skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Referring to exit-only lanes on highways, not signaled intersections.
do you think obe scientific?
if I can do and you can do
If you're referring to what the providers use for patient documentation, billing etc, there's a slew of apps out there that unfortunately don't talk to each other in much of a meaningful way without a lot of work. Beyond the big EMR companies (Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, Siemens, etc -- what you'll see at academic centers and medium-large hospitals), there are tons of companies that have come out with medical record software for individual clinics (i.e. a couple dicots in a practice not owned by or affiliated with a major medical center) and much of it is often marketed in a niche way
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I would make a big data analytics software that is really easy to use for the education sector. Currently, I am working on a project (https://github.com/apeeyush/Data-Analytics-Log-Manager) that takes me one step closer to it.
Russia has had a history of making a lot of interesting Nuclear powered things. I present to you the Nuclear powered lighthouse: http://englishrussia.com/2009/01/06/abandoned-russian-polar-...
Well, I mean, you _can_ get 100+GB of RAM, but you'll certainly pay for it. The machines used in the example have 30GB of RAM and 800GB SSD. For a fairly random access pattern and most of the storage used, the RAM's not going to be helping that much. Let's say they're using 600GB of the 800GB, replication factor of three, that's 57TB over their cluster. It's pretty big.
Do you have links for the work in progress? What drumset player are you using for your book?
Pre-bump was mostly pushed through Twitter and a few friends sharing it socially. I wasn't unhappy with the numbers considering it was a soft launch by fresh developers but knew we needed to hit review sites and more to get traction.

After that first week, our paid upgrades were around 8-10% of installs - family, friends, clients, etc.

We tripled our first week's install figure within the first hour or so after Apple put us in the Best New Games list of 100+ countries. Currently relying on Analytics' figures as iTunes' numbers lag, but it looks like about 2% are using the IAP to upgrade.

We're currently seeing 2-3 games started every second though obviously the figure rises and falls depending on time of day in major markets.
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I seriously doubt anyone outside of military refers to their bosses as sir/ma'am. At least I never heard it and in many situation it will sound extremely sarcastic.

People like to talk about their achievments whether it's graduating from Ivy League, getting medical degree or finishing marathon. I do not think it's a class thing.
Interesting fact to consider about free will as it relates to philosophy and religion: A god can have free will and predict the future, but he (or she or it) can't do both. If you can predict exactly what will happen at any point in time, you don't have the ability to change it. And absolute free will prevents you from predicting the future.
> It is quite cheap to average a million writes per second. I've done it with five servers on AWS, and that was spatially indexing billions of GeoJSON polygons through storage while running queries against the index.

How big was your total dataset. It's cheap to average a million writes per second if the dataset fits in RAM, or at least if the index set does, with the right database. It can be less cheap for a data set far larger than RAM, as for most databases write amplification becomes a significant problem.
In the design phase, you could try Skala Preview. I discovered it recently and it works pretty well to mirror your Photoshop work to your phone and also simulate various colour blindness issues.
> Its illegal to point a laser pointer at an airplane worrying that it would blind pilots even though most planes are on autopilot.

When they're at an altitude that they can be affected by a laser pointer, chances are they're not. The number of aircraft that can do a full Cat III approach with autoland is very small.
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That is correct. The resulting energy makes him useful as a lap heater in the evenings.
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Good points & over all, I really appreciate the rational, yet learning/confrontational discussions here.

I was just trying to spread the word to other startups that the auction-based paid advertising model might work initially, but gets really tough to sustain as it naturally evolves.

In a non-auction based method, the evolution to "zero margin" may be a slower process. Yet those non-auction methods of paid advertising (billboards, magazine, TV) are just horrible for tracking & closing the loop as to be obsolete, and are often too expensive for startups to even enter anyway.

The best advertising is to realize that your customer service/support function is not an cost, but rather an investment in word-of-mouth advertising. Investing in great customer service is often the best modern marketing.
This is not necessarily true. Electrum generates your addresses deterministically from a list of words given to you which are generated from a random seed.

You just write down these words and store them in a safe place, and you will always be able to recover your coins.

(This doesn't prevent against your computer being hacked, of course, but it does encrypt your private keys and require a password before sending anything, which is reasonable.)
Hi Chas,

tel mentioned this, but Amazon allows organizations to store protected health information (PHI) provided they use dedicated machines in their own VPC. I recently had to migrate our company into this model to get our BAA signed.

I like what you've built, but I think you might be missing the real pain point. I agree that it's a hassle to setup a compliant infrastructure on Amazon. But, this is a one-time process. Most serious healthcare IT companies (and startups) will undertake this responsibility themselves to have tight control over their infrastructure.

The real challenge is maintaing the system and providing access control as the system grows. We handle upwards of 50K clinical notes a day. When we encounter an issue we have to be able to track which note caused the problem and get access to it all within the confines of our system.

Our access policy requires:

1. Connection to the dedicated VPC
2. SSH access to specific instances

Here's what I regard as the real problem ---> Once you're SSH'd onto the instance, you can do basically anything. There's no front-end for manipulating PHI. I could scp every PHI document onto my laptop.

I could elaborate some more if you like.
Sounds like you'd fall into the Agnostic category by definition.
thanks for the pointers...cool stuff...Another issue I have been curious...Is there a trade-off between accuracy and expected load with these systems? Or they are just nicely scalable all the way up? I would expect text processing to be quite parallizable...

Also another thing to consider is the visiting traffic on HN is much much less than either google or yahoo (HN currently ranked as #3100+, while as a comparison slashdot ranked #1700+, according to the alexa)...And there seems to be heavy skew in the geological distribution of the originators' IP...Perhaps a carefully tailored system would outperform the existing framework here...
> "You don't mean this. If you did, you would support mandatory exercise regimens and diet monitoring, and aggressive eugenics programs that include mandatory sterilization of folks at very high risk for nonviable offspring."

You can't compare dying in a terrorist attack to the personal choice of not exercising or eating unhealthy.

On page 1037 of the Schwartz Paper you linked to it stated that the California Supreme Court's opinion was that it actually encouraged auto manufacturers to consider the safety trade-offs in the sake of cost. I fundamentally disagree with this.

I personally think that consumer responsibility to research every safety aspect of every product they purchase is bullshit. There should be no corners cut when it comes to safety and if there are then it should be made known to the customer before purchasing the product.

The majority of people and decision makers disagree with me, but that's the great thing about this country and the internet, freedom to disagree and participate in open discussion.
There were also a couple of more modern nuclear cargo ships; one Japanese, one West German, and a slightly weird Soviet one which is still in operation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevmorput
An interesting read, I will need to go through it with more care when I get home. A couple of personal interests are having studied with both David Huffman (though not for compression) and Glen Langdon (one of the arithmetic coding pioneers), I need to see how this article compares with my notes.

I also need to see about getting some of my old (15+ years) course notes online.

Just in those two, much history and memory lost and a hit for UC Santa Cruz's computer engineering and science departments (Huffman passed a number of years back, Glen this year after a period of retirement).

Edit - the scope of the article and the title provided...a serious disconnect in terms of breadth. But, better than nothing.
Firefox on OS X; I just see a square...
It is, because crashing is a better alternative than wounding the process and keeping on running producing bad results, or corrupting memory state and crashing anyway on a total unrelated part of the application.
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Sevmorput is also only temporarily out of service, and should be back in 2016.
They exist mostly to facilitate merchant ships, though.
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This software guy accidentally designed an app that is saving my dyslexic son
Fair enough but I figure it never hurts to ask if there is a chance at learning something new or interesting and the comments in this thread have proved interesting enough for me.
These are very interesting papers from Google:
http://research.google.com/pubs/SpeechProcessing.html
Those wonderful online classes require a working computer and an internet connection to take them, and aren't worth the printer paper you print the results out on. Unless there's a reputable non-profit organization that can validate the results of those classes and make them worth recognizing, they create a bit of education for the consumer but are worth little in the working world.

Udacity is much better than most MOOCs at this, given that most of them have a limited window for which you can submit projects for completion. My anecdote: I wanted to take classes from Coursera on data science, but I am the sole developer for a publisher and have worked 60-70 hour weeks during the time that they've published the classes due to a project crunch. I don't currently have time to keep up with the course material in order to complete the class satisfactorily.

Now, you can rebut that somewhat by saying that we have free public resources in libraries to take advantage of, but when you're raising a kid and working a shift at the grocery store, you don't have much time to be in the library, most of which have very short hours on Saturdays and are closed on Sundays.

What we need are cheaper computers and subsidized internet access.
Ever been curious to know how zakat is distributed around the world?
Do you believe in the literal story of Noahs flood? As in, the whole world was covered in water?
Uhh, you can get 128GB on a basic dell server that costs less than 4k. It's 512+GB of ram that starts getting pricey now days and 1TB is actually an option.

Though, I agree if you dataset is large enough and you need random access it's not going to help much.
Conventional thermal power is so much better; we simply store the waste in the air, or in the case of coal partially in poorly-regulated fly ash ponds which periodically spill into rivers.

> As always, I wonder, what was the plan exactly? What did the engineers of yesteryear actually plan to do with the stuff?

Some of it can be reprocessed, though there's a question of whether that's economical; France and Britain are the only countries to do it on a large scale these days. Really, though, it's not a new problem; industry produces a lot of very nasty waste.
OneBody is powered by another of my projects http://bible-api.com (https://github.com/seven1m/bible_api), which just needs a little bit of code to return verses from the Apocrypha. If there's interest, I'd be willing to make it happen or show someone where to get started!
That's a rather simplistic model. What happens when a non-terrorist is scanned twice? Does he have the same 1% probability of being a false positive (e.g.: false positive due to limitations of the camera, direction he's facing, atmospheric conditions, etc.) or 100% chance of being a false positive every time? (e.g.: he looks identical to one of the terrorists) The problem as stated suggests that there's an equal chance of being a false positive every time. In that case, the simple solution would be to place cameras at regular intervals - when an alarm goes off, wait a minute or two. If an alarm for an adjacent camera goes off, compare the two photos and see if it's the same guy. You've now significantly reduced both your false positive rate and false negative rate.

One of the thing that always bugs me is that whenever privacy/security issues come up is that everyone seems to assume that the authorities are naturally going to gravitate to the least efficient, most invasive means of carrying out their job, simultaneously implying that it's preferable to have (in this example) 100 terrorist operating amongst us and not do anything than to put our heads together and propose an intelligent solution.
I'm surprised that LZ4 is not in the list. It's based on LZ77 like many of the others.
A Bloomberg terminal lets you display anything you want in logarithmic scale if you so desire.
From the home page:

"CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that ..."

"CoreOS is Apache 2.0 licensed and ..."
After 10 years, is it fast yet?

http://www.isrubyfastyet.com/
In 1952, 12,000 people died in a few days in the 1952 London Great Smog, caused by fossil fuel exhaust. In 1956, the world's first commercial nuclear plant went live at the Windscale/Sellafield site in the UK. The nuclear waste still stored at the Sellafield site may be scary, but it's not killing anybody; the fossil fuel waste very much did.
Depends on how you installed it... if you're running on your local computer, then it sounds like you're running in "production" mode without first compiling assets with `rake assets:precompile`. (See http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html for some more info.)

Or just run it in development mode with `rails server`.
I only know about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and e pluribus unum. Perhaps I'm indoctrinated, but are you sure you are free of indoctrination?

The poor aren't supporting policies that promote their well-being? Without evidence, that straw man is pretty easy to knock down.
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Slightly different, but I had a user attempt to get my AdSense account banned by repeatedly clicking ads for days. Sadly, for the advertisers, Google didn't do a thing. This user racked up close to 10,000 clicks, my earnings skyrocketed for a day or two, and I contacted Google with clear evidence pointing to a particular IP address, and explained the situation in-depth with server logs.

This was submitted through their form to contact them about click fraud, and I never heard back. Those advertisers paid for thousands of fake clicks, and I ended up with a decent chunk of change.

I can't understand how they missed it. My clicks are level for years, and then during a couple of days, they increase 50-100x normal levels. This should have been a huge red flag.
Yup. I use Sketch and Sketch Mirror, but same concept.
More people get wrongfully killed every year by police officers than they do by terrorists. Why not deal with the low hanging fruit first?
Emacs + evil, sure, but please don't forget vim + slimv. I tried emacs for a bit when I was first jumping into lisp, but was also evaluating vim at the same time. After about 6 weeks I was having fun with vim. About a year later, I was really fast in vim. Fast forward another year or two, I think in vim. There are no modes or movements or searches. There's just what's in my brain and it sort of writes itself. Granted, I'll stop and think to record macros here and there, but otherwise it's all really fluid. Add the fact that I do lots of server admin to the mix, and heyyyy there's vim already there. How ya doing ol' buddy?

Then you add slimv to the mix. Honestly I never gave slime a fair shake. I barely scratched the surface. But once I got slimv up and running, I felt like I didn't need to learn emacs+slime. Maybe there are some things I don't know about that I'm missing out on, but slimv, like vim, let's me think in lisp.

So if you're a lisper and you like vim, don't jump ship yet! Give slimv a shot.
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Caps-lock as control is a nice but unsymmetrical mapping. If you want to avoid pain you might want to use the opposite hand to hold control while hitting a key combo. At least, this is what works best for me. I never have to twist my hand into unnatural positions.
Steve! Yeah that seems like a long time ago...

Hope you are well!
Of particular note, the earliest parts of Genesis would
have been obviously metaphorical to any of the early
readers... because they blatantly undermine the Egyptian
creation stories.

That would be an odd reason for the early readers of Genesis to consider them metaphorical. Just undermining the Egyptian creation stories is hardly a cause to assume a creation myth is metaphorical.
Just like to point out that this has been debated much over many, many years, and that this view is not the consensus (there being no consensus). See the following for a good summary of a slightly stronger version of the claim (omniscience implies that there is no free will for anyone), as well as various objections: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/
Thanks. It's good to compare vs our pay-to-play app. We've been getting consistent downloads and plays and broke into the top 50/100s in some countries over the past week.

Hoping for an Apple bump as well.
Large scale online ML is able to learn from terafeature datasets. The accuracy is often equal or slightly worse than in-memory techniques.

Vowpal Wabbit is made to scale. You set a fixed bitsize and words and n-grams are hashed. So if you expect 2^32 unique words you set the bitsize to around 32. More data is usually better. Linear speed-ups by adding parallel machines.

I too think that HN's user patterns could be different than other web estates. With large scale spam filters like at Yahoo mail, I believe they employ two (or more) models: One fitted on your inbox, and one fitted on everyone's inbox. That ensemble model should be able to specialize on your behavior, yet still be able to detect general spam that it has already seen in other boxes.

>Is this the basic assumption that close documents also have close information entropy?

Yes, that is the gist of it. The better the compressor, the closer NCD will approximate NID.

A simple principle: Compressors do a better job on repeating data patterns. If two files or documents share data patterns, then adding these together and compressing, will result in a smaller filesize, than if you concatenate and compress two files that don't share any data patterns.

NCD works on text, but not as good as other algo's for NLP. Sometimes PAQ (very slow, but efficient compressor) is used on genome data, or bzip on binary files like virusses. I don't think it will be practical here, since for a comparison every other file would need to be concatenated and compressed. If not using a fast compressor like Snappy or Gzip this would take a while, over a simple cosine distance between tokens.
That would be great!
I have some future plans for using it with some robots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5nTHwl0K_w), with smart-house technology, like "turn on/off the lights".
How does Snappy compression fit into the picture?
Somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8005529
They knew very well how dangerous it was. However, you have to look at the timescale. The first nuclear power plants were built in the 50s. In 1952, 12,000 people died in London in a few days in the Great Smog. The Love Canal catastrophe, which ultimately caused mass birth defects and cancers, would not be revealed for another 20 years. The Bhopal Disaster, which killed 16,000 people and caused 558,000 injuries, happened in _1984_.

Non-nuclear industrial disasters greater than any actual nuclear disaster which has ever occurred were a fact of life. For that matter, they still are, to a lesser extent; for all the worry about nuclear waste, power-plant waste has never killed anyone, excepting a small number (< 20) deaths at reprocessing plants, while conventional waste kills thousands every year.
I can't say one way or the other. There is enough water to cover most of the earths surface if it's not tied up in ice at the poles so it's physically possible. And there is also evidence of water coverage over many parts of the earth that are not near any ocean. However the story could also be interpreted in terms of a localized flood covering all of the known earth.

I do believe Noah was a literal person and I do believe there was a flood. I even like the idea of a global flood as it seems to allow one to explain some phenomena observed in Geological formations. However I'm not a Geologist so my opinions there are pretty uninformed and could just as likely be wrong.
Those credentials are only to a specific database user though. That user might not have access to credit card tables for instance. Therefore, even if the current exploit provides root access, those numbers might still be safe. Furthermore, it is a much simpler matter to revoke a users credentials than to deal with a machine which has been compromised in potentially numerous ways.
>The only thing that disappoints my son is that he can’t read the books we have on our e-readers because the books are protected under digital rights management and so the fluid experience that Voice Dream offers is off limits for the many e-books for which we’ve already purchased.

The upside of DRM is so small and imaginary, the unintended, unexpected downsides seem to go on forever.
As someone who owns a business that sells exclusively to churches (https://simpledonation.com), I know what that uneasiness can feel like -- the seemingly diametrical goals of building a business to return shareholder capital and serving a market need. And also the denominational thing...

I have by no means figured it all out, but it's been an area in which I've sought counseling and grown considerably. A constant fear I have is being seen as a moneychanger or profiteer.

Ultimately, I've chosen to run Simple Donation as a business. There are so many bad examples of software that churches use and I think having a profitable business gives me the best shot at serving those churches well with great software.
That's not really the way it was; the regulation was always quite tight, and the lack of nuclear development today (outside China and to an extent France) is due to deep public mistrust more than anything else, though changes in the economics of power generation favouring high cost per kWh but low capital cost due to liberalisation of the market are also a factor.
Ah, shoot, you're right. That's what I was thinking about. It's been a long while since I actively used Java.
Most high-level nuclear waste is solid, and contained. You more or less _do_ have to touch it.