skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How they dismiss the extreme negative correlation between income inequality and homicide rate is funny:

"Daly says that no one knows what time lag to expect between a rise in inequality and a rise in murder – but if it does take a few decades, this could be the start of a troubling trend, not a blip."

Income inequality rose, and homicide rate rose, then income inequality rose much faster and homicide rate dropped dramatically.
1. Put yourself in the reader's shoes. Imagine getting your email in the midst of all the other emails they get, all the other things they're thinking about, all the other problems, in and out of work, that they might be dealing with.

2. Read The Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E. B. White (< 100 pages).

3. Read the first several chapters of On Writing Well, by William Zinnser (< 100 pages).

(Don't like reading? Oh :)
The ambiguity is whether the second widget is on the table, in use, or if it even exists.
It's absolutely incredible data if it is coming from the full transaction feed.

Less so if Yodlee:(
I think they have exactly zero obligation to keep people from doing stupid things with their money. Making a blog post about it is nice of them, but probably not necessary.
Along the same vein, how do you even address a cover letter if you don't know the name of the hiring manager? I always felt like "To the Attention of the Hiring Manager" was cheesy and impersonal.
I thought about using markdown for my resume but I was afraid that nobody would know what it was.

At my current job I have found one person that knows what markdown is. Could you go into more detail for me please?
I know very little about banking regulations, but I think the KYC laws change based on the state. It’s possible Coinbase has a different process in WV compared to CA.
OTOH - It's pretty damn cool to say "Alexa, turn on the room lights" _before_ you get to the room or "Alexa, turn off the room lights" _after_ you've walked upstairs and realized you're not going back to that room.
It is the (secure) desktop, not the window station.
Was this for another comment? I don't think I was suggesting any sort of shopping around solution...
Usually the time you need to book is lower than the full 40 hour week, I have to book 37 even if I'm pulling 60 or 30.

I think you do have to acknowledge the point that engineers are sometimes thought of as commodities and the business often don't realize the effects of their requests on the engineering team. Management is always very quantitatively focused and its hard to justify a lot of the yak shaving that needs to be done . This leads to poorer quality code or engineers working extra hours so they don't end up swimming in shit every day.

Of course if you are in those situations, just leave, we're in high enough demand right now. Only in a recession should you worry about those qualms.
It is truly astonishing how salty the hacker news community is about BTX
Mortgage default swaps (and other asset backed default swaps) are exactly this.
There was also an attempt some years ago to rename them "crackers" but white people took over that one.
The challenges of building a prototype into a product
Sugar industry sponsored studies linking sucrose to hyperlipidemia and cancer
Good point, I think there's another way we could do it. Let me fix that.
Congrats on the launch and the HN coverage @jonathan-kosgei! Looks very similar to my service, https://ipinfo.io:

$ curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8
{
"ip": "8.8.8.8",
"hostname": "google-public-dns-a.google.com",
"city": "Mountain View",
"region": "California",
"country": "US",
"loc": "37.3860,-122.0840",
"org": "AS15169 Google LLC",
"postal": "94035",
"phone": "650"
}

It also started as a simple geolocation API when I first launched it over 3 years ago. Since then we've built many custom data sets and expanded to more products, including IP to company details, carrier detection, reverse IP hosting data and more. See https://ipinfo.io/products. We've been lucky enough to signup customers like Dell, Tesla, eBay, TripAdvisor, Plesk and others. Happy to chat and share notes at some point!
You missed the point.

I'm not talking about situations with two vehicles on the road. What happens with regular traffic is that you get someone driving 75mph in the right lane and another driving 75mph in the left lane, and it's game over for the whole highway. Once a few more vehicles accumulate, there's no safe driving stance. If you stay in the left, a gap develops on the right and people coming up to the jam pass to the right and then unsafely merge in. If you stay on the right, people passing others on the right are closing on you at ridiculous speed, or you're stuck driving a couple of feet away from another vehicle (on your left) that's tailgating and being tailgated and jockeying for position.

Taking the stance of "I'm traveling the speed limit, so I can stay in the left lane as long as I want" ignores the reality that there are other drivers that don't necessarily agree with you. Staying right except to pass minimizes the risk to everyone involved, accommodating both conservative drivers and aggressive or unsafe drivers, and lets everybody coexist. Staying left increases the danger and promotes road rage and other unsafe driving behaviors such as tailgating and right-lane passing.
As in passthrough TBAs? How so?
From a user's standpoint, the impression I'm getting is this:

"A user might download a malicious update to an existing application from someplace other than Google Play, and Android will incorrectly tell the user that the application is valid."

Is this correct? Then they should say so in this article, perhaps in the introduction. As a user I can look at the details later if I'm interested, but for now I need to know what (not) to do to stay safe.

Again, beating the drum that security news needs to improve its messaging.
Love how people keep discovering instances of fractal 80/20 and are continually surprised by it.
I'm guessing that it's going to be pretty difficult to hire an engineer who is:

- Very good

- Wants to live near Palo Alto

- Is able to live in the US

- Wants to be subjected to Apple's privacy rules

- Wants to work on fixing bugs instead of making new features

In the software engineering game, money only goes so far.
IE is the big hurdle. It can be done - Sascha Fuchs wrote some SASS mixins that take the place of IE's missing grid-gap, and I wrote a mixin recently to take the place of grid-autoflow. I'll publish it somewhere if anyone would find it useful.
3D and IoT Enabled Equipment in Today’s Building Industry
> Some people will understand what you mean with very little. Others likely won't understand regardless of how much explanation you provide.

Super true
In Oregon you would not be titled as an "engineer", what you are describing is a "Professional Engineer", which is not what the original letter writer was claiming to be.

It's not like this is a new use of the word, "software engineering [1]" has been around for at least 70 years. So if you're trying to fight a battle against the misappropriate of the term "engineering", that battle was lost long ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_software_engineerin...
If you live in California, consider writing or calling your State Assemblymember in support of the Healthy California Act (http://www.healthycaliforniaact.org), which is stuck in the State Assembly right now. It would establish a single payer system for the state and let people get emergency care without these outrageous bills.
Putting aside the often absurd costs for a moment...

Many ERs are also severely overburdened, understaffed, and overcrowded often with very high ratios of non-emergency patients to emergency patients. This creates huge wait times for patients and puts significant stress on medical staff.

Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, almost everyone has a bad story to share, whether about absurd wait times, wild costs, billing screw-ups, insurance debacles...

And talk to your doctors and nurses too, they are just as frustrated.
Believe it or not, you make up about 0.000001%[1] of the internet users. There is no saying in what this can be applied, it doesn't have to be for language or anything like that. It doesn't even have to be anything customer facing, and if it's just some stats you will probably probably just be a bit of noise.

Don't get me wrong. I totally agree that this thing is definitely not accurate(it thinks i'm 1300mi away) but it's good enough to get a general idea.

[1] made up number to get my point across
FYI, that link now redirects to a somewhat NSFW imgur page mocking HN.
I often see people refuse to move from far right lane and refuse to adjust their speed to accommodate drivers merging onto a 3+ lane highway/freeway.

In Seattle, often times you can't move out of the lane, traffic's too thick. Which is why the person in the right lane needs to make accomodations to those merging, and the person merging needs to do their part by accelerating to speed of traffic. It's a cooperation, and when the mergers don't do their part it fucks it up for everyone else. I have to disrupt traffic flow because your Mustang can't accelerate to 60mph in a reasonable amount of time. Or I don't let you in, now everyone behind you on the exit ramp gets to slam on their brakes. Given the choice, I'll screw up the exit ramp by not yielding to a slow-poke rather than screw up multiple lanes on I-405 by slamming on my brakes or making a questionable lane change.

On the flip side, if I've accelerated to the speed of traffic flow and you don't want to let me in, I'll remind you that in the Chicago-style school of driving where I got my black belt, the turn signal is a warning and not a request.

EDIT: refuse to adjust their speed to accommodate drivers merging onto a 3+ lane highway/freeway

Wait a minute, what? The general traffic lanes have absolutely no obligation to adjust their speed to accommodate anything coming down the entrance ramp except an emergency vehicle. It is the responsibility of those merging from the entrance ramp to adjust their speed to the flow of traffic. It's in the driver's manual of three states I've lived in, and I'd be surprised if it weren't universal.
Do you have a link for this cable? I am always interested in foisting esoteric firmware and poorly implemented protocol bugs upon myself.
Amen. If everyone at the org can't describe at least one type of customer for the product, in detail, then there's something wrong.

And this definitely includes software engineers.
The health care system has also chosen the hospital as the only place that's actually open. The nearest urgent care closes at 5 … which is worse than my bank.
You're completely missing my point

Its not that they can do one or the other (they can), its that they aren't doing the latter.

This problem with getting frozen up whenever theres major volatility has existed for years on Coinbase
I have horrible sleep wake and external monitor problems on both my new macbook pros
Bill Baren has some things
Is that actually true? I've heard it as well, but it seems like an impossible task for a bank.

Are they scanning all the bills that come in? Which bills are in which teller's drawer? I doubt it.

If they received new bills in sequential order from the mint and had them stolen, I could see how they would know the numbers. But then again, what's the point? Your average business isn't going to scan numbers, so by the time the bills pop up again, you have no idea the path they took.

I've heard that serial numbers from ransom money would be recorded. That makes a bit more sense as they are one-time events and there is value in knowing if you find money it came via the ransom.
Just to let you know: Google+ link on webpage is not doing anything, as it simply links to "#".
That was my impression from the headline, driven in part by a conversation earlier this week about many whale watching day cruises giving a free pass to come back if you don't actually see any whales.

The person I was talking with had gone on a cruise while traveling, got a pass, passed it to a coworker who was going to be in the same area, then it repeated at least two more times over the course of more than a year. One purchase, at least 4 trips.
True. But what language should you ask them in? Correctly assuming some details improves the UX for the many.
At first I misread you last sentence as "but I'm a lawyer so I don't get tickets" and it seemed fitting
The 5-year survival rate for cancers is much better in the US than Europe. It's what you'd expect for all the money spent, whether it is worth it is unclear.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62584/table/ch9.t1/?re...

For heart attack survival, the US isn't the best, but ranks somewhere in the top 4 depending on the data and criteria.

There are a bunch of issues that adversely affect life expectancy in the US not directly related to the health care system. High violent crime rate, much greater dependence on driving cars, standard american diet, opioid crisis (maybe we can blame some of this on the health care system).
Announcing the General Availability of MongoDB 3.6
If you haven't yet, you might try getting some objective third party advice on your resume.
The link you provided doesn't say anything about ERs, much less ER profits. I can't imagine this patient with the severe genetic disorder is getting much of his $1M/month health care treatment in the emergency room.
How to Run Your Business Like a Visionary
Sure they pay for it. It is called taxes, and it does come to thousands of dollars.
False dichotomy. Yes, emergency rooms are a marvel of modern planning and materials. But just because they are impressive does not mean they need be expensive, or that such efficiency must be difficult to implement. The initial costs for the mediine is all front-loaded, in the R&D. The actual manufacturing of previously discovered medicine is cheap and trivial. The same is the case for many of the efforts of nurses and doctors (not to belittle their jobs), but they aren't doing R&D. They are following memorized checklists of knowledge, triaging based on information that was discovered elsewhere, then imported to their classrooms. All of this cost is also front-loaded.

Grifters, middlemen, and oligopolies are why healthcare is expensive in America. There is no reason we can't fund expensive R&D and also get cheap medicine.
The desktop flash happens regularly to me when simply attaching an external monitor to my closed locked machine.
What to do when you can't A/B test
Inside Oracle’s cloak-and-dagger political war with Google
ERs are one of the few places where hospitals actually earn a profit. My partner fights on behalf of hospitals when insurance companies deny a claim. And over the past years, insurance companies have taken to denying valid claims just to get out of paying. An egregious example being a patient that needed heart surgery and the insurance company deemed it medically unnecessary because they claim he should have been observation only.

Claims denial departments are exploding, they used to be 4-8 person teams for a major hospital five years ago. Today my partner has 32 direct employees at a much smaller, regional hospital.

Hospitals have come to the realization that it's basically impossible for insurance companies to deny ER claims. After all, the patient came in with an "emergency."
I'm using turbolinks with my Phoenix/Elixir stack.
This is one thing I'm terrified of going forward: industries being built by the 1% for the 1% and to Hell what the rest of us proles want.

I'm not at all against elites being able to get tons of money, so long as there's at least some scraps left for the rest of us.
NB: The chart further down is in _thousands_ of dollars!
Hey Everyone! IPFS dev here, If anyone is interested in the future of ipfs pubsub you can participate in the discussions in our research repo: https://github.com/libp2p/research-pubsub . One of the next big things we're planning to do is to implement a new routing algorithm, one proposal for this is here: https://github.com/libp2p/research-pubsub/pull/17 (feedback and review very welcome)

We are also planning on implementing various different modes for authentication and encryption. Our pubsub currently is plaintext and open for anyone to publish to any topic
What’s a eSport University look like?
True, I think it's on the "wish list", no?
Firefox, please I need my tabbed browsing back! One click and boom it opens a new tab after clicking a link, opening a bookmark, rendering a search result and etc!

Tab Mix Plus made Firefox my default browser yet it’s not supported and or there’s new substitute :-(

I reverted back to the previous release but then it seemed After a week to start displaying hacked behavior. Started opening tons of windows with each click.
> If you're storing your coins on Coinbase, you're doing it wrong. Get your coins under your control.

And what if you lose the USB key, hard drive, etc or it becomes damaged? Oops.

Secure and reliable storage is a problem that must be solved.
Then please say that instead of making unnecessary snarks about blog posts. Any company with even a small marketing / PR team probably has people whose job IS writing blog posts, and who can't go around solving infra problems.
Theres... no article here. Like it literally doesn't render
Autistic in a startup?
I'm about to go pick up my teenage son from school and hope he had an okay day. I'm in an angry mood, though.

Lucas starts high school next year, and his middle school (what some would call "junior high") is trying very hard to convince me and him that autistic people can't succeed in startups. The lengths they are going to to push him away from the local entrepreneurship high school just...stagger me.

I'm fighting them. He's a bright kid, and his social difficulties are nearly invisible when attending or teaching at a tech con, or in other environments less adversarial than his current school situation. However, I'm worried about his morale because so many adults in his life seem to truly believe that I'm delusional and autistic people shouldn't reach for this sort of life. It makes me sad.

I have been around startups a long time, and met many cool autistic adults. If you are one or know one, please drop a comment that I can show my son about something cool you or they have done.

Or, check out his beekeeping blog at https://bloomingtonbees.com -- it's not currently accepting comments, but he's been known to check his traffic. ;) Lucas is currently working on a beekeeping start-up, with an eye to other agricultural projects in the future.
It's so great to read an article like that one and realize halfway that none of it applies to you. [Smug mode on] Having your site/app in ClojureScript+React+Rum, with flawless server-side rendering is quite nice.
> but it does help me avoid getting compromised

Only by casual hackers. The pros will probably have been exploiting the flaw for weeks or months against gainful targets.

If there is a reasonable end-user workaround against the vulnerability then I'd argue it's more responsible to publish early and widely than to wait for the vendor.

It becomes greyer if there is no workaround. I'm not sure what I'd support in that case.
It's probably a matter of tastes, either one project or two projects.

I've been working with Rails since 2006 and I'll create two separate projects. A Rails API project and a front end one. Two projects, two repositories, maybe two teams (specialized teams are more common than full stack.) The front end is served by the reverse proxy in front of Rails.

If I want to serve some semi-static HTML page from Rails, all I have to do is sharing the CSS file and create a controller for that (PagesController is a classic.) I don't think there are many chances of sharing HTML in a meaningful way among ERB and JSX, that must be duplicated.

Then Rails people will work with Rails tools and JavaScript people will work with the favorite tools of the month. The advantage is that if you want to onboard some pure front end developers they won't have to learn about Rails.
Were you able to negotiate that 50,000 bill down?
> One of the ways consumers can push back on this is by becoming educated on health care practice. I would never have let a hospital give me a CT scan for a simple throat problem.

The average person doesn't have time to become enough of a medical expert to second guess their doctors about everything.
Haha I long for the days of DejaNews! Imagine StackOverflow but without the bullshit. And Google Groups is obviously terrible.

I'd say that Google totally ruined Deja but if I remember correctly it had already declined before the acquisition.
That has been already discussed on this very page at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15879470 .
If I sold my bitcoin, I wouldn’t feel any better storing it in any of the asset classes you mentioned. Everytime I honestly evaluate what central banks have done around the world, I always arrive back at bitcoin. It’s my safehaven asset.

I wish you well with wherever you’ve chosen to store your wealth.
Ber ber ber, I think you're right. I was assuming a Cascade-Correlation DNN.
It's literally the same effect. The exact security isn't specified so you're going to get the "worst" one that is eligible. If you misjudge how bad the "worst" security is then you'll get screwed.

Similarly, these CDS don't specify the exact security so you need to think about the worst case. The major difference is that the auction only happens if there is a credit event.

Maybe here's an easy non-financial way to think about it. Suppose we sign a contract that says that I need to delivery 1 ton of at least 90% gold to you. When you price the contract, you probably shouldn't assume that I'll deliver 99% gold.
"Mozilla ditched Yahoo recently however in favor of Google, two years before the five year contract would be up for renewal. The terms of the new deal with Google have not been revealed yet, and it remains to be seen whether this new deal will give Mozilla's revenue another boost in 2017."

Apparently Firefox 57 when it is installed tries to switch the users default search engine to Google.

Whether it asks for user permission to do so, I am not sure.

Do the terms of the deal actually require them to do this?
>Storing your life savings in Bitcoin right now is a suicidal idea.

Don't tell (or do tell) this family :
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/10/17/t...

"The Dutch family of five is in the process of selling pretty much everything they own — from their 2,500-square-foot house, to their shoes – and trading it in for the popular cryptocurrency"
Thus creating cleaner, more focused, more testable, likely faster, and more maintainable code bases. Which also adhere to the Single-Responsibility Principle.

We as developers already offload certain tasks to separate servers. Do you use your app server to terminate TLS connections? You could; but why would you when Nginx can do a much better job of it?

You could store you application data like usernames and password in a JSON file if you really wanted to. But why would you when you can run an SQL server and use a real database?

Pick the best tool for each job. JS frameworks handle the view layer better than Rails does.
Using external displays, and half the time come back from sleep with most of my apps 95% off screen, it's annoying at best.
Thanks coderholic! :). I took a lot of inspiration from your service but built around solving a number of pain points. Would love to chat and talk sometime :)
You actually have good language right on your /faq.html page that should address this.

>Yes, send an email to support@ipdata.co requesting the change. You will receive a link from where you'll be able to securely update your details.
That's... rather poor behaviour on your part, no?
Do they do that ? And why exactly do they do that ?