skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As it turns out, residents are not profitable for hospitals, which is why hospitals don't "just hire more of them".

This isn't quite in line with reality. If you familiarize yourself with specific hospital system figures, you find gems like this: Of Beaumont Hospital's 395 residents, 91 are not covered by Medicare and so are paid for by Beaumont. The $57 million for GME represents 4.73% of Beaumont's net patient revenue in 2013, or about $189,368 per resident. [0]

The 91 residents that are trained within the hospital system without medicaid funding speaks to the fact that residents are in fact employees.
[0] http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150719/news/307199...
I realize these regulations exist, my point is they come at a cost and that at some point the costs can become prohibitive. As I mentioned below the argument isn't just theoretical, it's why the term "medical tourism" exists.

I believe reasonable tradeoffs could be made in theory, but I also believe the appeal of regulatory capture is too alluring for wall street to pass up. And when the people who need these devices can't afford it - well, that's when operation Too Big To Fail goes into effect.
the hospital's current handoff processes are insufficient

Humans have 24h circadian rhythms that likely affect patient care due to timing of cortisol release and other cyclical bodily events... It makes sense for an attending nurse/physician to be present for that full 24h cycle to gain a holistic understanding of patient recovery during various phases of the day.

If you're handing off a patient every 12 hrs, you're going to have fewer experiential data-points to judge if their condition is improving or worsening, no matter how detailed a hand-off can be. It'd be even worse with 8h shifts. Further, if a Dr has a patient come in with a unique condition, they're not going to leave just because their 12-hr timer dings.
Can Congress pass legislation to make net-neutrality something that the FCC cannot touch? If that's the case, it might be possible to pass such a law when(if) dems take over the House/Senate next year right?
You're technically correct, but for a simple logo designed by an artist doesn't usually need an IP lawyer as long as the concept is unique enough. It's not going to be an issue nearly as much as if the logo was sourced from an icon aggregator site that completely disavowed any copyright claims.
Have seen Excel derivatives pricers that ran long Monte Carlo simulations (yes, RAND() is often good enough) that took several minutes -- press F9 for a new estimate of a price, as well as simplified stripped-down pricers that got within 0.001% of our real internal pricing system but was nicely laid out and explainable to clients.

The only thing that Excel is awkward at is unlimited recursion. For everything else, if you can't turn your computation into a nicely laid-out spreadsheet, then you probably don't understand your problem well enough to explain to others.

Had a fun time doing many of the Euler problems in Excel, even though they theoretically many require recursion. Oftentimes I got the answer more quickly and easily than in Python.
> But DRY tells us that the five lines of duplication is unconditionally worse.

I agree that's often how DRY is understood, and that it can be a problem.

It is not how DRY was originally formulated, which was "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system." This differs from blind squashing of syntactic repetition in two important ways. First, as under discussion here, if things happen to be the same but mean different things, combining them is not "DRY-er". Second, there can be repetition of knowledge without repetition of code. For instance, if we are telling our HTML "there is a button here", and our JS "there is a button here", and our CSS "there is a button here", we're repeating the same piece of knowledge three times even though the syntax looks nothing alike.

I make no claim as to whether the flawed, more common understanding or the original intent is what "DRY really means", but I think the latter is more useful.
U.S. Bribery Case Sheds Light on Mysterious Chinese Company
Not to defend trump but it's congress that is corrupt to the core. The cable companies have been trying this many times before and congress is on their side. At this point it's just a matter of time.

We need to get the corruption out of congress.
Google doesn't want Comcast doing its job.
I used to work for a finance department that tried to implement a fancy driver based tool to replace an endless amount of spreadsheets. We spent so many hours and I’m sure a lot of money on the software license and consultants who built it and in the end it just wasn’t flexible enough.
He has some videos that are commentated by voice, but for some reason he finds doing the recordings very stressful, so most of his content is unfortunately on his 'uncommentated' channel. I agree it would be nice to have the voice-overs
At that point someone with WebMD and a scriptbook of a random House MD season is more efficient anyway.

But maybe the problem is that if we would have more generalists that'd just shovel more load on the specialists.
yes, not to the extreme of smartphones tables and laptops (since all of them are more or less capable of running on linux) but smart tv for me fall into the same category as these "smart home" aka mass surveillance devices, especially because it has been proven that they have been used for surveillance.
>But it’s easier to escape a private company than it is to escape the government

I find this statement suspect in the current U.S. landscape.
That's an extremely deep starting point.. but it's interesting.
Best thing to do is probably to contact your representatives and senators in order to get Congress to act on net neutrality.
> variables are named $A17 or B23.

Excel lets you name tables, cell ranges, or individual cells. I have seen spreadsheets put together by people who take the time to do this, and they are remarkably readable!
For me, this article brings to mind a statement that Rand Paul maid several years ago. I thought I'd reference it here for others to consider as well.

05/2011: "Paul: 'Right to health care' is slavery"
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/05/paul-right-to-health-...

> “With regard to the idea whether or not you have a right to health care you have to realize what that implies. I am a physician. You have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. You are going to enslave not only me but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants, the nurses. … You are basically saying you believe in slavery,” said Paul (R-Ky.), who is an ophthalmologist.

10/2017: "The Problem of Doctors' Salaries" - https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-sal...

> Policymakers have a number of tools to use to introduce more competition, weaken the doctors’ cartel and get their pay more in line with counterparts elsewhere.
Chinese government utilize some pretty good machine learning to analyze and monitor those cameras. Techniques include:
- Vehicle plates recognition. They are automatically captured and mapped. Chinese police can get the complete historical routes of any car around major cities in real time just buy entering the number.

- Activity detection. If something interesting is happening in front of a camera (e.g. two people running in front of a camera middle of the night), AI detects that and pops the view up in front of humans for further action. Because less than 1% of cameras contain any useful info at any moment, they don't need that many humans to watch those cameras live.

- Face recognition. For many cameras, Face capture and recognition is running live and report any criminals or targeted personnel to police.

- Footage markup. If police need to go through the camera footage manually, the recording playback can skip the uninteresting parts to save time.

Combining these with unrestricted real-time integration of other data sources, such as real time GPS from mobile apps, cell tower call history from telecoms, network traffic inspection and remote spying capabilities, Chinese police forces can pretty much find anybody very quickly. They are also known to have state of the art big data platforms developed in house.

One anecdote I read: Somebody killed a person in a small city middle of the night, removed battery of his phone, ran to his car parked on street, drove a couple of hundred miles to another middle sized city, only to be caught in a motel next morning. How? Complete camera footage covering his walking path, vehicle plate tracking all the way to his destination, and motel check-in system that is also integrated with police.
This story has less to do with Excel than it does having staff capable of using technology
I hope he does. It seems really shady. Impersonating citizens is probably a criminal offense, and the agency/person responsible for doing so could be charged with that crime.

Now, if it was foreign actors though, I don't think much can be done. Maybe Congress could enact more sanctions. But if it was a domestic operation, carried out by one of the big telecos... wow this will be huge.
That works great... until there’s a subtle reason to think that it’s not streptococcus for reasons ABC or that’s not the proper treatment for reasons XYZ and you have a mild case of death.
You really have a strange standard for opinion pieces.

> Some now believe tech is like the tobacco industry — corporations that make billions of dollars peddling a destructive addiction. Some believe it is like the N.F.L. — something millions of people love, but which everybody knows leaves a trail of human wreckage in its wake.

I don't know about you, but I am totally ready to accept this "opinion" as fact. Smartphone/internet/social media addiction is a topic commonly discussed on HN.

Just because you don't agree with "some people" doesn't mean you can pretend that the things Brooks are talking about are just his opinion and not something that is objectively happening. Is your real problem with this that he used the word "some"? He does on to detail who "some" people are in the article.
A panic should stop the processor dead, no data should be corrected as a result.
Data in flight should not be used if you use transactional I/O and therefore will not be used if a write does not complete.
Common Lisp is my main language outside work (and I manage to use it for work now and then as well) and I use it with Emacs + Slime. I've been trying to get into Paredit and similar modes but they just annoy the fsck out of me.

Mind, I do use Evil so I'm getting some 'structured editing'-lite from that already.
Because residency programs are very difficult to operate and require a level of staff that not all hospitals have access to.

The issue isn't with the supply of graduating students, it's with the number of residency spots.

This year 95.3%[0] of graduating students matched to a residency program. Out of 18.5k applicants, only 17.5k matched to an available residency program.

0: http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-Match-by...
HPC at work: Accelerating Alzheimer's research
States could make life really hard for the companies. Impose taxes on those that are not neutral, make permitting difficult and even start up state run internet.
>there was some question that orbiting spacecraft would violate airspace

Almost. He didn't want to avoid launching satellites, he wanted to avoid launching _military_ satellites, which is why they had to use Vanguard (which was a civilian rocket). Once Sputnik launched on an R-7, there was no more need.
> No, there are many options between 'profit' and 150k costs.

Why are you bringing $150,000 into this? That's the median debt load of a resident - it has nothing to do with what a hospital makes.

> The question is can Medicare increase the number of residency's without increasing Medicare's costs. And because of the excessive number of specialists with higher associated costs the answer to that is clearly 'Yes'.

I... don't even understand what point you're trying to make here. The point is that hospitals cannot generally provide self-funded residency programs, because they lose money on those programs.

Yeas, it's true that not all residency programs cost the same amount - some fields are more expensive than others. But it's not like we're trying to optimize for the total number of residents in the system at any time; the reason we have more expensive programs like neurology is because we need neurologists. Yeah, we could "save money" by training them in EM instead, but then that'd just mean an even greater shortage of neurologists (and even higher market wages for neurologists).
Per Trump exec order, he can't lobby for at least 2 years and most likely 5 depending on his tenure. So it's not a profitable move for him, taking this position.
States should try and let the FCC slog through the courts to stop it.
It's easy, if you have cassandra you can multi clouds, if you don't have cassandra you can't do multi clouds.

There are a few commercial products that can substitute but they don't have good advertising on HN.
From the article (emphasis mine):

> CEFC has risen suddenly from a little known Chinese company to a major player in the global energy business, with investments in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.

The whole little known to major player seems to be becoming a recurring theme for Chinese companies.
wrong abstractions are worse than duplication

This needs to be given a catchy phrasing and spread all across developer communities!

WTD == Worse Than Duplication?

WAAW == Wrong Abstractions Are Worse?
He probably means Accenture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
That's kind of my point. How would an 18 year old know what they actually want to do without having spent some time studying it and other things? I went into school with intention of becoming a doctor and had changed my mind 2 years in. That's an expensive mistake if I hadn't been at a liberal arts school.
Normally I'd agree, under the premise that the party who manufactured the comments had the competence to hide/obfuscate their trail enough to make it not worth following. However, the FCC's position is striking: they're not even maintaining the pretense of caring. This suggests sloppy execution and makes me revisit my priors regarding assumed competence. I think Schneidermann is right to spend resources on this angle, even if the chances of success are far below 100%.
> Can Congress pass legislation to make net-neutrality something that the FCC cannot touch?

Yes, if they have support of the President or a veto-proof supermajority in both houses.

> If that's the case, it might be possible to pass such a law when(if) dems take over the House/Senate next year right?

Unlikely, for the reasons stated above, though tying it to something the President isn't willing to veto might work. Or, I guess, if after taking both houses of Congress (and, critically, electing a new Speaker) they also impeach, convict, and remove the Vice President and President, and the Democratic Speaker succeeds to the Presidency, then it would be doable.
Telecos across the board are parts of massive conglomerates with fingers in every pie. There are virtually no "unrelated" startups.
> So if your code is literally the same, there's no reason not to extract it into a function.

Isn't that how we ended up with left-pad.js?
Apple reveals driverless car system to detect pedestrians and cyclists
"Nickname" for Accenture, an IT consulting/bodyshop famous for delivering stuff at waaay less than acceptable quality (or not delivering at all). In addition they're also known for exploiting their employees.

See also http://exposingevilempire.com/.
Riak was included in the non free. I always mean free as in no money, not as freedom.
While you're correct, I don't think that's why the terms are stated as they are. This site is aggregating symbols and appears to be completely uninformed about the origin's copyright. The chance that one of the icons has licensing terms is pretty high.
I was using vimperator and was quite worried that FF 57 will mean the end of convenient browsing for me.

But a few days before upgrading I found vim-vixen. It does 95% of the job. The performance improvements of FF 57 are well worth these 5% missing.
A hilarious pun at Accenture's expense.
I’m ripping my hair out wanting to scream about monopolies to all of these people.
Craziest thing I ever found that someone did with excel was implementing a neural network using it. It was meant as a tutorial to teach how neural networks worked, and not meant for production systems, but I do wonder if anyone ever took it further.
The FCC can add what is called a "preemption clause" that effectively overrules states. The same sort of thing is used to prevent every city you drive though for having different insurance requirements for example.

http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1575
How is refusing to participate in an identity theft investigation not obstruction of justice?

Surely Ajit & co travel to NY from time to time... why isn’t there an arrest warrant? Why are the states being so toothless in responding to rampant criminal behavior?

I’d like to see how I would fare if I participated in mass scale identity theft and refused to participate in the subsequent investigation.
>I have to disagree with letting nurses or PAs do more "doctor things". Their training isn't anywhere close to what it needs to be

from a recent freakonomics episode

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/nurses-to-the-rescue/

>ROSALSKY: The main argument against allowing NPs to practice independently is that they have less training than physicians. But there’s a mountain of empirical evidence from randomized trials, case studies, systematic reviews, and analyses of malpractice claims in states where similar legislation has already passed that all points to the same thing: when it comes to primary care, NPs are just as safe and effective as doctors.

there are links in the transcript.
Right!

Worth sharing I am a DevOps so I do production support. One night I was at the dinner table fixing some horrible issue. My sister and brother-in-law asked why I was frowning. Initially I refused to explain the situation but they convinced me to brief them the failure. They raised some questions as outsiders (one is a doctor, another is an accountant). Immediately lightbulb lighted up! Within minutes I was able to find the root cause, pushed a fix, documented the issue, and closed my laptop.
> To me, disruption is about trying to find better and more efficient ways of doing things. Not disparaging or scapegoating the people already in that industry.

This seems completely disconnected with reality. Disrupting an industry has real effects on peoples lives.

I think "evil" is certainly moralizing but I think it's fair given that companies like Google have made things like "do no evil" their unofficial motto. I invite you to stop taking headlines personally and to instead focus on the content of the article rather than the tone.
Amazon's cloud is about to announce a huge health-care deal with Cerner
I build an nginx Docker image that serves the Jekyll output and push that. I have an Ansible docker_container task that pulls and runs it. Done, couldn't be happier.
I remember hearing that the no-lobbying executive order was loopholed pretty badly. Does it actually apply here?
"it's true that most procrastination is often feeling overwhelmed intellectually by a system"

That is definitely not true for me. And it definitely does not explain why procrastinate with small boring tasks nor why challenging interesting tasks are less procrastinated about.
Accusations of Presidential Misconduct: The complete list
That's cool. I'd be interested to see your code if you ever run across it again.

Part of the purpose of Emerj is to actually avoid overwriting the current .value of inputs -- the idea is to preserve current element state that isn't represented explicitly in the DOM, so you don't delete something the user has just typed in (or <select>ed or whatever).

I haven't run into issues with classes or types or tables, though. I could imagine the implicit tbody potentially causing problems if you generate a DOM structure yourself without one, but in my case this doesn't matter because I use the browser to parse my HTML into a DOM, and it'll add a tbody.

Nanomorph has code to update live input values from the `value=` attribute, but that's actually something I've deliberately avoided for the above reason.
> they are proficient in JavaScript, I expect them to be able to get moving without checking documentation constantly

You might need to adjust your expectations.

I check documentation all the time because I can't remember what language uses 'size', 'size()', 'length', 'length()', 'count', or 'count()'. I have no value in memorizing those facts because I can simply look them up.
It's likely that a blackout drug would have a provision in the paper saying "you are not allowed to drive while under this medication". It's quite common.
http://www.space.com/26593-apollo-11-moon-landing-scariest-m...

https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up when an internet lynch mob gets you fired because you said "dongle" or something similarly bad.
Likely Accenture: https://www.accenture.com

Not sure if the misspelling is "accidental" or on purpose, in which case both it and this sentence are puns.
Again, there are a myriad of reasons as to why a site may drop or rise in the SERPs. A drop in rankings does not imply censorship. Every single site plays the algorithm dance with Google.

The Intercept hasn't been removed from the SERPs or Google News[1]. Keep in mind that they compete with all other media organizations for positioning in Google Search and Google News. Google News alone is a highly competitive landscape and small newsrooms are at a severe disadvantage compared to larger orgs that operate at scale. Reporting on a topic doesn't guarantee an article will be the top hit when a thousand other organizations are reporting on the same topic.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:theintercept.com
Show HN: OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets
A video game demonstration really helps understand how the coarseness of floats can introduce all kinds of strange bugs.
I hear techies disparage the industries they're trying to disrupt all the time. There's a certain "schadenfreude" that some people have for the industries that tech disrupts. I don't have any evidence for you off-hand but this is so incredibly common in my start-up experience that I hope you'll understand that even if you don't think so, lots of people do.
(not) surprisingly, republicans have all but disappeared from that chat.

at the federal level, both parties only care about state rights when it suits them.
This! There's hardly any uniqueness in listing because everyone is scrapping from the same source.

Neat product but I just wish job boards seperate from the herd by listing unique opportunities that arent mirrored on other sites
Yes, but Congress hasn't wanted to tackle net neutrality for the last ten years so it's not clear why this time would be different.