skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TRP: Perzo is free. How is the company going to make money?

> DG: Perzo will always be free. Our roadmap will see us introduce contextual intelligence, which we call smart parsing, to Perzo users.

> When Perzo users decide to go to a movie, or have lunch or dinner they will turn on smart parsing and this will allow the end user to receive relevant information about the upcoming event they are talking about. It is like having search come to you at the most relevant time.

> So, for example when sending a meeting invitation you can choose for Perzo to also show you recommended locations from various sites likes Yelp, Zagat or Google along with local deals coming from Amazon Local, Yipit or Foursquare, etc… If and when the user selects one of these deals, Perzo will receive an affiliate fee from the site that offers that deal.
This is fantastic!

I just made a github repo for each Gutenber book: https://github.com/GITenberg

This will be very helpful, the XML/RDF files are a hassle.
This is where I will venture outside purely presenting ideas, and into the personal. I wish the French government had done this with the Soviet agents that shaped the direction of government post WWII (indeed, many resistants were communists and wanted to free France not for independence but to allow it to join the Internationale - Bigeard recalls De Gaulle ordering him to Toulouse to replace one such dangerous new leader). Mitterrand was the peak, but the country's economy (and social structure) was effectively wiped out by successive socialist administrations and even today, around 4% of the population votes communist and it is dangerous and will get you socially ostracized to hold libertarian or even mildly classically liberal views in public (such as considering the minimum wage, or public education, to be negatives). We recently made headlines by proposing 75% income tax for the highest tax band, similar to Britain's 98% capital gains tax in the period just prior to Thatcher. LKY observed all this in Europe and learnt and applied the lessons accordingly in his own country.

As far as I am concerned, they are internal enemies and I wish we had had a Lee Kuan Yew, or at least the willingness to accept that some ideologies are dangerous to prosperity and individual rights. The mob will, however, always vote away their freedom if led down the right salience tunnel. I recognize that I might be in the minority with these thoughts.
>“He says, ‘Your story doesn’t have to match exactly’,” Webb continued. “He says, ‘I want you to just say he put fires in the corners. I need you to be able to say that so we can convict him, otherwise we’re going to have a murderer running our streets.’ ”

>“He [Jackson] had me believing 100 percent this dude was guilty — that’s why I testified,” Webb said. “The perks — they was willing to do anything to help me. No one has ever done that, so why wouldn’t I help them?”

Holy shit, this is disgusting. Could this kind of gross misconduct be considered homicide?
First, be careful with the word "you". As I've been at pains to point out in both comments on this thread: this isn't my position.

Second, "lack of single-payer insurance" isn't why Americans overpay for health insurance. We have collusion between cartels of buyers and sellers (hospital chains and insurance companies) with secret price lists, funded by HR managers several hops away from the actual demand for services. It is probably enough to decouple insurance from employment. The Swiss, for instance, don't have a single-payer system, and they also pay far less than the US on health care.

(That latter argument, unlike the ones I've written about previously on this thread, actually does represent some of what I believe).
> http://ychacks.challengepost.com/submissions/25770-listening.... - This was an audio parser that realtime searched what you were saying in a conversation. So if you said "Apple stock versus microsoft stock" it would search and result would be displayed.

I guess it really depends on your way of speaking, voice, tone, because for me this does not work very well. Too bad, the idea is great.

EDIT: so what? I get downvoted because it does not work as well for me as in the demo? Interesting.
Yes, I definitely think this interesting as a prototype & framework for investigating congestion control. I suppose the parent was aimed more at readers who assumed this was a direct replacement for existing congestion control.

Your comment about functional improvements with thousand fold variants is interesting. I (naively) assumed it only worked on an order of magnitude. With regards to varying congestion control based on client subnets, it's entirely feasible. Some networks today vary congestion control, mss, initial window, etc based on previous observed tcp flows.
thanks for the concise response.

i'm curious though: as a layman in technical details but a fan of the tech world, i've always been under the impression that since windows was developed by a engineering-centric organization like MS, it should be far better for such technical uses, as opposed to OSX, developed by a design-centric company like Apple. am i completely wrong in that view?
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Show HN: Distance Calculator (weekend experiment)
Rubygems.org: The Legal Stuff
It was noisy at times and the chairs were pretty flimsy but that's part of the fun of hackathons. It's a test of a lot of things like time management, concentration, will power, teamwork, communication, etc. Afterawhile you get so focused on what you're doing you don't notice how big it is.

Some teams were in the old YC building as well. I have to say they did a pretty good job organizing. Wifi was perfect, power was everywhere, food was awesome and plentiful, events happened on time.
> Any reason you're trying to do this in usermode instead of using the existing framework

my guess would be that doing this in userland is way more forgiving than the kernel. once the basics are in place, moving it to kernel using the aforementioned pluggable congestion control f/w would be more or less 'mechanical'
Not sure what I should think about this, as the "global mode" from the IS is circumventing GeoIP locking and (on top of that) advertise with the possibility to get netflix.

On the other hand, netflix will probably never go to NZ because there are not enough people (only ~4M). So it's either that, illegal download or waiting for months (and coping with those pesky add-breaks).

Many people complain that quickflix (the NZ competitor to netflix) is missing out on a lot of content.
Introducing these generators as objects feels like new technology perhaps not so available in Gauss' time: codata/corecursion! The idea of a finite datum (ie a finitely specified program) which produces infinite "unfoldings" or operations is pretty formalized today, but not exactly amenable to standard set theory (or anything available in Gauss' time).

For instance, usually in order to formulate these things in a set-theoretic method you need to reject the foundation axiom and replace it with the (aptly named) "anti-foundation axiom" which basically says that we can define "sets" which uniquely satisfy any recursive set of equations satisfying some properties. From here you get generator "objects", bisimilarity, and enough mechanism to formalize this proof nicely.
I've found there are two very different worlds of software development. For convenience, I'll label them the "Microsoft" world, and the "Open Source" world. (The labels aren't completely accurate, but I think they're largely descriptive.)

The Microsoft world runs .NET, Visual Studio, C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET, targets the Windows desktop runtime (tho increasingly also the web), relies primarily on proprietary (and usually non-gratis) libraries and tools, etc.

The Open Source world revolves around *NIX, uses open-source languages (gcc, clang, Java, V8 Javascript, MRI Ruby, etc), targets the Linux runtime and sometimes OS X/iOS, relies primarily on open-source (and gratis) libraries and tools, etc.

The ecosystem differences go pretty deep. For example, even though either world can interop with practically any SQL database, inhabitants of one will largely choose Microsoft SQL Server while inhabitants of the other will largely choose MySQL/PostgreSQL.

Both can have great software development or terrible software development. It's possible to mix and match (eg, using Windows doesn't preclude you from writing Ruby).

But startups tend to choose the Open Source world, likely due to the combination of lower licensing costs and the "hackability" of open-source software. I'd argue that due to those same reasons, the Open Source world has produced more innovation in the last decade.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=876480, seems like this won't be happening soon.

http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-dir-sys.html#the...

See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=997471
my shallow knowledge of machine learning tells me that the idea behind it is that initially it will suck at diagnosis and analysis, but over time the algorithm will learn and improve to a point where eventually it becomes actually good at it and even exceeds human capability.
> ...meet a startup where competence is the only currency that counts.

I don't disagree with your overall conclusion that it's going to be difficult for government to make itself more attractive to many segments of the labor pool, but this notion that Bay Area startups are pure meritocracies is a myth.

Startups pass up highly competent candidates all the time (citing "culture fit") and while there may be somewhat less tolerance at small companies for employees who are completely incapable of carrying some weight (out of pure necessity), there are plenty of crappy, poorly-architected applications being built at Bay Area startups. You just don't encounter them every day because relatively few people actually use them.

> It doesn't matter if you're friendly, it doesn't matter how long you've been in that position, here nobody cares about these things, although being friendly is nice it is not enough, and in many places you can get by somehow in a way you can't in the Bay Area tech scene.

It's worth pointing out that many folks in the "Bay Area tech scene" would have a hard time getting by in other markets and industries if they could even get into them. Not every company in the Bay Area is Google or Palantir, and not every person who can thrive at the type of companies that are plentiful here is capable of thriving in environments where other types of skills may be more commonly required.
Ask HN: Newbie Guide to Founder Equity
I remember a PDF being posted a year or two ago that was essentially a newbie guide to equity, vesting, etc, in startups. Basically how much equity founders should get, how "one year cliffs" work, etc.

I believe it was put out by a startup or a fairly prominent founder. Not a big financial firm or similar.

I've searched and failed to find it. Anyone know where it's at?
This is great work, and runs fast. The documentation is well done and has plenty of examples.

Here's an example of datamash and R with timing.

time datamash sstdev 1 < data.txt
288891.28552648
0.76s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.775 total

time R --vanilla --slave -e \
"x <- read.table('data.txt', header=F); sd(x\$V1);"
288891.3
2.68s user 0.06s system 99% cpu 2.761 total

(The data.txt file is 1 million lines, each line a random number 1 to 1 million. The timing is on a MacBook Pro Retina 13" 2014)
In many countries (e.g. my home countries Brazil and Japan) you can get in law school like in any other major; no need to have a tertiary degree beforehand. The bar exams are still very hard, so it's not like lawyers aren't qualified.
It was created at a small pharma company called Pharmasset. The founders also worked on some of the AIDs drugs in the early 90s, and it's based on the same chemistry: nucleic acid analogues. They worked on a variety of drugs, this was their big winner. It was bought by Gilead for $11b at a time when only one phase 2 trial had completed and about 12 patients had been cured for a couple months. It's important to point out that it was by no means a sure thing, and indeed many of these patients relapsed. Only by combining it with an older drug were they able to get these high cure rates.
Pngmarca – making pmarca's tweetstorms whole again
Not knowing anything about their infrastructure Id guess that they're using vlan tags for customer isolation. They'd want customer instances spread among racks, based on instance type etc. Going to in house/vxlan/nvgre encap certainly looks better suited, but still has a high bar to entry.
Has any other company grown to Google's size and remained as benevolent?
A D.C. company’s Logikcull solution to pricey data problem
There's a lot of (understandable) cynicism here. But if this makes you mad and you want to do something about it, email your links/resume to jobs at hcgov dot us.

We're a team of a dozen or so software engineers (many ex-Google and YC) who've been working on fixing Healthcare.gov for the future, since December. We're actively looking for experienced software engineers. Several have joined in the past few months.

(If you've seen this comment before, we were looking, but now we're very-much looking.)

The external environment may be frustrating compared to what we're all used to, but internally and day-to-day we're running like a startup-- github/node/backbone/AWS/asana/standups/etc. We're finally shipping and we're going to keep shipping.

Change starts with a small group of thoughtful, committed software engineers (...paraphrasing...) and there are many groups now seeding different parts of the system; our area is Healthcare.gov and associated systems. Because we began in a crisis situation, and other unique factors, some of the usual downsides mentioned in this thread don't apply to us.

Email us! We can also refer you to the other groups referenced in the OP if they make more sense for you.
>>In fact, up till a few generations back, most Indians would be aghast at the unhygienic notion that one can have a toilet inside one's home!

Up till a few generations back, some one's home was clean because some lower class guys were cleaning up while the higher class guy enjoyed their hygiene. Or in other words this was at the expense of other fellow human beings who did all the clean up while one could brag about ancient methods of hygiene.

No civilized society would accept such a classification of people in the modern times. So a person is expected to clean their own mess.

You are right when you say

>>What we end up doing is comparing the apples of present day hygiene etiquette to the oranges of what is remnant of a hygiene system that has worked quite well in its hey days.
Glad I decided not to go to law school!
I read the articles. I am not sure what to think now that I know the reason Obama was reelected was because a bunch of smart people got together and wrote software. Not sure if that is the way the system is supposed to run...
Actually, I think it is applicable to those large scale senders today. As you point out they generally don't rely on upstream improvemnts for areas like this. Even if it is a dozen different variant algorithms that need to be supported that's an entirely tractable problem.

The contention would be if remy variants can outperform existing algorithms which themselves have tunable inputs like initcwnd srtt/rttvar mss pacing window size etc.
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> I can't imagine government employment and software engineering culture ever meeting.

In which case I suggest you read up on DARPA, CERN and Fraunhofer. And speaking of innovation, the Manhattan Project certainly produced some powerful technology, although IIRC not by "new kids in their dorm rooms".
I agree. I sense the same whenever I come across every day articles which has a Western European and/or North American focus only
Perhaps the data they are using is available online somewhere.
TouchPico: Turn Any Surface Into A Touch Screen
Machine learning, in this context supervised machine learning, is a useful tool for deriving unintuitive relationships between different parts of complex data sets. To do this, there must be some discernible correlation between the parameters of interest that isn't subsumed within the noise of the system+measuring device(s).

In this case, those parameters would be the image data and whatever health parameter is of interest (e.g. white blood cell count). My initial skepticism, perhaps that of the parent comments as well, has more to do with whether the measurements are of high enough quality for any reliable analysis to be done. The app doesn't seem to require any background or contextual data either (though I haven't verified this). If not, false positives and negatives could be problematic.

Anyway, machine learning isn't a form of magic that can transform data with no meaningful sensitivity to something into a something that is sensitive to it.
> Price signals require both a supply side and a demand side. Government funded healthcare likely increases demand, since it reduces cost on an elastic good. However, it also reduces supply, since it reduces payment.

I'm not arguing for the government to fix the cost of drugs or health services. I'm arguing for the government to guarantee access to a minimum set of healthcare products and services and then negotiate price with the providers based on uptake. From a consumer perspective, this is much better. Far better than buying said products and services directly from a monolithic private entity.

From a supplier perspective, this is less good and there may be some incentive to artificially limit supply. But that's why we have governments in the first place: to take over in cases where the market is unable or unwilling to function in a way that is beneficial to society as a whole. If private hospitals decide to limit the number of e.g. heart procedures per year then government needs to step in and either regulate or take other measures to ensure the delivery of essential services.
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Very impressive work, and great name as well.
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Gilead bought Pharmasset a few years back for $11B. Apparently it was discovored by Pharmasset, but I remember hearing they actually picked up the program from another small company.
> We're a team of a dozen or so ex-Google and YC software engineers

Coincidence or nepotism?
my ex girlfriend was born with hepatitis c and i'd been having unprotected sex with her for 2 years. you just scared me... i was last tested in october, time to get re tested :O
We've gotten a lot of feedback from business owners that the average patron staying to get some work done is a good steward of their space and spends money often. We hear stories of people staying for hours and hours, not buying anything - but we've found this is just not the norm. With that said, we do encourage our community to support businesses with their evangelism AND money.
Note that it is $1,000 / pill. The problem is that to cure the disease the cost really is $84,000 / person.

That's almost two years of median salary for average family before taxes.
If you're doing popular web-stack programming (python, ruby, node) you'll have a far better experience on a unix-based operating system since much of the tooling is designed with it in mind.

Windows has ports here and there, and there's always Cygwin, but it's going to feel like a compatibility layer the whole time you're using it (especially if you're following guides/stack overflow help).

I've used all three stacks for years and couldn't happier with my latest MBPr (hardware or software wise).
They also get shit on for creating treatments for diseases that you have to pay for for the rest of your life.

Then they come up with a cure that you only need to take for a short time, works for most patients and has few side effects, and they get shit on again.

Best to keep coming up with $xxx/year therapies that you have to take for the rest of your life and only benefit a few percent of people that take them. (Statins for primary prevention, I'm looking at you).
In health care there is a LOT going on and it could really push your limits in terms of your technical skills - especially within hospital health care and global health / global health policy arena. It also requires you to partner up with a health care professional which makes for an interesting viewpoint beyond SF tech :)
FWIW it seems to be one guy posting thousands of racist comments in all caps. Although without proper moderation, all it takes is one guy to drown out everyone else.
Interesting how the verb "back" has taken on the meaning "pre-order."
Unfortunately the TIME article is now behind a paywall. However I read it back in February and for those of you with a subscription, I highly recommend reading it.

Having worked at Google I can tell you I have infinite respect for the quality of SREs. They really know the deep dark levels of the system, and take their work seriously, especially given some of the messes they have to clean up. I can't even imagine the shitstorm Mikey Dickerson flew into when he volunteered, but the fact that he was described as the guy who was "actually helpful" is not shocking.

I'm not sure exactly how the Obama administration dragooned the tech companies to send volunteers. However, if Obama and Larry Page did have a convo, I like to think it went something like this:

Obama: Mr. Page, we have a dire situation and we need a team of your best men now.
Larry: What do you need exactly?
Obama: 10 of your SREs to help us fix a production system we can't understand.
Larry: ... you can have 1.
_Could this kind of gross misconduct be considered homicide?_

Here's the painful thing: no jury will determine that without the blessing of a prosecutor.

Prosecutors have a lot of power, and few checks on that power, as I think this story illustrates: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/07/j...
> I hate it when people do a literate translation from English to French, many words are similar but they are not used at all in the same situations.

Yes, this is why most people generally hate doing translations in general - people like you who nitpick.
Which is why I think some of where AMD is looking to go is very interesting.