skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the technical side, I think we need to master data integration across many sources. For example, health records, sequencing, and clinical trials all contain tremendous amount of data, but combining them and generating knowledge is very hard. Much of this is just translating what web companies have developed, and understanding how to make it palatable to health researchers, patients and companies. That's partly technological, but honestly, the technological problems are pretty small; we could make a tremendous forward progerss in cancer if everybody's health records were fully digitalized, normalized and harmonized, and available to cancer researchers (even ones not doing trials) for aggregation and analysis. This is one reason I've donated my genome to the public domain- but we need millions more to do this.

Also, the way we fund and execute most health research is very broken. We could organize and manage this far better than we can- but it would take a lot of changes and stepping on a lot of toes. Again, there's a tech side, but the tech side is "easy" compared to the politics and money parts.
Nice site. There appears to be a bug with the "Cohort Date" column sort for firefox 28 on windows 7. It works in chrome but not firefox.
He said "a truly fair free market" which doesn't translate to anarchy. Some regulation may be necessary. He is just positing that the current regulations are not appropriate, not that regulations and/or law should be abolished entirely. Some regulation and law is required for a market to remain free.
Ask HN: Reverse Accelerator
Ok, so this idea's been bouncing around in my head for the past 24 hours and I want you guys to tell me if I'm crazy or not.

They say that 3 out of 4 start ups fail. And they fail for any number of reasons; sometimes the market isn't educated enough, sometimes the economy goes down, sometimes the founders can't handle the business aspect of the company. Point is, a ton awesome start-ups fail for reasons other than the product.

So what if we put together a small fund, $2.5m. We went to every VC in the valley and asked them about their favorite investments that failed for reasons other than the technology. We put together a list of 100 such companies and approach whomever retained the rights to the tech after the company dissolved and attempt to acquire it for around $50k. 90% will turn us away, but there will be at least 5 who have some code sitting on a harddrive that will never be used again, or something similar. 5 pieces of technology that were vetted and funded by VC's but failed to succeed as a company.

With those 5 pieces of tech we put together 5 companies, recruiting experienced entrepreneurs, developers and sales people, and give each company $250,000.

We just took $2.5m and created 5 companies with a combined valuation of roughly $10m.

I feel like these companies are more likely to succeed than the average start up because we know the tech is solid; we sourced it, and we wouldn't fund it if we didn't believe in it ourselves. And we assembled an experienced team to manage it. But if even one of those companies has a successful exit, than the fund will easily clear the $2.5m investment.

I called it a reverse accelerator because rather than the founders coming to us with an idea for mentorship and $ to help them build their company, we come to them with tech and $ and help them build their company.

Am I crazy?
"Day science employs reasoning that meshes like gears… One admires its majestic arrangement like a da Vinci painting or a Bach fugue. One walks about it as in a French formal garden…

Night science, on the other hand, wanders blindly. It hesitates, stumbles, falls back, sweats, wakes with a start. Doubting everything… It is a workshop of the possible… where thought proceeds along sensuous paths, tortuous streets, most often blind alleys."

Francois Jacob[1], The Statue Within.

Science and technology as an activity involves questioning, and finding new ways of doing things. I imagine these activities are bound to attract people on the edge of things a little. Having said that, Aleister Crowley was not the kind of person you'd want to be involved closely with from what I can see.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Jacob
Exactly, but I think one of the problems is that since government is filled with bureaucrats, who don't understand how easy it is to implement this, they instead listen to the phone company lobbyists, who says "this will be incredibly expensive and hard to enable"
Let us all remember that the blame for those iOS IFTTT limitations resides entirely with Apple. IFTTT have done the best they can (and it's still pretty great).

The tradeoff one makes when submitting to iOS is one that should be more publicized than it currently is.
The system isn't bad just because you don't like their business decisions. I think the advertising budget is completely unrelated to the issue of patents.

If you want to argue against the fact that patent protection is needed for drugs just show some examples of recently approved drugs that are not patented, or that were brought to market by non-profits.

The safety and efficacy studies are both expensive and likely to fail, and I think there should either be public funding or patent protection for the company that bears this cost and risk.
How Google Play Can Help Indie Game Devs and Leapfrog Apple in the Process
I'd be careful extrapolating an anonymous post from a single person on a public forum to "many".
Be wary of conflating corporate cash with the LP cash backing VC companies. Companies are holding record amounts of cash because (1) it is seen as insurance for financial shock-event; and (2) low interest rates do not penalize them for holding it.

If interest rates were 7%, shareholders would be demanding minimal cash on balance sheets. But with money @ 0.25%, the BOD is telling investors the "option value" is worth the minimal carry cost to the company in terms of FCF and/or NI.

On the other hand, the sources of VC (LP) have excess liquidity they do not want to hold as cash. If they had 7% <paid> on cash they would hold some cash as insurance; but with 0.25% (6.75% forgone) the cost of this insurancs is too high. This is exactly opposite dynamic of the corporate case.

So, you see companies hoarding cash and LPs trying to get rid of it. But for VCs and valuations, it is the LP's dynamics (excess liquidity) which are relevant. The corporate cash piles have second-order effects (via M&A), but the central source of liquidity is driven by LPs wanting to be fully invested.

(There is also the issue of spread/total rate which pushes LPs deeper into the risk spectrum to meet threshold returns. This effect drives allocation to equity vs bonds, and equity market liquidity has carry-through for VC exits both at the iPo and m&a level.)
They are somewhat covered in the FAQ, linked to from the bottom of the page. Some excerpts:

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5-minute rentals are a great way to scan through any rentable article, for free. You get to read the complete full-text of an article in your browser for 5 minutes.

You can do as many 5-minute rentals as you want for free-- just not the same article twice in the same day. Rental tokens are available for unlimited rental access to the articles for 30 days.

Copying, printing, and downloading aren't included with 5-minute rentals.
LinkedOut: CRM companies squawk over LinkedIn's API policies
Cunningham's Law to the rescue!

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham's_Law
>You can complain about outside politics affecting science, but far too often, people like this will bring their politics into their science

This seems incredibly one sided. By removing him, you've already brought politics into science. You're wrong, this isn't about politics in science, it's about "the right" politics or "the approved" politics in science.

You have a point, but it's very defeatist. You're essentially saying "people can get turned off by opposing views. To remedy this, we'll make sure they don't hear any opposing views". The remedy is to expose people to more opposing views, not shelter them.
In addition to being safe, understandable, and wrong, it was completely out of touch. Did nobody stop to think why people would ever elect to use MetalHead444 over their real name in the first place?

The only explanation I can fathom was that it was a decision motivated by engineers and marketers rather than by anyone genuinely concerned about user experience.
Stripe does a good job about staying top of mind for devs by doing things like this. When I think of a great company to work for, Stripe and Github are usually near the top.

And benefiting open source? Double win.
The Case Against ISP Tolls
Building a Notifications and Personalization System Efficiently
Just to put some numbers on it, GEO doesn't intersect the Sun-Earth line most of the time. The Earth's shadow touches GEO for a couple of weeks around the equinoxes, resulting in up to 70 minutes of shadow per day in that period. The rest of the time, they're in sun 100% of the time. So, as low as a 95% duty cycle at the worst point in the year, and 100% for most of the year.
I don't often login and comment, but i just have to say thanks to Bob. yYou thought me one or two new ways to think about things :)
Hospitals tend to have specially provisioned power from the local electric company to minimize the change they'll have to use generators, which I assume are universally in place, although you can't always depend on them, e.g. Charity Hospital in New Orleans (a place where my mother worked in the '50s) only suffered a flooded basement during Katrina ... but of course that was were the generators were.

See my other comment for how this company sure doesn't seem to be telling hospital IT departments that they've got on side redundancy.
Transferring information within the brain is no harder than transferring a file across the internet. The hard part is decoding how information is represented within the brain.

We don't even need to do that though. The hard part isn't transferring information, but transferring consciousness sustained by that information. If you believe that neurons are the sole physical entity that makes up the brain, and that any one neuron has no significant effect on consciousness, then transitioning each neuron one by one is simply a logical deduction from the premises. I no more have to "believe" this than I believe in a given mathematical proof. If the premises are accepted then the conclusion of transferring consciousness is required.
>union-enforced inefficiency stories he tells me would blow your mind

Vacation, breaks and a mild improvement on minimum wage? Limits to what they're expected to lift? What are these horror stories?

UPS is an awful job with awful wages. Of course you could make them work harder for lower wages if you made sure they lacked representation, but I wouldn't refer to that as a fair, free market.
If I was one of the accused, and I was innocent, I'd most definitely sue her. Being accused of sexual harassment in a very public way, in a very high profile case, is nothing to brush off. I'd want to have my day in court, to get the facts on the table, and exonerate myself.
Nginx is much more scalable and utilizes less resources than apache. Apache uses a thread per socket , where as nginx is non blocking and runs with fewer threads .
I personally use them a lot. For example, I share immediate family-related photos and posts with the Family circle, general family stuff with the Extended Family, some stuff with Friends, some with Colleagues. It's useful and powerful feature, but requires skills similar to the email Inbox organization which some people seem to find too hard.
ok, so it's not the sexiest to talk about the sausage factory of data management/ETL/munging/normalization, but it's a HUGE deal if your lifeblood is data. Want to know what you guys/girls think!
I guess we need to wait for the drones and self driving cars then.
Mattermark is hiring a summer intern
Amazon Locker is a little like that: you can pick up purchases from specific locations (though you do need to order them ahead of time).
No, they worship the same god after all, "Nothingness".
Just like Socrates
Sounds like the Memento Mori (from Mobile Suit Gundam 00): http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Memento_Mori
What you possibly could do is to not have a single emitter but loads of them for each collector. So that a single satellite getting out of alignment would be harmless. Many emitters would need to get out of alignment pushing the beam in the same direction for it to be harmful.
That, and the decision is one-sided. Say I want to post something publicly about some new technology. Do I post it publicly and have it go into my family's feeds where it will be considered akin to spam? What if one of my friends actually _is_ interested in new tech but I don't know it?

I get that it would be an added layer of indirection, but to allow each user to have multiple subject personas for posting and let others subscribe to said personas might have been more useful. As it stands, I err on the side of caution and post privately to the people I can best guess might be interested.
The cell phone could be programmed to do all this on a 911 call (well, short of stepping outside). I think that's actually a pretty reasonable idea.
Idea in "Die Another Day", hard to secure it to not be used as weapon.
Had a similar debate with my girlfriend when she suggested Amazon would take over their entire delivery process. Warehouse to warehouse, and warehouse to major city don't really seem like they would be a problem. The middle-of-nowhere deliveries would cause the most headaches, and be the least cost-effective. I guess the question is how much of their total deliveries do those comprise of.
This is super cool. Love seeing all the new incentives for open source and nonprofit startups.
In a perfect world I would prefer 1) as well, but realistically I think 2) is the only option. I don't understand why it's taking the FCC so long to take the hint; IIRC the number of judges that have basically told them "make them common carriers and you can regulate them however you want" is now three.

(Actually, my cynical side does understand; but I have been hoping against hope that for once reasonableness would win out over cynicism.)
It's impossible to keep a secret among thousands of people. Whoever sends a memo to everyone@bigcorp must assume that it reaches dozens of journalists' buddies, moles of the competition, perhaps even spies of foreign nations and definitely hundreds of folks who will bellow about it in bars in the evening.
From the leaked convo, HR person wasn't sure to be in town and suggested Preston-Werner was the one who could decide to postpone the meeting or not.
Gundotra sucked anyway. So does Google+. That's what happens when you "copy" technology, rather than rethinking/innovating. A new player to the space, and they just "copy" - that sucks. (apologize for my negativity.)

Try Google searching on Vic Gundotra "licking the cookie".

(a metaphor for making a project "his" before others can lay claim.)

"Gundotra, we’re told, would “lick the cookie” at Google by putting future products and features into presentations about Google+, long before his teams would be able to get to building them".

http://www.businessinsider.com/sex-and-politics-at-google-it...
General Fusion has some of Bezos's money.
Another nice summary of this sort of thing: Fibonacci Flim-Flam

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
Really! They don't watch 3rd Rock?
Sick of the IE/Firefox consoles? Wish the Chrome console had a real code editor?
Nobody automatically knows why they need most products. That's why even Apple's advertising is built around demonstrating use cases for products like iPad and iPhone.

Marketing for Glass probably shouldn't try to sell Glass itself, they are trying to sell the use cases and lifestyle that it enables.
Just use multiple source satellites for each destination collector. Each being harmless, together they are powerful enough for a decent output.
I guess there would probably be that distinction in American English as well. In casual conversation I may say I was fired because they didnt have anymore work left when in fact I was more likely laid off.

Either way I wouldnt me motivated no matter how I was let go. I am still losing my job.
You should be able to use it with any mobile encryption app which is compatible to EncFS, e.g. Boxcryptor Classic on Android and iOS (more info: https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/classic)
Peapod.com does exactly this in some of their service locations.
I think people here were too quick to buy the OP theory that JP was "written out of NASA's history". Quoting the first comment on the article:

"Parsons was mentioned frequently in a recent JPL-produced documentary on the early days of the space age and the founding of the Lab. And, his name sits on engraved plaque in a central area of JPL that commemorates all the members of the "suicide squad" involved in the first rocket test firing. I suppose your headline makes sense seeing as he died several years before NASA was founded so he may not be in a NASA history book. But wrong to say he's written out of JPL's early history."

Blame someone of our present time for some misbehave must generate more clicks than just pointing out how prejudice harmed someone's carreer on government decades ago, which seems to be the real story here. Good that the HN title was edited for a less sensationalist one.
I would gladly skim 40 articles a month. I guess I skim more like 400 internet pages a day, these don't include a lot of scientific paper because it's a pain in the butt to find them (you have to look for them, you never stumble on them), but there's no reason I would not skim 100-200 on month if they where as common as normal webpages.
I've moved the server to one with more resources. It should be back up now. :)
I at first thought this was about the old gopher system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
Technology Giants Settle Hiring Suit
> Don't confuse corporate cash with the cash backing VC companies.

Actually my post wasn't talking about either: it was talking about all the reserves the banks are holding at the Fed instead of lending them out. Technically those aren't cash since banks can't just hand them to you with no strings attached; they have to give them to you as a loan.

Corporate cash, OTOH, could be paid out as dividends directly, though you're correct that that's not going to happen with rates where they are now.
Is there a reason this article is future dated by 5 days?

"Greg Brockman, April 29, 2014"
Good catch. Mostly I'm just bad at reading calendars :).
First, distinguish between clients and potential clients. Clients are people who are paying, potential clients are people who might or might not.

Work only for clients. Make this happen by requiring a retainer to be applied against final invoice. This also means that you have set a rate and terms and put it in writing...if you're going to work for free work for yourself at drafting a contract.

Requiring payment filters out people who weren't planning to pay and it filters out many people with unrealistic expectations in regard to your rates. These are the people you don't want as clients.
This is a management problem first. A technical problem second. There are plenty of companies that run 24/7/365 that have people taking over others task without making the amount of mistakes found in the medical profession.
This is from wired.co.uk, it's expected that readers know pounds better than dollars.
Even 100 million would be a healthy number. That's a lot of people to interact with. Maybe even more than enough people.

I wonder whether big is so desirable, after all. I notice that the quality of the comments has declined, especially on the news streams such as NBC etc. Whenever they put a news item on the G+ stream, there ensues a whole bunch of inane, pointless comments by people with made-up names, silly avatars, etc. The original G+ population seemed more intelligent.
You missed the major factor that they ultimately didn't do anything about: frailty.

"Because this mortality risk occurred earlier in history for the 1900 birth cohort than for the 1930 birth cohort, the 1900 birth cohort faced higher probabilities of death at the ages between birth and 85. Thus, individuals surviving to age 85 in 1985 may have been more robust than individuals surviving to age 85 in 2015, because it was more difficult to survive to age 85 for the former group."

In actuality, no they didn't try to factor out socioeconomic factors that shouldn't matter (like those you mention) from those that should (like better nutrition). On the other hand, they have a large sample size (I can't find it, but from one aside it looks like around two million records) and they're only comparing two groups: above average and below average. I would imagine boundary cases like your first example would average out.

"One important contribution of this study is to highlight that the segment of the male Social Security–covered worker population experiencing slower mortality improvement is large—that is, the entire bottom half of the population, rather than just a limited group of disadvantaged at the lowest end of the earnings distribution."

And a 4.6 year difference would seem to be pretty significant.
I wish more companies and hacker spaces would launch programs like this. With so many companies relying on open source, giving projects a little bit of stability is crucial.

The no-strings attached is also a huge deal. Versus being employed, this program lets people work on something that they are passionate about without the risk of the company assigning them to a new project that they aren't interested in.
DreamHost is an employee-owned corporation.
http://www.dreamhost.com/about-us/the-dreamhost-team/
I agree, you could split test with a lot less users.
It will be available for a while.
when did gmail actions first launch? this seems pretty cool.

It took me a few minutes to figure out what you meant by 'results.'
Much like how many of us atheists play the same game of non-golf pretty much most of our waking and sleeping hours. :D

Though, there is a good joke there.

Mr. Sartre goes to a a cafe and requests a coffee with no cream. The waiter comes back after a moment and asks Mr. Sartre if, since they have no creamer, he would prefer to have his coffee without milk.
This is true. I have two now. Personal time is now a dusty concept.
.. and so goes the big wheel. Wouldn't you rather just not hate, though?
Maybe I'm missing something but in space you can have power night and day if you are using mirrors, and you don't have the atmosphere. Solar power in space is 1300W/m^2, whereas average solar power on Earth is about 200W/m^2, including atmosphere, day-night, latitude, etc. So that's a reasonable difference.

It probably doesn't offset the costs of such a project, but damn if I'm starved for some 50's style Massive Engineering projects. Instead all of the brightest minds are focused on optimizing other peoples mouse clicks.

Such a thing could be used to power a Lunar base and for sure boost research in power beaming.