skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's in relation to "acute lower respiratory symptoms". To generalize this to "people want a prescription" isn't even valid, but there's even less to connection to "severe pain caused by the doctor rushing it". That guy isn't complaining about too little being done, but too much being done in too few minutes.

I've personally seen this, from the nurse perspective, only with a tracheoscopy. The patient screamed so loud people were rushing to the windows of the dental clinic across the street. That's nearly 20 years ago and I still remember it, I still know the weather and time of day and what wing of the building it was in.

Anyway, I'm not sure what evidence-based quality [sic] you're thinking of, but if it doesn't involve any testimonies at all, it's probably worthless. I wouldn't know, since you didn't post a even shred of evidence for

> Online reviews by patients are almost always useless and have near zero correlation with actual evidence-based medicine care quality.

And you also just say "Online review", as if that video was just some anonymous oneliner in a textarea. While I'm sure there's something to be said about the accuracy of "online reviews", I very much doubt one could defend a more relevant phrasing such as

> Testimonies by patients are almost always useless and have near zero correlation with assessment of medical care quality based on evidence other than patient testimony.
UK Airprox board says police drone and jet had 'near-miss'
It's already happened, it's just that the SF/MV overmind migrated to another host and has resumed normal operation.
Jordan implicated Harry Hopkins and other high officials in the transfer of nuclear and other secrets to the USSR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Racey_Jordan
Once you're in the army you have very little choice. You follow orders or go to the martial court otherwise. As a civillian you have the luxury of choice.
That's great to hear, and I'm sorry it blew up.

I had a less extreme version that still served our needs. My rule was that a fixed percentage of effort, say 80%, would go to business priorities. The product manager could certainly ask about where the time was going, but they couldn't claim it unilaterally. The rest of it could be ordered and reordered as the product manager thought best. We in turn could ask about that.

This worked well for us, in that it let us keep the code clean and make tooling improvements without having to explain to a non-developer what was going on.

It was also helpful that we were good at expressing technical-sounding things in user terms. E.g., all scaling and reliability work was put into the backlog with titles like, "system handles 1000 simultaneous users" or "system survives web server failure". And a lot of research was covered by the product manager buying information rather than features.

Of course, this was at a startup, where there was no "on high". The product manager was the CEO, so in theory he could have fired us, but mainly we just collaborated on getting shit done.
There's always been conflicts of interest in ownership. As gkoberger points out though: WaPo still seems to have church and state properly separated. The issue is not when journalism is owned by a company, but when that journalism is affected by that ownership.
I haven't tried either of those, but I'll give them a look.

You believe a non-programmer could use them effectively?
> Bad jQuery apps follow the pattern: When “.x” is clicked, show “.x .y”, add className “xyz” to “.z”, and fire off an XHR to “/api”.

This defines what the developer wants to happen,

Yes, it does. All in one place, in about 10 easy to understand, easy to debug lines of code.

>but is brittle and hard to test.

I don't see how it's brittle, or hard to test. You click the button, and verify that it does what it's supposed to. Having done it more times than I can possibly count, and ending up with robust code, shipped on time, I can tell you that it's not hard, if you know how to do it.

> Frameworks would typically break this into actions or methods that modify state and a UI that updates when the state changes,

Which, IMO, makes something simple to understand and dead simple to debug into something painfully, ridiculously complex. And people complain about "jQuery spaghetti code".

>so that the parts can be effectively unit tested and the UI can be changed without touching the rest of the logic.

You cannot effectively unit test UI code, if by effective, you mean that it can replace manual testing. It can't replace manual testing. Someone will have to click that button under all of the likely scenarios and verify that it works. I'm sure it's not to you, but to me, writing unit tests for UI code would be a massive waste of time.

If someone thinks they can be more productive using JS frameworks, and I don't have any personal financial stake in their productivity, then they should use them. But I don't see web development using a few simple tools like jQuery as difficult or mysterious or time-consuming.

Last year I interviewed a few recent boot camp grads and they all sent me a link to their copy of the same React-based project. When I asked them questions about how things worked, in generic terms, for example, "what do you think makes this picture slide down slightly and expand in size when I mouse over it", they had no clue. I guess it was just a React component they dropped in, following the steps in the tutorial. I'm not faulting those people -- they paid a lot of money and did exactly what they were told they needed to do to land a sweet high-paying programming job. But they're simply of no use to me. I need the one who looks at it and knows right away that it would take about 4 lines of CSS to accomplish, even if they had to consult a CSS reference to find out exactly which properties/values to use.
because browsers changes a lot.
In the eighties Iran used to blame its drug problems on the US - I don’t think blaming the US’ on China has any more logical footing
With respect to living conditions, it appears the "everything is gettng better," and "everything is getting worse," ideas are among the most succeptible to groupthink, and to cognitive dissonance.

I also see this at reddit. Depending on the topic, and how it is framed, it seems everyone is either in agreement that life getting better, or that it is getting worse.

For a counter example to your comment, most at this popylar HN thread(1) were in agreement that life is getting much better.

I could be wrong, this has just been my observation.

1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16258434
I hate them because they are requested automatically, rather than because the developer declared them. They clog my web server logs when I build microservices and in development they double up every page request. I still remember when they first started happening and they just broke the mental model that web pages were built on. From my software aesthetic perspective they disgust me.

Having an icon for bookmarks and tabs is totally, 100% great - don't get me wrong. but they should be off by default.
If someone robbed you would you contact their place of employment? No, you'd contact the police. Sexual harassment is a crime and crimes should be reported to the police.
> Buying the watch is not the hobby, wearing it is.

I'm not sure I see the distinction between "wearing it" and merely "owning it", as they both seem somewhat passive activities (if you'll pardon the oxymoron).

In other words, I'm asking, is the hobby one of collecting (as with stamps or coins), or is there something involved in the wearing that is the fundamentally interesting/engaging part of the hobby?

Perhaps what most commenters (including me) are skeptical of is that hobbies have also been known as "pastimes" and are, presumably enjoyable, ways to pass the time.

I suspect that most here would agree that for "expensive" hobbies, such as high-end computer gaming, automotive racing, or aviation, they would still participate in it and call the hobby by the same name if they didn't personally own the equipment necessary to engage in their chosen activity (and merely had unrestricted, or even shared/restricted, access to it).

I'm not so sure this is the case, however, for something like art collecting. If that person doesn't get to keep the art, isn't that really just an art buyer, not a collector?
Look at her report from five years ago before hyping her predictions. Most successful predictions obvious (mobile, China). Lots of misses (AI, cloud computing), and lots that’s wrong (everyone will be using wearables?).
In government, there are constituent management systems that allow staffers to manage correspondence, calendars, etc. Letters get triaged and things of interest either due to subject matter, the person writing it, etc move up the food chain. Depending on the principal, they see a few dozen per week.

These systems also allow for tagging of people too. Crazy people, various group affiliation (union, conservative, pro-x, anti-y), VIP status, etc. They also queue up personalized responses to specific issues to be timed with events, press hits, etc.

Many high level people really enjoy hearing from real people.
What do you mean by training-validation-testing vs training-validation split? Also why would pandas.qcut compromise the validation?
The report from past five years:

Most successful predictions obvious (mobile, China). Lots of misses (AI, cloud computing), and lots that’s wrong (everyone will be using wearables?).
I quit my job like two years ago to work in a project. There were bumps but overall really loving it and would recommend it to anyone.
Bingo. Echoes my experience (also in quant finance). ML is just not all that useful in our field. To the extent that some shops are getting mileage from it, I presume it's from combining lots of really alternative datasets. Satellite photos, traffic data, etc?
I don’t know. They said it would be fixed in 2015 back in 2010. The fix is always 5 years away given whatever the current 5 year plan is.

Also, China has a ridiculously high smoking rate, with no end in sight for it really. On the other hand, smoking rates in the USA have fallen quite a bit in my lifetime.

So is obesity really that much worse compared to smoking and apocalyptic air pollution? An interesting question to ponder.
> Technologists who fancy themselves pacifists are naive.

Naturally. Why would you make a straw man that is not easy to beat down?
Japan was devistates by WW2 also, but they bounced back quickly. China being one of the most powerful (and richest) countries in the world is actually not that unusual considering world history.
Hmm that's odd, I have the exact opposite issue. For me and a number of people I interact with, the chrome video player will abruptly freeze the video while the audio continues to play. It only really seems pronounced on laptops with a second monitor attached though.

Seems the same issues plague both browsers and one will just arbitrarily work better for some people.
Everything we want to know is exactly what you're not allowed to talk about.
Story time: in college, I played a lot of the Team Fortress 2 beta. When the release came around, performance tanked. Absolutely went straight to hell. Annoyed, I fired a snippy email off to Gabe. Not impolite, but snippy, something around "I expect performance regressions like this out of companies less awesome than Valve." The next day, a senior engineer at Valve reached out to me, we hopped on Skype, played a few rounds with a bunch of Valve employees, and we monitored my system perf. A few days later, I got an email, "next patch should help you out, let me know if not"--happy as a clam afterwards.

These days I have more than a few beefs with Steam, but that sort of reaction sticks, and generates a lot of goodwill.
It’s pretty easy to exfiltrate when you have root access.
小胖子 is already part of Chinese vocabulary, it is already happening in the cities, though nowhere near on an American scale.
welcs!
It's called BookFace, and is a private social network-style platform for YC alumni.
I didn't do the initial foundational research for the project I worked on, but now that you mention it, I think that was discussed. I think the main issue was that Java really does run everywhere, except iOS, which is unfortunately the most popular mobile device choice. In an enterprise environment that can dictate what devices get used in the field, it's not a problem, just force Android or even Windows on a tablet. In a bring-your-own-device environment, iOS support is a must-have.

On the other hand, bring-you-own-device is a risky business move anyway because App Store rejection is a very real concern. It was a problem more than once for that project.
The CPC has always had big plans for solving air pollution and smoking problems, ever since I started living there in 2007. Each campaign subsequently failed, so they don’t have a great track record on actually “getting things done.” Maybe it’s different this time, but a healthy dose of skepticism is definitely warranted.

Once my wife was pregnant, we had to leave Beijing, there was no way the air pollution problem would have been solved in time, even if the air got twice as clean it would still be way too much. Say what you want about the USA, but being able to open my windows everyday is incredibly liberating.
Just for those of you looking at the URL slug and thinking, holy cow, $55bn! ... it's $5.5bn.

Still impressive, but I had to click to find out how a videogame guy could possibly be worth fifty-five-thousand-million dollars. :-/
One of the most powerful aspects of APL is its notation. Ken Iverson himself wrote a paper titled "Notation as a Tool For Thought". Here it is:

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd...

I remember watching Iverson deliver a presentation in person about this very topic.

Anyone familiar with fields such as mathematics or music understands the power of notation. The integral symbol conveys information and allows you to think about the problem rather than the mechanics.

APL in early times suffered from a unique problem: You had to physically modify your computer and printer to be able to do APL. You had to remove and replace the character generator ROM from you graphics card (who remembers those cards?). You had to get a new keyboard or put stickers all over your standard keyboard. And you had to change the print wheel or print ball (IBM printers) to be able to see, type and print APL characters.

It was a pain in the ass. Only the most interested cult members endured that level of pain for an extended period of time.

Years later Iverson decided to transliterate APL symbols into combinations of standard ASCII characters. This was a knee-jerk reaction to the above stated problem. What he did not have was the vision to recognize that technology would take care of this on its own. Not long after the introduction of J everyone could display and print graphics of any kind. The APL character set, the symbols, ceased to be a problem in that regard.

Iverson took the wrong road with J out of --conjecture on my part-- commercial interest rather than language interest. He violated something he personally talked about: The value of notation as a tool for thought.

J doesn't need to exist. If we are to evolve APL and move into a world where symbolic programming is a reality (something I think would be very powerful) we need to move away from typing ASCII characters into a keyboard and move into a paradigm where advanced software engineering has it's own notation that can be used to describe problems and create solutions with the kind of expressive power we have not seen in mainstream computing in years.
Think about the standpoint from which you would speak. I suggest you NOT try to write from the standpoint of someone who understands the subject and wants to explain some point clearly and accurately.

Because, one, you aren't an expert yet, and you would feel a lot of responsibility to try to make sure you always got it right. That would impede your writing, make it more laborious, and greatly increase your chagrin when you (inevitably) get something wrong.

And two, "what I know about Control systems" is frankly not that interesting a topic.

What IS (or at least could be) an interesting theme is "my adventures and fuckups trying to learn Control systems". You take the standpoint of a learner, a way-farer, and you write about what goes wrong, and occasionally, your triumph when things go right.

This adds a human, emotional component. You'd be writing about your (intellectual) struggles and achievements, and that's always interesting -- as well as easy to write about.

You can get as technical as you want, in this role as struggling apprentice, dive really deep when you actually make a discovery. "Wow! I just actually got this concept for the first time!" That makes a great blog post. But so does, "Today I screwed up a whole lab experiment because..."

Human interest, with a technical slant.
That really is an amazing book :-)
which one, the original or the turbo?
Hey my sims worked! You got it, although I'd add in that only the free electrons can move around like the ones in the outer valence of metals.
The previous edition is a great read: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~nil/764/

(Haven’t read the new one... YMMV)
Try this:

http://www.nars2000.org/
From a FOSS-user point of view, having a pre-established commercial relationship is good: no-one wants to get approval to spend money on a per-incident basis. After that, having a per-hour model to get good-quality support would be good. If there was a place that I could find someone with the right expertise, recommendations, etc.

As a maintainer, this would fine too. I'd likely not offer paid support myself -- I have limited time available, and I'd rather be looking after the small queries, and doing the development I want to do rather than doing paid support work, but I'd be really happy for someone else to get paid to do it.

I should point out that this has been tried before ... see Cygnus Support, LinuxCare, etc, etc. I don't know of any recent attempts though.
That’s one of the reasons I got out :)
This is pretty much word-for-word what I think about the blacklisting of Huawei, except with an additional twist: we know there are objections to their corporate governance model because it is believed to include investment/board direction from ex-PLA seniors and therefore is held to be too close to a state-actor, and not transparent. But do we get told technical real, live, believable information about the risk side of their fiber or technology which is the headline reason? No. we do not. we get five-eyes FUD.

I want to see the technical paper too, but for Huawei.
Given the terrible state of US healthcare and social support infrastructure, I don't find this hard to believe at all.
How Mistakes Make Us Better Developers (and People)
How Did Yandex Discover a Private URL?
I recently set up a VPS server to provide a private service for an Appengine app. To test exception handling, I set up a test URL /boo.hoo/test, and visited it a couple of times with Chrome browser on Ubuntu to make sure things worked the way I expected. This URL has never been used by the app.

I forgot to remove the test code, and this morning (three weeks later) received an error message, which shows my exception handling works... except I hadn't visited the URL and I can't understand how anyone else knew it existed.

The request log shows (long sequences of base64 replaced with "..."):

46.42.171.81 - - [31/May/2018:06:40:12 +1200] "GET /boo.hoo/test HTTP/1.1" 401 3817 "http://yandex.ru/clck/jsredir?from=yandex.ru%3Bsearch%3Bweb%3B%3B&text=&etext=1804.R2Y-...&state=...&sign=...&keyno=0&cst=...&ref=...&l10n=ru&cts=1527705451111&mc=4.949890056" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 YaBrowser/18.2.1.174 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36"

So how did Yandex discover this URL?
Military members have a choice if it's an unlawful order. They may still be courtmartialed, and sometimes even found guilty. But in the case of unlawful orders it is their duty to disobey.

That said, for lawful orders (even ones you find questionable, immoral, or unethical), you have no real choice.
there was someone who wrote a message bus ruby gem using xmpp.

Sure there are better message bus options now adays but you know people do crazy things... specially rubyists
I imagine it's about NAFTA negotiations. Trump can probably get any concession he wants if the threat is to end Albertan oil exports. If Trudeau's going to ensure Canada doesn't get screwed, we need to not have absolute dependence on the US to drive a large part of our economy.
They don't need to have technical reasons though. As there are perfectly reasonable malware detection/intrusion prevention alternatives, the "sufficient risk" to justify this is really low. taking one that's not from an arguably autocratic also arguably adversary is a no brainer imho
Two's complement has the bizarre property of being asymmetric about zero. So things like `abs` can overflow, among several other oddities. It's not unambiguously better.
Make friends with a copy editor - or hire one if you can afford it.

My partner is one, and she went through a project of mine the other week. So much got cut, and initially I was a bit offended. I didn't think it read like "me" any more.

Then I read it again a few days later and, holy moly, I realised how much better it was for it.
It's also very unstable and young because requirements keep moving, and developers keep figuring out more 'auto-magic' and simply better ways of implementing UIs.

UI used to be simple, a page, a few links, click through to other pages. Then we needed templated pages, because we had a lot of pages.

Then full blown 'applications' were ported to the web, and life was a nightmare of double-headed dragons and dark holes with pikes. Jquery provided some help here but it was more in terms of nuts and bolts, than as an architecture.

Then came all the MVC libs which really helped enforcing a structure for large apps.

Then came Angular and all of its madness, but a positive step ahead, giving us usable SPA.

React brought some sanity back and now Vue (in my opinion, don't shoot) brings the sanest/cleanest way forward.

My guess is what we do on the web will change once again, in a few years, and we will throw all that out and start again with new framework. Whether it will be in AR or still on the web, there are still many problems to solve.

E.g. the whole 'responsive' thing.
I don't have a theory fully worked out for this, but I'm half convinced that rents in HCOL coastal cities fit into this framework. Sure, it's nice living in San Francisco, but you can get the same or better weather in smaller coastal towns, get more space and live better on a cost of living adjusted basis in a whole lot of other places. But still people come to the big cities and struggle to make it financially.

The good jobs and appreciating real estate, admittedly limit how well this theory fits together, but a big HCOL city is prestigious and exotic in large part because of, not despite, its price.
Then you can't keep information around necessary to defend yourself against defamation.
You're at the right place to work out what started it.

The aggressive personal branding is clearly spillover of startup hype/marketing/branding styles and techniques. If your whole career has been at startups then that is just called "marketing" to you.

Also: it works. "No one ever got fired for going with IBM" is now applied down to the micro-level. Few choose a project because of a code/architecture review, most choose one because it has a good reputation. The industry has fantastic expertise at manufacturing reputations by now.