skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it's a compromise. Using your example, a LOT of people simply don't enjoy going to parties with rooms full of people to try and talk to maybe 30 women/men in one night. Sometimes they find it boring, sometimes they get anxious, sometimes they find it intimidating and wouldn't know how to signal interest without being weird (parties can be confusing that way; most people aren't there to meet a date or hook up). Contrast it with Tinder and similar apps: while people sometimes pretend "a friend installed Tinder on my phone, I never use it!", everyone knows what everyone else is there for, and what they're signalling when they swipe right or start chatting with someone.
Interesting but I believe that there are events where computers + humans beat just the computers. That shows that there must still be something else that the human adds to the situation that brute force hasn't been able to overcome yet.
> What they get out of it now are public health statistics.

We actually don't really get those out of the medical billing situation either.
ICD codes are what's used for public health statistics, whereas CPT codes are used for billing. I mean, we could use that data for public health statistics, but we don't really. And we could still have gotten it without the rest of the sacrifices that have come along with the code-based payment systems that have turned practices into offices for billing, with a marginal medical practice on the side.

Unfortunately, as you said, because Medicare is 40% of the payer market, once they switched to this model, it created the vicious cycle we're now in.
Before you go thinking about how this applies to healthcare... health insurance in the U.S. is different from other types of insurance and personally I think we'd all be better off it were not even called "insurance."

Health insurance is a mix of pre-paying for predictable and certain expenses with tax-free dollars, a transfer/entitlement system to ensure that more people can afford insurance (by design, your premium does not match your expected risk--either you are pooled with others at your employer, or your exchange account is subject to rating band requirements which means, for example, that in many states old people can only be charged 3X more than young people even though old people are likely to be much more than 3x more expensive to insure), and actual insurance. I'm not sure what percentage of your premium reflects the cost of actually insuring you against uncertain future health events, but it's far from 100%.

This is an interesting article, and some of it applies to healthcare in the U.S., but much of it does not.
Performance: A bit meh at bulk bytes-per-second snapshotting, particularly when the vault is accessed over ssh, as it's latency sensitive (send block, wait for response, get next block, send, wait for response, repeat - rather than streaming the blocks). However, the mtime cache means that it's really good at spotting the files that have changed, so it scans my couple of terabytes fairly rapidly and uploads the tens of megabytes that have changed each day.

Mature: Well, it's been running nightly for years for me, and has saved the day on a few occasions when I've had to restore stuff from the vault.

Reliable: The only data I've lost was when a vault disk actually died, and I hadn't replicated it because, well, I was happier losing some history sometimes rather than buying more disk for that use case. However, when I get archive mode in production, I'm going to build a better vault replication solution than rsync!
But that's exactly the point. There's a huge difference between the Israeli Arab citizens and the Israeli Arabs who are non-citizens. People might talk about some of the issues faced by Israeli Arab citizens, but when they talk about the problem with the Palestinians they're specifically talking about the ones who are non-citizens. The Arabs who have citizenship are in a completely different situation, just like the Hong Kong residents are in a completely different situation since they have Chinese citizenship.
> but I'm not sure of the benefit of the API

I agree, when talking about programming language, but maybe could be useful when using services like Zapier and similar, when you don't want to use a programming language for doing simple things or don't know programming.
Author here...

I have the same issue you have. I luckily work in a language with great refactoring tools, but it's like pulling teeth to get people to use them rather than cut and paste.
Nice article & loved Kyle's article about the thorny issues surrounding customer acquisition.

I grew up around the industry because my father worked his entire career in it. I've always found it fascinating. Actuarial science is so underrated.
I'm also an entrepreneur and I've previously thought about entering it to disrupt it. If there is one thing I'd add to the main article it's this:

If you look at the data vs all other industries, Insurance is the most profitable industry out there. That's not bad considering the product is manufactured out of thin air.

This is perpetually interesting because to me it kind of destroys one of the central tenets of capitalism. It's a very old industry. If anyone can conjure stuff out of thin air, you would expect there would be much more competition / lower margins in it by now. But there isn't. So the industry is really effective at erecting moats to keep innovators at bay, In my opinion, this is main "value" (cough) that the regulators play in the market. The industry gets away with so much, and it needs reform, but I'd bet against it ever happening. This situation in replicated in every country around the world. That's why it's hard to be a true entrepreneur in the industry. You need an investor with deep pockets to enter the market. You need to verify your brilliant customer acquisition strategy works. Then you need to wage war vs the incumbents.

Bonus content for actuarial nerds looking for a good chuckle:
http://reactionwheel.net/2017/06/venture-follow-on-and-the-k...
This is related https://www.livescience.com/42710-fitness-trackers-sleep-mon...
How accurate are these things, really?

I don't sleep much, I never have. However, I can pretty much shut my body down and meditate, which probably has similar outward physiological expressions as sleep.

I call it my time in my rejuvenation center. It isn't sleep. I'll do that for hours and then get three to five hours of sleep - estimating, of course.

When I did my sleep study, they asked me to not do that. So, I sat there awake and it was not a very fruitful study. I am sure I am not unique but I am only finding generic information when I search.
i'd speculate that nsa might be working on some hardware solution to secure their tools, ie purpose built chips/compilers
> this is a feature, not a bug

1) I never said it was a bug.
2) Whether CL's multi-paradigm nature is an advantage or not is subjective.
The React tutorials proliferation is making me think it's not as easy/intuitive as initially intended/published! At least not as easy as Visual Basic!

I have no webdev competency, but I'd love to build something as if I was using Visual Basic, or better yet, Delphi! I've seen Sencha, but it's way to expensive!

With this context in mind, would you recommend me to engage in learning React or something else (Vue, Ember, JQuery, VanillaJS (hate the syntax))?

Thanks for your feedback.
Does anyone know how to look up what Medicare/Medicaid pays for particular procedures, and how to look up codes in the first place?

Somehow I came across that G8709 was for prescribing antibiotics. I figure I should be able to plug that into something like:

https://www.cms.gov/apps/physician-fee-schedule/search/searc...

...but I apparently don't know the proper incantation to get that to work. It would also be interesting is someone had concrete side-by-side examples of what Medicare/Medicaid pay vs. what everyone else pays for several different "common" items.
Ah yes, added. Thanks.
> The "friendlier culture" of the South thing is a myth. They're not that friendly to people who don't fit their preferred mold.

Heh... Ain't that the truth.

Completely anecdotally, I got a LOT more Tinder matches when I was in the West/East Coast than in my home state of Texas (I'm a Nonwhite Male).
#teampixel’s rainbow palette
Qubit's strategy to do this via streaming, leveraging Google Cloud Dataflow:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/how-qubit-ded...
Crazy thought, but perhaps the device is actually pretty terrible at measuring when the user is asleep? Wrist-band heart-rate monitors are known to be fairly less accurate than chest-band HRMs.
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As a note, for Mac OS X Sierra, if you press Option while copying, the pathname is copied.
Yes - but how? I looked at the HTTP headers I was sending and none of them contained the time zone.
Hard to dial accidentally, but no much thought involved.
In many (all?) parts of the US, even if you stay on the line and tell the operator that the call was a mistake, you'll still get a visit from the police. The thinking is that someone who got a chance to dial 911 but then is discovered by a captor might be coerced into saying the call was a mistake. So they send the police to invesitigate ALL 911 calls -- hangups, mistakes, everything.
Sure would. But if you told me chemtrails was behind it, I might ask you to show your working before focusing my worries on that.
"Extracurricular activities? Sure, but the number of single women at these things tends to be pretty small,"

Different extracurricular activities? Like dancing class or climbing - both being social and popular among women.
Not true. LA definitely has a lot of the kind of women that nerdy engineers like: career focused, successful, intelligent etc.
Great point here. It's a bit counter intuitive, right, that Americans on the whole are moving less. To add some color:

-The majority of Americans that live in rural or somewhat suburban areas are most certainly (though anecdotally) bringing this number down. In cities, you'd expect this number to be much higher than 10%.

-This data point from article below is bit more telling of our target market. Please don't mind their incessant use of the term "millennials" - they know not what they do.

> "44% of millennials say they plan to move again in the next year."
(http://blog.rent.com/the-millennial-generation-on-the-move/)
As a scheme person I have always envied the ML camp because that's where all the cool stuff has been happening. It is so nice to have someone like Andy that has the brains and the time to bring some of it to guile.

Big thanks to Andy and his employer that pays him to work part time on guile.
I can't find talk about "high risk" in what I wrote. I can't seem to find where I'm "proposing not learning any new concepts at all." You seem to enjoy arguing against figments of your own imagination. I can't help you. Have a nice day.
Because in hub motors are generally a bad idea. The more weight you shift to the unsprung portion of the suspension, the worse handling, ride quality over rough surfaces, and energy economy gets. Even worse, the geometry of an efficient induction motor is a cylinder, and you can add torque by lengthening the cylinder. With an in hub motor you need either axial flux or to bond in permanent magnets, both of which complicate manufacturing.

On the other hand, a universal joint and a drive shaft are about as straightforward and reliable as it gets. You can still have a motor per wheel and size is not as restricted.

Long story short: in hub motors don't make sense unless you're very space constrained, like on an e-bike.

You can build a good enough demo to get press. Once the vehicles are out there as a product for a couple years the flaws will be clear.
I don't think the author was trying to create a conversation about the misalignment of the lab's management and safety. The article goes out of its way to sensationalize industrial accidents with "NUCLEAR RADIATION" to construct a narrative of uninformed fear of anything associated with nuclear material.

It reminded me a bit of some of the Discovery Channel's shows where they stress that if this multi-million ton container ship doesn't stay between the two entrance markers to the harbor, it kill everyone on board and probably destroy millions of dollars in goods. The entrance markers are 5 miles apart. The fact is accurate, the narrative is not.

If you want to be really scared go read the OSHA reports on any of DOW's chemical plants. I would be willing to wager that more people have died in the last 5 years of industrial accidents at their plants than all of Los Alamos. The Union Carbide Bhopal disaster killed over 2,000 people, one accident.

The point is the article was not written to compare the risk of accidents at Los Alamos to that of other similarly sized industries, nor was it written to highlight the misalignment of lab management with safety goals. It was written to characterize nuclear materials as scary and dangerous and carefully avoids any way for the reader to compare that risk with other risks they are both familiar with and are not concerned about.

In short, it is anti-nuclear propaganda.
Ok, we've put your phrase above.
To your last point about a live online teacher, I think it would also just be really frustrating for the teacher to be in that position. Debugging code can be difficult at times, and to do so online where you can't just be with the student in person makes it even harder.

To your broader point though, I think that resources like StackOverflow, and even some smaller communities (e.g. subreddits) are a great way to supplement online courses (by getting questions answered/dealing with roadblocks). The only issue is response time (a dedicated instructor who was with you in person could ideally resolve it quickly whereas some SO answers can take days, weeks, or even longer, depending on how obscure/unclear it is).

I agree though - programming after all is like playing with infinitely many legos; it can be overwhelming but ultimately you need to just get your hands dirty and fiddle... otherwise you won't learn correctly...
That doesn't mean it makes sense to charge different premiums.

Insurance only works if the group is large and shares the risk. If you break it down on race, gender, age, and the thousands of other physical characteristics that correlate to something medically, you wind up with groups too small for insurance to work.

We don't charge black people lower Social Security and Medicare taxes on account of their lower life expectancy, right?
He did online dating, meaning all the girls had already published their photos in the internet before he met them. Just right click and "Save as" would do the trick, if he really wanted to include real photos in the article :)

But yes, I also think that's a stock photo.
> with no real learning from them other than "they are now passing."

You don't learn much the moment the test passes. But designing and writing the test requires understanding the requirements in detail, which is often a learning process.
> Say you bought a new coffee maker and a few days later the price drops! That has to be one of the worst feelings in the world!

Even by the scale set by common marketing hyperbole, this is a ludicrous claim.
If you had domain-level expertise that would be relevant to providing analytics for P&C (re)insurance providers/consumers, but didn't know how the insurance market works, where would be a good place to start?
EFF's Letter to Zillow on Behalf of McMansion Hell [pdf]
Show HN: Follow lifetime changes of a pathspec in Git
Closed source vs open source. Why are such exploits not so evident on mac, linux, bsd etc?
Is it only because microsoft dominates the desktop market? Edward snowden clearly showed MS relation to the NSA. I do not believe at all such exploits are ${Discovered} by the NSA. But the exploits are backdoors that MS provides. That is why they are now blaming the NSA and putting on a marketing campain to show how much they care about everyone ${Security}. So what if this is the case? To me its pretty obvious who created this mess.
> In my experience a lot of older people seem to say this. Note sure why it's true.

Because after age 30 your body, more or less, starts to die. There is a lot of discomfort and pain that is usually associated with this and as a result affects the quality and duration of sleep.
Or Google Fi.
The official term is "bovine scatologist".
Mine didn't have HR monitoring, but I found the movement (aka actigraphy) to be pretty much useless. Fitbit was counting all the time I was laying still trying to fall asleep as "deep sleep", and looking at the chart I couldn't differentiate movement at 12:00 when I knew I was awake from movement at 6:00 when a noise woke me up but I fell right back asleep.

The movement data is probably enough to tell when I've slept better or worse, but I wouldn't trust the absolute "number of hours of sleep" they report.
Trial error is actually a great method to learn. I have learned programming like that as a kid. You don't really need a tutor imho.
>Most of the time, outside the utopian heaven that is Silicon Valley, tech pros are employed "at will"

The contract I signed is one of at-will employment. I don't consider the terms mutually exclusive. I don't work in Silicon Valley (neither technically or conceptually) but even there I expect approximately everybody is at-will employed.

>unilaterally signed

IANAL but generally the employer needs your signature on the employment agreement/contract, otherwise IP assignment clauses and anything else in the document are not going to stand up in court.

>The worst they can do is fire you

Your employer can do considerably worse that just fire you. [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Malyshev

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
In 1965 there wasn't much international direct dialling yet; mainly to neighbouring countries. The rest was done via an operator. International exchanges tended to buffer the entire called phone number anyway, even back in electromechanical times, which meant they could also translate the pulses if that would have been necessary.
You too, cronjobber. I apologize for giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming that you weren't just throwing rocks at lisp and smalltalk and was trying to make an actual point about the cost of education.
This is funny, just wrote post on a same topic: https://zarkzork.com/code-reading.html
This sounds like an interesting technical problem. If you're up for chatting about it further, I'd be interested in hearing more about it--my email's in my profile.
i'm not a fan of tdd, and a huge proponent of testing in general. what you say about making bad changes to support tests really strikes a chord.

in tdd environments the test harness is used as some kind of crutch to avoid having to have difficult discussions about what the product should* be doing - what makes sense. the test acts as some kind of oracle in the regard, even though it was written by an intern last spring who didn't really have any idea what was supposed to happen either.

i'm basically afraid to say 'the test is wrong' anymore. i always get back a blank look of incomprehension or even outright fear.
I have and been successful but maybe things have changed in the last 10 years.

You never meet someone right away, first you instant message on the platform. At some point you move into a chat program offsite and in a month you started talking on the phone. 6 months later you meet. Over that half year you develop a friendship when you meet you have tons to talk about. The buildup adds excitement and unless you look nothing like your picture your looks are already accepted and seeing you in person increases that attraction.

If you try to rush the process you better have outstanding physical qualities or great style or money or luck because every relationship needs a base. You are better off going to a local minecraft meetup. Everyone attending will feel they have someone in common and you can build off of that.

Start by building a low risk relationship with daily contact points. That will create the base for a successful friendship which is what you need for a successful relationship.
Video production is definitely one of the primary mediums for the communication of ideas, because of how versatile it is. A podcast is basically a video, without the visual aspect. The visuals accompanying video provides another dimension through which an idea may be conveyed. Photographs are just snapshots of a video. A photograph can represent multiple ideas, and provide an idea of the story's plot. Video, in comparison, provides a running narrative and dynamicism vs the staticness of photography.
They are terms that one can't apply to oneself. It's fine for other people to call me a thought leader, but I can't say it myself. I suspect this may also apply to "entrepreneur".
<humour>

There is something powerful and inhuman to predict things accurately, when humans fail miserably at that.

However I think that articles that have titles such as "Predicting * with Deep Learning and * " reveal also their authors feelings.

Because they contain an underlying statement such as "See how powerful is that beast, and fear me, for I am its master!"
</humour>
Interesting post. While not exactly the same, but test scripts made with Sikuli and Kantu work well for us to check for unwanted UI changes.
I'd take all of this with a giant pinch of salt. If the data is anything like the sleep data generated by my Garmin vivosmart HR+ it's not much better than garbage.

It frequently counts me as sleeping when I sit down to watch TV in the evening, or read a book in bed. Sometimes I stay up until 1am reading and it always tracks me as deep sleep from 10pm when I got into bed. I usually take it off for my morning shower (It is waterproof, it just annoys me when washing) and it nearly always counts the walking from bed to shower as a few minutes of restless sleep and the shower itself as deep sleep.

I'm not sure how it makes an assesment of my sleep level. I don't know if it's just based on movement or if it takes heart rate data into account but it does have a heart rate sensor. It seems to usually be wrong.

In theroy it would be possible to know about these limitations and adjust your use of it to make it more accurate, but unless the participents of the study are aware of that and have been manually correcting the data then that won't be the case.

(Not a general critisim on the device, I like it for everything else, but it's sleep data is clearly rather inaccurate)
Yeah, I know about those. They are not exclusive deals though. Amazon has the "streaming rights" to thursday games but CBS will still be the primary partner. I'm talking about them directly competing with the networks.
Well, you present a bit of a false choice here. Carmack's choice was "Never grow the company to the point where you need managers"

Turns out, it was a perfectly valid choice for him, but it means you have to be incredibly talented, and so does everyone you hire.
> LendUp uses machine learning & data science

Stopped reading right there.

The landing page mentions "for people trying to build up credit history"
> The hard part about this industry is that there is no single incumbent to disrupt, but thousand of very small businesses who have personal relationships with their clients. Also whereever you jump into the process, you have to deal with companies who do not value technology as much as the HN crowd would. These companies still print out PDFs and have automated very little of their business. No matter how fast you make your software, you are the behest of the companies below and above you in the chain.

Quoted for truth, as we used to say in forums long ago. This represents a non-trivial issue in delivering solutions.