skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but let's chalk it up to the cost of being in the bleeding edge, working in one of the most well-paid professions in the world

Slightly off-topic, but I have observed that front-end engineering posts seems to have lower salaries compared to back-end engineering posts for the same level of seniority. My working theory is that there is a higher supply of front-end devs - most of the self-taught devs I've encountered work on the front-end (Flash -> HTML/Javascript, or Designer -> dev).
Would love to see a follow-up with the number of ppl who signed up.
What literately every other country does: Old fashioned price controls. Government as a buyer or as a regulator puts a cap on the price through a process of negotiation, and be willing to say no when the price is too high and the benefits are too low. The UK's NICE body regularly rejects new products if they don't represent value. New cancer drug that extends life by two months but costs £10k per pill with a course of treatmeant costing £100k; no thanks.

Its a market with inelastic demand - people will literately die if they don't buy the product. We, rightly, through regulation demand high quality assurance because if something is meant save someone from a quick death it better be reliable and not cause greater harm due to product defects. This means the entry barriers are quite high making competition difficult. Without price controls there is literately nothing but the CEO's conscience to keep from pushing the prices up. If the product will stop you from dying and nobody else can offer it, then there is basically no price you won't pay.
I believe that the comment you are responding to was speaking to the asymmetry that people with experience in computational biology have an easier time moving to general data science problems than do people with experience in general data science working on computational biology problems.

I agree that the asymmetry exists: there is a tremendous baseline of scientific knowledge and experience that is needed to make significant contributions to the field. I personally have worked with people with backgrounds in programming or CS on medical problems, and it has been frustrating because they lack what I would term "scientific common sense". I would personally prefer, and would be able to make more progress with, working with (for example) anyone who has completed a sequence of education sufficient for pre-med requirements and has some programming experience over a "full stack data engineer". Even if someone with a programming or CS background were inclined to pick up the textbooks and amass the baseline scientific knowledge (I'm sure they exist, although I haven't met them yet), they'd still lack the years of laboratory work and experience of applying this knowledge.

My original comment was apparently poorly worded because it was interpreted by the responders differently than I intended, but delightfully, it resulted in very thoughtful comments. I am very skeptical that one can make even small contributions to genetics without the experience of years of specialized work. There are ancillary problems that could be done by someone with a programming or CS background, e.g., a better LIMS system, or perhaps protocol management, but I don't see those tasks as leading to later making meaningful contributions to the field of genetics. The MD or PhD isn't required, but all the work done leading up to it is, and so as I see it those prepared to make the contributions are most likely going to have gotten the degree on the way.
what "help others" means can be stretched pretty far.
Take a look at this pdf - https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/us/whit...

There is also a docker-bench-security tool set worth checking out.
This man is pathetic. All deals on Shark Tank are subject to due diligence. Many deals don't go through after the show.

The worst part is "let me go back on the show and tell everyone the improvements of my product". Absolutely laughable. He thinks he's entitled to a product advertisement on Shark Tank -- he's also got one and now he wants another.

This guy is a joke. Having said that, if it's true that they faked the update, including high-fiving Daymond John, that's pretty pathetic. But this guy agreed to film it and fake it, so...
Fyi: The man is from Newton MA, USA.

He is not the Apple Newton's inventor.
This man is pathetic. All deals on Shark Tank are subject to due diligence. Many deals don't go through after the show.

The worst part is "let me go back on the show and tell everyone the improvements of my product". Absolutely laughable. He thinks he's entitled to a product advertisement on Shark Tank -- he already got one and now he wants another.

This guy is a joke. Having said that, if it's true that they faked the update, including high-fiving Daymond John, that's pretty pathetic. But this guy agreed to film it and fake it, so...
You may be more likely to be promoted if you display a backbone. Real straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
> "most people" I know have a philosophy similar to mine

That's probably why you know them in the first place.
> conditioned on the complexity

Indeed, difference in complexity is the key here.
> In August, the country launched the world's first quantum satellite, aimed at achieving "hack-proof" communications between space and ground control.

This is possible now?
You appear to be thinking that he is using prison as a metaphor when he is writing about actual prison. I don't know how much idea sharing and healthy teamwork are valued there.
Copyright and IP (and probably real estate) are pretty much the only way for capitalists to make money the more things like internet, 3D printing, AI, robotics and so on are available to the masses. To me it's the only way to keep the current power structures intact so for a lot of powerful people copyright laws are probably the most important laws. They don't need the state for personal protection (they can pay for security guards instead of police) but they need the state for protecting their livelihood.
Personal servers are more prone to intermittent operation, caused by things such as an OS upgrade gone bad and the owner not finding the time at the moment to fix it. If on the other hand you have a repo on GitHub that one can go get then users will know with much greater confidence that the repo will stay available at all times for the foreseeable future.

I run my own web and mail servers, but the canonical repositories for all my code is on GitHub, both because then I know my code is always available to myself but also because I know that it means that others will have fewer reasons not to use my projects, because even though I know that my uptime and stability is good, others can't know that, but they know that GitHub is.
Transparent medical pricing is not possible so long as hospitals have an obligation to treat sick people whether or not they can pay. Hospitals heavily cross subsidize between insured, uninsured, and Medicare/Medicaid patients. As long as we put expectations on doctors and hospitals that compel them to do that, they cannot provide transparent pricing.
Not really. Fundamentally all he's saying is that there is a huge benefit from seeing distortions to reality. If you prcieved all threats in a red outline as you walked down the street, you'd be better able to avoid them.

You can also look at data display problems the same way. Take a height map of the world, and just blindly use a rainbow mapping, and you won't be able to see sea level. But if you pick two color spectrums, say, beige and blue, and suddenly it pops out.

He's basically saying that it makes sense for our brain to lie to use fir the same reason; some data is too valuable to not stand out to us. And this holds for any given organism.
You raise an interesting point, and one that I don't think gets much attention. (The point about the contrary attitudes towards AI and biotech.)

Bill Joy's essay took the twin issues together, but I think you are right in that today one gets more press than the other. I don't know enough biology to know if those concerns are valid or not.

It might be cultural in the sense that "the culture" these days is faced with ever improving AI on an annual basis (Siri, Amazon Echo, etc) so the lay person feels qualified to extrapolate whereas with biotech I can't tell that my corn is more resistant so I don't see the change.
One of my problems with static types in a lot of languages is that they're usually very limited in what they allow you to express.

For example: a function that takes an integer between 1 and 100. That's a straightforward constraint! Elixir is an example of a language that lets you express some of those kinds of constraints, by using guard clauses. Along with its powerful pattern matching, you end up with very nice code.

What are other languages that are known for these kinds of constraints?
Hmm, I've noticed a huge spike of anti-China news sourced from USA lately. This also includes Chinese replacing the generic Russians as bad guys in popular media in games.

What gives? Is USA gearing up the propaganda engine for another cold war?
Ugh. Sorry, but anyone who tries to link the measurement problem and a process as high-energy as cognition is either misled or trying to mislead you.

Here's what we know experimentally: when you measure something, it looks like it has a definite value. (Math version: the measured value is always an eigenvalue of the hermitian operator corresponding to the measurement. Even if a system started in a mixed state, it always seems to end up in the eigenbasis corresponding to the measured eigenvalue.)

"Measurement" is any process that carries information about the state of the system. When I get hit in the back of the head with a photon from a distant planet, I'm measuring its position.

What QM does not know is why this seems to be the case. There are many theories. (Plug for Einselection.) But just about any serious theory happens at time and energy scales so small that it doesn't make sense to consider the interaction of consciousness with wave function collapse. If there's no objective reality, the "subjectivity" probably only exists at scales too small to notice without an experimental setup.
Most people don't have even the most basic understanding of how they reason about and write code. So they just follow "best" practices and other kinds of dogma. Nothing wrong with that. But it does make it harder to have a meaningful discussion about "bad" code and how to improve things. And I do think there is a room for a tenfold improvement in reliability/productivity compared to OOP.
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One is a proxy for the other. The more your export the more money you probably have. In general the more money the higher your quality of life.

Stated another way American factory worker's quality of life is good enough they have never needed to degenerate to setting fires. They have more effective systems in place.
Right, but as team lead, there's a huge advantage to implementing the tools once, and letting individual developers argue with the robot over coding style (i.e., when they override certain rules), vs. trying to do all code review manually.
Have you considered the possibility that you were actually wrong?
What seems to be always forgotten is that those over-aggressive CEO's are elected to satisfy the demand of the shareholders, and the bulk of those want only one single thing: more profit on their shares.
And for the share price to grow, being just a solid bank is not enough.

This doesn't apply only to banks, it happens also at other exchange listed companies. But banks are the most tragic example of course, because if those aggressive policies fail, the government has to step in.

Anyway, the bottom line is: it's not like all troubles in the financial world are all the fault of some evil CEO's. The whole system is at fault, including the shareholders themselves.
Charlie Stross put it nicely:

"But the UK was the head of an empire in long-term decline. In 1956 the political elite in both the UK and France faced a crisis after the Suez crisis effectively slammed on the brakes on British imperial influence east of the Nile; the USA had asserted the primacy of its own interests. What to do? To paint with a very broad brush, the French response was, "we cannot rely on the perfidious Americans to back us up: we need to preserve the capability to act independently at all costs". The British response was, "we can no longer act alone without American support, so we need to preserve a good relationship with the Americans at all costs."

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/on-the-u...

Mind you - we sometimes did refuse requests from the US (e.g. to get involved in Vietnam) but I think overall this goal does apply - in general we will do whatever it takes to keep in with the US, and the lack of what we would regard as fair treatment for one individual "hacker" is probably seen as a cheap price to pay.
House Intel Panel: Edward Snowden 'Was No Whistleblower'
I've been thinking about investing in the cable tv industry, this seems like as good a time as any.
I don't understand why this kills free wi-fi. I use free wi-fi all the time that wants my name and email address.
I was with it until he demanded more air time. That's such a weird demand out of this.
I didn't even realise that they had content (other than built-in EZ Contact Spamming). Has that always been the case?
Says Lauri Love's lawyer.
Fair enough.

Since the rise of of on-demand data centers and software eating the world, Series A is the new Series B, and they expect some commercializable prototype (MVP) and customer traction before they'll talk to you.

So, even though Series A used to be called "Early stage" financing, I'm not sure it's fair to include it in what we used to call early stage any more.

So, to your question: sticking with angel/fund/corp seed, I don't know - maybe $10B or so in the US? You're right - that's pretty tiny. VC as an entire asset class is pretty tiny in the grand scheme of things (certainly very tiny for the amount of press it generates).

I'll take a look into the data this weekend, but I would guess that I'm in the ballpark of a binary order of magnitude with that guesstimate. Close enough to zero to make scrounging for it painful, I agree.
The biggest issue with dynamic programming for me is refactoring code. I feel very confident when refactoring a static code-base. With a dynamic code-base it 's much more risky - to the point where I avoid.

Of course having great test coverage helps alleviate this, but it's very rare where a large project has 100% test coverage.
The fact that companies often spend more on marketing than R&D is irrelevant. The fact is that they spend billions on R&D. They have to recoup that. Presumably they don't spend money on marketing for shits and giggles--they spend how much they need to maximize revenue.
VSCode isn't based on Atom in any way except being built on Electron.
When you get to the point where you truly think it's a problem that someone else on the planet could potentially "stand up to you," it's time to reevaluate your own behavior.
I've been waiting to see a neurologist for a serious and worsening vision problem since May. For those keeping track, that's four and a half months. So between these high drug prices and low healthcare availability, why exactly are we so afraid of single payer again?
You don't need to ask, it's on your W2.
That's kilobabies
about 2 years ago my youngest daughter Coco said the pink stylus I had given her was broken. She meant it didn't color in pink on her iPad! As clear as blue sky, the idea for Coco Color was born.
Swissquote Go: a game from a Swiss bank that lets people “catch” shares for free
More likely than something Rosetta-like are "universal applications," application bundles containing both x86 and ARM executables.
i look at linkedin once a week or so; my "feed" has become some strange alternate universe of political nonsense masquerading as professional networking.
It's important to remember that the terms "statically typed" and "dynamically typed" cover a huge range of different language features. To have a good discussion about the tradeoffs, it's better to talk about individual features rather than "statically typed" or "dynamically typed".

For example,

Like puzzle pieces with shapes that we can observe fit together, we can think of types as specifying a grammar for programs that ‘make sense’.

All programming languages have a grammar for programs that make sense (it's specified by the parser). Algebraic data types give you a grammar for values that make sense. Separately, a type checker assigns types to expressions and checks that they're consistent. You can have algebraic data types without a type checker (e.g. Racket's 2htdp/abstraction), and you can have a type checker without algebraic data types.

You can also have constraints on values that are too complex to be easily checked at compile time (e.g. clojure.spec) or that can be checked at compile time but only incompletely (e.g. Erlang's -type and Dialyzer).

Anyway, I don't mean to be critical of the article: it does a good job covering the high-level tradeoffs. I just think people are too quick to generalize their experience with particular languages to entire classes of language features.
We have an expensive military to justify. There has to be a bad guy.
Actually those "jokes" were made to try to prevent you from thinking about all this proccess.
Full disclosure: I work there, didn't work in this project. I definitely find it cool though ;-)
But that's because they can already track your identity by correlating purchases and wifi accesses.
I would add to that request that we can take care of all the humans we've already got and ensure everyone has awesome standard of living and equal opportunities before we go trying to hit trillions of people.
I have a great respect for philosophers, and I consider myself a philosopher too. Look at Alex Karp at Palantir (Doctorate level in Philosophy) and Stewart Butterfield at Slack.. both were trained philosophers, and ended up building very successful companies that are relatively outside of what they studied in school.
Samsung's bad battery does not absolve Apple of sin. Yes, I know they include an adapter. This adapter is a kludge--meaning it adds size and yet another point of failure. More important, when that adapter is used I cannot charge the phone, which means I can't use an iPhone 7 to play music in my car on long road trips. (I have an excellent car audio system, and it has no bluetooth). Without buying yet another kludgy adapter which is manifestly not in the box.
Yes, the flowchart is topologically just a long line of questions, with a small exception, which could easily be reduced to a single question.
The advantage OP was referring to was that you could force a type warning at all, as opposed to PHP, JS etc where typed arrays don't exist (notwithstanding Uint32Array and such).
Furthermore, even if the doctor writes the brand name drug on the prescription in the US and in Canada the pharmacist can substitute the generic, unless the doctor explicitly says no substitutions on the prescription.
Welcome to hacker news. Creating an account puts you up to 130 IQ minimum.
Hopefully it will be. Back then it was blocked by Teresa May (now PM)
iOS – Using fastlane to distribute private frameworks
Pictures from research base in Antartica
If you actually wanted to get anything done in space, it would be far more efficient to send a robot. The only reason to send a person is to prove you can.
But what are the alternatives?

You are absolutely correct: You should only go if you are interested. But if your alternative is to be jobless....
A Solar Powered Backpack for Every Child Needing Light
F#, right?
A Supercolluder for the Gig Economy
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Interesting to see this upvoted to the top of HN. What does it say about us?
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> I remember seeing somewhere

I saw an interview with Mark Cuban that was completely unrelated to the subject, but touched Shark Tank briefly and he explained how it worked.
I would not say this is an accurate view of most US jobs. I have yet to have a job that was not flexible with working hours or working location.
Tell them this? (Or get your manager to tell them)
For most purposes, wouldn't it be easier to just go away somewhere and keep on being you, just with bad credit?
To the extent that this advice about prison applies to business, it applies in an organization where pathological behavior is glorified as "leadership" and everyone else feels like a wage-slave who is being manipulated. In that environment, it applies perfectly for the low-ranking employee without strong networks.
Twitter rolls out new features for businesses running customer service accounts
A fellow HN member posted these and thought others might enjoy them. Fascinating pictures!
I mentioned the length of the line in my original comment...
Since they're not technically a "plant" - just storage - is there any advantage to be had to build in many smaller (say per-neighborhood) battery plants? Seems like they could act not only as peak providers, but also battery backup in the case of storms and whatnot. Plus it reduces a single-point of failure.

I ask for I am uneducated in this area.
"(sharper image)...Their name makes you think of a niche item that costs a lot of money, and that’s not what Nubrella is.”

Funny, when I saw the Nubrella, Sharper Image is the first thing that came to mind.
or four weeks' vacation in a jurisdiction with humane labour practices
Come to the next Railscamp in New Zealand (march ish). This picture: [0] was taken there the last time we had it. Killer skies in the Southern Hemisphere ;)

[0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/malclocke/13055571855/in/album...
Let me come in with a contradictory opinion especially on the overtime.

You don't work for your current salary, you work for your next one. If you are one of those 9 to 5 ers, don't complain when the guy working 60 hours and more gets that promotion over you.

The higher up the ladder you go, the more that will be required of you. Also, startups or high paying jobs will require more of you since you will get getting more in return for better performance.

It is a trade off, and as you get older your priorities change. But there is a trade off to be made. 60 hours is the norm in my field, and often I'll put out more (including the random 2am call), and sometimes much more.
1. so i love .Net ecosystem and have been using ASP.NET since webforms 3.5. But in no way do I believe microsoft will be supporting dot net core stuff 5+ years down the line. I know its opensource but ms is the only major player that is actively developing it right now and after the Oracle/Android
debacle I don't think other big players want to try it.

2/3) I think the communities are way too small.

So if you are in the Linux world and want to work on Back end . Then Java is your only options. You can mix in groovy/kotlin/scala to make dev less painful .Look at dropwizard and play framework the are an improvement on JSF/JSP/Spring mess.
I was going to suggest the term "Polenta code".

It's like that, but even smaller pieces. No more than one or two lines of less than 80 characters each (including indentation).