skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attended a public school in a Minneapolis / St. Paul suburb. Nothing particularly special about the school that I can recall today, although it was in a school district that included grad student housing for University of Minnesota so maybe the student body, as a whole, was more motivated than you may have found elsewhere.

Classes were tiered into ability, even at this age (I do not remember what the rubric was for deciding your tier) and for math classes I was pulled in to a self-study course along with 2 or 3 other students. There was no 'formal' class and instead the teacher would spend varying amounts of time with each student as they worked through the material on their own. Each student would work at his or her own pace.

I think this sort of system would do wonders for those both at the very top and at the very bottom. In college, I found office hours were somewhat similar in that students both behind and in front could get focused time with a professor to either catch up or advance even further ahead.

This is ignoring any budget and teacher constraints, but this seems like a real issue for both the 'top' and 'bottom' students.
My issue with doctors:

Recently, my dad was sick with a pretty bad cough. Like, so bad that he couldn't speak without coughing. He fainted twice from minute long coughing fits, one of those times hitting his head his head on the stove on the way down, leaving a deep cut and blood everywhere.

He went to at least three different doctors. He got a scan of his chest. Everything looked clear, and all of the doctors were stumped. Things were pretty bad.

I mentioned this to a UCSF resident friend, and her immediate response was "Oh, is he on <some blood pressure medication I forget the name of>?" I was like, uh, let me see. Called my mom, she checked, and, lo and behold, he was on it. So his doctors took him off it and within a week he was better.

This coughing wasn't some obscure side effect of the medication she knew through sheer brilliance: it's a side effect that's been widely known since the 1970's. Hell, it was on the drug's Wikipedia page.

So there's a couple morals you could take from this. One would be, wow, doctors are smart to be able to diagnose an issue based on a single symptom and some reasonable assumptions about a patient's background! The other is that the median doctor is pretty worthless; spending tens of thousands of dollars gives you no guarantee you'll see someone competent; and that a medical system that relies on you grabbing drinks with a UCSF resident to get good results is fundamentally broken.

Machine learning and expert systems don't have to be as awesome as the best doctors to be valuable. They don't need to be better than competent doctors, even. They just need to provide a bare level of competence to provide a huge amount of value.
I find that I can often tell based on a baroque reading of the credits. Some of the 3D "upconversion" houses are better than others at their job. Some of the special effects houses have dedicated stereoscopic staff. Some of the studios themselves have dedicated stereoscopic departments. Obviously too, if there were stereoscopic cameras/film units involved in the main production crew of the film, that's usually a sign that the director cared about the stereoscopic output of the film.
We have a performance sensitive application. Firefox is faster than ie but slower than Safari, Chrome and Edge.
If this really works, consistently (i.e. within some reasonable margin of error), Fitbit should buy this intellectual property immediately and promote it as a way to make calorie-intake tracking dead simple.

For myself, and for many others, calorie-intake tracking was/is one of the last hurdles jumped before weight loss/maintenance efforts really achieve great effect. It's such a pain (time-consuming, tedious) to do it manually, especially if you have any reasonable amount of variety in your diet.
Nothing, in waterfox flavor, it is my default browser since a lot. Sync, extensions, bookmarks and Saved for later, amazing restore session feature. Usually I keep open about 600+ tabs in two Firefox Windows (core I3, win7, 8 GB RAM) and no problem.
Here's some honest/harsh reality.

Forget the company and product. You've put in your time and effort. The launch date and push back was outside of your control.

Don't let anyone or anything "guilt" you into thinking this is somehow in your control or that your input matters at all.

You have a new job, so move on and forget it.
> though I find the syntax aesthetically offensive

Well that's indeed your opinion, whenever I write code in a language with old fashioned statements I die a little inside. I have a lot of experience with ADA too, at it's core it's still a procedural language prohibiting good abstractions, it's very safe but also extremely verbose.

I learned Scala after I learned Haskell, ~7 years ago, maybe that's why I had a different experience. Since I learned haskell I think in types & transformations, it has made me a much better programmer. Clojure has sortof the same mindset, but I would call it 'shapes & transformations'.
I use a simple bookmarklet to add to pocket in Firefox. No extension needed at all!

https://pastebin.mozilla.org/8969368
It's not that random, it's a startup which has raised over $100m, much of it from Andreessen Horowitz.

That said, it's a Bitcoin startup so it's weird if credit card really is the only accepted payment method.
Human rights have always been there, it's just that recently they were discovered (not invented).
There are projects to make standalone drivers to use a steam controller in Linux without Steam, though I can't say how well they work. https://github.com/kozec/sc-controller
McKesson Acquires Columbus Ohio Startup CoverMyMeds for $1.1B
I wish someone would find and sell my products to people for me and not charge me anything.
> You don't use Thunderbird, so you don't feel they should work on it. Gotcha.

Not going to argue against a strawman. I've made my point clearly already.
All things you can do directly from your browser url bar.
If this was true, why aren't all the other high-fraud services that get declined simply having a surcharge demanded? Does the moralism of credit card companies extend to horoscopes, debt consolidators, tour operators, and infomercial/information products?

For this explanation to be compelling, it needs to capture the fact that porn sites aren't the only high-risk category for which vendors are routinely denied or evicted from merchant accounts. You haven't done that yet.
You should leave. They will not figure out how to make money before they run out.
I think the lack of entry level housing is a massive reason the tiny house movement has become so popular. I think people are willing to reevaluate the space they require to live in so as not to spend a life paying off debt.
The Reserve Bank of India is unusually silent but reports based on sources say that 97% of the demonetized currency is back into the system.

http://www.livemint.com/Industry/RlRLIaViu44DYPKASuX76K/Bank...
We have the famine in the Ukraine in the 1930s, where peoples' property (farms, farm equipment, farm animals) were confiscated, and starvation ensued.
We need more industrial solutions to housing. Cheaper, more efficient and better quality. Something like http://www.kodasema.com/en/
Ok, sounds fancy enough... until the money dries up, the hydrocephalic Indian and Russian programmers have left and mere mortal engineers decide to move back to stuff that everyone else uses and understands.

Also, am I the only one who freaks out by this seemingly harmless remark: "errors are detected and cause any potentially offending guest VMs to be terminated."?

google messing about with AI and these, oh im sure really well intended, algorithms in place. Quite scary.

They've also shown with their go bot that they will play covert games.. apply AI unexpectedly. Im not sure we can trust Google any longer.
This is the second place you've made this objection (fair enough!) but I'd rather not repeat my rebuttal, so here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13487052
AppDynamics IPO: How Cisco Swooped in and Bought the Company
If you are looking for a product recommendation, impraise is decent.
Sorry, but Speed Reading Won’t Help You Read More
I'm not sure I would fit in your definition of "you people" if you got to know me, but who knows :). The key is to not believe anyone in particular and look to how patterns have unfolded throughout history. There are few examples of people using Trump's tactics who have achieved good for their constituency. As Dear Abby or Ann Landers would remind us, people don't change nearly as much as you want them too, so if someone spends their life working for a particular set of interests and gains power by promising to look after a new set, I will believe their actions more than their words. And as an engineer, when someone posits simple solutions to complex problems, I will look to them to provide rigorous evidence to support their policies.
To be honest I think that you're right. I'll try to spend more time thinking about projects before working on them. Thanks @rcavezza
I was using STL and RTTI. I know the language has substantially improved. These days I've actually rediscovered the joy of plain C.
CircleCI

I'm considering GitLab for the built in CI, as long as it works painlessly with Heroku.
What Software Development Will Be Like in 2017 – CTO of Rogue Wave
What part of the hardware design process is this for? Is the idea to kick the netlist over the wall and let someone else do the schematic capture and layout? Is there a way to visualize the netlist as a schematic?

I'd say one of the most important parts of a hardware board is having a schematic handy. And even when reverse engineering, you have the PCB and redraw a schematic, not dump everything as a netlist.
The Plain English campaign in the UK has some free guides on writing clear and easy-to-read English. Well worth a read whether you are a native speaker or not.

"So what is plain English? It is a message,
written with the reader in mind and with the
right tone of voice, that is clear and concise.":

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/free-guides.html
What problem do your products solve?
I'd say to copy your actionable steps into a Glassdoor review of your old company. That way anyone they might think to hoodwink into replacing you can ask about them before accepting an offer.

My generosity towards the old company would have been burned to ash while working the nights and weekends without additional compensation. The only generosity you might possibly owe is to your fellow skilled laborers, who could be approaching the company from a stance of ignorance.
You may find that very often, what gifted students need is to be separated from their less gifted peers for more appropriate instruction.

The solution and approach you described earlier is the one currently in use in a great many places. Indeed, it's the default approach in general, because it requires no efforts whatsoever on the part of the schools, faculty, or staff.
It almost certainly does. He started at $5.
I seriously doubt it has to do with the type of cheese people eat.

One of the biggest difference is walking. Most cities I've visited in Europe are easily walkable. You can more or less get what you need. People in small and big cities seem to walk much much more.

In Atlanta, this simply isn't possible for most people. We've built out more than up and inhibited public transportation but that's another sorry. Savannah is a much more walkable city similar to places in Europe. I wonder if it's the difference beetween old and new cities.
So your opinion is that every major nation in the world, by having mandatory taxes, is violating basic human rights.

It's exactly statements like this which dilute and devalue the power of terms like "human rights."

If you are a hardcore libertarian, and want to claim that every major nation violates libertarian principles, more power to you. But don't appropriate the term "basic human rights" towards a political ideology that it was never meant to represent.
Thanks...been looking at it.
IE groups tabs into processes, so the number of processes scales sub-linearly with the number of open tabs, and hits a cap after a certain point: https://superuser.com/questions/586622/force-ie-to-use-one-p...
> The amount of unaccounted income in cash is 6%.

I've been looking for this info. How did you arrive at the 6% figure, is it in the NY Times article? Honestly I thought it was a lot bigger, at least low double digits.
I use Adaway [1] on rooted Android, and set my DNS to Adguard's servers [2] without root. This takes cares of all the ads. Adblocking aside, Chrome is far superior to Firefox on Android.

You do unfortunately lose the ability to whitelist sites you want to support with Adguard DNS, and addons like uBlock offer much more granular control. But they both work well enough.

[1] https://adaway.org/

[2] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
For most people (at least on Macbooks) the logic is this: this extension isn't on Safari.. -> Chrome. Hey, my battery life is cut in half -> Firefox. Battery life still cut in half, but now scrolling sucks too.. -> Safari with substitute extension
> Otherwise, this scheme would have been a failure.

How is this scheme a success? The amount of unaccounted income in cash is 6%, the amount of currency demonetized was 86%. The benefits are minuscule compared to the costs.
Existing free speech rights restrict only the government itself from preventing free speech. They do not apply to private parties. For example, you have no obligation to permit religious or political proselytizing within your home or business.

You are proposing not merely the active enforcement of free speech as such, but removing the existing longstanding right of private entities to determine what forms of speech they permit within privately owned venues, simply because some such venues happen to be large and popular.

This same argument was made 200 years ago when newspapers were the dominant mode of mass information exchange. The country decided then that the government ought not to regulate what newspapers must and must not print, and enshrined this in a constitutional amendment.

How is your proposal to regulate what private sector social media companies are required to publish any different in substance than a (clearly unconstitutional) proposal to regulate what private sector newspapers can and cannot publish?
It's a way to write netlists in Python. As someone who uses both Python and does PC board design, this seems useless.

If you want to code something useful in that space, write an open source auto-router. The one for KiCAD no longer works and has IP problems. The author worked for a company that sold an auto-router, and they're unhappy about open source competition.

Or work on KiCAD bugs. KiCAD, which comes from CERN, is open source, but rather buggy. Most of the bugs are UI bugs, which requires good taste in UI to fix.
Doctors aren't the ones making these decisions - hospital administrators generally are choosing what to invest in. Most MDs I know are excited about research and not necessarily afraid entertaining some amount of change.
Diagnosis based on image recognition is something machines are already very good at, even without recent deep learning techniques (although I am sure they will help).

For instance in college I worked with a radiologist to write an image-recognition program to identify osteoporosis from 3D MRI data. We used some super-basic image segmentation algorithms to identify the bounds of the bone layer that we cared about. From there a model was able to determine mechanical properties of the bone and therefore make an assessment with much more granularity than the human eye.

This was a first-year grad student class and I was coming at this totally naive with some Matlab scripts, and we managed to get usable results in weeks.

Here's a sample of that professor's research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2926228/

While I am not in the camp of "machines will replace doctors", I think radiology and other similar fields are in for a sea-change in technique and a large reduction in the use of human judgement.
Not really .. The boards are a very basic feature in Jira. It's like not knowing that there are drawing tools in PowerPoint :)
You got me. I don't know most startup celebrities, and had no idea that this guy was a billionaire. Boy do I feel silly now.
One of capitalism’s bedrock promises — one that dates back to Adam Smith — is that competition in the free market benefits society at large. Somewhere along the line, intoxication with efficiency caused us to lose sight of that principle at the expense of workers. Getting back to that promise will require policy changes and a renewal of forgotten values.

Ugh. It was Smith's observation about capitalism, and a historically contingent one at that, not a promise. I don't know if the author fails to understand the difference or is just pandering to an audience that fails to understand the difference.

There's a myopic nostalgia for never-when in so many of these half-baked proposals for social adaptation to automation. Provide everyone with rewarding lifetime careers again! Make capitalism great again, no matter that you have to tack on so many modifications that Adam Smith could no longer identify it from a police lineup! It's like inept geometers proclaiming that regular polyhedra are really just the best and newest kinds of spheres, because their culture is saturated in the mythology of Glorious Supremacy of Sphere.
In 2001 when the lawsuits were happening Windows (Desktop and Server) had 80% market share, Android has 88% now. And while you can switch to iOS it's prohibitive in that you have to buy dedicated hardware.

In 2001 if you wanted to switch off Windows you could buy BeOS, Linux, or OS2 and run it on the same computer that you had windows on. Back then I did just that, switching from Windows to BeOS when BeOS was made free, I did my university work on BeOS running on a Toshiba laptop that came with Windows.

Right now if you have an iPhone or Android phone you have very little option to switch operating system on your device.
How I wish I had gone to a separate school!

I was in what you could define as the "gifted program" throughout middle and high school.

Even though I ostensibly received a more advanced and tailored education, I still shared classes with students much less engaged than I. I was always at the top of my classes and was never truly challenged. I also never had the opportunity to participate in any kind of maths or informatics competitions.

Having never been exposed to excellence, I chose to go to the much cheaper state school (their education will be just as good, the counselors claimed...).

There too I excelled in my classes with minimal effort, took multiple graduate level courses, and received glowing recommendation letters from my professors.

By the time I entered my PhD in a tier 1 university, I was so woefully unprepared -- both academically and emotionally -- that my eventual dropping out was a foregone conclusion.

I spiraled into a deep depression and wasted a couple years of my life playing video games and living with my parents. I ideated suicide almost daily and willfully put my life in danger (standing at the edge atop tall buildings, driving very fast, imbibing liquor until I blacked out).

Now, a decade later, I've mostly come to terms with my mediocrity, but perhaps I could've risen a bit from it had my intellect been properly fostered. But more to the point, had I been exposed to other smart kids and participated in competitions earlier on, my ego could've been slowly molded over my youth, rather than shattered in a few months.
Don't look back.
My experience with Indian banks has been great albeit some unnecessary fees once in a while. I opened the non resident account in SBI when I visited last time and was able to get the account number, passbook and checkbook on the next day. They shipped the debit card and the pin to my home address.

The online banking details were not handed to my parents so I visited again when I went earlier last month and was able to get the online bank details right there. The account activated later that evening and I was able to transfer money the next day.

When I stayed there, I had similar experience wrt opening of accounts as Indian residents with Axis, Kotak and even ICICI. So this treatment is not new or limited to just NRI accounts.
Because the programmers building the anesthesiologist machine learning model probably didn't think to include that check in the model, as they don't have the appropriate training.
How the Recurse Center Uses Zulip
Ask HN: Newswebsite for Reddit, HN .. With Curl-Option?
There is a news website out there where you can access news from Reddit, Hackernews and so on on one page. Also there was an option with curl or wget to read the news? This was standing beside the title.

What site is this?
I think I just had a flashback to some meetings where my EM would spout this jargon endlessly.

30,000 ft view indeed. No wonder the basic stuff never got fixed, when you're head's in the stratosphere, even a tornado on the ground doesn't seem to matter.
> read it out loud (or pronounce it in your mind)

If you pronounce it in your mind, you'll pronounce what you thought you wrote, not what you actually wrote. Your memory of your writing will distract from your vision.

The simplest, best, most actionable advice I know to improve writing is: "Edit". The second is "Read it out loud".
> I've been using Firefox for years without any problems and find it much better (just as fast, more privacy-minded) than chrome.

Then you must not value security at all.

Firefox is by far the worst of the modern browsers in how easy it's to exploit. Don't listen to me, listen to the experts [1] [2] [3]

I would go as far as to say that if Firefox is your main browser, odds are you're owned by multiple parties, and I don't mean nation states. This can not be fixed by iterative improvements, Firefox needs to die. By far the best thing you can do for your online peace of mind is to switch to Chromium/Chrome or (on Windows only) Edge.

[1] https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/803693249789509632

[2] https://medium.com/@thegrugq/tor-and-its-discontents-ef51648...

[3] https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/02/12/034206/pwn2own-2016-w...
It presents a choice where there wasn't one before. Without the fine, most people wouldn't even consider choosing to be late. In general, people tend to choose from the options in front of them, so paying attention to the options you provide is very important.
I've build columnar OLAP databases and database engines in C++ for work. Now I'm doing it in my free time. Based on my experience the Phi and it's architecture is very exciting for OLAP databases workloads.

Reasons:

- Even in a OLAP database you end up with quite a few places that have very branchy code. Research on GPU friendly algorithms on things like (complex) JOINS and GROUP BY is pretty new. Additionally complex queries will functions and operations that you might not have a good GPU implementation for (like regex matching)

- Compression. You can use input data that compressed in anyway that there is a x86_64 library for. So you can now use LZ4, ZHUFF, GZIP, XZ. You can have 70+ independent threads decompressing input data (it's OLAP so it's pre-partitioned anyways). (Technically branching, again)

- Indexing techniques that cannot efficient implemented on the GPU can be used again. (Again branching)

- If you handle your own processing scheduling well, you will end up with near optimal IO / memory pattern (make sure to schedule the work on the core with local memory) and you not bound PCIe speed of the GPU. With enough PCIe lanes and lots of SSD drives you process as near memory speeds (esp. when we'll have Xpoint memory)

So the bottom line is if can intelligently farm out work in correct size chunks (it's OLAP so it's prob partitioned anyways) the the Phi is fantastic processor.

I'm primarily talking about the bootable package with Omni-Path interconnect (for multiple).