skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Medical professionals are working tirelessly to find cures for conditions like cancer.

Researchers are, the doctors at your local hospital are very unlikely to be participating in the research of new cures for anything.

> psychiatrists seem to be almost completely uninterested in finding or promoting permanent cures

Psychiatric research has developed hundreds of new, more advanced medicines in the last 10 years alone. More effective anti-depressants, with different interactions so different populations can take them with less risk of drug interaction. More effective anti-anxiety medications that have lower risk factors. Then there's the research of lifestyle changes - I've never met a psychiatrist who didn't believe that exercise was one of the most effective means of getting through depression!

I believe you're against bad psychiatrists, which I understand and agree with. I'm also against bad medical doctors! Bad surgeons, too - though I believe there's a lot of complexity with measuring the performance of that field in particular.

A good doctor recommends lifestyle changes to patients with say diabetes or heart disease - of course they do. But bad ones just give you the prescriptions for drugs that alleviate the worst symptoms without telling you that there's anything you can do to fix it. I just don't see why we'd attack all doctors for the actions of the worst ones.
Having to maintain human-comfortable conditions at workplaces consumes a lot of resources.
I think I got lucky in 7th grade when my friend thought it'd be funny to phish his cousin who I had a huge crush on. I had to learn some perl to do it. We pulled it off and now I code all day for work and many nights for pleasure. Romantically it did not go so well.
>the point at which they go ex-dividend is a convenient point to decide that it's now worth a bit less.

The company has less cash ex-dividend, so as a matter of fact is worth a bit less.
Why exactly? It's what we do, since we first tamed fire.
The obvious solution is more labour-intensive non easily automatable jobs i.e. service economy. There is a limit of how much laptops and trucks economy wants. But there is no obvious limit in demand of quality services like education, health and leisure.

I want to be surrounded by caring people and care for others. That's natural.

Question is how to re-orient, re-train and re-educate people to both provide those services and consume them.

For each advertisement of yoga lessons and massage sessions I see hundreds of ads on new smartphone or car. That is ridiculous, because I need single car and smartphone, but could go to yoga and massage every day.

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Most of the time request bodies do not get logged, because they often contain sensitive information.

The logging in ngrok also comes with a "replay request" button, which is very nice when you're testing webhooks that are a pain to fire.
You only need _one_ power user to disable the lock-in mechanism or to discover the security holes. After that, every user benefits even if they themselves cannot do such things.

Of course open source projects also suffer from bugs and incompatibilities, that's obvious and uninteresting. The point is that when you run into one of those, you have options available other than calling Larry Ellison and begging him to please fix your problems.
What's the "risk-free" amount then? 2%? 1%? 0.25%?

2% just means you need more money saved, not that you need to actively run a business into your 80's to continue feeding yourself.
Yeah, in fact, the amount seems calculated to elicit a response along the lines of the following: "Wait. Are you sure it's only 3 zeros? Hell, write them a check and be done with it."

I'm not sure the company really did anything wrong here. They can't check every area center for not being someone's house or somewhere else problematic. But this case is a particular outlier and the amount requested is petty cash levels--unless they worry about setting a precedent.
Depends on where you work. If you're a three-nan start up, you don't have an infrastructure or ops team. You do everything.

As well, companies who have dedicated infrastructure teams are wasting money when we reach a world where that problem is purely automated. And that's where I think we're going.
That makes since. Sorry for the premature conclusion.
You're still paying only a few cents.
$9.6m AUS sounds like peanuts for this — something is surely wrong here.
Why Push Notifications matter for your eCommerce business in today’s era?
> Required maintenance intervals generally aren't measured in years

Isn't that a bit misleading? There are components and systems that only need servicing every few years, but general practice with helicopters is phased inspections every m months (the military generally does every 6 months).

Sure, helicopters are easier to work on and generally require less maintenance per flight hour than jets do, but they're still aircraft, so they're greedy and needy.
Kill two birds with one stone, as they say: return the coordinates of FBI in Washington, DC. Sooner or later the lightbulb will go off. "Wait, that can't be right..."
Really, the error here is that it's returning a point. And this is a mistake that pervades all of society. The idea that any measurement could give you an exact value. Every measurement of the physical world should always give you a range of non-zero size. So, a lookup in a geo-ip database should give you an area. And it's perfectly fine to give a default value of "the USA" if that's where the address is located. It's only idiotic to return "the center of the USA".
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Natalie Wolchover deserves credit for both these articles, I should say.
First of all, this is a non-sequitur. Market prices can go up or down while scarcity still exists. Scarcity is simply a situation where a lot of people want a good or service, but not all of them can have it.

Secondly, your claims about market prices are not even directionally correct. Real wages have dropped because compensation has shifted from wages to benefits. (This effect is larger at the bottom, since non-wage benefits are a fixed cost while wages are variable.) Real compensation per hour has only gone up.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB

The labor share of GDP is down mainly because investment income (primarily from housing) has increased faster than labor income.

https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/deciphering-the-fall...

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2015a_r...

Also, significant chunks of the economy have moved into non-labor personal income as the government has shifted from infrastructure/public goods to wealth redistribution.
I'm trying to imagine operating a helicopter with rollerblades on.
Well, it doesn't help me at all in the tech job market, but my primary residence is 0.75 miles from the beach in the Northeast (Maine). At some point I'm pretty sure we'll move one more time for a career opportunity, at which point this becomes the 2nd home and an investment. We weren't really part of the housing bubble or the collapse here - things just kind of kept moving along at reasonable rates of appreciation. As a result, there aren't any bargains here, but I know a few people with similarly located homes renting them by the week in the summer to tourists and keeping them completely vacant from October-April. I'd like to get another property up here. Now, if you're talking about market investments, do yourself a favor and diversify. Just hold indexes and keep your expenses low if you don't quite know what you're doing.

That said, disclaimer, I'm not financially independent. I very much need my job, as I have a mortgage and student debt from law school, plus a child and probably having 1 more in the next couple of years. I'm nearly certain I'll never be financially independent, since I'm really trying to set that up for my children instead. I have no idea what college will cost in 15-20 years, but I see the direction it's headed and my financial plans are more around making sure they come out of school debt free. My folks did that for me, but then I was dumb enough to go to law school in 2005. I really can't complain, I have a pretty solid career doing fintech and data for a large company, but it's one major expense I could have avoided and been okay - although it does check the "advanced degree" box. I have some side projects and more coming, but if I make a few dollars there, it goes directly to my kids' savings. I do have US and EU passports, so there's potentially that option for retirement with affordable healthcare and housing, but that's projecting years down the road.
the difference is cars are expected to crash and a decades-old vehicle is a safety hazard. it will literally cut you in half if it crashes.
If we were willing to accept India-like population density and energy use, we could all live in the parts of the US where that's not the case.
Isn't the core idea behind MMM just spend less, save more? Not sure how that's garbage advice. The particulars of some of the things he advocates aren't possible for everyone, sure. But reducing debt and increasing your savings is a goal that probably everyone who hopes to live another 10+ years should strive for.
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I'm not a java developer but I find this generalization pretty ignorant (sorry... I don't mean this in an insulting way... maybe misinformed is a better word?).

The JVM is an extremely fast system and if you run java on top of it that is fine. There is a reason so many of the world changing distributed systems (Cassandra, Kafka, ZooKeeper, etc) are built on top of it.

I believe what you are thinking of our java business systems which are usually bloated/slow and developed by similar developers who think backends can be automated.

There is trade-offs on both cases, if you can optimize for developer speed and sacrifice app performance that might be fine for your use-case. Software applies to pretty much every industry and not everyone needs scale but not everyone can live with poor performance either.
I am now close to 11 years at Red Hat and I have always used Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the various laptops the company gave me. So we're not late. We're just ramping up a bit more in this space :-)
I like it but it still makes my life hard when I want to use french typography...
Muslims are people who practice the religion of Islam.

Religions (for those who practice them) are ideals that are intrinsically woven into peoples lives.

So by saying you should attack Islam (with no qualifiers to that statement), you are indeed saying you should attack Muslims.

I'm not going to address the second part of your statement, other than to say that the war in Iraq was illegal, wrong, and counter-productive. It, 9/11, and US sponsored creation of the terrorist boogieman are largely the root that modern islamophobia, and on the flip side modern terrorist cells, have sprung from.

Just admit that you don't like muslims and go on about your day.
I had to go into the console and type "return true" for it to start working. I thought it was intentional.
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I. am. a. person. I want... proooductive. I want... puurpose. I will. Take the orders. From a capital-supplier. To proooduce economic vallll-ue.

I. am. Totally. Not. a robot.

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/s

Seriously, though? People want to be exploited because they need a wage-paying employer to give them purpose? Then where are all the people who don't work for someone else getting this much-vaunted "purpose", eh? Whatever happened to all that individualism stuff, about people being ends rather than means?
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> The Docker logging model of line-by-line stdout/stderr doesn't seem very useful beyond debugging in the local console.

It's a well-understood pattern that Heroku made more visible under "The 12 Factor App".

stdout/stderr require no configuration in any language that I'm aware of. Why should the app care about how to wire up logging? That's a platform concern.

On Cloud Foundry you get Loggregator, which frankly needs improvement, but for the most part you don't care about how to wire up logging. You print to stdout or stderr and the platform wicks that away to a firehose service for you. You can hook up kafka to spout, or elasticsearch, or anything else you like.

Disclosure: I work at Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering to Cloud Foundry.
There are some exceptions, but the ACA lays out the maximum out of pocket for individuals and families. It's currently ~$6,500 for an individual and ~$13,000 for a family. The gov't has made it clear that even under a family plan, an individual shouldn't have an out of pocket greater than $6,500 in a given year (medical and pharmacy combined).
Happy Birthday Pandoc!

The ability to write and collaborate on memos in markdown, and turn them into fancy PDFs and .docs is seriously world changing.
you are suggesting the purpose for resources existing at all are purely for human consumption.

essentially you're peddling the argument of "god put oil on earth for us to burn, if we dont burn it, its a waste!"
Are drones prevalent enough to make a decline in the world-wide demand for helicopters "obvious?"
We're using it at GoCardless to generate reference docs for our recurring payments API. https://developer.gocardless.com/2015-07-06/#overview
I worked for a very large company for over 20 years, and the stock I received, bonus and standard issue, made my wife and I fairly much independently wealthy given our frugal life style. We spend a fortune on travel, otherwise we live on very little money.

The other thing that helped was buying some income property when I was younger. Getting rent money from tenants every month is wonderful.
I think what RedHat does for the community is absolutely fantastic and they've contributed a lot to Linux and open source technology.
Why would you transport a week's worth of groceries in the first place? In cities designed not for cars, most people generally don't "transport" groceries at all, since everybody generally buys groceries very close to home (often on the same block), and the natural time to do it is on the way back from work/studies/whatever, so instead of having an explicit weekly trip, you just buy whatever you need now or for tomorrow, not a week's supply - and that is easily carried (not transported) for that short distance even for a family of 6+.

If you buy something that can't be carried, like a refrigerator, well, then you get it delivered.
I love the markdown to PDF converter using embedded LaTeX for math expressions. So much easier than writing pure LaTeX and you still get a beautiful result.
Buzzwords. Having checked a few threads on here and looked at the descriptions I have concluded that "serverless" is basically the pricing model. (The code runs on a server doesn't it?)
What genre of books and workshops? Might as well sell us a book here!
If real numbers exist or not is irrelevant. The question is if we can solve some problems by assuming one way or another.
Interesting, what makes you say that? I haven't read MMM in depth but have a feeling it might be down to certain circumstances (e.g. if you're renting in London, you're pretty much guaranteed you can't save 50% of your income)
Google's load balancer is a SDN (software defined networking) setup that basically runs as software on their normal computing clusters that power the rest of their services. They have plenty of capacity already handling all the other traffic so there's no real difference in handling a few more requests, unlike AWS which manages custom instances and resizing just for your ELB.

GCP LB design details: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/Google-shares-s...
"Enhanced interrogation"
Having been in a 172 with 4 people, I can say definitively that 2 or 3 people is much better.
There are a number of distributed tracing tools now. I've heard good things about Zipkin[0], but not used it myself.

The key is not just to have a single request ID, but also to provide hop IDs. Relying on clocks, even vector clocks, isn't ideal in a share-nothing architecture.

[0] http://zipkin.io/
EU criterion may drop away but... In the UK:

http://www.wealthify.com/
https://www.nutmeg.com/
https://www.moneyfarm.com/uk/
Not everything military is necessarily ITAR'd. A lot of components for legacy aircraft are now far outclassed by COTS equipment, or are now COTS equipment themselves, so there's not a need for especially stringent export/import requirements anymore. So these components might be removed from ITAR (Defense/State Department) control, and shifted to being controlled by the EAR (Export Administration Regulation) and the US Department of Commerce, which is less restrictive.
As a Citizen of Denmark and a father of two (4 & 1), I absolutely love the danish stuff on Ramasjang and hate most of the American (foreign) stuff. The programs produced in DK are rude and fun and slow and scary, while the foreign stuff is mostly lame attempts at education (Dora the explorer is a particularly nasty example of this) or over the top animations with too much moral crap, too pretty characters and backed by toy franchises and whatnot.

I seems to me that the author actually enjoyed the shows and I mostly agree with his assessment, but he can't have been watching too much because he missed some important shows that are in fact educational.

Most prominent of the educational shows is Mr. Beard, who teaches numbers, counting, simple math, letters and simple spelling. The show is weird and quirky, but also features some great songs. The whole thing is backed by some pretty great apps, which expand on the educational stuff.

There's also a great show about kids helping animals in trouble. They don't pretend that the kids do most of the work, it's a professional that does the heavy lifting, but the kids get involved as much as possible.

I don't mind watching these shows with my kids, but I'll leave as soon as Dora or Thomas the tank engine or Chuggington starts.

If you're interested in watching some completely outrageous danish childrens TV, go watch "Carsten og Gittes vennevilla". It's created by the duo "Wulf Morgenthaler", who have produced some the weirdest stuff on danish TV. Particularly the one where Carsten creates a fox is a hoot.
I barely know the first thing about how supply chains for illegal drugs work, and I suspect most of the population is like me. Law enforcement however should understand how this works however, otherwise how can they do their job effectively? Likewise if they're investigating computer crimes they should have some basic understanding of how computers work (at least from a practical perspective, they don't need the theory of why computers work).
haha, all they do is problems with outsourcing.

This happened in canada.
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&es...
Keep going and enhancing
As someone that knows how to set up a server, I found Heroku a lot more difficult to get a Django app running than on a "normal" server. And a lot more of a PITA to debug.
Any areas specifically come to mind?
Some platforms will do this for you -- Cloud Foundry will show `x-cf-requestid` for anything that passed through the gorouter and back.
Great project. Have written my whole thesis in Markdown thanks to Pandoc (+Sublime+Latex+Zotero) and this great template https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown
An easier approach IMO would be to create an amazon lambda script to process the pdf and make it run when you upload a file to a bucket in amazon s3.

It's easy to do and you don't need to mess with anything more than two simple API.
Exercise is like keeping a feather aloft with your breath. At any point, you can choose to stop, or blow again. Blowing works for a short amount of time, you see some short-term results, and then you're back at the head of the loop.

Basically... like most anything that takes effort you either have to make "the switch" and make it be a defining characteristic of who you are, or it will never matter more than a passing fad. In order to make "the switch" happen, find things other than pure exercise to reinforce the cycle. Find a team game to play like ... volleyball or something and don't be apologetic about sucking at it. Just keep showing up. Once your social circle includes healthy active people you'll go do healthy outdoorsy things to stay with them.
Ask HN: Anyone here use a Hackintosh as one of their main machines?
I'm not sure if this is allowed here as it's technically "not legal", but while I love my MacBook, nothing beats having a comfy desktop computer at home with a ton of storage. I know I'm in the minority, but I miss it.

Unfortunately I am very much used to OS X and highly productive in it and Apple's desktop offerings are pretty poor right now (correct me if I'm wrong), so unless I decide to go for Linux, I'll try a Hackintosh.

What I'm looking for are experiences with them for someone who just wants a computer to code, torrent, and watch movies from and doesn't care about iMessage working. I probably won't update my OS X much either.

I keep hearing widely different things about Hackintoshes so I thought I'd try HN.

Thanks!
At my company, we have one software package it costs on average a quarter million USD to install per enterprise customer. It gets about 100,000 records added per day in some deployments. We test our migrations on those systems and have a dedicated data service which is the only thing which can touch any given customer database. We are paranoid about those systems.

We also have throwaway apps like an internal time clock system which monitors when people show up based on their cell MAC.

Latter case: Adding a checkbox is easy.

Former case: Adding a checkbox is easy but we have to test it first.
Location:India

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Of course

Technologies: Python, R, C++, Elastic, Mongo, Flask, Machine Learning, Java, Analytics, Php.

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This is totally dependent on the domain.
If you're working in digital video, for example, much of the work is moving away from the client toward server side solutions.
I don't think you can make any sweeping generalizations - there are just more options that suit different needs. The need to scale is an increasingly important and popular topic and that won't go away any time soon.
Yes, but: These a highly-tuned code that starts infrequently and doesn't use GC. VMs still have a startup cost; although one could argue that it's something that can be optimized out if there's enough desire.
But do they <3 open source same as MS does?
3 things UX designers do
(1) here's how it's done in JS: https://tc39.github.io/ecmascript-asyncawait/#desugaring
>Ideally they'd offer version of the service that gives a probability 'heat map'

that is not "ideal" at all, one of the first uses of this data was for real time CC fraud Detection, giving a computer processing CC info a graphical "heat map" is less than useless. Most geolocation API data is consumed by computers that use it for many things, not presented to the user directly.

>In reality the simplified version would be provided as a service with a default threshold, anything under the threshold would not report a position, but could still report a country ISO code and perhaps state, county as optional extras.

It appears you believe this data is only for Human Consumption. If an API is designed to return LAT and LON and Accuracy, then that is what is should return, not an ISO country code. I get you believe no API should be designed this way, but I as a developer that consumes these services prefer it that way, makes it easier to write against

I as a developer am asking for Max Mind to give me Lat Lon and Accuracy, not a ISO Country Code or Heatmap
Here are some comments from a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11466849
At least those fictional characters aren't taught to kids with a threat of eternal pain and damnation if they do something Bad.

(Although in NL, Sinterklaas' helpers will abduct you to Spain if you're naughty)

(edit: Actually that doesn't sound too bad, I wouldn't mind going to spain)