skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe sometimes, but that's strong. Just avoiding groupthink or the weight of ecosystem apathy that tends to grow out these depressing verticals that hire incestuously from other shops that have been building shitty products really slowly for years.

I don't mean to downplay the ridiculous bureaucratic and regulatory crap, but I don't think it's fair to lay the blame at it's feet either.

Honestly, health is just a Ripe For Disruptions™ as any startup-interesting vertical. Takes more stomach and open-mindedness than anything.

It's a bummer. Page/Google are being limp and lazy on this. With opportunities as broad as they have they can afford to Do Hard Things, where Hard is something a little bit out of their wheelhouse. That's okay I guess, but it's a big shame cause health IT could really use some shops with lots of leverage and actual engineering talent to help move the needle when it comes to the constantly backward standards.

[FWIW - I'm a decade and a half long healthcare startup hacker]
Also, please do not confuse abstraction with reuse. "abstracting things" has nothing to do with "making them from scratch". You're definitely conflating two things inappropriately there. I can write reusable code that has absolutely no abstraction in it, and I can write code based on an abstraction that is completely un-re-usable.
What Limits Technological Progress
It's too bad the website referenced is totally down, I for one would love to use it :)

http://abetterqueue.com/
Try "Helium web automation" ;-)
from the first few comments, it appears your idea is triggering people's gag reflex quite strongly.

However, I don't think the idea itself is horrible, maybe just the way you're presenting it.
Look at your app name "get fit together". Doesn't sound like a fit-babysitting service, does it?

It does seem a bit shallow to say "for people who want to get their significant other into shape", but the idea of "let's get in shape together" isn't a bad one, and it doesn't even need to be for significant others, it can also be just for friends. Make little competitions, allow people to challenge each other, etc. etc.

Think of how many people run together, do bootcamps together, etc. etc. how about letting them track or challenge (or whatever your app does) together, but it doesn't have to be like a tattle tale.

$5 bucks a month? Probably not. but somebody might.
Dov Charney's sleazy struggle for control of American apparel
There's a running joke in a student organization I'm involved in, whether a situation is absurd or completely ordinary, someone might ask: "Is it sexist?"

Occasionally it leads to interesting, and difficult discussion that waxes philosophical.

So, her self-declared official title is "Security Princess".

Is it sexist?

Edit: I encourage readers to read my reply to jamesaguilar, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8013723, to elucidate why we still ask the question, "Is it sexist?", and not just to be funny.
You both may be interested in this paper: Publishing data from electronic health records while preserving privacy: A survey of algorithms

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1gHT-y0...
Wealth signals matter. By wealth signals I mean a person's standard of living. If you are driving a Mercedes you will be perceived as rich. I don't know much about the culture in US, but in my country(India) there is no way you will be considered poor or even middle class if you own a car. Let alone own a Mercedes. Why? That's not very difficult to understand. If you own a car, which falls between the big money and small money its generally an indication that you are doing this on top of your existing savings.

Any reasonable person when they first start working should aim to do the following things in order. Try and eliminate any outstanding debt, Save enough money for the rainy days, and then comes the next most essential commodity- a house and if you are done with that- a car.

They way I see, a lot of poverty issues in the US seem to arise from mismanagement of one's money. If you don't have a home, and don't have a large cache of savings and have debt on top of all this, buying a luxury car on debt again comes out straight as mismanagement of money.
HS Hackers has taken over my life -- in a good way. ♥
That's a fair argument but in practice isn't true. The pace at the larger health IT shops is FUCKING GLACIAL. I've been through getting an EMR through two meaningful use stages in a fifth the time combined than a typical larger shop might've gotten one done, with a tenth the manpower.

In verticals like this don't dismiss the advantage of being lean, nimble, and wholly stocked with incredible and enthusiastic people.
Of course, there are those of us that don't use Facebook...

...but I guess we're in the minority :) Cool effort, in any case. I'd definitely join if I used FB.
There are plenty of people who argue exactly that without being in either category.
Can LinkedIn be used as a dating service? Any succcess stories?
Hah, in retrospect, I agree. I guess I couldn't resist the pun.

That change was actually made by the editor at Facebook, who did an excellent job of helping condense my original post and adapting it for a wider audience. I also added in the bit about "what are hackers and hackathons?":

If the words “hacker” and “hackathon” evoke mental images of scary-looking criminals breaking into computers, I can assure you we're nothing like that. Hackers, in the original spirit of the term, are programmers and designers who use technology to build things — not destroy things. Hackathons are events where hackers of all kinds come together to collaborate on new projects and compete for prizes, often on college campuses.
The photo credit is Brandon Downey -- the Googler?
>but I couldn't buy one of these, they just look so dorky.

Congratulations you described why rollerblading really never took off in the 90s. As a rollerblader even I can admit that there is just something about the look that screams "not cool", I'm just not quite sure why.
Ask HN: Why are FB and 4sq breaking up their apps?
I've been trying to understand this trend of breaking apps into more dedicated apps. For example FB Messenger and Swarm.

I really detest FB messenger and Swarm is okay but not that useful.

I'd love to see some data or discussion on this trend because I don't believe in it.
Wear what you like. Leave where you can't. That is all.
Do you know when that change was put into place? I have been using Mathematica sense version 5 and my intuition was that `b[x] == 3`. Testing in mathematica 8 which I have on hand confirms this.
I'm replying to myself to keep the above short and sweet.

I'm inclined to think it is. I'm worried that someone could see that title, not understand her position or its importance, and disregard her. Or assume Google has disregarded her. Or assume that you have to have adhere to "Princess-like" gender norms.

All of which bother me. If I didn't read the article, I might think:

* Google doesn't take security seriously. (A topic for another topic, but I digress.)

* Google doesn't take women in senior positions seriously.

* If I'm a woman, I can expect to have a title like that at Google.

Etc.

Is it sexist? Knowing more facts makes it less-so, but can we rely on the general public knowing all the facts?

Edit: I encourage readers to read my reply to jamesaguilar, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8013723, to elucidate why we still ask the question, "Is it sexist?", and not just to be funny.
This. This. This.

I wish more people saw healthcare this way, and I guess now I'll probably use Uber and AirBnb as an analogy to help them to. THIS is the way to think about health, and how to treat it's risks and limitations.
No, I don't think so because people are using it for professional purposes, and that's their mindset. But I did see this app - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/linkedup!/id794546332?mt=8
Nice site... Solitude is in fact a Zen habit... I've been introduced to Zen and practicing it lately and has been a great experience so far.

I reckon solitude is good for both: creative work, and self-awareness...
I'm a part of the group, and I barely ever touched Facebook prior to joining. Now pretty much my whole News Feed reads like a more personal HN.

Either way, HS Hackers has a ton of meetups, so far in NYC, Philly, and soon SF: http://hshackers.org and http://nyc.hshackers.org
A (WIP) "correct" implementation of regular expressions in Python using FSAs
This is a cool project I've been working on recently. Essentially, this is an implementation of regular expressions in Python using finite state automata instead of backtracking. This yields a runtime complexity of O(mn) (or O(n) if you compile the regex) compared to the O(2^n) which backtracking has for a worst case.

Another "benefit" (for Python programmers and PyPi) is that the implementation is not* in C, it's in Python.
Are you saying organic food is carcinogenic ? not sure what your point is.

Or are you saying one shouldn't consume random stuff ? In that case, cinnamon is not random. It's a spice in use for thousands of years with many benefits already written about in traditional medicine, like turmeric. Unless you are anti-traditional medicine....in which case suddenly a lot of the wisdom over the ages must become suspect, and even rejected.
Yep, it's that balance between abstraction and indirection.

Abstraction can be a great tool, but it comes with the cost of added indirection.

You want to aim for the sweet spot in the middle somewhere.
The problem with Android is that the API offers no guarantee that your call will work correctly on all devices. This is especially true for anything related to sensors like the camera. It is up to the manufacturers and carriers to honor that contract and they simply don't do a good job of it.
Find the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PennAppsHS/?fref=nf
Netflix public API shuts down on Nov 14...
You are correct. Here are the revised numbers after excluding public/scripts/node_modules:

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PHP 36 330 1048 597
Javascript 9 101 86 362
SASS 6 4 4 127
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I have no inside information. But they aren't doing it, they are complete idiots. And I don't think they are idiots.
The KnapSack Problem
Thirty things i've learned (great life advice)
Seriously this is awesome. Its magical. No wires no configuration. I just got home, tried it, and it worked.
stg or str is better than sto (storage).
You definitely need to rethink this idea, because it's insulting at the moment. Don't ever use the below phrase.

For people who want to get their significant other in shape

If you want to focus on this niche, use the name in your link, stay fit together. You encourage people in relationships to get healthy together. You do that because they're a team, they're partners. They both decide to take up a challenge to improve their health and overall physical fitness.

For example, you create an app that has a 30 day challenge, where it has a daily workout for him, and a daily workout for her. Mix in couple exercises and stretches too, since they would be a great way to bond. It would help them get in shape, and grow their relationship.
Probably because the direct link was already submitted a month ago.
(shoutout to Dave Fontenot in particular)
Almost certainly, since Brandon is a brilliant photographer who often does portraits of other security Googlers.
Nope. Self-declared largely makes it okay.

If you looked down the job listings and one was, "Security Princess", that would be sexist.

Neither does the title carry enough baggage to make it demeaning. This is generally where self-declared things get into trouble, but "Security Princess" is, I think, novel enough to avoid this.
Nice, it amazes me how difficult it is to start a Hangout.
I think this is a great idea and thought of doing this previously in other areas besides fitness. But the obvious challenge to overcome is that you need to find people who are into personal growth, are open-minded about stretching outside of their comfort zone. This can be tough because people will tend to take these types of issues personally. If you can present your message in a way that people can accept, I think it's totally worth doing. Good luck!
No the name is a bit of a giveaway :-) I found the story interesting, and was definitely on topic for HN - hence an up vote and comment from me. I just wanted to make sure that the nature of the Intifada was made clear, lest justifiable criticism of Israel be used as a smokescreen for the far worse behavior of the Mujahideen.
What is your value of $Version and SystemInformation["Small"]? I can't replicate these problems on any of the 3 platforms using freshly-downloaded versions.
I doubt it, they don't claim to sell you contact information for the artists themselves, just their publicist. Big deal.

The information usually includes email and phone numbers to the artist's talent agent, publicist, legal representative, etc.
Eh, I suppose I could do that; I did have a Facebook account for a couple years, but I deactivated it a couple months ago, mainly over privacy concerns[0]. I could create a new account specifically for this, but I'd be worried that I'd accidentally leave myself logged in and be tracked around the net. (Do I sound a bit paranoid yet? Sorry about that.)

Unfortunately, NYC and Philly are nowhere near me, and SF is still an impractical distance away. LA might be doable!

[0] I really do have to recommend Julia Angwin's excellent book Dragnet Nation: http://www.amazon.com/Dragnet-Nation-Security-Relentless-Sur... It's very mind-boggling how much we are tracked by online entities (the book mostly covers companies, not the government), and after reading that book, I took some steps to protect myself from them. (My paranoia is justified! I think...)
Since their problem cropped up in 2008, I'd like to see the value of the car in 2008, compared to the value 6 years later in 2014.
Online Trading Platform
There is a large Laotian community in the bay area, many in the computer industry and would be in the audience of hacker news. You should have picked Bhutan or maybe New Zealand, it's hard to offend kiwis (they are so laid back).
So hip
My flavor of feminism holds that you do not judge a woman's choices about her own priorities, dress, sexuality, the terms she uses to describe herself, etc. Others might feel differently though.

Your concern is admirable. If men paid as much attention to their own speech as you are to this woman's, we might not even have to have this discussion. I do consider it ironic though considering you and your friends liked to trivialize the question "is it sexist" in random situations, apparently, reading between the lines, because you found it funny.
The parent wrote "compiled", which is certainly more incorrect than either "interpreted" or "evaluated."
FWIW instructions dictate "1) Use directional arrows to select a card. 2) Use "Enter" or "left click" to flip a card"

In the demo I can use arrow keys. But only left click can flip a card. [enter] does nothing (using Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153 m on Windows 7).

If they tried it and it failed (and if they had a big pile of submissions to get through) this would've definitely counted against your submission.

--

More generally, having looked at what this game actually does vs number of lines of code I would use one word to describe it - overkill.

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Let me add. It was very helpful of you to post this question. Informative (I hope) for you, but also for everyone else, as we contemplate what coding mastery is really about.
I fell for this too. My initial answer, suspect of course, was thereby zero. :-)
Neil deGrasse Tyson's Curriculum Vitae
Aereo to Courts: Fine, We're a Cable Company
Make sure to check out http://instantwatcher.com, you can filter by RT rating, style, year of release, etc.
Once there's a patent on the use of sodium benzoate to treat things, it will be.

OK, you'll still be able to get generic sodium benzoate cheap, but it won't have whatever magic fairy dust the patented version adds to it.
You can make your own opaque data objects, quite easily, thanks to HoldAll, UpValues, and Internal`SetNoEntry (the nuclear option).

What precisely becomes unmaintainable about Mathematica/Wolfram Language code after 10 lines? You could just be bad at programming in WL.
What Can We Learn from the App Unbundling Trend?
>> leads them to judge your work in the harshest light instead of an evaluative one

> Should any professionals have to present apologetics for others in his procession doing such a thing? We are all human beings, but shouldn't we be trying not to be this quickly and arbitrarily judgemental

Well sure. But this is php we're talking about here.
The ability to deal with large amounts of uncertainty.
As a member of this group, I have to say it's one of the best communities I've ever been in, for a lot of reasons.

1) Inspiration. From members winning Thiel fellowships to members asking where they can begin, you feel a sense of motivation. The scholarship present in the group is astounding. The OP, Zach Latta, started a nonprofit that helps people start programming clubs. If he can do that, what's stopping me from starting a programming club at my high school? In fact, the group's inspired me to do a lot of things I never would've tried if I hadn't joined- attending a hackathon, founding a programming club, making myself a website, and much more.

2) The network. Members are always posting about hackathons and meetups. Lots of the members know each other, and I probably have mutual friends with most of the members. Along with that, I think the caliber of the members is unrivaled in a group of its size. There are innovators and entrepreneurs, designers and coders (none of those mutually exclusive), and all around amazing teens. Being able to talk with them is incredible. Not only are there amazing teens in its membership, but industry leaders. Some big names include Sam Altman and Alexis Ohanian. Having their profile show up in the group sends tingles down your spine. As high schoolers, sometimes we hear cheesy lines like "you could be sitting next to the next Bill Gates." In this group, not only are you posting next to the next Bill Gates, but the real one too.

3) Quality posts. I suppose after all the fawning I've done so far this goes without saying but the posts are great. As in any group there can be argument and incivility, but the quality of that group in my view is almost as good as that of Hacker News. (That might be because lots of the membership reads Hacker News). The posts can vary in topic from hackathons to new tech, from free namecheap coupons to members' projects, but one thing is consistent: they show how great a community of high schoolers can be. No lord of the flies or Brave New World genius island, no. Its unparalleled, and a wonderful thing to be a part of.

If you're a high school student and you're not already in it, join.

Disclaimer: I might have cloudy vision on some aspects. The community's not perfect but for one made up of 1800 high schoolers and counting, it's exceptional in every aspect.
I had this idea in the 90s where I would setup a .ru domain claiming to nuke any part of the word for a high bid. Pay to destroy, pay to live.
It works really well on Chrome. Sadly, it does not work on Firefox.
So it's like just about every other type of government of spending?
You're confusing sexist interpretation with sexist action.

If Person A chooses to wear a pink t-shirt, this is not sexist. If Person B chooses to interpret such a t-shirt as feminine, that is sexist.

I'm deliberately avoiding giving Person A a gender, you'll notice.
I think the idea is to see whether the interviewee is a kind of person who always googles and reads on "gotchas of language X" whenever he/she learns X.
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/meet/
Wow, don't read the comments on that blog.
I've already seen a few third party API's out and about these past couple of months
"and yet you settled on Caroline as a name in a few seconds" ... that's a pretty good cartoon
Highly recommended reading if you are ever tempted to take advantage of an apparent scam in progress: David Maurer's The Big Con, the hundred-year-old story of swindlers who stole tons of money by setting up fake stock scams, then luring bystanders into placing side bets on the scams-in-progress.

(This is the book that inspired the 1973 movie The Sting, but it's nonfiction.)

People still fall for the classic cons. Don't be one of those people.
Great essay and reflection, full of some funny nuggets:

"My strategy of pre-emptively antagonizing anyone who might possibly have an interest in acquiring or funding the site has worked wonderfully."

"I enjoy the looking-glass aspect of our industry, where running a mildly profitable small business makes me a crazy maverick not afraid to break all the rules."
Definitely found this interesting ... they keep on trying to come up with a way to make their company legit.
Got a link to any of these forums? Would love to know more.
Your Tree page ( http://dominusgame.net/tree ) is showing some people's emails (and their first/last names as some email addresses seem to contain) in the open -- seems some people are using their email as the username.

Filtering out emails on that page and/or sanitizing the username field on signup would be good.
As someone who was really trying to get 386BSD when I was kid, I had no idea that minix already ran on my Amiga 500. :( Time machine me would have loved to run this.
Wonder what the latency is like.
NPM actually encourages you to check the directory in when building something deployable like a website or app:
https://www.npmjs.org/doc/faq.html#Should-I-check-my-node_mo...
Interesting bright side you have there. I wonder if us startup heads are just early adopters and in the future everyone is an entrepreneur. I wonder if it could even get as weird as everyone raising rounds. So you graduate from college and raise seed capital and this is just the normal middle class path, like getting your first salaried job. Or maybe you would work "gigs" for a while, but this would be prep and apprenticeship for your own launch not your ultimate career path.

In that future those stuck in "jobs" in the conventional sense would be the lower classes. You'd also probably have a ton of people on welfare of various kinds.
What I would actually need is a way to choose from the many movies worth watching.... but the hard part is doing so without choosing a movie not worth watching.
What if the powers that be are mostly not coordinated and basically grabbing whatever they can, while they can? Meanwhile, bureaucracies like every three-letter agency ever, mostly exist because they provide hierarchies for people to climb? What if the conditions for success in those organizations are what they are, because of decades of decisions which are long-term really terrible, but short-term tolerable and even advantageous (to a few people, that is)?

The state America finds itself in might me due to malevolent actors, but it might also be that:

* American culture doesn't value liberty, and there is no path to get there.

* American government is paralyzed, and while everyone knows it, no one has the power to do anything about it.

This does eventually lead to tyranny, but there doesn't have to be some secretive cabal leading everyone in that direction. It could just be that the society is just sort of wandering there due to a handful of unfortunate factors.

From where I sit, I can't really tell the difference. Nor do I think it really matters. But, generally I'm of the opinion that tyrants are creatures of opportunity, and lack the patience required to gradually shape a nation into a police state over a span of decades.