skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking of starting something similar here in the states (recruiting as a service), but there's always one problem: small companies don't trust anything labeled 'recruiting' or 'hr' to gauge technical talent.

If I can come up with a reliable, repeatable system for identifying good developers, I still have to convince other companies to pay for it. The skepticism I get from companies is off the charts.

Do you know how the "HR as a service" company gets around that? Maybe that's why they embed their employees in the startup (face time generates trust)? I don't see them lasting long, though, for the exact reason you state: they're setting themselves up for high training costs and high turnover.
Kunming is west of most of the pollution. Which keeps getting worse as you approach the ocean near central / NE China. http://berkeleyearth.org/air-pollution-and-cigarette-equival...
Surely there is some negative effects to any recreational drug use, especially alcohol. Theres always a trade off , I just think that the bar to making something illegal should be higher.
Firefox already adds an (i) icon (with a "Connection is Not Secure" note in the popup) for all http:// pages plus a red icon for http:// pages with a password field.
No context at all. Am I supposed to just know what this means?
I once tried to do Let's Encrypt or any free SSL with my namecheap domain and apparently you can't. Is that true? I don't really want to change domain name companies because I'm lazy and it's probably time consuming to get right... can I get free HTTPS if I host my site on Netlify and just point my URL there?

All I use it for is my Jekyll-powered personal site on GitHub pages. I don't mind not using GitHub for it anymore, just want it to work with SSL.
I added them both at the same time, and the page is still working now.
They have these at my local Costco. Been thinking about it for a while, but I decided to just make my own with an old piece of fence.
(I worked on the healthcare.gov rescue team and now run a healthcare startup running a clinical study with UCSF Cardiology.)

I think what's needed is likely more than outreach: there are two big problems with the insurance market right now that prevent competition.

First, the barriers to entry to start a new health insurance company are incredibly high. There have been four health insurance startups (Oscar, Clover, Bright, SeeChange) launched in the last several years. SeeChange went out of business. Bright has yet to launch. Oscar and Clover are active in a handful of markets, but for 90+% of people, their choices are limited to the insurers that existed before the ACA.

Why is it so hard to start a new health insurance company? First, it requires $50m+ in reserve capital to get a state license before you can sell your first policy. Second, once you're in business, your ability to negotiate prices with hospitals is determined by your scale, so new entrants are at an inherent disadvantage: they're negotiating on behalf of perhaps 10,000 members. United, in comparison, negotiates on behalf of 70 million people. There's an inherent vicious cycle here of worse prices => fewer members => worse prices.

Second, the Affordable Care Act built in several financial mechanisms--risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors--to stabilize premiums. Some of those are being defunded by Congress, and so the result is that in some places, premiums are destabilized; in others, insurers are withdrawing entirely. Our general political disfunction is now having a very specific and negative impact on people's lives.

Does this mean government regulation is all bad? I don't think so. There are certainly places where repealing regulation could help create a competitive market, but also places where adding carefully-crafted regulation could promote competition.

For example, passing a law requiring hospitals to charge all insurers the same rate (they can set the rate to whatever they like) would mean that new insurers are competing on a level playing field with the giants. Functioning reinsurance would lower the reserve capital requirements for a new insurance startup to stay in the market for long enough to build a membership base.

With those two changes, would level of competition and innovation in health insurance be the same as in photo sharing apps? Not quite. Healthcare is a complex business. But I think we could get substantially closer to that level of innovation, and that would be good for everybody.
Taking the article at face value:

So they can order the removal of anti-bacterial agents because they haven't scientifically been proven beneficial and there are potentially unknown side effects. Err on the side of caution, that's a wise decision.

... yet they use terms like GRAS (Generally Regarded as Safe) for things like Roundup Ready crops which have been scientifically (allegedly, I haven't read and understood all the science, but it seems reasonably credible to the layman) proven to contain significantly increased doses of POISON in food on the supermarket shelves which (admittedly unproven but) highly suspiciously correlated skyrocketing food allergies.

I don't get it (genuinely). Why one application of a seemingly sane rule with unknown repercussions in one instance and a complete disregard for it in the other in the face of a huge amount of evidence that it is in fact unsafe?

Is this because antibacterial agents in soaps are not funded by Monsanto? (okay, I asked that facetiously, but still)
And I now refuse to support Chrome in all my apps and sites.
What do you think of Odoo? https://www.odoo.com/
1. 10 million records is not big data.

2. If the rate of data acquisition is 1 million records a year, then 9 million records are the same as last year. There's no reason to hit the database again, because time series data [to be time series data] does not change.

3. This suggests that processing the data from the Oracle database is not a requirement...i.e. it could be moved to another system and processed there. Again, it's small data and doesn't change so duplication presents neither a storage issue nor a consistency issue.

4. The size and static nature of the data suggest that it might fit into memory on a single, moderately speced PC. An AWS type approach is also possible.

5. The right data storage format depends on the workload...maybe something column oriented?

Good luck.
Well, here it looks like Apache OpenOffice made a couple of releases.
"the only thing previously stopping the standardization of reconciliation processes was the unwillingness of financial institutions to collaborate. Financial institutions spend $65-80 billion on back office reconciliation every year. The employees working in back offices probably offered lots of excellent reasons why their roles couldn’t simply be standardized away."
America's Fattest States (mapped)
If a pointer/reference escapes the loop you'll have problems whether the thing to the right of the colon is a reference or a copy. If it's a copy, the escaped reference will definitely be invalid once that iteration complete. If it's a reference, it will remain valid in more situations.
I think the size limitation is the airports, not the planes.

Before it became a regular sight, there was speculation as to whether or not the A380 was 'too big' for Gatwick
Plus: lazy loading certs and the appropriate key management infrastructure to support it.
The website is pretty scarce on details. If the white paper is available somewhere on the site, it's not immediately obvious. What kind of technology are you using for ML and NLP? Any info on your tech stack? Can you define "Competitive salary"? Otherwise looks really interesting :) Will keep an eye on and send my CV if you can answer some of the questions above.
CRM is a strange term. To track sales and comms with clients we’ve been using Close.io and it’s pretty sweet. We have LOTS of integrations around reporting and Slack notifications on top of it. Let me know if you want more info. @jokull on Twitter.
The article points out that soap is already achieving the same effect without drugs... that's what the FDA concluded after studying the evidence.
For almost everyone, a computer is an appliance. And that's okay.
You missed the part where the FDA lit a fire under the industry's ass in 2013 to prove antibacterial soap have value over non antibacterial soap and gave them a year timeline.

Everyone saw the writing on the wall that a ban was coming.
Some people enjoy using the product for whatever reason and spend their money on these products. Should we just ignore those preferences? Why are we so quick to disregard those preferences in some cases and not in others, such as recreational drug use?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12413388.
Dark Side of Bill Gates’ Philanthropy in India
Wake me up when they support financial privacy. Monero or nothing.
I for one now refuse to support Chrome on all of my apps and sites. Their browser is broken by design, and is working against a free and open web.
Same here. It helps to sell it if you don't say ECC = RAM + extra cash. That's the normal method. I instead say you have two options:

1. RAM that works at this price.

2. RAM that allows more crashes or corruption of your files for slightly-lower price.

The Right Thing suddenly looks more obvious except to cheap skates. Now I just need one with ChipKill built-in. That's the next level of ECC. I haven't heard whether Intel or AMD got something similar.
As I understand it, he's suggesting that HTTP should incorporate something equivalent to STARTTLS as seen in some form in IMAP, POP3, FTP, LDAP, Postgres, and probably several others I'm forgrttingg
The Apache Foundation could simply have accepted the OpenOffice.org codebase+trademarks from Oracle, then donate to LibreOffice.

But they did not do so. The Apache Foundation does not have experience with software that end-users use. They have experience with server software. That was their undoing.
Well, if you're cooking, the bacteria on the raw meat and whatever you added with your hands get cooked. Most skin bacteria probably don't do too well in the mouth and stomach anyways.
The requirements for the 747 were largely driven by the USAF and then Pan Am. If I understand right, both customers were so influential that Boeing felt it had to accommodate them.
There shouldn't be any lifetime mismatch by now. A first release Raspberry PI is powerful enough to fill a full HD TV nowadays, and while it takes a more powerful computer for a 4K TV, this is not something that changes with time while you are not looking.

The only "lifetime mismatch" that still exist on smart TVs is manufacturer DRM that is fulfilling its design goal of not letting you use your device.
It means that Douglas Crockford was asked to not give his talk at a conference to make it a comfortable experience for all.
Chlorophyll does actually help against bad breath, since it absorbs gases. You can still buy dragees in pharmacies
I know nothing about Douglas Crockford on a personal level. Why has he been uninvited?
Agree completely on voting for one person to act on my behalf. I absolutely loathed needing to mark yes or no for two pages worth of judges when I voted in Chicago.

I always promoted a plan of voting no for every single judge. I figured if every judge failed to be retained during one election cycle, the powers that be would finally take the power away from the people for good!
I'm all for deflating blockchain hype, but I found the overall tone of the article pretty disagreeable, and more importantly, wholly missing the point.

"In other words, the only thing previously stopping the standardization of reconciliation processes was the unwillingness of financial institutions to collaborate."

No, actually, the one thing the blockchain provides, which was literally unsolved before pre-Nakamoto, was a working implementation of "trustless" consensus. Turns out fraud prevention is kind of a big deal shuffling around billions or trillions among numerous third parties, but I'm sure that's just because they're "security-conscious egoists."
> The lower pay of fire fighters and school teachers simply reflects the happy reality that we’re blessed with a much larger supply of superb first-responders and educators

I was joking a while back saying "free market" in US is like a religion. Someone pointed out American Civil Religion as a phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion . I guess it mostly overlaps with Libertarian-ism but but I think it can be identified separately.

It basically means we solve problems not thinking about the direct solution: how to fight fires, how to teach children better, how do we not let people go into medical bankruptcy. Instead, we always answer "how will this make the Free Market God happy?" If it doesn't we don't do it.

In this case it is "Teachers are at the bottom of the ladder for desirable jobs after college? That's fine, move along". This is what make free market happy, it is clearly decided for us.

Same with people going bankrupt because they went to a hospital for a night. Nationalizing medical care would incur the wrath of FMG. So to appease it we jump through complicated hoops with Medicare, Medicaid, shuffle money around between insurers, hospitals, doctors in a complicated and hard to track way.

> George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Ok, that makes sense.
Why? Has he done anything?
Working towards making all connections secure is "working against a free and open web"? Insecure HTTP is "a free and open web"?

I for one look forward to insecure HTTP becoming extinct.
I think the point of dispute is something like this:

1) Yes, browsers could accept SSL with a bad cert chain and just show the UI as if it was plain text. However, then they'd need to have multiple codepaths to support what should be a very rare occurrence, in a very security sensitive part of the code: you have to teach the address bar to display http:// when it's really https etc, because otherwise you're diluting the meaning of https, but URLs themselves still say https, etc. It's just complicated.

2) Your justification for why it's meaningful doesn't really work: if browsers used very long lived connections then it might be helpful but they don't, they re-negotiate and re-establish connections constantly. If an eavesdropper wants to MITM you and you aren't doing cert checking then they just need to wait a minute or two until you click another link on the page. It's not an especially interesting security upgrade. In your blog example you don't know the blog wasn't altered in transmission.
Any background on why?
VERY interesting. Care to share the paper?

EDIT: Some surgeons argue that having a beard can carry more bacteria into a surgery room, while others argue that shaving might make the surgeon more susceptible to infection by bacteria from the surgery room, since epitelial cells are removed by the razor blade.
>Which suggests that the scrubbing actually liberates bacteria found at the margin of the stratum corneum.

Wouldn't that mean that after scrubbing the bacteria are no longer there?
The same underlying story, obviously, but I'd rather hear from Ars Technica than NBC News (and possibly some people feel the other way), so it seems worth having both.
Can confirm. At the risk of public embarrassment, I ate an ounce a day of powdered leaf for nearly six years. It was the serotonin blockade (read: antidepressant effect) that was desirable, not the weak opioid effects. Getting off of it was easier than getting off of a prescription antidepressant. I stopped suddenly and with no taper schedule (by choice; I'd obtained health insurance and found a couple workable alternatives) and suffered no lasting effects. I didn't vomit once. There was no nausea. I had some transient leg pain and an upset stomach. It wasn't fun, but it also wasn't Trainspotting. That was hydrocodone, in a post-surgical setting, with strict adherence to the doctor's dosing and taper schedule.

Far be it from me to recommend drug dependence, but this substance didn't hurt me despite my hard-headed attempt to become dependent on it. It kept me away from benzodiazepines and alcohol, the former of which gave me such severe amnesia that I ended up in the ER not knowing where I was or who I was.

It's a tree that grows in the wild and will never be eradicated. The DEA's burning garbage pile of a weed eradication quest is still smoldering. Profoundly misguided policy.

For the record, I haven't touched the stuff in years, and have no financial interest in it. But the reality is that this stuff is not worth locking people in cages over.
So, we agree: it's strictly better
Exactly. It doesn't make sense to compare the top individual of one ability's distribution to the average individual of another. There's a world of difference between a top football player and the average football player. I'd expect ability to be distributed along a power law, just like wages are.
Gotta make people comfortable I guess. No idea what that's in reference to, though.
That's exactly what they're fixing: they're working towards marking plaintext as insecure as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

For future reference ;)
We've been very happy with Mailgun.
Just last week I sent out ~10k emails/day within a week of setting up a new account (though to 10k different people).
tldr; this whole breakthru in technology called the blockchain isn't a new idea at all. Banks have known about "shared" ledgers since 1800s. But because everyone is talking about Blockchain now in 2016, banks are finally ready to embrace some standards.
Each VM has a unique salt by default, but you can still specify two or more VMs to share a salt. See also the comment[1] below by xavierd.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12411146
Sigh. No.

Again: I link to my blog, with HTTPS

You have no idea who I am. "Bandrami" is not a meaningful string to you.

What does Thawte's assurance that I am who I claim to be add to this situation? You shouldn't trust your MITM'er any more than you should trust a verified me.
You're equating a ranking with an absolute scale on a dimension that's only loosely correlated. The last-ranked shot-putter on the Olympic awards pedestal (bronze) is still a really good shot-putter.

It would be one level removed, then, to judge someone to be a bad log-bearer because they're only the 5000th-best shot-putter.

IOW: low ranked in school does not imply "bad teacher". I means, among the people rated as having sufficient mastery of the material, they were the lowest; that's not the same as "poor at achieving educational objectives", and it's not the same as "unqualified in absolute terms".

Edit: Though, in fairness, he probably should have said "good-enough" rather than "superb".
Depends on whether one is thinking like a mountain or willing to be blind past the horizon of his or her own lifetime. Sometimes negative effects compound with time or, as jcrites noted, the negative effects of two people doing a thing is greater than 2x one person doing it.
https://medium.com/@nodebotanist/why-i-won-t-be-speaking-at-...

https://twitter.com/nebrius/status/699663365661065216

https://medium.com/@kassandra_perch/why-i-won-t-be-speaking-...

Basically, people think he's an asshole.
How do all those new tenants drive to and from the freeway?
Skin. It's where the cliche of the junky scratching his arms comes from.
I've always found it remarkable that people find this at all illuminating. I take it the applicability of that passage is supposed to go something like this: I, as a third party bystander, would not have the right to intervene(by force, if necessary) and stop person A from selling person B antibacterial soap. I suppose I get that intuition.

But if you add in more pertinent details, I think we're just left begging the question. What if I sell parson A selling antibacterial soap to person B by misrepresenting the fact that it contains a chemical that will kill bacteria when, in fact, that chemical is ineffective as advertised. This sounds a bit like fraud to me--and it touches on an especially important sphere of life to boot--health and medicine--where fraud-like concerns are especially important.

Do I, as a third party, have the ability to intervene under these facts? I think there's a cogent case to be made that I do. And, at any rate, I know of no simple analysis that one could apply here to make answering the simplified interpersonal case any simpler than the government-regulation case that it is supposed to help us think about.

Of course, it should also be mentioned that there are perfectly good schools of political thought under which the powers of government are not merely the aggregated power of individuals. Here's a thought just to get the intuitions flowing: there might be things that we allow the government, but not individuals, to do because the government acts by way of a deliberative process that can produce more reliable or better justified decisions than we would trust any individual person to make. For example: you might think that it is never acceptable for one person to kill another, even in retribution for a crime, because individual actors can't be relied upon to evaluate guilt and innocence properly, or because their actions would not have the expressive value necessary to warrant such an act. The state, however, is able to organize behavior in a way that largely solves these problems, meaning that there may be cases where it is acceptable for the state to kill even though no individual person could morally have done so. (I actually oppose the death penalty, so I have other objections to this line of argument. But this seems like a potentially useful example nonetheless.)
Yeah, I think that line is a pretty clear indication of why such arguments and the economic theory that prompts them are out of touch with reality.

I would say that in reality, there certainly is a much larger supply of people that are considered to be suitable for performing these jobs. However, that they are considered to be 'suitable' for performing these jobs does not mean they are actually capable of performing these jobs well, let alone that those selected are the most 'superb' of the candidates.

I can think of at least the following reasons:

* those determining whether someone is suitable for a job take into account how much they are going to (have to) pay someone. If there is a large supply of people that consider themselves suitable, then those selling themselves cheaper have a better change of getting the job, even if they are less capable. Pay is easy to measure, skill is hard to measure, so pay becomes the easy yardstick to use.

* those doing the hiring do not usually have sufficient knowledge of the skills necessary to perform a job. You underestimate work you're not actually doing, used if you used to do the work just a few years ago.

* related to the first: when hiring people, their job-related skills are not as important as how well you like them, the impression they make on you, etc. People are irrational and most interviews are decided based on things entirely separate from someone's capabilities.

So of course teachers are not as good as they could be: many people more capable would only become teachers if teachers earned more, if they would be recognized as capable or if they were better at interviewing.

Corollary: jobs are generally performed by those only just capable of performing them or by those underselling themselves relative to their capabilities. The latter possibly because they have some sort of passion or appreciation for the job independent of monetary reward or because some form of inertia keeps them there. In some sense a version of The Peter principle.

I think such reasoning explains our observations much better than what the OP offers.

Another corollary: if you like your job or are good at it, you can earn more somewhere in a job you don't like and are just capable of performing.