skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure you could make this a legal requirement even in a democracy.
I think ECR equates better to Northern Boulevard (rt 25?) the E. Queens part and all of Nassau much better than 57th st. Not sure which one is more depressing.

They're both arteries which connect disparate towns and villages and are interspersed with strip malls, gas stations and supermarkets and they both could make use of better transit systems. Altho, to be fair Nother Blvd has LIRR running kind of parallel for most of it.
Post-mortem from last night's Ratchet.io outage
No one mentioned a possible reason for this regulation: get rid of the mess with cables.
Umm, there are some other 9" e-ink readers, e.g. Pocketbook 901, Onyx M92,....
If you are just doing basic monochrome text, no images, you can probably ignore 99% of this stuff. But any moderately complex document needs to be preflighted to make sure that it gets printed the way you intend.

cf http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/using/WS58a04a822e3e5010...

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-acrobat-9/preflighting-for-c...

Generally when preflighting, I'm shooting for PDF/X or PDF/A compliance as well as, even without being strictly compliant, making sure that there are no document structure issues that are going act like a hangnail when the printer is trying to either digitally print the file or prepare it for offset printing.

It's easy to think that a PDF is a PDF, but there are so many different things that can be stuffed into one and so many variations on how graphics and text containers format and interact that results can be surprising, particularly at 7pm on Friday with an expected Monday delivery.

E.g. should that text with an opacity value be flattened? What if there is an image behind it? And a gradient? (actual recent example).

I've had cases where the document "just won't print past page 40" (again, this past year). Why? No one knew. The technician handling the document was not good at troubleshooting. Acrobat preflight had passed it fine. There was an empty text frame on that page that the digital printer was choking on.

I won't even touch on color issues here, but they can be equally thorny.
Lovely idea! You may want to mention in Week 0 that Objectified is also available on Amazon Prime.
Tell HN: What I like best about HN is no captioned pictures with latest meme.
I like my Facebook friends list a lot, because it includes actual friends, and their interactions with one another are quite interesting. But Facebook turns me off compared to Hacker News much of the time because my FB home page still has too many friends posting cute captioned pictures with flat-wrong factual statements. So I just posted to my Facebook wall, "Memo to all of my friends on Facebook: cute photographs with captions are not a sufficient source of knowledge of the world. To form your opinions on public policy, please read actual books, and travel to places other than the place where you usually live and work." That's producing some thoughtful (and funny) replies, by the way.

So I'd just like to express appreciation to the HN community for mostly linking to actual thoughtful articles that have some verifiable (and even verified) facts and some balance, even if the submitted articles aren't the last word on the subject. All of your comments, and especially the comments of those of you who live in places where I have never lived, are very helpful for broadening my perspective and being more aware about what's left unsaid on the latest cute photograph on Facebook. Feel free to check my facts and ask for sources any time.
I might cut them a bit more slack if the image to the CTA wasn't for "Typography Crash Course"!

Thanks for the reminder on Constrast Rebellion.
Now if we could only do this for PDF and Flash.
You could use something like this: http://www.fitbit.com/flex

Wraps around the wrist, and has an alarm that vibrates so that (theoretically) only you wake up.
Bring a 4K monitor and you've got yourself the ultimate Crysis rig.
It only saves trees, time, data loss, and death by decimal. But hey, we haven't found a solution to the problem in 10 years, so we should probably just quit trying.

I think fear of change in dinosaurs is stopping this. Respected doctor = lots of school + lots of practice = old age.
Put your phone alarm on vibrate and put it under your pillow, or in the pillow case if you thrash around in your sleep. the vibration won't travel far enough to disturb someone else, but it'll wake you up.
The money from your fees would go to the same people the lobby money is going to now.

No, lobby money goes to lobbyists, election campaigns, and to support services of the lobby industrial complex. Money from "this should otherwise be public domain" fees could go to the general treasury and help pay for, well, anything.
Thanks for the explanation! I accept that healthcare is different than other industries, but even the lowest IT cost/month you cite seems exorbitant for a customer you're not billing on a regular basis (and many people can go decades without entering hospital). IT is a cost center, and this is just too much cost.
well, thats a very bad situation you are in. I can imagine, how one wouldn't like to disturb his/her most beloved one. Think it through, whether a vibrating watch is your thing, or just your phone and her phone as well. Or perhaps, try headphones, my cousin use to wake up to songs, and if you only have headphones, you won't wake up your partner.
It's not an argument from ignorance, it's a simple assertion. An argument from ignorance would be saying that because we don't know what value there is to be obtained, there is no value(or the value is limitless.)

Condemning polemic for making assertions is kind of missing the point of polemic. It isn't like he isn't trying multiple arguments to suggest these assertions may be true.
Much of the EMR system I deal with was built primarily to address billing rather than patient care. The structured data (ICD-9 codes, service dates, etc) exists for that. The crufty part of the system is related to patient test results and other information (pathology reports related to tissue evaluations, etc).

So, the data that is tangential to patient treatment is highly queryable, the data related to patient status is mostly free text. Worse yet, the free text does not follow much of a "standard" entry form - whoever entered the text followed, at best, a departmental standard, at worst, just some quick thoughts randomly sprayed into text.

But even that terribly inefficient and crufty free text is highly useful to staff (MDs, nurses, etc) when reviewing patient treatment during, say, tumor board meetings discussing specific cancer treatments and patient status.

What might be really nice would be to divorce the two functions - separate billing/scheduling from other information. For the patient treatment/status data, there is some fine line in the data model with having some structured data, plus (probably) some flexible key/value annotation system.

One killer issue is that given any software tool, medical staff is smart enough to bend it to do what they want, rather than what it was designed for, if that makes sense.
The F-35 just became 25% vulnerable
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The problem is nobody uses it. Metro North serves a region with maybe 2-3 million people (depending on how many people in Connecticut you consider part of the service area), and has a ridership of 300,000 per day. Cal Train serves a region that's at least as large, but has 40,000 riders a day.
It would be but big companies (like IBM) lobbied against it.
Yes! Scanning for more than 4 objects at once (which is currently supported) is something that we definitely want to enable in the future. The only constraint is the number of GPU machines we can afford.
what I think is the best part: no spam! hardly have I seen hard spam threads.
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Psddd, a curated list of the downloadable PSDs posted on Dribbble
Yea, it seems to be confusing and distracting. Maybe it can have some sort of fading effect on the older text to improve readability and awareness as a reader scrolls.
KWQ wasn't super easy to port to other platforms -- it's completely gone now and WebKit has much better abstractions.
> Most families spend less than $1000/month on medical care, on average.

Off the top of my head, the healthcare industry is roughly 2.5T, and there are roughly 115M households in the US, which implies health care spending is ~22k per household per year.

I agree that most spend less than $1k/month but the average spend is $1800/month.
Aw come on zero, losen your collar a little bit. I've conveyed my well thought out post with brevity, pregnant with purpose.
The author wrote this in the comments in response to a reader's comment about the value of structured data:
But reflect that a U.S. doctor might earn $600,000 per year, the nurse’s salary might be $120,000 per year, and the same task could be accomplished by a worker in India or Cambodia, starting from the unstructured data, at a cost of $2 per hour.

Let's assume I didn't already think this guy was way off the mark... that comment right there makes me think he's just an arrogant twat. Never mind the huge privacy nightmare of having some "$2/hr worker in Cambodia" sifting through our medical records on Google Drive.
True things are different in different places. But in the US most healthcare is part of an employment package and as an employer I'm paying every month to our healthcare provider whether or not my folks actually get any services.
@gokfar: Seems like you have some background in keyboard layout optimization. Are you currently working on anything related now? I am and would great to chat with you about it if you're in the MV area.
This whole thing seems pretty fishy. Like scripted melodrama to be honest. Whatever works, I guess.
I have been tinkering with a similar side project which you can read about here:

http://artificial-intelligence-projects.com/augmented-realit...

It's still in the development stage because I can only fiddle with it when I have the time and impetus to do so. Criticisms/comments welcome.
I loved this so much. The visualizations were beautiful, and I'm appreciative of the effort that must have gone into such clear illustrations. The only thing I would suggest would be to make the slide progression arrows somewhat more eye-catching--I almost missed their presence entirely when I was quickly scrolling down the page trying to parse whether or not I was going to read the whole thing. As a result, I almost missed out on the defining part of the experience.
I am a designer, but I am really looking forward to this. New resources, insights, and challenges can only help.
Rails is pretty popular everywhere.
"Someone helpfully summarized the article and got a dumb fucking comment in response" No, they didn't. They got a reasonable disagreement. You reacted to it arrogantly. I jovially suggested that your assertion was wrong and you went super nova! The whole thread is there for all to see. You need to work on you people and communication skills. Some free advice. Lose the attitude. Like it or not, that 'schmuck' has contributed significantly to the world of computing. What he has to say is interesting. It's also an interesting insight into a secretive company that has seen unparalleled success until very recently. So those combined, if you are a young entrepreneurial developer, you should listen. You might even learn something.
@chime: I am working on something similar and it would be great to exchange ideas if you want to chat about it.
I passed the first test on rote memorization. The second was nearly the same. Only the third would have given information about my ability to estimate, which isn't enough to give real information about those 7 bullet points. I remain doubtful about the utility of these tests.

There is nothing, for example, which probes my experience with statistics.

Here's a more in-depth test. We run an medical experiment on lab rats. The protocol says that we will experiment on 20 rats, and that a mortality rate above 30% is too high so we must stop the experiment. After 5 rats, 2 have died. Should we stop the experiment now? Why or why not?

One could look at that and say that a 2/5=40%>30% so of course it should be stopped - it's higher than the allowed rate.

A better response is to point out that if 10% is acceptable, then there's a 0.9^3 * 0.1^2 * C(5,3) = 7% chance that this is an expected statistical fluctuation, and that the experimental protocols should have given some guideline on how certain one needs to be in knowing if the mortality rate was too high.

An even better response would be to point out that this means the first three rats lived, and it was only rats 4 and 5 which died, as otherwise the experiment would have stopped earlier under this protocol. In that case the possible experimental states are: 1) first rat died, so the experiment stopped = p. 2) first lived, second died, stop = p. 3) first lived, second lived, third died, stop = p. 4) first, second, third lived, fourth died, fifth lived = (1-p). and 5) first, second, third lived, fourth and fifth died = p giving (assuming I recall how to do this correctly) p+p+p+(1-p)+p = 1.0 or an estimated mortality rate of p=0.3.

In other words, this experiment is allowed to keep on going under the given protocol.

But this sort of modeling awareness is not present in the three tests you mentioned, despite being directly relevant, I assume, to what a trader does.
The way you phrased it seemed to be almost a dare. It came across as "I dare you to criticise Android."
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This reminds me of how my visual psychology professor was attempting to help those with poor vision 15 years ago, but didn't appear to get anywhere with at the time.

The idea was a simple (but clever) one - use virtual reality to segment the world into solid blocks of identified objects. The solid blocks are identifiable to those with poor vision in a way that the real world is not.

Essentially this meant processing an image, identifying items e.g. cars, fences, roads etc and then colouring them solid. So instead of a confusing scene of blur, you have a blurred but still identifiable scene of a solid strip of grey for the road, a solid blob of red for the car, another solid yellow stip for a fence etc. A poorly sighted person could still identify from this something that made sense in a way that they couldn't in the real world.

What was required was an input, real time visual processing and then display back to the user - all of which was fantasy 15 year ago.

However, attempt this today with a visual feed, real time processing like this, and then near instantaneous display of the results back to the person with e.g. google glass, and you might have a viable way to show the world categorised in a visual way that will help those with poor vision. Interesting times.
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I seem to can't find where the proof, or a official testing authority report, says that the vulnebility is "25%" more, compared to original design? DOT&E extract doesn't mentions that.
"Ultimately the future will require more people to understand not just how to use the tech on a basic level but people who can innovate with it."

This. While in one sense it is profitable to rope off technology and control it - having the general population embrace the skill set of working with computers is far more profitable overall for everyone.

In 100 years, every single person will have grown up in a world dominated by electronics with the presence of the internet. Being a fact of life makes the barrier of entry a lot lower than it is today when there are more options.
I've never used mechanical turk before and don't understand what you mean by language agnostic. I'd want someone to tell me that it's a "car" and not a 汽車. And I'd want to give the instructions for the task in English.
Do some protein folding. http://folding.stanford.edu/English/HomePage
"Electronic medical records don’t save money"

If you implement it retardedly, of course they won't. It's just what they were doing before (different formats and methods making it impossible for the hand to know the leg is doing, in terms of communication between multiple or even within a single organization) except with the added layer of electronic technology that means even the people within a single institution won't know how the hell to use it.

10000x this for a profession centering around doctors, since so many of them believe the world of knowledge hasn't changed since when they graduated medical school back in 19xx. :/ They are unaccustomed to accumulating new methodologies as a result of recent advancements.
If China is a dictatorship, then who is the dictator? It rather seems to be run by the inner Party leaders.
Wow, I just tried this image of faces:

http://3rdarm.biz/images/2010/02/faces.jpg

It got almost all of them but so many errors. It can't detect sheeps either.

I was really impressed at first, but as I tried out more and more images, it became apparent that the api isn't mature enough for one or two cents worth of money. There is a 90% of the algorithm detect the image correctly, but sometimes it doesn't detect the entire object. For example, I used another image of two jets, but it only found one of them even though the jets were identical, but one was smaller than the other.
I have also built EMR systems. They do not achieve much over paper to be honest. Where they do make a difference is at the point of care. Scanning patient, nurse, and medications prior to delivery for example removes errors. But in terms of cost savings it really isn't that significant. Patient satisfaction is not really the issue being addressed here. Cost of delivery and efficient use of limited resources is.
Ask HN: eLance for Cold Calling, Appointment Making etc?
A while back on HN, I saw a link to a website that was like elance, but for phone sales.

You could hire people for cold calling, appointment getting etc, record calls, give commissions etc.

Does anyone know of a site like this?
Nice, I didn't see tha. The article's link to LW's info listed on the cbs page shows the verbiage correctly but the location in the tag is wrong so the clicks don't work.
http://www.liquidweb.com/incubator.html is where the link on the cbslocal article's page should point to
Also: Electronic medical records are far easier to steal than paper records. By steal I mean invisibly copy, en-masse, remotely.
Model universal expansion with VSL, and solve the horizon problem once and for all :)
You might want to let the user decide if it is more important to have a false positive or a false negative. For some applications a false alarm is a minor nuisance but a false negative is catastrophic, but for some applications it is flipped. In the past I have let the end user define the balance (i.e. "a false negative is 10X as bad as a false positive") and the decision results were scaled by their decision rule. It's not always easy to do as many machine learning algorithms are nonlinear but at least you can cast a wider net of potential customers.
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Over a dozen experiments, the recognition rate for faces seems to be about 70%. Example of failure: only 2 faces detected here (in particular NOT the one in focus) http://iamdaveknockles.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/meeting_j...

This is worse than OpenCV (I thought you were using OpenCV but apparently aren't?)
It is probably based on "Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part Based Models"; Pedro F. Felzenszwalb"... Somebody took http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~rbg/latent/ made REST API and hooked up a payment system.
If the fraction is > 0.5, wouldn't he be able to spoof the entire chain and collect ALL the money?
Guessing you saw the article on the lack of quantisation jitter on quasar light then, then? :)
Crack some SSL CA private keys.
Interesting technology. It got a couple correct for me. But failed on a bunch as well. Here's a few horses it failed to find correctly.

2 horses / detected 0: http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23500000/horse-horses...

4 horses / detected all as 1: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rso9vw4BmSE/TqZU6vHl3kI/AAAAAAAACL...
And Oracle is to blame.
I have 100Mb/100Mb for $45/month which is pretty decent I think. It's not 1Gb, but still beats the pants off everything else in the area.
tl;dr: Money.
However, attempt this today

According to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985100 it won't be today, perhaps tomorrow.
> bank robbers are paranoid about other people stealing their money

Maybe that's just because they have unusually large piles of cash lying around, and can't exactly go to the police if someone tries to take it? Seems like a pretty rational paranoia to me.
If I had to guess what they meant: A car is a car, regardless if you call it 'car' or 'das auto.'
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The situation with mass transit in the Valley really sucks. I would gladly use any public transit available to commute to work - this way I also could use transit time for reading or doing something instead of staring into the sea of taillights for an hour every day. But instead my family has 3 cars - because this is the only way one can get anywhere. Local governments change quite hefty taxes - both state tax and sales tax and property taxes are AFAIK among the highest everywhere - but I don't see any return for this money, the service that I would gladly want to use every day is just not available for me. Most routes either don't go to proper locations or are too rare to to use, or require 3 hour commute with 2 transfers for the route that I do in 20 minutes by car. Maybe my case is unique, but it looks like everybody I talked to about it here feels pretty much the same - would be glad to use public transit but you can't get anywhere with it, at least not if when you get there has any importance for you.
Don't you need increasingly high numbers of iterations at higher zooms as well? I don't know if this is an actual property of the render, but I recall it being an issue the last time I programmed it, even with just double precision floats.
there's a face there?
Apple expects Chinese sales 'to overtake US'
> (Separately, OS X's stub resolver has some neat tricks. e.g., using /etc/resolver/<domain_name> to route DNS requests for a particular domain to a specific name server.)

I was about to give up and install dnsmasq locally to get around a VPN-related issue. Thanks for the tip!
crudely, the "philosophy that data trumps everything" trumps "data".

which perhaps was roughly similar to what you were saying if we rephrase "the philosophy that data trumps everything" as "the ideas of the scientific method".
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I understand the philosophy that Easter eggs can undermine confidence in software security, since if the programmer could sneak that by, who knows what else they could sneak in. However, from a human/sentimental standpoint I miss the era where Easter eggs were more prevalent. It made it more clear that there were people behind the development of the stuff we use every day.
You had the MSX computers, but they weren't so popular. At least, not in the UK.
tl; dr: Google wins.
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The hardest part of such a thing is getting adoption. Commercial players in the space have incentives to push their own offerings very hard. Technologically, there have been a number of fully distributed and decentralized systems. Financially, I guess nobody has really had enough incentive to popularize one.
> keep in mind links are typically overloaded to the resource you are accessing, its not just about your final leg speed. So fiber really only fixes one part of the connection, Amdahl's law still applies.

Is the last mile not the bottleneck in China? It is in America, AFAIK.
One might argue that good philosophy emerges from the datum of experience.