skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First let me back up and say, if you have read the research available on the items below and come to the current design after very careful thought, then I am just a jerk giving immediate negative feedback on your hard work and I hope you will forgive me. But if, as I suspect, you have given a lot of thought to the medical, statistical, and visual side of this, but are not well-read in the research on information display, I hope my suggestions will be helpful.

- I would recommend being very careful with the wording. One can have too much "food" but "nutrition" has positive connotations and no lay person would speak of "too much nutrition" or "too much environment".

- Please read the experimental material on information display. People study these things and polar display is very poor for picking outliers and recognizing patterns relative to almost any other option, including just printing numbers next to labels with no graph.

- For building "interactive" data displays, please read Bret Victor's "Magic Ink", specifically the section on the evil of requiring interaction to display information. [1] One of the problems of the circular layout is that 18 is about as many items as can fit, thus you need interactions to see more data. With most other displays of this data, you could easily fit far more information into one, interaction-free display, which could even be printed out for use in a wider variety of contexts.

- You could also use the clearer display to show actual numerical labels or trends over time. (Surely someone with high but declining blood pressure should appear different than someone with high and increasing blood pressure.)

- Finally, I am very curious about the decision to include the same set of metrics for everyone and to display them as a single graph. Some of these metrics belong together on one scale, some belong on separate scales, some belong only on people with specific conditions, etc.

- Are you planning to do a controlled test of this against other high-level patient summaries? Obviously my guess is that this graph and its interactions would fare worse than a one-sentence textual description provided by a past doctor. "Patient is a well-dressed and intelligent elderly man, with a successful history of controlling his diabetes through diet and exercise, but still showing signs of hypertension" seems to me much better than a graph with conditions: red that requires zooming in to see the word "diabetes" and LDL right on the edge that requires zooming in to see a declining trend over time.

[1] http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#interactivity_considered_har...
FYI you can just go turn off the ad tracking stuff: www.google.com/ads/preferences
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This has nothing to do with what browser is used. The user is being redirected to the login page to accept some new ToS, instead of being automatically logged in. This would happen with any browser that supports redirects and cookies, and if for some reason the redirect didn't work, they'd just politely ask you to click on a certain link to continue (and if cookies are disabled, auto-login would not work).
Obviously 23andMe results are not a diagnosis from your physician. You should use 23andMe in conjunction with a real physician. For example, I used 23andMe back in 2010 and it told me I had a high risk for a certain genetic condition which I recalled one of my family members having, so I went to see my physician for a real diagnosis, armed with this newly found information.

23andMe helped me catch this early enough with the assistance of my physician that I was able to get treatment long before I would have developed symptoms. If I never used 23andMe I probably would not have had this diagnosed until years later.
That is highly improbable.

This action is a core function of what the FDA does.
Good idea, but think this needs to be more visual. A couple images go a long way in terms of conveying technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
I'm not sure I'd blame 'capitalism' outright like that, but the actions of some of the so-called* free-market evangelist nations and organisations have been despicable and made a lot of places a lot worse off, yes. But I don't think you can blame the totality of world poverty on that, not honestly.

*(I say "so-called" because it's usually "free market for you, trade barriers for us")
Are famous artists such as musicians and actors just lucky or do they actually need the talent as well?

You can have all the talent in the world but not lucky to be in the right place at the right time. However, when you are at the right place at the right time you better make sure you bring the talent.

One doesn't exclude the other, you need both: talent + luck = success
> math and the hard sciences, which in my experience are roughly tied with SV

Can you point me to the great mathematical and hard science accomplishments going on right now?

All I see is ad sales and hucksterism.
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It'd be unfair to great startups in the experiment batch -- not that it's pg's job to make life fair for people, but it'd put a big dent in YC's reputation. Why spend time flying out there if there's a chance your interview doesn't even matter?
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Exactly, that is why "most" of founders failed multiple times before they become successful.
FDA orders 23andMe to stop selling DNA-testing kits pending approval
No, they can't crack passwords. They increment a nonce at the end of a supplied string and only return if the nonce results in a low hash. They're not a generic "fast SHA" device like you're thinking.
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This is barely news... We all have jobs to do. His job is to make Google's Android base grow. He's doing his job.
An excellent point is raised:

What is perhaps the most shocking is QuizUp is backed by several venture capital firms, including some very large and well known ones. The question I have is: did they not do their due diligence when vetting this software or did they not care. I am not sure which one is more alarming to me, and it doesn’t really matter either way. Is this a sign of a bubble when a company can raise millions of dollars with so little care put into its technology or development?

This, sadly, should be of surprise to no-one.
I'd address your first point with a simple question: Suppose 23andme did no data analysis/interpretation and simply returned the raw data, would that increase or decrease the scope of appropriate FDA involvement?

To your second point, the site has a few "locked" areas that are described as containing potentially upsetting or confusing information, and the user is advised to consult his/her physician before looking at the results. There is also downloadable information available to physicians.
Very well written, and I applaud the effort. But personally I don't care for the "magical" aura that writers tend to give ANNs - to me, they are simply (non-linear) function approximators that have a nice fitting algorithm. They work well for some problems and poorly for others. Also, beware of over-fitting - ANNs tend to be parameter-heavy, although there are approaches to prune the connections.
Marathon - a Mesos framework, adds placement constraints
In addition to a number of bug fixes, Marathon 0.2 adds constraints, which allow you to control the placement of your app tasks in a cluster.
Exactly. When Google bought all these companies, it was disappointing to see them sitting as isolated buckets. I mean, did people thing these purchases were done as a Pokemon game? "Yay, Google got all 151 verticals!". How long did they let Blogger sit as a wasteland of spam?

Now? Now Blogger is Picasa for prose, and Picasa is Youtube for still images, and your Plus homepage is your central hub for all the discussion happening on those services. Obviously, Plus has problems, and lots of them. It's far too opinionated for something that's being used as a general-purpose comment-engine. Plus is a good Facebook, but it's a piss-poor Disqus, and Google is using it as Disqus.

But the overall strategy of consolidation? Long overdue.

Google is finally turning their holdings into a single impressive platform instead of a balkanized mess of isolated services.

I don't like the privacy implications, of course. But that's always been Google's business model ever since they launched GMail - they give you something awesome for free and in exchange they get to spy on you to provide targeted ads.
Maybe a missed opportunity, but using Bill Gates as a counter-example of the necessity of formal education in CS could have neutralized that line of attack.
Which isn't really the title of the forum post, on HN post titles tend to be changed to whatever the article/original post's title is to discourage linkbait.
That's a well stated argument, and it's definitely true that you can't look at the tech industry in a vacuum. But I think it would be very difficult to argue both that US/Western/California society is sexist in a way that prevents women from entering the field, and also that all the men that entered the field have magically freed themselves from the sexist cultural biases and attitudes of the larger society they grew up in.

Also, in this scenario, even if the tech industry is not actively sexist, it is being affected by the sexism of the wider society - and, if you think there is anything wrong with that (eg decreased pool of potential employees/founders/idea people), then it is quite possible to make tech-industry-specific moves that counter the extra disadvantages imposed from outside the industry, like affirmative action programs for girls that give them increased access to the tools that will allow them to forge their merit, even when you can't quite identify the process that is reducing their access in the first place. In fact I think that for a field which prides itself on solving big problems, saying 'it's not us it's the rest of society' is a cop-out, and to agree with your statement and not support affirmative action in some form is equivalent to supporting entrenched sexism.
>Kids are still on Facebook, with grandma and mom and dad

As such the value of the young peoples' engagement puts FB on par with an email service.
I don't get it: it's beta but it's already been used by companies. Should I be in doubt when I see this in a landing page? It looks like they bought the theme with that and decided to keep it.
Indeed, when I was firing those rubber bands, I didn't think I'd coined some truly novel piece of terminology. It seemed like a fairly obvious word, especially given the use of "trigger" in the SQL world.

Ah, it starts to come back! In SQL, "trigger" is a noun, not a verb. It refers to a stored procedure that's executed in response to some event.

I knew "trigger" could also be used as a verb, of course, but it seemed that it might be confusing to use it that way given its meaning in SQL. So that's when I started searching for words and firing rubber bands.

I might have fired up something else too, but that's a story for another day...
Yep, extremely slow loading time, and I'm in Norway. Here is my network profiler: http://cl.ly/image/1p0Q2l1e322D/o
Avante garde houses like those shown in the article are still very much the exception and not the norm in Japan. It's true that some Japanese architects are pushing the envelope but vernacular housing in Japan today is exemplified by companies like Daikyo, Mitsue, etc and not by these modernist custom designs.
Thanks. I'm familiar with the material.
We have run several micro-studies with real clinicians and real patients with excellent results. Could it be better? Hell yes. Give it a whirl asolove, give it a whirl.
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It makes me sad that so many food manufacturers out there create crap for our bodies. They could be synergizing the world's healthiest superfoods.

We all live in the same capitalistic world, for better or worse.
It was a plain text field containing a URL, using Chrome.
Ha, I laughed when I saw that. I've gotten term sheets from VC's without them even using my product. To expect them to do a full security audit is quite adorable.
Hi, Michael. Yes, VoltDB is very fast, but they self-admittedly do not perform well if transactions contain records spanning across multiple nodes. That is the key feature difference between InfiniSQL and VoltDB (along, of course, that their project is functionally much further along).

If you want more details about how things work when performing transactions, I think that the overview I created would be a good starting point. It probably doesn't have
everything you'd ask for, but I hope that it answers some of your questions: http://www.infinisql.org/docs/overview/

And to answer your question about performance degradation pertaining to number of nodes each transaction touches, I have not done comprehensive benchmarks of InfiniSQL measuring that particular item. However, I do believe that as multi-node communication increases, throughput will tend to decrease--I expect that the degradation would be graceful, but further testing is required. The benchmark I've performed and referenced has 3 updates and a select in each transaction, all very likely to be on 3 different nodes.

I'd like to invite you to benchmark InfiniSQL in your own environment. I've included the scripts in the source distribution, as well as a guide on how I benchmarked, as well as details on the specific benchmarking I've done so far. All at http://www.infinisql.org

I'd be glad to assist in any way, give pointers, and so on, if there are tests that you'd like to do. I also plan to do further benchmarking over time, and I'll update the site's blog (and twitter, etc) as I do so.

Please communicate further with me if you're curious.

Thanks,
Mark
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Interesting read.

I recently moved to a country with a low cost of living whilst continuing my old webdevelopment role as part of a remote team.

Some things that we do:

- daily short standup on google hangout
- everyone is available on an instant messenger when working
- every office/home office has a continuous webcam feed going on over google hangout
- remote pairing (not the biggest myself)

Planning to do a writeup of my findings as soon as I pass the six months mark.
I think you are correct - a more holistic approach would be more effective.

What we had before, however, was nothing - and this has been better.
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Why Oracle And SAP Are Missing The Point Of In-Memory Computing.
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This isn't 2011. Not sure if you've been here recently but Bitcoin is fairly well respected among HNers today.
Awesome! I like the straightforward nature of this article, it focuses on content rather than style.

A minor nitpick if any of the rsync.net guys are reading this. The front page states "11 Years serving customers worldwide" and the top section states "Enterprise Offsite Backup Since 2001".
I'm a cynic, but I like to think of this as an unusually direct measurement of the cost we all have to pay for human selfishness. We simply can't trust each other, so we must expend all this effort so that we don't need trust in the first place.
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CAP theorem can apply to any clustered system, it doesn't have to be multi-site. What happens if 6 of your 12 machines die? What if they get cut off from the other 6?

edit: There's a bit of discussion further down about the SQL implementation. That's something I was very curious about as well. The projects linked below spend a lot of time working on supporting full ANSI SQL, and reducing latency by pushing down as many operations as possible. The Overview page doesn't appear to mention how filtering, aggregation, windowing, etc. work in your system.

Also, I noticed on your website that you compare InfiniSQL to Hadoop. How do you feel it compares to Impala (http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/10/cloudera-impala-real-t...) and Shark (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/shark-making-apache-...)?
I mean it's really up to you but I disagree with this. Reading the news enables you to have an understanding of current world issues and become a contributing member of society. I'm not sure where you live, but I feel like in the Silicon Valley there is pretty large bubble where people are so focused on building a startup they forget how thousands of children are being gassed in Syria. I believe that reading the news can give you perspective on the world and life.

Just my $0.02. Don't have to agree just my thoughts.
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You're right - forgot about the nonce - either way, they are even more application specific and really have no other use.
Firefox does this as well, and it doesn't require an account to do so. It also encrypts your personal data in the client, and allows you to set up your own sync server so that even your encrypted data never touches their servers if you don't want it to.
Don't regret making works of art. It is all that succeeds us when we leave this realm.

Until someone turns off the hosting servers.
Good thing Google didn't do that. The blog author says right up front he agreed to the new terms.

And they didn't sign him up for anything, they upgraded his account. Still a single account, still with a single company, still with the same cost, still with the same privacy policy, still with the same everything - except it does more, now, if he so chooses to use the extra features.
I spent a couple hours last week looking for this post, but I didn't find it until now:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/python-tulip/bmphRrryu...

The question I'm trying to ask is: what are other programmers doing for async in new Python code if they want to support releases prior to 3.3? (I doubt many people care about supporting 3.2 nearly as much as 2.7.)
And that's based on Gromacs and several other software packages. It still doesn't address the issue of where does the data come from and will the outcome of mining it be fair and trustworthy?
Very rarely, if ever, will a founder take money off the table in such a small funding round that is used to accelerate the business.
How can you really do any experiments on this kind of shit, when the real winning investments exist in front of a zipf curve?

You get one or two huge winners out of hundreds, and they are so huge that they are bigger than all the others combined. The investors care most about getting these rare winners, and if YC does any kind of controlled study on who becomes these winners, I don't believe there will be any statistical significance to speak of.
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"I'd rather be lucky than good - but nothing beats lucky and good."
I find it a lot harder to interpret.

You can't really make out the rate of change if it's not linear.
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Flag and move on, yes. but... reading their latest update reminds me of the Boston-shutdown earlier this year... typical fear-motivated actions...

Out of an abundance of caution, Police will be doing a room to room search starting with the residential college areas. When they knock on your door, a Yale Police Officer will slip their Yale ID under the door. Please cooperate. In some cases, Police may use keys, but they will identify themselves. Shelter in Place continues.
What part of the country are you in? The VCs where I live are, um, a bit hesitant about the venture part of venture capital.
Perhaps any one of several trained medical professionals on HN could chime in here to explain (a) how suitable 23AM's current product is for clinical use and (b) how competent a typical physician is at evaluating clinical genomics products without FDA's assistance. 'carbocation? 'niels_olson?

('carbocation has already expressed some tacit support for FDA's action, but I'm not qualified to interpret it in the context of this particular subthread).
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Just to pare back the hyperbole -- there's really no practical way for someone to die from a 23andMe kit. We should be able to agree on that.

There have been a bunch of concerns in this thread that are valid -- e.g., people might have to deal with bad news, or may see false positives, etc., that could cause them some inconvenience (though I would argue that 23andMe doesn't tell you that you have cancer, just maybe whether or not you're likely to).

Regardless, the idea that I could die from a 23andMe test is about as far-fetched as one can get.
It is interesting to read your comment.

Curious if you know married couples who have to be apart and how this affects their marriage? When both husband and wife have specialized jobs, it seems the choices are to compromise on one person's career or too live apart for at least some periods of time.
"Can you get funding?"

I believe that was actually part of the argument: the necessity of looking the same for the venture capitalists pushes them away from meritocracy.

And software doesn't care whether or not you dropped out of Stanford or Harvard.
Given that one of my CS specialization areas was compiler design, me too.

I implemented a left recursive parser in x86 Assembly for MS-DOS systems.

As I said, yacc and lex are nice to have, but nowadays there is little incentive to keep using them.

Specially as you say, they are not able to parse all types of languages.
Well then awesome. Thanks for making things better!

(And yes, I did try it. Didn't turn out great for me, but I have a variety of fun medical problems I wouldn't expect to see covered here.)
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#freesid2013

Right, guys? ;-)
I do have a point, because it's possible for one factor among several to weight someone's choice. However, you're nitpicking at my paraphrase, while ignoring the content at the link which I supplied (which was why I supplied it.

The specific claim made by 23andme, without disclaimers, is: 23andMe empowers you to better manage your health and wellness. This seems to me like a straightforward claim of diagnostic value; the fact that it's non-exclusive is beside the point.
This might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on the Internet (outside of Youtube comments). Are you kidding? First, many people who call 911 are calling on behalf of a stranger. Most people aren't going to part with $100 to report something that doesn't affect them directly. Additionally, there are many situations in which calling 911 is totally appropriate, but where the caller doesn't even know whether there is an emergency. For instance, reporting a possible drunk driver (which I have done on several occasions).

Also, when you drive that "false positives" number to zero you also introduce false negatives. People will wait until it is too late to call 911. This could actually have all kinds of negative externalities, like the police getting into more shootouts because things were allowed to spiral out of control.

This is all beside the fact that you are assuming that everyone who would ever need to call 911 has $100 lying around to "top-off" an app (how do people without smartphones use 911, by the way?).
isn't this just the normal approach used in complex c code, as described in, for example, "c interfaces and implementations" by hanson? a struct with function pointers and state (plus, optionally, macros to sugar away the repetition).

i don't understand what's new here. anyone?