skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have mentioned, that exemption is narrow to the point of non-existence. It is very difficult to do business in India.
If the boss says use X, they refuse?
A separate discussion of this happening in /r/slatestarcodex

Top comment there right now:

"Amateur. What you do is you sweet talk the clinicians into using their medical judgement to adopt the form as part of their routine clinical practice and get them to include it as part of the patient's medical records. Later... you approach the IRB for a retrospective chart review study and get blessed with waived consent. Bonus: very likely to also get expedited review."

Which is an extremely clever "hack" (in the way we like to use it on HN) of the IRB setup.
As I said in another comment, it could be anything, I was just using my experience as an example that sometimes it's not necessarily burnout, but an actual physical issue. Burnout is such a common problem with programmers that we just naturally assume that's the issue without regard for other medical factors.
> You may wonder why the original code used a LFSR or why I'm proposing a different approach, instead of the vanilla setPixel(rand(),rand()): doing this with a pseudo random generator, as noted in the blog post, is slow

He was pointing out that the naive method is slow, not saying that that's how Wolfenstein 3D did it, and quite clearly stated that the original code used an LFSR
> bribery is simply part of the system in some places

Part Indian here. You can definitely lead an ethical life in India. It's harder. But not impossible. Characterising every Indian as corrupt by nature because it's their "way of life" is a cop out.
Totally agree, sleep is most important. I was in a phase a few months ago, where, I felt like a zombie. I fixed that, by eliminating coffee or any other source of caffeine. I can now sleep within seconds as I lay down on my bed. I generally tend to feel fresh after a night's sleep. And, it's crazy how deeply I can focus during the day now.
Currently running into this moving from Vim to Spacemacs. Even with vim bindings, it works just slightly differently enough that there's a good chunk of friction. Specifically, mashing escape no longer reliably gets you into normal mode, bash is in a separate window instead of in tmux, some of my settings are different in ways I don't want to spend the time analyzing (probably scrolling? IIRC I set things up to center themselves as best they can in the window in vim), and the tab-completion for opening a file with :e is different through trying to be way more "helpful".
That and it's a classic case of trying to time the market, which is not something a savvy investor would do.
Create a group/organization for the project or company, and put the documentation in a project under that group/organization in GitHub, preferably along with the project, which preferably has an open-source license that's appropriate (Apache and MIT are popular, and be careful not to use a license just because it's sounds cool or irreverant- often they won't pass Legal): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
My first exposure to a differential was building a Tamiya radio-controlled car kit. Those were great for learning some basic mechanics, and since you built them yourself they were easily repairable.
Aren't there some rumors that the Trump administration is weakening enforcement of the FCPA?
> I can't imagine openbmc being more expensive than a builtin wifi card with an external antenna connector for basic features

The cost of IoT devices supports what you are saying.
I'm not sure if it's politically acceptable to say this these days, but maybe it's ok if people experience discomfort sometimes. It's ok to see icky things, or are 'forced' to remember an unpleasant memory. It's not the responsibility of the people around you to protect your feelings, and your bubble.

There is often more value in science existing than in some marginal perceived harms incurred from a handful of people getting interviewed. Your emotional wellbeing is your responsibility, not the responsibility of the people around you.

And on a personal level, we don't grow from being comfortable. The opposite - we grow through discomfort. We grow through facing our demons and realising that they don't actually kill us.
Just use Pivotal Tracker and be done with it.
Some dude with a blog predicts an impending stock-market crash. Well, Robert Shiller, the Nobel Prize laureate, has been predicting a stock-market crash since what, 2016? And the market kept on rising. This is not to imply that a crash or a long period of low returns is not coming, just that the opinions of financial pundits are just that.
anyone have experience working with them? Is it really different than sites like upwork in terms of client quality and rates?
It's not really a gimmick.

They actually do make sure all those donations that people give to different fundraisers go directly to the things they donated to.

They do specific fundraisers to handle admin/office costs, but those aren't conflated with the actual donations they solicit on a per-project basis.

The point is that they actually raise 105% of the funds rather than just 95% of them. I don't think that qualifies as a "gimmick."
Exactly that one. One of my favorite shorts in that collection. I loved how one of the humans was annoyed and felt that they should correct the robot. (Assuming my memory isn't making that detail up...)
My personal favorites are Where the Wild Things Are and The Giving Tree. Both stories are very simple, but they flow well and IMHO really grow when read aloud.
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Of course it's not what Obamacare does, you can't go from a private insurance market to a single payer government system in one single step. Obamacare is the transition between the two.

> Obamacare requires private insurance to cover people with pre-existing conditions and it requires everyone to buy private insurance.

So does single payer, we just call "buying" taxes and we replace insurers with government. You're still forced to pay and the insurer is still forced to provide for everyone regardless of pre-existing conditions. So it would seem you're simply against the name Obamacare.

> But this is not a real solution.

It's not supposed to be, everyone isn't blind, they see that single payer is the solution, but you can't simply declare the private insurance industry we already have dead in one fell swoop. Obamacare or something just like Obamacare is a necessary step to get to single payer. We need to get everyone into a public option, and then have that option slowly kill off private insurance by simply operating cheaper than they can until the public option is pretty much what is insuring everyone, at that point, it's effectively single payer.
You're referring to the Transatlantic accent, which was a contrived manner of speaking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

Another odd, acquired accent is the manner of speaking employed during air traffic communications, with elongated R sounds, as when pronouncing words like "roger" over poor signal quality.

You can almost hear the air traffic control in mission control's transmission in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but only slightly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFSE4dUJYM8
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if you're in TX and want to network with a ui/ux designer, would love to chat. i have been wanting to get into this business for a while.
He was the president of Django Software Foundation while running the startup.

So naturally he was a big proponent of Django and his stack was written completely in Django.
It's the same news cycle over and over:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Doomsday predctions have always been good at generating ad revenue for publishers.
> A small gripe: I don't get why Django has to get dragged into this.

The fact that none of the reasons why they failed have anything to do with tech is what makes it being a Django startup relevant. The whole point is that they were focused on their technology instead of the customer acquisition channels, sales funnel, pricing strategy, etc.

Yes it's clickbaity, but it's also art.
In my mind, the translation is an improvement over the original. For one, summaries are to be written using the present tense. Secondly, there is no technical difference between Spannung and Anspunnung that maatered, and Anspannung is the more technical term whereas Spannung suggests government elections were some form of entertainment.

And by the way. It's impressive^W^W Its impressive handling of the abomination that is "dass es" and similar constructions is pretty impressive (see what I did there?). In that sense, I'm surprised the reflexive form was recovered in the German.
Simple in interface or implementation? One is MIT, the other is New Jersey.
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"Here's to the crazy ones". Maybe dumb and newbies are naive enough to get into this. Maybe suboptimal but they are getting things executed. Let's hope they can make this phone and have gained enough experience to make it usable.
Bogleheads are always thinking in a tight set of assumptions that may not be meaningful to you. There's also an assumption that you aren't capable of meaningful analysis.

If I'm following boglehead dogma, I have at least my age in fixed income and cash. When you see a market crash or correction, it's wise to stick your head up and look around. In 2009 was it smarter to buy good companies driven down in price due to the financial panic?

I would argue yes. When you can buy a quality equity at a firesale price, it's a better investment than BND.
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As you point out for a business the FCPA is both elementary, serious, and enitrely possible to comply with.

That said the "jail time" provision is a joke. Going from memory no corporate officer has ever gone to prison for an FCPA violation. A handful have been hung out to pay nominal fines. The vast majority of personal culpability (when it does happen) are settled by the company.

Edit: yes, some employees have gone to jail. But not officers that I can recall.
When you're writing fiction, you have to choose which elements to emphasize to get your point across. Blade Runner wanted to be about questions along the boundary of "What is it to be human?"

It didn't want to be about everyday technology (though it had to pay some lip service to that). So it didn't want to invest the reader's mental energy in the replacement for phone booths.

(I think the author's point still stands, but that example doesn't support it).
innerrestin but hard to believe to be a settled matter
Despite the celebrities, Marc Benioff is easily the most intriguing investor on that list. SalesForce's customers frequently need tweaks and customizations - and demand for these programmers is unnecessarily high. I wonder if Benioff sees Gigster as a solution to his own growth problems.
I hate headlines like this.

Remember when headlines used to be informative rather than trying to get you to click?
I imagine coreboot might integrate this functionality or recommend that people using coreboot do so themselves, but libreboot won't, because the entire point of libreboot is to only use entirely free software and the ME firmware (even the stripped down version that obeys this disable bit) which is required to boot the machine is not free.
We are facing a similar situation in my company. Our current stack (just React) is not able to handle the complexity of the project, and refactoring existing features or building new ones has been a pain. We are slowly but gradually moving the code to React + Redux + Flow. We are already seeing gains with this move.
> This will have the effect to dissuade the small hosts due to government harassment, while the larger hosts will pay the income tax and still make bank.

There is a provision where everything under 30kCAD/y isn't fully taxable. After 30k, you have to pay the taxes fully (including on the first 30k). So while there is some income taxes, the full VAT taxation isn't enforced (you can pay if you want, "of course"). So smaller hosts still have better margins than the bigger ones.
Some will have to be in the JS, but that isn't really any different from non-SPA web apps. They still serve up JS files that have business logic. JS and business logic are, to some degree, inseparable.

If you're giving trust to a user to query the API, they could also maliciously leak data or execute queries inside a normal web app just as easily if you build something appropriately secure.
Also, a youtube demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLNDGUISTYM (this is the Toyota eCVT), and a teardown of the Ford version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHU5xFOBcsU
Asana was ridiculously simple when we started using it, and I was incredibly happy with it. Then they kept adding, adding and adding irrelevant things, and now I'm pretty put off by it. I wonder if this is a cycle, and a new 'brand-new asana' alternative will spring up soon.
Isn't the net result similar anyway?

1. People who should have been treated weren't.

2. As a result of #1, more people would have been subsequently infected.

Additionally:

3. Distrust in healthcare is engendered amongst a marginalized population, with potential to lead to further incidences of undiagnosed ailments.

The net result is similar, more people are infected than would otherwise have been. Just because the infection mechanism is less obvious doesn't necessarily make it less bad.
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thx for the tip. just tried it .. very vim, very nice.
Maybe digital ocean?
Right. But what outcome did Django have on his startup? Seems to me they likely would have committed all the same business mistakes had they used, say, Rails or Play.
Case in point, just last week the Indian government was trying to fight the Supreme court of our country AGAINST privacy laws.

Supreme court (and the people) prevailed, Privacy is now a fundamental right.
Bonds are like the biggest bubble! With interest rates being so low they have almost nowhere to go but up in interest meaning today's bonds will lose incrediable amounts of value.

If you're going to buy bonds the should be rather short term and at today's interest rates and low inflation you could also hold cash.

For that reason I'm mainly in stocks with a some bonds and cash.
AWS, GCP, Azure, etc. have enough drives for sure, but doubt any would be willing to be this transparent.
You can buy it. Its available for Kindle on Amazon. Also available DRM-free on ebooks.com.

Still a bummer that O'Reilly stopped selling books directly. There's been so many recently published books that I'm interested in that I can no longer purchase.
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You mean 105.3% right?
I believe a modern design for this study would compare different kinds of treatment (but not the elimination of treatment... yikes).
> Is protecting fair competition "pointless"?

Why should a search engine send me to other search engines? Sending someone to Amazon Prime Music for the the query "Play me X" is like following a link from Google to a SERP result, which is what Google already does. I don't see a problem with that.

But that's different than the Product Search example of where Foundem wanted Google to send a query like "Headphone prices" to a SERP page which would include a link which takes the user to yet another SERP page. Users expect searches to yield answers, not more searches. When I want to buy headphones, show me 10 Amazon links if you must that directly link to the landing pages for buying them, but don't show me 10 links, each of which, is a link to another search product search product.

When I ask what the weather is, I don't want to be search to a search box on Weather.com. When I ask if my flight's delayed, I don't want a link to be taken to Flightstatus.com so I can re-run the query.
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If you stick to your target allocation and rebalance as needed, you'd be doing just that.
Availability bias. You're not able to see it around you, or immediately. It doesn't mean there's no effect.
That's really interesting - I hadn't heard of it before, but it makes a lot of sense.
I am guessing it is at the other end of the sausage factory. Institutional investors, banks etc. will drop money into their bank account in order for them to 'invest' it wisely with startups they find. Fraudster simply withdraws the cash and disappears with it.
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See also:

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red...
I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I think HN should have a special tab where submissions like this get pinned--Important stores where people need to take action on stuff concerning security holes or political events (e.g. Net neutrality).
I like Google keep. It's fast :P
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NPR covered them a couple years back. Specifically, Gail McGovern, who alienated many of the long time employees. She focussed on what she knows best, marketing, rather than humanitarian aid and brought in more of her associates from prior companies.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-12-15/corporate-takeover-re...
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Interesting! How can i start something like this for my own country?
Not really. Headlines have always been written to be eye catching and to entice one to buy/read the publication.
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You cannot time the stock market. Trying to predict a crash and taking money out in an attempt to avoid losses is a recipe for disaster.

For individual investors who use the stock market for their retirement funds, the appropriate action to protect oneself from the fluctuations of the market, including crashes, is to have the appropriate retirement target set, along with the proper level of acceptable risk (which automatically allocates the funds among different asset classes). After that, it's a matter of waiting... and not doing anything rash during extreme events.
Every large, 100+ person sharing economy company has done this. I'm a former employee at one of them. I'd bet my 401k on it.
> the Red Cross has a pretty bad PR problem right now. Hopefully they deal with it

They should stop worrying about PR and focus on doing what they claim to do.
How is fruit uncountable? Is human, too? Is fruits or the fruits not disambiguous enough? This is idiosyncratic at best. I wouldn't blame any learner misinterpreting the example and would avoid to teach this as correct.
I didn't see anyplace in the blog post where they say how the data in the chart (that they couldn't use) was stored. Did I miss that part? Are we talking about the online chart that they used?

Just because they couldn't use the online (clinical) chart to store research data doesn't mean that the data that backs the clinical chart application is stored in any less secure way. There are very specific methods that are used to store PHI electronically. The fact that the clinicians (who needed access) could access it doesn't mean it wasn't stored securely -- they were supposed to have access to it.

In all clinical research there is a clear separation between clinical (as in, used for treatment) and research (as in, should never be used for treatment) data. When you try to hit that gray in-between area is when you start to have issues with IRBs. In particular, when you are both the treating physician and the researcher, you have to be particularly careful about keeping the two sides separate. There is no way anyone should be allowed to store research data in the clinical record -- even if the researchers otherwise have access to the clinical chart.

Also -- it should be mentioned that not all study data is automatically PHI. In fact, most of it shouldn't be. Once it's been de-identified, then the data isn't PHI any more and can be more freely used for research. This is why there is so much emphasis on the security for storing the "unblinding" documentation.
Many jobs are tied to the stock market that aren't obvious.

Even though the circumstances were different, in 2001 I was a contractor on Sabre's HR team. 9/11 devastated the stock, so much of the software we were building (mostly related to performance-based payouts) was no longer needed.
You've missed the point though - no human has demonstrated the ability to be able to distinguish the fidelity of audio above 44.1kHz sampling in a properly controlled comparison test (double blind). This empirical result is to be expected given the biology of the ear and the science of sampling theory, as the article explains.

It doesn't matter if you're a music lover or critical listener!
The Wikipedia article says that Trump called the FCPA a "horrible law" but Jeff Sessions says he'll continue to enforce it.
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This statement is a bit nonsensical, because most lobbying has to do with encouraging the creation of laws that are favorable to a business and unfavorable to a businesses competitors.

Your statement;
> if there is no power to dole out, lobbying wouldn't exist.

Implies that the government is picking the winner, when in fact they are writing and passing a law or regulation/deregulation. Any of these actions have effects that favor one group over another.

In order to have "no power to dole out" the government would need to not pass ANY laws, which isn't possible as that is critical to a governments function.

So it's a paradox. A government cannot function without the process of creating laws and all laws will inevitably favor one party or another no matter the effort to avoid such an outcome.
It's impressive that garbage collection works so well on small devices, particularly a single core. Very interesting.

A couple questions: How do you find the initial bring-up (empty file to POC) for a Go system compared to traditional C/C++ code bases? If the rest of the system wasn't Go, would you still have chosen it?
It almost always is.
Said this in another comment, but I'll reiterate here. The big difference is purpose/intent. Looking under the hood of someone's car can be totally fine or a violation depending on whether or not I'm being paid to fix it.

Same thing applies here. In one case the questions are being asked to provide treatment the patient is paying for. In the other it's being done to collect data for a publication.
One of my fondest memories of our trip to England/Scotland many years ago, was my wife in the passenger seat reading me entire chapters of a book that I had bought in a beautiful little bookshop earlier in the trip while we did long cross country drives.

Must admit though, that my wife has a fantastic speaking voice, and should probably do voice over work or something in her spare time. We were both at a seminar once, where the presenter asked her to read out some customer quotes. As soon as she read the first one, he basically handed her the script to read most of his actual presentation after that.

Myself personally though, I don't read aloud much at all. I always find that my brain tends to work much faster than my mouth muscles, and I frequently speak too fast or stumble over words, which results in me speaking less in public in front of strangers especially.
The first part is real, and the second part is the joke.
But listen to how he pronounces the 'o's (in particular) in "and it couldn't get a good enough grip on the road" and "both rear wheels to the engine" https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI?t=164 : Handy surely didn't learn that from an elocution class teaching RP-lite. Is it a trace of an Irish accent? a Scandinavian-American "Lutheran" accent?
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