skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When interest rates are so low (which encourages borrowing but discourages investment) and some people see a down market coming (which means having a big powder keg available to buy up competitors or whatever when the crash happens is a very valuable thing) I'm not surprised at all that large profitable companies are hording cash. People wonder why Apple isn't using it's cash to buy company X. It's b/c company X will be a much better buy if the economy tanks and takes most of company X with it. Same with saving money for investment. Apple has been known to loan $1B to partners to build plants for iPhone parts. In a crash when it's partners (and competitors) can't find investment dollars anywhere else, if Apple is able to invest then, all of a sudden they are in a fantastic position.
Agreed: in the case of siblings you share all ancestors; with cousins only some. In that way the distinction makes sense. The other way to look at it though is that with siblings your common ancestor is one generation up. With first cousins, it's two. With second, it's three. So it's the same thing, just a matter of degree.
I went through the updated app (v1.0.1) and the oAuth flow clearly indicated what I was granting access to. I'd be very curious if this was a fix by Google, a Google bug where requesting "full access" is missing that step, or Niantic changed the way they do oAuth (still a Google issue, the method lacking confirmation shouldn't exist).
As mentioned in the article, would that P2P solution be Swarm (http://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/a600d48f01d5e6d07907d9d14db0f...)?
Indeed. The US has the highest cost of healthcare as a percentage of GDP, with worse outcomes compared to most other first world countries.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/20...
Thanks for the thorough and thoughtful answer.
Not just China, the US is also a huge culprit. (http://www.cdc.gov/narms/resources/threats.html)
Doesn't seem like they were anticipating the load their servers would get. I've had trouble logging in, and other lags from time to time that really seem to be server overload issues.
5.5 million was the number of views, not the number of purchases.
Feedback on my idea and prototype
There is also http://strut.io/
Hi guys,

A couple of months ago, as part of my personal mission to improve JavaScript skill, I have created a small Chrome Extension to prototype one of my ideas that occur to me casually. It does not do anything revolutionary but just structures all available information to see from a different perspective.

Main idea is when a user creates a new concepts, the extension records the browsing history and builds a graph in the background, then the user can see it as a graph visualization. I was wondering how people think about this idea and would like to ask your feedbacks. The extension can be found via link in the website I posted. Thanks a lot in advance.

Kind Regards
Yeah, it's sad. It's so much easier to get substantial pay increases by switching jobs than moving up through a company.
He didn't say he was "testing" with nightly: some experimental features only work on nightly (which, being experimental, the features may change in breaking ways, but that's why people have to opt-in to using a nightly) and so if one of your project needs one of these features, you can use rustup to get nightly for just that project and the stable releases for the rest of your work.

A staged release cadence with different levels of surety gives people the ability to play with features as they're developed to make sure those features solve the problems they're trying to solve (in the best way) by giving time for real-world experimentation and feedback. A feature can graduate from nightly-only to stable, and it then has a strong backwards compatibility requirement. The nightly experimentation period is valuable to get those features perfected before people can start relying on them more broadly.
Where are the conflicts of interest that would affect this article? The linked form is his standard form as a government official, and lists various holdings. Actually, looking through it, his seems much more mundane than I expected—a 403(b) from when he was a professor, 529 accounts for his kids... The most interesting thing I saw was book royalties.
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Because years ago MS used to do stuff like this therefore they must still be planning to do stuff like this.
Show HN: A simple way to visually share your favorite musical artists
This is just a simple project I made. The goal is to be able to quickly share bands you like without having to painstakingly rank them one by one.

Feedback appreciated!
From an outsider perspective, the US also loves to pump their livestock full of antibiotics to boost production.
Magic Leap ramps up production for new type of virtual reality
I've made an .epub of this, because I don't have time to read it yet.

If someone else wants to read that more comfortably later tonight:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/143tu70gxc40qvi/In.The.Beginning.W...

_(no guarantee on the conversion quality)_
Here's some for you collection given I see some omissions. Cleanroom, always omitted (sighs), is a big one as it was doing agile-like development in 80's with code so reliable it was sometimes warrantied. Also one of first, formal methods that didn't require a mathematician to use. Fagan's Software Inspection Process came before that in the 70's. I throw in Praxis and 001 for good measure as they're engineered software methods with better results than Cleanroom albeit at higher cost. Leave off plenty of others too constrained for most software development but did prove out in smaller projects. The B Method & Chlipala's Certified Programming in Coq are examples if you want to Google around.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.88....

Note: An academic recently combined Cleanroom with Python for some nice results given how high-level Python is. I thought Haskell would be more ideal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Defect

Note: Describes Fagan process with relevant links.

http://www.sis.pitt.edu/jjoshi/Devsec/CorrectnessByConstruct...

Note: Altran/Praxis Correct by Construction is a modern high-assurance method with numerous successes. Cost a 50% premium for nearly defect-free systems. SPARK Ada is GPL these days.

http://htius.com/Articles/articles.htm

Note: Margaret Hamilton, who helped invent software engineering on Apollo mission, deserves mention for the first tool that automated most of software process. You can spec a whole system... one company specified their whole factory haha... then it semi-automates design then automatically does code, testing, portability, requirements traces, and so on. Guarantees no interface errors, which are 80+% of software faults. Today's tools have better notations & performance but still can't do all that for general-purpose systems: always a niche.

https://www.eiffel.com/values/design-by-contract/introductio...

Note: Added Eiffel method to make up for fact that I have little to nothing on OOP given I don't use OOP. Meyer et al get credit for a powerful combo of language features and methodology in Eiffel platform with huge impact on software. Specifically, Design-by-Contract has so many benefits that even SPARK and Ada both added it to their languages. Just knocks out all kinds of problems plus can support automated generation of tests and such.

So, there's you some reading on methods of making robust software that might fit into your book or something else you do. :)
Yeah, watch out there, though. After a certain number of job changes, "too many job changes" becomes a red flag to future potential employers.
Silicon Valley Startup Arable Takes the Internet of Things into the Wild
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How to Grow as a New Software Developer
ACA is the best legislation in my lifetime. It has allowed me the luxury of being able to purchase individual insurance as a cancer survivor, allowing me to spend more time with my young family instead of being chained to a 8-5 corporate job.

See, I can anecdote too.
Because one of the main payoffs from getting here to the nearest habitable star system is that you're now closer to more habitable star systems.

But if turns out that it's very very expensive to get from one star system to another, then that recursive payoff might be very close to zero.
Funny how you adjusted your example to make it look ridiculous.

"Barack Obama, President of the United States of America" == "Guido van Rossum, Python's BDFL"

"Barack Obama, JD" == "Guido van Rossum, Software Engineer"

Which, I'm cool with.
Blockchain Voting: The End to End Process
Check the pay for the top executives at non-profits. Then decide whether you should forgo your profit for theirs.
I'm all for reasonable hyperbole, but you're doing your argument a disservice by claiming it's the worst piece of legislation ever passed in the United States. Just to start, we can all agree that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a worse piece of legislation that the PPACA.

Aside from that, do you have any suggestions for how to improve it? It sounds like you have a useful perspective.
Wow, why would you want to sell??
>> Neuroscientist here: Just listened to a talk from a reseacher who studied tDCS and tACS in human subjects, and found that IQ scores were actually going down relative to control groups.

So really, someone experimenting on their own could be considered more ethical than researchers doing it to other people ;-) This is really an area where having all the data is critical and that publication bias we keep reading about at HN can actually be harmful to people relying on published results. One could say "they shouldn't be doing that", but don't researchers want their results to be used for something, or is it just about publication?
Several large insurers are planning to withdraw from the marketplaces because they are losing money on the plans they offer there.
Somewhat related, an article on the Guardian about "cultural cantankerousness" and the rejection of popular things as a defense mechanism: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/24/why-oli...
Instagram posts can now be 'scheduled' ahead of time via Buffer
The Dilbert Hole ruined Cards Against Humanity for me... it's just too tame in comparison.
Just to address the question of elimination of fear and doubt... This is fairly easy to draw out on a line. Alcohol does a pretty good job of eliminating fear and doubt, as well. There are other problems mixed in with alcohol use, but I spent many years drinking, and having fear and doubt removed from pretty much every interaction, every day. You can ask my friends and family what that was like. I agree though that it would be very interesting for studying decision making if tDCS could modify very specific features like fear or doubt from every individual in a group.
I always find it bizarre that overweight people get all the "positive body image" stuff in the press, despite it being well known that its unhealthy, while underweight people are never described that way. Neither are healthy.
Given that Lua and Squirrel are quite similar due to meta tables resembling each other, what does Squirrel provide compared to Lua except for the C-Style syntax?
Do you like the activity that they do? Would you donate $5 to them?
Designing emails to avoid spam filters
Does this obviate the issue that one has to assign the definition of meaning somewhere in the graph? ie Meaning is subjective, and it has to be inserted to propagate down.
You are trying to add morality where there is zero need for it. "Tell me why that is wrong? ... You cannot interfere with them"

My point was you don't need to say what someone did was "bad" to stop them. As long as more people prefer an ordered world then the dissidents can be dealt with.

If majority rule says giving to the homeless is a capital offense then so be it. Physics and thus biology are going to impose a few rules. Further, completion kicks in at the social level. But, that does not mean Anarchy is "bad" just out competed.

Thus, while morality does not impose any rules collective groups of people do. Not because might makes right, but might exists and there is no right.

PS: At the extreme at one point I realized I was being paid in part to help maintain nuclear weapons. Not because I believed in them instead I liked money and other people want them.
I completely agree with you about how terrible obamacare has been. I've been screwed by it in every way imagineable. so much so that, they've prevented me from being able to file my 2015 taxes and will most likely have to pay late fees and penalties because of their incompetence. At one point, they had my family of 4 in 2 separate groups and assigned 6 separate insurance plans (true story).

however, I was always under the impression that Electronic Health Records would result in a meaningful improvement care and record keeping. Can you elaborate on what problems will come from this?
Official site:

http://squirrel-lang.org/

Similar:

http://wren.io/index.html
Wow. That sounds like a lot of land. I'm curious as to why does Linkedin require so much space.
The thing is, you're assuming that the methodology employed by people acting as their own guinea pigs will yield useful data. I think this will be a case of GIGO, and the answers we need will eventually come from study, not personal sacrifice.
This comment...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12081603

...was meant for you. I knew you were in the thread but wrongly assumed you submitted the thread itself.
Until we start holding people accountable for filing false DMCA notices we will continue to see massive abuse of DMCA Takedown requests.
You're correct. They are losing money, and they are withdrawing from those markets in question.

Its important to note that the backstop payments those insurers were to receive from the federal government are being tied up by Congress, to stick a wrench in the ACA.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/12/17/Congress-Weakens-Ob...

The elephant in the room is: How do we spend less on healthcare for everyone when so many people have vested interests in the status quo? Change must come from the outside, and must be applied with force.
When an organism develops resistance it usually makes an evolutionary trade-off. This ironically might make them susceptible to older style antibiotics who have been phased out. However retesting these antibiotics are not really being done extensively due to there being little financial benefit.

http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/70/8/2177.full

My experience with kids is that here in Spain they are using older antibiotics now to preserve the newer ones for serious infections trying to limit evolutionary pressure on the bacteria.
We tried that, for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine
Too bored I guess + family issues taking lots of time. I need a 9 to 5 job so I can disconnect from work after 5!
- You can see which version of typescript is being used in VS Code in the bottom-right corner while a typescript file is open.

- It does take a lot of time to get a TS environment setup, but I have to agree with the previous commenter, the benefits are completely worth it. This is just my opinion of course, but it's allowed me to finally treat JS as a development option.
Man, really sneaky with the extra t. I thought this was put out by the analytics shop YHat, the guys that built Rodeo and a couple other tools.
Iran to Launch Up to Two Satellites This Year
>Lots of unhealthy meat, too much dairy, bad fat, salty and sugar diet.

Oh yeah, great argument. Ignore that 90% of US grocery stores is various forms of processed carbohydrates with some cheap vegetable oils and HFCS thrown in; bread, cereal, chips, cookies, canned soup, and meals in a bag like Hamburger Helper.

That's the stuff you need to worry about. Foods made with cheap carbs are the ones that are coming for you. They have great shelf life, are easy to ship, and the ingredients are dirt cheap.
I understand that, it's merely illustrative of the cost of fraud like this. If I buy an ad in the paper that says I can cure cancer for 10k, you go after the 10k not the $100 I paid to place the ad.
If heroin was legal, safe, and free, I still wouldn't use it.

The state I would be in as a heroin addict has a large negative value in my current utility function. This negative value is so large that it swamps the positive value of being happy all the time. I suspect this just means I'm not entirely hedonistic.
And Shannon himself might have been somewhat depressed by how much “smarter” his young self was. Richard Hamming:

“When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you. In fact I will give you my favorite quotation of many years. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created, judged by what they did before they came and judged by what they did after. Not that they weren't good afterwards, but they were superb before they got there and were only good afterwards.”
Wow, those are some pretty outrageous allegations if true:

> Defendant Shervin Pishevar, who was generally uninvolved in
> day-to-day matters, began dating the company’s PR vendor, and
> increased her salary from $15,000 to $40,000 a month ...

> When their subsequent wedding engagement fell through, he
> finally heeded suggestions that her work was worth little,
> and terminated the arrangement.

> Similarly, Defendant Joseph Lonsdale insisted that the
> company hire his little brother’s two-person outfit, with
> no notable experience with companies building hardware and
> engaged in infrastructure development, and few independent
> contacts with international and top-tier investor funds,
> as the company’s exclusive investment bank

> Meanwhile, Shervin installed his brother, a personal injury
> and criminal defense attorney with his own small firm in
> Rockville, Maryland, as Hyperloop One’s General Counsel,
> granting him salary and stock options far greater than even
> the most talented engineers received.

> Later that night, Afshin Pishevar, the lawyer and Shervin’s
> brother as mentioned in the letter, was seen placing a noose
> on BamBrogan’s chair on the security camera.
A colony of pig microbes getting resistant somewhere in China to an antibiotic rarely used to treat people, might not be that big of a threat if spreading of the bacteria is contained. It even might be that most drug-resistant colonies just die out locally. How many human cases have been registered of Colistin resistant diseases?
Any idea how many times? I've made it to onsite interviews twice, and am unsure about applying a third time, at least not yet, for this very reason.
Usually they have an Identity & Access Management solution in place to authenticate users. It does more than just the security image & secret phrase. It also uses hundreds of unique identifiers about your browser & OS to rank if you are the same user that usually logs in. If it's too low they can take additional actions like ask you additional challenge questions, flag your account for review, or lock your account.
Garfield Minus Garfield plus 4chan is weirder still

https://m.imgur.com/a/0AAA5
Google to train 2M Indian Android developers
> The root problem is the assumption that specifications can be validated for correctness, like a blueprint for a bridge can.

We can validate specifications for correctness with automated theorem proving! The least we can do is model-checking. At least for the hard algorithms and core system interactions. We've had this ability for decades.

The problem with software development is that we get all hand-wavy about "architecture," and "design." I try not to physically groan when someone starts sketching out a box diagram. They're fancy pictures, sure, and useful at a conceptual level... but the reality is that the software will look nothing like that diagram. And there's no way to check that the diagram is even correct! Useless!

It doesn't have to be painfully slow, burdensome, and expensive to employ these tools either. Contrary to popular belief it doesn't take a team of highly trained PhD physicists to build a formal mathematics for modelling computations these days. There are plenty of open-source tools for using languages like TLA+ that work great besides! Ask Amazon -- they published a paper about it.

Watch Leslie Lamport - Who Builds a Skyscraper without Drawing Blueprints?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCRqE59VXT0
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See also: vehicle safety features like airbags, seatbelts, crumple zones, child car seats, safety testing, etc. Collectively, they've helped drop car crash injuries and fatalities enormously.
it's easy to "build a web app in weeks"

The really hard bit is:

Building a web app that can evolve and grow to build a business over several years, eventually with a large team.

And that's where traditional Rails development fails, and we still haven't worked out quite the best way to resolve that.
The 0.13% is not paid to Guideline. The .10% is the average fund fee (the cost of the mutual fund from the manager, Vanguard for instance) and the .03% custodial charge that is a direct pass through for us. Not marked up in any way. It is important to have a great custodian.
Don't bother most of your work seems worthless
It looks like arrays are different from tables and they start at 0.
And I can almost guarantee that this has negatively effected the purchasing power of those least well off in the EU. Along with other various detrimental unintended consequences. Which is why, morally, this is wrong through force. If I want to eat growth-hormone free meats, that's my choice. This "net-good" talk is nonsense.
With the nice side effect that this will spur more resistances, hence more reasons to develop new drugs, that they can sell at higher prices, driving profits even upper.

It's nice to get paid to solve a problem you created in the first place.
I guess. Congress preventing Fed Gov from reimbursing insurance companies for their huge losses isn't really evidence that those companies are doing well though.
Interesting project and congratulations.

Seems like a simpler version of scssphp (and associated WP plugins based on it).
> The worst piece of legislation ever to be passed in the United States of America.

I don't think it competes with, just for two obvious, off-the-top-of-my-head examples, either the Indian Removal Act or the Alien and Sedition Acts.

> I have seen many patients lose their doctors because the doctors were not contracted with Covered California.

Covered California is the California state health insurance exchange, it does not contract with doctors at all. The individual health insurance plans offered by private companies on the exchange contract with doctors.

> The reason the doctors do not contract with Covered California is because at face value the plan appears to be just like the usual say PPO plan.

Covered California is not a plan, PPO or otherwise. It is the exchange on which plans are offered. A number of different plans, PPO and otherwise, are offered on the exchange.

> The problem with the government effectively taking over Health IT by way of forcing Electronic Health Records to abide by bureaucrats definitions for "meaningful use" is a completely different disaster that has resulted in marked decreases in productivity and worse care for patients.

"Meaningful use" of EHRs is voluntary; the government involvement is providing incentives for meaningful use within the Medicare and Medicaid programs, not penalties outside those programs.

(EDIT: clarification of the meaningful use comments)