skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the listed apartment is in the Excelsior district. I've heard that the Excelsior is the up-and-coming hidden gem in SF; reasonably safe and yet rents haven't yet gone up. Transportation does suck, but I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes the hot yuppie area in a few years.

(Somewhat un-PC thing that a real estate agent told me when I first moved to the Bay: "Go where the lesbians are. They tend to sniff out the best value in real estate, and when they move in, the neighborhood usually becomes more community-oriented, safer, and cleaner." I've heard a couple times that the Excelsior has recently developed a large lesbian population.)
As what I automate mostly anything that is repetitive, if I have to do it more than five times I automate it (not a hard rule).

About the tools I just search if there is anything that can do it, otherwise I will try to code it.

There is not much more to say about it.
Nothing wrong with burnout. You'll go get yourself a better job once you wake up from it. Established mom/pop shops are the best way to break into an industry but a terrible dead end for your career.
Was the internet widely perceived as libertarian in 1998?
So a self-driving car would not be useful?

It's crazy that we complain when companies build apps that we don't think is meaningful enough.

But when a company aims to build something trying to achieve a lofty goal, we call it a "useless PR stunts".
> being passed in haste in response to witch hunt

We hear about new attacks and vulnerabilities, more credit card numbers stolen, more personal information stolen, on a weekly basis. I think we're past the point of accusing legislators of acting in a reactionary manner to an isolated incident or two should the proposition of regulation be put forward.
Pentax 645Z Officially Announced
Sorry to be contrarian, but bug reports aren't weeds. The count of open bugs on a project is just a number and it doesn't matter if it is large or small. Closing bugs that never should have been opened in the first place is of course great, but many times the bug report is open because it is a tricky issue to solve. You cant just mark old bugs as "stale" and close them and hope that the bug is fixed in a newer version of the software.
I may be missing something but it seems to be going for the same space as the popular D3.js library: http://d3js.org
> If doctors have the final say on all matters, they don't have a patient - they have a subject.

In a competitive market of doctors, profit motive will tend to cause doctors to meet the demands of patients.
When a Site Refresh Becomes a Regression – A Story of Startup Anxiety
Thank you. I have been reflecting on your answer since last evening and today.
I feel the need for speed. Time is money in clouds and users like it fast too. Fast makes dev fast to so it is a win all around. You can do a lot of flops in the time it takes to turn base 10 to a float, so I have no time for json or xml in the fast path.
It's extremely difficult to study the effects of sleep deprivation on the rate of medical error, but several studies have shown that the highest numbers of medical errors occur during handoffs between shifts. Reducing the frequency of those handoffs by increasing shift length reduces the total number of detectable medical errors.

Additionally, the work hour restrictions placed on residents over the last few years appear to have done nothing to reduce the overall number of medical errors.

(I am in favor of reducing medical work hours myself, but these are some of the data-driven reasons that it will be very difficult, not to mention the structural reasons inherent to the current system of medical training.)
In countries with socialized healthcare systems, costs are much lower, as is the overall amount spent on healthcare.

Americans actually display stunning recalcitrance towards this fact, and as a result we have an incredibly polarized debate which has led to a bastardized and amalgamated system comprised of several other, and often conflicting, constructs.
Amazing... And very smooth! In one of the graph examples, I plugged in 500 nodes, thinking it would crash. But it failed very gracefully, and simply "slowed" things down instead of jittering into oblivion.
> Membership in a group doesn't preclude discrimination against that group.

No, but groups generally don't discriminate against themselves when they are the majority and hold the positions of authority?

> If they're trying to promote a broader scope of cultural experience in their writers, then perhaps it's better to discriminate based on experience, not ethnicity.

> broader scope of cultural experience

> not ethnicity

Care to define "cultural experience" and how it differs from ethnicity?

> they have completely excluded an entire segment of candidates

If you're going to carry on with that narrative, would you explain why you don't agree with my above rejection of such narrative? They are not excluding, they are valuing diversity since they have a lack of it.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594378
I wonder how salaries for nurses and doctors compare in the US vs Canada. Do you happen to have any data on that (or know of a good government source for it in Canada)?

I know that compared to much of first world Europe, our nurses and doctors often make two to four times as much as their counter parts there. Wonder if that's true compared to Canada as well.
I'm surprised no one had any comments on this. This is really neat.
It might simply be what part of the country I grew up in (southern CA), but I never "bitch" used in that way about men. It had an entirely different meaning, similar to serf or 'gofer' -- whereas when people used it about a woman, it basically meant the same as "asshole".

I hardly believe I've typed these words out. Blech. In any case, I think that for a large part of your audience, and perhaps US society in general, "bitch" definitely has a gendered connotation -- even if you did not intend one.
Gramofon - A Router with Facebook and Spotify built-in
That sounds cool. I don't know anything about HDLs, but can you explain why you might want your functions to be bijective? What does that give you in hardware?
Why do you think laptops wont use usb 3 power like everything else will?
Cool. Could you fill your post in with relevant links. I really dig this stuff.

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zQ49M2sAAAAJ&hl=en
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/publications/publication3787-abstract...
as a 25 year old spending way too much time playing sc2 this explains a lot
No fraud or scam. Bitcoin users have acted very aggressively to the idea -- and felt best to censor it.

What they seem to not realize, is that double spend attacks were very viable previously (putting conflicting transactions in different part of the network), submitting double-spends directly to pools, finley attack etc.

The thing bitundo brings to the table is legitimacy. People can undo a transaction without foreknowledge they will need to. This is nothing but a good thing for the bitcoin network, and it reminds people that 0-confirmation transaction never were, and never will be safe.

Edit: it's back!
Unfortunately all we have is small sample size data. There just aren't that many companies that do this. That's too bad. I have managed between 125-150 people in my career (direct reports). All a 48 hour, 5 day work week does is force them to surf facebook and call their banks during core hours.

I've asked my team over the last few years to give me 32 "billable" hours a week. I don't care how you do it as long as it's predictable.

Ownership (at the company I am transitioning out of) is relatively conservative. I wonder if this approach will last beyond me.

In my experience people are simply not that effective when they work too much. And too much might be 49 weeks a year with the occasional holiday at 40+ hours per week.

Output and productivity are difficult to measure these days. Companies seem to be holding on to methods they can understand and quantify, like rear ends in seats Mon-Fri.
I actually agree with this (wrote the GP). If we could have either whole-hog free market or public option, I believe either would be better than what we have now.

I think integrated systems could help, where the financial and operational sides of healthcare are combined (e.g. Group Health in Seattle, or Kaiser). The key thing is to remove the conflict between the payer and operator -- it's just madness that we have a system where one party has 100% of the incentive to control costs, and the other is completely responsible for outcomes, cost be damned.
Seems rad, but is this any different than providing `-S` to gcc or the equivalent option to your compiler of choice?

Also, I assume the author has thought of this, but just throwing this out there....

`-ftemplate-depth1024` (1024 should guarantee a stack overflow)

#include <iostream>
template<int N>
struct ZVTemplate{
static void out(std::ostream& os)
{
ZVTemplate<N>::out(os);
os << "zv was here" << std::endl;
}
};
template<>
struct ZVTemplate<1>{
static void out(std::ostream& os)
{
os << "deftly evaded :)" << std::endl;
}
};
int main(){
ZVTemplate<2>::out(std::cout);
}
Plural of 'magnum opus' is 'magna opera' - the adjective has to take the same case (accusative plural) as the noun.
I've observed the same experience. Makes sense, considering:

> That critical parts of the brain involved in decision-making are not fully developed until years later at age 25 or so. [1]

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1411647...
umm, it produces shelter.
Unless 'launched' was directly or indirectly local to the stack frame, I don't see how this optimisation is legal. In general your compiler has to assume values will change across an opaque function call.
I think it's a good thing for this sort of service to come out now while Bitcoin is fairly young. Accepting zero-confirmation transactions has always been bad practice, making double spending more likely in this case means that people will be far less likely to accept them.
I was disappointed to not see integration with pivotal tracker.

Maybe it would be too duplicative since pivotal is supposed to show what is being worked on at a glance, but this integration was the one thing I was hoping to try out in the free plan after viewing the landing page...
Rare Genetic Mutation in two Siblings Makes Them Immune to Viruses
If the finance industry (which is similarly large-investment and high-risk) can begin to use functional programming for critical applications, then I can see hardware moving towards it as well. If tools like Clash can be made to emit human-readable VHDL, I can see that as a path forward towards adoption.
It would be interesting to see some data and in depth analysis on this subject to tell apart unfounded conspiracy claims from an actual problem that needs to be addressed.
The worst part about this set up is that increasing the number of doctors won't actually reduce healthcare costs, but paradoxically, increase them. This is because doctors in the USA make money through ordering tests and exams, rather than just spending face time with patients, as the article points out. There was an excellent Time [1] article on this phenomenon.

To make matters worse, Canada is suffering the effects of the American system. Doctors licensed in Canada are encouraged to go to the USA (particularly specialists), by the allure of much higher salaries. In order to prevent a vicious brain drain, the Canadian Medical Association must pay doctors as much as they can to stay and practice in the country. As such, Canadian healthcare costs have been skyrocketing due to specialist salaries soaring ever higher to compete with American rates.

Comparing physician salaries in the US and Canada with other commonwealth countries like Australia and the UK provides a clearer picture as to what is going on. The American healthcare system is completely and utterly FUBAR. It needs to be torn down and rebuilt based on a functioning healthcare system from another country.

1. http://time.com/198/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killin... (Unfortunately, it is now paywalled)
That's what I'm talking about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593235
New study says the answer to life really is "42" (element 42, that is).
Luckily we all know the diversity crowd is exceedingly generous when interpreting the words of people they disagree with, always giving others the benefit of doubt. Like ModelViewCulture and their ilk. No snap judgements and emotional outbursts at all, no sir!
Golfing with fireworks
To be clear, I only advocate that bugs with no reproduction instructions and an unresponsive submitter be closed as stale.

The oldest open bug in Rails is three years old, and even says "This has been around a while" in the description. https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/1769
Point of clarification: physician assistants are qualified to diagnose, treat, and recommend courses of action related to health care.

Per the American Academy of Physician Assistants: "PAs perform physical examinations, diagnose and treat illnesses, order and interpret lab tests, perform procedures, assist in surgery, provide patient education and counseling and make rounds in hospitals and nursing homes. All 50 states and the District of Columbia allow PAs to practice medicine and prescribe medications."

http://www.aapa.org/the_pa_profession/what_is_a_pa.aspx

Disclaimer: I work for the Physician Assistant Education Association.
Are you interested in some abstract concept of "fairness", or in your company being successful over the next handful of years?

Unless your co-founder is strongly in the direction of a saint, there's a good chance you can choose only one. In the scheme of things, if your venture is successful over the coming years, the details of the original starting positions of the two of you isn't all that big since you're now both 100%; you say so yourself, 60-40....
In the essay, "The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups" at http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html , PG mentions single founder as #1 in the list.

I am searching for a co-founder for two main reasons; startups are a lot of work for a single founder, and a brainstorming partner can provide a different perspective or tell me when I'm wrong.

My devotion to my family, and a promise I made to my late father will keep me trying to move forward no matter what. I've been through the highs and lows of the emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship, and I understand the willpower necessary to keep moving forward during those lows. I'm very reluctant to choose a co-founder I wouldn't be willing to join in a fox hole.

In your opinion, what is the most important reason that a single founder has such a disadvantage, when it relieves the company of facing other startup-killing issues you mentioned in the interview?
And now that Medicare payments will be tied to patient satisfaction—this problem will get worse.

That just sounds crazy. Can you imagine if your car insurance had to pay less if you complained about your mechanic? Not to mention that medicare is for the elderly who tend to have a lot to complain about anyway.

Can I pay my taxes based on my satisfaction with the government?
The kind of near-instant, cheap money transfer provided by the Faster Payments Service system in the UK is actually fairly uncommon elsewhere in the world. If PayPal still used BACS it would take 3 working days even in the UK for PayPal payments to clear on your bank account.
About EE conservatism in regards to software tools, this is mainly because we are highly restricted in what tools we can use by the platforms we have to design for. If you want to use a specific FPGA or a specific ASIC process, you have to use the tools that the FPGA vendor or ASIC foundry officially supports.
I get that deprivation training can be helpful, but to be deprived nearly 100% of the time in a safety critical, fast paced environment? That's crazy. These guys aren't special forces (who I assume have in-field careers similar to pro-sports players), they're normal people trying to work at this for many decades.

If your goal is to reduce medical errors, create systems that don't depend on a single person's fluctuating energy level (e.g. have two doctors responsible for each patient, keep patient loads low enough that they can deal, automate as much as possible with computer systems (e.g. billing), and delegate to e.g. PAs for mundane diagnoses). Exhausted people make mistakes, can't work or think as quickly, are less creative, and are generally less happy. All the technology in the world won't help you if the key decision makers screw up at the wrong time.

After all, coffee does exist for those times when your natural energy level won't do it for you. ;)
They have been used in practice for large amounts to double spend gambling sites that allowed them.
> we need to protect the limited housing stock we have from being arbitraged into other uses

This seems like a more compelling point than the title topic.
I think you are right that that is an issue. But what school does handle that well? Also, the value of Sudbury is community. If someone is in a gang, they already have that (I presume).

They do have experience with "troubled" kids doing just fine and thriving, but these are a small number injected into an otherwise pleasant environment.

They also do occasionally expel students. But I also remember a story from the Jerusalem Sudbury school in which one of their students left and fell into drugs, etc. Later, the founder of the school asked the kid if they had failed him. He said "failed me? You were the only ones that didn't fail me. You are the reason I sought rehabilitation instead of dying on the streets. I always carried you and the school with me, voices of support." Take from that what you will.

The most important thing is to have a good environment for students to come into. People adapt to their environments, for better or worse. If you were to take a single gang member away and put them in a strongly functioning Sudbury school, I would give them great odds of succeeding. But if you plopped a number of gang members into such a community, I bet that would be a major problem.

The hardest part for a Sudbury school is starting and dealing with huge influx of students. It takes time to assimilate to such an environment.

There is also another big question along these lines. The students at Sudbury learn the R's quite well on their own. But their parents are generally well-educated, demonstrating the value of those skills. Would kids from homes without those values do so well? Again, injecting a single kid from such an environment into a Sudbury school would be much more likely to succeed than having a majority of the school from such an environment.

But, as far as I know, no one has attempted it. Perhaps someone should.
> Maybe medical school prices would go down with additional scale.

It seems like a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Medical school is already so expensive that the salaries are necessary in order for newly minted doctors to have the same disposable income after loan payments that, say, a programmer or chemical engineer who's 7 years younger has (4 years medical school + 3 years residency minimum). Who would make the sacrifices necessary to become a doctor, taking out massive loans, only for an income that won't sustain them comfortably?
do even need to create artificial livers?

There's still the issue of having to take immune system suppressing drugs, and rejection in general. Its less of an issue for the donor (though it is still major surgery) because the donor's liver will regrow and be back to full function.
Asus Windows 8 laptops use USB to charge.
It is a logical argument but it's far from "solid" given today's realities. Humans simply don't adapt to sleep deprivation and organized, constant sleep deprivation clearly is going to make decisions worse over time.

There's no justifiable reason to give a large, urban hospital an organization system fit to the battle field.
Yeah, it's pretty terrible in an e-commerce context. Get a payment, wait seven days to see if it actually gets settled. The only auth you can do up front is that the numbers look correct.
If you can afford to retire several times over, it would by definition have to involve living in a less expensive place (otherwise you'd have the same tax issue). Being forced to downgrade housing quality and/or location is not an obvious win.
Or https://cloud.sagemath.com
Wait, so what are you using to describe the circuit on the logic or RTL level? Do you have VLSI engineers using Cadence or something? From my understanding, using Verilog in ASIC design (and not just verification) is pretty widespread in industry.
How did Microsoft ship the Surface with the magnetic connector?
All art comes from other art. Copyright is fundamentally based on a lie.
IIRC USB Power Delivery requires to provide 5V and 12V if you want to provide 20V. According to their FAQ question about compatibility with Microsoft Surface and Chromebook Pixel (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/215201435/dart-the-worl... ) they don't have 12V support. Probably they are not ready for USB 3.1.
The bulk of this article is based on a misconception. The author doesn't seem to realize there is a difference between between Time Warner and Time Warner Cable (which is especially ironic here since Forbes automatically links to their separate NYSE listings). HBO is owned by Time Warner Inc., which severed its ties with Time Warner Cable Inc. years before Game of Thrones ever aired.

HBO's reason for staying with cable doesn't seem to have all that much to do with its corporate overlords. It seems to be more closely related to the fact that HBO has evolved symbiotically with cable over many decades, and striking out on its own would require HBO to make use of a lot of muscles it just never needed before (for example, advertising). So until their business model starts actually causing problems, they're OK with being pirated left and right because sticking with the tried and true still makes them money hand over fist.
Unfortunately, the culture in the U.S. is taking us in exactly the opposite direction from medical competition.
Hopefully waiting doesn't stop you from focusing on your product ;)
"As a sysadmin, I would like developers to pay any damn attention to what happens in live before deploy without me having to cattle-prod them into doing so after deploy, so I don't have due cause to set them on fire."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2801400 is a great thread in many ways considering AirBnB's recent press.

I think "potential illegal uses" is a pretty common argument against short-term rentals, and prostitution isn't exactly a non-obvious one. It's just generally a bit easier on the neighbors than, for example, crazy parties or drug houses, which are both commonly-touted (and valid) arguments against short-term rentals.
Give it a retractable cord and I'm sold.
A comment here mentioned the absolute number of physicians in the United States, so I did some Googling and found a convenient website showing the number of physicians per 10,000 population in different countries. (The primary source for these data is studies by the World Health Organization, but the WHO website is not quite as user-friendly.) Note that in some countries the level of training and clinical experience to become a physician is much higher than in other countries.

http://kff.org/global-indicator/physicians/
I don't understand why it has to be anything longer than 5 seconds, is there any reasonable explanation for this?
Yeah, this particular product is nice, but maybe I'm suffering from kickstarter-fatigue too. This is nice, but not unique enough to warrant special effort (and waiting months) to get it though.
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Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman might be useful in looking at some of these issues. It goes into a lot of detail and refers to many studies, but in short there are ways of helping children to develop executive control which in turn enables them to both decide to do the right thing and follow through.