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Any reason not to understand this as "across the board"? High costs and few insured mean fewer people actually going to the doctor. Lower volume would affect everyone from receptionists to specialist doctors, any supporting staff, and management.

Maybe apart from the ER staff. They'll get more people who didn't handle simple problems early. (Or couldn't afford to)
Wow. That's actually quite low.

I would have topped both limits with any single article that went to the front page of HN :D

Note that this is only human traffic. Wordpress stats have good bot detection.
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I may be totally against the grain by saying this but I feel its a good article and is relevant. We need to figure out how to communicate across divides.
Yes it gets better. My 4 year old tidies up after her 2 year old sister. She even get's angry that she is making a mess.
They'll probably also be getting a C&D for the domain itself.
ASK HN: Feedback on Scheduling an Appointment with Your Doc
I am looking to get some feedback on what people love and hate about scheduling an appointment online with your doctor.

For context, I am one of the founders at health care startup and we are looking to build our own scheduling product (yes, yet another scheduling product!). There are a lot of services out there for online scheduling. However, there is a lot of room for improvement particularly on the patient experience and making the schedule accessible to not only those with smart phones/web access.

Thanks!

Any general feedback is good but here are a few questions

1. Do you like seeing the whole schedule?

2. Is there any part you find annoying such as giving your insurance info or credit card?

3. Do you trust reviews presented on sites that also offer appointment scheduling?

4. Do you find it annoying when selecting an appointment the service tells you that you just placed an appointment request and not an actual booking?
That's a good point. And on further reflection, I'm not sure I'd actually want to go with what I suggested at the end. After all, I work remotely, but I've talked to my boss by phone several times just today, because it's so convenient.
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Then your complaint is much more legitimate but instead of making a linux sucks post report the relevant problem to people who might be able to fix it, consider funding development to improve the relevant software, or roll up your sleeves and lend a hand.

Nobody said linux or open source software was perfect.
But the counterpoint to your argument is that there were lots of countries and companies that were being derided as not being Y2K-ready and nothing much happened to them as well. It's very hard to say that Y2K preparedness work was unnecessary but it is not clear that a lot of it was justified.
Except then what if you need THAT software updated?
Well, then, you wouldn't want what arch provides.

It's not for everyone, and certainly not for the writer of the original article.
The point is that yes, all of this can be done with Google operators.

These are just links to those operators.
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Yeah, I distinctly remember Kazaam, and it didn't have Sinbad.

What did star Sinbad though were First Kid and Jingle All the Way, both of which were released in 1996 (same as Kazaam) and I remember seeing at around the same time as Kazaam.
There is AioHTTP as well if you're a bit curious but for early python and web developers this is a no-brainer, especially given that the "django" code-architecture (Note : Not Soft Arch..) is a kind of standard in python since everybody got to learn it someday.
Being documented doesn't make it a good idea.
Does anyone have insight on why we're getting this for Firefox in (very late) 2016 while Chrome has had this since 2008 and IE since 2009?

Seriously, I understand the need for competition in the browser, and wish there was a viable alternative to chrome on things that aren't Windows, but the failure of Firefox to keep pace is really disappointing.

Slow and lacking basic features for years almost makes Firefox feel like the new IE, but at least we can be thankful that not many people are stuck with it.

To put this in perspective, Firefox has lagged on multi-process for 8 years. Everyone's beloved IE6 only had 5 years of ruining the internet before it was replaced.
I am curious about this as well. I think the difference between machine learning and software engineering is that companies may only need a few dozen machine learning engineers. They may need thousands of software engineers. There may be increasing demand, but the demand will never reach the demand of software engineering. Except at the premium ultra competitive level, where a data scientist who is globally known can have a massive impact on the companies bottom line. But we arent talking about those types of jobs.

I also believe that most traditional companies do have data scientists, but they havent really start incorporating machine learning into their products, they are analyzing information about their customers, but their products are not reliant on using data. Once that becomes more common, things will pick up.
You went further than I did with foundation.

Tutorials takes me to a bunch of videos (ugh - no text to search?)

http://foundation.zurb.com/learn/tutorials.html

The top 6 videos as I scroll down are all something to do with email/html/css ("unsubscribe" is the first title I see - WTF?)

"what the zurb stack does part 2" is promising, followed immediately by 'what the zurb stack does part 1'. Not confidence inspiring.
His point was that crypto wasn't pleasant. In reality it's that x509 isn't pleasant.
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> Every professional is able to distinguish a Stradivarius from a modern instrument.

The available evidence does not support your assertion, in fact it refutes it. I mean, you can assert however much you like, but anyone who suscribes to the scientific method would disagree based on the studies.

(EDIT: That's not say that I don't "get" why people would want a Stradivarius -- its historicity, its rarity, etc. etc. Sound, however, cannot be the distinguishing feature.)
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> Around me, I see a region with the second highest density of startups in the world continuing to grow.

citation needed?
I have only anecdotal experience (I live in Warsaw, but do contracts mostly for Poland, UK and US).

General data science is in need. I can get contracts easily, I know that people looking for competent people need to wait; especially as it is a skill much harder to pick than, say, front-end web dev (unless someone starts from a highly quantitive background like physics, modelling in biology, etc). My general impression are:

- ML (especially practical one, like logistic regression and random forest) is often integral parts of many data analyses (or at least a plus),

- there are not as many jobs solely focused on ML; and if so, often they require some specialistic expertise,

- and even less only for deep learning (also, for DL there is relatively high threshold for having skills at "hireable" level).

Some of my tips on how to learn data science: http://p.migdal.pl/2016/03/15/data-science-intro-for-math-ph... (on purpose I put the emphasis on general data exploration/analysis before machine learning).
Not sure how much use it will be, but AMD's GPUOpen initiative recently released a tool[1] that translates native CUDA code to portable C++ that can be recompiled into either CUDA or OpenCL. I haven't played with it at all so I can't verify how well it works.

[1] https://github.com/GPUOpen-ProfessionalCompute-Tools/HIP
Give me Bootstrap over an in-house library any day. It makes hiring and onboarding new staff easier, speeds up prototyping, and introduces standards with minimal effort.

Of course it's not right for every project, but it's perfect for a lot of them.
It would be very easy to contribute by writing documentation to most open source projects, they'd be happy to take it.

Coordinating teams and planning releases.... I think a lot of open source projects could _use_ help planning releases (release management is incredibly important), but I'm not sure they'd _take_ it from a stranger they didn't trust (and they might be right). "Coordinating teams" not as sure how it would even look or would be needed. But anything that looks like being a "boss", people are going to be resistant to, esp from a newcomer stranger, for obvious reasons.

But I bet people will welcome documentation contributions with little hesitation. For the rest... if you want to try, I recommend taking a product you're familiar with (as a user, not a developer), and offering your services being very careful to come from a real service perspective. Your job is to figure out what they need help with and how they want it done, and help them do it -- not to tell them what they ought to want to do or how they ought to want it to be done, not at first even to helpfully _suggest_ it. At least not until you've built up a lot of trust.

After writing documentation, I think the thing you mentioned people would be most welcome to and least resistant to would be 'triaging issues' -- but I think you'll have to build up some trust (say, by writing documentation!) before people will be willing to trust you with it.
The startup I work at really favors their data scientists, though I am not one of them (I'm a frontend guy). The CEO and CTO pretty much keeps a personal eye on those guys' work.

Right now however the theme I've heard from the higher ups has been profitability, and this applies to all tech companies in general. Easy capital is gone and now companies are in the spotlight for not making profits.

So at least from my company's perspective, it's not that data science is saturated, it's that we're trying to not break the bank and hire too much.
The regulatory burden is not so high that it can be attributed to the cost of most USS machines - thats just a mirage created by the large corporates who want to defend their place in the market. This isn't just seen in medical ultrasound, but across healthcare.

The regulatory and evidence burden is hard - but its not insurmountable and it certainly shouldn't stop change.
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The key phrase is "my team would interpret it."

Everyone interprets HIPAA differently and based on a statement like: "Continuing to use Windows XP after 4/8/14 (or other unsupported operating systems) becomes a HIPAA violation if it’s not addressed in your security risk analysis[0]." You can run XP indefinitely as long as your IT says it's OK and they've "secured it properly." However, if they do get hacked or whatnot, they can get a fine if their security analysis wasn't good enough.

I don't recommend it. I actually despise it and try my hardest to get people to drop it. But in the end, I've had to deal with a lot of XP running IE8 systems that need connections to the software I'm in charge of. There's nothing I can do unless I get rid of those users and most of the time I can't because I have to "support modern browsers" as noted in the contract and the contract is with the state, not the individual users. Yes, the contracts will get updated to be more specific, but most of the contracts are on 5 year cycles.

State .gov contract work is amazing. /s

[0] https://pimsyehr.com/resources/compliance/hippa-compliance/2...
You're not validating the provided email address when someone signs up. And note, there's only one 100% correct way to validate an email address: https://hackernoon.com/the-100-correct-way-to-validate-email...
I too think the book analogy is misplaced here. Books are physical products. They are written by one guy sometimes two but it's super rare. Once it's printed, it's done. Customer can't call you up and demand you rip out entire chapters or revive their favorite character which you bastardly left out.

Looking at software, it becomes very complicated when you throw multiple engineers. If it's written in a manner where people don't talk to each other for weeks and just showing up with the pieces as if building an oil tanker with prefabricated parts that are put together.

Software is much more complicated endeavour and it's fueled by the endless changes that can be made. Nothing is solid or have physical constraints that clearly limit options once the product is out the door, where as software can very easily ebb and flow with changing stakeholders and turnover.

50 shades of grey didn't have multiple authors that came before each other and a group of guys writing it together and readers demanding changes that caters to them.
Car ownership often doesn't go well for you if your stupid and incompetent. Making linux work on all possible machines with very very finite resources is an impossible task.

In that context keeping people from buying machines that don't work with linux and complaining on the internet is equally impossible.

I don't understand how you believe people are obligated to do better work for free for you.

*Please note I'm not implying you or the author are stupid just users in general. This is why most people ought to buy complete hardware/software packages with support and experts should be able to use google and read docs.
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Note that GPGPU compilers have the same sorts of problems; see e.g. https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27738.
It's all there in the second paragraph of the article:

A new 254,000-square-foot project, steps from Union Square and scheduled to break ground in 2018, could change all that. Dubbed 14th @ Irving, it will feature classrooms and meeting spaces on the lower floors and flexible office space, designed for early-stage companies, spread across a dozen higher floors.

So "home base" is a 12-storey building that will be dubbed 14th @ Irving. Union Square is at 14th St. and Broadway
The study in [1] has a sample size of 10 in Paris, in one setting. I'd hardly call that conclusive or ruling out all the possible confounding variables.
> But reference counting may cause unpredictable pauses when large amounts of objects suddenly need to be freed (e.g. when dropping the last reference to a large array holding many references).

That's still a predictable pause: it's the number of references contained within the array. If you know your array will hold at most ten references, it will take at most the time to free the ten references. Also, you know this will happen when the last reference is dropped - no earlier, no later. If your program can't handle the pause at that moment, you hold the reference until it can. If you know another component (perhaps in your own call stack) holds a reference, you know it won't be freed. And so on.
>Occasional late meal is not a big deal at all

How do you, personally, anonymous Internet commenter, know how much stress this specific cat has when the evening meal is late?

You can give constructive comments about the benefits of manual feeding vs auto feeding without being rude and speaking in absolutes. There's certainly benefits of both options that differ with individual cats and circumstances.
Well, yes, if you don't mind typing or pasting the same combo of 20-30 different search operators in Google.com, it can be done there.

But there are some other subtle differences: you get thumbnail images with search results (if available) with Blades, and you don't get a captcha to prove you're human if your search volume or rate is out of bounds on a Blade. (These are features of CSEs, not something I've hacked.)
You don't need to sample at the carrier frequency for doppler measurement though. Time of Flight... I don't think so either.
This would be a very cruel thing to do to a cat.
Glad to see this articulated so well. The 'Overall' paragraph sums up thoughts that had been in the back of my mind for months. Plus, hey, it's Gwern. If you're reading this: you're an inspiration, man.

What is still unclear -- to me at least -- is the technical challenges that lie ahead of this "neural networks all the way down" approach. I get the impression we'll need quite a few breakthroughs before usable Agent AIs are a thing. Insights on the order of importance as, say, backpropagation and using GPUs.
I realise that async communication isn't for everyone, but personally I'd pick it every time. Discussions where people get some time to think over and edit their replies are so much more enjoyable.
Worth a serious effort if you are going to use it originally in your own niche / industry, otherwise statistics will still help you more in any given market. So just learn statistics very very well and then ask again.
Anything built with the high-level Jetpack API or the new Google Chrome compatible API should be. XUL, not so much.
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There is a much simpler argument to be made here: send a stream of entangled particles through a polarizing beam splitter. At each branch, put another polarizing beam splitter oriented at 45 degrees to the previous one. You can continue this indefinitely to split the beam an arbitrary number of times. QM predicts that entangled particles must remain correlated throughout the splitting no matter how many splits there are. If there were only a finite number of hidden variables the correlation would have to stop after a finite number of splits.
Hm, well -- OP; I wasn't trying to have a go if you thought that, and the question wasn't rhetorical -- if you're up for sharing how this sort of thing comes to pass I'd love to have your story/discussion..

As for coming across like I enjoyed typing it, I'm pretty much at a loss on how to respond to that one besides: NEIN!
>0.005 percent

C'mon Politico writers. Do you really not know the difference between and 0.005 percent and 0.005? You are off by a factor of 100! Apple is allegedly taxed at half a percent! Not 0.005 percent!

I guess there's a reason journalists are known for their writing and not basic math skills.

Moreover, Bloomberg reports this alleged tax rate is entirely made up (funny given Politico is all about fact checking) and there's no primary source affirmation of it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-01/pinning-d...
You are confusing several different thing under the vague notion of "ultrasound machines". Doppler mode is useful and cheap machines dedicated to that can and do exist. However even a basic machine able to do only a poor B-Mode needs at least vastly more processing power -- and vastly more channels.
Cool, just wondering. In general, unsafe code should be encapsulated, to isolate its possible effects, and once you've got it isolated, it's easy to break that bit out in a library.
Good point, updated the title. Thanks for the comments (and yes it's almost a year ago I wrote this post)
Like about everything on HN... You're either in the Silicon Valley or it doesn't apply to you.

In my opinion, you could start by defining what is a data science, a quant, or a machine learning job. Because that's not clearly defined. It means different jobs to a lot of people, jobs that are all hard to learn and absolutely NOT interchangeable.
Don't demand, just explain. Stay positive, don't whine or despair, just explain.

File as _good a bug report as you can_, which means taking _extra time_ on your side to do so. The ultimate is a bug report with a failing test case and/or demonstration app.

By the time you're there, you're often more than half a way to actually fixing the bug and sending a PR/patch, which is of course great too, but not neccesary to be a good bug reporter.

But do as much work as you can when filing the bug to save as much time as you can from the responder. Clearly describe the context and problem, what happened that you think was wrong, what you expected to happen as 'right'. And actual code demonstration in the form of failing test or demo app is _amazing_.
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Reminds me of those audiophile A/B/X tests that always end up in a tie between whatever equipment.
That's really nifty, I've got a Serious Business(DSOX-3014A) scope but could never justify a spectrum analyzer. I've got the signal gen so I've though about rigging up their API to do a simple sweep but never got around to it.

For filter work that'd be near perfect.
The biggest challenge in implementing this is handling scale. To be able to do feature flagging for the largest web products you need to be able to handle the scale of those products.

Any of us could build this ourselves in a few minutes for a local app, but to scale up to millions of users is very tough.
With environmental costs none of the top 20 industries would be profitable
Super Feeder lets you adjust the duration of the feedings, which I think is pretty accurate, but you'll have to calibrate it for the desired weight, food size, etc.

I added the relay because I wanted more control. Normally you use a wall outlet relay or timer but then you only have one preset duration, and there's a 10 minute reset interval between feedings.
You mean there were lots of copies that made it to the back end, only to be converted to non-mutable references late in the compilation process?
Stack overflow salary calculator shows a significant 50% premium over Developer salaries, all other things remaining the same. [1] Even though in my opinion the tool is flawed and actually significantly underestimates (stackoverflow underpays) salaries in SV/NYC. It is still a good indicator.

The major issue is that Data Scientist is a very fuzzy term with it being applied to everyone from undergraduates with Stats degree and to those with PhDs and papers at KDD/ICML/NIPS/CVPR.

However rather than doing a Frontend or Mobile developer coding bootcamp, a data science bootcamp is likely to lead to more transferable skills in case you wish to get an MBA etc.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/company/salary/calculator?p=7&e=1&s...
Or let your cat out - it would rather entertain itself killing the local wildlife.
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One of our greedy cats used to attempt to get into the Andrew James automatic feeders, even though he never could. He'd do this noisily at 4 in the morning. We've had to go back to manual feeding, and for this our cats have tried pulling the carpet up, chewing off our hair, dragging our hair, batting us in the face, meowing incessantly from a distance, chewing the MP3 player in the room, chewing the window handles, chewing the lamp, rocking the wireless phone backwards and forwards so that it beeps, chewing the phone charger, digging our slippers into oblivion, digging through my wife's handbag, clawing the bannisters, jumping onto the banisters whilst shouting in a catlike manner and precariously wobbling around (I fear he'll fall down onto the ground floor and damage himself badly, he'll fall on the stairs), pulling bifold doors open (he can grab them with his paw underneath), biting our hands. British Shorthairs are STRONG. Anything to get us up!

Our golden wonder cat Sponge has never done anything to get us up. He patiently waits. He's lovely.
1) As the blog post says, it's optional, so if you like the traditional interface, you can still use it.

2) Regarding "investing in", it's a free and open source community-driven project. The community decides what to work on. If you think the community should "invest" in something else, please feel free to join the community :-)
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After a few hits at it, the realization dawns on our hero: "I can order cat food with this?"
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