skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! We certainly envision engaging patients and their families after they are discharged from the hospital. This will come in the form of accessing their personalized learning plans from the computer and other devices, as well as providing written materials to those who prefer that method. Our content is designed to meet patients where they are in terms of their preferences and health education needs. We have encountered numerous patients who continually want more information, as well as those who just want the basics. We have the ability to serve both of these preferences with our interactive tool.

Apart from the interactive patient education, we are also testing providing patients with relaxing and meaningful media. Currently, we offer patients a guided meditation exercise which has been a huge hit!

We would love to talk to you more about our work - always happy for input and help - feel free to get in touch with us at info@noorahealth.org
Whatever happened to "Don't be evil" :(
It depends what net profit % was.

Businesses that lose money on every sale are not survivable.

They need to track all of their costs and see if it's going to be remotely profitable.
Only in the business world is this behavior not only acceptable but lauded as commendable, and then some businesspeople wonder why their industry gets such a bad rap. Speaking ss a business owner, this is not how I do business, and my experience is if the stakes are not perceived as extremely high, most business people (especially at the mid-level tiers) do not engage in these "sharp dealings" either. The probabilities of running into this behavior go up very rapidly however, when the value perception goes up.

That being said however, I do see this behavior creeping even into settings where I didn't notice it 2-3 decades ago. This tactic only works as long as there is some sink to offload the negative externalities to; that is, everyone else who does not negotiate this way. Developers who are made aware of this "negotiation" style on the other side should make every requirement request an adversarial minimax engagement where they seek to do the least amount of coding for the most profit.

Even today, if you pull similar stunts during negotiations where you perform Clintonian-grade-gyrations through the attorneys, or even more minor shady acts, in my small part of the industry people remember that for a long, LONG time. Word gets around. It follows you from employer to employer now, with the better sales tracking we have these days. And where other customers get cut a lot of slack just for being nice, you're going to be fighting for every micrometer of delivered support. Just because once you set a precedent, no one will to want to get caught on the other side of one of your "gotchas". Good on ya if you have the energy for doing that all the time, but I'd rather be using the time more productively myself.

Coase's theory of the firm and its subsequent expansions by other researchers would find that when everyone engages in this style of negotiation, transactional costs skyrocket. I've had one customer who was particularly enthusiastic about this style of dealing with vendors. We dumped that account onto a competitor.
Idealistic and well-intentioned. But there's little opportunity in many places for Engineers to be fully used. Its a positive good for humanity to get the most out of talented people. That can happen in America.
> It requires cryptographic randomness for each individual signature

This is false. Although the default algorithm does work that way, RFC6979 lets you do ECDSA entirely with pseudorandom numbers seeded by the message and key.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6979
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=285142.0
I already have the code to allow you to specify this via Link Bubble's settings, but I've opted not to enable it so far.

I tend to subscribe to Apple's philosophy of trying to avoid adding configurable options unless absolutely necessary, but frankly, that position can be a tough sell to early adopting Android users.
Given the number of "we deliver X" businesses trying to find a way to maintain a profit margin on deliveries, there's probably a reasonable business in a "travelling salesman as a service" product...
Wouldn't multisig on an exchange prevent the use of cold wallets? It wouldn't be possible to move funds to/from hot and cold without a signature from the depositor.

It would also make trades a little more difficult in that users that are slow in signing off a transaction slows the trade down. The buyer has to wait until the seller has performed an action. Could you DoS an exchange with multiple buy/sells that you don't release?
I'm surprised this is illegal. I worked for one company, and was offered a job by another. However, after accepting the offer, their legal department came back to me and said they could not hire me after all, due to having an agreement with my current employer that they cannot hire an employee away from the other within a two year period. My understanding was that this was a contractual agreement between the two companies. How can they have a contract for this if it is illegal, is it different than what Apple and Google did?
In the weeds, being overwhelmed and finishing things
Change the Settings -> Left bubble value.
Yea, to the contrary, they're actually trying to decrease the upward price pressure of the natural market.
It needs to come online to prove that you haven't lost the keys.
>If you were around during the last dot-com boom, you may remember the ridiculous poaching that went on...

>I'm somewhat sympathetic to the notion that companies want to avoid aggressive and invasive poaching on each other's workforces...

>If I had a startup, I'd be pissed of someone came along (and poached my employees instead of an acqui-hire) that I spent significant amounts of resources recruiting and training...

I find the term "poaching" in this context to be disgusting. Employees aren't game captured by underhanded or illicit tactics. Employees are human beings that think and make decisions for themselves, and talk of them being "poached" as if it wasn't their choice is offensive.

>There's already an apparent bubble in asset prices and cost of living in the Bay Area

House prices are artificially high because of NIMBY zoning laws set by the very wealthy , and NOT the tech employees in question. The strata of middle class are being pitted against each other by the wealthy.

> and while it seems good for some tech workers in the short term to have salaries pumped through the roof, I'm not sure it's good for the overall tech economy, or the economy in general.

When a company keeps the money instead of paying its employees, the money is funneled to stockholders, who are in general richer and fewer in number than the employees. Are you seriously suggesting, in spite of the abject failure of trickle down economics, that giving money to the middle class tech workers instead of the wealthy (owners of the company, and shareholders) is bad for the economy?

>To read some of the press articles, you'd think this was the Grapes of Wrath or something, that poor tech workers, the ones who drive around in luxury busses and pay $3000-5000/mo for studio apartments in SF, are woefully under compensated

"No poaching agreements" ineluctably means THEFT. $10,000 a year extra is a lot of money for tech workers and their families. The victims were skilled workers that were deserving of the pay stolen from them. Your suggestion that we shouldn't empathize with any victims of theft if they're not destitute is fatuous and offensive.
Should the can driver charge you outrageously because you are richer than he is?

Only if you are outrageously rich and the driver did an excellent job of emergency transportation and only by billing you after the fact. The first priority should be on saving lives, then sort the logistics out later.
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Software engineer's salary is nothing compared to doctors, lawyers and financial traders who enjoy protections from their organizations and a reputation of "being just expensive".
Actually in the modern business world, as long as you're growing, you're survivable. Cash influxes (loans, investment) can support a business for years - Amazon did it. You just need to convince investors that you have a story.
Exchanges usually charge a withdrawal fee to cover transaction fees. BTC-e also charge a fee for example. Bitcoin software doesn't provide (an easy if possible at all) means to compute the fee up front to pass on to the receiver. So exchanges charge a fee that to cover the average cost per transaction.
A few thoughts...

Is it possible the CDC estimates are off by half? Two main points come to mind:

* How many Type II errors do doctors commit?

* How many people with the flu do not visit a doctor? People with good health coverage are probably more likely to visit the doctor preemptively when they are feeling unwell, potentially skewing the results.

Also, while google may be off in the exact measurement when compared to the CDC, it looks like the shape of the graph correlates with the CDC data. Overall, this looks approach promising.
I forgot to mention reproducibility. Show your work (share the code).
Yup. Gotta find a problem and a solution and make money at it. Otherwise, it's not survivable.
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Then Eric Schmidt says: > I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later

How does someone this stupid rise to such a high position of wealth and influence? Are we talking luck here, or are Faustian bargains involved? Where do I get some of that action?

I'm only being half-facetious; this is weapons grade stupid. "Let's take this conversation offline because we'll get sued or indicted if it gets out." Yeah, that will totally work in a grand jury room.

If low IQ isn't the explanation, and I don't see how it could be -- given the respect and reputation we all accord Eric Schmidt for his other achievements -- what is? Drugs? Mental illness? Distraction? Forgery? Did he fail a saving throw versus reality distortion on one of his walks on the beach with Jobs? What?
What happens when the police enter private property? Information leaks happen all the time from law enforcement storage.
For $55M a year, this is cheap. The mistake was to repeatedly spend 100's of millions to try to automate it.

Go take a 35 yr old SF171 or such and scan, OCR and verify it. Get back to me when you can do that cheaply 10M times.
"Ditto for all other major email providers."

Fastmail is a pretty major mail provider, I've read their TOS and Privacy Policy, and don't seen any clauses that allow them to read my mail the way Microsoft and Gmail claim to.
As long as you hold the private keys yourself and don't keep them on third party websites your holdings are safe. Safer than cash since you can encrypt and back up the keys.
Hi dr_ - I am Edith, one of the co-founders of Noora Health. We completely agree that this is a service that hospitals should be willing to pay for, and one that will improve metrics they care about. Our vision of constructing our non-profit is to be able to have a sustainable revenue model so that we do not have to depend on donor dollars alone for the development of our content and technology. We will charge US hospitals, and use the revenue to subsidize our work with underserved populations, including India. We want to continue to be engaged with these populations during the development and testing of our platform so that it is designed for a diverse population. Donations made online go ENTIRELY to support our work in India, and not towards developing our tech product. Please feel free to reach out if you have further questions - edith@noorahealth.org or info@noorahealth.org.
Every day, working with customers' products or witnessing stories such as DO's I realise that success is 90% marketing and 10% actual technical stuff.

You don't have to have the greatest features or too many of them or even all of them working as advertised. You don't need to take security very seriously (hello DO, WhatsApp!) or use buzz-stuff such as OpenStack (hello Rackspace, HPCloud!) or any existing "cloud standards" in order to succeed.

You just need to market it and promote it right.

I'm not even sarcastic or anything.
As a techie I always frickin overlook it and this is the single most important element that can help you make serious money/business.

There's a whole bunch of people out there who don't know shit or don't really care about how great your product is technically (or not ;> ). All you need is it satisfies some basic "need" and a shiny packaging, it's enough to go out there and get some milk flowing in.

Kudos to the DO folk!
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or edith@noorahealth.org
I know that TechCrunch isn't interested in discussing any actually useful details of what made DO successful...but for me it came down to them doubling the RAM per instance and using SSDs in 01/2013, creating a collection of excellent sysadmin articles, and cheap/free backups and images.
The collusion allegations sound serious, but I believe the pando.com article has a couple misunderstandings and is overly sensationalist:

1. It is not illegal for a company to have its own “Do Not Cold Call” list. If you know that poaching your allies’ employees is likely to jeopardize the joint projects, you may choose not to poach your allies’ employees. If you know that poaching your competitor’s employees will likely provoke them to poach your own employees, you may both choose to avoid the mutually assured destruction. As far as I know, it is only illegal to collude with your competitor to make such a list. But it appears that Google did have illegal agreements.

2. One of the quotes from a Google memo, “Most companies have non-solicit agreements which would limit or prohibit a candidate from asking a coworker to interview with us as well,” appears to have nothing to do with anticompetitive behavior. Instead, it probably refers to non-solicit agreements that employees often must agree to when joining a company that prohibit the employee from poaching one of their coworkers for a time after leaving the company. The memo warns not to pressure employees to violate contracts they have signed with their prior employers.
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> Its a positive good for humanity to get the most out of talented people. That can happen in America.

I seriously, honestly doubt this.

Consider the main force behind FWD.us: Mark Zuckerberg.

You're telling me the most positive good for humanity to get out of talented people is at Facebook, where the most valuable people to the company are those who optimize advertisement algorithms that exploit cognitive biases of a population already being challenged in all sorts of horrendous ways?

I really don't think your perspective is getting things right. If the engineers want to make great apps for Android or iOS, they can make it sitting in India or China or Brazil or wherever.
100% agree here. The negatives of app engine vastly outweigh the positives. Being a python shop you would think otherwise but there is only so much you can do before you hit the wall of limitations. A native vhost means no lock-on too.
Tax the unproductive rent-seeking

Underlying your position is the assumption that society can properly arbitrate what is "unproductive rent-seeking" versus "socially destructive entitlement culture." Depending on your circumstances, your opinion on what these things are will differ, and in a democracy, the whims of the majority will win out, regardless of economic reality.
In 5yrs time, all news will be a single icon that fires out info-nuggets
150 tiny orders is like cutting down a forest with a herring. Catering events is where the real cash is at. Large universities like Stanford operate like cities with 100s of autonomous departments free to choose whichever vendor/s they like.
Thorough explanation of one of the most unknown Java EE APIs; JACC
I like that. That's clever.
cgminer never sees anything but the block header, it makes no decisions at all about which transactions to include in a block. The client is still the thing that does that.
I believe the 'horrible attrition rate' is ignorable. The true measure is cost per pupil that completes the course. Does that beat the current system?

See, all those dropouts have negligible marginal cost. They signed up because there was no significant hurdle to signing up (cost, commitment, stigma). They may not have even been 'students' i.e. a person who commits a hefty portion of their life to study.

Many quit because they were just trying it out, or curious, or any number of things. It doesn't matter. It was free to start; its free to stop.

A MOOC is valuable if it educates pretty much anybody at all, given the extremely low cost.
I fail to see how the two are even remotely the same. Google continuously scans email content to sell ads; while Microsoft does it once and admits it so they can catch someone stealing trade secrets.

While I agree that the Scroogled campaign does tread slightly into the hyperbole, I can't agree that this the double-standard that most are making it out to be.
Ha ha, certainly, that would have been nice. I'm disappointed that I didn't even draw a chuckle. After all, I'm a human posting a mechanical sounding comment on a thread about machines speaking like humans.
Free market is strongly against "Cartels".
Because, yeah, ceo-cartels are another way of arbitrary regulation. See them as a "maximum wage fixed" and you get why.
Compared to corporations, individuals are relatively weak. These laws are meant to keep power in check.
Who says Facebook will be where they end up? Will the legislature make a 'facebook' law? That's disingenuous.

Silicon Valley is definitely a place where talented people can find their own, and thrive.

Americans move there, to take part in the opportunities only available by meeting and visiting personally. Its a second-rate experience to try to do it from afar (this from a guy that is 2000 miles from SF), especially if you've never been there and have no contacts.
Interesting Jimmy Carter international diplomacy fact: During the lead-up to the 1991 Operation Desert Storm, Carter wrote to many foreign leaders and members of the UN Security Council opposing U.S. action and urging those who received his letters to oppose White House policy in favor of his diplomatic strategy.

He later did the same thing to Clinton, though not nearly so bad.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2...
This is interesting and a much needed discussion, however it too completely ignores a key difference:

CDC tracks hospitalisation based on lab reports,
GFT tracks search terms

The assumption, which admittedly Google is making, is that these two are correlated by the same amount each year. However, in periods of economic downturn without free health care, people are going to search more and seek actual medial assistance less. Given the global economy has been shot for the last six years....
Asking for help only works in environments of acceptance, inclusion and respect.
But a Basic Income would have $0/hr worth of overhead

This doesn't sound plausible to me. People are devilishly clever when it comes to bilking large bureaucracies out of free money. It's going to take a bit of work to prevent that from happening. Organized Crime is going to get in on something like this.
Yes, it's really easy if you know what IPs and ports you want to allow. You can whitelist a handful of services in your torrc and reject all others by default. I've been running a mostly-relay node for years now with a few allowed exits, with never any trouble at all. Though, I don't think my node gets used as an exit node very often; whenever I've checked, it's just doing normal relaying, which is basically what I want/expect.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#ExitPolicies
Alternatively: all the ways that it could fail don't matter if there's at least one way it could succeed.
My understanding is the DOJ has closed their case. There won't be any prosecutions.
I hope you'd agree with "Jed McCaleb once controlled the donation address 1EuMa4dhfCK8ikgQ4emB7geSBgWK2cEdBG."

While it's unclear precisely how that donation address is related to all of this, I assume that people traced money flowing out of it and into an Mt. Gox cold storage wallet, thus establishing that the person who controlled the donation address was involved with the people who control the cold storage addresses.

If so, then it's hard to see how to disagree with "If the Bitstamp address 1PAzo was funded with coins deposited by Jed McCaleb or one of his associates, and simultaneously two Mt. Gox cold storage wallets were depleted, and the chain of withdraws eventually lead from the cold storage wallets to 1PAzo, then it's extremely likely that Jed or an Mt. Gox owner is trading Mt. Gox cold storage coins on Bitstamp."

It sounds like you're worried that a chain of transfers doesn't prove ownership. For example, someone could randomly send all their bitcoin to someone else for no reason. But in practice, the only reason to give large amounts of BTC to someone else is either because you're buying something from them, repaying a debt, or you're cooperating with them. Regardless of which of those it turns out to be, the Mt. Gox cold storage wallets are the property of the Mt. Gox customers. Using them to buy something or repay a debt would be fraud. Transferring them to an associate with the intent of laundering them via Bitstamp would also be illegal, of course.

I can't think of any other explanations for why the BTC would change ownership except perhaps that they were stolen yet again. But theft can be ruled out if the identity of the Bitstamp account turns out to be a cohort of Mt. Gox.

(You mentioned that it could be a mixer, but that can be ruled out in this case because it'd make no sense for Mt. Gox to launder bitcoins and then deposit them into a bistamp account that has someone's real-world identity attached to it. Also, when bitcoins are being mixed using a mixer, it transfers the coins in a pretty distinctive way that indicates a mixer is being used, such as by randomizing the BTC amounts rather than always transferring e.g. 150BTC or 50BTC or some other nice-for-humans value. I assume that if a mixer is being used here, it'd be possible to show that the transfers are behaving in a way consistent with a particular bitcoin mixer implementation.)

Since there are no plausible explanations about how the bitcoins might change ownership, why would it be unreasonable to proceed with the assumption that the ownership hasn't changed, unless proven otherwise?
Thanks, just to clarify I'm against unions as they come with a large political power which I think is undeserved.

My statement merely aims to say that I don't think there is anything currently wrong. These companies make billions. They could easily afford to pay larger salaries. Why should they if people will work for less? Why isn't everyone's salary like Eric Schmidt?
As long as the resulting record is truly public, I agree.

If only some people have meaningful access, they get tremendous power over everyone else. Which is the real problem with surveillance as it has usually been done.
Yeah, it's closer to a necessity product but not usually an impulse buy (unless say if a woman were pregnant). This makes it less necessary to have it delivered within X minutes.
Oh, I know. I wasn't disputing that. Just making an observation on perspective - that the current system of limited immigration is not the fairest, but it's in the interests of developers today to resist it being changed.
The natural order of things is that we have a process in place to create and change government regulation. If someone thinks that process is inflexible or arbitrary doesn't given the prerogative to break the law to get around it.