skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...it is also imporant for us as a people to let go when nothing can be done, not to make things worse out of a need to be seen doing something.

The problem is you don't know for sure when nothing can be done. A coworker's sister was diagnosed with lung cancer and told the prognosis was grim. Three months, maybe. She considered a palliative treatment only approach, but in the end decided a tiny chance was better than no chance.

The cancer responded well to chemotherapy. Before it relapsed a drug was approved for this particular type of cancer (based on a DNA test). After six years she's still alive and in apparent good health.

Sometimes you get lucky, and the medical interventions do help. Now, the case in the article may be different in the sense that it was clear there was no hope from the very beginning. But that's not normal with cancer.
Contrarian approach to time management - Not To Do lists
Also see also RecordStream: https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream

Someone mentioned jsawk in a sibling comment, too.
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I don't get what is being discussed here. How is universal healthcare like fuel to a fire where cancer is concerned?
I live in a country with universal care, so my perceptions will obviously differ to others, but I'm totally not getting what is being discussed.
Your vision falls apart where embassies are actively involved in espionage, as they nearly always are.

Embassy immunity is like saying it is OK to shoot an and enemy soldier but not an enemy president? Why, because he real war isn't nation vs nation, but sociopolitical elite vs humanity.
What's amusing to me is that you can build something like this with 100 lines of JavaScript and a bit of Rails scaffolding (I know because I've done it).
Another good example is nsi. - risset. preview: http://www.discogs.com/nsi-Squelch/release/1393612
> You say that parents should take a role in their children's intellectual development? Then what am I paying property taxes for?

Let me ask another question -- do you really want to avoid having to provide an intellectual context for your children's life experience, and assign that responsibility to governments instead? Doesn't that sound dangerous? I shall resist quoting historical examples in which governments became the primary source of ideas and intellectual content for a new generation.
I'll just have to disagree with you there. Your definition of algebra (beyond the naming of symbols, or variables in programming parlance) is not useful to most people. Where are they going to apply log or sqrt in everday life or even equations as you outlined (in my viewpoint, machine learning will automagically figure out equations or they will be apps on your smartphone).

I think people would be much better served implicitly dropping out than explicitly. People's identity has more to do with performance than innate ability.

Many people are mistakenly led to believe science is about symbolic equation rearrangement on paper (high school maths) + rote memorization and so choose arts instead. For many people, but not all, this is the reason why they don't pursue science careers. If they understood it was much more about teamwork and physical setting up and running equipment/software and thinking creatively, I'm certain we'd see different choices made.
It's also possible she experienced minor symptoms earlier but ignored them, associating them with aging or random stuff humans endure.
> And then a certain portion of the people who wear these glasses say "I own my eyes. I may choose to replace anything I see with whatever I want".

Eh... I certainly wouldn't mind if I could buy a pair of glasses that blanked out ads, although replacing them with alternative ads would be pretty much equally scummy.
If the janitor is being used as a human shield, the shielded is culpable.
Effective treatment against cancer can be found outside the USA, not inside. Eg: See http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2012/nov2012_Innovative_Laser...
I see your logic in that the number is divvied up amongst everyone along the way including the theater, so you could say "The Movie" made that amount. I doubt Hollywood is going that abstract route though.

I more get an impression like those articles that call an entrepreneur who reached $1M in sales a millionaire, as though he/she had no costs and no taxes and gets to pocket all the gross. Nothing's more important in Hollywood than money and image so I just assume their intent is more along those lines. I'd be happy to "make" $9M for anyone who first gives me $10M then.
I think that "how we fight" misses the point. It seems to be more about how and whether we are able to communicate. In general, I've only seen fights between cofounders end badly. But perhaps I'm focusing on the word "fight". I've certainly seen and had disagreements end constructively, but, for me, a "fight" is a sign of a serious problem and of a breakdown in communication.

And I am married. My wife and I certainly have disagreements, but we never fight.
Heh, I never actually noticed there wasn't anything there (I don't think I've been back to my profile page since I filled it out 866 days ago). Updated; feel free to follow-up as desired :)
They were at the beginning, but got shut out within a few hours. I made a few mailing lists for some friends who graduated and missed the window.
I see where you're coming from, it's maybe useful to psychology practitioners. (I'll come across as a troll if I started airing my view that psychologists and psychiatrists are fraudsters so I'll stop there!).
I apologize for not being clearer about NSA's motivations. I did not mean to imply that there was any malicious intent when it comes to weakening federal IT standards. (It seems that NSA would be aware of the negative side effects of their recommendations.)

Could NSA's hardware centric recommendations be motivated by an interest in leveraging economies of scale (due to the size of federal IT procurement) and purchasing COTS hardware that was optimized for AES?
CNC machining is exactly the hobby I've wanted to develop. A well-timed post indeed. My eternal gratitude for your efforts to provide this information.
"Consumer Watchdog" is more shrill and even more opaque.
If you're looking for algorithms with real code, Sedgewick is pretty good.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032157351X

Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen this edition, which uses Java. My old edition uses C.

Disclaimer #2: I still look into my copies of Sedgewick and Knuth fairly regularly. CLR(S), not so much. Your mileage may vary.
There was already a research project that found that twitter could be used to predict the stock market.
> FWI, I do not believe in IQ.

As stated, this is a meaningless claim. Do you mean you don't believe in the accuracy or social value of of IQ testing, or don't believe that IQ exists as a measurable quantity, or don't believe in the practice of ranking people based on intelligence?
Oh wow. Hal has been staring at me for years and I never noticed. Nice range for Bryan.
No, I did not mean that, because that's not what it does. It pretty clearly monitors p2p networks, finds the IP addresses, and then notifies the ISPs. If you read closely, you'll see that it also passes the IP along to the content owners.

In other words, it sounds like this does exactly what they did all along to catch people on BitTorrent. The difference is that instead of hiring various independent companies to do the policing (which ended in a lot of false positives, probably because those companies were trying to turn over as many IPs as possible), they've pooled their resources to create a single streamlined process.

Now there are a couple of reasons they would want to downplay the real purpose of this system. First, ISPs aren't going to get on board with a "help us sue your customers" plan. But "help us educate your customers about copyright" is probably appealing to an ISP. And as far as the public is concerned, it's a good bet that some details of this would have gotten leaked if they had tried to just keep it under wraps. Talking about it openly, but downplaying its primary purpose, is an easy way to solve that problem.
Bit ironic that they're utilizing Google Analytics
Some people say that Microsoft has changed, and is no longer the corporate "asshole" it used to be in the days of the war over the PC as a platform - which it has won.

I'm not sure if that claim is very credible. The evidence seems to point to a company with relatively stable corporate culture to me.
No.

Affordable routine scans will result in massive overloading of the health system with unnecessary procedures, and the complications arising from those procedures will kill more people than would have died otherwise from whatever shows up on those scans.

There is no such thing as an intervention without risk, and that starts with the risks associated with general anaesthesia.

Scanning is one thing, interpreting a scan and deciding when and where to intervene is something that does not scale well at our current level of technology. Basically it needs a human to sit down and spend time analysing the scan to make sure that what is there warrants intervention. So even if the scan costs would drop to 0 you'd still have the component of the interpretation to deal with.

The end result of overloading the system like this is that those with symptoms that need care are less likely to receive it or receive it timely, and that those that didn't need the care will suffer from complications.

Knowing when to scan and when not to scan is a crucial ingredient in giving good care.
"as there's just no advantage".

So, orders of magnitude more top notch engineers is not an advantage?

An order of magnitude more VC firms is not an advantage?

The existence of YC is not an advantage?

Order of magnitude more tech oriented events and meetups is not an advantage?

Maybe you meant "for me, personally, for my very specific business, there's no advantage" but maybe you shouldn't make sweeping statements based on what seems like a strongly held opinion and not a reasoned position.

To be clear: I'm not saying that Bay Area is the only place to start a successful startup. Clearly, it isn't.

But just as clearly Bay Area is an epicenter of startups that generates disproportionately large number of successes, both gigantic (which Austin tech company is on the list of 500 biggest US companies, next to Google, Apple, Oracle, Yahoo?) and small.

So either we have some unexplained phenomena that distorts the probability of success here or there are very real advantages to being here.
You've missed the second part, which is reading out the sorted list. By storing which numbers you've seen, in a virtual bit field you have 'codified' in the index of the bit field the seen number. Thus to 'print the sorted list' you simply go through the bit field starting at index zero and print any index in the bit field that is a 'one'. That is your sorted list of numbers.

The reason this was an interview question was because it allowed the interviewer to see if the candidate could see 'past' the requirement of sorting (which pre-loads your mental algorithm cache with all sorts of algorithms) to the somewhat more subtle concept of embedding partial computation into the data structure.

Early in my career at Sun I was tasked with putting mandatory file and record locking into UFS in the kernel, the challenge had always been how do you avoid deadlock? Of course one level deadlock was fairly easy, you need to know if process A is holding a lock and waiting on process B which is holding a lock elsewhere, and you are in the context of process B trying to get this lock then you can see that you will deadlock A. But 'n' level deadlock starts getting harder because the possibilities multiply. I discovered that you could create a doubly linked tree structure which had modest memory growth per-process but any process could walk it one way and look for 'itself' on the list to discover if there was a deadlock possible. Here the 'code' was walk a list and note that you were already on it, so you would deadlock if you got the lock.

The number 'sorting' problem is very much like that because while numbers have different values, they are intrinsic values. Unlike strings which consist of an arbitrary sequence of tokens. So the goal of the question was to identify people who could see the difference between 'sorting numbers' as a problem and 'general sorting.'
Where do you think bettors in prediction markets get their data?

Compare the market price on Obama to what Fivethirtyeight estimates based on poll data. Pretty close.
I think there were only 1% women at the event. Whatever the cause, this gender gap is ripe for disruption!
Was the Doc in the ambulance? I thought he was in phone contact?
But your point remains. Another unfortunate effect of this is that the rest of the world follows the US. The system here in New Zealand, socializes the costs associated with medical mistakes, paying for costs and lost earning for patients. Our system isn't perfect, far from it. But it gets eroded somewhat by the extremely defensive medicine that is practiced in the US that is trickling in here, leading to higher costs and worse practice. Blood test, scan, rescan, more expensive scan. Oh wait, it's just a cough. More tests doesn't equal better care. Each carries its own risks and has a monetary cost.
I assume the answer is because all comments must begin with words, and those words seemed like a nice beginning. Maybe you should say what seemed notable about that sentence?
In GEB, Hofstadter argues that Bach's music is highly maths based.
That people use standard collection classes more often than in these benchmarks where they little used (if at all) is a big fat assumption?! There are going to be many situations where using a primitive array is not the right choice. When you need a hash table, a set or an expandable array, for example. If you are claiming that these benchmarks are indicative of the real world, you are claiming that collection classes are not used in the real world, since hardly any (if any) use the built in collections.
It's possible (although they're already procuring hardware at GSA-approved rates, so I'm not sure if there's the same economies of scale that you see in the commercial realm).
I can't decide whether I should be happy or embarrassed from the attention. It was just an internship, and I couldn't exactly have a proper job in the middle of the semester in the first place...
Replying to myself as I believe we have triggered the algorithm for shouting matches (though I don't believe either of us were shouting). Dangers of fully automated approaches (black boxes), I suppose.

Funnily enough, I agree with you on psychologists and psychiatrists (to a certain extent). We understand so little, and claim to know so much. Our sample sizes and cultural range is quite poor (anthropologists are good at this, but they tend to lack even a basic understanding of statistics). I do believe that algorithmic approaches to predicting humans have potential, and the reason I now work in the private sector is to get access to some of this data as I believe that masses of data are the only way we'll get invariants to form useful landmarks towards understanding of people.

I would note, however, that I suspect you are classing pychologists (or cognitive scientists, as some of the hip american departments have rebranded themselves) as therapists, which although a common misconception is about as accurate as saying that computer scientists are software engineers (i.e. sometimes, but its not a one to one relationship). Thanks for the discussion, I enjoyed it.
Studies have failed repeatedly to show that humans perceive the objects created according to this ratio as better looking or more aesthetically pleasing than those that don't.

There is probably no harm in using it, but don't expect any benefit.
Those gangs on the south side of Chicago, lording over their impoverished little domains, would instead lord over me.

4.4% of government spending protects you from peaceful people who wish to enjoy drugs in the privacy of their own home, as well as the gangs you seem to fear. Another 14.3% protects you from Iraq and the Soviet Union.

As I said, please go look at what the government actually spends your money on before replying.
2 Slice of Life
Hardware will evolve. CPU's design constraints — programs with low parallelism and not much awareness of the memory hierarchy — have caused a bottleneck. SHA-3 will end up as yet another specialty instruction, with the actual programming done by the hardware vendor. For people who don't want to be dependent on that, I imagine GPUs provide a faster and more flexible alternative.
Sorting 1 million 8 digit numbers in 1MB of RAM
I wouldn't be surprised if the next non-apple modification he works on is adding homebrew to the WiiU, seeing he helped with "jailbreaking" the Wii to add the homebrew channel.
Is it the responsibility of the taxpayer to fund the education for the leisure activity of the upper middle classes (speaking with foreigners or reading translated literature).

The education system that exists today (k12 + college) is a McReplica of what aristocratic people of earlier centuries considered fit for their children (who would never actually need to work). We're living the enviousness of the middle classes of a century ago (this same principle applies to the McMansions). It has no relation to what a more perfected reality could be.

With respect to google translate, I think we'll see a lot of improvements. I expect to see human level performance within 5 years (it's a "let the computers run long enough" + "enough data" problem).
"Austin dweller here -- I assure you the traffic is NOT better here. Ranked 8th worst in the nation."

FWIW, San Francisco is ranked #3.
OK, they're pretty nebulous about the exact process, but you can piece it together. First we have this:

* Stroz Friedberg has completed its initial review of MarkMonitor’s methodologies and found that the system is accurate and works properly. Importantly, the methodology for identifying infringed content and the IP address from which it has been distributed is based on a review of peer-to-peer networks and publicly available information.*

So MarkMonitor is running a system that monitors p2p networks and collects IP addresses.

And we have this:

CCI has also retained Stroz Friedberg to review the technical processes used by each ISP to match subscriber accounts with IP addresses forwarded by the content owners.

So content owners forward the IP addresses. You can't forward something you don't have. So clearly, MarkMonitor's system sends the IP addresses to the content owners, who can then do with them as they please.

If you have some other information that contradicts what this article says, please do tell.
I'd be nice if in addition to offering morphine they would also offer a basic cryonics plan...
Thanks for the feedback we really appreciated your input.
Interesting, that's a pretty harsh deal considering how extravagant movie theaters are expected to be these days. Considering whom they're buying from, I guess I'm not surprised.
This is really cool and useful and I'd be disappointed to see many more comments condemning this for allegedly being skeuomorphic or some such.

Even with all the great new ways we have to style forms they're all still not too different from the default inputs that come with browsers in the end. This puts together a number of really neat ideas that I plan to totally pick apart and use individually.

It's all the little details that makes a form either dull and predictable or a total joy to use. You may not even notice it but the design and interactivity of a form really makes a big difference when it comes to your use of it. I truly believe the right form design makes a big impact on conversions and a person's impression of a site, especially one that makes heavy use of text input.

A lot of people neglect the typography of form inputs. The cursor is also something I've really been interested in changing. The shape and/or the color of it is something that can really delight a user.

Think of the text editors and word processors we use. Many are fairly consistent but you see much more variation of the editable area in desktop software than on the web. Apps like iA Writer, Mou, and others make the act of typing text so inviting that just having them open, at least for me and I assume many others, compels you to fill that space with text.

I love writing and I'm fascinated by the design of text input fields whether they be normal one line inputs or text areas so this project is something I'm excited to explore.
Thanks You Joe for the feedback we really appreciated your input we will keep working hard to solve those issues.
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Thanks for the feedback we really appreciated your input, well keep everything you mention on hand to solve those issues.
Thanks bravura for the feedback we really appreciated your input, thats great to see what type of listing you will get the most benefit.
YC is sexist and isn't providing enough kitchen space for more women to attend.
> I'll just have to disagree with you there.

But you aren't disagreeing, you're trying to redefine algebra based on personal preferences, in other words, you're arguing for the ascendancy of postmodernism (the idea that there are no shared truths, that everything is a matter of opinion and outlook). The problem with arguing from a postmodern perspective is that the argument instantly self-destructs (it applies first to itself, which means if you're right, then I have the right to ignore you).

The essential foundation of dialogue is consensus, shared ideas, and shared word definitions. Without those, there's no possibility for dialogue.

> Your definition of algebra (beyond the naming of symbols, or variables in programming parlance) is not useful to most people.

Utility is not the basis on which words are defined. Words mean what they mean, how we feel about those meanings is irrelevant.

> I think people would be much better served implicitly dropping out than explicitly.

So those who are qualified to be in school can be surrounded by those who aren't?

> If they understood it [science] was much more about teamwork and physical setting up and running equipment/software and thinking creatively ...

That's not what science is about, unless plumbing is about wrenches. You're confusing the practice of science with the idea of science.
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One confounding variable here might be the fact that conservatives are actually less likely to use Google. There has been a strong backlash that I've seen personally, where conservative members of my family actively encourage me to stop using Google because it's in some way "liberally biased" and that it has a "hidden political agenda" and is trying to "impose its radical views on the world." I'm not making this up, there are even books on this very subject. One example is "Search and Destroy."

Google has an advantage in mindshare in that it's effectively the "default" search engine on the web, but its population is still, to a degree, self-selecting. Whether this effect is pronounced enough to skew the data, I can't say.
Where I work, about $700 US. It's not a great test, despite excellent radiologists and brand new equipment as whole body imaging is far lower resolution than localized imaging (its about 1500 pixels by 250 in resolution versus 512x512 when just your knee is done using an educated guess).
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You sir, are a legend! That was epic! Haha!!
I remember going through Introduction to Algorithms back in high school. Not only I had problems with understanding it in general but in addition it was a translation. A very bad translation.

I'm a big fan of The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena. This is the book that I usually recommend.