skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a quick look and didn't see that, other than "Your comparison with easing credit is nonsensical", which I agree is somewhat uncivil and provocative. But what you did was worse, and if you're going to keep commenting here you (i.e. all of us) need the discipline to resist provocation.
https://watsi.org/about

They accept donations to fund healthcare for people in the third world, while being radically transparent (there is a Google Docs link out there with the details for every procedure they've funded).

They're also exceedingly good at weeding out fraud, and are transparent about that as well (when fraud has occurred, the resolution, and how they fix the problem moving forward).

They are, quite frankly, how you would build a single payer healthcare system as a startup.
Ha, that's neat! Kind of like Nalgene?
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NSLs theoretically aren't valid for content that requires a warrant. Of course they do whatever they want and it's a secret court so citizens don't have the opportunity to debate it.
I never liked mixing Vim and Emacs. I used both, but for different things. I use NeoVim as my terminal editor, with tmux, zsh and iTerm2. And I use it for 70% of code I write. Emacs I have Installed, GUI version, and I use it for functional programming languages, mostly Lisp, Clojure, OCaml, Haskell feel better in Emacs. So there goes other 20% of code I write in my free time mostly playing with FP, those languages that lean on REPLs are clearly better integrated into Emacs and all that FP history that is pretty relevant in considering Emacs. And 10% is when I have to write something in Java where I have to fire up IntelliJ Idea, thankfully it doesn't happen so often.

Never got into that Emacs as an OS mentality, but I can see it's appeal to someone but I didn't like it. But I am really grateful for system wide shortcuts in OS X, just C-A, C-E has saved me so much time in macOS. And yeah, Emacs made me rebind ctrl to Caps Lock, which is so good, I can't imagine how I used keyboard before this!

I like UNIX and use it for everything I can. (there is other thing on internet called UNIX as an IDE)

Edit: and oh, I forgot there are some beautiful things with Emacs like magit. I have understood git and it's concepts thanks to this emacs git interface, now I am 10 times better and I know what I am doing in terminal.
Oh, I missed that link. Thank you!
Yeah, nobody ever does that. Go ahead, google it.
Is there anything like mlab.com for RethinkDB? I don't want to manage my own server.
I'm pretty happy with neovim nowadays... With Neomake, I get enough "IDE" features that I can stay productive, and it's fast enough that I don't miss Emacs' superior tools.

I don't think I can ever get used to a non-vi editor (I feel uncomfortable even browsing without vim-style shortcuts thanks to pentadactyl/vimfx), but there is one for Emacs so that is not a show-stopper.

I did in fact try Spacemacs for a while, and wanted to like it, but in the end I couldn't get rid of my muscle memory to just start new editors in terminals all the time, and Emacs' daemon mode had stability issues for me, so it wasn't very usable: either it'd crash at times or startup would be unusably slow.

Muscle memory is a powerful thing. I had to alias "vi" to "nvim" just to be able to use neovim...
https://www.lurkmore.com/view/GNU/Linux_interjection
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To me, that's kind of the equivalent of saying that if someone sends you the direct link to a file on a site that normally prompts to accept an agreement, and instead you bypass that with the direct link, you could be considered a felon because you didn't agree to the ToS, which is required to access that file. I think most people would say that anything publicly available that easily isn't protected and it is considered fair access for anyone with an internet connection. You would have to have some kind of protection to restrict access for anything to be deemed "unauthorized".

For this particular case, they were just told to cease and desist with the scripting/scraping of the data. Access was never revoked. Any decent lawyer should be able to easily make a claim that a reasonable person thought they still had authorized access because it had not been revoked. I don't think the article makes clear whether or not they had a username/password login or whether or not the files were available just with public URLs, but it doesn't matter in my mind because the company had a business relationship with Oracle to provide third party support for Oracle products. They would have to block access, end the business agreement, or specifically notify them that continued access is no longer allowed for the unauthorized access argument to hold up.
I have 100++ vim plugins and get around 500ms startup because of contextual loading by neobundle.
I'd take a softer stance against the statement, though I do disagree with it.

As a Californian, I'd have trouble signing away my right to leave the software field for the next 7 years, or granting to my employer the right to have me deported if I quit my job.

Employers may prefer employees who they know have limited legal rights to participate as free members of the work force. In fact, the US has a long (and at times, horrendously ugly) history of programs to import workers who aren't free to choose the circumstances of their own lives. Because US citizens can't give up certain rights, they may be at a disadvantage where it comes to getting jobs where employer control over a worker's residency rights have become the norm.

After all, why would you hire a free person who can threaten to leave during salary negotiations, when you can instead hire someone who depends on you for the right to live and work in the US?

Of course, I'd never, ever make that trade. I'd rather switch fields, or avoid that field altogether. This may account for some of the aversion to software development careers we observe among people who do are free as individuals to live and work in the US without corporate "sponsorship"
I really wanted to make it work! But out of the box on Centos distribution it doesn't.

Its open to anyone by default, eats all memory and then crashes! I had it on and off my machine in less than one week and won't plan to go back.
Yes and I think you are willingly failing to understand reality from someone who has worked in technology in finance for a long time. HFT or perhaps more accurately, Electronic Trading, is more than simply passive trading and "doing something faster than everyone else". That is a part of it absolutely, but the industry also hires people with PHDs in quantum physics, or builds supercomputers at national labs to build private ones, or teach mathematics at ivy league universities. For much of this math, speed is beneficial, but it isn't universally and always required.

Speed is nice, but smarts are better. "Machine Learning" is the new buzzword for a way to mathematically deducing future outcomes based on data science and quantitative analysis. That is a grotesque simplifications and there are specific ways of approaching this (Tensorflow/Keras from Google, Torch from Facebook, etc). This could be nanoseconds in the futures, it could be hours, or even weeks / months. And this is the part you're failing to understand by trying to assume (incorrectly) that all HFT is made up of is bid sniping and latency arbitrage (often referred to as front running). It isn't really that privileged access if you yourself can pay any exchange, such as NYSE, for a feed to your house.

TL;DNR: Your understanding of electronic / HFT trading is wrong. If you try to understand it first, you'll realize your statements bear absolutely no basis whatsoever in facts. Facts are that Electronic Trading firms have been using machine learning literally since the invention of machine learning and quantitative analysis to make money. A new firm trying to do this can simply join the club.
In the modern world there basically is only GNU Emacs. The only other actively maintained editor (well, there's Linus's microemacs tree too I guess) that calls itself "emacs" is XEmacs, a long-time fork of GNU Emacs. But it's been fading steadily over the past decade and at this point very few people use it or even know about it.

Basically: yes, you can be unambiguous by just saying "emacs" and everyone who cares will know exactly what software you use. But for the same reason it's not really correct anymore to use "emacs" to refer to a "general class of editor". You need to be more explicit if you're invoking historical or oddball variants.
The exception we're talking about exists primarily for computers owned by companies the likes of the Fortune 500, many of which have a regulated requirement to intercept TLS. If Chrome enforced pins against local policy, they'd simply use a less secure browser.
Ask HN: Anyone swtiched from whatsapp to wire?
after whatsapp changed their term of service to allow facebook using whatsapp for advertisement, I decided to keep my old whatsapp and not update.

today whatsapp showed a message saying I cannot use whatsapp unless I update, because my app is obsolete.

Any body switched to wire any difference with whatsapp?
Very interesting. I always felt that I better do mobile banking on a 3G/4G connection than over WiFi, so I'm already performing the mitigation action even if I'm not using any of those apps. I'm also on the other mobile OS but I think this could be a more general problem.

Unfortunately the post falls short of giving any advice to developers. They are the ones who made the mistakes and should fix them.
Great news. Once it gets going I'd be interested in seeing the strategy to make it sustainable. I believe donation models are inherently unsustainable so it'll be a challenge.
No, sysadmins don't patch browsers. Endpoint security products do. Patching browsers to implement TLS interception is table stakes for security products. Local pin enforcement would in fact result in million more surreptitious browser patches.
Life's finest hours are when you have fuck you money in general.
I wonder what the long-term on this is going to look like. It would seem to me like an amazing irony if the receiving nation ended up with better and cheaper healthcare than the US considering that YC and Watsi call the US home.
In Japan, quite a few ATMs would not work during weekends and evenings, I've always speculated that they hired people to sit in the atm and hand over the money. It also would explain why credit card fees are higher when withdrawing money during weekends (in the few ATMs that allows you to do that)...
I agree with you, when people start trying to make these sorts of arguments I like to link the following video from Richard Feynman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45trtAfWhYg
All of the fees go up while the buyer & seller protections get additional restrictions... It's a lose/lose for PayPal customers.
Unless you are making a video game, or doing high throughput data processing, the JavaScript language is probably not your performance bottleneck.

For the most part performance problems in consumer apps are things like pagination, poor re-use of data structures, over pre-caching, etc.

Instagram never has more than what... 10, 20 elements on the screen? And it's all pretty much text or at most a 10 second video clip. There's no reason even a crappy mobile processor can't handle those elements. It's all a matter of being intelligent about what you put on the screen and when.

There's no need for high performance rich data structures. There's no big data.
Your posts stood out (e.g. as rapid, aggressive, and unsubstantive) on a flamewar-prone topic. It's possible that others did worse and we didn't see it; we don't see everything or even close, so that's always the likeliest explanation.

When accounts do that, we sometimes rate-limit them. It's not great but it's one of the few tools we have for protecting HN from the destructive effects of such discussions. If people want not to be rate-limited and are willing to commit to posting civil, substantive comments only in the future, they're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.
Probably has a lot to do with tradition and the intangible "feel" of what it takes in an ICE car to get massive performance. Sure, the Tesla can do some amazing things (acceleration) but versus other established metrics ('Ring time) it's going to have 'cherry picking' asterisks next to its claims I think. There's likely more than a little bias against zipping around in a oversized Traxxis LiPo instead of romping around with a thumping motor and exhaust sound.
I've seen this argument made a lot, but have never found it convincing. Is there any empirical evidence to back it up? A quick Google search suggests it is a myth.
> For the initial project, Watsi will fund primary healthcare for a community in the developing world and build a platform to run the system transparently.

Have they decided what country (or countries) in which this will take place?

While I'm sure there are many worthy candidates worldwide, applying the same type of program to under served communities within the USA would be great as well.
Pancreatic cancer has taken the majority of people I know that have died from cancer. A horrible way to go.
Unless you remove people out of the equation, universal healthcare will never work. There's no incentive for anyone to be efficient, more frugal, work harder, provide a better service in universal healthcare. Humans arent wired for this.
> In representations to your customers or in public communications, you agree not to mischaracterize PayPal as a payment method. At all of your points of sale (in whatever form), you agree not to try to dissuade or inhibit your customers from using PayPal; and, if you enable your customers to pay you with PayPal, you agree to treat PayPal’s payment mark at least at par with other payment methods offered.

PayPal has become needy and will only play with you if you say nice things about it and don't like any of your other friends better than PayPal. Oh and PayPal is adding 8 different ways to take more of your money.
> high performance car without large radiators would overheat when expending a ton of energy per unit of time

... I feel like there's a valid counterpoint here that asks "Then what did you engineer?"

It's a fair question if you're bragging about performance but unable to endure even moderate track conditions.
Yeah, but those spy on you too, so I don't see how they're any better. The main advantage with things like those is that you can more easily upgrade them later as technology changes.
PHP is a bad example, it was designed around the idea of the OS doing the cleanup for you when the process exited at the end of the request.
You're joking about the diesel part right? Audi was dominant in the Prototype class with diesel tech for years.
On Oasis, we have 2132 monthly active users and 284 paying users accounting for $2376 in monthly revenue -- although some of these users are still paying from credit they received by supporting our Indiegogo campaign, so the physical revenue number is lower (and isn't on my dashboard for some reason).

Our hosting costs from Google Cloud are confusing because currently we have some startup credit (which will expire in about six months), and the way they account for that in invoices is weird... But if I'm reading right, we spent $1552 in January, before applying the credit. We also pay for $35 for Cloudflare, $35 for G Suite, $25 for Github, $80 for Sendgrid, $50 for Mailchimp, $50 for eShares, and probably some things I'm forgetting at the moment. So, around $2000 monthly. We also pay an undisclosed but surprisingly small amount for Sandcats.io TLS certificates which we pass on free to users.

To support any full-time developers we'd need Oasis paying users to increase by at least 10x, so something like 2500. Yesterday was a very big news day for us, which resulted in 6 new signups.
I've also noticed that USCIS has been making materials that were previously publicly available inaccessible, like immigration guidance documents. The links are still there on their homepage, but now they just point back to the host page.
I was miss-remembering, not lying, but still I think my overall claim holds. No one is or was going to hunt down Scott Adams because he's a Trump supporter.
The help desk for users outside the Service is only up during those hours weekdays and is constantly having its scope reduced. On the weekends the mainframe is processing several million transactions that went on during the week. Even though it is a Web 1.0-looking interface, those web-based bits are a peripheral to a fairly ancient mainframe running COBOL. That mainframe still updates several millions of individual accounts and cranks through millions upon millions of account updates at night and especially on the weekend.

Your fantasy explanation is way, way off the mark. Nothing is feeding into a hopper from a printer. It is just a huge mainframe that does many, many things for hundreds of millions of individual taxpayers as well as millions upon millions of businesses and other entity types.

[Is break over yet?]
The effect of this strategy is similar to what happens in government - you have IT directors, who actually know very little about IT, but know they have $X to spend to solve problem Y. There is a number of companies who will gladly state they will solve problem Y for approximately $X. It creates this weird, self-reinforcing relationship.
MongoDB wins on performance, big time.

https://www.amon.cx/blog/rethinkdb-reviewed-by-a-mongo-fan/
Why can't we import more doctors like UK and other countries in EU. Isn't that a low hanging fruit?
Cluttering up my living room by running a cable across it isn't very attractive, nor is the general experience of using a non-stationary laptop with a giant cable hanging out of it. I much prefer using a Chromecast, or using my Xbox with a wireless keyboard (which I have stashed under the coffee table, within reach whenever I need it).
I'm altering the deal. Pray that I don't alter it any further.
Not all surveillance is state surveillance. I pay attention when I walk around, and I talk to my neighbors.

If you think surveillance isn't necessary, my guess is you are actually living in a "safe" area and leaning heavily on state surveillance and military/police violence to provide border control so that the general public can't enter your community.

Perhaps you don't consider the person standing at the border and looking to see who's trying to come in as "surveillance".
We need to configure our routers to allow access to neflix.com, but disallow access to viziospyservice.com.
The problem with this argument is that there have been hundreds or possibly thousands of accounts removed from Twitter since the election simply for political content.

It's not a technical issue, nor is it a secret. It's a purge of content and accounts that Twitter deems offensive because the content and the people who tweet and retweet it are on the opposite side of the political spectrum. And it's not based on a failure to follow community guidelines -- or if it is, those guidelines are very unevenly enforced under the "don't shoot anyone to our left" rule.
If you're a Payments Pro merchant, you've been required to offer PayPal Express checkout prominently for some time now. I suspect this move is because the fees are going up enough to encourage businesses to leave but still leave PayPal for the customers who prefer it..

We are changing the currency conversion spread charged when we perform a currency conversion for you from charging an additional 2.5% over the exchange rate set by our bank to charging an additional 3.0%

And their bank's exchange rate is not great to start with. Against the rate Google or XE shows, our PayPal conversions seem to work out at around 3% as it is. So now that'll be about 3.5%. Add the other 0.2% increase on cross border payments and the 2% merchant rate we already pay.. and it's nice work if you can get it! :-D
Do ISPs sell our browsing data?
I applaud you for paying H1B the same as your other employees. I was an H1B myself in SV. My experience, and those of my peers, differs greatly from your experience.

To answer some of your points here:

> It is very hard to compare a Netflix offer to a pre-IPO Twitter offer except in hindsight.

No, its not hard. There's overwhelming evidence that the expected future value of a pre-IPO start-up is zero. Its a lottery. Might as well contract "we'll buy you a lottery ticket every week you are an employee".

>If you're trying to say that the addition of even a single qualified candidate

Is that what I said tho? What about 80,000 candidates? What about 30,000 candidates that are hired by contracting organizations with the express purpose of moving US jobs offshore? Isn't that the antithesis of H1B visas? Isn't that perjury?
Somebody better tell all those non-humans in Western Europe about this.
These are issues that have to be overcome, but the current system in the US is utterly broken and even a somewhat flawed universal healthcare like in other developed countries would be a major step forward.
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Neural nets can already detect skin cancer as well as human dermatologists

For what it is worth, that statement is way too strong for what the linked article and paper show.
IMO, a bill titled "No one is allowed to murder" while actually only preventing Alice from murdering, and permitting Bob to continue his (more prevalent) murder spree, is a net loss.

It is the false illusion of safety, which is more dangerous than a known threat.
Inform and Act
It's not going to be easy or cheap and there will be a significant discovery problem for others. To be effective, we need to abandon the nonprofit silo model and switch towards an open unitary model, a wiki-web built on relationships rather than centered on ownership or exclusive curation content.
Universal healthcare is not the same thing as government-run and provided healthcare.
This self-defeating attitude just prolongs the status quo. Plenty of countries do health care much cheaper with the same quality. Only because the US doesn't want to figure this out doesn't mean it's not possible.
Netflix open sources its chatbot for GitHub management
This is interesting.

While I get how the device is using microfluidics and printed electronics to separate cells (a.k.a. flow cytometer / FACS), it, by itself, does not appear to collect / perform any diagnostics (contrary to what the linked article claims).

That being said, being able to reliably sort cells cheaply and rapidly is in itself a significant advance. The next step is diagnosis / analysis.

This is cool!
I still prefer my spiral notepads (portable) or notebooks (larger form) for ideas and whatnot. Cheap. No internet needed. No batteries. Instant tactile response. Can share (take pic, send pic).

Although, I think this deserves a bit of recognition:

>Milanote is used by creative professionals from these companies

...very clever way to put up some fancy logos that could almost be interpreted as endorsement but isn't really endorsement more like a factual statement without any sources attached, so just enjoy the logos and move on heh.
Healthcare isn't truly 'universal' until it is also applied to non-humans.
Vaping teens are using e-cigarettes for ‘dripping,’ according to Yale study
I meant that batteries couldn't compare with gasoline _or_ diesel. I decided to add it exactly because of Audi :)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/may/24/genes-human-...

I'll look for better (primary) sources when I'm not on my phone if I remember. I vaguely remember seeing a bunch of stuff about how humans naturally gravitate towards genetic diversity, unless there's some roadblock preventing it. I don't have a source offhand though so until or unless I find one, remember to add your salt :)