skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I like how it looks. I wanted to save the css file as inspiration for some future project, but found none. :-P
How much spectrum? Businesses and individuals can get non-exclusive FCC licences (you don't have exclusive usage rights, but in practice, you can operate 24/7 without interference) for small slices of spectrum (12.5 or 25kHz) for under $1000 for a 10 year licence. If you want 1MHz+ in a desirable band, with exclusive usage rights, well, there's a reason those auctions end up going for millions or billions of dollars.
Am I reading this wrong or was that article just 3 paragraphs?
I had the wrong understanding of how it worked (I come from a Rails/Javascript/Ruby background), so thank you for the explanation, it illuminates a lot.
Oh dear. That reminds me of a story I saw here on HN at some point (might have been in the comments) about a dev team that didn't insist on any commit messages in their VCS, so everyone just put in a '.' to meet the requirement that a commit had to have a message for whatever source control system they were using.

My team doesn't have a strict commit message style guide, but good god it better be at least mildly descriptive of what's in the commit.

(I know you're joking, the thought of a 3 character alias to commit with a dummy message just sent shivers down my spine :)
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There's no such thing as a free lunch,

https://www.marktwight.com/blogs/discourse/85824260-no-free-...
I use Git Goodies, great list of aliases - https://github.com/qw3rtman/gg
This is quite interesting. The obvious business case is for missed-diagnoses reimbursement. U.S. hospital reimbursement is based on a monstrous coding system (e.g. ICD-10). A subset of these codes are Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs). Hospitals can bill based on the constellation of HCCs that apply to a patient (e.g. morbid obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, COPD, etc.). Their system could identify all HCCs for each patient and submit missed HCCs for reimbursement.

Edit: This is not a new idea, there are lots of companies already doing this using natural language processing.
> there's also no lunch at all for someone who can't afford basic foodstuffs because of tariffs and quotas block access to reasonably priced goods

Is that a real threat though? I mean, we've had some form of equilibrium in economies for thousands of years, some people do better than others, but people more or less "get by". Whereas now, I have the feeling that we are very quickly getting into dangerous uncharted territory. I see very little reason why China couldn't make 70%++ of everything needed by the entire planet, with some exceptions here and there. And I don't see how UBI is going to solve that problem, if entire countries essentially no longer have any income, since they no longer do anything.

> If protectionism costs $800,000 per job

From a quick look at that report, the quote I found is "In 2006 a Commerce Department study found that three candy-making jobs are lost for each sugar growing and processing job saved by higher sugar prices."

Personally, I'd need something a bit more substantial before I'm going to believe the massive numbers thrown around on the cost of protectionism, especially considering the likelihood of them being propaganda.
That's obvious to anyone who actually read it instead of having a knee-jerk reaction to the title

It's not just this article alone, that's the thing. It's the broader meme that this article aligns with, which denigrates the value of hard work and - IMO - over-emphasizes luck.

That said, if you want quote-mining, here ya go. One that I a wholeheartedly agree with. It just feels a bit tacked on near the end.

We need to do more to double down on improving environments both at home and at school which continuously constrain potential. If the adage that hard work truly matters rings true, then we must do more – at all levels of society – to make it a reality.
I use this app SO MUCH and recommend it to everyone. Great work!
How so? If Firefox didn't exist they'd make the same amount from MSIE.
I recently started doing Tabata workouts on a stationary bike. Interval training is an incredible approach if you can't invest much time. I can be in and out of the gym in 15 minutes and can feel the benefits 48 hours after a rough workout.

The challenge is that it can be incredibly difficult. I never regret going, but it can be hard to motivate knowing how hard that 15 minutes will be. I can barely walk afterwards. That's unfortunately a tough sell for most people despite its benefits and I find an excuse to avoid it more than I'd like to admit.
Youtube had no tech and was built on piracy to grow quickly and seize the market as fast as possible in order to reach their objective of being bought by one of the giant corp.

Contentid is from google after they bought youtube and was added as an afterthought to deal with the "we own this content, pay us now" industry.
Just do it in google drive or dropbox, get backups for free.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-git-and-dr...
Symbolic tags

grep -r '\bXXX\b' corporate_code_base

Versus semantic tags

grep -r '\b(FIXME|TODO|NOTE)\b' corporate_code_base

And that is before you discover two new semantic tags in a single bug fixing dive.

Premature categorisation is a fundamental error, which will have repercussions down the track.
Two types of regrets you will have in your life: things you did and things you didn't do.

Which regrets do you prefer?
co-founder of a startup, I'd interpret that as he has nothing and he lives in the most expensive area in the world.
Of course to each his own, but honestly, nothing I work on involves Ghostscript (or Postscript tbh) so not too much of a concern to me.

It's just so much quicker to recall stuff: [g]it [s]tatus :)
I'm going to suggest that the focus on one product category is the wrong approach here.

It doesn't matter if it's an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or whatever else. They are all just computers. The difference is in the Jobs To Be Done, and I think it is a very minor, yet important difference.

I suspect the lack of focus on Mac is because Apple has to know that it is a dying product. This is also the direction Microsoft is going with Windows. In the future, we won't differentiate between our different devices in the strict terms we do today.

For the average consumer, their phone can run all the productivity apps they need. For developers and artists, this is not yet true, but it is surely coming.
Well my argument is that all US allies too should increase trade with Kim.

> So the US will never increase trade with NK to appease its sociopathic dictator

Well USA has very good trade relationship with China and Saudi both countries that would come second and third in terms of human rights abuses. In fact Saudi is a close ally.

It appears to me that USA wants a war and not to de-escalate the tensions and bring peace. All this eventually will come a a huge cost for South Koreans and US taxpayers.

When was the last time sanctions really worked ? India and Pakistan have very good nuclear arsenals and continue to build advance weapons despite all the threats and sanctions. Russia did not return the Crimea because of sanctions. Iran did not abandon its nuclear program because of sanctions.
Perhaps what we really need is political will. It has been much said in the UK that wind power has made various great strides forward, in terms of being able to operate in a greater range of wind speeds for example. This is in pursuit of EU green energy targets. With Brexit it sounds like the government are keen to resort to fossil fuels. Luddites
If a submission is dumb, regardless of the topic, is it appropriate for HN? Does it satisfy intellectual curiosity?
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YES!

It seems that you need more, and more complete information to do deep learning on records, but it also seems this is a first small step into centralizing and using health records for public health.
Same. I appreciated the offer when I found about it.
Oops, it's a different paper. When I was googling Deep Patient a few months ago I must have got confused because they mention the Deep Patient paper in their issue tracker:

https://github.com/greenelab/deep-review/issues/63
Just give yourself a month and don't write a single line of code.

Go meet your customers in the first week. Ask lots of whys. Do more structured IN PERSON interviews in the second week. Look at how it has been solved in the past and what competitors do. Draw up a rough solution (e.g. landing page) in week 4 and test it out in person as well as drive some traffic to it from online communities (reddit and FB groups do get you some traffic to have an idea about conversion rates).

GV has some good articles around cust dev interviews on their medium.

You probably have higher chances finding angel money for a well validated idea in the market than a product you built for 3 months full time without knowing exactly what to build.
This interview seems very, very unlikely to me.
Definitely do it.

It's good to do something while you travel, as it gives a focus.

I spent time away learning graphics (ordinarily I do back-end). It was really good and at it meant when I came back I could put what I'd been up to on the gap in my CV.

TBH the my original plan wasnt nessacarily to come back, but it turned out to be a year.

(edit) of course you don't need to do something tech related when travelling anything will do
If it's not an expectation now, it will be soon. Tipping became a thing partly because managers started telling their employees to start asking for tips, and soon enough it became effectively mandatory. It's better to just not have things set up to create the problem in the first place. I don't really want waiting staff or taxi drivers forced to coerce tips out of me.
It's not about converting stuff in the browser to the jvm, it's about converting existing c and c++ (and others) to the jvm via an intermediate format primarily (but not exclusively) designed for the browser. There are real reasons to 'rewrite-it-in-java' beyond just NIH, to the degree that even without this automatic transpiling it's frequently done (grpc-c vs grpc-java, all jdbc drivers, etc):

- Native transitions are expensive - not just through register saving and gc machinery but also because native code is opaque to the optimizer. Runtime virtual inlining is probably the single most important optimization hotspot does and the more frequently code it can't work with is called the worse everything gets. While it's almost certainly nothing to worry about with coarse-grained syscalls, and probably not too much to worry about with things like opengl calls, I'd be very skeptical of using, say, a native database driver involving native transitions to retrieve every field of every row of every query in a db-heavy app. This is much the same way pypy is usually much happier with pure-python code than with native code - the more your vm does for you the less happy it is when it can't do it. Furthermore, as these binaries are the compiled results of clang and llvm (just with a different backend) the normal static analysis and optimization passes are run on the c source and ir, it just gets compiled down to a simpler instruction set than most modern physical machines.

- Native deps are anathema to most clean java projects. Our de-facto dep system, maven (and compatibles), is entirely jar-centric. The 'accepted' solution for distributing something like sqlite is some poor person having compiled the native libraries on (win|lin|osx)(32|64), zipped them all up into a big ol jar, and put that single blob on maven. On boot it sees what platform its on, extracts the lib to a temp dir, loads it, then imports a jni binding for it. Inelegant to say the least, especially when java people tend to be spoiled by the notion of there being no difference between an osx or linux build or binary.

- Debugging is worlds nicer when everything's in the jvm, even before stackmaps. You only need one debugger, it's nice and graphical, you can run it remotely with no such thing as a 'debug build', it basically never segfaults, et cetera.
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H1B It's a lottery this time too
> The product that helped save Apple from bankruptcy 20 years ago is now turning into a barrier that is preventing Apple from focusing on what comes next.

I truly hate this attitude.

If you have a shit ton of money, you focus on what's right, not what makes you more money. There isn't an obvious Next Big Thing in computing, not like an iPhone anyway. The watch shows that. Apple should make the very best computers and wifi routers, and monitors, and NAS's, and cables possible. They should be beautiful, cost a bit more and they should just work. That's what makes apple special.
again, easily solved.

1. send tip
2. driver sends rating
3. tip and rating available.
> it's a great environment for families

And why would anyone care if it is great environment for families ? Are US suburbs great environment for families where Ms. X who has 4 kids all from different people living with her boyfriend ? Is that a good environment ?
In the USA if I need a quick breakfast I grab a bagel with a spread for about $3; in China I will grab a noodle bowl for 3 RMB or a couple baozi for 2 RMB each.

Other points I use to come up with my recommendation that outside Beijing and Shanghai you treat 1 USD to be equal to 1 to 2 RMB.

Bus Ride - $2, RMB 1-3
Quick lunch - $8-15, RMB 10-20
Beer at a basic bar - $6-8, RMB 8-12
Beer at store: $1-2, RMB 2-4

Of course this is for domestic products in both countries. Imports cost more and follow exchange rate. For example, in China imports are usually exchange price + 25% import tax (electronics, cars).
I like the sentiment, but the actual thing used to cut people into the value of that economy has utility that can be priced in terms of that actual thing.

Imagine you lived in an economy where all you had to do was pay robots in the required electricity to gather the requisite resources (from somehow politically uncontested, infinite stores), assemble them, and deliver the product to you (or you to your destination, etc). The cost of storing that electricity, and transferring it to them would be accountable in electricity (the purchase of the manufacture of batteries in electricity, the electricity losses due to transformation and heat loss on the wires, etc).

Humans have thus far been really bad at amortizing the costs of the actual things they're transacting with. It may be impossible, but Bitcoin is the first system that seems to have attempted a solution.
I think the thing is that the luck is much more make-or-break than the work. Luck can make how much work you've done irrelevant, but no amount of work can make luck irrelevant. For example, the "cash me ousside" girl didn't do any work, but now is more successful than I am by sheer weird luck. Meanwhile, lots of people have put in stupendous amounts of work and still ended up with bad results just because they were unlucky (remember, despite being beloved of the Internet nowadays, Nikola Tesla died penniless and alone).
Just wanted to say I have heard of this going back a few years. Skepticism is good but I didn't think there was anything overt in the article that raised red flags. Let's please not brush this off. There are tons of niche markets and industries and practices that you don't hear about. Anyone who has worked at a large company knows just how many hidden markets there are for all sorts of random shit. You just have to pay attention.
Your first point depends on your definition of "educated." I'm unconvinced that young people are more educated than ever, because education includes broad critical/creative thinking. It's not cookbook mimicry bounded by a narrow set of choices in a common problem space.

It's the difference between "I made a new web framework" and Vannevar Bush or John von Neumann.

As for cost of debt - yes, it gets much harder to innovate when access to free capital is rationed. Rationing and hoarding capital is actually one of the dumbest things a capitalist culture can do. "Hard work" won't fix this.
He knows.

> You can set the time zone on an event by event basis.

>> At least, until we learned to painstakingly enter the time zone for every calendar entry by hand (even now, I often forget).
I think you're mainly correct. The main issue is that there's an implied "given that the model from http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v10/n2/full/ngeo2863.html is 'perfect' (at least for this case)". Since it seems unlikely that the model is perfect, the numbers they give are almost certainly inflated.
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"The best exercise routine is the one you actually stick to"
Catholics and western cultures also have a bias toward large familes.

Try going back one or two more generations in your genealogy if you can't see it closer.

Sadly and I hate to break it up. Having 10 children a few generations ago used to go with a very high mortality rate, even in Western Europe.
Interestingly enough, my Chrome sends "accept-language:en-US,en;q=0.8,ko;q=0.6". I dont even know how it infers that.
> So why not just use UTC everywhere?

...you live your day by UTC?
I was just about to say the same thing, it's like a dyslexic dj writing.
Good! The authors of the article should invest in a startup or buy an existing business so they can implement these principles. They can make a fortune and show society what's what.
I have a similar set, plus

alias goto='git checkout'
Yep. Preface: I'm a cranky minimalist who would generally prefer reading plain-text-that-happens-to-be-markdown at a 78 col wrap (syntax highlighting tends to give me a headache, and I'm happy to copy-paste URLs as the price for having a document that's lightweight and comfortable to read).

Actual point: Dear gods that 4am crack is awful to read, and I'd actually prefer github angry fruit salad in spite of mostly hating the latter.

So, yeah, there are virtues to simplification, but it can still be overdone - and while the article we're commenting on was great to me, it probably overdid it slightly - and the link you provide is an unintentional reductio ad absurdum of the approach.

(long comment written because I expected to disagree with you until I clicked and went aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
Show HN: Please critique my CouchDB ORM library for Node.js
I tried to solve this and all the fuggin column cipher decrypters online didnt get me to this point.... Any progress?

Column Trans.
- Double
- Übchi

from the rumkin site... i guess i gotta get my python libs out.
I'm more curious about a different idea. If you hook up electrodes to a tongue and then start activating its sensors according to the amount of light being received, people quickly develop the ability to see via their tongue.

So what happens when you encode visual information into sound in such a way as to have a sound-to-environment signal and you just keep that active and running real time. We already know that this mechanism exists in nature and can even be developed in humans, since echo-location is a thing.

Edit: It occurs to me that actually doing sensory experiments like this might really mess with someones head... maybe not a good idea to play around with it casually.

Edit 2: If we were going to swap out one of our senses for another, which should we get rid of and which should we gain?
You include several things in the list of questionable, politicized content that are cold, hard facts. The amount of pollution produced, the effects of this pollution and the rate of extinction of species are not liberal propaganda. The scientific community is in agreement that we are in the anthropocene, or in other words that humans are having such a massive effect on the environment that this geological era is dominated by our influence over that of any other single factor.
> For the average consumer, their phone can run all the productivity apps they need. For developers and artists, this is not yet true, but it is surely coming.

I cannot say anything about artists, but for developers Apple is actively preventing this:

- no way to write apps that allocate executable memory

- hard to sideload applications (though possible with a developer account)

- no way to gain root access in a legal way (necessary for example to create raw sockets; cf. https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/36230)
I agree. The catch is that it doesn't seem to be something that's sustainable at high rates in the long term. There's quite the contrast between the way experienced athletes who already are very fit incorporate interval training long-term (often 1x/week) and the way Internet enthusiasts (perennial beginners) use interval training because they read about the Tabata study.

It strikes me as a bit similar to one of those effective but short-term crash diets. You get lean, tell everyone about it, and stop. Similarly, the dramatic effect of training intervals 6x/week is one of those things that's great for a few weeks.
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> Still, I would have very much liked to play around with the 'phi'.

Well, if you're still interested, KNL is a significantly better architecture, so you could just try now.

> That's the kind of deal I was looking at too. Maybe they were massively discounted because they were already EOL'd?

Refreshed my memory and I was wrong; there was some discussion to jump on the $125-$195/card deal Colfax had late 2014 [1] (likely dumping stock due to EOL), but we figured that they are not even worth that much. In comparison, the one card we have was actually bought just 10-11 months before for ~$1500.

[1] http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/xeonphi/31s1p-promo.aspx
Yes they did. For what it worths I had established clientele and cashflow.
Hello. I've built a CouchDB2.0/Cloudant ORM library for NodeJS which I'm happy with. But I would like some feedback to see if it's something that other people find useful. I plan to use it in my own projects and that's what I built it for, but is available for others to play around with.
Google didn't invent adtech, the only thing you can credit them for is to have resisted from contracting a third party ad network and becoming an ad network on their own to be able to keep control on the form their ads take: read less annoying and intrusive: no image, no moving parts, only text thus not alienating their user base and killing their business as other website had been doing.

Funnily from here the primary fields for google seem to be surveillance, tracking, profiling, lobbying, tax evasion, abuse of dominant position, killing useful services people actually use, buying competitors to close them, killing other businesses by making a competitor product available with no price tag (you pay with your personal data being collected), evading anti-monopoly law, and other things in the same vein.
Agreed. That this "interview" supposedly takes place in 1899 and mentions Einstein (first published paper 1901) and the Theory of Relativity (1905) either implies a date typo in the first sentence or a complete fabrication.
If I ran Intel, I'd keep both x86 and ARM chips and make a motherboard using x86 and ARM chips to work together with shared memory. The ARM could be given tasks to do that free up the x86 chip to make the system run faster. Plus ARM operating systems could be run in a virtual machine using the ARM chip to develop or test apps out.
"The iPhone hasn’t suffered because Apple is focused on the Mac. New iPhones come out like clockwork every year."

The iPhone 6 was released in 2014. The same design is probably going to live on until 2018.

I'm not sure what it is they are working on, but it better be good.
Well, that's another interesting topic for discussion.

Don't work harder if that will give you no returns. (like unpaid extra hours, going to your company funds or manager bonus for saving the project)
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