skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another benefit of implementing it in CSP is that you could retroactively fix existing sites without having to go back and fix up potentially thousands of links that didn't set the attribute mentioned in this article.
More than a doubling of maternal death risk isn't pure insanity to you? It wipes out 20-30 years of progress on that statistic. It's also not that low in absolute terms. With 4 million births per year, an increased death rate of 1.52 deaths per 1000 births is an additional 6,000 deaths per year, under pretty much the most tragic circumstances imaginable.

And that's with the status quo of only the healthiest pregnancies being candidates for home birth. It'll only go downhill as it becomes more prevalent.
How chaos theory explains climate change
Front-end programming is very visual. You can immediately see/sense/feel what you have developed/program, so there is a expedited positive feedback loop.

This can appeal to beginner programmers because it gives a immediate sense of satisfaction and accomplishment vs. backend programming where you see lines of output spit back to you in a terminal.
That's the "say" I'm talking about. Where the public can vote to dis-incentivize out of control executive pay with taxes.

Making $5-50MM per year is a lot, but some make in excess of $1B per year and pay almost nothing in taxes. This money doesn't come from nowhere, and these multi-billionaire hedge fund managers are often squeezing it out of things like managed pension funds and other investment pools.
Well, it seems like the OP was supposed to get stock options at these places where they worked, but somehow their stakes vaporized in some kind of finance shell game. But of course, it's all caveat employtor, right? Silicon valley companies were illegally depressing wages for years, and it's all about the individual workers not "negotiating good enuf". Fuck off. Capitalism is broken because the owners are scamming the workers en masse.
> desktop app just like iTunes

Ha. Haha. Hahaha.
It's happening: https://xkcd.com/1508/
You didnt see extreme yet. Extreme superscalar would be cores capable of executing 16 independent instructions per clock, not 4 (current intel max). Instead we got SIMD and multicores, or moves in reverse directions like HT.

Not to mention there is lots of room for improvement on the memory front, stalls kill performance.
Give it some GitHub pages love with a custom domain and re-submit to HN!
> Automating away the human in the order process removes a way to speed up the process. Modern registers are complex enough to require training. Untrained, possibly illiterate customers using them while decision-making? That's bad news.

A number of fast-food and similar outlets have order-ahead mobile apps, which include payment through the app. These take humans out of the order process, but do not require customers to use the kind of "modern register" that the existing counter staff use.
Let's be honest: people who found startups fall in three categories:

* Those who have funds to fall back on in case the startup fails

* Those who got VC funding

* Those who are actually risking things because they invested everything in their startup

I'd wager the first two categories make up 90% of startup founders. These people take absolutely zero risks. Whoop, startup fails. Oh well, it was either not your money or you've still got a comfortable amount to sit on.

Thsoe last 10 percent, yes, they do take risks. Don't expect me to cry for the others.
As others have said, the mandatory signup is a huge bummer.

I would be nice if people had the option of making their lists public (and searchable), so we could just jump in and get an idea of what the service looks like. And the search form would be on the splash page for the site, also (when not signed in), just like Twitter: "Find out what others are into."
You dismiss the notion that price is "part of the user experience".

If I can do something myself, in 5 mins, inconveniently, for free.

Or spend 5 mins on a phone call, waiting for a human to do the same thing, for $10.

I would call the latter a poor user experience.
Author here. I also made a desktop app for this: https://github.com/sindresorhus/anatine
In the US.
For optimal performance, yes use aiopg or equivalent (it looks like there is an asyncio sqlalchemy project which might be nice.)

Any middleware may be a coroutine object, so it's as easy as `await res.render("whatever")` in an async function
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I am very sorry for your friend's wife. That's.... it really really sucks.

It occurs to me that if all the medical malpractice deaths (250,000) were paid out at that cap ($500k), that would cost 125 billion dollars.

We don't have a lot of extra room in our budget right now, so that's going to be tough to pay out, even though it's not even enough. But clearly the even bigger problem is the 250,000 unnecessary dead people.

If we took a part of that money and used it to fund an agency that just works to fine-tune and eliminate medical malpractice deaths, that would save almost double the amount of people that die from guns and automobiles each year. But that wouldn't help your friend's wife, who didn't die.

What would have helped her would have been avoiding medicine that was not necessary, like the epidural. Of course it would have been an excruciating delivery that nobody should have to endure - but I think a risk assessment would conclude that the risk (death) is not worth the benefit (lack of pain). At the same time, having better drugs would also help, but we don't necessarily have that as an option today. So perhaps a campaign to avoid unnecessary medical procedures, and literature to help educate and give agency to those who would be going through those procedures, would be helpful.
On a tangential note.

I've spoken to a few hiring managers who have expressed disappointment with some of the hires that they have made straight out of bootcamps (w/o prior CS knowledge or fundamentals).

Specifically, the bootcamp graduate are smart, motivated, and know their specific toolsets well. However, they tend to struggle a bit if you place them outside their comfort zone.

Is this a sentiment that others have heard through their work colleagues or friends as well?
The term DRM refers specifically to the technologies built to restrict usage of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. Access control to data (even enforced by encryption) already existed, and it's pernicious to whitewash DRM by expanding its definition.
> SICP gets you from CPUs to Scheme

I don't recall anything about CPUs in SICP. Its more about data driven programming and writing of intepreters.

What i liked about SICP and scheme programming was that it is a pretty good environment for tinkering - the REPL makes it easy to combine functions, and to work in a bottom-up manner. (btw you had less of that in common lisp, and most other environments that teach you to work in a top down way, however you can still work with the Python REPL).

Maybe this bottom-up approach is what Sussman really has in mind when he is talking about first principles, because SICP is really not about working up from the atoms to the scheme interpreter/compiler.
Digital logic and computer architecture.
Same here. I build a demo for that: https://gist.github.com/mems/df881c9495b6744b650c
It's display a fake Facebook login page (just HTML and CSS). You can try with your relatives. How many people fall into the trap?
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Wow this looks lovely to support
That seems like a strange perspective to me. All of the theoretical justification for passive investing (you get the average return without the fees, maximum diversification, etc.) implies that you'll get the best result from holding every possible security in some proportion. You're saying that index funds work not because of any of that, but because they've observed a market inefficiency (low market-cap or recently-fallen stocks underperform the market), and make an active decision to deviate from the market portfolio in order to exploit it. Why believe that there's exactly one easily-exploitable market inefficiency, but no others?
It's funny. I'm seeing this, while I'm thinking about dropping out of this career. I don't want to be one of those girl dropout stats, but lately I'm feeling a desire to start a family.
fwiw I just passed 32 and I don't know if I want to do programming/software engineering jobs anymore. I'm hoping its just a phase.
I'm sure you recognize this, but your opinion is far from universal. I have a few friends who share your opinion and it's certainly valid, but I have many more friends who are much happier to book a flight / pay a bill / shop for insurance etc. on a higher bandwidth medium than a phone call. (Myself included) There are still instance where the company really screws up their UX to the point where a phone call is preferable but it's becoming much less common in my experience.
> It's not as simple as Buffett makes it seem.

Yes, actually, it is. That's the whole point.
You don't need to anthropomorphize autonomous vehicles for them to talk.

The last barrier to their legalization will be 'what happens in a crash'. To deal with that, they'll have to be permitted to develop moral opinions as well as the ability to testify about those in court. It's a core feature.
> So you're advocating forgiving the educational loans of doctors who lose their license?

Yes, although the better solution is to subsidize the education of medical providers directly, instead of burdening them with massive loans that take decades to repay. That's an argument for another thread though.
Not going to defend npm here, but how is using Github as registry going to avoid left-pad-gate?
thank you for writing this. #respect
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The entire os can in fact take advantage of a 50 core cpu and most of the things that would benefit the most can.
Hah, I agree with the disillusionment with the process but only because I see that statistics is OBVIOUSLY the ultimate language of the brain—how else would you explain neural networks, inductive logic, and linguistic disambiguation?
The most interesting part of the article:

> In the process of mining data from the Blumenthal account, Lazar said he came across evidence that others were on the Clinton server.

> "As far as I remember, yes, there were … up to 10, like, IPs from other parts of the world,” he said.
I'm surprised to see Oculus being separated from VR. I can't figure out the reason behind it (other than it being the most known VR product to this date).

Plus, I'm kind of disappointed personally to see the term "anonymous" dropping so quickly. I do fully understand the drop in the blogging-related tools (not that it's going anywhere, just that it became a technology where there doesn't seem to be any groundbreaking changes going on for quite a while).
I'm not suggesting it prevents regulation in-and-of itself, but that it will make federal regulation untenable by breaking down the misconception that computer networking is necessarily geospatially agnostic.

If local communities have their own physical networks running internal services, and if average people start using them, I think they'll start seeing computer networks as able to be more than one homogenous cyberspace. Federal regulation doesn't seem so out-of-place when your connections are presumably going all over the world. But if you drop that assumption, I think smaller governments will want autonomy.

(I also want to apoligize for my tone above. Not necessary and not conducive to conversation.)
You'll need to explain what you mean by "correct" if "rational" isn't it. Rational decisions are those that maximize success, and if you've managed to find a rational decision that doesn't, it ceases to be rational given that information.
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I'm not sure what your point is. Yes, it is as simple as buy low, and Buffett is saying the same thing. The main point is that most people aren't smart or confident enough to be able to [a] determine which stocks are undervalued and [b] buck the herd instinct.
Also, a ride service will not occupy valuable parking space.
>Because I would be participating in killing a living human. It's our duty to avoid intentionally doing that, even if it really hurts.

Says who? You? When did you get elected my keeper? Stay alive all you want but keep your morality to yourself.
Hmm, I suspect there is a big gray area here and not the Brave New World you describe.

One can be an intensely rude driver and still fall within the law. Trolls might randomly hit their brakes hard just to see the auto-driver behind reflexively lurch and enjoy the passenger's reactions. Probably no one gets hurt, and there's no way to prove the troll wasn't legitimately trying to avoid hitting something.
I mentioned this above, but I think you're missing the point. For what you suggest to be worth considering, you have to believe you're something other than an average investor.

But you aren't. That's who he was speaking to and speaking about. Average investors.
Why don't you take a look at the state of npm
To quote wikipedia's article on statistics: Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

Isn't that more or less what human brains do?

A neural network is just a curve fitting algorithm optimized to fit a bunch of data, that is, a statistical method. NNs are, to the best of my knowledge, a fairly good analogy for what the physical computation process of the brain.

NNs are also very easy to fool. Mislabel the humans in your robot training data as 'kill', and your network will make bad decisions. Garbage in, garbage out.

If you make a probabilistic model and attach a very high confidence to the things that spirits tell little girls down by the river, then sometimes your model will suggest some terrible ideas. Humans are also notoriously bad at sampling data, but that doesn't mean it isn't what they're doing.

Your edit raises a good question, though! I can't say I have a good answer, but would be interested to hear a good idea for such an experiment.

I want to use the phenomenon the inner monologue and the act of convincing oneself of something as a counter example, but on the other hand, language is very easily generated by statistical methods, and the brain apparently will make decisions and then come up with justifications afterward. http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/04/27/095679761664...
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Where does your public transit system get its funding? Does it really provide you the same level of privacy?

Any transit system I've ever used was:

Over crowded.

Purposefully designed so no-one could sleep. Also, I really wouldn't want to sleep on an artificially created publicly shared surface.

Frowned upon to talk on your cell phone, or eat a meal.

I definitely couldn't get any work done, even if I tried.
Organic transistors are stuff made of nanotubes, graphene, diamond, polypropilene, poly-benzoates, and other stuff like that. Not cells, RNA and protein (although, who knows? maybe there's something on them).
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Cooperative multitasking, as found in the Windows 3.1 era!
I think what GP is referring to is calling someone and saying "book me through to San Francisco on the 20th. I need to be there by 11:00am. Bye."

That's what we mean by "calling someone to book a flight" i.e. an agent who will take your request and do the legwork. Not simply talking to someone at a call center and dictating everything you'd otherwise be typing into an online form.
This is an interesting analysis, but I'm not sure we have enough data on autonomous cars to know one way or the other. Perhaps failsafe protocols can help mitigate catastrophic effects from computer hardware and software failures, and that edges out humans who override equivalent "failures" like impaired driving capacity. The data on US traffic fatalities [1] is interesting, because you point out it will be hard for the autonomous vehicles to beat the average, but in some sparsely-populated states the rate is dramatically lower, which could potentially challenge autonomous vehicles' safety records even more in those states. If a lot of their safety is developed from training, and they don't train much in the sparsely-populated states because they're so low population, then maintaining the safety rate will depend a lot upon whether the training in more populous states adequately covers use cases encountered in the field in the sparsely-populated states.

I suspect that at the end of the day, unless autonomous vehicles are much worse on the fatality rate, they only have to roughly match the human driver-based fatality rate, and commercial interests will push extremely hard for autonomous vehicles. The number of miles driven in the US is tracked by the Federal Reserve among others [2]. Current 12 month moving total is 3,147,579 millions of miles (3.14*10^12).

Latest figure for just crashes (not only those with fatalities) is a 2011 article [3] that asserted 185 per 100 million Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). The Insurance Information Institute has a report [4] that cites a $277 billion in 2010 cost of crashes, not including quality of life valuations. Autonomous cars don't have to move the needle that much over the current regime before insurance will put in very strong incentives to use them; there is a ton of room to improve, and the insurance companies stand to gain a huge windfall by not lowering rates commensurately with actual cost savings. The trucking companies must be going bonkers over the possibilities to run diesel trucks 24x7.

[1] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

[2] https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M12MTVUSM227NFW...

[3] http://www.caranddriver.com/features/safety-in-numbers-chart...

[4] http://www.iii.org/issue-update/auto-crashes
> Mobile development = frontend development + backend development + dev-op.

Sorry no, being a mobile developer does not mean doing backend and devops any more than being a web developer does. In some cases you might have to do it, and in some cases you might not. But there's nothing inherently easier about the web.

Furthermore I find the whining about different iPhone vs iPad layout differences to be quite ignorant of everything except iOS development. There is no more controlled environment than iOS. Try developing for Android some time. And don't get me started on cross-browser, cross-platform responsive web design.

The bottom line is no development is easy, it's all a mess everywhere you look. It looks pretty bad when you try to extrapolate the warts from your particular corner of the dev world into an assertion that other developers have it easier. Doing good development work is just plain hard, even when working with equal share stakeholders and with none of the trust and workflow issues associated with clients.
For the same reason I have found the notion of Christian God to be very scary. A father who does not die and keeps judging his children and is always powerful.
This is awesome! I love the competition slide how more startups are mentioned than big companies. I remember back in 2010 a response investors (even YC!) had to almost any idea was "won't Google do that?" Now it's not strongly on people's radar.
Before Moments there used to be a tab that showed you tweets that your followers were replying to. I used to use that all the time to find new people to follow.
>However, they tend to struggle a bit if you place them outside their comfort zone.

I mean.. yeah, I think you could say that for most people. I would also think that when hiring a bootcamp graduate you would already have some inherent bias, almost like you are waiting to find their weaknesses. Basically, it's easy to place the blame for their struggle on their bootcamp degree, when it could really just be that it would be hard for anyone. Just a thought
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Wait, p50 using the built in asyncio loop is 200ms?

That seems incredibly slow.
So the tortoise and the hare fable caste as passive vs active investors.
You could generate a stubbed implementation from the header file, I guess.
If you are opposed to DRM, please do not encourage companies like Amazon by purchasing their DRM products. If you want to pay for the book, buy the paperback and then download a pirated copy.
This is a weird claim to make when there are already legal self-driving cars out there that have no such capabilities.
Do you happen to have a source for the "After him, us!" quote? I can't seem to find it, at least not literally. Googling for that phrase and 'german' gives me this thread.
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you are right - its not possible to avoid left-pad-gate due to github being a similar company as npm ( in terms of law ).

But using git means its theoretically possible to have multiple registries - etc.
What if the GM has a better rating? Will you find some reason that it's wrong, or didn't account for X, Y, and Z, to rationalize your desire to buy the Tesla regardless?
Couldn't agree more. I've always considered PostgresQL's documentation the finest of any software I've used, OSS or not. Many years' experience with all kinds of software convinces me it's nearly a law of nature: the quality of a project's documentation predicts the quality of the software itself.

However I'm pretty sure writing excellent documentation must be a very hard task, otherwise it wouldn't be such a rarity. Of course, Microsoft has the resources to do it, but the level of resources required to produce and maintain surely must be decidedly non-trivial. Reasonably, we could conclude they think it provides poor ROI.

We might well beg to differ on that point, and worth saying how much their inadequate documentation reflects the quality and utility of their products.
Well if I had thought I was in a conversation where I had to guard against a bad faith interpretation, then I would have been more careful (and verbose) - repeating the intent component I've already mentioned. So with that in mind, no, it doesn't include every interaction.

> What the hell do you want them to do if they need to talk to someone?

A formal letter would be nice, bonus points for including information that would allow one to prepare supporting documents. Civil interaction with legal representation would be an improvement. Basically any amount of effort to inform beyond what has been described.
I wish this were a continually updated thing after each batch.

Some other trends I'd love to see: team sizes (mean/mode/median). Capital raised pre-YC. Revenue pre-YC. Years in existence pre-YC. Location pre/post YC.
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Tesla goes from one firefighting to another, it's a place that while growing is not "growing up". End of quarter are always nuts, people are asked to perform miracles and of course quality suffers when everything is a fire. They had some serious rethinking of how the organization works lately so a bunch of people that had a lot of power ended up with considerably less of it, and some new faces are ascending rapidly.
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If we look just traditional CRUD-kin (i.e. database, view, domain logic) programs these seem to be the most in danger of becoming a mudballs. Which is really strange, given that they are the oldest types of programs out there and closely mimic the second use computers came used for (accounting) just after military applications.

Perhaps because this type of program is so old, it had so much time to stick lots of mud on it. :-)
I was under the impression iPad sales were dropping.
'drone', 'drones'

'vehicle', 'vehicles'

are counted as separate terms. Joining them would make more sense to me.
An analysis around iphone vs android vs web strategy would have been more enlightening.