skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair statement but the military also has medical professionals. A wild speculative guess from my perspective is that airlines view it as an objective profession, you do these things to handle the machine and that is end of the story. Medical fields are somewhat subjective since we don't really understand the human body like we do airplanes - we didn't build humans from the ground up. We need to make the medical industry absolutely objective and quantitative in order for procedures and checklists to be effective. It still weirds me out how you need second "opinions" on a diagnosis, it just highlights our inability to understand ailments.
I've spent the last little while browsing through the upb and gazelle repos. I'm struggling to get a high-level overview of what you want to do. I'm curious though because what you're saying here on HN intrigues me.
True but this doesn't mean he's not right. 9 out of 10 startups fail. And you usually do make more money if you started it.
Yep have product which was successfully used by a (arguably) customer at a high profile institution years ago . I think most people think they are very good, most people aren't, and most of the tiny minority of people who actually are good at starting business have their own things to work on.
Looks like arch users will need to install at least one package from the AUR(ncurses5). But apart from that, I'm pretty excited for this, it should make stuff like installing pyqt5 in a virtualenv really simple.
When you stream a movie on Netflix, either the DRM doesn't work, or you no longer have unrestricted access - from inside the computer - to the pixels on the screen, or the audio being output.

i.e. If you try to screenshot the movie, or redirect the audio into a file, you won't be allowed. The video and audio quality may be downgraded if you attach non-HDCP (a DRM system for local video and audio) outputs to your laptop.

Sometimes Netflix will simply refuse to stream anything if it isn't sure that the path from the video decoder to the monitor's screen is secure. e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3j0vck/whats_hdcp_an...

You don't have permission from Netflix to prevent this. If you're in the US or UK - and many other jurisdictions - it is illegal for you to do so, even if it's very clearly within your fair use (or equivalent) rights.

In the future, it's likely that DRM will extended to add and detect watermarks to restricted video and audio output, requiring you (and those around you) to cede full use of any other devices with microphones and cameras that might happen to capture that output.
Here's some more discussion about using word analysis to predict psychosis:

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/08/word-analysis-proves-...

And here's an Atlantic article: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/speech...
I agree with that. The engineering process can be applied on every type of problem.

Yet, for that specific web dev problem, I haven't seen any way of formally testing the rendering web pages, which would make it consistent on every browsers. The testing process (almost) always leave that up to the developers themselves, and refreshing pages is the norm.
Even piecing together systems out of existing components significantly benefits from knowledge of first principles.
Pretty ridiculous comparison, lets be honest
> It's a thousand doctors following procedures with a 0.1% error rate and 999 thinking, "nothing bad's happened to me so I must be doing everything fine," even though they could each reduce that to a 0.001% error rate with a simple checklist or by actually washing their hands.

Seems like that's an argument for a very discerning insurance company. Following the checklist should reduce their insurance premiums 10 times. And that's noticeable.

(Of course, the ideal insurance company in question needs to collect the information how doctors behave, and needs to be legally able to act on it.)
An FBI agent is not "someone".
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Poke all you like. I'll just be over here writing software that isn't a broken pile of hacks. SICP is one of the most important books I haven't read. It's actually on my shelf right now. I still haven't finished it.

The fact is, as a self-taught programmer, programming is intimidating. I can reason about code, and write it, and understand it if I squint at it long enough, but I still choke on any production code I read, and have trouble solving complex problems. SICP is a book all about this. It's about building better abstractions, and despite having not yet finished it, is probably the most helpful books on programming I've read. Many books can teach you how to program. SICP teaches you how to program /well/, and why.

Along with The Lambda Papers, it taught just how powerful Scheme could be. And I maintain that Lambda the Ultimate Declarative contains the only good explanation of what a continuation DOES.

It was the book that made me want to go to MIT. I don't know if I'll ever go there (I'm still in high school), but if the people there are advocating "programming by poking," it probably wouldn't be worth my time.

This book changed my life, and I haven't even finished it yet. It should be Required Reading™, and the thought of doing it in Java makes me sick. And not just because I despise Java. Java is probably the worst language for this sort of book. SICP is an exploration of programming paradigms and concepts. Java is married to one set of paradigms and concepts, and won't budge an inch against even a hydrogen bomb.

Besides, imagine a metacircular evaluator in Java. Yuck.
if you rebalance / repick, yes. If it's just buy and hold, I don't agree. The benefit of index funds is the failing companies are dropped before they hit $0.
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No. What you wrote does not make sense.
You're intentionally mis-understanding what he wrote. He means it isn't always the human driver's fault. Driverless cars aren't going to re-implement roads (not at first, not for a while).
Great concept! Soon monkeys will do all the poking. Humans can just watch.
To show that the data collected in this survey is biased towards answers by men.
If you’re interested in some further discussion, Andrew Denton and The Wheeler Centre have been working through the topic of euthanasia (with a particular focus on Australia) in their Better Off Dead podcast: http://www.wheelercentre.com/broadcasts/podcasts/better-off-...
Yes, but dying is basically the stiffest penalty for errors you can think of.
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> The US needs a system where victims of malpractice get compensated but the doctors or hospitals are not necessarily held liable (unless it's gross negligence).

Malpractice, by definition, is action falling below the standard of care set by the profession. If malpractice occurs, "improving procedures" is not necessary, because the harm results from failing to meet the the procedural norms of the profession.

Improving procedures is called for when adverse outcomes result from problems that are not malpractice.
SO driver-assisted cars will be popular. No reason why it has to go all the way to self-driving. And 10 years of driver-assist gradually taking over more functions will help reduce FUD to the point we'll all find ourselves thinking about driving the way we feel about horses and dial telephones.
And again... that's their problem, not hers. Her only reasonably prudent action at that point was to do nothing. Talking to the FBI directly instead of letting her lawyer handle it could have just made things worse.

If the FBI actually wanted anything to get done instead of just harassing her, they should have talked to her lawyer.
Especially organized, bureaucratic, systemic, and industrialized evil.
#include std_disclaimer.h

I work on the team that maintains the CA Electronic Death Certificate System. Yesterday, our supervisor sent this out among the team.

The certificates have spots for immediate and contributing cause of death. We are working on a system for doctors to enter this information (tie in our system to the hospital's) while it is fresh in mind for the staff, and to gather the info in near real time for NIH after finalization.

However, even as a programmer, I think it is harsh to expect a doctor to self critique himself/herself in that position (assuming he/she were so inclined). As one of the commenters on one of the articles about this study pointed out, it used to be automatic that a death in the hospital went to the coroner. This would allow a somewhat neutral, educated, third party to asses for procedural errors and the like.

Are we, in the continuing age of Reaganism in the US, ready to budget for that sort of backstop to find, analyze and correct these kind of problems?
The Startup Zeitgeist
Posted almost 5 years go, please add 2011 to the title.

Original HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714304
Google also has a robust `post mortem' culture. (Transporting the term back to medicine where it came from might be a bit morbid, if used in the newly acquired wider meaning of any analysis of failure after the fact.)
Not to be harsh, but this isn't a lifestyle business. It sounds like this guy just wasn't the best choice to run the company.

Too much was spent on salaries and benefits. Only a month or two worth of cash was kept in the company to handle expenses. Free cash flow was pulled out of the company while it was still a viable growth opportunity. All the warning signs were ignored despite a vast majority of their revenue coming from a single source. Most egregiously, even though their traffic cratered after Google's Panda update in November 2012, they didn't reach out to the head of the web spam team at Google because... they didn't want to bother him.

Still, it's hard to admit mistakes. I have enormous respect for anyone willing to share their experience like this.
As someone who comes from a CS background, spent many years as a backend web developer, and is now focusing mostly on frontend ...

... I go where the complexity goes[1]. In the age where most [web] backends are just glorified DB wrappers with an API, and the main app is on the frontend - I'm gonna stick to frontend, thanks.

Although it's starting to look more and more like I should rekindle my interest in non-research[2] machine learning and AI.

[1] complexity and users, really. You could call it "the market"

[2] with much regret, I have discovered that I am too impatient/dumb/product-focused to do well in research.
Don't confuse non-statistical with non-rational. In particular, people that come to a different conclusion than you could just have different priors in their Bayesian model, but still be statistical in their intake of information.

Though... I think I agree that this weakens the claim sufficiently to not be a notable claim anymore.
> Is all of this ex-subsidies?

Also ask what price point would be needed to scale back CO2 emissions to something sustainable. Then run the economic analyses.
> Well, I was referring primarily (and in the referenced link) to fatal accidents. Usually it's a bit harsh to punish one of the most likely fatalities.

Aside from being harsh, its usually also, you know, impossible.
At least in chrome, you get the warning:

> Blocked a frame with origin "https://www.google.com" from accessing a frame with origin "https://news.ycombinator.com". Protocols, domains, and ports must match.

When executing

window.opener.location = 'javascript:alert(1);'
Does it blend ?
Nope. When blatant law-breaking like this happens, every car that observed it will send a detailed record of the event to the police including the license plate. (Maybe after their passenger hits the big flashing "Report reckless driving" button.) Using street cameras the car will be automatically tracked until it stops (possibly alerting other autonomous cars to the upcoming presence of a dangerous driver which in turn drive extra defensively), where the police will arrive minutes later to arrest the driver if the infraction was serious enough or the driver will receive a letter/email with a ticket for reckless endangerment.
Hmm? Desktop Twitter is pretty good at that too in my experience
two years ago I tried to store the hashes of everyone's unique DNA in the blockchain in a parseable format

even compressed it was completely untenable space-wise due to the amount of people this would need to support and secondly the amount of transactions the network supports

so........ you're wrong.

I think proofofexistence.com existed at that time as well so why is this even news? bitcoin's been around for a whiiiiiiile
"a 4,888-state Turing machine that halts iff there’s a counterexample to Goldbach’s Conjecture"

I constructed a 267 bit binary lambda term

defined in https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/goldbach.lam

and pictured in https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/goldbach.gif

that normalizes iff there’s a counterexample to Goldbach’s Conjecture
As soon as one person dies in an accident that might be caused by a software error, the lawyers are going to be all over the case quicker than you can say "Astronomical compensation claim."

It's bad enough now with ambulance chasers, but when the "guilty" party is a corporation worth billions, it's going to get a whole lot worse.

Personally I'd love self driving cars - tomorrow, if not sooner. Most driving is boring and pointless and I'm totally happy to let a competent machine do it.

But politically too many people have been conditioned to see driving as an expression of personal freedom, and the whole industry is politically vulnerable in a way that the smartphones and the Internet never were.

Generally there's a whole extra layer of legal, political, social, and psychological confusion around any kind of computing that doesn't live in a box with a screen, but starts being present in and manipulating physical reality.

Cars are just the start, and I think they'll turn out to be one of the more straightforward problems.
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Reacting with stress and worry to an implicit threat of physical or social harm is exactly like a healthy person.
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Then you close them. And they ask 'did you like this?'. And you say NO. Rinse and repeat.
Even better options:

"pick a random route"

"pick the least-traveled route over the last three months within 50 miles of my location"
I'm astonished that this has been up for an hour and no one's mentioned Atwood's Law:

"Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
The wording is slightly vague, but "...a condition that necessarily requires treatment" means they are considered a condition, just not necessarily one that needs treating.

Furthermore, your own quote goes on to indicate that PAs are indicative of unhealthiness, which is what I'm pointing out.

Below I've provided you with some reading so you can understand what an "unhealthy thought" is. Let me know when you've established a working understanding so we can continue (or don't, up to you).

[1] http://www.specialtybehavioralhealth.com/wp-content/Common%20Unhealthy%20Thought%20Patterns.pdf
[2] http://www.cognitivetherapyguide.org/negative-thinking-patterns.htm
[3] http://www.allaboutdepression.com/workshops/CBT_Workshop/CBT_09.html
[4] http://www.thechangeblog.com/unhealthy-thoughts/
[5] http://www.kamajensen.com/six-of-most-common-unhealthy-thinking/
[6] http://flowingfree.org/change-your-mind-%E2%80%93-how-to-get-rid-of-unhealthy-thought-patterns-and-feel-better-about-yourself/
[7] http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/wellness-module/wellness-module-8-healthy-thinking
You are thinking about this wrong. The S&P 500 is a capitalization weighted index meaning the larger the market cap the larger the weight. If you constructed a total market index using the same capitalization based weighting scheme, you'd find the S&P 500 would account for about 80% of the index value. In that light it is actually pretty close to "the entire market."
> ...having panic attacks is not a healthy response to stress.

Choking to death because of an allergy isn't a healthy response to peanuts, but like panic attacks, is involuntary. The legal system has already addressed the thrust of your argument with the Eggshell skull doctrine [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
Related to GUMPS:

In driver's education, I learned DSMBV [doors (locked), seats (adjusted), mirrors (adjusted), belt (seatbelt, attached), ventilation (adjusted as needed)].

It's not needed in my own car, but it is still useful to me for rentals and borrowing other people's cars (or in driver's ed, where the driver changes between students), since it can be overwhelming figuring out where everything is and everything is out of adjustment for myself.

I quickly made my own version by adding one more letter to the list, by experience: DSMBVL... L for Lights!

Apparently, the acronym that more people actually use is DSSSM (aka cockpit drill), which includes steering but not ventilation or lights.
Yes, I think if the designer is going beyond wireframes, they should probably be doing CSS themselves. Ideally applying CSS to a live prototype that the 'programmer' developed based on the wireframe.

I don't know, I'm not sure what the solution is. But I'm pretty sure it's not PSD-driven development.
There is a big difference between "malpractice" and "mistakes". A mistake that occurs despite the exercise of the degree of care expected in the profession is not malpractice.
If that is a factor, looking at how the military does medicine might be instructive.
Yes!

An initial test last night of a trivial growler app (i.e. one method that replies with a simple string) saw a median response time drop from ~200ms to ~80ms.

(using apachebenchmark, n=1000 c=100)
"If you asked people what they want, they'd ask for a faster horse"
Bitcoin was originally described as a "peer-to-peer distributed timestamp server"[1] so this is an ideal use case.

1. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
That is why I agree with Arthur Benjamin with teach statistics at school level.
Ask HN: Trump won the elections what are you going to do now?
Trump just got the republican nomination, now let's suppose in a hypothetical situation in the future where Trump wins the presidential elections against Bernie or Clinton, what would be your next step, will you stay in USA, or what would you do exactly ?
and (c): independently evaluate the evidence yourself. It's almost all public knowledge.

If your clinician feels very strongly one way, but it isn't supported by evidence, then something might be very wrong.
I would love it if I could find even a single person who deeply understands a real-world problem and knows of a way to fix it that two can people can bootstrap together. I have never met one.

I have met endless people who have a mediocre understanding of something and have a solution to a problem no one has. Or they have a problem and try to solve it with something that creates an equally annoying problem or the solution requires millions of dollars for any hope of working.

I welcome anyone who has a real solution for a real problem that needs building - send me a message via reddit and I will be more than happy to build it for you: https://www.reddit.com/user/beeboopp/ (since I don't have an email I want to tie to this account)
By the conservation of matter, matter cannot be created or destroyed. Thus in a certain sense you were not created but have always existed to infinity in the past (as far as we know the singularity which came before the big bang had no beginning). So is it a strange thing to think of yourself as continuing to exist in some form to infinity in the future?
Surgical nurses can handle the checklists. Of course the surgeon himself will not be ticking boxes.

Analogous: in a multi-crew aircraft, one pilot is flying, the other is managing/monitoring (including the checklists).
Every doubling of production tends to result in a percentage decrease in cost. I see numbers for batteries and other technologies of 15-25%
As my brother the surgeon says, the last place you want to be when you're sick is in hospital.
Lot of sad stories here, along with understandable mistrust of doctors. However, the most outrageous point thst emerges from the article is that in the US nobody is even measuring the rate of medical error. That is a criminal failure at the government level.
how does something like this happen in a "free" western country like Canada? And why isn't there more outrage about it? This is appalling to say the least. I knew I didn't like Harper but I didn't realize he was so totalitarian.
How does the flash proxy get around the same origin policy? Or does it only allow access to the page it's loaded from?
Red Brain, Blue Brain: Evaluative Processes Differ in Democrats and Republicans
> My argument is not to keep the interfaces and functionality of the OLD pipeline, but to maintain a reasonable, fixed-function shader that is a default out-of-the-box.

There's very little use of such a catch-all shader in a driver. This is a very narrow requirement and only newbies and super simple programs would benefit from it. Providing such a default shader fits more in a companion library like GLU, that could also cover things like image pyramid generation and generating meshes for primitive solids.
Well, this is a problem created by the State and its medical licenses.

At the time anyone with a medical license is just a doctor as anyone else, because they all have the same license, disappears the need to show your potential patients that you are indeed a doctor that cares about quality.
This is very interesting functionality to me, that I would use if it works well. Thanks for trying to clarify what's going on with it.

But when between one fairly poorly documented API that you've told me will soon be deprecated, and another fairly poorly documented API that doesn't have pricing beyond 1K calls a month....

...my response is still "Okay, that could be good in the future, I guess I'll sit back some more and wait for pricing and better docs to show up before paying more attention to it, I hope it does soon!"

I need to know pricing before deciding to use something. And I need good (and google-able! Sorry, even if I'm using Bing API, I'm using Google to look for info on it) docs, along with of course a well-designed API that works well, but I need the first two things before I even get to evaluating the next.
Because I would be participating in killing a living human. It's our duty to avoid intentionally doing that, even if it really hurts.

Technically it's the same reason that I don't want someone to euthanize me right now. The value of my life does not derive from feeling happy or otherwise using my senses. Nothing important changes when I have brain damage (or cancer, or depression). All I have to do is be human, and my life has a certain type of value that makes it wrong for anyone to intentionally end it.

If I try to build in loopholes, or start messing with semantics, or if I compromise because something is going to hurt, I end up being unable to act from reasoned moral principles, which is something else I value.

(I have a similar curiosity, if you'd oblige, about what makes euthanasia any different from simple suicide - I actually asked that earlier, but all I got was downvotes.)
[Hardware Startups] When You Should Start the Design for Manufacturing Process
I think (or hope) that you forgot the "/s" at the end.
Yeah, I saw the signup page and left immediately.
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