skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The truth is that if you're generating 30-page spreadsheets as a final product, you're a dinosaur. They're part of the old waterfall model of big upfront design and a month in QA before a every release. You still find both in certain industries, but most sites move way too fast for that these days.

With the right training and a decent framework (not just raw Selenium), modern skilled QA testers can generate automated scripts as fast or faster as the old school could generate spreadsheets, which can then be run almost instantly on every check-in to master, not just once in every six month cycle. If you're in QA and not picking up those skills, you're going to find yourself obsolete very very soon.
> Over-intervention and over-screening are two different problems, particularly for prostate cancer, where screening is low-cost and low-risk

They are distinct but not unrelated, particularly in a system where treatment decisions are highly patient driven, especially for patients with financial means.

But my point is less about over screening than that differences in screening practices naturally produce difference in five-year survival statistics even in cases when they have no meaningful outcone in terms of disease progression, mortality, and quality of life, because more screening will detect more cases of disease earlier, even cases for which intervention would never be clinically indicated. If you do a lot better job at diagnosing cases for which there would never be intervention, you get a better 5-yesr survival rate but haven't done any better at dealing with the disease.

Note that I'm not arguing about whether the UK does deal with prostate cancer well, in fact what I've seen using mortality rates suggest they are a bit worse than the US, though much less bad then you'd think from 5-year survival rates. I'm just staying there 5-year survival rates aren't great metrics for systems that are different in conditions that lead to diagnosis.
Security personnel are somewhat special. They need to keep temps/vendors/contractors away from sensitive information covered by NDAs for full time employees. This necessitates those security guards being exposed to the sensitive information in question. Therefore, security folks are full time employees while cafeteria and gbus staff are not.
Thanks for the clarification--your post I was responding to didn't represent it as such.
"...banning installers from setting defaults..." goes way, way further than "... so users don't use Chrome". Installers silently replacing my default app is user-hostile and I encourage any steps my OS vendor takes to reduce the ability to do that.

I had zero problems manually switching my default browser in Windows 10 to Chrome.
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If you control both the client and the server, there are lots of shortcuts you can take. As you say, that’s not the problem that REST was trying to solve, though.
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sounds good! If you send me an email at darkboxtor@gmail.com I can set you up with the public account so you can test it out.
Why not? You have to start somewhere.
I am curious how can you even break Google apart -- it is not like you can just split it into regional companies (like with Ma Bell). The article only mentions:

- Fining Google over shopping-comparison results

- Forcing Bell Labs to license its patents to all comers

I don't think that the fines could reduce Google's or Facebook's market share in their primary market.

As for the patent example, I am not sure how to apply it to Google/Facebook. AFAIK, their patent portfolio, or even their software, is not the key to their success -- their social networks are.
As a 3rd-party developer I could almost understand retiring apps (too many dependencies on deprecated stuff, ancient code base is too hard to maintain, etc.).

Yet built-in apps are much more special. For one, many people consider built-in apps to be "the OS" as much as the OS itself. And two, if there is any development team that can continue supporting an ancient code base, it's the OS vendor: if they really have to, they can do things other companies can't (like privately continue to ship functions that are now publicly unavailable). It should always be more in their interest to evolve rather than redo.
What happens when this mislabels a poisoneous mushroom as something harmless?
Where lies the responsibility?
Can this app be used safely?

Imo it's quite different than a printed guide, because the app tells you what you're looking at instead of forcing you to interpret that by yourself like the printed guide does.

Seems especially tricky for users that don't understand that there will be tons of misclassifications with this kind of tech.
They'll be happy to torture you regardless. The Soviets did it all the time--take people in and beat them senseless for no reason other than to intimidate others into compliance. The Chinese do it, probably the US 'intelligence' agencies, too.
Not at first. It's fixing an accounting rule that draws distinctions between equivalent cash-flow situations.

A: City owns an office building with a $1MM/yr fair-market rent, which it uses for administration.

B: City collects $1MM/yr rent from their office building, and pays $1MM/yr to rent out a different building for their administration to use.

If you net out the imputed rent in situation A, then it looks like the administration is $1MM/yr cheaper than it actually is.
Pet projects done with googles time and resources can't easily be published elsewhere on github...
Housing costs? Well partly sure, but equally due to the lack of a social welfare system.
There are designs for much better implementations that are completed or in the works.

Cryptocurrency is here to stay, whether or not it will be Bitcoin specifically is another question.
Ask HN: Email hacks for productivity?
Aside from person to person communication, what hacks, tips, tricks, or services do you use with email?
Here is another tool that identifies many other things http://imageidentify.com/
Ahh that makes sense. We have an API-driven SPA, so our API is just banned from returning anything fun. But I can see how this becomes an for apps with server-side rendering based on how annoying it is to manage the CSP on our front end.
I'm leaning towards yes on this. The tipping point for me was Google (near monopoly in search used to push a dominant share of the browser market, and a dominant share of mobile) and their ad blocker plans.
Sorry, you commute two hours EACH WAY EVERY DAY? Nothing is worth that. I'd expect serious money for putting up with that, and at that point, you could just afford to live closer.
Or, they're just taking advantage of a system for their own benefit. It's been known to happen.
I believe the point was that selling a kid to pay for the others is a suggestion similarly (if not identically) indifferent to emotional realities as suggesting that a committedly-married couple get a divorce to change their tax status.
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I've always wanted to run openmoko. If I could run it on modern phones and replace android, I totally would.
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Berkeley's Greater Good Science center does fantastic research on this topic. They have a MOOC too.

This article is a great summary that may help you:

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/can_helping_ot...

These parts specifically may provide key insight:

"Often, psychologists have distinguished between two types of well-being: hedonic well-being (a sense of happiness) and eudaimonic well-being (a sense of meaning and purpose). Although happiness and meaning overlap significantly, researchers suspected that helping others is especially crucial to developing a sense of meaning."

"A recent article published in The Journal of Positive Psychology by Daryl Van Tongeren and his colleagues sought to examine this relationship. In a preliminary study, the researchers asked over 400 participants to report on how frequently they engage in different altruistic behaviors (such as volunteering) and how meaningful their life feels. Participants who were more altruistic reported a greater sense of purpose and meaning in their lives."
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Nope. This is an ancient attack.
Meaningful information for anybody who might stumble across the URL with near-zero investment in maintenance. Approach it from a company that prides itself on user experience - a 404 or other "unexpected" result is the worst user experience.
>"I'm tired of being used as a pawn in this bullshit game."

Boohoo life in 2017 is so hard.
Given that most people here would be best off not-hacked, what are the best ways (software/security tricks) to avoid malware on OSX?
I don't think you know what a Ponzi scheme is.
OK, yeah, you have to trust SOMEONE, but it makes a big difference who the someone is. Trusting a reputable registrar is a lot different from handing over total control to Joe Random web developer. I have a feeling that the case here is closer to the latter than the former.
That is why Paint is now deprecated: a successor named Paint 3D has replaced it in the Creators Update in May. Whether or not you think the 3D features are all that interesting, it's definitely interesting seeing Microsoft invest in new ideas for the built-in apps.
I use makefile as the library package dependency [1], maybe like what package.json was in node environment.

The idea is if you want to use the library, you just include the makefile inside your project makefile, define a TARGET values and you will automatically have tasks for build, debug, etc.

The key is a hack on .SECONDEXPANSION pragma of GNU make, which means it's only work in GNU/Linux environment.

[1] https://GitHub.com/shuLhan/libvos

Edit: ah, turn out I write some documentation about it here: http://kilabit.info/projects/libvos/doc/index.html
Vz can do whatever they want with their network. It's theirs.
Asserting that full access to the file system is 'buried' in MacOS is flat-out wrong, and borderline insulting. It's all there in the Go menu which is visible on screen.

If MacOS doesn't ship with your obscure checklist of "essential utilities" then go cry in the corner quietly. Meanwhile Windows 10 doesn't even ship with a real bash shell, which I consider essential.
Actually, yes, UUID's would be ideal. Then we'd just a public registrar of some sort to index them with a more human-readable name.
Is it actually profitable to do that sort of unethical activity though? These aren't exactly loan sharks right?
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And some people still say that "single payer healthcare" is non-sense. Amazing..
Sure, no problem. Tweet @fullstackpython or @mattmakai and I can follow you for DMs.
If people can take advantage of the system, some percentage of them will, regardless of what they're getting paid.

Random example: at my previous job, people would book more expensive travel options (on the company's dime) so that they could accumulate (personal) frequent flyer miles on their preferred airline. And they were all making 6-figure salaries.
> O(n^2) I do not dispute. "Landmines," however, I take offense at: my naive implementation can still check 10,000 items in less than three seconds

If you're satisfied that the loop you presented runs for a time comparable
with three seconds for merely 10000 elements, it says plenty enough about your
craft.

> [...] I can tell you that Dictionary<string, Item> is roughly 8% slower than HashSet<string> for two otherwise identical implementations of this method.

Ah yes, benchmark comparing non-implementation (abstract class) with an
implementation (concrete class).

> From the preceding conversation, I conclude that you are inclined to prematurely optimize at the cost of maintainability

No. I just tend not to leave behind ridiculous algorithms, especially when an
acceptably efficient solution is of comparable code complexity.

> [...] You may not think that this description accurately depicts you; but then I don't think your opinion of me seems to be correct either.

Parts of it, yes, they do match. I'm an asshole that laughs openly whenever
sees statements that look ridiculous made by somebody who considers themselves
an expert (note that it doesn't matter whether they are or are not actually an
expert). But then, it's not my code that takes three seconds to walk through
ten thousands elements when -- as napkin calculations show -- it should take
under a millisecond.
I commented a little earlier. IANAL. I just find this all interesting for some reason.

But it seems that what happened is that Mikkelson and his wife owned the underlying company ("Bardav", it's called), 50/50. They got divorced. She wanted to sell her half to Proper Media. But because of how they were incorporated, only individuals could own shares in Bardav. So these 5 guys from Proper Media decided to just each own a portion of that 50% themselves, then Bardav would contract services out to Proper Media to manage the site.

So Proper Media, as far as I can tell, doesn't -- and in fact CAN'T -- own anything. They're just a vendor. But then Mikkelson decided he didn't want Proper Media (as a vendor) managing things anymore. They even gave the proper 60 days notice according to the lawsuit. But the Proper Media guys are pissed because they're no longer getting paid that way. Sounds to me like they thought that found this slick little loophole to get around the fact that only individuals could own the shares, but they didn't really think it through.

But again, IANAL, and I have no expertise in any of this.
This requires a server process.
> This of course ignores the fact that their customers are requesting the traffic and their whole business model is designed on asymetric traffic.

Exactly. If the Internet worked on this model—where the recipient of the net imbalance was paid money for it—I'd get a check from Verizon each month instead of a bill!
Yes, it is using the discrete cosine transform like JPEG.
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What other essentials of life? A car and car insurance are within bounds of normalcy. Food at grocery stores is in line with the rest of California and farm raised food can be dirt cheap. Good public schools are readily available. Healthcare costs are the same as anywhere else in the USA.

What other essentially things besides housing are inflated in SV? Yes, you can go out and buy $20 bean sprout sandwiches, but that isn't exactly a necessity.
To generate 100 Terabytes of data in parallel ... on Hadoop

https://github.com/hortonworks/hive-testbench/blob/hive14/tp...

The shell script generates a Makefile and the Makefile runs the hadoop commands, so that the parallel dep handling is entirely handed off to Make.

This make it super easy to run 2 parallel workloads at all times - unlike xargs -P 2, this is much more friendly towards complex before/after deps and failure handling.
Perhaps they can eat cake too
Looks nice. I've wanted something like this. It would be better if I can subscribe a search result.
In any other field all of these billing scams would be a federal crimes.

Congress could solve this issue overnight by passing a 1 line law:

If a patient is using services that is not covered by their insurance, or if they have no insurance, no medical service provider can change more than the official medicare standard rate for any services rendered.

Problem solved.
Or your data is…you know…mark-up. Imagine a biology textbook, or legal contract, with inline citations and entities. There’s lots of marked-up human text around, even if that’s not what you’re sending to a JavaScript front-end. (Ironically, all of our JavaScript front-end frameworks are ultimately building mark-up as documents for human consumption.)
Another one that always gets me on Windows is the "Open File ..." dialog.

On macOS you're able to drag a file from any other app into the dialog and it will navigate to that file. On Windows it just moves the file to whatever folder is open in the dialog.

Windows also has 3 or 4 variants of the "Open File ..." dialog, which isn't a great experience.
Thanks for your comment.

That's right, it just prices IRS and Bonds (with no optionalities). Next steps could be adding equity options, swaptions, caps and floors or bond options, but it's just a side project I used to learn something about quantlib. Anyone willing to contribute will be welcome though :). It is entirely done with C++ (C++ quantlib, crow and rapidjson).

About market data, I think that is a big gap to fill in this industry. Hopefully some day it will exist an open source of data, but IMHO that's not something is likely going to happen in the near future.
I agree - I intended to word my statement in a way that didn't imply that debate meant that truth was hard to find, just that debate may point to the fact that the truth is hard to find.
Google has failed to convince any browser maker not using their entire Blink rendering engine (i.e. Opera) to implement support for WebP. It's been almost seven years, not what I'd call successful.

On the server side, if you're processing images to create multiple versions anyway (thumbnails, different sizes for mobile & desktop, etc.), throwing WebP versions in there is simple enough and should reduce bandwidth use. It's not worth doing if you're not fully automating image handling for other reasons.
I'm not convinced that concentrating tech exclusively in the valley has objective network effects that outweigh the costs.

Regardless, from personal experience most of my colleagues would prefer to live in any large metro area but the South Bay (including friends in Mountain View, some of whom were told in the interview process that Google did not have availability in NYC, Chicago, or Pittsburgh). It's untenable for Google to hugely expand its Mountain View campus (http://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/planning/activeproj...) while its satellite offices, where many employees would prefer to work, are at a standstill. This is driving potential employees on the east coast into Mountain View, where they don't want to be, who end up pricing out working-class families from the bay who are desperately trying to stay there.
People have to be willing to sell it and/or market it.

Just because you have the means doesn't mean that you have the availability.
The lense you view this article through defines the value structure of how you see the world. There is no real issue here other than pride.

They have food, shelter, clothing and the best schools in the country for their children but they live in a garage. The fact that this article exists, implies that the CEO of Facebook is responsible for his employees and contrator's pride. As well as the housing crisis of the Bay Area.

If he can solve the Bay Area housing crisis I would vote for him for president.
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There's no federal law against it, but many parts of the US have laws against "unlawful cohabitation". Which is the main tool used to enforce the ban on polygamy. The laws could apply to unmarried couples that live together, but have only ever been used against polygamists. The supreme court recently turned down hearing a case to overturn such laws, keeping the practice illegal: http://www.sltrib.com/home/4848475-155/polygamy-remains-a-cr...
I really hope they worked on some of the Doze features and the calendar notifications that were ruined in Nougat.
As well as the unoriginal blatant gatorade logo ripoff. Do you really want to add HFCS to your project.
Honestly, that just seems like a waste of time to me. Regardless of "much" higher quality, at best you're getting 480p from a DVD. I'll take acceptable quality 1080p over great quality 480p every day of the week. What's more, you're still pirating, so why not just download full quality BD rips if you're going to bother?
To the script kiddies out there who read this: Do not try this on others wifi. It is a crime in the USA to crack network routers. Although the chance of you getting caught is low, better be safe than sorry.
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It really I've was already using Launchy instead of Cortana. So, when I saw what a mess Calculator had become in 10, Launcy ended up replacing that too for simple calculations.

It's sad, because by themselves programs like Paint and Calculator are simple. But, when done well, they come together to improve the quality of life while using Windows.
Change the first letter to S and guess what you get in Turkish... It's far enough that it wouldn't be necessarily embarrassing to mention but interesting in the light of this knowledge.
You can get married in your church and simply not get a marriage license if that is what is important to you.
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Both Palo Alto and Mountain View have recently elected pro-growth majorities to their city councils.
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I'd be careful about asking your co-workers for "dick pics".
That's a gorgeous project. Kudos.
Just curious, how did you get those sponsors? Did they contact you or did you reach out?
Ask HN: What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code?
It'd be interesting to know what books have had the greatest effect on how you structure your code and projects?
> I'm just staying there 5-year survival rates aren't great metrics for systems that are different in conditions that lead to diagnosis

I agree. That's why looking at all common cancers as well is important. Leukemia and lung cancer are the opposite end of the spectrum - early intervention is critical for leukemia and most lung cancers. And the UK does a much worse job at treating those than almost all other developed countries, and particularly the US.

So yes, some portion of the difference can be attributed to differences in screening practices, but screening practices are a relevant aspect of the entire system, and screening practices alone can't explain the UK's abysmal record for treating the more aggressive cancers which they do detect.
Overall the body is pretty good at nutrient partitioning and maintaining a caloric balance. There may be small statistically different outcomes for practicing stuff like IF, but there aren't clinically different outcomes outside of using IF to maintain compliance to a diet.

If IF helps you maintain your ability to comply to the diet you want, great, but there's absolutely no evidence for it being superior than the same diet spread over the day, and there a few ways in which it's probably suboptimal, like building muscle (although again not hugely so, so compliance probably trumps the small advantage you get).
Then setup a single-payer system per state. What's the excuse against that?
Does this only crack single word passwords? If my password was two common dictionary words or a common word plus a single number, would this try that possibility?
This! ^^

Solidity code is horrible, especially after looking at concise, maintainable, provably correct code.
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We really need some regional or state-driven action to drive down housing prices in critical areas. It'd be pretty straightforward - make a "Zoning Authority" tax and levy it on counties, cities, and neighborhoods that do not meet a development target. Want to be an obstructionist NIMBY? I'm fine with that if we're charging you $10k/yr for the privilege.