve disclosed all the vote totals in the original poll thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615639). Of course, the application that got the most votes isn’t on the final list and we’ll discuss that in the thread below.

We received 343 applications via Apply HN and over 1700 comments were generated across those posts. I was quite impressed by the quality and depth of the discussions on these applications and really loved the moments when HNers would take the time to provide quality feedback to the founders on their applications.

Thank you to everyone for participating in our little experiment. It takes a lot of bravery put your passion out there to be judged publicly and it takes a remarkable community to treat that courage with kindness and respect. It makes me very proud to be part of HN.

While we haven’t definitively decided whether we’ll do this again at this point (we’ll want to see how the companies do in the batch), I’m delighted and optimistic about what the community accomplished here.

We’ve already received a lot of great feedback from many of you on how to do this better, but please feel free to share more below.
I want to nod along with this, but I can't shake the feeling that it's just too simplistic, with too small of a dataset. So Johnson was supposedly more charismatic than Goldwater, and that's why he won, not because Kennedy had been murdered 11 months earlier? Nixon beat Humphrey because he avoided a heads-up showdown, not because Humphrey had just served as Johnson's yes-man for several unpopular years in Vietnam? Carter beat Ford because he was charismatic, not because Ford pardoned Nixon and pissed everybody off? Reagan won because of his charisma, not because the country was mired in a years-long hostage crisis? Bush the First's loss didn't have anything to do with the worst recession in a decade?

Al Gore and John Kerry... I'll give you those, and it's not surprising then that he wrote this article in 2004, but I think in other instances it's curve-fitting.
Was I really the first to upload a TXT file that only had the words "hello world"?

https://proofofexistence.com/detail/b94d27b9934d3e08a52e52d7...

I was expecting to see someone else's document that had that text.
The problem is that most people don't realize that its relatively easy to for a patient (or their lawyer) to formally notify the state medical board of a complaint. Even billing issues are sometimes investigated by the state board.

For smaller claims, the doctor may settle the case for less than the threshold for listing in the public provider record. The National Practitioner Data Bank [0] is more strict in what gets recorded and doctors can't cover it up as easily.

Doctors and hospitals might try and deny the issue but in some states, if the complaint is substantiated (but the doctor is not formally reprimanded) it still gets noted in the National Practitioner Data Bank. This will be checked by any prospective employers in the future.

In aviation, there is a philosophy that its better to admit a mistake, and learn from it. This is known as the "Asoh Defense" [1]. Doctors could learn a lot from Capt. Asoh.
The NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System [2] is for aviators to self-report a safety issue without fear of being violated by the FAA for their admission. There is even an immunity policy for non-deliberate pilot errors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Practitioner_Data_Ban...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_2#The_.2...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Safety_Reporting_Syst...
My family friend was top cardiologist in the Bay Area... His grandson became an anesthesiologist - and he paid his grandsons medical school bills with the edict for him to pay it forward.

The kid graduated at ~22 with an initial base salary of $350k

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I work in health tech. I designed and built many of the Bay Area hospitals you might be familiar with. I can't even break 200k
I suppose I've been reading third party documentation.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices/Chrom...

Along with the link above indicates otherwise. Are these websites both wrong?

I did completely overwrite the firmware for my Acer c720 (by removing that write protect screw) but I assumed that was an exception.
You probably talking about service virtualization. I have some plans to dig into this space, but later. For now check this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_virtualization and http://hoverfly.io/ in particular.
There is not very many obgyns you can convince to do that.
Well, think of it in terms of cost prohibitiveness. He doesn't fly a plane because it's too expensive. If things pan out well it will also be too expensive for him to continue manually driving.
By far the worst mistake that reddit makes is the emphasis it gives to r/all, and the way that impacts its public reputation, and shapes its audience. Reddit's algorithms are nowhere near sophisticated enough to compare long form articles to memes, and at this stage it is a failure even to attempt to do so. The site should abandon r/all, and probably also default subreddits, and make itself a repository of independent communities, which each rise or fall organically, according to their utility to their readers, rather than according to their desire to evangelize to the general community. The current system is built for abuse, and it's not a surprise that it produces dystopian, evangelical idiocy like fatpeoplehate and god knows what else.

I am so blunt because I think reddit in its current form risks doing genuine damage.
I agree that panic attacks are often indicative of present unhealthiness, just as I agree that having a bleeding bullet-sized wound is indicative of a medical emergency. What I have not agreed with, and what I think I have not seen any reason to believe, is that susceptibility to panic attacks in response to an attack indicate prior unhealthiness, any more than susceptibility to gunshot wounds in response to an attack is prior unhealthiness. In particular, I don't see anything in the paper that claims that.

OK, I've read those posts and I understand what you mean by "unhealthy thoughts". To make sure that I'm understanding your terminology, is this what you have been meaning by "unhealthy" / is a person with "unhealthy thoughts" themselves "unhealthy"? There are a few posts that say that everyone has some "unhealthy thoughts" from time to time, so if the sense of "unhealthy" that you're using is that everyone is unhealthy to some extent, I have been misunderstanding.
In my city, you're lucky if public transit only takes an hour (I'm lucky, so I still ride). Also, the bike racks only take two bikes; if there are already two on there, you might as well just ride the rest of the way because your other option is to wait an hour for the next bus.

(hi; I live in a city run by "fiscal conservatives")
I think this article is a good example of statistical prognosticating with too few data points, which renders statistical significance of the forecast to be quite low. In addition, it attempts to build what essentially amounts to a one variable model, which is likely to be suboptimal, even if that one variable is important. In short, I find this article to be an example of poorly done statistical analysis and not much more than that.
Is code posted on SO under a license or something? I don't appreciate the wrong doing here --that the author of the app didn't understand what he copied is an assumption.
Hi, thanks for responding.

What I need is for our translog to reflect the order of updates. So if diff A was applied before B, then the translog order also needs to be A, B. (The order only needs to be consistent per document.)

This is because we have listeners — through APIs — that play the translog as it happens and maintain various state based on it.

Currently, the translog is ordered by a sequential number (because it's cheap in Postgres), but every entry also records the ID of the previous entry (so B will point at A). One could sort by time and then reorder by causality before emitting the linear log to consumers, but that would of course be more complicated than one that is already linear.
That probably depends on who you ask.
What did you guys use for those plots?
I think he meant a legal precedent defining whether the following constitutes harassment:

> Refusing to talk to a person's lawyer, then saying "we will be attempting to talk to this person without a lawyer present"

IANAL, but it seems like it's OK for an FBI agent to say they'd prefer to talk to someone in person without a lawyer. It's not OK for them to coerce someone into talking without a lawyer, but it doesn't seem like that has happened here. I understand the author's fears, but the real issue seems to be the largely unchecked potential of the FBI to inflict harm upon specific citizens for any reason, not their actual behavior in this case.
The swiss army knife analogy is not a good one. Software is dynamic, unlike material tools. While a blade can't morph into a bottle opener, software can morph into pretty much anything.

There's no reason for having multiple apps when they all share 90% of features.
Apple officially discontinues WebObjects
We might not like Trump, but he is charismatic. I don't know if he's on the same level as Bill Clinton[1] or Obama, though "Make America great again" is the same slogan as "hope and change." They are both vague enough to inspire anyone, kind of like horoscopes.

Scott Adams is not wrong, but I am surprised that people learn from reading his blog because non of Trump's tactics are new. To give Adams credit, he is a great blogger. Adams lures readers with "Let me share Trump's secrets with you because only us smart people know what is happening." People love to feel smart and be part of an exclusive group so they quote Adams' simple analysis as amazing insight. Also Adams fails to acknowledge that Trump overtly appeals to misogyny, racism, and xenophobia. Trump wouldn't be this popular without scapegoats.

On a personal level, I feel depressed that a candidate will get more votes, not fewer, after making blatantly sexist comments.

[1] Clinton during his candidacy: https://youtu.be/ckHfgqK_hcU?t=10m30s
Notice the difference between Bill and Hilary near the end.
I went through the Triplebyte process (to the end) and did not ever implement a solution to a whiteboard problem under a time constraint.
No, because standard UX only gives you the arbitrary rules at creation time vs login time, so when logging in you don't know which rules you had to comply with.

Can't wait till we check min entropy and otherwise don't care.
Why Isn't Google's ReCaptcha 'Responsive'?
Perhaps a "sesame credit"[0] type of thing where observers contribute driving patterns to an aggregator which generates a score and, e.g., orders 1000 pizzas/calls a SWAT team to the house of an unharmonious driver?

[0]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
"Tickets are now sold out through January 2017, according to Ticketmaster’s website."

and THIS is why ticket scalpers suck. Literally the only options to see Hamilton any time this year are to pay ridiculous rates ($1000-2000 each for good seats) to a scalper, or enter the same-day lottery and pray.

I predict it's only going to get worse now that Hamilton has grabbed 16 Tony Award nominations (and is likely to win a truckload of them).
"Back-end web understanding" seems oddly specific compared to everything else on that list.

Why that and not something more general which might encompass other kinds of domain-specific knowledge? There are a lot of companies on your list which seem like they might care more about other skills that don't really fit anywhere else. (Experience working with databases for example, for one of the 7 or so database companies.)
I looked at doing that first, but I couldn't figure out how folks could submit PRs against the markdown used to generate the site. I might just be a newb but I can't find a direct way to do it. Suggestions?
Neural Artistic Style Transfer for Videos
I was in the opposite situation. I'd been programming (mostly self-taught) for so long in imperative languages that I really struggled with 6.001, ultimately dropping the course. (I was course 2 taking .001 for "fun".)
Communication skills and perceptions are everything in the world of interpersonal relations.

You added the word "helped" twice whereas she did not use it in the above quoted comments.

Your perception is different from mine. That's fine. Her phrasing is ambiguous at best, and possibly pretentious.
Space Propulsion (MIT, Spring 2015)
The electric skateboard grows up
React + Electron? And eventually replace Electron with react-native.
Except the front page is frequently full of trash and racism and sexism is rarely more than a click away, and is frequently upvoted. Congratulations on your own curated Reddit, but if an online community has to be carefully curated by individual members just to get to a point where participating doesn't feel like wading through 5 feet of shit for the occasional shiny piece of tin foil, it's in failure mode.

ETA: I say this as a person who reads Reddit material frequently, but doesn't interact much on it. I don't hate the platform. But I do hate a lot of the people.
Thanks for the transparency as always, Dan. It's well appreciated.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was legacy software that depended on this behavior. Restricting URL change to same-origin will work much better
We've worked with enough engineers to be confident they're finding value and advantages to using Triplebyte. The feedback has included finding interesting companies (especially earlier stage ones) they'd not known about, skipping technical phone screens (even if you know you'll pass, they still suck), getting feedback on the Triplebyte technical interview, having interview scheduling handled by us, getting a high offer rate and help thinking through offers.

Assuming you can get companies to engage with you (i.e. you already have the right resume credentials) you could invest the time in achieving these same goals yourself as you're saying. For people who don't want to make that time investment, we can save time in a way that other recruiters can't by filtering companies using data about your technical skills and skipping those phone screens. The companies we work with don't trust other recruiters to do this screening correctly.

Our interview also doesn't require taking a day off work, it takes 2.5 hours and is done remotely via Google Hangouts.
The first one. No question in my mind.

You made it easy by having the larger number of lives saved together with the one where people are dying due to no fault of their own.

(Also, I don't totally fault people for non-compliance - it's really hard to be perfectly compliant in any recommended thing. But I still prioritize it lower.)
U.S. tech firms urge presidential candidates to embrace trade, high-tech visas
The course material from 2005 (original 6.001) is available on OCW at MIT, including videos of the lectures.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

That's an older and less polished online courseware system than edX, but it's perfectly workable. There are also VERY old videos of Sussman himself giving the .001 lectures. Those were easy to find, but I'd recommend the OCW site over the original lectures.
Thanks for all your Lisp comments. As an extra reference the tool I was thinking of for the "debug this pixel" feature was the venerable PIX: http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/14251 It was a great standalone tool, and its more modern successor is better integrated with visual studio: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GDC/GDC-2015/Solve-the-Toug... On the OpenGL side of things the situation has become a lot better than it was in the past with things like https://apitrace.github.io/
> Maybe it's just the internet changing but, he arguably should have just let it die

I am so very happy he didn't because it remains one of the few worthwhile communities on the web. I have a monthly recurring donation for that very reason.
Show HN: Comūn
> If reddit is terrible, it's because you're not using reddit correctly. My reddit experience is great.

I think Matt's comment was more about the up vote/down vote and how it can be controlled by a group of people.

As for your comment this is the common defense people turn to when defending Reddit. While it's true, Reddit itself doesn't do a good job of showing you how to use it. Logged out users see /r/all which more often than not is filled with advice animals, pics, gifs and (right now) the_donald subs. It comes across really poor. Even if you convert that user there is still not a ton of guidance to finding relevant subs to your interest. There's so many splintered subs (/r/game vs /r/games vs /r/truegaming) that it can be hard to find the one meeting your needs. You can sub to them all, but then you have this massive feed of subs. Some of which you may never see because your front page is being overwhelmed by some of the more popular subs.
The model is too simplistic. Human beings are also tribal and creatures of habit as well. We tend to vote for our party, those we've voted for in the past, and/or people who are like us.

In fact, the fact that only 11-12 states are up for grabs and the rest are solidly Democratic or Republican shows that charisma doesn't matter for most of the electoral.

It may be a weighted factor in those cross section of voters who are independents and willing to cross political lines.

Is Trump really charismatic, or is he saying things the electorate wants to hear, by promising everything under the sun, with no plan and no explanation, and blaming problems on foreigners and minorities. Xenophobia can also be a powerful factor.

IMHO, Hillary is going to beat Trump in the general election, however if there's a major terrorist attack on US soil, we could be looking at President Trump.
SOP/CORS does not apply to WebSocket
Ember.js and History.pushState and DOM Exception 18
Its relatively rare for a pilot to crash an airliner and be formally cleared by the NTSB. My understanding is that Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was formally cleared by the NTSB after US Airway 1549, as there was no way that Capt. Sully could have avoided the birds, or returned to LaGuardia, when following appropriate procedures.

Its more common that the NTSB rule that "human factors" was one of the factors in an accident. This would include what is (often incorrectly) called "pilot error".

Pilots are often fired when they screw up and wreck the aircraft. The Captain of the Southwest 737 that crashed landed at LaGuardia was fired.
(employee/founder here)

Re joins: we have top men working on it right now. Joins are definitely an interesting problem for a distributed database.
Something has to be the biggest, second and third cause of death.

In a perfect society,what is the number one cause of death?
True, but at the same time it's odd for open source projects to not have py3k compatibility. Hell, the stuff I have on github has no python 2 compatibility because honestly after spending some time in Python 3 it really feels like a step back (compared to bytes vs strings, etc.). Unless you are getting paid or depend on libraries that are only on py2, why would you use python 2 instead of 3?
I was thinking the same thing. It'd be interesting to compare this analysis with a duplicate analysis exclusively of accepted applications.
> What experiment/result would convince you that statistics is not "the ultimate language of the brain?"

Reflexes, like in your knee. Your spinal cord is very much part of your brain and the pateller tendon reflex is nearly 100% with 'healthy' people. Perhaps the statistical nature of the brain comes from measuring many people to get the right sampling power for the experiment. Genetics and the stochastic behavior of life then influence these brains to behave in statistical ways compared to each other. Twins studies should bear that out as true or false.
> She could [call them and] say upfront that she's not answering any questions and just wants to know what they want from her.

Presumably her lawyer advised her against doing this. If you'd bothered to retain a lawyer in a situation like this, don't you think you'd defer to his expertise on how to deal with law enforcement?
There's no need. The sample is the population (all applications).
My group DM's aren't showing up in my Messages section! Otherwise, this would be the perfect extension for me!
Could you tell me why you feel so? Your parent was deriding that tweet as well. It's definitely cringe-y, but why/how would the media/others tear it apart?
This is the typical incorrect common-knowledge story. If you look at the papers from which DRM came, it's obvious that it wasn't solely aimed at copyright and didn't require proprietary hardware. The term is general, as are the concepts behind it.

It's not that I'm expanding the definition. It's that an uninformed public has narrowed it, much as happened with "meme."
From the github page:

1) Generate Key by master password

+--------+ +-----+
| Master | MD5Sum | |
| Pass |========>| Key |
| Word | | |
+--------+ +-----+

This is an epic fail. Someone needs to read up on key stretching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching
That's good to hear. There's no way our OB would do it either, but I suppose if you're the sort of person who wants one, you keep asking until you get it.
Those things are not mutually exclusive. Demagogue are charming.
Hacker 'Guccifer': I Got Inside Hillary Clinton's Server
It is unethical if you are an attorney, but I really don't think it is harassment.
Yes, it also shows how volatile people are when it comes to doing a startup.

I understand the usefulness of pivoting, but as it stands, people are pivoting across entire industries (into industries where they are completely inexperienced) for the sake of getting funding.

Some cross-pollination between industries is beneficial, but right now you have too much of it - It turns everyone into a snake oil salesman - All bling no substance... Everybody knows a bit about everything but nobody knows everything about anything.

YC encourages a breadth-first mentality which is subpar when it comes to encouraging deep innovation.

The YC decision process should be seen like a decision tree with the minimax (adverserial search) algorithm switched on... Applicants are YC's opponents, not their ally and they are always looking for ways to subvert the system.