skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evidence-based medicine.

As opposed to what, speculation-based medicine? Call me old-fashioned, but shouldn't all modern medicine be 'evidence-based' by definition??
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If you are an American citizen then you are American. A more apt example is someone living in Philippines wanting to be called American even though they are not a citizen.

Someone living in Philippines who has no citizenship to America says "i am American", you would look at them and say "no you are not". No matter how much they wanted it to be true the facts do not support it.
How exactly would you 'de-identify' a NHS number?
I live in Bristol. I wonder how quickly I can move to Cardiff?
I'm not really pro-regulation but this might be a good thing. I feel like we're in a "bootcamp bubble" at the moment. As much as I'd like for every bootcamp to have altruistic motives, some seem like a money-grab to me. This is especially evidenced by the smaller and smaller program lengths ("Learn to code in 12 weeks" is now "Learn to code in 8 weeks" or "Learn to do a startup in 4 weeks")[1][2].

Personally, I wish California's community college system would learn to move a little faster, spend $ to hire some talented instructors, and add modern certificate programs in programming/iOS/Rails/Android/UX/DevOps/etc. It's a big system (100+) schools, extremely affordable ($46/unit + lots of financial aid), and a decent length (most certificate programs are 12-20 units or 1-2 semesters).

[1] http://www.codefellows.org/

[2] http://fitzroygsd.com/
I guess I wasn't clear.

I find straight, clear professionalism to be "nice", especially when dealing with shitty situations. Usually they're made more shitty by people getting personally emotional over what are, frankly, simply business decisions. A lot of that can be avoided by sticking to the facts and the script, making the inevitable a lot simpler for everybody. It's a matter of showing them adult respect and giving it to them straight.

I don't think they're mutually exclusive at all.
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There's a ton of interest regarding bitcoins specifically in the office. We'll see what we can do.
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A comment on one of the Guardian articles:

J_smudger
24 January 2014 3:00pm

I think there is confusion amongst some commenters here. This comes from reading a large amount of literature from the relevant pages on the NHS / Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). The HSCIC are basically a repository in Leeds, where all this information will be stored.

Your GP records are going to the HSCIC as pseudoanonymised information, which as has been said does indeed include your NHS number, date of birth and postcode. The HSCIC will then build up a database of this information. They can indeed pass on certain of this information to certain external interested parties, although when they do this the data becomes truly anonymised as opposed to pseudoanoymised. You can read about this in the NHS published guidelines (although not in the rather patronising leaflet), as well as from the documentation of the HSCIC and the government itself.

To quote the HSCIC:

we take out details that could identify you before we make any information available

At the NHS:

there are no personal details such as your date of birth and postcode included... We would never publish this type information because there is a risk that you might be identified.

The HSCIC can only release identifiable information when (1) you specifically ask them to, or (2) hypothetically, when there is a national emergency such as a highly virulent pandemic. This would require a legal process.

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/records/healthrecords/Pa...

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/3399/Rules-for-sharing-infor...

Or if you have a hour to spend read this:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/12931/Privacy-Impact-Assessmen...

... or perhaps just sections 3.3.4. and 3.3.5.
"endurance"?! Damn you, autocorrect.
My policy is to never judge and to simply give, no matter how "undeserving" I initially perceive the person to be. Provided that I'm in a position to give, of course.

The correctness of this policy was confirmed a few summers ago when I came across a man who feebly held a cardboard sign asking for money. He was slumped over on the steps of a bank. I had just given $20 to another beggar and had only $20 left to my name.

As I approached the man, resentment started building up inside of me. I was thinking 'if he wants money, he should at least hold up his sign properly'. He seemed apathetic and lazy. He seemed undeserving. That is, until I saw his face. He was crying and his expression was of a defeated man. I'll never forget that look. It broke my heart. I gladly gave him my last $20 bill and felt terrible that I had judged him so harshly.

I give those in need the benefit of the doubt and help when I can. It's the easier and kinder thing to do.
While $750,000 is a lot of money, it's still middle class, and generally (around here anyway) restaurant franchise owners are those who are upwardly mobile, as opposed to educated and already in the upper classes of society.

And yes, those who open one franchise successfully are likely to open more. However where I live, about half the McDonald's restaurants I used to visit as a kid are now Chinese and Indian restaurants...
> I'm inexplicably bummed about this. I was excited to see what Google would do long term with Motorola, and I thought the Moto X and Moto G was a great start.

I think Google is a lot more interested in pointing hardware companies in the right direction and then supplying software and online services than in being a hardware company.

Particularly, Google isn't interested in weakening relationships with its hardware partners in, e.g., the OHA being a long-term strategic competitor with them.
Sadly one has to bring a gun to a duel, because if you are going to wait for gun lobbying to stop your duel, you're probably going to get shot in the meantime.

Not that lobbying isn't good in the long run, but you still need protection right now.
Nobody has a right to a job. Try being an employer some time.
"The adjective "artisanal" is sometimes used in describing hand-processing in what is usually viewed as an industrial process"

By definition, artisinal production is distinguished by type. That doesn't mean all mass produced things are bad. It just means the marketing is hypocritical, in a bait-and-switch kind of way. Which, admittedly, is more of a problem for those who are over-invested emotionally in a brand or product.

Using 'artisanal' as a "busienss strategy" was originally adopted to encourage such emotional investment. The fetishization of 'handmade', in part, related to its implied.natural scarcity. The latter makes it also hipster-fodder.
The problem was the service being susceptible to injection in the first place.

This wasn't a mistake; just a hilariously successful penetration test!
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An UPDATE statement without a WHERE clause.

In production.

I'm the DBA.
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This isn't exactly correct, there's something of a gap you can fall into.

If you earn very little, you might qualify for Medicaid, which is essentially taxpayer-paid healthcare via the government.

If you earn low amounts, you might qualify for various levels of subsidies on private insurance plans through the state-run health exchanges.

However, there are certainly situations in which you may not qualify for medicaid, and still not earn enough to afford a private plan, even with subsidies. There are definitely people in this situation.

This wasn't unforeseen, it was known it would happen.
super-terrific, (non_)mathematical-ish analysis of their original purchase of Motorola (from 2012).

http://brandnewgames.tumblr.com/post/26984798194/commuter-tr...
I would add that the flatness is only a problem with the kits sold through Massdrop, which use the laser-cut acrylic case. The original source files for the Ergodox include a model for a case which can be made on a 3D printer. That model does include some minor tenting.
Can you clarify what kind of CNAME you're referring to? The only CNAMEs that aren't "supported" are CNAMEs on the root of a zone, which are a violation of the DNS spec, as CNAMEs cannot coexist with other records, which must exist at the root of the zone.
Nice idea. New project domain purchased (and marked). Come at me weekend.
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Read about "post doctoral treadmill" and adjunct gigs, which are like second tier faculty. If you get a phd in some programming related field, like compilers, programming languages, networking, yes, you can work for some valley firms. Yes, you can get green card easy, too. But there is no 'secure' employment like the phd grads of 1970s
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I thought the Chicago (technically the Schaumburg office I believe) moto office was part of the Mobility group? Google is retaining those people?
I do wonder to what extent we can mitigate potential future volcanic activity by preemptively pulling energy out of hot spots like this.

The odds are low, but a supervolcanic detonation in Yellowstone would be one of the most serious threats to the United States (or even the planet), so if we can mitigate it slightly while actually profiting from the process that seems worth pursuing.
No - the idea that individuals are able to practically defend their possessions against determines thieves doesn't make sense in most societies where violence is not accepted as a normal part of life. Instead, most of us rely on the state to provide a police force.

Somalia seemed like somewhere your statement might hold true.
This is the first thing I've read in this thread that explains the VC involvement in a way that makes sense.
But experience in one language should give you a good idea on what library functions should exist (unless you are crossing paradigms). At this point, you can just search (or ask a co-worker) how do I do X in <new language>, and go on your way.
Since that number is meaningless in the U.S., I guess you wouldn't care.
This is why you have SET SQL_SAFE_UPDATES=1; (or equivalent) in your DB shell startup. It only takes one UPDATE users SET password='foo'; to learn why...
I dont think anything has happened yet to trigger a bootcamp incident of people getting beat out of their life savings to learn how to code FORTRAN for CGI apps on gopher where anything needs to be regulated.

Point me to some of these scams, I'd say yes - it's gone the way of Devry Institute - although like anything a fool and his money is soon parted and if you really want to learn, you'll do it at a bootcamp, and a bad college or on your own impetus regardless of cash outlay.
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My apologies for any implied tone; it was unintentional. I used to manage a fast food restaurant (not McDonalds), so was attempting to explain the store's likely rational.
Soulless and robotic, to be sure. And eerily so.

But what else should we expect from the owners of a news portal that was, from the outset, itself nothing other than soulless and robotic, to its very core -- and whose passing almost no one is likely to mourn?

("No one", that is, except of course those who've recently found out they "no longer have a role with Patch", along with their unlucky dependents).
Fantastic post with really helpful tips. Thanks a lot for that.

I really want to read the details on the spot instance setup for a web service. Do you have a quick summary for that?
I know this is about AWS, but it might be helpful to mention that DreamObjects (http://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/dreamobjects/) is an API-compatible cheaper alternative to S3.
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I don't think that is the lesson, I think the lesson is that it is clearly a two person job. One person to carry the wafers, the other person to remove and hazards/ open doors/ double check everything.
Regulation 5b allows the Secretary of State for Health to disclose confidential patient information for any medical purpose. No need for a national emergency.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1438/regulation/5/ma...

:edit: gohrt pointed out that I'd overlooked the restriction to medical purposes in regulation 5, thanks.
I think most interviewers would be understanding if you called to reschedule in that situation.
I don't think anyone is debating whether taking a photo during a serious meeting is a good idea

It's wrong to unnecessarily fire someone in front of their colleagues. It destroys morale and it's essentially a form of public humiliation. A better response would have been to ask to put the camera away and remind people it's a serious meeting.
With the sale of Motorola, the intro of Chrome Apps for Mobile, the stepping down of Andy Rubin - is Google losing interest in Android?
When will we see ChromeOS for Mobile?
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I hacked our development machines using a rooted rpm, we only had access to the sudo rpm command so I decided to deploy our rails app using capistrano. to work around the sudo rpm only access I decided to add some install scripts to the rpm because these run as root. This allowed me to re-configure sshd making it possible to do a local capistrano deploy. I was smart about it by reverting the ssh changes back after the deploy completed - bash has a kind of ensure that allows you to roll things back like a transaction. The cool thing about the whole thing was that our ops team was on the ball and detected the changes to the sshd configuration even though I restored them. Mind you this was all in a staging development environment. The issue was just how immature it was of me to go this far to cap deploy instead of rpm install our rails app. For me, I looked at it then like a good learning experience in hacking rpms and in security. When you run sudo rpm -Uhv package.rpm - you better trust package.rpm it can execute any shell scripts it wants as root. Also, in the future I would walk away from a company like this much sooner. I enjoyed everyone there I worked with and would work with any of them again, but just would not want to work in such a stress filled environment for so long again.
Exactly, now some poor chump who finishes this bootcamp in 4 weeks thinks he is some kind of code-wizzard just because he can draw a stickman using javascript. Bootcams are modern versions of "Learn {php/c++/etc..} in 24 hours" books.

AFAIK those things are a complete waste of money.
You can get fired for any reason except a blacklist of reasons that are illegal to get fired for. That means in order to fire someone, a lawyer will tell you that you need to be able to explain why the reason isn't in the blacklist.
While bored in middle school algebra, I figured out on my TI-30 which number, raised to itself as a power, would equal 9.9999999E99 (not sure on the precise number of nines after the decimal point, but basically it flooded the screen with all nines).

56.96124843225 ^ 56.96124843225

Wolfram confirms that it's pretty close to a full googol. Of course, you can keep adding digits to the end of the number to make it even more precise. Maybe I'll write a script to do that.
I actually fall roughly into this camp as well. I can technically afford $200/mo, but I'd rather not. I need to figure out what I'm actually going to do in the next month and I haven't gotten around to doing so.

> Isn't this the opposite of free health care? I'm not involved in this debate one way or the other. I don't know enough about the issues.

One of the side effects of not being involved in the debate means you don't realize that the actual "free healthcare" option was taken off the table due to spirited lobbying. On the balance, I'm willing to eat the cost either way (getting healthcare, or being penalized) if it means people who were entirely unable to get it before are able to do so now.

But then again, I'm crazy. Either because I'm nominally altruistic or because I don't have health care or whatever. I'm sure a reason can be found.

I would have preferred to have the dread specter of "long lines" combined with actual free health care for everyone than this, but eh. Politics.
Haha. It was quite a long time ago otherwise I would have remembered the usual maximum booking time. I wouldn't be surprised if they exported the bug, given its success.
Cloud66 is a good cautionary tale of refusing the temptation to double-dip, when it comes to your AWS tokens:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685406

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669315
OAuth1, OAuth2, OAuth...? TL;DR OAuth2 sucks.
It's interesting that you wish California would move faster and be more innovative regarding various tech-related occupations, but also support regulation of a sector that IS moving faster and being innovative.

Mind-numbing, soul-destroying, California-style bureaucracy is not the answer here.

Instead, I support self-regulation. Other industries have done it. I'd rather see prominent tech academies come together and form their own standards body.
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Those numbers don't include Motorola's increasing losses under Google.
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52605103ecad0479335...

The loss for the latest quarter will be announced tomorrow.
Curious: why would a deal like that have tax incentives?
Very cool. People were really whinging about Linode's lack of metered billing the other day when the Linode CLI was posted. I just entered a ticket a few minutes ago and they've already updated my account to join the beta. The support rep did note that the change is irreversible; if you're worried you won't like metered billing for some reason then you might want to hold off.
Bespoke extract – containing personal confidential data

Annual Service Charge: £300
Per data set per year £262
Per additional year (per data set) £64

Either that's an incredibly bad title for that particular service, or they're selling data containing 'personal confidential data'. I'd like to know a little bit more about what that actually is.
My guess is, we're going to see big layoffs.

Sometimes, a company sells a division or wholly owned business because it is either that or massive layoffs, and it's better for morale to write down a few billion dollars than to fire thousands of people.

Even if you're working in one of the profitable businesses, a real chill goes around when the pink slip printing press starts hammering.
So happy I live in Scotland...
From Google's official announcement[1], undersigned by Larry Page:

"Google will retain the vast majority of Motorola’s patents, which we will continue to use to defend the entire Android ecosystem. "

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/lenovo-to-acquire-mot...
I mixed up the meanings of "debit" and "credit", and wrote a credit card processing app that ended up PAYING $75K to our customers instead of charging them.

I'm still not sure how this bug slipped past the bank's tough app certification process, though.
People I have contacted (unless they are a professional photographer) have been excited that I wanted to use their photo or sound clips. Makes their day, makes my day :)
Maybe the "Please confirm" mail was fake and actually meant to get you to click on the "Not My Account" link ...
I can't stand this thing because it's coffee. It's like artisanal heroin. Coffee, in my mind, is meant to wake me up and get me going. It's purely a functional thing. A good cup of coffee is just a not bad cup of coffee. How did this complication about coffee happen? I see the same thing happening with headphones. People listening to Diplo on $1500 Sennheiser headphones; for why? What tones and notes are you trying to get out of that? The same question could almost be asked of coffee. The human tongue, I'm sure, can only process so many taste combinations. What are we trying to get out of coffee?
That's still a bargain compared to running your own Vertica or Greenplum cluster.
Awesome! Glad to see this getting resolved. And one more thing. We are proud of you son.
They wouldn't have been happy to die in their sleep 10 years earlier, they would have been dead. [grammar distinction].

Whether they would have prospectively desired at the time to die in their sleep 10 years earlier, on the other hand, is something we can objectively measure... because suicide is a thing that exists. Did they?

Signs point to no.
I gather you're asking for a law to protect students from being overcharged relative to the services they're provided. But this regulation isn't intended for that, as far as I can see: http://www.bppe.ca.gov/lawsregs/ppe_act.shtml
> Just because it is not enforced where you are, does not mean it is not corporate policy.

While I don't have access to their corporate policies directly, at least one store owner has claimed he isn't aware of such a policy[1]:

Roger Muselman, owner of successful McDonald’s
restaurants in Kewanee and Geneseo,
said he hasn’t heard about putting time limits on
customers and that it will never happen here.

[1] http://www.starcourier.com/article/20140124/NEWS/140129412
Protip: Google "buy domain name", look for ads from godaddy or other registrars. Can usually get domains for a buck instead of ten bucks.
I see that some professors (not in my school though) publish they’re lecture notes as IPython notebooks. That is super clever and allows interactivity with the lecture material. I don’t know the mobile/tablet support of IPython notebook however.
You do realize that Massachusetts has had this system in place for a while now, right? The insured rate went from 86.6% in 2006 to 96% today. The uninsured rate is 3 times less than it was just a few years ago.

On this topic, you can look at real data and not rely on idle speculation. I just don't see a reasonable way to draw the conclusion that "the government's expectation that everyone will buy health insurance just because they're enacting tax penalties seems somewhat naive." Unless you literally mean every single last person.
Sometimes... when it pokes me in the eye.
Tangential to this, in the middle of the dot-com boom, a downsizing. Company meeting: "Here's what's happening, layoffs, etc, etc. When you go back to your desk, if you find your login is disabled, take a moment to pack your desk and come back to the Conference Room."

That's how they "notified" people. You got to play a lucky jackpot game of logging into your desktop after the meeting to see if you still had a job. Straight out of Dilbert.
Do you have some of their coffee from 3 years ago to compare?

Maybe you burned your tongue too much over the last few years, and that's why it tastes different.
I'm sure zfs on Linux has a random sleep built in just to increase my anxiety levels...
When it comes to development rhetoric I think it is totally influenced by western thought. India is poor by western standards no doubt. But if India is poor and malnourished then how come its population continues to explode ?

We need to realize that what people think of "prosperity" may not be same everywhere.
I have read a couple of those books and liked them for learn the syntax of a language.
IMHO, the problem with "alternative medicine" is less what adults do (or do not do) to themselves, and more with what adults do to children that they have been entrusted with.

Thankfully there has been progress in recent years on this front, with adults who neglected to seek evidence-based medicine for the children that they were entrusted with being charged with homicide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Neumann_case). There is more progress to be made however.