skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really liked this movie.. I truly don't understand all the flack it's getting.. Probably because I expected very little (because of the review scores) and it was really not close to as bad as I expected..
How I Built This - Interviews with entrepreneurs about how they built their companies
http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this

Every single episode has been great and many of them aren't purely tech companies which is a nice change from other startup podcasts.
Ah, yes, that would make the complaint somewhat valid then.
https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ enjoy
maybe b/c it's for XML and not JSON, which most REST apis use.
> I'm a big fan of checklists as well; however, working through a checklist is still a manual process with room for human error.

I've had at least one checklist where, by following it religiously, human error was rare - and by paying proper attention, what errors did occur were noticeable and correctable.

Handed off the checklist to someone else (at management's request - it was eating up some of my time) and the human error rate went to nearly 100%. Great guy, good at his main job, just not fastidious about checklist discipline. I ended up creating an incredibly brittle, constantly breaking, broken-as-hell time sinking set of scripts to automate the process on our build servers, because that was less work. Sigh.
I'll point out that both the React team (particularly Dan Abramov) and the Redux team (especially myself) discourage people from trying to jump into both of those together at once. In fact, my copy-paste answer is:

> The standard advice is to focus on learning React itself first. Once you have a good understanding of how React works, you will better appreciate why a state management library like Redux can be useful. Don't over-complicate the learning process by trying to learn many different things at once.

But yes, it does seem like large portions of the community insist that you _must_ use Redux with React, you _must_ use Redux right away, and even that you _must_ put _everything_ into Redux. None of which are true :)
Supplementary factor: growing up hearing that 50% of marriages will fail and then seeing what a bad divorce does to everyone involved.

As a man, I've heard enough horror stories to never want to marry.
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Hospitalist/intake physician hospital notes matched to ICD10 codes. Extremely useful and difficult to find.
"free" isn't about cost. "Free" is about liberty.

When you use a proprietary OS, you rely entirely on its creators to create a system that does what you want. When something in Windows or OS X is not what you want (or is broken), you can't do anything about it. When something in a free OS is not what you want, you always have the option to use something else.
Why do they require a static IP? They should be using DNS.
It should be simple for any internet connected device to run dynamic DNS.
Representing "Con(T)" in a formal language with the Peano Axioms isn't all that long, relatively speaking. No diagonalization is needed. It's basically:

~(Ex)Proof(x, ~0=0)

I.e., "There doesn't exist a proof of ~0=0."

Of course, representing the word "proof" using PA isn't trivial, and expanding that bulks things up a bit. But the sentence that's really long is the Godel sentence. "(G) There is no proof of G."
> Not in this case; the main effect of deuteration is to slow the rate at which the active drug is metabolized and excreted.

this reminds me of deuterating DMT (dimethyltryptamine) in order to fortify bonds that are targeted by MAO -- to avoid the need for pretreatment with a MAO inhibitor (a MAOI -- which tend to be nasty because of all their interactions)
why start with medical data? with hipaa it seems (rightfully so) to contain some of the most heavily guarded types of data out there.
Brazil lawmakers vote to regulate Uber, others
Right-Wing Billionaires Are Buying Themselves a New Constitution
Datadog for thousands of hosts costs tens of thousands of dollars per month. That is not a low barrier. But if you're arguing for external vendors, then Papertrail is to logs what Datadog is to metrics. And having tried both Papertrail is easier and quicker to set up (though Datadog isn't difficult).

Similarly, basic infrastructure health is not giving you the same sort of information (what the software is actually doing) that logging does. In order to do time-series monitoring of your software rather than your system, you need to spend time thinking about what metrics you need to track and how you're going to obtain them.

I run both an ELK stack and a Prometheus stack, and I find they're good for different things.
The cyberpunk tropes still had some freshness back in 1995, but today they're just done to death. While the live action film touched upon all the big ideas, I'm glad they didn't try unpack too much of it, I'd be bored to tears, I've already been there with dozens of previous books and films.

Even in 1995 the ideas in ghost in the shell had already been explored thoroughly, Dick and Gibson were all about that sort of thing. What made Ghost In The Shell exceptional was the story and the visual style.

The new film brought that style to life beautifully, I got exactly what I paid for. And even under the best of circumstances, a two hour film isn't enough time to do more than a superficial examination of some philosophical concept or another.
Same here.

To me books > anime > movies.

So I was prepared to be disappointed. By the end of the movie, I was really impressed. I think they did justice to the original.
I'd love it if kendo-ui tool a page from Highcharts and provided a free non-commercial license [0]. I first tried out Highcharts in college, after that I used it for a couple personal projects. Eventually I found myself needing a powerful charting library for my job, and by then I was so familiarized with its capabilities that buying a license was a no-brainer.

If I tried and found myself liking kendo-ui, I'd probably end up even more frustrated from not being able to use it for personal projects.

EDIT: Just wanna add that you guys have done great work. Poking around the component demos is really slick.

[0] https://shop.highsoft.com/faq#Non-Commercial-0
Do you similarly never refer to people as Doctor, Reverend, Minister, or Coach so-and-so? It's part of his name. If Sir Tim didn't want to be knighted, I feel confident he wouldn't have been. You'll note that his wikipedia page calls him Sir Tim, and I feel confident he could change it if he so chose.

You are clearly free to call him whatever you want, but I would advise you to be honest enough to realize that you're projecting your feelings about royalists onto him, and not calling him what he has chosen to be called.
I'm not sure what you're responding to. Did someone say that designers should do all their own coding?
Yeah you can write raw SQL with Django ORM or in the migrations.
>> I left out acquisitions on purpose because GitLab is not really suited for an acquisition, due to the remote-only work model.

Didn't know remote work would play a role in this matter. Is that true?
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Why Hollywood Loves This Austrailian Tech Company
researchers brought 88 pairs of undergraduate opposite-sex friends into…a science lab.

Ok, so this research has nothing to do with men or women - just horny near-adults.
Philosophy.

Rails' philosophy is "convention over configuration", which means there's a lot of what might be called "magic" and it's less clear how to override defaults.

Django adheres to a more "pythonic" approach in which transparency is valued and it's better to be explicit than implicit. More things are documented and configurable.

While Django does have a certain way it expects you to do things (especially in the sense of where boundaries lie between modules), I find that that's at a higher level of abstraction than Rails, where convention rules down to the level of URL structure.
> a good combination of UI (looks, readability, fonts)

In my experience, Linux has this. Especially fonts. IMHO, fonts in Linux are slightly better than OS X, and worlds ahead of Windows. As far as UI, it depends what you want. There are a lot of options, and some of them look fantastic, some of them are very usable, and some fall into both categories.
I stopped reading at that point as well.
All 42 hours of the Ghost In The Shell animations from 1995 to 2006 can be strung together into cannon. It's all compatible. Both the 2015 stuff and this 2017 movie unfortunately conflict which what came before. Disappointing to me as a fan that what was achieved over 11 years has been undone and forsaken in recent adaptations of the franchise. Frankly, I'm angry Holywood is making millions from this.
Well, I'd argue that (for example) Warren Buffet will be forgotten long before the invention of the transistor will.
Note that this is from 1992. Even so, it's definitely fascinating to see the amount of attention to detail put into the design of the documentation.
Medicare provider utilization and payment data (which is a large percentage of the total market in the United States) has been publicly available[1] for several years now. The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize[2] for the analysis they did of the public data sets.

[1]: http://graphics.wsj.com/medicare-billing/

[2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-new-york-times-win-pulitzer...
We've been using this framework to avoid the appearance of crafting our own that cherrypicks only our strong suits. Don't disagree with comments that you should account for JSON serialization cost in your benchmarks, but that's a criticism of the suite, not Postgres/Timescale/our numbers.

To be clear: our tests are all using the standard PostgreSQL interface, not JSON-over-HTTP. And we don't exclude any SQL parsing time in the DB.
In a follow-up study, 249 adults (many of whom were married) were asked to list the positive and negative aspects of being friends with a specific member of the opposite sex.

There was a follow-up study, but it doesn't say how much, if any, of the original research was tried again.
read on...

>> Males were significantly more likely than females to list romantic attraction as a benefit of opposite-sex friendships, and this discrepancy increased as men aged—males on the younger end of the spectrum were four times more likely than females to report romantic attraction as a benefit of opposite-sex friendships, whereas those on the older end of the spectrum were ten times more likely to do the same.
Correct. The ending WAS diametrically opposed to the original.
The secret of the Soviet hydrogen bomb
So the only reason it's not natural for humans is that current implementations of spreadsheets have issues with implicit rules?

I don't think that's a failure of the model but merely of the implementation. We can fix that. The model is right.
/r/place made me realize that I care about Linux than my country.
That is not easy. It's possible to avoid, not easy. As soon as small claims is involved, there is already considerable hassle.
It's fortunate, then, that it's Sir GivenName, not Sir FirstName.
Please oh please, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The potential for ML is absolutely huge. Some people have already collected or are working to collect genetic and other data on a large scale [1] [2] [3], so it does exist.

CFS is interesting because:

a) Patients' symptoms appear to fluctuate "randomly" but are actually typically a complex function of genetics, blood markers, exercise, diet, medication and other factors.

b) There is considerable low-hanging fruit for pattern recognition, since despite the prevalence of the disease almost nobody has done serious ML work in this space.

c) Huge market opportunity - prevalence is comparable to HIV, and specialists often cite CFS as causing more disability [4] [5].

[1] http://simmaronresearch.com/

[2] http://www.nova.edu/nim/research/mecfs-genes.html

[3] https://med.stanford.edu/chronicfatiguesyndrome.html

[4] https://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/readers-ask-a-...

[5] Dr. Daniel Peterson (Introduction to Research and Clinical Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 1994; published in JCFS 1995:1:3-4:123-125)
We have over a billion data points at http://semantic.md with high value context that we use to service companies in the space.

Would be exciting/somewhat disruptive if YC democratized access to it.
Just wanted to comment that I totally admire the bravery behind this post. GitLab definitely grows too fast (it was 200 last I checked).

It amazes me that far too many here are afraid of repercussions and retaliation by future employers (just see the "warnings" about bad blood in the comments here). That too on HN (who are supposedly the idealists who want to changes the world and all that)! Seriously guys, all this person has done is detail his experiences in what he thinks is the truth. And believes it enough to let go of a good chunk of money.

Also, this comment surprised me (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14037692):

"Unfortunately, as a contractor, you do not have these protections. Given that the entire company is remote, only a tiny percentage of the people that work at GitLab are actually employees, and they take full advantage of that. "

Wow.
I don't know if I can watch the new live action movie. I saw GitS in 1996 in the only theater in the Bay Area that actually had the original 35mm release (before Manga Entertainment's first VHS release). A friend of mine and maybe three other people were in the audience in the small theater in downtown San Jose.

Seeing GitS that afternoon had a huge[1] influence on my life. How big was GitS's influence? During the ~decade I spent trying to make several anime conventions more efficient and sane, I learned (out of necessity) SQL, Ruby, Postscript, and the art of improvising[1].

With the comments about how they watered down the story in the new live action version, I suspect I should probably ignore it, even if it looks great. Regarding visual quality, however, I suspect most people that saw the original animated film saw it in standard definition (VHS, DVD, etc). Those releases ruined a lot of the detail. The city backgrounds had an incredible amount of detail in the full 35mm version or modern HD re-release. I highly recommend watching (in 1080p) nerdwriter1's brief discussion[2] of Mamoru Oshii's use of detail to define the space of the city as a cyberpunk heterotopia.

[1] "What do you mean you forgot to buy the right labels for our badge printers?! There are over 4000 people in line and we're about to open! ... Fine, send anybody available to the two nearest Fry's and buy out their stock. In the meantime, I'm going to see if I can rewrite the Postscript template to work on last year's printers with different size labels in the next ~15min."

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTnl1FVFBw
(Ozgun from Citus Data)

Your observations on cstore_fdw are accurate. I'm adding a few points about our learnings from cstore deployments in production.

From a use-case standpoint, we find that most cstore deployments use it for data archival and to a lesser extent data warehousing workloads on Postgres. Some of these deployments are fairly sizable (Fortune 1000) and they primarily benefit from compression that comes with cstore_fdw (3-10x).

Citus + cstore_fdw deployments exist, but they are fewer in number. This isn't because of an architectural issue related to cstore or Postgres FDW/extension APIs. Rather, making cstore work for real-time workloads require notable implementation work. In particular:

(1) Real-time ingest & update / delete capabilities: Columnar stores have a harder time providing these features. The most practical way to achieve this is by partitioning your data on time, using a row store for the most recent data, and then rotating that data into a columnar store.

Users who use cstore for real-time workloads, manually set up table rotation themselves. In fact, this type of integration between Citus (distributed db) and cstore_fdw (columnar storage) has been one of the most requested features: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/183

(2) High-availability & disaster recovery: This requires that cstore integrates with PG's write-ahead logs. Fortunately, Postgres 9.6 makes this possible / pluggable and it's on cstore_fdw's immediate roadmap.

(3) Indexes for quick look-ups: cstore_fdw comes with built-in min/max indexes. This helps but doesn't provide quick look-ups across any field. We thought about integration with PG indexes -- one challenge there involves PG indexes' storage footprint and potential hit on compression ratios.

(4) Query planning and execution tuned for columnar store: If your workload is bottlenecked on CPU (rather than disk), these type of improvements can help a lot. For now, we're happy to see both recent and upcoming analytical query performance improvements that are coming up in Postgres 10 and beyond.

Also, putting cstore_fdw aside, I'm a huge fan of Timescale and the work they are doing! My favorite "feature" is that Timescale is a PostgreSQL extension. :)
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Stalk? The guy tagged gitlab.
To get the performance benefits the VM can't be run with a spice / vnc interface, so there is no virtual screen or virtual input. You have to pass the VM its GPU and some USB ports and can only see/interact through those and the network bridge.

My keyboard and mouse can pair to multiple different machines at the same time and switch with a button press so I just do that.

Synergy also works fine, you just need to temporarily pass a real keyboard in to set it up.

There is also a newish feature in QEMU that allows they physical devices to be swapped back and forward by pressing both CTRL keys [1]. It works reasonably well with a few quirks (Extra mouse buttons dont work in guest, for example)

Same thing apples to the screen, I surrender an entire monitor to whatever VM is running, but you could use a KVM switch.

It's a little work to get set up and tuned but it is 100% a dual boot killer. The next time I reconfigure this machine, I won't be installing a native Windows partition, I simply don't need it anymore.

Heres a video demoing and explaining it a bit: https://youtu.be/16dbAUrtMX4

[1] https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2016/04/linux-evdev-input-suppor...
I asked about recent increases in my billed amounts and whether my account might be connected to the wrong meter -- something I've read is happening as these systems are deployed.

The clerks have a system at the counter that is already signed in at some degree of administrator level. They can pull up any record they wish, on the spot. There appears to be no concern about logging or auditing of access.

The clerk just took my account number from the bill I brought with me and pulled up my usage for the last couple of days. Swung the screen around and asked whether it looked familiar (it did).

I have access to the same system -- supposedly only for my own account, after I go through an initial sign-up/on process. I wonder how secure that external access to accounts is, but I can't speak to this at this point.

My understanding from reading is also that a lot of these systems transmit unencrypted on the 433 MHz band as they communicate up to local aggregators. I didn't bring that up with the clerk.

By the way, I was given no choice to opt-out of this deployment.
Does local custom work both ways? I think most Americans would consider "Mister" perfectly courteous.
Ya, I don't buy this. I know this is just my experience, but I've had plenty of "just friends" who were members of the opposite sex, and nothing bad ever happened.
It's called margin, and you can only margin (use as collateral) shares that are liquid - i.e. publicly traded.
It works if your parents are doctors or dentists or otherwise wealthy. You can start a company with a safety net!
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There are essential comms problems that will face any unmanned system that tries to take over the F-35's role. In the absence of a solution that is extremely low latency, immune to interference, and undetectable as radiated emission, you'd have to lean on computer AI to run the bulk of the mission autonomously. Nobody is ready to throw the switch on that.

A possible solution is to augment flights of manned fighters with unmanned drones as missile/bomb trucks. This gets you the force multiplier while keeping all communication short range and within line-of-sight. But you still need a stealthy, survivable manned fighter.

Overall it's a bit like saying why bother with a new generation of conventional cars when universal self-driving is right around the corner. Maybe it is, or maybe it isn't quite as close as you think. These are questions that are more appropriately asked of the N+1 generation fighter that may or may not be on the drawing boards at this time.

P.S. I've noticed the F-35 takes flak from both the extreme technological pessimists (drones/fighters can't take over the A10's role, low & slow manned flight is the only way to do CAS) and the extreme optimists (drones will make all manned flight obsolete next year). Seems to me neither faction has a very strong grasp of the state of military tech.
I agree with you.

This is not about how many followers see this or if it undermines the company's position. It's about culture. If the CEO of the company lets things like this go, it will keep happening. And it will only get worse.

From my experience, I would rather not have this kind of employee around than trying to play nice with him personally because this kind of attitude spills over and eventually affects the entire team morale.
This should have (1992) added to the title. Still interesting. What tipped me off was this observation:

There are over 2300 typefaces available today.
> But if I'm on someone else's computer and they don't have Python or anything like it, then I would honestly just install Python.

The problem is scaling this to many coworkers. At some point it becomes "wait for I.T. to get around to automating the install across the fleet" or make your scripts install python, ninja-like. But it sounds like you're more able to rely on python, so that probably makes more sense for you (if only so you don't have to rewrite the same script for non-Windows boxes.)

> Here's my horror story. This is the reason I swore off PS, as stupid and emotionally-driven as that sounds

It sounds bad enough I can totally get where you're coming from. Heck, it's basically the exact same place I'm coming from with the "strings shot my dog" quip ;)

> Perhaps the issue was something about encoding?

Something to do with e.g. UTF-8 BOMs or line endings (\r\n vs \n) would be top of my paranoia list. I'd break out a hex editor or binary diffing tool (I've used 010 Editor a couple times for this) if you find yourself in the same situation again. Understanding exactly when I have a single string with newlines vs when I have an array of strings with implicit newlines when joined isn't something I've got my head perfectly wrapped around yet in powershell, and could be another possible cause.

> Sorry if what I'm saying does not seem very concrete.

You're offering what you know, and I appreciate it :). Sorry for the short reply (I need to be somewhere...)