skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could potentially compress the NN with another NN. This has been done before with HyperNEAT with success.
how can you even consider launching a service like this without being fully audited for HIPPA and ISO 27001. all i see on their site is boiler plate sec that in no way addresses the reality of the business domain they want to operate in.

you'd be insane to put your data into something like this without those controls in place. moreover, they are asking for serious regulatory trouble launching without it.

this one business challenge that will not be solved in the valley. this problem will eventually be solved by the large industry players in insurance and hospital management in a model similar to that of the DTCC..
And bombs.
You should still spend plenty of time working out, and try to eat well. Medication should be a part of your approach, rarely should it be the entirety.

"What if I don't have ADHD but I am simply a very creative individual?"

One can be very creative and also able to focus.
Rethinking SSL Development in an Appified World [pdf]
You can do r.on('artist', :id) instead of r.on('artist/:id') if that is your style preference, both work in Roda.
Both. Even the OTA's themselves do this from competitors. You'd be surprised how much they make although it's just a sidelight for them.
508 for me - cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Agovfr...
Until someone uses a signed int16 in the payment calculation and all of a sudden everyone owes nearly twice as much as they were going to get.
We always encourage people to A/B test plain text versus HTML, and from the results seen it's entirely dependent on the audience.

If you're emailing developers, keep it clean/plain. Many consumers appreciate if an email "looks/feels like the website".
3.7 FPS (top left).

I've done a lot of reverse engineering of World of Warcraft as I worked on its internals for years. If this is an interesting subject I might write about it. Anything specific people would want to know?
The three are: Pet Florist, Privacy Enforcer and the StartJumper logo (so it was a bit of a trick question).

Good answers by the way. I probably would have guessed the same.
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Totally excellent point! It really depends on who your customers are, what your product is, and what your email is about. We encourage everyone to experiment with your ideas and see what works best for your customers :)

I think you'd be surprised to see how different customers respond to different styles and types of email.
HN is a fascinating place mainly because it is one of the most diverse communities of incredibly intelligent people on the web.

The level of discourse is usually high while covering a very broad range of subjects. Subject specific communities still exceed HN competency in their respective domains, but nowhere that I've found covers such a diverse range of topics with a relatively high competence.

Unfortunately there are still some very obvious biases regarding certain subjects, but at least the community entertains other points of view.

Although I'm an engineer by training, HN has led me to explore many domains to which I wouldn't otherwise have been exposed. Furthermore, there are some incredible individuals here who I'd never run into otherwise, and discussions with them are extremely satisfying.

Overall a great community, though sometimes limited by the bias of its origins.
So you think $324 billion dollars is appropriate? Wouldn't that essentially bankrupt all the companies involved? Who needs to worry about jobs when some of the biggest tech firms on the planet are wiped out! Not to mention that $324 billion spread across 64000 plaintiffs is $5 million each... You wouldn't be looking for that easy windfall, now would you?
The way that I think about TripAdvisor is that we have become a location that aggregates traffic that is interested in booking a hotel (or restaurant, or attraction) better than anyone else. And this is a nice flywheel: more reviews means more value to users, which means better SEO traffic and brand awareness, which means that this the best place to write said reviews.

Once the visitor is here, they peruse our content, photos, etc. and we direct them somewhere else to complete their transaction. Instant book is a way to streamline that transaction for our visitors.

I can't comment on the whether or not we'll ultimately compete. Ultimately is a long time.
The intermediary does not have to do it for a percentage of the sales though, these are jobs that are charged by the hour normally. Most freelancers do not want equity in your book, they want cash, so a sane intermediary would just charge a fixed fee.
Seems like a clear wrong doing on SpaceX's side... Weird SpaceX would lay people off when by all accounts their business is doing fairly well?
These Reddit Users Came Together To Create Content For Websites In Need
>and few of them have me looking forward to a world without publishers

But some do, correct? I've been reading quite a few (more than 10, probably more like 20-30) lately and I've ran across more than a few great finds. Granted, maybe our "Standards" are vastly different - I admit freely to being spat upon by literary purists for reading Science Fiction and Fantasy.

I've ran into more than a few utter piles though. I'm more selective based on total reviews, so I'm not getting anything cutting edge (10 reviews - 4.5 stars, no thanks, 180 reviews 4 stars, sure). I don't have friends or contacts of any sort that read what I do, so unfortunately that's all I can do.
It seems quite difficult to set this up. Who wants to take an experimental drug for decades? And if it's a rare disease you need a lot of people.
Hi, one of the PicnicHealth founders here. It's great that you were motivated enough to upload your data to Google Health! Unfortunately for Google Health, most people weren't as motivated as you. We believe that Personal Health Records haven't yet been successful because they require users to manually upload their data, and most people just aren't willing to do this. That's one of the reasons why we take care of collecting and organizing records for our users.

About fees, you're right: one of our users would have had to pay over $700 in fees if he had tried to get the records from just one of his hospitalizations on his own! We have relationships set up so that we avoid fees almost 100% of the time, and when we can't avoid a fee we cover that ourselves. Our job is also to sort through the mess and pull out the salient information so that you don't have to.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/bernie-sanders-pres...

"Sanders has introduced legislation that would offer companies a big up-front prize for developing new, innovative AIDS drugs. In return for the big payday, pharmaceutical firms would agree to allow generic versions of their medicines to hit the market immediately. The fund would total $3 billion for its first year.

"'Moving from a patent system to an effective prize system, using the power of the competitive marketplace to ensure the efficient dissemination of medicines, is a critical step in creating [a] more efficient innovation system,' Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said at Tuesday's hearing."
My point is that the analysis of this data is not particularly cost prohibitive. If you want to take all the emails you have recorded and figure out if people are talking about unions you really really do not need something like Watson to do it. I'm not saying people are or are not recording this data, I'm saying they don't have an interest in really digging through it, and if they did they would without something like Watson.

TLDR: Watson has nothing to do with monitoring + retention.
I recommend TheFoundation.com, Dane's program changed my life and you are a perfect fit for this program.

The program centers on building a SaaS application in order to acheive financial independence, but there is just so much more to it.

Listen I would love to chat with you about this topic. If you are interested drop me an email at ken@kennethlowrey.com

Cheers
Evil corporate lawyer.... love code, algorithms, new tech, and insightful commentary. HATE advertising.
Show HN: MSFT Interns to Live Stream Crowd-Controlled Video from Stratosphere
Yeah, I'm deeply upset by the permissions-control changes. It's not so much simplifying for normal folks that I object to do much as not having an option to let me see the detail.

Google are getting worse and worse, becoming more like an Apple or Microsoft. But where else is there to turn?
I hadn't really considered games (or even games and apps), but now that you bring it up, it seems like the perfect fit. I think it's certainly feasible to merge the two ideas into the same solution.
I'm an analyst at a hedge fund, I have a job as a generalist so I look at pretty much every asset class/geography/industry.

Historically have done very little investing in tech, but I'm interested in it and HN is a good way to keep up with the industry.

I look at startups as businesses or industries where the rate of change is much faster than normal. I think as an investor you're really a student of business and that makes startups a really fascinating area to observe.
Would you change your job for a better company laptop
I know it's sad, but how many would change his/her job because the one you are working for couldn't even get this right? I mean this is like the basic needs right?
Arc tutorial
Yahoo Joins Google Effort to Encrypt Email
The name Roda comes from the Ys video game series, in which the Roda trees play a small role. I'm a huge Ys fan.
Avoid pre-mature optimization and spending time on things (overhead) that don't matter to the success of your projects/customers/users/partners directly. I will suggest just have one LLC and keep introducing your projects/MVP through that LLC. This will keep the overhead minimal and you reap some liability protection and personal tax reduction if LLC generating losses. If and when a project/MVP gains traction and an outside investor ready to invest, spin out that project from LLC into an entity that is preferred by everyone involved.

IANAL, please consult a lawyer to analyze your specific situation.
Blue Shield of CA and Anthem announced a health exchange to store patient info a few days ago...

Obviously PicnicHealth is onto something but they will have some challenges as they don't have massive relationships with providers. At launch it will have 9 million patient records without even blinking

https://www.calindex.org/
I've started and sold a bootstrapped company. My partner and I sold for $2m, and I ultimately regretted it.

I would focus on how much money you make on deal close. You might think to yourself, "Hey, I'm totally going to vest that 2 year period, why wouldn't I?" But the post acquisition phase can be extremely depressing and stressful. I developed bruxism and ended up leaving in less than a year. My health is more important to me than my bank account balance, but it still stings only vesting 18% of a deal. If it weren't for the cash on close provision, we'd have made much less.
America has surely done the very same thing as Russia is being accused of, countless times over the last 50 years. Why the double standard? Are American soldiers somehow 'better' than the Russian kind?
I bet $3750 can barely cover one month of mortgage on a place in San Francisco. It's no small amount, but in the context of their location and cost of living it's a pittance.
and the war in iraq is probably an unqualified success [1]. Assuming, of course, you're a sociopath.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7444083.stm
I'm a consulting actuary.

What am I doing here? I've been programming since I was 11 and still do it often. You have to as an actuary.

Besides I have some web skills and I'm using to build a startup doing risk management for farmers. In this startup I'm responsible for the whole stack.
Get rid of income tax, how about that. Its not needed so much any more, since there will always be innovative ways to avoid paying tax; that is the purpose of technology, so far, it seems.
Less tech-oriented and more design-oriented, Alexander Brazie has blogged a lot about various design decisions he and his team made at the time in WoW.

https://alexanderbrazie.blogspot.co.uk
A Spacecraft for All: The Journey of the ISEE-3
Is there room for enterprising HN readers to siphon some of this business via niche travel sites? Volume must be large if OTAs are sending traffic to competitors, a bit like traffic peering between ISPs.
Semver hasn't failed anyone--web developers and the bozos in the Node community (of which I cheerfully count myself as a member) are lacking in discipline.

You should be fast to get to 1.x.x. If your app breaks on a patch release (that was only a bugfix and provided that interfaces stayed consistent), maybe you shouldn't rely on buggy behavior and maybe you should fix your code.

This isn't a failing of semver--this is a failure of being responsible engineers.

EDIT:

The best example from the article is the bit talking about how people interpret 0.x vs 1.x vs 2.x. Folks, it's just a damned version number, and a number that only indicates you may have to refactor you application to handle changed interfaces. Any other psychological baggage you attach to it is just that, baggage. Aaaargh.
Elon is probably cautious about cash flow after the Tesla Motors incident:

http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_10727401
Well, the international enforceability of US patents is already sketchy at best, and if the phamaceutical doesn't even have a patent at all, there's absolutely nothing stopping a company from producing and selling it in a country that doesn't have standards quite as tight as the FDA.

Also, your comment

> The company that invented it is forbidden from making money off a drug that is not approved

raises another interesting issue. In the current system, a company CAN in fact make money off of such a drug, by selling the patent to someone else. Actually, many drug patents originate in universities, and then are sold to drug companies. I doubt the university lobby would be keen on losing that major revenue stream.
software isn't an industry, it's a way of life.
Not sure if you saw this go by on HN yesterday, but it's a great read, and I think it overlaps with your story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8149104
Does anyone know why this layoff occurred? Was it a case of their designs maturing, and thus SpaceX no longer needing the large R&D staff they previously did?

Quite curious, as they seem to be doing very well. Musk has capitalized on the Ukraine/Russian ordeal quite well, and is positioned to become a dominant force in the US Aerospace industry. Wouldn't have thought he'd be the type to let go of productive employees on a whim. He understands better than most that talent is the only resource companies have in the long run.
As someone who hasn't been paying attention to semantic versioning orthodoxy, the author's suggested alternative of ferver[1] is what I thought semantic versioning already was. So yeah, do that. All I care about is breakage, not whether new features were added.

[1] https://github.com/jonathanong/ferver
According to this article ( http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/41428spacex-s... ) they were firings, not layoffs. Which may throw a wrench in their lawsuit.
SemVer is working fine, you just need to face up to the real impact of a change on clients, not what you wish was the impact of the change. If a change breaks clients who rely on buggy behavior, you need to bump a version, not a patch number.
Assuming that is the true effect, it should probably 2-3x that in punitive damages otherwise the collusion was still a good idea, and next time it will be more adequately paranoid corporate types covering their asses instead of the self-assured Jobs forwarding evidence around with smileys.
Completely agree. For a long time, I've thought that humans shouldn't be in charge of version numbers at all. The main problem is that a human isn't reliable at determining "is this change breaking?".

Unfortunately our software isn't well-specified enough to allow the computer to determine version numbers automatically yet. To make this a reality, you'd need Haskell-level type safety, along with specifying other constraints, like "this fn is O(log(n)) or better".

>If you're pinning versions, you're reducing the package manager to a glorified CURL

I'm actually quite happy with this. I realized it when a few weeks ago, bower broke for me. Turns out, a grandchild dependency of bower failed to follow semver. This means that it's not enough for you to follow semver, every single dependency of all of your dependencies have to follow semver as well.
Founder here. We don't have a demo login up yet but it's coming soon. Stay tuned!
Very interesting approach.

I have worked with image feature extraction in the past. Although using DCT coefficients has been used as a way to analyze texture features, the idea idea of generating the hash (step 5) seems to be new.

I am curious however on why you are discarding color information. Usually for reverse image search this kind of information can be quite useful.
Why are you drinking expensive water from halfway around the world? As someone who subsists on lowly tap water, I had to google it, and my mind is absolutely boggled. Not exactly doing yourself any favors with that whole perception issue. A glass bottle too! Despite the ease with which you might think glass would be recycled, its place in the waste stream actually makes it much more difficult (sorting difficulty and disparity between glass). Many places that have plastic and paper recycling won't take glass.

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voss_%28water%29
It's a bit unfair to to US universities to suggest they made this situation. There is a huge demand from foreign families who have the means to pay for a quality education and who live where university capacity it not able to keep up with demand at home.

US schools can raise the quality of their student body, not to mention raise their income by meeting this demand. And on the other side of the ledger, it can be argued the US has too many university seats.

Maybe they need to better prepare students for not being able to stay in the US, via exchange programs with universities in students' home countries, for example. There isn't going to be an H1-B for everyone straight out of school.
> but it always seems worth noting when someone completely anonymous writes something like this [...] since nobody knows who this guy is, nobody knows his motivations either.

I'm the author and your point is 100% valid. Not that you needed me to validate it.
Good call, thank you. Updated version has been republished.
Same deal. HN exposes me to some CS stuff. Also important, the EE/CE community is small, and I share many general interests with the CS community, so I jump on the CS news bandwagon.
Conversion is content-dependent. What works for a link of the day newsletter won't work for someone like fab.com
How we grew our B2B startup to 1M subscribers in 1 year
It already is, because the way many drugs are developed is that the NIH funds the basic research behind it, and early-stage in-vitro trials and maybe some mouse trials.

Usually it is only when the drug is ready for clinical trials that pharma steps in (doing 20% of the work and claiming 100% of the profit).
is that per month? for how long?
Well...I completely agree. And in the absence of any progress on binaries in the next few months, we're going to compile and release them on KiCad.info. Still not the answer, of course, but progress.

As for Mac, I've really struggled with this, especially for my course. It's unacceptable to ask someone to buy a new computer for layout, though I normally recommend a virtual machine and an Ubuntu or Windows install (the same a Mac user would have to do to use Altium). That still doesn't get you the latest version but it opens up many more options. I also highly recommend the work of Wayne and Layne on a Mac compile script (again, if you want to do that): http://discuss.wayneandlayne.com/t/experimental-mac-build-fr...
This a beautiful re-implementation of the original SimCity / Micropolis code in JavaScript, true to the original game. I was hoping somebody would finally do that, and I'm thrilled by how well it turned out.

http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1dwctf/fixing_up_mi...

I'm most impressed by how fresh and clean the graphics are. I've got the original tile expansion sets for Ancient Asia, Future Europe, Future USA, Medieval Times, Moon Colony and Wild West, if anyone is interested in making 3D versions of those, too!
but how do you justify not paying the wages earned?
Actually, that's the founder's server
I work in infection control in a large urban hospital (microbiology and epidemiology background/education). Computer skills required for my job are basically Word and Excel.

I enjoy the tech startup world and have plans to start my own in the very near future. Currently using various sites to learn to program myself (Codeacademy, Bento, Dash). I think it is important to know what your site is doing and be able to respond to issues.

I have learned so much from this community/site that I hope it will put me on a better path to success. However, the one thing about HN (and this is true of just about any community) that there are people here who are so smart, that I get convinced that I'm not ready to start building my site. I see examples of javascript here for example, and I think "My skills are no where close to that, how can I possible start working on my sites JS."
I am not in SV, and completely agree with you. The optics are terrible. And beyond that... the reality is pretty bad. I don't think there's a way to spin it, a lot of the citizens of the US have had a very bad run for a very long time and would be very envious of the terms of most HN members' jobs.

I think baseball players are a fairer analogy. People love to hate on baseball player salaries, but it's not their fault that the market value of their skills is what it is. They are obligated to fight collusion and have a union anyway, though.

It doesn't help that this is non-recruitment/poaching vs blacklist. That seems greedier that people are complaining about lack of inbound recruitment vs more heavy-handed/less abstract techniques.

I think it has to be fought, because of the precedent, like companies defending copyrights.
At 5% margins, I would think there are a lot of better places to invest your money.
It's basically just semver, with a little more indication given to what sorts of breakages are considered. The problem I have with "minor" vs "major" breakage is that if I only use one function from your library, and it breaks and screws up my entire app, that ain't "minor".

This is just more of the same marking of territory that Node is kinda famous for.
Excellent job. For those interested in just seeing (no source) really well designed emails can alwasy check out: http://reallygoodemails.com/
"The Norse live attack map is a visualization of a tiny portion (<1%) of the data processed by the Norse DarkMatter™ platform every day."

http://www.norse-corp.com/
Okay, let me go over the things I don't like about this concept.

1. Everything is hidden by default. No signifies. That looks less confusing... until you want to find something or something changes and you don't even notice until it's not "there" anymore. It's not clear what will happen when you interact with the UI.

2. Everything is mushed together. I type something and zillion things pop up on the scree. How am I supposed to know what are they and where they come from?

3. No settings in this context sounds like no choice. I don't want every download go to Downloads folder, because it will become a bloated mess in about 3 days.
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Apple has ~$160 billion in cash reserves.

Google has ~$35 billion.

I'm not presenting that as an argument about the reasonableness of $300 billion, but it would likely not bankrupt them.