skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vulnerable people in England get some protection. One form of that protection is provided by local government Social Services. (Each scheme has a different name because they're provided by different regional authorities. And this one I'm talking about is obsolete.)

MARMAP - multi agency risk management & assessment panel is a group of the people involved in the care and treatment of a vulnerable person who is at high risk of harming themselves or other people.

Let's make a hypothetical patient, and call him Bob.

Bob has a GP. Bob has a care coordinator. Bob has a consultant psychiatrist for outpatient care. Bob has a consultant psychiatrist for inpatient mental health hospital care. Bob has a community treatment team. Bob has a community psychotherapist. Bob has a crisis team.

This is about ten people just for the mental health stuff. I can tell you now that these people do not agree about the best way forward for Bob. Even though they're all in the same room as Bob, and they all get minutes of the meetings, one doctor will call Bob non-compliant when Bob follows the conflicting advice of another doctor. (EG: The in-patient consultant tells Bob to avoid going to hospital. The out-patient team admits Bob, against his will. Bob is called manipulative by the in-patient doctor.)

This is a lousy situation. Even though clinicians are talking face to face with each other communication gets garbled. Imagine the problem when communication goes from a nurse observing Bob to one doctor, through their juniors, to a secretary, to another team (sometimes using weird technology such as fax machines) through to a team leader, to a team member. ("Interface Problems") And this is within the same organisation. Moving data from the MH trust to a different medical trust is tricky, and to social services or law enforcement is even trickier.

Getting more people involved causes problems, and that's when the people are in the same specialism and broadly agree on modes of treatment. Getting more people involved when those people have fundamentally different opinions about treatment is going to distract them from providing good treatment as they focus on debunking stuff that's useless but has vigorous advocates.
Both are difficult, but at least in programming you can rely on manipulating actual "elements" of information. There is some tangible part in it, while sometimes very remote in certain cases. Abstract Mathematics go into spaces of n dimensions and stuff that most programmers would not be able to comprehend, just like most human beings cannot without tremedous time and effort.

I think it is a false debate to say that one discipline is poorer or more valuable than the other. We need both Mathematicians to advance the theories and Programmers to apply their learnings into the real world. Everyone has its place.
Quite a neat idea.
Really amazing guy. Kinda makes me feel inadequate all of a sudden :(
YCombinator invested in 9gag as well. That has absolutely no bearing on Paul Graham's insight into the current investment climate.
I think the way some trials are conducted is worrying.

Of course there is the points you bring up; I had also heard (but can't find any link from a bit of a cursory look around the net) that all subsequent trials of antidepressants show decreased treatment effect until you end up with meta-analyses that seem to show that they are no better than placebo, leading (jokingly) to Doctors, on the release of a new anti-depressant, saying 'Quick, let's use it before it stops working'

Part of the problem I think is the model of the pharma industry (I have no suggestions on where to start to change this!), part is that students/researchers don't want to give up on publication and years of work with null results and so change the aims or methodology, or rig their study... Which is morally indefensible but understandable at the same time..

I think a lot of people involved with medicine are under no illusions as to the limitations of our current methods. However one of the beautiful things about the scientific method is that we are continually testing our preconceived ideas, and trying to tease out if the effects are real or some artefact of bias, statistics, population dynamics, etc.

When I started Med School they tell us that 'Within 4 years, 50% of what you have learnt will be wrong and replaced. The difficulty is which 50%'.

THAT is how quickly our knowledge is growing, and goes a long way to show that the people involved in the delivery of healthcare don't take this all for granted.
Building Start-Ups Using Stars’ Social Media Ties to Fans
Yes, using a general mental ability test (IQ type test) in hiring is illegal in the USA. Some protected groups do worse on average on such tests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.#

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1991
Does this get more than 2-3 words ahead? Perhaps I'm typing faster than I read (which makes no sense), but I'm missing words.
At the end, this is what matters:

I have great hopes for Windows 9 on mobile and tablets. Just as Windows 7 was “Vista Done Right,” it’s quite likely that the touchscreen version of Windows 9 will be “Windows 8 Done Right.”
I’ll stay with Win7 the next few years and hope for better times with Windows 9. One great thing about Microsoft is that they do have a history of correcting their mistakes.
OMG, they’re reading my email: how the media inflames privacy panic
I disagree with #1 in the general case. When you're just starting out it is important to type accurately so that your fingers get the initial feel for reaching from wherever they're supposed to be, but after that you need to be careful not to plateau just because you're getting a few characters wrong here and there. Edit: In case it sounds like I'm just trying to argue, I'm not. Both approaches have their place on the learning curve, and depending on the method may work better than another. A typing tutor that doesn't let you correct mistakes should never be used for slow practice, for example.
How long would you say it took to develop this from day one to completion?
Why do you think there no question? Do you have evidence? There is not a single scientific study confirming their existence, nor are there testable hypotheses with which we could confirm them. In other words, it is superstition. Worse, it's blatant quackery.
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. This is the first and only payment model. I meant that I used to run my own niche job boards with a different provider which took a rev share. I built this platform as a result of wanting to get away from that model as a customer. At the same time I decidd to make the platform a SaaS offering so other could take advantage of it.
Sigh.

The approach described in this post is an attempt to find a method of delivering better health outcomes than current mainstream health systems (in addition to being one man's attempt to save his own life using whatever means available).

Say all you want about how superior the conventional health system is: people keep dying of cancer, at increasing rates in come cases.

This open-source approach may or may not yield better outcomes.

Either way, won't it be interesting to see?

Can't we wait to see some results before condemning it simply because acupuncture was allowed?
Ask HN: Why is the 'intelliPaper' IndieGoGo project such a failure?
This project named "intelliPaper" (http://www.indiegogo.com/intellipaper) is at least interesting. But it is light-years behind the funding goal. I'm totally NOT in any way affiliated with the "intelliPaper" project. I'm just following their development on IndieGoGo. I'm not even a backer. I just find it odd, that a project that made news headlines on [1] Ubergizmo, [2] Engadget, [3] LockerGnome by Chris Pirillo, [4] Coolest-Gadgets, Trendhunter [5] and others ... did not receive any more funding since I found it several days ago, where it was at $285 and it is still at only $285. Now I wonder what could the reasons for that.
------ News Sources:
[1] http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/11/intellipaper-usb-paper-drive/
[2] http://de.engadget.com/2012/11/21/intellipaper-usb-sticks-aus-papier-video/
[3] http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2012/11/14/intellipaper-promises-to-digitize-the-world-of-paper/
[4] http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20121121/intellipaper-usb-flash-drive-green/
[5] http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/paper-usb
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I didn't know that. This significantly alters my opinion of YC.
People who make poor decisions will by definition have poor outcomes. But maybe they don't have the same metric.

What seems like a poor decision to us may make them perfectly happy until they die in a way that's consistent with their (incorrect-to-us) beliefs.

The best we can do is to make information available, to debunk scams and de-incentivize scamming, and to continue to learn more about human cognitive biases.
And it can be gamed as well. Hold the space bar down from the start. 1,380 net WPM.
I think the problem is one of momentum. In any given timeframe, only x% of movies/tv productions/music albums/whatever is expected to make y% of the money. I would assume that the people who do the sums on this thing have the numbers nailed down pretty well, but every now and then a Star Wars or a Michael Jackson comes along and you get an outlier which injects a lot of capital into the industry.

So the numbers would be declining, but it's hard to know if this is specifically from file sharing, or just from an audience not engaged with a specific product. But the content investors don't know any other game, so they keep investing. It might take ten years of no big hits, no outliers before they decide the game has permanently changed.

And besides, maybe the ROI is so good that it can take a 50% cut and still be better than anything else they can easily get involved in.

When big industries peter out, it's usually not evident until hindsight has been introduced what was the point where it was no longer worth committing any capital. There is a lot of momentum pushing them along, particularly in very established demographics.

Eventually either a new way of earning cash from production will pop up, or, more likely, the returns to investors in entertainment will head back to the levels experienced by many other industries. The barriers to entry for new talent will be lower (less gatekeepers) but the overall outsized returns to a small number of individuals will probably permanently lower. Because it's hard to dominate an industry and make massive returns without structural, legislative or oligopolistic barriers to entry to competition.
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Also http://placedog.com/ and for the refined taste, http://placebear.com/ .
A loooong time. :). 5 months to feel comfortable launching the first sites - but keep in mind this was working nights and weekends only along with juggling kids and family life.

Another 2 months to get it to the point I felt comfortable submitting it to HN.

I don't see it as being complete however. It's been live for two months and I've been constantly adding new features and will for the foreseeable future.
Android Fragmentation. Your options
Gangnam Style: OMG, PSY-chotic CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
With Oppan-Style PSY and his Gangnam Style his nearing the 1 BILLION views mark on YouTube, the wonderful remakes of his video get taken to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL with this stunningly AWESOME Christmas lights display that should make residents of Gangnam in South Korea stunningly jealous!
Create a tagline. I should be able to figure out what I'm looking at in 5 seconds, not ~40 seconds.
I'm super happy I had an internship with a VC. I got to see first-hand the Dunning-Kruger effect on a daily basis. I only wish I had the ability to short VCs that follow silly trends like this one.
IPad mini: No Retina display until 2014?
If you thought the iPad mini would be getting a Retina display in 2013, just in time for the iPad mini 2, an online report suggests that may be wishful thinking, perhaps leading us to a Retina-display not arriving until the iPad mini 3 in 2014.
Channeling patio11 here: $10-100 is really cheap, unless you're talking about per developer, per month, and then it's just cheap. Well, $10/dev/mo is cheap, $100/dev/mo is reasonable.

If your service is only $10/dev/mo, figure out a way to make it worth more, or raise prices, or figure out a way to never have a support call. Support on that will kill several months worth of profit, per response.
https://makelovenotporn.tv/ is disrupting the sex industry industry! #realworldsex

Techno-porn: how the sex industry drives mainstream technology

Star: "I don’t think most people have a clue how much life today is in debt to the porn industry. Online banking and shopping are secure because porn distributors needed to make their transactions with consumers secure."

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/859762--techno-p...
Bay Area Rental Price Heatmap by ZIP Code
An aphorism on metaprogramming
> Say all you want about how superior the conventional health system is: people keep dying of cancer, at increasing rates in come cases.

I haven't said the conventional system is better. I've used to flaws of the existing conventional system to point out the flaws of the proposed system.

> This open-source approach may or may not yield better outcomes.

How will we know? Seriously, how can we tell? There's no rigour to this. It's just idle self-indulgent noodling. That's fine, it's his life and body and he can do what he likes with it, but don't pretend it's useful when there's no possible way of it actually being any use.

> Either way, won't it be interesting to see?

I doubt it. But I'm happy to be wrong. Please, what could be some interesting things to come from this?

> Can't we wait to see some results before condemning it simply because acupuncture was allowed?

Again, that's not why I'm condemning it.
Google's smart about this: the Nexus 4 proves that a solid, capable, up to date Android phone sells well; this shows the way for all the Android ecosystem partners.
there was a nexus 4 debacle?

[EDIT: the HN headline has now been changed, so my comment seems a bit odd now, but the article headline, and the original HN headline, is/was "What Will Google Learn From the Nexus 4 Debacle?"]
Did you try to buy one?
The whole point of LINQ is to add query-like functionalities to C#. LINQ stands for "Language-Integrated Query"

from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397926.aspx

"Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is a set of features introduced in Visual Studio 2008 that extends powerful query capabilities to the language syntax of C# and Visual Basic. LINQ introduces standard, easily-learned patterns for querying and updating data, and the technology can be extended to support potentially any kind of data store. Visual Studio includes LINQ provider assemblies that enable the use of LINQ with .NET Framework collections, SQL Server databases, ADO.NET Datasets, and XML documents."
It always annoys me that business groups are constantly lobbying for increased immigration because of a "lack of supply" of skilled labour. When there is an imbalance in supply and demand with labour we should see an increase in the incomes of those people with the skills in shortage. Instead business groups want to cheat the system and increase supply, not by paying workers more, but instead trying to import more labour, screwing the workers out of their good fortune of being on the right side of the supply and demand equation for a change.
Totally disagree. The reason GitHub is a SaaS is because that's the most effective way to solve the problem. The problem with hosting git yourself is the hosting git. Then you have to worry about getting a machine from IT, and security patches on the server, and backups and ...
It means the rest of the world will start to enjoy some of the success and luxuries we've had for the last 50 years while our standard of living will decline slightly. Doesn't seem like such a bad outcome to me.
I'm the creator of Typeracer. When I launched it 5 years ago I had a similar UI - one line of scrolling text in a larger font, but based on user feedback ended up with the more natural UI of static text in a smaller font. Thanks for the compliment!
I would love to buy one. To be honest, I was skeptical but I think I have become more resolved in getting a nexus 4 now that it is out of stock.
> Is there a country that does tech immigration "right" like Canadian health-care is compared to US health care?

Erm..maybe the Canadian immigration system? They have a points based system where expertise in rare specialized skills gets you further up the value chain as far as getting a PR card. However, I am not particularly sure how robust their system is when compared to the American system and whether that setup would scale when ported here.

> I don't like the idea of discriminating who can be an immigrant based on what they know - or the model of what their income level is (ie. foreign corporate bigwigs get easy long term visas)

I like the diversity visa personally and don't agree with the idea that the 50K visas that make America a truly diverse nation should be poured into the pool of visas for tech ( A majority of which are really people of Indian and Chinese origin). Also, yes, I have heard of people "hacking" the visa system by coming in as corporate managers from foreign nations and easily getting green cards as "Aliens of extraordinary ability". However, you will have to understand that the U.S. is extraordinarily paranoid of the idea of people turning out to be public charges which I figure is why this discrimination exists.

> I also don't like the idea that immigration is being sponsored to get lower wage workers for the same position, how can we insure that high-tech immigrants are paid the same as a domestic worker and not being taken advantage of?

Well that is interesting, because I suspect that does happen pretty significantly in the industry especially when people born in India and China are involved. The process takes multiple years and if I understand it correctly, there are points where you can't leave your job for fear of starting over and losing years in the line. This to me is a situation that is ripe for exploitation.

> The worst problem I see with all of this is the idea that American colleges are not producing people who would be compatible for these jobs despite the millions of people who go into debt to get higher education.

This is a societal issue. I am not sure legislation can address this. In third world countries, there is extraordinary pressure to succeed and getting an advanced degree is one of the easier ways to get into the middle class or maintain your position in it. This is important especially considering that there is literally no safety net. On the other hand, one can exist just fine either as part of the middle class or the lower middle class with a minimal skill set in the U.S.
Why? I know that 9gag is not the most serious business out there, but don't you think it could be a viable and sustainable business?
All this bashing on Windows 8 reminds me of the first version of OS X, Cheetah. Apple proves the pundits wrong. I wish Microsoft the same.
In fact, getting into a U.S. university for grad. school gets harder (if not impossible) if you don't have a 4 year Bachelor's degree.
The "race to the bottom" benefits the consumer, don't forget. We will make less money in wages, but we will also have access to far cheaper goods and services because of increased productivity globally. It's not a big problem of capitalism that people in third world countries can pull themselves out of poverty, it's one of its great triumphs.
P.S. Among the websites already named, the project was also featured on larger websites like [6] NBC and [7] Digital Trends which did not help that project in terms of funding on IndieGoGo and I wonder why that is. -- [6] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49890501/ns/technology_and_scien...
[7] http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/hands-on-intellipaper...
Nice hardware. So is my Galaxy Nexus. I am pretty darn attached to that phone.
As far as I can see, this guy is going for the Steve Jobs solution -- trying to fix himself with folk medicine.

We know what happened with Jobs: He relented and went into surgery after about a year, when the diet stuff had failed to curb the progression of the cancer. There is a pretty good chance Jobs would have been alive today if he had not gone the alternative route, as his type of pancreatic cancer was of a particular kind that usually gives much better survival rates.

Sure, Jobs may have died in exactly the same way even with early surgery, but the defining characteristic of cancer is unchecked growth, which means that an early response is always better than a late response.

I like the open-source diagnostic idea, but I don't think he is making a rational choice in eschewing informed medical advice.
Yeah; Musk is a smart guy, but unfortunately he passed into drooling-hero-worship territory a while ago.

He could barf on the sidewalk and people would be posting breathless blog posts within minutes trying to interpret the contents ("What Does It Mean For Our Future OMG?!")... ><
Isaac Newton went away for two years, by himself, to invent Calculus and modern physics.
Err, should should be extension method.
D3 provides awesome data driven visualizations. However the code samples on d3js.org site though good have no real explanations. I am hoping these tutorials will fill the gap.
Since you use ARC, is there any reason you use old retain/assign syntax?
Yeah, but Apple is, despite their (myriad) flaws, pretty darn good at the "making a usable OS" game.

MS, well, not so much.
Dismissing any viewpoint out of hand based on one small investment out of hundreds seems like a poor way of gaining wisdom...
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Growth Hacking With Risk In Mind
Looking for a replacement mayor if Rob Ford is ordered out of office
I don't see how this would be "cheating the system". There are skilled workers out there that can't receive the income they deserve simply because of their location. Locking out foreign workers is basically geographical discrimination -- and discrimination is economically inefficient. We'd all be better off if everyone could just receive a fair market salary: no more, no less.
https://makelovenotporn.tv/ is not a hardware but Definitely it's awesome startup to disrupt sex industry.

MLNP wants to inspire and stimulate open, healthy conversations about sex and pornography. #realworldsex

Cindy on TED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV8n_E_6Tpc
The device has basically no profit for google, so it doesn't show a way forward for any device manufacturers. In fact, it probably scares companies like Samsung if google starts making a real dent in the market with 0-margin phones.
> Our government’s goal should be to bring in revenues of 18.5 percent of G.D.P. and spend about 21 percent of G.D.P

Makes sense, but only after you've paid off all or the vast majority of your debt, which means for a decade or two you'll need to have the income be significantly higher than spending, and pay off the debt with the difference.
Designers: Kleiner Perkins Wants You
edit: lost cause
C'mon, that's a classic for the ages...!
Yea yea you like the underdog.. have you used windows 8?
Blog post that Venturebeat links to: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html