skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me of something written by noted surgeon (and Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Fellow) Atul Gawande [0]:

<blockquote>

If medicine is a craft, then you focus on teaching obstetricians to acquire a set of artisanal skills—the Woods corkscrew maneuver … , the Lovset maneuver …, the feel of a forceps for a baby whose head is too big. … You accept that things will not always work out in everyone’s hands.

But if medicine is an industry, responsible for the safest possible delivery of some four million babies a year in the United States alone, then a new understanding is required. The focus shifts. You seek reliability.

You begin to wonder whether forty-two thousand obstetricians in the Unites [sic] States could really safely master all those techniques. You notice the steady reports of terrible forceps injuries to babies and mothers, despite all the training that clinicians received.

After Apgar, obstetricians decided they needed a simpler, more predictable way to intervene when a laboring mother ran into trouble. They found it in the Cesarean section.

</blockquote>

Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, at 192 (Henry Holt & Co. 2007) (emphasis and extra paragraphing added).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Gawande
After I lost my bookmarks in a Firefox upgrade, i lost interest in keeping things bookmarked.
Plus, as research has shown, most links will be dead in a couple years.

Btw, do you use Pinboard?, have heard good things about it, specially the archive option.
- I don't see why customers would be so specific that they only want to look at cost of goods and not other costs. Most products and services people buy are based on their value for them, not based on their cost of goods.

- If you include equipment, rent, and utilities in your cost calculations, then you have to include software developers and servers that are powering the app. I am not talking about apps that you build, publish and forget. Most apps have backend and engineers maintaining and supporting them.

- You ignored my point about the customer acquisition cost which is likely to be the biggest cost for most apps.
How does intellectual property work for published research based on approaches developed while consulting for a company?

For example, let's say you develop a novel modeling methodology for a company who hired you. You'd like to publish the methodology and give conference talks on it. Since you're hired, your work and the methodology would belong to the company as their asset.

Are there certain types of licenses applicable here? How about in the case of the article where researchers are compensated for presenting a talk on that methodology?
Honestly The revision-x's are forgettable to begin with, unless you need that many cores (No ECC either).
>Calm down.

It must be tiring to be so logical and parental.
This was very apparent to me when recently on a visit in the US. There were a lot more TV commercials for different kinds of drugs than I'm used to. Ironically the required(?) list of potential side effects at the end of each ad often sounded worse than the condition the drug was supposed to treat in the first place.
For people who were confused like me, this wired article - http://www.wired.co.uk/article/bbc-digital-pidgin-language-s... - explains the launch of BBC in the pidgin language. Very cool.
Do you still require foreign start ups to incorporate in Delaware? Doesn't that undercut boosting the local economy argument
As far as I know it is irrelevant. If she is a permanent resident and has lived in the USA for more than 5 years that 's it.

I am confused by your question. Are you sure she is a legal permanent resident ?
A quick, non-biologist's googling suggests that nitrate and ammonium are the limiting factors for most oceanic algae.

I recall there being experiments for areas are iron limited, so they spread iron sulfate and created algae blooms.

I suppose intuitively, if you scoop up a bucket of ocean water, it is not green. If light were the limiting factor you would expect the water to contain lots of light absorbing algae. This does happen in nutrient rich waters, like the sewage lagoons and creeks I grew up near.
There are a lot of different parameters they can change, but the main ones are turbo boost and injection time. It is easy to find one set of values for each power output request that will make the engine run. Now you optimize. The combinations that is over the limits might not be that different than the values that is over the limits, so it is just a matter of trying them all to see what happens. This is done as an educated guess and refinement: we don't know exactly what any gives set will produce, but we have a good guess.
This is the space version of fusion, "just 20 years away" or "within our grasp" for the last 60 years.

In fact, it may be even less feasible. Not to sound too much like a skeptic, but my bet is on terrestrial methods of mitigation, solar/wind/tidal, reforestation and, hopefully one day, fusion.

Most people underestimate by several orders of magnitude how hard it is to launch something into space correctly.
Inefficiency compared to what?

Look at what capitalism has done to standards of living and life expectancy across the world over the last 100 years. In terms of the quality of human life, it is so staggering how effective capitalism has been. I think your view point of certain people being disadvantaged with regards to our current form of capitalism is short sighted. Sure, some physics phd may not be fully utilized, but that is at the cost of a system that is changing the world for the better.

What we are arguing is whether forcefully changing the inefficiencies (how do we even know they are inefficiencies? We dont. We can only speculate) you see in capitalism would help society overall. But that is like saying in the course of human evolution, we need to enforce mating rules to "change the course", sure we could do that, but how impossible is it? Would it even help? Are we even smart enough to figure that out?
Because there is no reason for it. If you have a problem there is a contact email in every mail included.

I do not feel like I should be sending mail from postmaster and the reply-to header does not feel any more appropriate.

These emails are 100 percent automatic and do not require you to reply. Ever.
Russia has 144 million people and a GDP on par with Italy. The EU has 500 million people and - even without NATO and the UK - French nukes, with the ability to develop them in other countries if necessary. Russians aren't stupid, they would never attack us.
I'm here on an H1B. My employment sponsored I-140 was approved over 180 days ago.
I'd like to change jobs, and my prospective new employer has renewed/transferred my H1B (not approved yet, but I have the receipt).
The I-140 application has not been transferred

However, the day I intended to resign my current work I got a notification of interview from the USCIS (to take place in the next month or so).

The interview I'm told may result in getting the greencard on that da, or they may need up to 5weeks for additional review.

What happens if I do follow through and change jobs in the days prior to the interview, does that have any affect?
While you most likely made that comment in jest. Stereotyping everyone into a category like "blue-haired SF nobodies" is rather offensive.

Not saying I disagree about the temper-tantrum, but there was no reason to state it in the way you did.
Similar dynamic programming idea from Zhang + Shasha 1992: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/shasha/papers/treebook3.pdf
I would like to see more taxes like this, with "free allowances" below which one does not need to fill in any paperwork or pay anything.

For example, have a car and have it produce 50 tons of co2 per year, don't worry. But if you have a power station and it produces 2500 tons, you have to measure it, report it, and pay co2 tax on it.

But if you leave your car running at full throttle hooked up to powering all the houses in your street, you'll have to pay.
Please be aware that I haven't read the paper (http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0315086017300691/1-s2.0-S031508601730...), so some of the things I say below may be wrong.

According to http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m446-03/pl322/pl322.htm..., the first column of the tablet is the squared ratio of two sides. It gives a full transcription of the base-60 fractions. This squared ratio, or ratio of squares, is monotonic in both the ratio of the sides and the angle over the relevant interval. It may be more convenient to calculate with than the raw ratio because it is rational when the sides in question are integers (or even rational), as they are in this table.

From my point of view, the interesting thing about this is that the table is sorted by this first column, which means it's sorted in angle order. This means that if you have a measured angle and you want to do some calculations about the relevant triangle, you can reasonably easily look up the nearest two rows in this table and go from there.

It's true that you have to convert your angle measurement into this weird form of the ratio of the squares of two sides, essentially cos²θ (or sin²θ if you're thinking about the complementary angle). A thing I haven't seen mentioned in the other comments is that the paper's second author, Wildberger, has spent the last 12 years trying to convince modern-day people that just such a ratio of squares would be a good way to measure angles (he calls it "spread") because, among other things, it allows your trigonometry theorems to apply to any field of characteristic >2, rather than just to ℝ. He's published a book, founded a book publishing company to publish it, and uploaded a long series of foundations-of-mathematics lectures to YouTube on the subject, all based on a finitistic formulation of mathematics which has been out of fashion for a century, largely thanks to Hilbert's passionate advocacy of not abandoning Cantor's paradise.

So of course Wildberger would be tremendously excited to discover evidence that suggests that the Babylonians were doing trigonometric calculations 3800 years ago using a system very similar to the one he is advocating today.

And, in a sense, Friberg would be precisely correct — the tablet contains no ratios of side lengths, only ratios of "quadrances", in Wildberger's terminology.
That is one of the most subtly disturbing snippets I've ever read about the state of the medical "system" in the USA.
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I always found that people who prefer craftsman over engineer are those who're afraid of math (no offense).
Really irrelevant set of questions to judge your documentation. Nothing about measuring how much your documentation helps developer. Having a SDK doesn't really make it friendly then a REST call.

Readmeio is focusing on thing which you can target using Readmeio.
Ok, you clearly don't understand enough to understand what you don't understand. You don't have to make the velocities or the positions of specific points on the mass driver and the orbit coincide. All you have to do is to make an orbital path coincide with a great circle pathway on the moon. We can already guide spacecraft with this degree of precision. Anyone suggesting that you'd need to make specific point on the mass driver coincide in position and velocity -- that you'd need to brake first -- just doesn't understand what the discussed device is for in the first place. Basically you've just "proved" that you can't land airplanes, because they come in too fast to brake the same 1/10th of a second they touch the tarmac. o_O

If you can't explain my analogy, then I'm just going to conclude you're trolling based on my previously stated disdain for DK syndrome.
> 3rd party was contracted out by Aetna to do the mass mailing and they you could probably wrap back through #1 and #2 for them as well.

To contract this out would be a terrible breach of protocol.
Thank you. Have a great day!
So while I agree with the proposed solution, no one else does, and even then we have to deal with China and India joining the developed world and what that means for CO2 emissions.

Don't forget Africa!
I travelled last minute London -> Chicago -> Portland -> Salem to see my first total eclipse. The Saturday night flight to Portland was packed with excited passengers, all talking about the eclipse. The captain (Spirit Airlines) even announced the flight as the 'Eclipse Express', to cheers from everyone.
I've seen this done a few places. They all used simply "hi@example.com" for their reply-tos.
This comment begs expansion.
Harvey Set to Overpower Wind in State That Generates the Most
Not really, both are stupid and should be punished.
“Silicon Valley..bunch of globalists who've forgotten their fellow Americans”
Is this true?
It's strange to me that many countries sign "bilateral" extradition treaties with Germany or other countries with similar policies such as Brazil.
> You jumped to the conclusion that I was preaching directly at you

> Sorry if you felt I was attacking you. I entirely agree. I criticize the extremes.

Oh, sorry, I thought that you replying to my comment meant you were replying to me :)

No worries, all good!
All cool, thx for your effort! Good Luck!
I would add that many of the very best artists owe their careers to knowing the right person at the critical moment.

In a recent interview, composer Randy Newman explained how childhood connections got him into the business:

"Newman started writing songs because his childhood friend Lenny Waronker, who later became the president of Warner Bros. Records, suggested that he try it. “He knew who Carole King was and stuff. His dad had started a record company,” Newman said."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/randy-newman-co...

He is brilliant, but might have gone unnoticed if his best buddy had not been a second-generation record company executive.
Mine is still "booting up" i.e. downloading the block chain. It's been a month.
If demand is high, because of a large amount of companies that are competing for talent... And supply is low enough that it can't fulfill that demand, then that is a shortage.

Supply being unable to fulfill a large amount of demand is the definition of a shortage.
The issue is that large corporations like these don't care about norms or morals. They only care about the law because as a collective they can shift any moral responsibility into ambiguity.

No duder at paypal thinks they're morally responsible for this decision. My point is that because Paypal is a company whose only goal is to make money, lecturing them on morals is pointless. If you want to impose your morals on them, the only way to do so is legislation (impose is a strong word here sorry).

In other words, you're wasting your breath because Paypal doesn't care about morality or norms. We must restrict them via legislation that matches our societal values.

> Enforcing decency by legislation has always backfired

Murder? Rape? These are crimes whose very existence is to enforce decency via legislation. The social norms come first I agree, but you need the law to help prevent morally reprehensible behavior. That's kind of one of its main purposes.

I agree we must have a conversation of morals first and legality later, but the legal conversation needs to actually happen. And until it does, no large corporate entity will care.
> The NodeJS brand has the momentum necessary to build great things. If they squander it by cry-wolf-forking every time there is an internal disagreement, another JS engine (e.g. Chakra) will take the helm.

Node.js is not an engine, Node.js uses the V8 engine (same engine that powers the Chrome browser). Technically you could use Node.js with the Chakra engine or other JavaScript engines.
Yes, you are right, it was an unnecessary jab...and I apologise if this offends.

The frustrated comment I gave is from the perspective of someone who is not an american; I don't see american californians as the moral authority of how open source software must be developed.

It is a sad day when politics must be paramount when contributing to a foss project. If developers wanted this burden they'd need look no further than working in a soul-crushing multinational mega-corp.

EDIT: please do not downvote the parent comment to this. He/she has commented to continue discussion, if you disagree please discuss, not downvote.
> "Walking the trail of tears with each other..."

I know the historical reference but I'm not sure I understand what the author is actually talking about here.
Oh my god this is such pompous article. None of these things are specific to software developers, and 90% of the things it says are platitudes that mean nothing.

There are even some that are just wrong, like the 'throw it away' section.

"It's not the code that is valuable. It's the understanding you've gained from building it."

What? Maybe at some places, but where I work, the software I write is NEEDED.

And this:

"Never be afraid to throw something away and do it again. It will almost always be faster to build and much better the second (or third, or Nth) time around."

Has he never heard of the second system effect?
Stupid title indeed. On the other hand it certainly eclipsed America. At least part thereof.
Right. Your comment is a childish attempt at, "HAHA! I got a clubhouse for cool people but you can't come because it's cool people only and you might make it uncool!!!!" Plus, the place you're talking about is imaginary - no doubt about that.
reminds me of this: http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/
Can you describe what you mean by escalations?
California public schools seem to be, on average, much worse off than non-california schools.

One obvious reason is that, relative to cost-of-living, the per-student funding is incredibly low in costal Revenue Limit[1] districts (this distinction applies to 95% of districts statewide, but only ~65% bay area).

This makes it hard to retain teachers. It is made even worse off by the fact that the wealthy school districts tend to be so small. Where I live, there is a school district with ~15 K-6 schools in it that is funded as a Revenue limit district. Less than a mile away from there are two separate districts each with only one elementary school each, and no secondary schools. Both of those schools, of course, are Basic Aid; one has per-student funding of double the larger district and the other has per-student funding of more than triple.

This doesn't explain all of it, of course. California has had to deal with more ESL students, for longer, than most other states and those students are very uneavenly distributed as well (Aforementioned school district with 15 schools has only one neighborhood school with less than 80% either hispanic or non-hispanic).

1: In california there are two ways that schools are funded. The state has a limit of around $6k per student that it will guarantee each district gets, if the property taxes cannot cover that amount. This does not include Federal funding, or state funding that is earmarked for specific purposes, so districts budgets are a bit higher than the $6k.

If school district has revenue in excess if the ~$6k limit they only get the special-purpose state funding, but can keep the excess. Thus small wealthy neighborhoods have a strong incentive to have as small a school district as possible, to increase the per-student funding there.
It's come up at my firm. I spoke about it 1:1 with the decision owner and advocated for my employer to be less actively censorious(?). However, I don't think there's a risk free way to express that opinion in a meeting. It doesn't help that one of my cowokers has a big "#RESIST" sticker on their work laptop (nevermind that we agree not to put stickers on our work laptops when they're issued...).
Sounds a bit like "Superior orders" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders.

> that the defense of superior orders was no longer considered enough to escape punishment; but merely enough to lessen punishment
It's the radical mentality that's dangerous, not the political platform itself.
Does anyone have links to a good recent research paper on climate change? With modeling details and dataset. I've looked around but it's difficult to find the best/most recent knowledge.
And who is going to patch all of the userland exploits? The radio firmware exploits? The driver exploits? Keeping a phone secure is so much more than just downloading the latest Linux kernel security patches. Unless you have a large team of security engineers that dedicated to patching and enhancing your OS then you're going to be in for a world of hurt once your platform gains any popularity and, thus, nefarious interest.

>On Android, all the apps bundle dependencies which house tons of unknown vulnerabilities and then the phone vendor stops updating your phone when it's no longer in their business interests.

The same is true for any device that has been determined to be end of life by the OEM. Yes, it would be nice if devices were supported to perpetuity, but even Apple ends support for their devices after 5 years and more than 10 percent of their current install base isn't even on the latest OS version.

>Any GNU/Linux can be more secure than that terrible baseline.

Perhaps, but saying it and doing it are two very different things. I hope it works out because I think there's a niche for a phone that is always up to date and never written off by the OEM.
This has echoes of Title IX proceedings. From the account above.

> Some time ago I received notification via email that there are complaints against me. No details were provided and I was informed that I would neither receive those details or be involved in the whatever process was to take place. Further, TSC members were not allowed to speak to me directly about these matters, including my work colleagues also on the TSC. I was never provided with an opportunity to understand the specific charges against me or be involved in any discussions on this topic from that point onward.

From the article below, [1]

> Right away, the accused is cautioned about confidentiality: s/he is warned not to discuss the pending complaint with colleagues or students. The accused will only learn of the accusations against them when s/he meets face-to-face with the local Title IX enforcement squad.

Kangaroo court.

[1] http://quillette.com/2017/08/24/survived-title-ix-star-chamb...
Man of the Hole – lone survivor of his tribe
What about just calling them developers, crazy idea.
The stable corporate laws of Delaware help startups boost their local economies effectively.
"So then how are people still getting HIV?"

Some folks don't know they have it, and there are big gaps in health care. Not everyone that needs to be tested or should be tested has the means or transportation to do so, let alone afford the medications. Theoretically, we could test this with normal bloodwork and have tax dollars pay for the medications, treating it like a public health cause. We just don't, partially because of outdated views on it, bigotry, and so on.

Granted, this is completely ignoring the world outside the US, where there are other difficulties.

This is the real world you were referring to, right?

It should also be obvious that he's referring to folks that have medication available. HIV isn't the death sentence it used to be because we've made great strides.
Me either, but it is pretty offensive to compare whatever it is a developer does to an act of genocide.
Ask HN: Good material for a gentle introduction to calculus with complex numbers?
I am trying to use 'Visual Complex Analysis' from Tristan Needham. It's a great book but probably too hard for my current level on the subject.
I tried once about 15 years ago and didn't succeed. I can imagine the pool of applicants is even larger these days, if it can be done via the internet.
The term 'smith' always conjures up an image of a large sweaty man with a hammer in his hand and a horse's behind next to his face.
Sounds to me like a lot of people are searching for a course which will allow one to overcome a lack of intrinsic motivation.
But all the best tools in the world wont make you a smith, if you find no fun in hammering red hot iron.