skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not brilliant, IMO. Just someone who knows how to program but not work on a team.
Though I don't know about you and your experience, I'd guess that the observation is the result of confirmation bias.
Atul Gawande is usually fairly disturbing.
There's no way that a 737 costs $151/hr to maintain. Small, simple, 4 or 6 seat single-engined airplanes (albeit on the high end) cost that much. Commercial airliners are going to be in the thousands of dollars per hour.
Only in Germany, certainly not in the UK - here Eton trumps PhD every day of the week.
The article talks about the closure of a couple of bootcamps and then holds up a few others as examples of ones that are getting it right.

However, it fails to give any solid evidence that any of these exemplar schools are any more stable/less likely to close than DBC and IY. Are they profitable or propping themselves up with VC money while trying to find product/market fit? If they're profitable, how profitable (and for how long)? What did they do to get there (layoffs, campus closures, pivots to a new focus)?

The quality of their grads aside, I wouldn't be surprised at all if some of the schools mentioned in the article also end up closing their doors in the next year.
Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA
why is it suddenly about me? I would. but statistically speaking, hr hiring and firing patterns do penalize any behavior that would get a company into legal trouble.
> And, as pointed out, people additionally have the option of taking out additional coverage,

That's like saying "people additionally have the option of paying out-of-pocket". Remember, by definition, the expected monetary value of insurance is negative, so unless the private insurance is being subsidized by taxpayer dollars (defeating the whole point), this is equivalent to saying that people are still free to pay for treatments themselves.

> NICE's recommendations are not subject to the NHS budget. They are independent for a reason. Cost efficiency of a treatment enters into their assessments, but they do not have final say on which treatments are offered. They make recommendations based on the clinical need and document efficacy, outcomes and costs. It's up to the NHS to then allocate funds accordingly.

You can't escape the fact that, at the end of the day, the process still amounts to the same thing. Given a finite budget, decisions are made on how to allocate that funding based on clinical data, resulting in some people not receiving treatment, even though they would otherwise benefit clinically from it. What the NHS does is not fundamentally different from what insurance companies do.

Saying that it's subject to "democratic control" doesn't really mean a whole lot, except that the process ends up being a lot slower, and it becomes a political battle. (Notice that PrEP has been available in the US for five years at zero cost to patients, and it's still not available in the UK. Or, notice that the cure for HCV is generally accessible on private insurance in the US, but almost nobody in the UK is able to receive it through the NHS.)
Toronto.

The in person interview didn't go as well as it ought to have. My lawyer neglected to have my 2016 tax return in the documentation they sent.
For folks curious about WebGL in a Vulkan world, there's https://github.com/KhronosGroup/WebGLNext-Proposals/tree/mas... .
That's still quite a leap, considering the variability of traffic accident statistics. For example a good winter storm can cause hundreds of (non-fatal) accidents on its own, and storm patterns are highly inconsistent from year to year. I mean, imagine what kind of "scary link" you could find by looking at any changes made in the state of Louisiana in 2005 and forgetting to account for Hurricane Katrina.

Has there been an increase in tourism? Specifically, folks from neighboring states coming to buy marijuana?

Does it correlate with an increasing snapchat-using demographic reaching driving age? Another CDOT official believes distracted driving is causing the surge:

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/31/colorado-roadway-fatali...

(Yet the article seems to spend more time talking about a decrease in seatbelt usage, which would also boost the fatality stat)

What do other states that legalized at the same time report?

Washington says despite the national average going up, crashes there went down. They credit themselves for being strict on distracted driving.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/traf...

Junk article really, most likely to be abused as a political tool by people who don't understand stats.
https://github.com/anders94/blockchain-demo
> selling millions of vehicles

VW sold approximately 475000 affected diesel vehicles in the US (compared to approx. 84.5 million car sales in the same time period).
> Friberg would be precisely correct — the tablet contains no ratios of side lengths, only ratios of "quadrances"

Haha. Someone should email him to say so. :-P
Swift Error Handling Implementation
An interview at google?
Maybe a slightly different topic.. but from what a lot in the running field think, its all about how fast your body recovers.

There are 10,000 amazing marathoners in the world. If you gave them all the same training, they would all be absurdly good, as they got better and better. But 9,990 or so of them would get injured and wash out.

So it seems at least in some sports, your limiter is not how genetically gifted you are the SPORT, but how genetically gifted you are at recovering from training so that you can train more.

So perhaps this guy has the genetics to be a pro golfer, but his body can't take the strain and recover between sessions.. so he would never quite make it.
No, libreboot did as well: https://libreboot.org/news/unity.html
He is clear, logical, and reasonable.

Poor guy, they will eat him alive.
"IT guy"
I don't think this statement is correct. The diesel emissions scandal is hardly a new scale in terms of international fraud — just think about banking.
Oculus Tiny Room is linked, but Valve also has a pretty good minimal Vulkan + OpenVR example in the OpenVR SDK called hellovr_vulkan (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/blob/master/samples/...).

On HN this might be attractive because people tend to complain about Windows only software, and all of Valve's samples use SDL and in theory run on Mac OS X and Linux. The OpenVR example is a little bit more verbose, but it does have some extra functionality, like drawing render models (controllers) provided by the API.
> Before the USA, North America was called America and all of its inhabitants (or at least the British-descended ones -- any history buffs?) were "American"

History is overflowing with perpetual name changes for countries, regions, cities, etc. There's nothing unusual about it other than that in this case it applies to the US, which as the sole superpower is a magnet for over-inflating such ridiculous non-issues.
First off, you aren't doing functional programming when you have first class functions or if you use HO functions like map and reduce. Those concepts can exist in imperative programs. The only concept that makes a program functional is immutability. That's it. Functional programming does not make sense to you if you don't understand this.

>I'd say that anyone who's complaining about callback hell isn't up-to-date with the JS world. Promises have fixed this problem and, as you pointed out, async/await make it even nicer.

The latest node api still uses callbacks. Promises haven't fixed this problem, it's just a bandaid on stab wound. Async/await is the proper way to deal with this problem and python supports it so there's no upside for node in this area.
Maybe her father has WhatsApp installed, or Instagram
Its the Mafia way. When they need something done they don't look in the Yellow Pages. They know a guy - a wiseguy - and he or she either owes them a favour already, or wants to have a favour in the bank. This is how I manage my career.
I might be wrong, but isn't using EGR (to reduce NOx) actually increase particulates in exhaust?
I live in this field now. I refuse to publish in so-called "highly-ranked journals" that take 3-6 months to find peers to review and referee your work, drag their feet, and basically amount to a ridiculous group of cronies that guard the gates of "science."

I've talked about it before on HN but I will only publish to open access and open data (most important) journals that require all data be scrubbed of PII and published alongside the paper for replication purposes. I highly favor journals that not only allow, but encourage replication (yes, many elite journals cite "novelty" as a top factor regarding publication decisions... embarrassing).

Science should be freely available, open access, open data, and replicable. Otherwise it isn't science. It's primarily garbage that exists to advance the careers and egos of a select few.
Being in Seattle, they're the local airlines for me, so a lot of my flights go through them. They have top to bottom great customer service - from the call centers to check in staff to flight attendants. Everything just works with them. I've had odd requests/problems here and there before, and the call center staff really try to work with you to solve the problem. And they're US based, not a call center in India.

I also never get the feeling the check in agents are just mailing it in. I've had bad experiences before with agents before (a tired AA agent once just through my suitcase on to the belt right after I told him I was checking in a firearm), but it seems Alaska cares a lot more and they're better trained (more consistent).

They also are a great community partner here and sponsor a lot of events and organizations including things like Pride celebrations.
Do you have co-workers that do the same job you do?

If you do whatever job description they draw for you needs to apply to your coworkers as well. They can't say your job description requires a degree on "Performance Studies" while having other people on the same function with Marketing degrees.

PS: I'm not a lawyer, this info is based on legal advice I had when doing my own green card process from L1
Darmiyan's product is NOT a probabilistic risk assessment test, and is NOT intended for use by the general public. There are already too many tests in the market for risk assessment, which are just probability numbers. Darmiyan's product is a software for quantitative assessment of micro-structural abnormality (neurodegeneration) in every voxel of brain MRI. You can think of it as a quantitative virtual microscope. Our maps and reports are not intended for use by the general public. Once we receive FDA approval in about a year or so, the Darmiyan test (software analysis of brain MRI) has to be ordered by a physician and interpreted by a physician to assist in clinical diagnosis and intervention recommendations, if any. The guidelines on Darmiyan test indications and interpretations will be determined by the medical community.
Everyone at a networking event is looking for a leg up, but the people who have something to trade don't attend networking events.
When reading these "Leaving X for Y" I first think that maybe some people are unable to fluently use more than 1 language.

Seriously, professionality is being able to use the right tool for the job at hand.
At a previous company we had a 'farm' of test phones that we used for testing new versions of software. A large number of those test were 'stress testing' which would probably be analogous to the sort of load you would have it they were to be treated as a 'datacenter'.

Based on that I'm pretty sure that the biggest issue with managing the cluster would be the extremely high failure rate.

That's not to say that this won't work because I haven't done the maths, but it kid a unique challenge.
That's right, you're not an engineer.
Nazis, the Internet, Policing Content and Free Speech
How to Avoid a Boxers Fracture
This is why I never touched Laravel, 'The PHP Framework For Web Artisans'. I'm not an 'artisan'. I just code.
Be weary of Chef if you plan on any kind of autoscaling. We had to deploy some pretty big hacks to get around some core assumptions in chef in order to use AWS autoscaling.

On the other had we did make autoscaling work with chef. Not sure how any of the others would fare since a relatively static server list was a pretty safe assumption until about 6 years ago.
If his body cannot take the strain and recover between sessions then wouldn't that suggest that he does not have the genetics to be a pro golfer, but merely a good one?
This is not explicitly tech-oriented, but I am reading a very interesting book at the moment that seems highly relevant to what you describe:

"How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century", Hahrie Han

The book is a write-up of a sociological study in which the author accompanied various local groups of two large activist organizations in the USA. Her aim was to find out what differentiated high-achieving groups from low achievers, measured by the number of people they were able to mobilize and keep engaged.

Though she is not concerned with technology per se, she does talk quite a bit about its potential in activism, as well as the pitfalls of an overreliance on it.

I haven't finished reading the whole book yet, but it is certainly thought-provoking and if you are trying to get people involved in a civic group of any kind, I strongly recommend it.
Every page you visit that has a like button on it, facebook knows you've visited that website.. porn, news, whatever.. they know what you're looking at on the internet.

Even if you don't have a facebook account, you still get a cookie so they follow you online and build a profile of your browsing habits.
Artisan? I wish. For the most part a plumber would be more appropriate. I'd like to see a plumber marketing themselves as an artisan.
until 2014
What I'm completely missing in this discussion of Code of Conduct violation is a specific list of which actions violated which clauses in this Code of Conduct.

I see a list of complaints, but for an outsider it is really hard to follow why these actions are considered to be CoC violations.

Take this, for instance:

"In [moderation repository discussion], Rod’s first action was to apologize to a contributor who had been repeatedly moderated. Rod did not discuss the issue with other members of the CTC/TSC first. The result undermined the moderation process as it was occurring. It also undercut the authority as moderators of other CTC/TSC members."

Do you know how this reads? A case is being made against a "toxic" person who "repeatedly breaks CoC" and the first complaint against him is that he apologized to a contributor? Really? I just don't get this.
Well put. Good to see that Python can handle this cleanly.

You can do pretty much exactly the same with JS but I do think that there is some merit to this intermediate step of having the then() clauses for backwards-compatibility because you can't always guarantee that the caller will in be an async function.

Async/await is an all-or-nothing improvement not an incremental one.
No, an artisan is an artisan. A developer is developer. That's not to say some developers aren't artisans, but a lot of people are developers because it pays the bills: they build things, and are good at building things, because they see it as a means to an end. Some do it as a means of expression: it is their medium for creation. Both modes of operation, and everything in between, are equally viable and valid.

I guess my point is, it's fine to write code and NOT be an artisan. I'd argue that most people who code are not as interested in the creation aspect of is as much as "doing cool stuff" or making money...and that's fine.

But let's not paint all developers with an artisan brush.
People got afraid of it and replaced it with fossil fuels. Near term visible risk vs. long run invisible risk. Also, cost overruns and regulatory issues played a role I think.

We could conceivably swap out carbon for nuclear though. Just not carbon for [more expensive energy source]. People get antsy even when economic growth slows. A drop in the standard of living is political suicide.

I don't think we're very well psychologically equipped to deal with this.
"Software simian"
But at the same time, your fellow students will put you on an email blacklist :)
I can tell you're someone who has actually read the core objectives of branches of the military and has experience with their relationships with other countries.

If you're reading this and would like a concrete example of what the guy above me means, take a look at the U.S. history in major foreign bases like Okinawa. Okinawa does not exist so we can defend Japan. It serves as an Asian FOB, helps contain North Korea / China, secures our access to important shipping routes, and of course "projects force".

The "U.S. protects Europe and the rest of the world" is just some jingoist narrative with no factual basis.
> But the article isn't arguing that, the article seems to be arguing we are something more than engineers.

But we are not even engineers, let alone more.

There are some people active in the production of software that would qualify as engineers but that's a tiny fraction and they're not going to be found too far from medical devices and aerospace.
I'm on uBlock Origin and I don't ever have problems with Forbes. Sometimes I have to edit the url, but rarely.
ASP.NET Core MVC – Repository Overview: Value Providers
great exposition about taxes on externalities often being sub-optimal. part of the problem with pigouvian taxes as the solution to externalities is that taxes are often viewed with skepticism because of the association with either a big black hole of waste or one of greedy corruption, so you get all kinds of resistance (not to mention the primary resistance of the "greedy wanting to greed").

but the general idea of pricing in externalities is a neceesary, and possibly an ingenious, way to keep our greedy selves in check for the good of the whole. it's only fair that individuals and small groups of people shouldn't exploit collective resources for only themselves. benefits shouldn't be privatized while costs are socialized. they should go together (private benefit with private cost, public benefit with public cost).

more to the point, "making sure all costs are paid for" by the prevailing party is much more palatable over the vagueness of taxation. external costs should be assessed and charged appropriately and the proceeds be used as much as possible to prevent or restore the resources used and/or the damages caused. the government will need to be involved at a regulatory level, but taxation doesn't seem to be it's most successful intervention option.
It's not tautological. The legislative process in which certain classes were deemed protected was not a simple declaration. I'm not going to try to look up the history and issues that led to religion being explicitly protected in the Forst Amendment, but the American Disabilities Act was passed relatively recently enough to find contemporary accounts of the debate and controversy that preceded its passage:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/07/26/ada.history/index.html

The outlawing of discrimination against disabilities is, IMO, very humane, and it's hard to imagine something like it being sponsored by a very liberal Senator and signed by a Republican president. That said, the law has required significant costs from society. California, which I believe has stronger disability laws, still faces big debate about the cost to businesses:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...

As accepted as ADA is by the status quo, that doesn't mean that the definition of disabled, or of the costs needed to fulfill the law, are easily understood. But I do think its issues and conflicts are relatively simple compared to a law that outlawed discrimination against political beliefs.

How would that even work without getting quickly entangled with the First Amendment? Or even in implemented in everyday life. Business owners have no right whatsoever to fire someone for expressing beliefs that run profoundly counter to the business? Or to kick out a trolling customer?
> That also answers why the German government is giving them some leeway here: it's not exactly in their interest to kill Volkswagen.

While the federal government does not have a direct stake (apart from all the tax euros), the fine state of Lower Saxony holds a 20 % share (which actually causes the MP and his economics minister to always be on the board of directors).
There is only so much that can go into a short essay about the story and aspirations of a disruptive startup company. This story was not meant to be a scientific publication. We are working with FDA and expecting to receive approval within a year.

You can think of Darmiyan's product as a quantitative virtual microscope that, among other things, can help pharmaceutical companies come up with a disease-modifying treatment by testing the test drug on "cognitively healthy" volunteers who could potentially benefit from the drug, if it's really effective, before it's too late. Right now there is no other tool in the market to identify and monitor microscopic abnormality in cognitively healthy brains.
Too busy changing the world to read up on Native American history. Think of it as artisanal license...
Completely agree with you. I find it especially annoying when research funded by tax payers' money is not made freely available.
brilliance and hard work guarantee absolutely nothing
Eh, my personal reaction was that I was significantly more sympathetic to him after reading his writeup, so I was wondering if that's actually evidence-based or just emotion-based.
> No, an artisan is an artisan. A developer is developer. That's not to say some developers aren't artisans, but a lot of people are developers because it pays the bills

That's the norm for artisans (which is just a skilled worker in a trade involved in making things, especially by hand), not a distinction. Artists may be a different story, but artists aren't the same thing as artisans.
And vedi trigonometry? http://veda.wikidot.com/tip:ganita
In practice math papers are basically arguments for something. It's possible to make a bad faith argument by ignoring that A does not imply B and just hoping nobody notices. You can even structure thing to be intentionally misleading.

Honestly, I suspect people fudge thing in math more than you might think.
I'd say that at our best we might claim to be Hephaestans. Wikipedia gives him all of "blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors". Basically a god of engineering and the more construction-ish arts. The literary and musical arts, et c., would belong to others.

"Thetis of the silver feet came to the house of Hephaistos, imperishable, starry, and shining among the immortals, built in bronze for himself by the god of the dragging footsteps. She found him sweating as he turned here and there to his bellows busily, since he was working on twenty tripods which were to stand against the wall of his strong-founded dwelling. And he had set golden wheels underneath the base of each one so that of their own motion they could wheel into the immortal gathering, and return to his house: a wonder to look at. These were so far finished, but the elaborate ear handles were not yet on. He was forging these, and beating the chains out."

- The Iliad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus

Probably we should choose Hephaestans over Vulcans, to avoid confusion.