skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't illegal to email records under HIPAA. But your doctor probably doesn't have a system set up to securely email records (such things do exist), and their practice has probably adopted privacy policies that don't allow emailing for that reason. Doctors aren't generally compliance experts, and are much more likely to know what the policies of their place of work allow than the distinctions between what HIPAA allies and what their place of employment has adopted as policy based on the particular technology they've decided to adopt and their particular level of risk tolerance and other factors.
Competition is normally a very good mechanism, but there are areas were it is suboptimal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Supporting old browsers should be treated as a special case though, like "people with js disabled" or something. Then of course you don't use flexbox (or serve different css fles or have a scaled down design or whatever). But the "norm" is that flexbox is now safe for most users.
Most of them are fixed in https://github.com/suitcss/components-grid
Instead of potential inconsistency and performance deviations, standardizing on HTML guarantees abysmal performance and subpar user experience.
You could probably get a decent result just by looking at the domain.
There is no "fairly sterile" -- things are either sterile or they're not. "Sterile" means zero viable microbes. It might be fairly sanitary compared to other water sources but any water treatment that's actually sterile is going to kill the swimmers.
I agree. My account has grown to over 10,000 photos and videos of my family, from our early dating, wedding, two kids. It's all pretty easily searchable, well-organized, and simple to back up. We've been using it since Bush was in office.

I don't know of any other tool or service that makes it as easy as Flickr does for my wife and I to collectively maintain a library of family photos. I will happily maintain my Flickr Pro subscription for as long as the service stays in business.
Hi,

I found Larry Harris' Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners a solid introduction to market making and trading. Terms and concepts are easy to pick up from the text. I was comfortable enough after reading it to skim stats journal papers talking about market making models. The Stockfighter team had mentioned it in older threads here. It's expensive, but I just borrowed it from the library at my university instead of buying.

I also like The Elements of Statistical Learning which is free from the authors (http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/download.htm...). Although it isn't specifically about economics or markets, you should at least read it.

I'm at a loss on general economics books.
What's even cooler, is that after building this VM (for the C0 language) as a freshman, you can come back as a junior/senior and write a compiler for that language in 15-411. It's a very cool way of going full circle.
Ask HN: When to ask for my first raise?
TLDR:

1) Should I ask for a raise at my 1-year anniversary, at the end of the calendar year, or after my project launches?

2) What are good sources for compiling information about salaries for my position?

Explanation:

I am a team lead at a company that writes software for clients. Next month I will have been here for 1 year. I love the company, the work, and my team.

The company has a reputation for not giving you anything you don't ask for, raises and promotions especially. There is a yearly review process but it's largely divorced from compensation discussions in that it's not discussed and is not open for discussion. With next month being my 1-year anniversary, is it appropriate to ask for a raise then, or should I wait until the end of the year?

I am also wrapping up my first greenfield project leading my team of 3 devs + myself (~50% dev time), which will be in UAT in December and production late January/early February. Should I wait until that launches to bring up a raise? My boss mentioned discussing compensation after but I believe he was referring to a bonus for getting the client to increase the team size.

I have technical chops but am lacking in the negotiation side of things. I have been underpaid before and just want to avoid a situation where I am leaving a lot of money on the table (or approaching this the wrong way and upsetting my boss).
SVG changes color when rotated in Safari 10
Sure, and I'm careful not to impose my value judgements about whether an innovation is actually interesting to the question of whether it's an innovation. But personally I find that improving touch interfaces is this decade's version of adding a wheel to the mouse.
Fyi, the original title has an exclamation point (!) which I guess HN removes to limit sensationalism. I guess it's usually at the end of the sentence but it looks kind of odd with the first word out of place. Also, I think it changed the case of the subsequent letter automatically too ("The" => "the").

Original title: "Conspiracy! The Reddit rundown on the man who deleted Clinton e-mails"
I worry this will cause public opinion to go "see, regardless what we do, it doesn't help, so it's not us and it's going to shit anyway so let's just keep doing as usual" and then things go super wrong. I mean, when people are presidential candidates and climate change skeptics...?
This is cool! I wonder what the math on payments looks like for this, my immediate fear is that it's contribution is so small as to almost be not worth the signup. Perhaps put a little simple math showing how this would affect a loan?

By comparison, i've been using Simple to force myself to feel "broke" constantly. I move the majority of my money out of "Safe to Spend" via large goals which daily suck money away. I tend to only have a couple hundred in my "Safe to Spend" pile, and even that is tiny because each day it has to clear the Goal withdraw. If anything, it's mildly stress inducing, but it is apparently very effective mentally for me.

Now, i know the two are very different (both in concept and quantity of money), i mainly make the comparison because the mass saving method i mentioned above is clear on how it will affect my loans/etc. I have no idea how Qoins would affect my loans/etc.

Perhaps i'm a bad audience for this, i don't often make purchases, and therefor i don't often have change floating around. Some rough math for last month means i would be saving somewhere in the range of $5, and for the sake of discussion, $60/y. It would likely be more impressive if i spent a lot, "wasted" a lot of money, bought a lot of coffees/etc. In theory, the worse a person is at saving, the more they would save with Qoins. Perhaps that should be advertised in the video?

Anyway, a lot of rambling that are vaguely resembling thoughts (i blame 4am, bad sleep and only half a cup of morning coffee), hope something meaningful can be taken from it. Congrats on the launch!
I'd pay for a distribution if it was better then free (cost) software.

For instance, if Apple decided today "Hey why not just make OSX a set of applications, a window manager, and a desktop environment for Linux and make it free software." I'd pay for it. I'd pay the 100 bucks because no one really does UX better then Apple.
> Changing the descriptor would be a classic case of bike-shedding.

Strongly disagree. Things that are "scientific" get way more acceptance by the public then things that are "hey, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

For instance, in what sense at all is "political science" an actual science in the sense of chemistry or physics? It seems to me that it's an entirely different thing, and so I'm not surprised at all when a political science "result" fails to replicate or is outright bullshit.

Science has come to mean, in many cases, "area you can get a PhD in" vs. what we tend to act like it means, which is "area where the scientific method applies." I guess I'd like to see the word science only used for the latter meaning if we're going to continue to give "scientific" disciplines extra respect.

If instead we want to continue to use "science" to denote "anything you can get a PhD in", then we should seriously degrade or eliminate altogether our instinct to trust "scientific" results.
And you believe that a solar panel would last longer and be cheaper than a Stirling solar power plant?

Based on which data?
The prisoner’s dilemma of local-only city planning
I have the same problem as the GP, on four monitors. All four, bought at different times in different countries, are miscalibrated according to these calibration images. Is that plausible? If not, what might be going on?

And if it _is_ plausible that four random monitors are all miscalibrated in the same way, why should we optimize for well-calibrated monitors?
Codewars
Because most UNIX users see only this:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

Everything else is fluff, and could stay just like it was on UNIX System V.

Hence why for macOS, iOS, tvOS, Android and ChromeOS, having an UNIX kernel is just a matter of convenience, given their application models and programming languages.

Apple and Google could eventually migrate to something else as kernel while keeping their Objective-C, Swift, Java and JavaScript APIs.

NeXT based NeXTStep on UNIX as a door into the then new UNIX worksations market, but it never had a CLI culture like the other UNIX vendors.

GUI workflows like on Xerox PARC were always important to Steve.
Off Topic — Which one is better?

$ stat `which stat`
$ stat $(which stat)
I think of it as 20% of startups is an existing product made shitty.

Twitter? Blogging, but you can only write two sentences. That's shitty!

Vine? Video uploading, but you can only store a few seconds. That's shitty!

Snapchat? Chat, but your messages disappear after a few seconds. That's shitty!

Less is more, sometimes.
> If farmers can get rich growing crops, there will never be a famine.

Tell that the Irish, they were exporting food while suffering from the Great Famine. The farmers and landowners had no reason to help during the famine as it was more profitable to export.

Even today we throw away food for the simple reason that a shorter fake shelf life has been shown to increase profits over the actual shelf life. There is simply no profit to be made from redistributing the over abundance of food to people in need, worse it would cost money making a profit oriented person just shudder at the thought.
Payment nagging isn't really acceptable for an application in general for free software. Just give the source distribution to anyone who pays for it and require copy-left changes.
The English term for that is "Mutual insurance" and they exist in almost any country.
This was a big deal when gmail was first announced and they said they would give away one gigabyte (!!) worth of email storage with every (free!) account.

These days, dropbox, drive and many other similar services provide a much more straightforward mapping to a storage service.
They do, and they are slowly improving, but there are a lot of flaws in the system. From what I read that is getting better in the last few years, but there is still a lot to be desired. It has been a few years since I lived in the states, though.

I was paying more than that with a prepaid "plan" with less data, for example. The service is generally more expensive - I just happen to be a light user so it worked out for me. But if I call an 800 number or answer a phone call? I get charged. Plans subsidize the cost of the phone: Pre-paid does not, and the selection is generally full of refurbished phones and models 1-2 generations out of date. Most didn't have the option of the newest phone if you were on prepay. It used to be that some prepaid services wouldn't work on other networks or would charge so much it wasn't feasible (verizon wouldn't work on at&t network).

Some companies simply don't offer international calling or texting on a prepaid plan: I had an issue where the company suddenly started charging extra for international texts because Norway suddenly wasn't on their list of included countries - and that was the entire reason I paid for that bulk texting.

I also found the customer service to be lacking. One company refused online customer service for prepaid customers: More than one had special, seemingly second class call centers for prepaid customers.

Simply put: I think the pay-as-you-go is probably a better setup there than in the states.
Amazing video.

Question that comes to mind is how easy would it be to take the bacteria that make it to the center, and put them on a new plate with a different antibiotic in the same configuration, and then repeat until you've gone through all available antibiotics, then scoop that last batch up and do something really nasty with it?

It must be harder than it seems, because otherwise why do terrorists and the like even bother with (seemingly much harder to obtain, though admittedly flashier) chemical and nuclear weapons?
It's still common to find Citrix environments with IE 8/9 here in .nl healthhcare sector
Swift is Ready for the Enterprise
Never ask for a raise, unless you're willing to quit your job. Just look for positions at other companies.
A quick look at TCP BBR
This looks to be exactly the behaviour the OP is complaining about. Personally I think this is the correct behaviour.
Maybe start monitoring your glucose levels?
Honestly that sounds like a case where you could improve your interview technique (or perhaps the interviewers could have done better on drilling down into your thinking). The fact you considered multiple options, evaluated them mentally and decided to describe the approach that would have highest compatibility is great, and explaining your thinking to the interviewers could have helped.
Yes, I know that there is a perception the you HAVE to work long hours, that's why I am always publicizing my example: I only started working longer hours when I could. Yes, as I always say, "I had to be THE BEST" to get this treatment, but I was always treated exceptionally, like being allowed to WFH, when it was almost unthinkable (early 90s). But that's to my point - that was the kind of startups I was choosing. And not startups only, but the workplaces in general. And I never faced the "rape/abuse culture", probably because both my US startups were founded by female :)
For me, the only thing that remains slow to open in Sublime Text are giant SQL dumps. This is super rare, and is easily remedied with TextWrangler, which opens huge files in milliseconds, with syntax highlighting.

That said, I will happily shell out for any future paid releases. I live in this editor. It's my primary code editing and note-taking tool.
I'm not talking about cost free, I'm talking about libre-free.
Ask HN: Do you have any experience with burning out in the tech industry?
Hi HN,

I'm working on a book about the causes and consequences of chronic stress and burning out in tech. I would like to talk to others who've experienced something similar, to share experiences and ideas about underlying causes, prevention and recovery. More information about the project on:

https://burningoutintech.co
I'm craving for transparent background.
> When you starve to death, would you say you weren't killed?

Being dead, he likely wouldn't.

Moral and logic (in the narrowest sense of the word) often don't go hand in hand. That having been said, your point is quite close to my own understanding.
Frankly, I don't see that much of a problem here. First of all, Amazon views Prime as the default experience and naturally shows that pricing more prominently.
Furthermore I think it's naive to assume that pricing should be the key factor for their ranking. As mentioned, there are probably lots of details that influence the ranking, however as an anecdote I can say that shipping by Amazon and Prime-enabled is one my personal key requirements. I'll only use third party sellers if there are significant pricing differences or no other options. I wouldn't be surprised if other customers behave the same way, regardless of preferred ranking.
Not sure it's the first.

At least, I know of https://heyguevara.com/ is a P2P car insurance provider in the UK that is registered with the FSA and licensed to provide insurance products. They've been operating for a couple of years now.
Yahoo to confirm a historic hack affecting 200M users
Add Animated Social Sharing Widget with Cool Hover Effects
Backticks if lazy, parenthetical for complicated command lines.
Ask HN: Extracting html templates from corpus of rendered html documents
I'm thinking that it might be possible to reverse engineer handlebars-style templates by diffing a corpus of text/html responses from live (esp. legacy) websites, and looking for common structures.

This would be a useful thing for companies with legacy applications - you could record your outbound traffic, and produce a set of templates, and corresponding view model schemas.

Does such a thing exist?

How would one go about making such a thing? I have a few ideas, but it would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
A bit of a nitpick, technically you can hide if a function call is async or not by `await`ing it.

It will act the same when it's sync vs async.

It would be a horrible idea to await everything, but it would work.
They _announced_ a cheaper $300 product for 2 packs. But my understanding is that product is not on the market yet. I also wonder if some conditions are attached to it, as they keep on selling the normal $600 2-pack Epipen.
Prehistoric skull surgery could help prevent half of brain injury deaths
Django Map Widgets – Useful Map Extensions for Django Forms
Yeah I don't get this SSN thing:

- If it's so secret, why is it not called "password"? Why is it printed on your id card for anyone to see? Why do many organizations require it?

- If it's used in so many places, how is it expected to prove anything about your identity? It's identification (i.e. which row in the government's citizens database), not authentication.

Every employer wants my SSN. Every time I interact with the government, they want my SSN. It's in way too many places to be secret (like a PIN is), and besides, the government never told me it's secret. The government's info page about it and Wikipedia don't say anything about not giving it to anyone who asks for it.
Or cut down on the meat and dairy consumption?
Shut up and take my money!!!
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I'm not sure that term frequency is the right way to go about the problem of clickbait. Frequently, titles and body text is meant to match up as a form of SEO.

I'm not sure if this can be done through an extension, but an alternative way to go about this is by measuring time spent on the page. If the page has X words which takes Y minutes to read, but a certain number of people bounce before that time, the score is lowered. The more users that stay on the page for Y minutes, the higher the score.

There are a lot of assumptions in that solution, but it might be worth considering.
The famed Douglas Adams NMP field in direct observation. "It won't affect me, doing something is harder than doing nothing, so I'll ignore it."

It's hard to not think in those terms, I agree. However, I believe that by being mindful and educating, I can do at least a little good, help avoid the exponential curve we're currently on. Personally, I do it for my nieces and nephews, and their children.
I've been reading a lot of articles lately, which describe in detail the sympathetic pasts and life stories of convicted criminals. Personally, I would love to see a balance where victims of crime have their life stories written about and sympathetically depicted as well.

In this article for example, the Sheldon family story was told in great detail, but Yu, a university student who was killed while walking down the street, for no fault of his own, barely got a paragraph or two. I wonder how many of those arguing for more lenient sentencing laws would change their minds, if they were exposed in detail to all the lives that were ruined or ended by the actions of criminals.
The tenor of your comment is not cool.
> Ironically, thanks to Web Assembly, etc., Javascript may turn into the universal backend language that Guile always claimed to be.

Would WebAssembly boost JavaScript's value as a "backend language" (I assume you mean a compiler target, rather than a server-side language?)?

I thought the point of WebAssembly was to stop people compiling to JS, by offering an alternative standard language/bytecode which is specifically designed to be a compiler target, rather than a human readable/writable language.
I would like to see a very simple OS, built for single-usage, allowing a singular application full control of hardware resources (multi-"threaded", but then let's expose "kernel threads" and "processes" via a rather simple/brutal/direct scheduling API.)

I basically want a simple RTOS and HAL/Driver body.
I want timers and clocks. I want some block devices and perhaps file-system-primitives etc.
I want TCP/IP and a USB stack.
I don't want anything nearly as complex as a Unix, nor need it be Posix compliant etc.
I would like it to be runnable from uboot, as it's ARM time now, and arm64 support should be a given.

I would think there is a substantial market for a minimalistic ultra-simple braindead-easy alternative to the "embedded linux" (LOL) wave that seems to be proliferating on all "a" class arm processors...

i need determinacy more than thoroughput, but a 64k ram microcontroller with 500mips isn't going to cut it either.
there is a serious hole in the OS market for CPU's where *nix is overkill or unsuitable (and no, RTAI nor a realtime patched kernel count. the complexity of the entire codebase is still there)

I've heard about MirageOS from the oCaml people, but I have not been able to find out any info about timing and concurrency etc...

any info on edgy projects highly appreciated, please!
I don't understand your link, it lists this issue under "Open Issues" – Does that mean the fix for Debian isn't published yet?
There's one in the advisory for CVE-2016-2183 - https://sweet32.info.

I'm trying to track these sites, mainly for my own amusement: https://github.com/KeenRivals/Bugsite-Index
You just do.

When I deleted my Facebook, I lost friends. But if my friendship with someone relies on my having a Facebook then, well, fuck them. I text people or call. I also don't need to know what everyone is up to, either. They can tell me when we talk or hang out.

Coincidentally, the friends I lost where the type of people who are on their phones the entire time we hung out, so I don't consider it much of a loss.

I consider Facebook -- for me -- wasted time, though, and I didn't enjoy it. If you do like it and you're comfortable with the platform (because, tbh, I'm one of those tin-hat security nuts, too, and Facebook skeeves me out on principle), then keep it. Or, if you're curious, disable it for a week and see what happens. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for everyone.
This is an interesting approach. I've been wondering about refilling the things -- once the injectors I have expire, I may disassemble one to see if I can work that out.

As long as the needle hasn't been used, and the refill is the same dosage as it came with, I'd expect it to be just as effective as a new injector.

(Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, even if I were you're not paying me, this is not medical advice)

This may be legal to do commercially as well, since you're not manufacturing new devices that could infringe the patent. Sorting out FDA issues would be the only hard part (though likely very hard).

(Disclaimer: Nor am I a lawyer, and you are still not paying me, this is not legal advice)
All science is just stories. How do you decide what to believe?

I believe the stories about kinematics, I believe the stories about astronomy, and I believe the stories about climatology.