skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I doubt medical technology will advance meaningfully for the median person."

One way that I see meaningful medical change (which we probably have the technology for right now) is in any kind of visual test (such as x-rays, CT scans, various types of blood tests) basically anywhere you have a highly paid human who uses their eyes to scan an image/microscope for a pattern that determines if you have some disease, fracture, something in your blood work is off, etc.

At the moment, these test are time consuming (days minimum, often weeks or months) and very expensive because those highly paid humans can only scan so many samples in a lab every day. Once we turn computer vision algorithms onto the task (trained to spot visual clues for disease over thousands or millions of positive and negative samples, similar to how Google trained an AI neural net to recognise pictures of cats[1]), the time & costs of any type of visual medical scan will fall dramatically. Imagine getting the results of an x-ray back in seconds, with a result accurate to 99.99% certainty of a fracture.

Of course, that main obstacle to widespread adoption of this type of technology will be political. Radiologists and other professionals won't take too kindly to being displaced.

And of course then you will have AI technologies like Watson, which should allow doctors to get much more productive, so they get to see more patients in less time and reach a diagnosis with great accuracy than before. This will mean you need less doctors (lowering medical costs) but you get better outcomes.

I think AI tech like Watson and computer vision will have a dramatic impact on medicine in the near future.

[1] http://www.dailytech.com/Googles+Unsupervised+SelfLearning+N...
Cool, thanks for the link! I've been thinking of looking at other cities here in Texas like Austin and San Antonio. Like you I have no desire to move to the Bay Area, other than maybe the job scene. I've found Texas to be a really cool place overall, definitely under-appreciated.
The Terrible First Draft
Isn't the YC RFS a few years old at this point? If one was being written today, I wonder what it would list?
why can't you wash the items with soap?
I know nothing about knockout.js, but if you look at the Google Trends search posted below, knockout is a solid #2 after angular.
I understand the manner in which the battery is put together is a company secret.
Yeah I hated that about Win8 as well. As downgrading seemed like too much of a hassle, I recently found out that you have to use Win+W to search settings.

Why they separated settings and applications is beyond me.
And nodejs is not a javascript server, it's just a wrapper around V8 and the kernel's socket API? Linux is not an operating system kernel, it's just a wrapper around X86?

That distinction is silly.
No, but libel and slander laws do exist to keep people from saying untrue negative things about you, so it still pays to be careful if that's what you intend to do.
What I surprise; HN crapping all over a show submission. Not even in a constructive form, hate for the sake of hate. Love it. Though to be fair, I'm glad you all seem to see no value in this. I'll use these and won't in turn have to replace them as they take on the ubiquity of Bootstrap
TLDR: Cronyism works well if all your college bros are top talent.
This is obviously the earliest phase in consumer adoption of 3D printers.

It kind of reminds me of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, i.e. don't expect too much (!).
Why all the hate? You guys are always telling people to launch early and at the end of the day the OP is sharing something that he created to help out his peers, for free and with the promise of more to come.. I certainly appreciate it!

edit: I see a lot of you took issue with the original title:

> "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this"

Granted, it wasn't a great title but I kind of get where he's coming from - I used to spend hours trawling through istockphoto and shutterstock for decent photographs and a lot of it matched that description.
How to prevent rogue wireless access points on a network
What is an Asset?
I was about to signup, but I saw that you don't support custom domains yet. Any idea when that is coming?
Kind of a misleading animation, since n is the number of switches (4) and not the number of balls (which diverges to infinity).

Setting the bins to 500 froze the browser, unfortunately.

The physical machines that do this are undeniably cool, but especially when they have the curve painted on beforehand; this is the best I could find right now, but I remember seeing a pretty big one as part of a traveling mathematics
museum exhibition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUSKTk9ENzg
Just imagine paying $32,000 for a "liberal-arts education" that leaves you in a state where you make statements like that one. I guess that makes me one of the critics he's impatient with.
Sure, the world has definitely changed, and more so for certain groups of people (obviously African Americans in the US, who are no longer treated as property). The point was just that, in many ways, the changes we've seen have been more or less incremental improvements to the same basic activities we do today.

So what will the future be? Depending on how far ahead you project, we'll presumably still be seeking food, sex, shelter, sleep, and what-not. It'll be the same as today, but with more labor saving contraptions, faster communications, etc.

What excites me are the technological advances that stand to make the world better for the "bottom third" or whatever. What can we do to improve the lives of people in 3rd world countries? What do they need? Better access to fresh water, wholesome food, proper sanitation, modern medicines, and what not. So finding ways to make, say, water desalination / purification cheaper, lighter, and faster, would be an aspect of the future that would be very exciting. It wouldn't be groundbreaking in a certain sense (not like the star trek transporter or the Holodeck), but it would be significant in improving the standard of living for a large number of people.
I'm not disagreeing with you that at the margins, a liberal arts degree or the pursuit of knowledge at a college might not be "worth it". I just think, liberal arts people get a lot of shit for even wanting to do so.

Ultimately, it's about the second part of your comments. You clearly think they are doing something wrong with their lives, or they are not choosing the optimal route for their life.

While you are obviously entitled to your opinion, I do have some reservations about this kind of judgement. People have different views of what is a happy fulfilled life for them, so let it be.

(I know how ironic my "stop judging people" judgement on your judgement must sounds like, it's a fallacy I haven't been able to solve yet)
Not sure how this is different from inotify+md5+make?
May be it's a design question. The torso shouldn't be human-like, but the idea is to make it - less ugly, subjectively? - than a stick with an iPad on it. Yes, it somehow should avoid being confused with robot - so may be it shouldn't look like a stereotypical robot.

I agree that everything has a price; the question is, is it justified by perceived improvement in looks. To me, a Segway with a stick looks odd, especially in a company of a few people walking somewhere. Something more resembling "a figure" could likely improve the perception.

A head model could both make easier to realize who you're talking to - I guess this can be useful - and also improve overall looking. I agree that it's also not as easy - and reconfigurable - as just having an iPad.

It seems to me there is a potential for improvements.
It definitely has ports. Right there, in the packet header.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol#Packet_s...
Compiling while editing. Intredasting.... I assume there is some crazy dependency algorithm.
OK, so then your language implementation walks the DOM for script tags with the required type and compiles them.

That's a pretty cool technique.
This is not the Central Limit Theorem.
You only get the Gaussian if you take the limit correctly.

In the visualization as you increase the number of bins, the Gaussian approximation becomes more and more squeezed, and by the weak law of large numbers the limit is a Dirac delta.

In order to get the Gaussian you'd need to be looking at a window whose width is proportional to the square root of the number of bins.
You should come check out Geekdom. We hosted TechStars Cloud this year (and will for the foreseeable future). Lots of cool startups working here. My email is my profile if you ever make it out here.

Plus, our benefactor Graham Weston, one of the co-founders of Rackspace, just bought us our own building in downtown San Antonio. Right now we're in another office building he owns but this one will be entirely ours.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Geekdom-moving-t...
I admire the determination to pay off one's debt no matter the personal cost, but I do not understand the life choices. There has to be more effective ways to pay debt than to move to the wilderness where you literally cannot spend 95% of your income.

Personally I favor the idea that it is better to focus your energy on earning/producing more, than it is to try to penny-pinch and cut costs. In today's world it seems there are innumerable opportunities to find money/success. But I acknowledge I'm saying that from a position of privilege, sitting here checking HN in my spare time.

Perhaps there was no other easy way for this English major to make more than $8 an hour, or perhaps he wanted the experience of going to Alaska (and also paying off his loan). But I would not suggest this as a first-choice plan to repay student loans!
Emscripten and asm.js are frankly amazing. I ported OpenSCAD to Javascript with it: http://www.fabfabbers.com/openscad/

With asm.js in Firefox nightly it's nearly native speed.
amount of actual work done on this mac book air: 0.

amount of time picking out wallpaper: 95%.

source: hipster mac owner "coders" i see in starbucks.
A 3 year old will not watch stuff they don't like, as they will loudly tell you.

This is true, what I'm saying is that a three year old does not have the cognitive ability to appreciate artistic nuance; of course they have preferences, they're just completely arbitrary and entirely detached from anything that a developed adult could recognize as quality.
Isn't this a bit much?

Apparently you're new here.
I'd like to hear the answer to this as well. Especially in light of some of Bret Victor's recent talks, I'm very eager to hear about tools and visualizations that enhance thinking and learning.
Curing asthma with hookworm...

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/16/3408/66053
Neither is the right solution, which is the problem.

You pay for both systems. One kills you because you can't afford it and the other kills you because they can't afford to keep you alive.
He wanted to pay off his school loans so he could "feel like a free person."

Now his entire life revolves around being a slave to his debt (living in a van in remote Alaksa, etc).

To each their own. But to me, this doesn't seem more free.
It seems to me that the problem is that the backend is treating the XHR like if you were hitting the main site. So sometimes (but not for all endpoints I think), if I were logged out, the XHR would be redirected to the login page.

To me, the API endpoints should behave the same way in a browser as with curl without ever redirecting to the login page.

But, once again, it might have been fixed in the meantime… I haven't tried recently.
I was going to mention some of those other things that have been bugging me about Steam over the years, and it's been getting worse and it seems more bloated. I didn't really understand GOG at first, but once I realized how it worked, I'm less enthusiastic about Steam. For titles available on both, I wish I could return the Steam versions and use only GOG :)
A short Guide on efficient use of Google Scholar
Why flat interfaces matter
I agree the analogy is flawed, but that doesn't invalidate his argument. People have all kinds of hobbies that add no real practical value to their lives, other than that they enjoy doing it, and we don't typically make fun of people for those.
That's not true. I love the warm weather - and absolutely dread overcast/rainy. I don't have Seasonal Affective Disorder, but to say that the sun doesn't brighten my day would be wrong.

It's all relative.
Thank you, that's what I was thinking about UDP. I knew UDP was good for video and raw data packets. Disappointing that Webworkers, Video, and Audio streams for HTML5 still use TCP.

BTW: awesome handle - south park, lol :)
what browser are you using? the bins <input> tag has a max value set to 25
And for most of the years computers have been around they did not revolutionize communication. That's a relatively late development.

Not even close. Computers have been used as a novel communications tool since at least 1958, and for (de)encryption of traditional communications since 1943.

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environme... ]

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer ]
(https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=silver%20...)
While his story is interesting, I don't think it should be a model for anyone else or an example of how to be prudent with your education or debt situation. It's almost as if he went to such lonely extremes so he could write about this later.

And blindly paying down debts is irrational; you need to look at the broader picture, not be intimidated by what you owe. Maybe that money would be better spent on other things in the short term. I have a low interest rate on my student loan and just pay the minimum.
That's an optimization problem. As such it doesn't really fit the context of what I was trying to say.

To put my point differently, this is an example of a market which trades extrinsic value for intrinsic value. Sure, some mechanisms are certainly better than others for this purpose, but as is the nature of intrinsic value, "better" can only be defined on a very individual basis.
Ask HN: Did you throw away all of your college textbooks and regret it?
I'm trying to determine if it's worth keeping four large boxes for the rest of my life or if I should get rid of my college textbooks now. What have you done?
And your pregnant friends are thinking the exact same thing about you.
Women entrepreneurs: Starting out in your forties
Your argument is based on tenuous reasoning predicated on the assumption that you know how the Airbnb people are thinking and how they intend to use the data. The other argument is based on the assumption that there are probably other people who use Facebook and LinkedIn in a similar fashion (I am another data point). I do not see how your argument carries any more weight than theirs. It certainly fails the hard evidence test you put forth.
We do currently support custom domains. What did you see that makes you think otherwise?
Yes, this is definitely a special case of CLT.

For instance, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Moivre%E2%80%93Laplace_theo...
If you work out savings of not having children and put the money in a decent savings plan you'll probably have enough to pay for better qualified care multiple times over what any children may provide (or not they're not obliged to help).
Decoding your Gmail signatures
100% FullAck : Who cares! Git is a DISTRIBUTED VCS exactly for this reason, so there is absolutely _no point at all_ to bother HN unless its a full outage lasting longer than 1 day.
From a glance this looks like a formalization of what already existed at: https://api-docs.heroku.com/ and which obviously the command-line client uses (although the docs and command line/production API have drifted apart)

At Pogoapp we basically reverse-engineered our API from Heroku's command line client, but it's excellent to have Heroku make the API public and formal, because it should make that process much easier and set up Heroku's API as a good target for other PaaS hosts to standardize on (in the same way Ceph & RiakCS have S3-compatible REST APIs)
Interesting. I know MS push knockout quite hard (Steve Sanderson now works for MS), so maybe KO is doing well in enterprise? And through some selection bias, it's less likely to appear in discussions/articles on HN because of the demographic here.

Whatever the case, I'm happy to see that some portion of the internet is enjoying KO!
You may want to do a bit of proofreading. It's difficult for me to take the content of this article seriously with so many spelling mistakes; especially since you misspelled "probability", which is the focus of the entire thing.
Dealing with an Auditor
Using panic for non-fatal errors is non-idiomatic, isn't it?
Tuition is rising, across the board, without much regard for marketability of degrees. It's more a function of the way society values school 'brands' and the way government guarantees abet this behavior by allowing essentially anyone to borrow as much as they want for whatever they want.

(Want to get a run-of-the-mill BA from an outrageously-expensive private college? Just sign here.)

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that the government should cap loans by degree-marketability or restrict school selection by a grading of school outcomes, but either a massive social re-valuation of tuition needs to happen, or things along those lines are going to need to be approached.

Our economy can't really grow when every young person is buried under student loan debt for years and years. Particularly not as we've transitioned to defined-contribution retirement plans. A decade of paying off student loan debt would either then be followed by large 'catch-up' contributions to make up the difference -- further delaying/retarding productive economic engagement -- or be underfunded, leading to higher social safety net expenditures when those workers retire without sufficient savings.
When I worked at DEKA, I met a guy who designed and built an invertible Galton Box. The ball-holder was circular and if you spun it one way, the balls would fall into the expected bell curve. But if you turned it the other way, the pins would shift very subtly - so little you wouldn't really notice - but the balls would fall in a perfect inverse bell curve, with most of the balls on the outside and very few in the middle. I think the company helped him get a patent on the mechanism :)
> No, seriously. I've met people who used Win8 regularly who didn't know that each app had a bottom bar - and how could they, there's zero discoverability around it, even though critical app functionality is often contained in that bar. (It's Windows+Z btw, that or a magical incantation of mouse movements).

If by magical incantation of mouse movements, you mean a right click?
And if you are a backer you get beautifully made videos of this – and it’s glorious. All the tough decisions, all the problems, all the decision making processes and compromises, all the joy and sadness.

This was the deal from the beginning and they were very explicit about it. I mean, this whole thing got started because they wanted to document the game making process – warts and all – but you cannot typically do that with a publisher on board. They had to do their own thing.

If you are not a backer it’s very, very easy to get the wrong impression about this – but if you are a backer there is nothing better than getting an update email with a new video on their progress.

This shit is fucking awesome. I don’t even care whether there ever is a game. If this fails and I have it all on video I will be happy. (Well, I will be sad because I have empathy, but I will have enjoyed the ride.) I got hours of excellent video material for next to no money.

I don’t think you are really getting this. And it’s easy to not get it if you are not a backer. (Plus, The Cave has nothing to do with this. That game was made by different people. And I would call it a polarizing game, not a mediocre one.)
I'm using Firefox 22.0 and I have no problem setting it higher than that.
No, "real languages" can be corporate initiatives.
internetsecurity.google.com could set cookies on google.com
Knockout gets excluded by many people because it comes from the .NET ecosystem, but that's completely unfair. It's pure JS and has nothing in it that ties it to .NET or Microsoft in any way.

I just picked it for a new project. It's very, very clean and nice.
I have to learn this Theorem for my exams (which are in a week). All I know is that

(X1+X2+ ... + Xn - n * mean)/sqrt(n * variance) --> N(0,1)

I don't see how that is visualization of this theorem.
So basically if I want to have an opinion about a product, I must have purchased it?

Given confirmation bias, that'd basically skew all reviews about products to the positive - hardly useful or objective.
The problems with keeping the original commit and then putting the fixes on top are, (a) it makes the history harder to follow, (b) it makes it easy for someone to screw up a cherry-pick of a bug fix to a maintenance brance, since now you have to cherry-pick the bug fix plus the fix(es) to the bug fix, and (c) if the original patch had a potential bug that might cause the system to crash or otherwise malfunction, even if you fix it in the subsequent commit, it makes "git bisects" more likely to yield false positives, or at least make things more confusing and more difficult than it has to be.
The model to follow here is oil change stations, like Jiffy Lube. Your car is tied up for 15-30 minutes, so they provide you with free coffee, donuts, TV with cable, wifi, some magazines, and a few nice chairs. All of the above is probably cheaper to add to a gas station than the cost of building a new hospitality facility.
setjmp/longjmp works in emscripten, it does prevent some optimizations in functions where it is called though. But luckily it doesn't seem like it is called in anything performance-sensitive in the benchmarks I've tested.
I misread that as "hospital" instead of "hospitality" on my first read, which actually brings up an interesting tangent.

If the Tesla stations make use of and store solar power, would they be a viable backup power source for hospitals? Or are the power requirements for a hospital on backup energy way too large for that sort of thing?
If they adopted that model for every car, it would be devastating to lower income people. That is why we have withholding on our federal / state taxes. The current model is much easier for people on a budget. We are not talking about a hundred $, we are talking thousands for many[1]. This is especially true where housing is too expensive in the city and lower income people need to commute[2].

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States assuming that electricity would need to be taxed at a equivalent level

2) mass transit is not everywhere
I presume that each batch of photos will have a specific theme or a use case in mind. If I were looking for sharp photos for my web design consulting website, and I think Apple products are the standard for the industry, I might use these images. Conversely, if I were doing a basketball design, I might incorporate urban images (asphalt, chain link fence, generic graffiti) to invoke a particular mindset or attitude.
Using Durandal/Knockout on our current project. Entire team is very happy.
> At no point have I seen Go programmers hype up the language and attack others.

Perhaps not "attack", but Go advocates tend to be very defensive about any criticism.
It's a small amount of text, and IMHO, coping / pasting code from the web is hardly ever a good idea.
Plinko!

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Price_Is_Right_pric...)
But they did not went 750% over budget. The budget was $3.3m. And with the bigger scope comes a – obviously – a longer dev time.

Oh, and also, backers do get tons of content all the time.