skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That doesn't sound like an unregulated system.

> That sounds like a system where the regulation didn't work.

No, it's a system where all regulatory authority and ability has been willfully destroyed over the last decade.

http://www.texasobserver.org/anatomy-tragedy/

> But in the past 10 years, a series of conservative reforms have severely limited patients’ options for holding doctors and hospitals accountable for bad care. In 2003, the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature capped pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractice lawsuits at $250,000. Even if a plaintiff wins the maximum award, after you pay your lawyer and your experts and go through, potentially, years of trial, not much is left.

> The Legislature has also made suing hospitals difficult. Texas law states­ that hospitals are liable for damages caused by doctors in their facilities only if the plaintiff can prove that the hospital acted with “malice”—that is, the hospital knew of extreme risk and ignored it—in credentialing a doctor. But the Legislature hindered plaintiffs’ cases even more by allowing hospitals to, in most cases, keep credentialing information confidential. In effect, plaintiffs have to prove a very tough case without access to the necessary hospital records. This is an almost impossible standard to meet, and it has left hospitals immune to the actions of whatever doctors they bring on. Hospitals can get all of the benefit of an expensive surgeon practicing in their facility and little of the exposure. This has freed hospitals from the fear of litigation, but it’s also removed the financial motivation for policing their own physicians.

> The medical malpractice cap and the near-immunity for hospitals snapped two threads from the regulatory web. What remained was the Texas Medical Board.

> But the Medical Board wasn’t designed to be an aggressive enforcer. It was mostly designed to monitor doctors’ licenses and make sure the state’s medical practitioners are keeping up with professional standards. The board’s mandate, spelled out in the Medical Practice Act, recognizes a doctor’s license as a hard-won, valuable credential. Doctors’ rights are to be protected at every step of the process. The board can’t revoke a license without overwhelming evidence, and investigations can take months, with months or years of costly hearings dragging on afterward. The protections make some sense. The Legislature doesn’t want the Medical Board taking a doctor’s license—and livelihood—unnecessarily or based on flimsy or frivolous claims. But the result is that unless a doctor is caught dealing drugs or sexually assaulting patients—or is convicted of a felony—it is difficult to get his or her license revoked.

> What all this means is that the Texas Legislature has committed the state to a policy of medical deregulation—a free-market system in which doctors can practice as they please with limited government interference. Only their consciences, and those of their fellow doctors, limit them.
Industrial schooling only started in the industrial era. That's more of what I meant even though I certainly botched what I meant to say. I'll blame it on the lack of coffee!
> Pre-internet communities were far from unicorns and rainbows. Conformity was much more strongly required.

Yes, but if someone took an embarrassing photo of you, you could move to another city and be done with it. There's no escape from internet ridicule. I honestly don't know if I'll be able to handle the world of Google Glass & co where no public faux pas will be forgotten - at least the OP was out there in the public by his own choice. :/
It wasn't similar to the nazi salute - it was the same. Bellamy salute. The NSDAP thought it was such a great bit of nationalistic fervor they adopted it.
From the horse's mouth: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/9675/is-unity-engine-wr...

And I don't doubt that alot of devs use Unity, it's most likely the most popular game engine. But it's still a C++ project, despite the languages used to script game events...
Microsoft vs Competitors
Isn't "Internet Ridicule" an oxymoron? It's all trolls, just ignore them.
US killer robot policy: Full speed ahead | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Teardown: Apple's Latest iPhones Are Not as Green as the Company Claims
Yeah - I know what you mean. When I first learned python, I had to figure out on my own how to piece it together with mongo heroku and tornado. I'll look into it!
>My problem with excel is that it is not conducive to making well-documented systems. The formulas are hidden and there's no way to comment them.

You can leave notes in cells as documentation. I also have an instructions tab in just about every model I have that walks the user through the process.
The hidden formula thing can also be partially overcome by using certain colored cells to denote formulas, making the user aware that there are formulas.
Republicans block science laureate vote
Because republicans only care about free market for the votes and the ability to destroy governmental processes and rollback social progress it gives them.

They're as plutocratic as the democrats if not more so, and they're even more shameless about it.
You should look into Power Pivot for Excel and its corresponding DAX language which allows for modeling.
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Is it real gold, or titanium nitride?
Lollipuff was in the Winter 2013 batch. We also released our YC application materials -- see the HN link.

We recently helped with a VentureBeat article about "writing a winning YC application" [1]... I personally believe the most useful thing (besides "being really good already") is to look at other successful applications. Most of the applications found online are from already-successful companies (eg. DropBox and Reddit), so we figured a more-recent, rising company should share theirs too. This might be useful to folks who aren't doing "pure tech" startups -- as Lollipuff is a women's fashion company.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/20/how-to-write-a-winning-y-c...
From Microsoft Financial Analyst meeting, data is showing MS is retreating from consumer space and turning to an enterprise software company, like IBM.
The recruiting space! Mostly because I spent 3 years banging my head against a wall in that space.

Generally, I get nervous in the consumer space, but I've made several consumer investments.

There are a couple spaces I'd like to do something in -- education, robots, anything kid-related (b/c I have two young boys).
...if Eli Whitney [had] decided to keep the cotton gin to himself...

How on earth would that have been feasible? I mean, it would be somewhat realistic to imagine him not having the will to invent it in the first place. How on earth can one keep secret the design of a mechanical device that one sells to the public? Has any attempt to do so ever been successful?
I was JUST about to do this. I love Udactiy's python course - since they take you through everything and even teach you to build a search engine on the way!
It is demonstrably not the case that it is easier to make money through evil than good, at least historically; the world we live in now is quite nice compared to the past, and that's the result of selfish people following incentives. If incentives were aligned with evil, we would expect to live in an evil world, and we do not.

There is evil around every corner for sure, but it is outweighed by the good. Sure there are incentives for scummy business practices that add a bit of evil on the margin, but do you really think most companies are a net negative? That that marginal evil isn't outweighed by the vast good and wealth that is created as well?

The question you should have asked is "Why do i think incentives align with evil?", and the answer is "Because you take the good for granted and thereby fail to notice it."

We're on the Internet. Show me some evil that outweighs the awesomeness of that.
I'd fund the cat.
seeds we plant...
RedisConfNano
We're using Play pretty heavily at our startup though not for our customer-facing frontend, that's still in Rails.

What we love about Play:

* Async everything, especially the web service library

* JSON macros

* Scala-based templates

* Integration with Akka

* Support for server-sent events (we use this for cluster monitoring)

What we wish was better:

* JSON deserialization performance isn't as good as raw Jackson yet. (Our PR regarding this is actually in 2.2, should be better now)

* Documentation could be much better, we still have to resort to the API to figure out a lot of stuff

I've been using Play ever since the 2.0-RC days and it's definitely made some huge gains since then. We use Akka very heavily, especially its clustering, and Play works well in conjunction with that though there are still some gotchas lurking about.

Our backend is one big Akka cluster right now. We've had a few hiccups but overall it's been a hugely enjoyable experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_bias

People who feel guilty about something are quickest to accuse others.
We are SpaceX Software Engineers - We Launch Rockets into Space - AMA
You mean like amazon prime? I'll admit amazon isn't always the cheapest, but with subscriptions and whatnot, its way nicer to have things mailed to me.

That said the environmental impact of shipped boxes may not be better overall. But damn is it convenient.
The shrinking RSS pie
You can compress a lot of ruby code a few %age points by mashing the bottoms of the functions into "end;end;end;end;", same with C code that has curly braces on their own lines.

So this is similar to benchmarks: if you don't write a long paragraph about methodology, SLOCs and benchmarks are misleading
for anything beyond a chained set of greps and cuts, I'll use Perl for a one-liner. This has the benefit of allowing me to easily transfer to a script if it becomes unwieldy. It's just a case of pasting in the one liner, adding newlines at semicolons, and a few characters to fix up at the top and bottom of the file.
That's not a counter-example because you have cause and effect backwards

Are you saying tha Soccer, Rugby, and Basketball invented Students? That seems rather unlikely.
SkyDrive and Office 365 provide this for the Microsoft suite.
I could really use your help putting this on there! (All the sudden there are so many changes to do haha)

Make a pull request if you can! https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/blob/gh-pages/content.js
IOS 7: How to See the Time Stamp of Each Bubble in Messages
__________ is broken.
Oh I'm sorry, we haven't actually made any revenue on that patent because it's owned by our subsidiary 'PatentCom' which charges us a license fee of $1/yr to use it.
I don't think revenue would work. I say just make it a very short period of time. enough for the inventor to get a jump start and then open it up to benefit all.
Inner Life Of A Cell
You're right XML should definitely be on there. I was going to put something in there with REST and SOAP with JSON and XML too. If you have suggestions for where, please pull!

https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/blob/gh-pages/content.js
The vision, tools, and processes that lead to great inventions are where the real value lies. These intangibles can't be easily copied. They aren't ever in the public eye, and without really being a part of that process you can't learn much about it.

Learn how to do this instead of learning how to just invent a Thingamajig.

Then you can consistently make Thingamajigs that are first-to-market products with great branding that people will choose over your competitors products.

Patents aren't needed. Copyright protection is.

People should be allowed to have their own namespace in the public market and it is beneficial to have a system of government to enforce this. We don't need to protect anything else.
this is cool. I am pretty well versed in excel myself if you need any help.
Hi, this is Jakub, Co-founder of Estimote (YC S13).

That's correct and any iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) could be turned into a beacon.

We have even developed a Virtual Beacon app you could already download from the App Store and simulate beacon and proximity: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/estimote-virtual-beacon/id68...

If one wants to pickup the Virtual Beacon's signals programmatically then our API website could be helpful where we have included source code of few apps http://www.estimote.com/api
Did it with the perl module in Nginx with imagemagick.

Much more powerful than their built in image handling which uses the ancient and no longer updated GD library.
This argument fails to follow on two fronts:

1. That decision seems unlikely. "I want $X. But I'm worried that if someone copies my idea I'll get $0.2X. So I'd much rather keep it to myself and get $0 instead." I'm no fan of the assumption that humans always make rational economic decisions, but surely it isn't normal to be that silly.

2. The assumption that if the first inventor doesn't share their idea then that idea is lost to humanity and nobody will ever come up with a similar idea ever again just doesn't follow. We've got major business strategies (submarine patenting) and even an entire industry (patent trolls) who rely on the fact that this isn't how things tend to work out.
“Just doing my job” is not enough, for you
Oh I'll have to look into this.
ASM doesn't scale in structure (impossible to manage) and certainly not in architecture - for example new Intel Haswell's have vectorization opportunities which will cause any code that doesn't use these opcodes to run worse.

Lastly, it is increasingly difficult to beat C/C++ in performance using handmade ASM, especially when comparing tight loop performance in handmade asm and intel icc - although maybe I suck.

Web-client doesn't count in my anywhere because my browser doesn't run a compiled language. That being said backends are often written in C++. A frequently used paradigm is to see some glue language java, python, calling critical C++ routines that are exposed as a library.
Out of interest, what is it written in?
Also checkout https://wiki.gnome.org/Pinpoint, I just discovered this from a project manager at work...
This mentality is rampant, wish there it were better. Thanks for the comment (glad I'm not alone on feeling like this).
This is why I said "true" garbage collection. Conservative GC ain't real GC. GC isn't about eliminating bugs -- use valgrind for that -- it's about increasing programmer productivity, along with all the other features missing from C++ but present in modern strict strong-typed functional languages.
I've used Bugsnag primarily for Android development, and overall, it is such a plain bug reporting platform. It's nice that it has full stack bug tracking, but I find their website fairly annoying to use. I can't see how bugs have evolved over time, or drill down to specific users easily. I want more graphs of things like # of exceptions over time. I'd like to grab a batch of users affected by a specific bug, and email them saying "Hey I noticed that you're experiencing some crashes, update your app and they'll be all better!". I also want to be able to log that /something/ is happening, that might not be a bug, but isn't desirable either, and is something that should be looked into later. A list of exceptions isn't bad, but it could be so much better.
> I think this is where Excel gets dangerous. To a certain type of mind (perhaps like mine), the enjoyment from forcing a non-compliant system to do your bidding is greater than the enjoyment of using the proper tool to do the job quickly and effectively.

You're hacking around with something for fun.

Other people? Not so much. EG, the guy who used MS Works spreadsheet (which was not loadable by anything else) for everything, including word processing. He'd open a spreadsheet, and type text in, and get "nicely" laid out documents.
> This is actually a case of opposite of free market.

> Like the article said, if it was easier to people fire him when he was still a student for example, without fear of being sued, this would be averted.

That makes no sense. How would more free market yield less suits exactly? What would the mechanism for righting wrongs be, smashing people's heads in without court interference?
Most likely Sequoia wants debate on its pages as much as Disney wants protests in its theme parks. Hosting constructive debate takes additional effort, so it is a valid choice. Those looking for places to debate VC fundraising and other topics have other places to go, like Fred Wilson's blog avc.com, Union Square Ventures (usv.com), and of course here, among other places.

What about the comments here do you think is useful to them? The orignal post was about how to deliver a useful presentation, presumably to them but probably to a more general audience, but the comments here appear to go off on a tangent about selection bias.
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To me — not ever having tried them yet — it looks like they might be used to provide some of the same sorts of file system elegance as Plan 9 name spaces.
Fixing OS X Terminal.app Cursor for Vim
It is definitely meant to be narrow. I think that a lot of beginners are overwhelmed by how many resources there are for each piece (hence the <=3 links for each one).

I would love to put something in here for integration between each technology, though I'm struggling to figure out how...
That's a good point, and I bet that once Rust's ecosystem picks up it'll be a major differentiator to be able to claim that a given library uses no GC whatsoever (while also avoiding unsafe code, naturally).

FWIW, Rust's stdlib tries to eliminate the use of GC whereever feasible. Cyclic data structures and persistent data structures are probably the only places where GC will end up being necessary.
Zanox introduces “TPV Fingerprint Tracking”, non cookie-based tracking method
Maybe so. Keep in mind, mathematics is not considered an acceptable background for admission to the patent bar. This is because abstract laws are not patentable. Admission to the patent bar is largely based on studying physical or biological sciences, not math.

This becomes a problem, though, when math essentially does become patentable, because it means we've barred people with the best background to review these patents from the profession that reviews them.

All in all, I think eliminating software patents is something that should be seriously considered. Maybe just use copyright? It's not an easy question, so I don't mean to be glib here. But eliminating them should at least be considered as one viable option. The current situation is really bad.
> The fat arrow permanently binds the value of "this"

I'm still trying to understand the details here, but my impression is that ()=>{} isn't a shorthand for function(){}.bind(this). The latter creates two functions, one with an auto-bound "this" and another with a manually-bound "this". The former creates one function, skipping the step of auto-binding a new "this" to it. So it just sees the outer "this" via the normal scope chain (I think). The idea being that JS is doing fewer things in the background and makes functional programming a little easier on the CPU.
Saltwater, astounding pressure and marine organisms make for a far harsher environment than the vacuum of space, or even a botched re-entry.

That said the argument I heard was that by the time they fall apart, the Pu has all but decayed.
Great advice - investors see so many deals and believe in the perfect market hypothesis. They need to know what changed to break their default cynicism.

Note it's different from their advice on business plans / decks: http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/6bzx-writing-a-busines...

The link above basically says: purpose, problem, solution, why now...

The article today says: why now, solution, facts
Buying an iPhone in the US? Pay full price
Say you're a little guy with a patent. How much time, effort, and money will it take to sue a large corporation with deep pockets and several law firms on retainer?
That's an interesting solution.

re-create some super VIP's prints and plant them in undesirable places they obviously did not go to; then publicize it. Render the whole 'fingerprint as an identifier' thing with uncertainty and doubt.

I believe Objet/Stratsys still have the highest resolution printers at 16 micron layers and 30 micron-width droplets.

A quick google search says the papillary ridges of a fingerprint could be safely assumed at between .020 and 2.0mm in height[1]; that might be printable now.

Fun thought, anyway.

[1]-http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=216913
for binary packages; pkgng: "$ pkg add ..."

for source code install; ports

pkg_add and pkg_delete are becoming obsolete by pkgng
Wow, I don't think you could have picked a better example of the pointlessness of patents.
I am not pleased at seeing language bloat. Look at what happened with C++11. Languages are supposed to give a common base for developers to read and write the same code. New developers should be able to get up to speed quickly, and see the intent of the other developers, which is one of the reasons Linux is written in C instead of C++.

"Look at all that saved typing!"

Yeah, shockingly there were only a few characters saved. And yet the mental overhead of a whole new syntax is introduced, which developers can now encounter in the wild.

"The real benefit of course is that you don’t have to go through the mental hoop-jumping of trying to figure out what scope your function is going to run in (and more often-than-not, you just wanted it to run inside the current scope the function is being defined in anyway)."

The amount of mental hoop-jumping recalling more language features and what they do outweighs this. I can understand if something is really used all the time. But when something is already a pattern that's pretty straightforward to type, do we really need another lexical element, which differs in obscure semantic details like "you can't override the this variable" and other things?

I would argue that languages which are "easy to learn, tough to master", like Chess, are best for programming large projects.
Hey, this is Jakub from Estimote.

We have been working on wireless Bluetooth Smart beacons long before Apple made it part of their Core Location API and called iBeacon.

If you would like to learn more about Apple iBeacon you could check it here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLo...

Our API and BLE beacons in general are explained here: http://www.estimote.com/api
Nope.

I can see a house being raided because of other computer crime evidence, and the fact that the suspect owned a Pineapple would be used against him in court.
RSSI imprecision is just the nature of the BTLE. Bluetooth signals tend to bounce around in room that is full of objects, heavy metal blocks signals, etc.

To solve the problem, this can be accomplished by collecting an array of RSSIs and averaging them to get a more accurate result over time. Being said, for time sensitive use cases, it's pretty challenging to use iBeacons. Nevertheless, iBeacons has a lot of potentials.

I also think iBeacon will eventually dominate the proximity detection market. Here are 3 reasons:
1. Apple has a dominant smartphone market influence.
2. Apple released the iBeacon spec into the wild, and there will be more companies manufacturing iBeacons like estimote.
3. Google's BLE API is not that mature yet.
"Google could create an anonymous identifier, tied to users of its Chrome browser on a specific device, that advertisers would use to target ads."

Wait what? Thats even worse for privacy. So incognito mode is a bust I guess? I thought with all the NSA revelations, we should be working against such tracking methods not towards it!