skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe Google's new project in the NHS will attack this problem by giving smartphones/tablets to medical staff and arranging the data in such a way to make accurate and fast changeover possible.
From what I can see, the odds of getting rich through stock options at a startup are similar to winning the lottery.
Probably "X for India" (for essentially all values of X which exist anywhere else in the world).
Yeah if it takes too long, initial valuation may suffer and stock options vaporize. Its dangerous to stick around after a revaluation downward, with no new stock options offered.
I assume when referring to PSD-driven development you mean to say the process of having a designer design a non-responsive, static mockup which is delivered the the front end dev team? I think this is important to clarify because a lot of people tout Sketch as being the answer despite it having the exact same pitfalls and issues Photoshop does.

https://keminglabs.com/boxbox/dynamic-layout-engine/

Check out this demonstration. I really think this is going to be the next big step forwards for designers. I don't think they need to fully understand CSS, the box model, flexbox, the dom, inheritance, etc to deliver effective designs. They just need to be forced to follow these limitations of these things within the design tool itself.

I think the idea is to make every change the designer makes reflect a nearly identical change that the frontend devs are going to have to also make. For example, text color inheritance is a notoriously hard thing for a designer to grasp. If that was handled automatically for them, they are going to out of necessity, create a more code friendly color inheritance hierachy in their designs.
Make container of highly porous material then fill it with a fluid which will avoid that material surface at molecular level.
AFAIK, it is invented years ago.
Quantum computing is one of those things I know I will never learn. It makes me feel like my current skillset has an expiration date, and I only have so much time before the bar for innovation is beyond my capabilities.
In other news, the sky is blue.

I'm shocked that this is not obvious to everyone.
Supposedly a Tesla on autopilot is already twice as safe as a human driver: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/25/elon-musk-t...

> "The probability of having an accident is 50 per cent lower if you have Autopilot on," said Musk, speaking at an energy conference in Oslo, Norway. "Even with our first version, it's almost twice as good as a person."
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Anyone that uses the phrase 'monthly expense profile' to indicate they have large monthly expenses is clearly great at marketing. Your credentials are proven sir.

As an employee you get paid employee wages. If you want founder wages then you need to become a founder. Instead of joining an existing company/start-up I recommend you reach out to your network and join up with others starting a company.

Alternatively you could start your on your own. As a marketing expert you should have the skills to market your new business to others that need marketing skills. If you cannot, then your marketing skills are not that great!
> everyone knows Maps is incredibly complex

Citation, please. I deal with clients on a regular basis who think that software with 20+ years of time invested can be duplicated by 1-2 engineers working for 3-6 months.

Earlier today, I had to give a rough estimate on writing a custom app that can read, write, share and sync arbitrary CAD files, and explain why building all of that might not be the best approach.
Ignore the first part.

Refusing to talk to someone's laywer is bad enough, but saying they're going to pounce on her uninvited out of nowhere is completely over the top.

If the require some documentation that someone is representing someone else, maybe they should also accept mailed and/or faxed documents for proof.
The new buildings are because the factory is running out of space for office workers - there's quite a few there and now they are pretty crammed and in places where ventilation and other "amenities" are not readily available.
Yeah, these days I use a private window if I'm searching for anything that would throw off my normal profile. That plus adblock means it hasn't been an issue for a really long time so maybe it's better these days.

I just always found it really annoying when I'd spend a couple of days researching a purchase, and then for the next month I was getting ads for the thing I'd just bought. I don't need one of those any more, I've got one!
By wanting to do something, then finding out how I need to do it. I never learned anything just to learn it, it was always for direct use. Once I made a bunch of Renoise plugins in LUA. Never had used LUA before, never used it since, I don't know any LUA. I know what I use while I use it, so to speak. So I don't really know if I ever "learned programming", I probably wouldn't call myself "programmer" and surely not developer.. I just do things until I have what I want and it works. With things I make up and expand as I go along, until I realize I need to restart from scratch with a better structure. And of course, that I like simple things helps :) The code always has some (cough) messyness to it.. but the next thing I start, is usually a bit cleaner and better organized from, because it incorporates what I learned in the previous adventures.
For those interested in seeing the hardware behind this service, have a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7D8snlsnQ
Ironically, it's an ideal profession for staying home while raising kids :)
Yep. Open requested link in a new tab, change the previous tab to some autoplay video or fake chat interface. It's not phishing exactly, but it is certainly devious.
per API key
"Read More" link 404'd for me.
The idea of software developers deciding how a 2-ton hunk of metal and plastic should whip around the road at 70mph is horrifying.

Even with MISRA, we had the Toyota unintended acceleration case (not to say the developers were following it though. Grab the court transcripts if you have the time, they're brilliant). Probably dozens of other corner cases we'll never know about either.
Yeah, I definitely agree that iOS is a walled garden. It sucks and I hope Android continues growing in the high-end smartphone field so it can demolish the restrictive ecosystem that is iOS.

The Play Store is relatively free. If anything, at least you can access the Android filesystem so if you so wished, you could install an .apk outside of Google's ecosystem. Jesus.

And that's just mobile. In the desktop and web environment, platforms are super-open. You can pretty much distribute any .exe or .app you'd like on your website and it's the user's fault if he ends up downloading a virus. Furthermore, you can write your webserver code in literally anything you want. There are CGI scripts for C if you were really that insane. I'm pretty sure someone out there has figured out how to turn a physical Turing tape machine into something that generates HTML and CSS templates.

Your templates end up having to have some JavaScript in them, I guess, but even then. JS is still open-source, and it's ended up being more of a target language than it is a programming language these days.
> I don't recall anything about CPUs in SICP.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-30.htm...
The point is that DRM can't distinguish from "using a lifted track as a music backing for a video" and legitimate fair use. And I don't see how we're "in a strictly commercial dialogue", so your accusation is unjustified.

As for a "viable alternative", the single most profitable online store sells DRM-free music. How can you argue that's not viable?
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I'd definitely go with a family if I had someone to support me. You can always program more later.
My point was that this is just another story about a guy from a wealthy family who goes on to become very wealthy himself. Reminds me of the cliche where someone who is definitely not poor goes to a prestigious university, has an idea, creates a startup, drops out, becomes rich.
Ultimately to prove that statistics is not fundamentally the language of the brain, you'd need to find behaviors that are fundamentally incompatible with statistics.

Luckily the conjunction fallacy qualifies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy
I have no idea about the details, but this is kind of cool:

http://erlangonxen.org/

http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/
BigQuery, it's mentioned in the linked article.

http://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_co...

Probably this dataset which is updated periodically
Thanks. Will definitely take a loot at this stuff.
Users do not benefit from binary blob drivers. They are insecure, make it hard to fix problems, and add artificial constraints to hardware.

Manufacturers can get their drivers merged into the mainline kernel and they won't have a driver backward compatibility issue to worry about.

They choose not to for business reasons (market segmentation/artificial hardware limits via drivers) or because they are being cheap. And because much of the market doesn't know enough to care, it mostly works for them.

In the long run I think it limits the IoT ecosystem from progressing and it's a practice which must stop. If your hardware is not fully supported by the mainline kernel, it may as well not exist.
hey, i turn 32 today. i'm also feeling dissatisfied with being a programmer. i don't think it's a phase though. honestly, i can't remember a time that i've been satisfied with my situation.
iPad sales may be dropping for any number of reasons. The number of tablets in the average home is climbing, regardless.
I was thinking of MPK, not MPX.

You'd set the library's code and data pages to protection key 1, along with the page containing a library access trampoline, leaving the rest of the address space with protection key 0. You'd call into the library through the trampoline, which would revoke access to protection key 0, call into the library, then restore access to key 0.
:D I have a friend who does this. Great guy loves procedures.
I think you are being overly presumptuous, CEO != founder.
Yeah, wow - if all CS work consisted of web development, I'd have dropped out of the industry years ago.
Don't let "I don't want to be one of those girl dropout stats" stop you from pursuing what you desire.

"I don't know if I want to do programming/software engineering jobs anymore"

I went through this too. You won't know unless you follow other desires you have and it sounds like one of those is to be a mom.

I am a 42 year old female that has been doing this for close to 20 years. I have 2 kids. Having kids opened me up to so many other things and actually made me better at what I do.

Don't worry about silly stats and being one of them. Worry about what you want and what is best for you.
Wait which one crashes for you ? VS or RStudio?
It's not because no-one understands the fundamentals, it's that we require so much functionality to be built in such a short space of time and can afford so much processor time for it, that there's no time to build everything from fundamentals. Thirty years ago you'd build a text editor or modem control interface into your program. Today you need to embed an entire web browser, SQL database, AAA-level game engine etc. Most 'trivial' stitch-some-libraries-together software built today would take decades to create from scratch.
I agree that the situation isn't ideal, but that's what happens when you attempt to compress 100 years of corporate growth into 10-15 years.
What are the chances that Gavin is Satoshi, or knows who Satoshi is and wants to corroborate Wright in order to protect Satoshis identity.
Nice article.
Same with the artificial intelligence graph. "Deep" seems to be the most popular category of AI, even more popular than "artificial intelligence," up until 2014. Considering deep learning is a subset of machine learning (which only starts appearing in the graph in 2012), I'm confused what "deep" is supposed to represent. Is there another meaning to "deep" in an AI context?
That service is available. You can get virtual assistants to do this. You can get a credit card that offers this kind of concierge service. If you claim that this is the experience you want and that you are willing to pay for it, but you're still booking your flights on Expedia, then either you're lying to yourself or you're just not willing to pay enough.
Multitasking is actually kind of a problem — for kids and adults
I'm surprised at the education numbers; out of the respondents who attended university, 22% studied either Computer Science or IT.

Reading their 'how we made the survey' piece (1), it looks like they asked for responses across a wide variety of media and only branded it as a 'New Coders Survey'.

So I have to wonder if they caught a bunch of people with traditional computer science education in their net. That would definitely skew the data considering the sort of conclusions that they're trying to draw about coding bootcamps.

(1): https://medium.freecodecamp.com/we-just-launched-the-biggest...
I'm not necessarily convinced statistics is the ultimate language of the brain. Like you, I imagine there are a number of legacy systems in the brain that coordinate in interesting ad-hoc ways.

What do you think I should read?
Wow. I've had what has felt to me like a varied and interesting career across the nearly-25 years I've been writing code for money, but with one small exception everything I've ever been paid for fits within this survey's "other" category. That's... an odd feeling.
Lguest: http://lguest.ozlabs.org. It's in the linux kernel.
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As shown by haberman's comment and a reply by yummyfajitas below, our brain clearly does not operate on pure statistics, as most people are subject to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy
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Are you saying current OSs dont?!
Reminds me of the cliche where someone who is definitely not poor goes to a prestigious university, has an idea, creates a startup, drops out, becomes rich.

Yup, it definitely is kind of a cliche. And unfortunately it's more often the way things actually work. (Thinking of certain "founders" I've known who definitely would not have been, had it not been for family connections).
If I may riff on this rather unscientifically from my own anecdotal observations of how my own brain works:

I do not agree with TFAs assertion that "The feeling ultimately relies on the same statistical computations a computer would make".

I would agree, however, that one factor (of an undetermined number of factors) of decision making is something that roughly resembles statistical computation. The key difference is that our input data for these "computations" is absolute crap, and heavily influenced by any number of things, including confirmation bias, small sample size, selective memory, etc.

Let me draw an example of my many years and thousands of hours of play in a game that is dominated by statistics, pool (billiards):

Beginners at the game develop all sorts of incorrect assumptions about how likely a given shot is to succeed, informed by their insufficient sample size. "I made that shot three times in a row last night, why would I miss it this time?" This is, of course, the equivalent of "I hit 13 on the roulette wheel 3 times in a row last night, why would I miss it this time".

As you build experience, you start to get a more correct intuitive understanding of the actual statistical likelihood of a given shot going in, but it is still affected by selection bias, and a number of other factors.

The way (well, some) professional and semi-professional pool players have attempted to eliminate this bias is by actually taking notes on the types of shots they take and actually collecting the true statistics. Even then, after collecting this data for months/years, when confronted with a shot that, statistically, they are more likely to miss than to make, they will still assign an incorrect confidence level to their decision, particularly when they are in, say, the finals of a tournament with a big payday (adrenaline is bad for rational thought, though it can occasionally help you operate at the right edge of the bell curve of your "normal" ability, hence, poorly computed bias).

I don't think that we can boil the decision making process of the brain down to something as simple as a NN, or bayesian inference or whatever. I do, however, think that the brain does attempt a flawed statistical inference as one of many factors in making decisions.

(Note: i'm not anywhere near a professional pool player, nor will I ever be or desire to be, but I've brushed shoulders with some of the best in the world, so I believe I've got a modicum of observational authority on the matter. I also think it's a pretty good example of our brain trying and failing to properly infer the statistical likelihood of a given outcome; chance based gambling is another good one)
That is not the only part of the story and probably you know this and you are hiding it to the general audience that doesn't know about Bitcoin internals.

You don't have a global getter on bitcoin transactions to get the hash of every document, so querying all the documents persisted on the Bitcoin blockchain you should build a database outside the Bitcoin blockchain to obtain them.

And don't forget the strict buffer limitations in the OP_RETURN that makes difficult to add more data and require to span the buffer within multiple transactions.
Most likely you have. Or simply something very heavily inspired by either.
When all you have is a hammer...
So hype analytics? How is that useful?
I saw that too! I've recently dipped my toe in, making a module for a small project using React instead of Angular 1.x as I usually would do. One thing I'm still working out is how to look at how complex websites use React, as in the Chrome DevTools React plugin there's a lot of complexity in the React hierarchy, and code uglifying that appears to have been run on it for performance reasons makes it hard to reverse engineer
Jane Jacobs Was Right: Gradual Redevelopment Does Promote Community (2013)
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You are correct [0]. For both iPad's and general tablet sales [1].

Of course this does not confirm that tablets are falling out of favour - they could simply have reached their saturation point. Does anybody know if saturation sales are expected to look like this normalish (gaussianish) graph?

[0] http://www.statista.com/statistics/269915/global-apple-ipad-...

[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/272070/global-tablet-ship...
Ask HN: Why not have one app that does everything?
There are too many apps, websites, services, etc. The fragmentation is overwhelming. I don't want a complex OS with hundreds of apps, each requiring their own credentials. I want a single unified interface which lets me communicate with people and machines, about the past and the future.

How come is nobody trying to build that unified experience, that "one app that does everything"? It seems like such an obvious next step, yet people seem to prefer making things increasingly more difficult.

Am I missing something?
I think it's actually supposed to be quite difficult to see who is above average. At least in "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", they cite some statistics about how only 20% (?) of managers beat the market over a period of time, but it isn't the same people who do it over different periods of time.
Interesting article for me as I just rolled out an app for a client and a lot of this feels familiar.

Firstly I was lucky I didn't have a PSD driven design, but my client demanded a fixed price quote, so I insisted they pay me to do fairly comprehensive spec, including a clickable wireframe prototype, bdd behaviour spec, architecture design, background, requirements, objectives....

I went with lo-fi hand drawn pages which I scanned and wired up as a clickable prototype via https://marvelapp.com/

In the end it was fairly successful for me, as the comprehensive spec allowed me to estimate fairly accurately.

However I don't think it was the most cost effective outcome for the client. Because of their rigid nature, instead of collaborating through the process (aside from the specification phase of course), I built them exactly what we agree and invoiced them and was paid. However, within a week of the first pilot they had come up with about 100 hours worth of changes they wanted.

In the end I spent about 100 hours in the spec / design phase (which I was paid by the hour), 300 hours building the app (which was a fixed price) and now I have about 100 hours of changes to make.

If we had worked to a budget rather than a fixed price, then by my estimate I would have spent about 400 hours collaborating and iterating (basically removing about 90% of the time creating and writing a spec) and they would have had an app which they were involved in crafting the whole way through. Basically I think they have blown about 100hours and they have to live with lots of little nuances that they would have otherwise been able to decide upon.
>>>Diagnosis and treatment protocols / pathways

Even with what you say, clinical decision support(which can be viewed as an automated system of double checking) have shown to lead to better care.
Today I learned why I hated calculus. Real analysis sounds like fun!
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"the false specter of concentration camps"

Because this is a civilized justice system reacting to people whose only crime is to be residing in a place or working without proper authorization: https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AW395_Arzimm_G...

Don't get me wrong, I know we are not at the 'trains full people taken to be burned at the ovens' stage. But you know what Trump calls the picture above? He calls it being too soft on immigration...

He is running in a xenophobic platform, in which he tells a largely uneducated frustrated majority that all their problems derive from a few already underpriviledged minority groups in their country, and that the correct response is electing a tough leader that will make those minorities pay and restore the country to imagined past glories. How on earth is a comparison to Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy not an appropriate analogy here?
You can do that in a Corvette too. A top fuel dragster is MUCH faster than any of these things but is also not a supercar.

You are just redefining things without proving your point. I do not think you know much about this stuff, just have a bunch of opinions without experience.

Sorry to be blunt.
> node-os is the first operating system powered by npm Read More

That's not a very nice tagline to have after the recent left-pad fiasco.
Not sure why they're naive. Even if you don't get rich you still make very good money and get nice perks. Why must the end goal to be filthy rich?
Engineering (no matter whether mechanical, electrical, software...) is the process of designing an artifact to be constructed out of available materials, which meets a set of requirements while minimizing cost.

In mechanical engineering you design your artifact using off-the-shelf bearings, motors, pumps, etc.

In electrical engineering you design your artifact using off-the-shelf cables, contactors, relays, VSDs etc.

In electronic engineering you design your artifact using off-the-shelf ICs, resistors, capacitors, resonators etc.

In IC engineering you design your artifact using off-the-shelf silicon wafers, etching chemicals, core/logic designs etc.

It's turtles all the way down, and software is no different.
> AI, ML, and NLP and webdesign are application areas

On first thought, I do agree. However, they are fundamental applications. Category Theory is categorizing the fundamentals. It uses a lot of the fundamentals on itself, I guess, but that doesn't mean ti me it's inaccessible or useless.