skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this article and seeing all the startups sprouting in the field of health care and medicine tells me that there's still a lot more areas to innovate and disrupt in this industry.

One big issue though are that lobbyists who wanted to keep prices high - to squeeze in as much profit as they can out of these. Drugs, Antibiotics, Procedures, Medical Professionals. I know it would be far-fetched to standardize and at least provide some level of transparency across all facets of operation in this field, but that would be a good start.

Analyze the data, and find ways where things can be improved incrementally.
I used to use these, but they're no longer available in my region. They were on heavy discount for a few days everywhere so I scooped them up, assuming they were being discontinued.
My historical argument was always that if a playbook looks ugly, it is wrong.

Over the years I haven't been around to keep saying that, but I'd be inclined to have to find ways to open up the programming model while still keeping the mostly organized guide-rails in place.
The BBC's Online and R&D departments have very interesting blogs, if you like this sort of thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd
"After signing in to your Facebook account in Spotify’s desktop app, you could then send and receive messages without ever leaving the app. Our API provided partners with access to the person’s messages in order to power this type of feature."

> This is a write permission. So you needed to give Spotify permission to create a message. It seems that your system combines the read and write permissions, since you just grouped them together by saying "access to the person's messages".

How is it a write permission when the thing you quoted says "send and receive messages"? That's an inbox. An inbox reads messages.
> Lots of newly IPO'd tech companies during the last Dotcom bubble survived through it and eventually grew to be prominent companies today.

Do you have a list? I know some survived, but my understanding (and I have not actually compiled a list, so I'm not claiming to be certain) is that the overwhelming majority were wiped out and only a handful survived.
The whole article seems odd. I have no training in public relations, but I assumed the narrative would try to at least seem sincere about end-user's privacy concerns.

There's none of that at all, not that it would be believable at this point anyhow. But it reads like a bully trying to justify to a teacher why he chose to eat another kid's lunch. It's clear fb has no moral guilt here and actually implies that all blame is shifted off of themselves.
At the moment I make around that in the UK. The cost of living while higher is not comparable to the salary difference. I am open to moving to a non-eu country as well.
> Then came gradle which has faster build speed and features like incremental builds and a Groovy based configuration

You make it sound like adding Apache Groovy for configuration to a build system is an improvement. When build systems with a declarative config language, such as make, ant, and maven, replace procedural build scripts, that's the improvement. Using a procedural language like Groovy instead is a large leap backwards because it encourages programmers to add unneeded procedural features to build scripts, creating an unmaintainable mess.
I'm not an advocate of government paid health care, but hospitals and medical providers should see that this train is coming and if they don't become more transparent it's going to be forced upon them.

I don't have a problem with ER care being more expensive -- that isn't necessarily unreasonable when you are getting care in an expensive facility open 24x7, fitted out with equipment to handle any possible medical emergency, and staffed with highly educated people who make a lot of money. But it is unfair to have no idea what costs you are facing and whether any of those costs are out of network on your insurance.
I think I could live with an increase in e-cig users if it meant a drastic decline in tobacco users.

Fighting all use of e-cigs throws the baby out with the bath water. That's my frustration with all the anti vape campaigns you tend to see.

It's like advocating against teen education of condoms because not having sex as a teen is possibly healthier.
One of those machines made it through ~8 years of heavy duty coffee production at our office, with minimal maintenance. Quite well built.
> CMS are a weird application for schemaless.

That depends. If the CMS is managing documents that have flexible structures that are tree-like, it might not be such a horrible idea to model that structure in a document instead of relationally.
2011

https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/mongodb-guardian
If you want to transport your car somewhere there are already lots of business that exist, but I guess I could try to make another one.
Disclaimer: ex apple engineer with apple stock still.

Apple is serious in a way no other brand I know of is about the recyclability of their products.
https://www.apple.com/environment/

I suspect the batteries and serviceability are a drop in the bucket when done directly by the consumer. Apple is very serious about making goods that last and that hold their value when refurbished.
It just tells you about demographic- that is, this is a person for whom orchiectomy is a fate worse than certain death.
Gitlab itself supports being a mirror of an upstream GitHub remote (or any remote). Last I checked it doesn't deal well with force pushes but I haven't checked in a long time.
My Keurig even came with the re-fillable cup. But only the 8-ounce size. I had to order the carafe size from a third-party on Amazon.
The three alternatives.

- https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8010/
- https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8012/
- https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8016/
> the blue background and font also annoying

Using a blue background with white text used to be an "easy reading mode" in Microsoft Word (with a simple checkbox to enable it). So, I wonder if there is some research behind this color scheme.
"(not whatever Ansible was passing off as YAML"

It at least was parseable.

The trick was, it was always supposed to be at the level of complexity of "grocery lists, but..." ... but frequently I think people tried to program in it a little hard.

OpsMop is based on the idea of a cyborg system - writeable for humans, but easy to interface with machines.

I take some alternate views, and believe YAML is best kept streamlined, which is why I also did not use YAML anchors in ansible.
I'm not trying to cover mongo but I hear stability has improved and random data loss is an old story.
Hmm, it seems like natural language translation has been getting quite a bit better with statistical techniques, though? I guess it depends what you mean by "only incremental".
Thanks for using GitLab! Please also see https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.htm... Pushing free to use, pulling is paid feature but public projects can use it for free too.
One way to disrupt the industry might be to have everyone be in one giant insurance pool, perhaps paid for via taxes, and then give everyone access to health care via some kind of non-profit entity.

Sounds crazy, right?

It worked well for my family and I during the many years I spent in Italy, which has health care costs that are something like half of what they are in the US in terms of GDP.
We don't know the effects, but we can be pretty confident on the floor. Meaning we know the minimum amount of harm nicotine in vaping is definitely causing, but we aren't sure how much extra harm could be caused by the flavorings, the heating process, problems with safety and quality control with the vaping juice and other issues.
There are many things that still work.

High DA and quality links are a necessity, but I have people in my network who make 100k profit per month with a lot of sites that have DA17-25 (pretty weak) and some backlinks (around 30 per site, although there are some strong ones). They usually analyze the content of their competitors and write articles that are simply +500 words longer. You wouldn't believe what's still possible today, although I agree that it doesn't work for main keywords.

It's cumbersome (analyzing niches, competitors, finding long tail keywords, organizing content writers), but it still works.

Disclaimer: I don't sell online courses or something. I know that I may sound like a fraud, but it's simply a network of the best SEO people in Germany. I only know 4-5 people who earn this amount of money passively, so they're the 0.0001%
Mike Isaac is on the Facebook beat - he seems to break a ton of news (he was covering Uber last year).
Wouldn't it be great if instead of a planet, this was a black hole with the mass of a planet.
Facebook Sheds $22B of Market Value
[video] What Biology Can Teach Us about Deep Learning (Martin Nielson)
We'll being seeing disposable "bottled" clean air being sold in China any day now.

Like an inhaler but just clean air, Japan was selling them 5 years ago but I am sure they are about to catch on big in China.
Genuine question - because I'm currently doing CPR on an old Rails app with Mongo - what do you see as a "good use case" for Rails/Django and similar frameworks?
I'm a big fan of the Chef people and they are good folks. Habitat is about a way to distribute applications to remote nodes and is somewhat an alternative to docker. It's kind of apples and carbeutors. Just like Habitat does not compete with Chef, Habitat and OpsMop are also very different things.

Chef is a closer thing to compare it to.
The computational power of the hardware is getting really close to what a human brain is capable of (on an exponential scale, anyway). If "nowhere close" means not in the next 5 years then sure.

Over the medium term I'm not sure AI researchers are the best people to ask. They are completely dependent on how much power the electrical engineers give them - I doubt there is a deeper understanding what a doubling or quadrupling of computer power will do than any programmer learning about neural networks.
Voting result linking to the six alternatives: https://discuss.python.org/t/python-governance-vote-december...
"Sends and receive messages"

Sending a message == write (create new message)

Receiving a message == read (read existing message)
So you are shipping your trash to Nestle?
The only way for query performance to be truly predictable is for your data to be static. If that's not your situation then a query optimizer is incredibly helpful because it means that you don't have to rewrite your queries every time you add an index.
There's an interesting gradation from buses to trains. I made a picture to show this: https://pics.dllu.net/file/dllu-sc/d089a0155a.png

Everything on the left of the dotted line can go without rails/guidance and everything on the right has to stay on rails.

1) regular buses

2) buses on specialized roads (busways)

3) guided buses which have extra wheels or electronic guidance to follow the busway without the driver steering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_bus

4) bus/tram hybrids like the Bombardier Guided Light Transit, which usually operates with a guide rail but has the ability to go without any rails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Guided_Light_Transi...

5) rubber tyred light rail systems (e.g. automated guideway transit systems, often seen at airports)

6) rubber tyred heavy rail (e.g. Montreal Metro)

7) heavy rail

The lines between buses and trains will only get more blurred in the future with autonomous bus platoons and the such.
A single lost access token + the API is an easy way to get everything too. It doesn't take much code to get everything that way.
Despite the fact that in my opinion this could be fixed by Universal Healthcare I'm left wondering: how is it legal to be billed these insane amounts of money without even getting a quote beforehand? Like just waiting in the ER is worth more than buying a first class airplane ticket and getting treated in another country.
As mentioned in the original article, being able to reuse part of a network trained on one task, on another different task that shares a subset of concepts, would indicate something like the understanding of a concept has emerged.
I'm all for more standards! LOL.

Actually this was meant to describe what we do when we work on OpsMop. It's like "hey, let's all figure out what we want in an ideal universe and build it together". Versus like "hey, you're all my user peeps"
> I charge clients similarly. I overbid projects that I don't really want to do. If you want me to setup Wordpress for you, I'll charge you out the nose. Granted, you get to accept my fees before I ever send you a bill. It's not a perfect analogy.

One can always forgo setting up WordPress, which is not always the case with healthcare.
Alexa will work with Apple Music on third-party devices 'soon'
I think ethics do (or should) play a part in large areas of politics, e.g. taxation, healthcare, foreign policy, criminal justice sanctions, et.c. Governments should legislate based on more than economics alone.
Could "planet nine" actually just be dark matter?
I live in Adelaide, shout out if you have any practical questions you’d like answered.

The buses look like normal every day buses but if you look closely you can see the little wheels that protrude out the sides to keep the special buses on the bus way. The bus otherwise drives around like a normal bus until it drives onto the cement track and the little side wheels are then used just to keep the bus from scraping the sides and just rolling along easily.
No effort, and the machines are a fraction of the cost.
They goofed their letsencrypt renew cron job.
All kinds of risky behavior dropped among teens: unprotected sex, alcohol consumption, heroin consumption, they even drive safer and commit less violent crime. So, it is very safe to assume that with changing society and circumstances, they will drop e-smoking too.

Also, teenagers are easy to influence through ads and eager to mimic cool characters in entertainment and what not. That makes them more likely to be influenced by both advertisement and lack of it.

Teenagers being somewhat more likely to take risk then equivalent single person of older age does not imply that the amount and kind of their risk taking is constant through human history and will not change as adults change their behavior.
Pinterest Readies Itself for Early 2019 IPO
Looks like as of 07/2013 it was this: https://imgur.com/UdfzvGU

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/q/17561784/9027089
Any source to support that?
All this value being captured by middlemen “sprouting” up could also simply mean more money out of the pockets of healthcare customers, who already are going bankrupt paying for all of this inefficiency. The US healthcare industry is a raging river of money coming directly out of the wallets of consumers who have little choice. Not surprising that it attracts middlemen with spoons ready to dip into the river.
Because the designers of Kotlin are more open to experimentation and new ideas.
I'm not convinced any of those creatures have general intelligence. I'm similarly unconvinced that we'd recognise general intelligence if we saw it.
> Dynamo didn’t support encryption at rest.

This requirement made some sense in a world where a rogue employee might yank your database server out of a rack and walk off with it, but I don't understand why this is still considered relevant in an AWS context. First of all your data is never really "at rest", a huge point of Dynamo is that the data is always available (at least 99.999% of "always" anyway). Second "at rest" where? Literally on a physical disk? Even if there was a single physical disk that held it I'm willing to bet that even if you were in the right AWS data center and had support of a willing AWS employee you couldn't find that disk and even if you could there'd be no way to remove it. I'll guess its literally millions of times more likely for you to fail to deprecate some AWS API key that's sitting in clear text on a laptop you sold as surplus than anybody gets their hands on your at rest Dynamo data.
How to open source your Python library
Disagree on google & facebook suffering. They are both too ingrained in our lives and sitting on significant cash reserves. Sure I expect RSU based pay to take a nose dive though.

Facebook has 44 billion in cash, Google has > 100B.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/14513643/1/apple-microsoft-g...
Valid point. I started this about a month ago, and as APIs were evolving I did not want to slow my velocity by having the tests fight against shifting it around.

I suspect the first release will be in about Feburary, but the time to collaborate on working on it is now.

It is designed to be fairly testable, but if you've ever written a similar system, you know that distributed testing of modules on a matrix of 12 platforms IS a trainwreck.

Any units would mostly be proving out the language.

The best way to do that is with a specialized callback, that shares the event stack, and we can then introspect that the events happened in the correct order.

As the callbacks have been changing too much now, writing a boatloat of tests would have been a mistake.

At this point, I'm most interested in feedback on language features, and these will come.

It was an absolute mistake that ansible itself was not more testable at a mock level, a problem made a lot better now by everything being done in one process.

Ansible had the ability to write modules in any language, but this was never really used in practice.
They already require people be over 18, maybe the punishment should be higher on those who are supplying children with them?

The reason I'm so against more regulation is that the current trend in the war against ecigs is to ban pretty much any good tasting flavors (all but menthol), and I don't like that what entails for our future. I don't even vape, but the idea that the majority will go around banning what they don't like "for the good of the children" is something I refuse to support.

It's not going to stop if it gets started.
Absolutely - if you don't know SQL and you do know JSON, postgres looks scary and Mongo looks familiar.
Health care is the only industry where the felony laws regarding up front pricing aren't enforced. It was allowed to become a twisted regulatory nightmare where the laws were written by the industry itself utilizing kneejerk methods to obtain profit at the cost of systemic corruption.
Let's clear up a few things about facebook's partners.

You asked for this. You wanted to send each other messages about the catalina wine mixer through spotify, and they wanted to pay us a boatload of cash for access to the messages. Look, it's a win-win. You don't get to volunteer one hundred million bits of personal information to us, let us abuse your trust continuously over more than a decade, and then act outraged about it.

You wanted us to do it, and you don't actually care that we're sharing it.

Go back to uploading photos of your dog and your parties, organizing all your social events with your friends, and looking at our site on your phone every five minutes, with GPS positioning attached.

Quit bitching. We're facebook. You knew who we were from the beginning.

Dumb fucks.

Sincerely,

Mark "T1000" zuckerberg
Appreciate that response, that's kind of a humbling exercise. Of everyone who ever existed, we are but a speck of dust in a storm.

Also, finding that genuine interest is something I feel I lost over the years. After studying at University, we were forced to study in order to graduate. Even subjects we had no passion for. This mentality of learning without passion is a bad habit I learned and need to unlearn...
What makes you so confident that you’d say “anyone who’s done a modicum of AI research” would come to the same conclusion as you?

Also, do you believe AGI is currently more a compute/hardware problem, or an algorithmic problem?
> The study makes broad claims about physical health but was conducted by psychologists.

Where did you see anything about them being psychologists? Closest I could find was a handful of authors being associated with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience - neuroscientists and psychiatrists are very far from being psychologists...

> Also, the heavy metals in vape liquid

Very curious about your sources about the "heavy metals" in e-juice.

> the spiking addiction rates in teenagers and children beg to differ with their conclusions.

Addiction is caused nicotine, which hasn't been found to be particularly harmful by itself. Addiction rates speak nothing about harmfulness.

You're making a whole lot of unexplained claims here.
Using Data Science and ML to Measure Violence and Abuse against Women on Twitter
Yeah I actually don't mind it at all. Just saying there's extra hardware (and R&D) expense in doing it Apple's way, in terms of the production cost of those two phones.
If you are into conspiracy theory's and such, then you can question if google and NSA really have a partnership and PRISM and mass surveillance and all that stuff, then question if the images are tainted or whatnot. I am not saying it is so by any stretch. I am just saying how i can understand the paranoid not trusting this 100%.
I think we’ve probably all regretted doing things we’ve done to “pay the mortgage” at various times in our past — that doesn’t necessitate that we donate that money to charity.
I would suggest not denormalizing at all.

The idea that joins are slow is a holdover from the bad old days when everyone used MySQL and MySQL sucked at joins. On a more robust DBMS, a normalized schema will often yield better performance than the denormalized one. Less time will be lost to disk I/O thanks to the more compact format, the working set will be smaller so the DBMS can make more efficient use of its cache, and the optimizer will have more degrees of freedom to work with when trying to work out the most efficient way to execute the query.

(edited to add: If you're having performance problems with a normalized schema, the first place to look isn't denormalization, it's the indexing strategy. And also making sure the queries aren't doing anything to prevent proper index usage. Use the Index, Luke! is a great, DB-agnostic resource for understanding how to go about this stuff: https://use-the-index-luke.com )
NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra does make for good general purpose data stores, but you have to work within the concepts of NoSQL: typically, use 1 table with careful choices in partition and sort keys.

It's an epic shift in thinking to go from a schema of 50-60 tables to 1. Almost every dev I've worked with is very new to this.

The #1 sign a dev has no business using NoSQL: They chat about how flexible NoSQL is. Yeah, you can add attributes on the fly but I've found Dynamo to require much more careful planning then RDBMSes. Most devs I've met can understand when they need to use an index. But, almost all of them have issues predicting if their changes will lead to unbalanced requests against partitions.

Anyhow, since you can even connect the PostgreSQL WAL easily to a log stream like Kafka or Kinesis, I'm not sure why you'd ever start with a NoSQL DB, unless you just had master NoSQL data wonks.
> without even getting a quote beforehand

Reminds me of this really good article. TLDR: Man tried to call a number of hospitals to find out how much childbirth is going to cost him and received no answers.

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11591592/birth-cost-hospital-bi...