skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the big publishers are not behaving rationally here, trying to fight a library based in Russia via American courts.

A much cheaper and effective alternative would be to simply bribe some Russian officials. If the bribe is big enough the websites will be gone in a week, owners arrested.
They go straight to your boss' boss and if they don't get what they want from him they go to his boss.
Yeap. But lots of other stuff is also being used nowadays, including java, python, go, etc. depending on the product.
> There is no way to offer that level of service to anyone and not explode costs, let alone contain them.

* Import more doctors from other countries with a streamlined visa process

* Provide free training to doctors for underserved specialties

This is not hard. It is supply and demand. If demand increases, you find ways to increase supply in a cost-efficient manner.
So it's not full article?
People not paying for news are shaking up journalism and democracy!
It'd be informative if there was some kind of simulation for the origin of life. Think about LHC for observing protein evolution to cell.
There's also UndoDB if you can pay for it. Not sure what the differences are between it and RR, but I know with UndoDB you can create a binary for the client that has the recorder built in, so it can automatically record failing states.
Not sure about Booking, but at Catawiki (also NL-based) we are looking for Ruby developers willing to relocate.

Contact me via email in my profile if you are interested!
Product demo should probably be specific to your session. It's great to be able to try it. But unmoderated user content front and center on your main page doesn't work so well.

ETA: More specifically, there was a lot of flashing of offensive text.
Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS was illegal, UK data regulator rules
By doing that you are only encouraging the "look busy" behavior in others. Please don't.

The world does not need yet another million SLOC. We need to think a lot and type little.
>I expect that you can provide examples of this

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fda-drug...

So when an authority says that something is safe, and later turn out not to be so, isn't the original claim just bullshit? Or is it not bullshit because that is the best we could have done, but we still sold it as legit, without saying about the flaws in our process, which is why I mentioned selectively saying the truth...

I am pretty sure one can come up with other serious cases where "science" of today turned out to be bullshit later. The famous study that both ant and pro vaxxers tout are a very good example. Pretty sure that have been similar issues recently regarding diet, pesticide use, use of plastics and stuff like that...

EDIT: Ultimately, I think the majority of what we consider as "science" today (except maths/physics) is a somewhat grey area and is prone to various kinds of manipulation should not be really accepted without any sort of challenge. And just because something is peer reviewed does not make it the word of god...
As bad as some private insurance is; having friends and family who must seek care at the VA makes me want to run far far away from single payer. We have failed our members of the armed services, what makes you think we would do better for Joe & Jane Schmoe than we do for them? Larger organizations fester with waste and mismanagement the bigger they get, its simply a law of nature.
> As you age, you get to know yourself better.

Is this true? I had a manager tell me once "when you're thirty, everything just starts to make sense" which I now know is total bullshit because I hit that milestone and there was no epiphany.

I think the old have been bullshitting the young since the beginning of time. It's their right, but it's still bullshit. Having a lot to say doesn't make it worth hearing.
The French system is similar to that. You're right it's more expensive in terms of government expenditure than the US, although quite a lot cheaper in terms of combined public-private cost.
That most of this research taxpayer funded is indeed a good argument.

Beyond that, people criticized other disrupted industries for continuing to provide poor customer service -- seemingly unable to fight back after decades of treating customers as captive audiences, and taking them for granted. Well if you think the music industry was bad at that, the academic publishing industry is way worse. These guys typically provide no significant value add, yet they want large economic rewards. Meanwhile, journal after journal has been shown incompetent to keep garbage papers -- even papers generated by Markov chains -- out.

My impression is that they also discriminate heavily against individual researchers, many of whom cannot afford exorbitant per-per paper fees, while large (typically subsidized) institutions get much better deals when they are able to afford bulk access.
Demo wouldn't load (Chrome 59 MacOS).

objects.685ed2904d.js:1 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'type' of null
It actually stings a bit as a dev at a shop that really needs onprem - every time I see new TFS features that are cloud-only I feel a bit snubbed.
Do you have the academic record to get into a good college? You'll graduate by 29. Maintain good enough grades in a relevant natural science curriculum to get into a good medical school? You'll graduate that by 33. Three years of anesthesiology residency has you completing that by 36. The median salary is $425k[0] - how many first-year programmers make the median salary right off the bat?

Since you mentioned ROI, let's look at the financial aspect. You'll need loans for college and medical school. Let's say college is $75k for 4 years all in, including living expenses, and $160k for medical school. For your residency, you'll be making barely $50k a year, likely in an urban environment. It's not unreasonable to expect additional loans on top of that just to survive, in addition to three years of interest on top of the ~$235k in student loans you already have. Is $350k in student loans unreasonable by the time you can actually start paying them off? Probably not.

Some napkin math on $350k at 5% (it will absolutely be higher because you'll need private loans) shows that you'll have a $2300/mo student loan payment for 20 years, until you're 56. If you more than double your payments to $6k/mo it will still take you 6-7 years to pay off the balance (with the benefit of saving you over $150k in interest).

A lot of people spend more than that on their house, and I'm sure $2300 is not a lot of money when you're pulling in $650k a year as an anesthesiologist with 15 years of experience. But to me there is a ton of risk in doing something like that that you may hate.

And let's not forget, you don't even have a college degree. You might find out that you just suck at chemistry. :)

[0] https://residency.wustl.edu/CHOOSING/SPECDESC/Pages/Anesthes...
Is that whole "supply and demand" thing not convincing enough?
http://hasjob.co - Used widely by startups in India. I find it clean and simple to use.

And the code is open-source!
O'reilly book cover generator
What kind of design is this? Is there a name for it? I'd like to read more (both out of interest and being skeptical of how this scales)
This is how it should be done. Sounds like both the government and your company are doing it right and it's paying off because your are doing well recruiting talent. This is what France should do. But I do feel like there is some odd satisfaction in France both among the French and expats of having paid their dues, made it through the process and are sort of proud of it. Almost like they don;t want to make it too easy.
Eich was far more closely tied to Mozilla than Rice to Dropbox, though. No one in their right mind thought Rice had much to do with Dropbox beyond being a name they could drop and a bit of lobbying help.
Eh, I've seen some fresh college grads advocate the same stored procedures and silly k/v stores in relational DBs; someone told them that "model code must be isolated; stored procedures are the best way to do that" and they took that as gospel.

And I have been steamrolled in discussions with 20-somethings as well. "Don't worry, I'll always give you enough time to refactor the tree shaking caused by this design," from a first-time manager is probably my favorite, followed by "this must be re-written, there's no way to salvage it in-place."

They went from consistent if slow progress in defusing the landmines in the old backend to eight months of re-writing everything (frontend included since the data model was also changed) and trying to claw their way back to parity.

Bad programmers will be bad programmers, regardless of age. At least age will put a polish on average developers, letting them work above their raw potential simply because of "I've seen this before; here's how it was solved".
I mention that in the articles -- I'd had the freebie version of that for a while.

One very unhappy moment was when that went away without notice -- service downgrades are sort of the exact opposite of "underpromise, overdeliver".

And ... the search was at best only marginally useful, as you note.

The other antipattern aspects of Pocket, as well as the absolute failure to progress in anything remotely like a useful direction, are exceedingly disappointing.
Has anyone here had any luck with oldgeekjobs.com?
What You’re Attracted to Isn’t “Socially Constructed”
Most nuclear power plant construction projects have historically been over-budget and late...pretty normal in the industry. For a fraction of the cost and time, nat. gas generation capability can be spun up and deployed.
I don't think it is zero but where we have sites like wikipedia, they should be much lesser than the exorbitant prices they charge for subscriptions.

You can't read what you need but what the publishers think you should subscribe which is worse than proprietary software because this is Science - This has become the industry standard for journal publishers.
I can speak for Ireland. I am from a south asian country and the who process in Ireland has been a breeze.

Visa and permit? Easy. Just go to the office, present the documents and everything comes in post two weeks later.

Register with social welfare? great. Just go there and they set you up. You get a card and setup the account online. Everything else take care of by the employer and revenue departments.

Driving license? Take the written test and 300 euros for the lessons. If you pass, you can drive (with a driver with full license). Take the test 6 months later for full license.

Yes, here and there you do meet someone who tries to give you a hard time. but all in all, a very positive experience.
If a headline is a question, the answer is always no. Otherwise, the headline would not be stated as a question, but as an assertion of fact.
looks like onion architecture, no?
No pricing, doesn't appear to be open source, so why would I rely on this?

Too many SaaS apps go the way of the dodo these days - if I can't run it myself it's going to be a hard sell, and if you can't make a case that you're profitable, I'm not gonna take a risk on your flash in the pan project.
The tax picture is complicated, as always, but consider Hungary, where VAT is very high (27%) but income tax is very low (15% flat tax). Vibrant tech scene, programmers are paid very well by local standards, etc.

Having gotten quite used to the mellow police of Europe (not that I've ever been arrested or anything) I find the militarized police of the US unnerving every time I go back. Not sure I'd call it a political freedom but having mostly-friendly cops even in a really big city is a big quality of life thing.

Plus, drinking beer on the tram (in Berlin) -- that's definitely a freedom you won't enjoy in California. :-)
Not to mention the student loans (/r/personalfinance is littered with doctors trying to figure out how to pay off their $300k student loan tab in anything less than a decade) and the decade+ of opportunity cost and lost income from those working years.

Most doctors make very good money, don't get me wrong. And most anesthesiologists make good money compared to other doctors. But there are much, much easier and less risky ways to achieve nearly the same standard of living and financial security.
The UK has a dual model - NHS for everybody, and if you have spare money, you can additionally pay for additional services through insurance providers such as BUPA or paying directly. BUPA et al have reduced costs due to not having to cover a range of conditions, not having to indirectly fund A&E departments, being able to deny people coverage for preexisting conditions, etc etc. It's very unlikely that the US would ever deny people the ability to pay for healthcare if they chose to.
University research is funded by the state in germany. Research results should thus live in the public domain.

I have no pity for those artificial paywall companies, benefiting from research funded with tax money. This model needs to change - fast. And the change should be supported by legislation.
Is the French system true single-payer? I thought it was a hybrid system that allowed for significant private supplement.
Thanks a lot! Working on more useful content to help people with their early struggles to get online.
Probably depends on whether we can expect to find them within something like two thousand light years, or two hundred million plus.
It's in the name: Terminal Emulator
California legislators have learned that they can appeal to their rabid left wing by passing unrealistic bills, and Jerry Brown will play the adult in the room and veto them. So there's not really any danger to the legislators. It's a game they all understand.
Economist paywalls are easily circumvented:
a) Delete the element covering the content
b) Disable or delete cookies
Sigh. You're right, sorry. I'm out.
> mathematicians are also best when they are young

This guy springs to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laszlo_Babai

Because, yeah, programmers and mathematicians don't actually need any experience, they can just think everything up on the spot!

I also wonder how you imagine that other professions gain their experience, if they don't need to think.
I am 33 and have a 4 year old son who will be starting school this September. The biggest benefit for me that any company could offer would be true flexibility with regards to my working hours and location.

I have been self-employed for the past ~7 years and it has been great as I have been able to balance work with the first few years of my sons life. Time I will never get back so being able to be there every day has been wonderful. But now I need some consistency so will be looking to find a normal job very soon. I don't care about free coffee/sofa, gym memberships, sports tickets, etc. I just want flexibility so when my son has some school event I can go without having to use up a whole days holiday for a 45 minute show, etc.

I am not looking forward to it though. I know I am going to find it hard to adjust!
Indeed is my go-to job site. I found jobs both in Canada and France using it.
You're sure a well-placed `mklink` won't do the trick?
> I moved to the UK (from Ireland). It was relatively painless.

That's because both are EU countries (for now at least). Moving to France will also be much easier if you're an EU citizen, you won't have to deal with residence permits and your driver's license will also be valid.
HN for last few months is like mainstream TV — links to all these bloombergs, economists, mainstream world news, politics, social justice, all that dirt. It transformed into yet another top news aggregator. Who needs HN now if you can just turn on old nasty TV box and receive the same crappy information?
The information deserves discussion. What he criticizes is choosing a paid-access-only information provider to share this information here. It's probably possible to find the same info somewhere for free and that source should get shared.
If The Guardian is writing about it — no. The hype is over.
I think it's a shame vbuwivbiu's answer was killed, because though it was brief I find it's quite insightful. Intuition may be a good guide in contexts which matter strongly for broad well-being under the conditions we evolved for or situations where faculties we gained like that apply well by analogy or side effect. In the cosmic perspective the vast majority of matters are not like that.

My own first take would be that with such a vast number of opportunities for life to arise, it would be incredibly strange if it happens only once, and to me that seems to be the most common view, at least among those who accept a physical theory for the origins of life.

Gets slightly hairier for "intelligent" life, "civilizations",advanced technology" and so on, but the same basic reasoning seems to hold.
Are you claiming there is a higher occurrence of cancer among anesthesiologists, and that it's linked to the drugs they administer?
Karma is part of the echo-chamber strategy, a way to enforce public opinion over wider perspectives that might rock the boat. Funny thing is that it actually kind-of works the other way, since any post/comment that gets a lot of down-votes is probably on to something fundamental. You are not a number, don't let them trick you into behaving like one.
I agree with what you're saying, I've just never liked the naming convention. ;-) There are probably lots of great filters that we've passed through already, and I imagine there are lots more "in front" of us, if we are good and lucky.
I think a lot of people are going to be feeling that pain over the next few years - MS has really gone all out for cloud based services.
The newer matching services (as opposed to boards) are all worth checking out: Hired, Vettery, Underdog.io. I found many good leads through all of them, and my current position is through one of them (Vettery.)

AngelList Jobs is also a place to find interesting positions (startup-centric ones in this case, as one might expect.)
a recent discussion of the paper, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14289750
Yes, and 2017 is the year of the Linux Desktop. We can barely get stores to use EMV/chip card readers, so I'd have to say no.
Ok will look into it, thanks!
Your NIN is proof of address, if you can get it first.

A company can give you a letter to confirm that you work for them, that's also usable as a proof of address.
Then we should stop using the term "single-payer", which describes a system like Canada's, where private payments to providers are illegal.

In any event, you'd still be asking millions of Americans to switch health care plans when they're satisfied with what they already have.
Did you answer your interview questions in Javascript? Seeing that you are a front end dev.
> But they've got the same ingredients right? Grapes, yeast, maybe some extra sugar and water? What are you expecting to see on the "bad" wine label that you won't see on "good" wine?

What processing aids and additives are used. A list of allowed chemicals is found here: http://redax.tv4.se/kallafakta/LISTA%20TILLSATSER_ALLERGENER... I don't care one way or another but "wine snobs" claim some of these are giving them headaches.
There Is No Container [video] on containers as abstractions, contracts
Yeah, he's certainly got a 'different' background from a lot of people looking for work at the moment. It's a bit like an entrepreneur writing a blog post about startup success, then mentioning how their parents/friends gave them $500,000 to start the company with.

Most people probably wouldn't be that lucky.

Still, it does also show that even the best candidates will struggle with the job finding process in this day and age. I mean, someone with that sort of technical background and experience should be getting offers all over the place.

If you're an ex Microsoft/Amazon/Nvidia employee who set up two companies and has a strong technical background, and you're still only getting a 5.4% conversion rate...

Yeah, the system is really messed up.
"EOS Tokens Have No Rights, Uses or Attributes [pdf]
TQ, remedied will look into it further.
That does not make sense. First, Windows in 64-bit mode does not even support running 16-bit applications. Second, there's plenty of 16-bit code that's completely unrelated to MS Office/Windows (such as MBRs; that's because the BIOS boot process requires real mode).
I don't want this discussion to turn something it shouldn't be. I'm talking about other European natives here, such as the Basques or Bretons, for example. So no colonies involved or other tricky subjects.
From the FAQ's [0]:

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

As for a workaround, I can't offer any tips on this one because it opened for me without any restriction whatsoever.

But the most common workaround for porous paywalls like The Economist is to open the HN web link in an incognito window and click through from Google search.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Haha, good point
Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems
Thinking like this and, potentially because people with that mindset can't keep it to themselves, talking like this is the best way to become a loner who is hated by absolutely any sincere or loving person.

Yikes.
I dont get it, how is it shaking up science.

The heading is illogical. The article starts with how the film industry is being affected by piracy. Then it says that a court has granted a publishing platform damages from sci hub. Then in the next few paragraphs it lists the countries with the most users of the sci hub websites. Then it ends with how the creator of sci hub will be awarded a Disobedience award by MIT, which she likely wont attend...

I was expecting a detailed analysis of how something like sci hub affects research and science, not the middleman companies that earns from the research.
Thanks so much. I am so glad you are finding value in them!!!
That codebase sounds interesting, is there a change some parts of it were open sourced?
Ok, so you disabled that in Chrome?
I'm pretty sure that is criminal.
please don't SCREAM in headlines.
It's already part of Yunohost, which is where I first heard of it. I don't think making it easy to self-host is a problem to them.
But of course that "service" is mostly waste. If you self-refer yourself to Dr. Smucker, the best [foo] surgeon in the business, you're likely to find that your [foo] isn't broken at all and even if it was, it doesn't need surgery. So you've wasted Ms. Smucker's time and your insurance company's money, and you haven't made anyone, including yourself, any healthier.

And of course, there's like a 50-50 chance that Ms. Smucker is actually out of network by the time you see her, and you'll get a $2,000 bill to pay.

Take out the profit motive and you can build systems to actually make people healthier: networks of clinics and registered nurses and family physicians to handle the bulk of the work (which is, after all, mostly routine) backed up by specialists for the hard cases, and everyone with a mandate to do what is best for the patient rather than what makes the most money. That's what other countries do and it works extremely well, providing better health outcomes than the USA for a fraction of the cost.
I made an alternative interface that displays the same data using D3: https://jamesscottbrown.github.io/ai-progress-vis/index.html
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I believe there have been takedowns of SciHub... it's why they host in multiple countries and maintain multiple domain names.
The risk is, since any challenges have to go through an "unbiased hearing officer" whose job exists to remove scientific teachings from the schools, they would just reject any challenges against creationism, etc.

Which is to say, it should be tried, but it's designed not to succeed.