skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi I'm a dev and I've my MVP, which steps would I follow next?
I'm a full-stack developer, I don't have particular needs about the realization of the MVP, I'm indipendent, I'd like just to not lose much money if the things goes wrong.. I mean how to have an income before the "success"? Which condition/warranties should I ask to the investors ?
I'm a complete newbie here, so any useful link is welcome.
I looked at some accelerators, but I don't trust them much.. It seems they just rent me a desk monthly and organize some fluffy events.. PS: I'm Europe-based
"He's interested in what anarchism is, get him!"

That is very stupid.
Indeed. Disdain toward Java is strange, given Go's popularity and its similarity to earlier Java versions.

Sure, the JVM has long startup time (why should we care for most applications?) and gc/gcc-go produces nice binaries. But the Java ecosystem has many attractions as well: a common runtime for different programming languages, a wealth of high-quality libraries, a mature GC, great package management (via Maven or sbt), good IDEs, hotswap, instrumentation, etc.

Most of Go's advantages (lightweight threads, channels, good compile times) are also available in Java and the JVM.

IMHO it would've been more interesting if Google had pushed Java AOT compilation forward instead. But I guess the point of 20% time is that people can do what the heck they want. Perhaps RoboVM will push the envelope instead ;).

I wonder if they disapproval of the JVM is mostly shaped by slow and ugly AWT/Swing applications and huge frameworks that require lots of XML configuration. (Swing an be pretty, see IntelliJ. I try to avoid frameworks ;).)
How many customers do you have? I would work on that.
>"Where are the peaceable, prosperous, and happy atheist nations hiding?"

In Scandinavia, perhaps?
> I wonder why the common assumption is that the NSA doesn't run Tor nodes. Why wouldn't they?

Is that really a common assumption? I would expect that most people assume otherwise. Surely anybody informed knows that at least many, if not most, exit nodes are "hostile".
I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare
Hey guys,

I'm a longtime reader of hacker news. I'm looking for a technical cofounder. I know this sounds bad but hear me out. I think a little bit about my background would be helpful. I graduated from UCSD in 2005 with my degree in computer science. I worked for a couple of years, mainly with PHP, before I applied to medical school. Currently I am a first-year resident at UCSF Fresno. After the year is over I will be heading to USC to start my radiology residency. I still try to code every once in a while and I know some Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.

With all the time I've spent in the health care system, I seen a lot of opportunities to start a company that would solve some of the problems I've seen in the hospital.

Many of the problems in healthcare involve two systems that need data from each other. For example there is a machine that measures pulmonary function and will generate a PDF report. This PDF report has values that need to be entered into an EMR/EHR. This is time-consuming for some of the doctors and doctors should not be wasting their time with data entry. There is a stack of these reports and 10 minutes are spent entering in data and another one minute is spent interpreting the data.

I'm fairly certain I can write a program to do this and make an extra $500 per month from the hospital but starting a company around this idea seems to be a better option. With that being said, I'd rather have an engineer handle the coding and I would handle talking to hospitals and making sales. Many hospitals in the area need this sort of work done and I know we could generate income in this sector.

I'm looking specifically for somebody in California who can spend 2-3 hours per day coding on these projects. This person would probably be working on their own projects in their spare time. If this sounds like you please drop me an email at mtran115@gmail.com and we can talk some more.
Something seems off to me about this post.

One generally simulates the RTL long before doing anything with gates. Mostly because RTL is faster. Only when you have things sufficiently nailed down, have done all the timing analaysis, etc, do you start running gate sims.

Even for pretty damn large designs, compiling RTL shouldn't be a big hinderance…minutes instead of hours.

Considering the magnitude of complexity involved with gate sims, I find it hard to complain. I can't speak for other vendors, but Mentor's questa does a pretty amazing job at optimizing and running at "speed."

The main issue I think is that simulations are generally single core affairs. When you've got millions of gates in your design, having to serialize that event simulation down to a single core is surely going to be a bottleneck.

When the simulators can run on multiple machines, partitioning the design (this is the tricky part), and run more in parallel, we'll see some speed advances.

But for that to work, you'd have to be very careful how you do your design. If it's spaghetti with tentacles reaching out from every part of the design to every other part, you probably won't have much luck splitting that up for parallel sims.

Personally, I think verilog is weird, but I come from a VHDL background. Like verilog you have a subset that is synthesizable, but it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot with VHDL in my opinion.

I spend a lot of my time in SystemVerilog doing verification these days. It brings some nice concepts to the verification table, but what an awful language. It's like they stapled 3 different languages together, and took everything that is bad about OO and stuffed it in there without ever asking "Does this actually make Verification easier?"
Yes and no. You do need to have broad enough experience with programming that you are comfortable with the basic implementation algorithms even if not up to speed on the nuances of them. However, a modern database kernel typically has few or no B-trees or red-black trees in it, using more specialized and purpose-built algorithms instead. Probably one of the most important lessons I learned when I first started poking at database kernels is that the algorithms in the literature were demonstrably not being used in commercial databases because the behavior did not match what you would expect. The algorithms you learn in a CS curriculum are often not really correct for any real system built with a high degree of skill.

I've only ever owned a few CS-related books (e.g. Li and Vitanyi). Trawling search engines for CS papers and references to CS papers with potentially useful information is how I did most of my work. Honestly, Wikipedia is a good starting point to find search terms but you still have to follow threads in the literature that are poorly or non-existently documented on the Internet. There are important areas of literature that still have very limited presence on the searchable web. This is a huge bias I see with many people fresh out of school -- if it is not on the web it doesn't exist.

On your last point, that is the most difficult part. To be frank, most PhDs in computer science do not have the skills to successfully design new algorithms either. Oddly, chemical engineering provided a very good conceptual framework for thinking about this; there are no pure mathematical solutions and you optimize complex systems in part by understanding every knob in a holistic context. One of the things I've noticed about most people with a computer science education is that they make a large number of implicit assumptions about the nature of computational and algorithmic systems that are not required and sometimes not correct, often without realizing it. Most of the algorithm work I've done amounts to violating implicit but foolish assumptions in the orthodox literature that no one had seriously examined in decades.

It is not just computer science, in most fields of endeavor the vast majority of things are done the way they are because that is the way they've always been done as set forth by a smart person a long time ago. The underlying assumptions and implicit constraints are rarely reexamined. I found a lot of upside to studying theoretical knobs that had been essentially frozen in literature since at least the 1980s.
Being able to sort/search by the price domain sellers have set is not terribly useful. There are too many people out there who think their reg price only domain is worth $1 million.
It had never previously occurred to me that people of color lacked a "future time orientation", but thanks to Seattle Public Schools I have an exciting new racial stereotype to add to my quiver of prejudices.
Awesome. I went from:

Physical exercise->Physical fitness->Federal government of the United States->United States->List of countries and dependencies by area->Italy->Mona Lisa
Yes I forgot about that. In my degree it was just the second 'algorithms & data structures' class.
Are you really not a lawyer? As we've sparred fairly frequently over time I kinda wanted to get a feel for where you were coming from so I read through all your comment history for a while (though this was a while ago).

I just double checked that and saw this;

rayiner 671 days ago | link

As someone who left software engineering for law, I have to say that partnership is a great motivator.

and this;

rayiner 274 days ago | link | parent | flag

So I'm a lawyer and you should take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I think you've misread the market.

and this;

rayiner 303 days ago | link

So my grandfather on my mom's side was a doctor and a lawyer. My mom's siblings include a couple of doctors, a military officer, a business executive, etc. My mom was herself a journalist, and of her sons I'm a lawyer and my brother is a banker. This is not a coincidence. Privilege is passed down from generation to generation, not just in money, but in social status, connections, values, culture, insight, motivation, outlook, etc.

amongst a great many other descriptions of legal minutiae that I can see how I may have gotten that impression. But it leads me to wonder what your story actually is? Feel free to ignore this request if you think it's breaching privacy.
> And a placebo controlled study is the best evidence for a medical treatment ...

Yes, and with respect to the drugs we're talking about, subsequent meta-analyses show that the original studies were all biased in favor of their sponsors and all the drugs produce the same results, which argues for a massive placebo effect.

For years, studies were published that appeared to support various drug approaches to mental illness, but those studies have been invalidated by more careful analysis that included (as just one well-known example) unpublished studies that came to conclusions not favorable to the drug companies' outlook.

> Consider an SSRI study for depression.

Yes, let's do that. As things stand right now, studies of drugs that increase serotonin levels show the same effects as those drugs that decrease serotonin levels. This causes open-minded scientists to doubt the efficacy of this entire approach.

Reference: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/psych...

Quote: "While S.S.R.I.s surely alter serotonin metabolism, those changes do not explain why the drugs work, nor do they explain why they have proven to be no more effective than placebos in clinical trials."

> I mean, the effects of SSRIs in healthy individuals is an interesting topic, but not relevant if I'm investigating depression treatments.

Such studies -- with the diagnosed depressed -- show no clinically significant result that can distinguish the outcome from the placebo effect. Those are the facts.
There is irony in multiple dimensions here. By publishing an article critical of itself but whose core argument actually has very small teeth, Medium gets to appear magnanamous and balanced and thus receives a net benefit in reputation. And likewise on the author's side, with one hand the he condemns that writing for Medium benefits Medium more than it benefits him, but with the other hand he reaps the clear benefit of the notoriety gained from publishing it on Medium. It's all a very clever scarf trick.
Internet I meant. And according to this (2011) the number is a lot lower.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15792257
A lot of these seem super overpriced. Not that that's a fault in the platform.

I hope people don't squat on domains to try to sell them on this.
I think the issue here is that Synthesis and Place and Route tools are squarely in the Computer Science Algorithms domain. Hardware engineers in general don't have the background for that kind of work.

And software engineers don't crossover to the hardware side often.

So the people suffering with the "slow" tools etc, are usually not in a very good position to do anything about it.

But really, the slow side is in the place and route. If you don't over constrain your design, this can go pretty quickly actually. It's when timing is tight, and first pass guesses aren't coming up with a satisfactory solution that things slow down.
> to add to my quiver of prejudices.

Interestingly, in the history of our language, a quiver sometimes holds the ammunition for a crossbow, each of which is called a "quarrel."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarrel

Quote: "A quarrel or bolt is the term for the ammunition used in a crossbow."

Just thought you would want to know. :)
I think Google's disapproval of the JVM is shaped by Oracle's lawsuits and is purely political, as they were extremely in favour of the JVM before those occurred.
still can't avoid security cams + face recognition...
I wouldn't hold out much hope.
>There are too many people out there who think their reg price only domain is worth $1 million.

That's a problem in every domain market-place. People soon learn that unique != priceless.
I wonder if there are constructions that also utilize the absorbed heat, i.e. energy that isn't caught by the solar cells. You could at least heat up the household water with that energy, or possibly use it to generate additional electricity on a parallel track or in combination with the solar cells.
Impeach him. I'm sorry if you voted for him and you think it's a too "radical" move, but I really think it's actually a very "proportional" and reasonable move at this point.

More think he should be impeached if he goes to war with Syria despite a No vote from Congress and despite UN saying no, and breaking international law. I think the NSA thing is at least as big as that, and if he does both then it's that much clearer that he's acting as a dictator with unlimited powers that needs to be overthrown.

He has no regard for the Constitution, no regard for human rights, no regard for due process, and no regard for international law. Not doing it would just send a message to other psychopaths running for president the next time, that it's okay to blatantly lie to the electorate, and then do stuff at least as bad as he did. Impeach him.
It's a minimal prototype, I didn't launched it yet
Sorry to piggy back on your post. But Indian Medical Doc here pursuing Orthopedic Surgery Residency who also codes in Python, Django, Frontend and Excellent in UI/UX is also looking for some help !! If there is anyone in the audience who is a full stack python guy located in India or USA and can help me disrupt Health care Kindly get in touch.

Have lived and worked in some of the finest hospitals in US (viz: Ny Presbyterian and KCH brooklyn) and also in rural India this has given me a very good understanding of health problems that can be fixed with technology. Have already done some good amount of work and things are already in place. Need someone who can complement me with the right skills.

HealthEnclave.com

Am looking for some one good with-

- Django / Python / Flask
- Tastypie / Django Rest framework
- Fronend Desing (HTML5, CSS3, Jquery, Bootstrap, Less)
- MongoDb / PosgreSQL

additional skills: (not necessary but it would be great if you have 'em)

- Objective C (iOs dev) And JAVA for (Android)
- Some understanding of ML , Data analytics
- Electronics prototyping with Arduino

I am familiar with and have some amount of practical working knowledge of all the above listed technologies.

Thanks Asingh [at] HealthEnclave [dot] com
That's a good hypothesis. It's definitely possible if you consider things like verified compilers. It shouldn't be beyond them to apply this to crypto implementations.
From Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_episode:

If left untreated, a typical major depressive episode may last for about six months, while about 20% of these episodes can last two years or more, with 50% of depressive episodes ending spontaneously.

I can probably find you an article reference if you want. But I have learned this kind of research findings in psychology class.
Disrupting mass surveillance.
...and these are the most upvoted comments. HN is really a parody of itself.
I would ask your team to take a second look at Bluespec. I had used it for a project some 4 years back, Even today When I have to code something I wish I had Bluespec.
Obama is at least at the same level on the fuckup and laughability meter, esp. wrt the international community.
I wouldn't mind the list so much if you wrote "this is MY best tips for happiness and success." Because then it wouldn't contradict many studies on the subject which finds that very different variables cause happyness and success.
Why embracing change is the key to happiness
Jumpstarting WebGL
Does this offer an escrow service for transferring domain ownership?

Being able to list and browse available domains is nice, bootstrapping negotiations is nice too, but the purchase closing is the most tricky part and the ownership transfer via a third party is an absolute must. GoDaddy offers a service like this and it costs few hundred $ per transfer.
I think it would be valuable to see other potential bids, in case you wish to "raise your maximum" and discourage unnecessary competitive pricing. Browsing a list of domains that are overpriced would be very inconvenient after the first page.
The Startling Size of US Military Operations in Africa
figure out how to use them for energy production ;)
I guess it's the same reason why the top recommendations in places like this for feeling better when you're down is things like exercise: the effects of exercise is well-documented and fairly reproduce-able. You put activity in and then you get dopamine out. You get to talk about your well being as a (seemingly) easily measured and to a degree manipulable brain chemistry. As soon as you start to wander into territory where the effects are harder to measure and the science behind it (if there is any empirical schience behind it) is not as hard as sciences like biology, like psychology (or, god forbid, self development literature), all of a sudden that's too "wooey" and shrinky.

As for religion; if they don't believe in it, then it's just some placebo-like effect if you get anything positive out of the "wooey" practices. And placebos are even more finnicky and is (by it's very nature) not something that you're well served trying to find the cause and effect for.
What do you think the world is built to maximise?

Edit: clarity
Domain squatting made easy?
Hi,

We're based in Singapore and previously built www.MedF1.com, a B2B platform for medical supplies ordering for private clinics. We did a health report generator from some Quest Diagnostic lab results previously for clinic chain in Singapore. Dropped you an email - ryan.teo@gmail.com.

Interested in work with healthcare disruptors, we can design the software (mobile, web) and hardware (Ardiuno, Linux).

Best,
Ryan
I would be interested in this, but I am from Europe. I know my way around PHP and RoR.
My current best guess: A Hardware True Random Number Generator installed on one server combined with entropy broker to commingle all the entropy pools of the devices on my internal network into the entropy pool of that server and then serve that pool back to all devices acting as an entropy server.

My intent is that if there is a deliberate weakening of certain entropy sources, that my pool is sufficiently different to at least complicate attacks which are guided by information like browser signatures.

Maybe it's not a perfectly secure solution but hopefully my network isn't among the lowest hanging fruit.
Yeah, that was my reaction as well. Why legitimize and enable domain squatting?
Founder of a SF-based healthcare-related startup here. Emailed you. I'm not looking for a job but happy to help how I can.

EDIT: To anyone in the Bay Area (or really anywhere) also thinking about joining this industry, feel free to reach out to me too. My cofounders and I have learned way more than we want to know over the past few months about the healthcare industry + the startup side of things and are happy to pass on our knowledge.
Is obesity America's most influential export?
I loved the idea, but like Logdown (posted on here today), they're hosted. I'd really love something like an amalgam of both services but self-hosted.
Is there some reason the pulmonary machine doesn't do HL7 or equivalent? Is it just not configured?
Apple Plans to Ship Less-Expensive iPhone to China Mobile
Prior stories on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6326388 (to NYTimes story)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6324526 (to WSJ story) (several HN comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319208 (Bloomberg story)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6318234 (University of Chicago)
I'm having a hard time reading this article, considering he starts off with false information like:

"The problem is that Verilog was originally designed as a language to describe simulations, so it has constructs to describe arbitrary interactions between events. When X transitions from 0 to 1, do Y. [...] But then someone had the bright idea of using Verilog to represent hardware."

Verilog was made from the start with the sole intention of describing hardware. Hardware programming and software programming are fundamentally different. Comparing them is irrelevant.
$24,999.00 for freepopemail.com?

Somehow I can't see a business based around free mail from the Pope ever earning that much revenue.
get between 2 and 10 customers. it is definitely the best way to work out what to do next.
There are two great things about this advice. First, it's based on personal experience. Second, it's limited to only a few suggestions which are either implemented or not, rather than a laundry list of vague suggestions.

It's surprisingly often that both of these things are missing.
My unsolicited advice: rather than being "fairly certain" that you can make $500/mo with your idea so that you would prefer to start a company first, I suggest that you reverse the order of operations.

First, be certain that you can make $500/mo by building it yourself and get the hospital paying $500/mo.

Then, if the opportunity looks good, start organizing (aka building an organization, a company) around that.

You'll short circuit a lot of pain that way.
Very good points, my spirits would indeed be lifted if the CEO did this with me.
The human mind is so great that it came up with all modern society, and so irrational that it chooses to be miserable about people dying of famine and in wars on the other side of the world when there is nothing that the person can do about it and his life is devoid of any remotely immediate tragedies. What is wrong about ignoring (really, not so much ignore as simply not watching the news) things that you will do nothing about (most people will only help the proverbial children in Africa for the odd fundraiser) anyway, and instead focus on the fact that you are living a life that is much more pleasant and prosperous than what the news chooses to focus on? Ignorance truly is bliss.
On the contrary, it's tragic that he didn't even get to celebrate his first millennium. He died so young!
Forgot to add that computer graphics can use linear algebra & calculus.
Don't forget Marxism, with the goal of "the withering away of the state."