skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue of specialist departments seems to be a global problem. A friend of mine needed to get an image taken for a diagnosis. He was referred to another hospital because our local one didn't have the capability. In the end they used an SLR to take a photo and sent it to where it needed to go. Why couldn't they do that in the first hospital? Why can't the GP do that and send the image? I have no idea.

We're constantly led to believe that the revolution is coming where you can snap a photo of your arm, send it to the health service and get a diganosis. That's not happening for a long time, I think.

> “And saving those images is required to bill for the scan,” he notes.

If that throwaway comment doesn't worry people, then I don't know what does. I can understand low resolution, health risks, but a principle barrier to the hospital is that they can't charge you for using it? Fuck that system, quite frankly.
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I've used it in the past to prerender components on a secondary canvas, before combining them together on the main canvas. There might be a better way of doing this though.
If a creator uploads their video to youtube, other video sites should be able to license it from youtube. If youtube doesn't want to share the money, the creators should find another platform.
> 2/3 of Enterprises Use GitLab

wow that a lot higher that i would have expected. Linked bitrise page used " randomly selected 10,000 apps as a base, that are getting built regularly on Bitrise" , not "enterprises".

How did you comeup with 2/3 number? First line of your about page is a lie?
they are already penalized. H1B farms like tata and inforsys just submit thousands of applications knowing most wont make it through the lottery. They are just throwing shit and the wall and seeing what sticks. Startups cant afford to file that many applications and only submit one application for the worker they need and most likely wont get it
Indeed. Threat models are crucial here.
From a provider standpoint, however: If they are not technically adept at operating an ultrasound machine, and do not have the knowledge necessary to read an ultrasound, why spend $2,000? And on that note, is this device able to be billed for in order to recoup that cost? We have that problem right now with OCT-A in ophthalmology practices, where the technology exists and is FDA approved but cannot be billed for to recoup the costs of the hardware.
Yes, I know it is a nanosecond but that wasn't my point.

My point is, Freq is widely used in reporting CPU speeds. No one "knows" what 3 ns/clock speed relates to. Everyone knows 4.0 GHz. You see my point?
My point is stormtroopers:empire::UP:P

You're correct that stormtroopers will never hit, wrong that stormtroopers are representative of the empire, and wrong about the correlation between stormtrooper hits and empire hits, because you're ignoring higher order effects (eg, while stormtroopers always miss, the empire must hit something to be the "bad guy" -- and they do: Luke's parents, Alderaan, Obi-Wan, Hoth, Luke's arm, etc.

But purely from the existence of stormtroopers consistently missing, you can infer there's a Darth Vader that must score some hits, or the plot wouldn't work. I think we might be in a similar case for P ?= NP, and you're all way too blasse predicting from stormtroopers.

Very little research has been done on P - UP, where UP is all polynomials with degree less than 10,000 and coefficients less than 10^100.

In fact, I don't know a single P-UP algorithm that wasn't explicitly constructed to be -- do you?

I just think most of us are subtly talking about UP, not P. (Including the blog post.) And that you've incorrectly inferred a "plot" when all you've observed is "redshirt fire".
Who said anything about licensing it for free? I think youtube's catalog should be available to service who can cough up as much as youtube.
> Employers have to advertise the job in local media for 30 days

So like, newspapers nobody reads? A website you really hope nobody finds? There's a wide variety of strategies to claim you found no applicants. Don't have to take my word for it, consultants at Cohen & Grigsby go in far more detail: https://web.archive.org/web/20150725212924/http://www.ethics...
Interesting comment, I assumed all good idea required r&d!
But Rust is linker compatible with C and C++, meaning the typesafe rewrites can also be shoehorned into Python, just like its native extensions in C are...
I'm starting to build up various utilities to help with this kind of thing, but I fully agree. The decisions require understanding the business requirements (do I use source X or Y for field 1, what errors are OK, what types of error are worst, etc), but the process of finding some of these could be better.

One simple one is missing data. Missing data is rarely a null, I've seen (on one field, in one dataset):

N/A
NA
" "
Blank # literally the string "Blank"
NULL # Again, the string
No data
No! Data
No data was entered for this field
No data is known
The data is not known
There is no data

And many, many more. None can be clearly identified automatically, but some processes like:

Pull out the most common items, manually mark some as "equivalent to blank" and remove.

Identify common substrings with known text (N/A, NULL, etc) and bring up those examples.

Are useful, I'd like to extend with more clustering and analysis to bring out other common general issues but rare specific issues. Lots of similar things with encodings, etc. too.

Other things that might be good are clearer ways I could supply general conditions I expect to hold true, then bring the most egregious ones to my attention so I can either clear out / deal with them in some way. A good way of recording issues that have already been analysed and found to be OK would be great too.
Try to change the default port 1194 to something else (e.g. 443) - this may not help as the GFW has the ability to detect OpenVPN specific traffic.

If it is only for yourself and traffic is very little, it may survive the period of your stay in China. Nobody I know in mainland runs OpenVPN any more so I cannot really prove that, sigh...
I used PIA with relative success. The caveats being:

1. DNS resolution may not work, so you'll need to find a way to resolve the domain name (i.e. hk.privateinternetaccess.com) to IPs for your config.

2. Even if you get an IP it may not work all the time. You will have to keep resolving the domain name for another IP (or maybe just look at all the DNS records?).

EDIT: I should mention I used PIA's PPTP (yes, it's discouraged but it worked for my purposes) and L2TP configurations just fine.
Not every programmers are living in SF.

And I do think it is misleading to say programmers' salary is not high because of the cost-of-living. Cost-of-living applies on EVERYONE, there are many waiters/drivers/artists living in SF, and I don't believe they get additional rebate because they are not doing computer work.
My statement was a rhetorical one. Ofcourse, I can find out what 10^-9 seconds is.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Streisand, an open-source project that takes most (not all) of the effort out of setting up low-cost individual VPNs for yourself and your friends and family on a number of popular cloud services:

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

It takes a little bit of technical know-how (or bravery) to get started, but the setup process is dead-simple and you end up with a completely personal VPN with dozens of options that can work around a number of different situations. Best of all, it's entirely under your control. You can tear it down and start from scratch, or move to a new location or cloud provider easily. The docs are clear and easy to understand, and it's constantly being improved. It's a pretty remarkable project.
You won't because you can't.

A Freedom of Information Act disclosure showed Chicago had more votes than voters in 2016 elections: 1,101,178 voters, 1,115,664 votes cast[2].

Detroit: voting machines in more than one third of precints recorded more votes than there were voters!

In California, 11 counties have more registered voters than voting age citizens.

A few other examples:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-los-angeles-144-voters-for-...

https://www.theepochtimes.com/chicago-had-more-votes-than-vo...

https://www.theepochtimes.com/stream-of-voter-fraud-cases-em...

https://www.theepochtimes.com/official-thousands-of-indiana-...
Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features
This is amazing... Chrome FTW.
I saw no mention if they removed the ability for it to sex a fetus, if they haven't it will be a tool for aborting female babies.
Speaking of Cliff Stoll and that story(its in the video told by Cliff himself), computer history museum recently posted Computer Crime panel from March 25th, 2000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfuRvB9EpCo
Glad they did something to create consequences for that kind of behavior. Does sort of feel like it was slipping in quality anyway and maybe should have been canceled regardless. Last season was just too ridiculous.
This is not really true: the main limiting factor with H1-B visas is the yearly cap; as others have said, the rest of the requirements are normally easy to check off (especially if you already have an H1-B).

Since you are not subject to the H1-B cap when reapplying if you are already on an H1-B, and since there is so much demand for tech jobs, it's not clear that H1-B tech workers have to be loyal to their employer.
Tell me about it. As someone who works in programming languages professionally but has no academic background in it, it's maddening how much stuff is impossible to learn because "you can't publish a paper on it because everyone knows it already".
By your definition, is it ever possible to have a labor shortage? As long as there's one qualified individual who doesn't already work for you, there should be some "insane salary" that would entice them, no?
Local media. Median salary.
You can have perfectly valid input escaping without needing prepared statements. Many ORMs handle this without the need for PREPARE/EXECUTE.
MACHINE LEARNING: Fear of an AI Planet: Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970
Ask HN: Best way to encrypt and password protect dropbox folder on windows
Hi All,

We have a company policy meaning I now have to encrypt my work Dropbox on my home PC. So if someone steals my PC they can't access any work files. I'm looking at options for encrypting folders in Window.

I need something that will allow Dropbox to update but require a password to open the folder. Any recommendations?
>He also ran into difficulties with transmitting the images to the hospital’s database for storage. “And saving those images is required to bill for the scan,” he notes.

I think this guy is missing the point. Seems like the goal is to make giving an ultrasound so easy that it would be silly to charge for it. Just like the doctor doesn't (or at least shouldn't) have a special charge to listening to your chest with a stethoscope.
.. said no one ever
Childhood education in the States. Find some teachers in your area and ask them what they could do with x in y time.
It's as simple as it is overlooked: by building off of OSX, Apple delivered a phone that could actually work with all the files and protocols that people used on desktop. PDF, HTML, MP3/AAC, MP4/H264, ... Not to mention frameworks and APIs that were battle hardened.

It took competitors years to catch up, everyone's forgotten how much of a joke Android was until v4, and how Black Berry only caught up just as they were about to die. Things like low latency audio, large image support, GL, crypto, battery life, ...
I don't have a terribly good capacity for resolving contrast during twilight

Try vitamine A. The effect is very noticeable.
The sites would have to pay youtube for the content (ideally they'd pay something similar to how much youtube pays the creator - which would actually incentivize youtube to pay creators).

If youtube doesn't pay you, that's between you and youtube.

Maybe there should be a mechanism for creators to optout of the mutual licencing agreements but I'd make it opt-in by default.

I'd bet that the vast majority of people uploading things to youtube do so just to share their content, google shouldn't be enriched by walling off content that creators want to share with the most people.

I make a few youtube videos of my hobbies (e.g how to change the fork seals on old Honda motorcycles or pull door panels off Toyotas), I don't care if I make a dime but I'd be over the moon with joy if I got a message telling me that I inspired someone to get a bike running. Google's monopolist bologna shouldn't thwart people from getting their content out there.
> Buy into NoSQL hype, push 5x resources on your NoSQL solution

NoSQL is so last year, NewSQL is the future!
There is simply no incentive to commit that crime.

There is exactly the same incentive as that to suppress a vote for the other side.
XKCD: Digital Resource Lifespan
It sounds like the three domains you guys have experience in are software, biz Dev, and private equity.

I would stay the fuck away from software because it's an incredibly crowded field, that is notoriously cheap.

But private equity and biz Dev are great domains to be in. People will easily write big checks to solve small problems in those domains.

Have those two guys on your team talk to everyone they know in their respective spaces about what problems they have that they'd be willing to spend money on.

Basically your goal is to find out what problem keeps VPs in those respective domains up at night. And then brainstorm some way to make them worry a little less. Then shop it out to those same guys to see if anyone is willing to buy or help fund the app. Do this over and over again until you find an idea that works.
> The problem with using sweeping statements like "anyone who can..." is that one example is enough to disprove you. There'll be Who's Hiring thread in a couple of days, watch how many young startups say no new H1Bs on that.

We don't have to wait - we can look at the one from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384262

I did a Ctrl+F and nothing came up for "H1B" and the only thing that came up for "citizen" was a job posting for the US government itself.
They do, in addition to importing talents to the US.
You can approximate the point at which companies decided to own our data by looking at when they transitioned from client-side software with local file storage and open protocols to web services with proprietary protocols.

Microsoft is still in the process of transitioning. Google, Facebook and Amazon likely never had a data-agnostic phase in the first place.
Should I Use a VPN? The Pros and Cons
Yes, I see your point, which is what the primary part of my comment was directly addressing. seconds/clock is a linear measurement of time, graphs better, and for people who actually deal with timing of performance sensitive code, time/op is a much more natural measurement that is generally preferred when measuring and profiling code.
> A startup is actually hiring someone for a role and they can't take the risk that their guy will lose the lottery.

If they hire someone who already has an H1B working at another company they only have to perform a transfer, which is processed as a lottery-exempt new application i.e. same salary and credential and experience requirements as a new application but no need to go through the lottery. Most startups likely aren't going to hire someone fresh out of school or straight from another country (hence needing a new, lottery H1B). They will prefer someone who is local and has some experience.

> Plus, the application is just beyond what most startups are going to have the time to do.

H1B transfers take 15 days if premium processed, which is an additional fee of ~$1500. That's well within the budget of your average VC-funded startup. The transfer also adds an extra 2 weeks to an H1B candidate's start date over a domestic candidate (because no candidate is going to give 2-week notice at their current job until the transfer is approved) but it's not an insurmountable issue.

It's true that super-early stage startups (< 20 employees) may still not bother with this extra bureaucracy. But there I think it's because at that size the founders' and early employees' professional networks provide a sufficiently healthy pipeline of candidates, so they'd rather keep working and shipping than deal with immigration lawyers. On the other hand if someone on the founding team isn't a citizen/permanent resident, they'd still do it (eg. Laks Srini at Zenefits).
That seems like an impossible feature for an imaging device. I guess you could train a neural network to recognize fetus gender and blur out the crotch area on the image.
In my reply to you, I'm assuming that your GP is 100% capable of performing an ultrasound. Ultrasounds take a well-trained human being a long time to acquire.
> Harder to align look of web and desktop

This is what I don't want, I want it to look like every other desktop app, I want to be able to set the theme of my OS and have every app adopt it, I don't want every piece of software thinking it's special and looking different.

> Harder to work with than CSS.

What native technologies have you used? Many are easier than css+html and look native by default.
I don't know which part of Amazon you worked for - but this was totally done in Amazon: We had/have major pieces of kindle, aws, payments et. built out of India. I worked for one of those teams for two years. Amazon is so big that segmenting like this isn't a big deal at all.

I am all for shutting the door on under-qualified engineers being hired just because they will work for much lower wages, But applying the same rule to companies like Amazon / Microsoft etc would just mean work moves to those offices.

Personally I moved here because the team I wanted to work for was here (DynamoDB - given my history building storage engines before). I stayed because of the quality of life / opportunities. I mean if my visa gets revoked, I would sell my house etc here, pick up my money and probably end up in Canada / Europe offices of Snap anyway.

I try not to attach myself to material stuff too much, I'd like to think I can make the best out of wherever I am, improve when I can. But not many (including my family) are like that. They like the security provided by a good immigration policy - means this will only take high paying jobs away from here.
Send me an email, let's chat for a half hour and I'll give you several ideas that I'd use and pay for in my industry if they existed.
Uber is an agent acting on behalf of the driver. Why should it collect VAT.
For anyone who wants to play Minesweeper without the hassle of trying to track down a known-good *.exe, I recommend Minesweeper X [0]. The board size isn't limited plus a ton of other features. It also works perfectly under WINE with Winetricks.

[0] http://www.curtisbright.com/msx/
I have an Agtech startup I've been working on for the past year, but am stepping away from it for personal reasons. It's R&D heavy, so I haven't got customers yet, but I believe there is real opportunity (said every customer-less startup founder ever). It's in an emerging market (agriculture) with booming investment dollars available. Right now the product is largely IoT, but there is scope for a lot of machine learning and blockchain in the near future which would keep your PhD interested.

I've put a lot of hard work into this and would love to see it in somebody else's capable hands rather than going to waste - would you like to talk it over more? Drop me an email at sajrobb at gmail dot com.
All I'll say is it's a huge consumer market, tons of competition, tons of consumers. When I told friends what market I was going into, their most common response was "but there's already huge players in that market, how can you compete?"
There's a difference between harassment and someone refusing to stop pursuing a legitimate claim.

Is he a cofounder or an employee? Difficult question, but certainly a legitimate one.
Featuring some of the worst typography I've seen on the internet. There clearly was an attempt, but just leaving font-face as default would've been more readable.
Because great teams seemed more important than great ideas, YC tried funding teams without ideas, but it didn't work.

Market research is deadly, because that's what big companies do. If there's an objectively verifiable opportunity, they are already on it.

This is what's so interesting about Christensen's "disruption" - part of the definition is that the opportunity is not appealing to incumbents. It's too small, not wanted by existing customers, etc.

So perhaps the key thing missing from "great teams without ideas" is the passion (aka craziness) to wholeheartedly pursue something that can't be objectively verified. And then, to discover unforseeable problems and solve them; or, to pivot to a new idea, serenpiditously picked up along the way... the journey provides the destination.

So... just start. "Scratch your own itch" is a good way to identify an unmet need, just something to start with. Don't consider market size etc. Also, don't commit much money to it, just your time, treat it as an experiment.
Unless you think those Canaanite cities were in Egypt, I'd say the details are given pretty precisely. The book is actually online; you can easily check that there's no chance this was talking about Egypt.
I think the one thing journalists who write these articles about how green energy adds net jobs don't get. People don't care about the net number of jobs at least not nearly as much as they care about THEIR job.
My wife is in med school so I have a bit more familiarity with the subject than the average person.

GP's being capable enough isn't the issue. It's much like blood draws.

GP's are more than capable of drawing blood an sending it off to a lab, but that process requires significant support of outsides parties. It simply doesn't make sense for the GP to take care of it in house when they'll likely need to send it out to someone else.

In the care of ultrasound, it also introduces an issue of "certifying" results. Taking an ultrasound isn't hard, but reading it can be difficult. Even if a GP can read an ultrasound with 90% accuracy, it's still much lower than someone who specializes in reading digital imagery. Of the 90% that a GP can read accurately, how many of those can a GP read confidently? Certainly not 90%. At that point, they might as well send you to someone who will get it right the first time.
Curious any reason why you failed the interview twice?
But we are talking about Slack and they can get this talent. New Skype for macOS is also made with Electron despite Microsoft having a ton of resources and even the old native Skype client for Mac (v7.x and earlier).

Meanwhile, Doist is a smaller company but they made Twist[0] clients native because they care about their customers.

[0]: https://twistapp.com
> Hint: most are not obsessing over TOP, Activity Monitor, or whatever your OS uses.

Most users think their computer is broken, or they have a virus, or something along those lines because the perceive how slow their computer is but they don't have the knowledge to place the blame where it belongs.
Ask HN: Email forwarder service to battle spam? (e.g. e4ward.com)
I recently came across e4ward.com, but I want to do some comparison shopping before buying. Are you aware of any other similar projects or websites?