skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This resonates with what I've observed, and in 2012 I wrote an essay that fits this genre: "Why you should become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school" (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-beco...), which explains everything my girlfriend wishes she'd known before she started.
Holy. Wow. This is the most exciting thing that I've seen this weekend. I've created hacks on hacks to get around this problem. I'm SO happy about this! Thank you!
Is the garter story on there too?
There is mention of tools like group estimates which improve the estimation effort (according to the article).

There isn't much mention of the estimates you can go for:

1) Accurate but not reliable

2) Reliable but not accurate
Check out Light Table. It has a really interesting architecture specifically designed to support that kind of interactive scriptability / extensibility, and the fact that it's written in a decent Lisp (Clojure) is the icing on the cake. It's a joy to work with, because even when the internal code has problems you can just patch it on the fly.
Trading time for money is already how it works. It's the default. There's nothing more satisfying about it. We've been doing it since we got our first job sacking groceries or folding sweaters. You're paid a fixed rate because you're not the one risking anything.

This isn't "The System". It's just the labor market.

> My point is that if it takes so much effort...

So what? It takes effort. Everything does. Building something that produces value on your own whim takes effort just like satisfying the terms of a work contract or finding good contracting relationships in the first place.

Know what else takes effort? Building only what others pay you to build despite your ability to build anything. Not everyone is content with that. I reckon most of us don't consider that the height of our life ambitions, but the alternatives aren't as straightforward as dropping our CV into a dropbox. Hence this Ask HN submission.

Your posts are just selling some brand of status quo that we're already familiar with.
The provided link is pure linkbait. Here's a link to the actual content:

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html
Veteran Crowd funder: Why I chose Tilt for my new crowdfunding campaign
My opinion of those companies is so poor at this point that my knee jerk reaction is to assume that whatever they want is the opposite of what's good for me.
The casualness with which the U.S. Government asks a private company to violate EU and Irish law is truly disturbing.

The U.S. Gov has gone mad with power.

And for perhaps the first time ever: bravo Microsoft! I don't even care if you did if for the PR, it's still a brave stand.
Ask HN: Advice on selling bootstrap skins/themes
Hi Friends,
I have had some fun creating bootstrap skins. Now I would like to sell it. I would like to know if there is a demand for bootstrap skins minus any templates? Or do people prefer templates?

Also I identified http://codecanyon.net as a possible marketplace to sell at. Is there any other marketplace that I can cater to?

Thank you very much for your input!
I would say something where people organise an event and bring placards rather than outright terrorism.

The difference is probably that a majority of people don't support the fur trade but most people support animal testing for medical research and it's unlikely that any form of protest would really change public opinion.
Indeed. And I'm surprised the European governments are just taking it.
Sorry to hear that, can you please open a github issue for this?
I think we're the new independent professionals. Nobody has required a license to "practice technology" (yet, but I suspect California will find a way eventually...) and so we can do our job anywhere, for any hours, for any pay. Until bureaucracy swallows us up(as it does all professions ultimately) we'll have our golden age too.
> But if we keep producing software that neglects user intent, then perhaps we will also find ourselves regulated.

Regulation is why those professions had autonomy, status, and respect in the first place. Without legal protection, a "professional" is just a laborer, and capital always wins out over labor in the end. Temporarily the software industry is growing so quickly that programmers have a lot of leverage, but that will end. The "corporate structure" will absorb more and nore of the value created by the professional.

And that's a good thing, right? Protectionism is bad, leads to higher prices for everyone. Why should doctors or programmers be protected more than Wal-Mart shelf stockers?
Javascript is the assembly language of today. For debugging purposes you're better off with Javascript.
We're planning to add collapsible subthreads, which will enable some of the things you're asking for.

Things like richer formatting support scare me a little. HN's nearly-plain-text design seems pretty core to the site.

There should be many fewer "unknown or expired link" errors already, and soon you should nearly never see them. If you still get one, say, a month from now when posting a comment, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
Ask HN: What's your greatest gripes with web advertisement
I have used https://wrapbootstrap.com and http://themeforest.net
Of course HP will now include it in a desktop with half the features disabled, and no option in the BIOS to enable them.
I wish there had been a lot more stimulus, and a lot more projects like Chattanooga.
Thank you aburan28. Is there a good demand for bootstrap skins?
Tablet growth rate forecast slashed by half as Western markets slow
They did it neither for PR nor "principles", but for mere money. The US data hegemony is bad for business overseas.
What I, if I were a reviewer on this paper, would have liked to have seen is a ROC curve—basically, if you tweak the cut offs, can you get fewer false positives at the expense of more false negatives. Assuming fraud in science is rare (I think even the gloom-and-doom-iest reports put it under 20% for any kind of research misconduct, not just fraud), even a moderately low false positive rate will flag a lot more papers than a perfect true positive rate.
EA open sourced parts of their in-house STL. A Github clone can be found at:

https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL

I haven't looked at it myself but it might be an interesting start for those interested.
I'm a Rails developer from Hyderabad,India . I did some freelance work for a client from USA at $12/hour . Ofcourse I realised that I was making next to nothing after taxes(20 %) and oDesk fees, So I quit .

I've been searching for a simple income generating idea too for the past few months . I'm torn between trying to build a well paying freelancing career vs building a Saas product/service that's going to pay over time .

I tried to contact you but your email isn't public. Ping me if you wanna bounce some ideas regarding this sometime !
Liwall: Linux firewall to block unwanted IPs
maybe I am some kind of sheep but this kind of stand makes me strongly consider again Microsoft as a platform of choice against Apple.

Bravo Microsoft.
Try Moovit.

The app supports 400 cities and adding a new one every other day. Our focus has been 1) crowd sourcing transit data 2) making real time arrivals available to users wherever a feed exists.

(I lead product at Moovit)
Do you know what's incredible?

Plenty of SDE 2s make more than 200k a year, and plenty of doctors don't.

I'm not sure if we are overpaid or they are underpaid.
Three.js has a lot of these types of functions in 3D. Why not contribute the ellipse code for 2D usage.
I think it is more accurate to say that data science isn't Kaggle. The process of taking a data set and fitting it to the most robust model is certainly machine learning.
...I've never actually had a doctor take my blood pressure...

The one time I had a physician take my blood pressure, he was like a 150WPM typist compared to the hunt-and-peck crowd. He was pumping, releasing, pumping, releasing like a madman, with his eyes fixed on the second hand of a large wall clock. He must have gotten 6 or 7 readings in a minute. After all that, he just said, "hmmm, yeah, let's get you on a diuretic."
Perhaps we should add something about the social impact of the research?

In the UK, we had Cyril Burt, whose 'researches' still influence policy 75 years on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Burt
There is already Vector2 in Three.JS that has nearly all these functions. Why not just work on that library? The math library is separable from the code of ThreeJS anyhow.
You have no possible way to know that.
It won't be bureaucracy that kills us but rather the inevitable grind of economics. Once our industry stops growing and the supply of programmers has a chance to catch up with demand, our bargaining position weakens and the impact will be felt across the board. Those in corporations will find higher expectations (even longer hours), less respect, lower pay, and fewer benefits. Those who are "independent" will find it more difficult to acquire funding, a higher probability of failure on launch, and lower returns even when they do manage to "crush it."

This has already happened to older engineering professions and it has already happened to sectors of the software engineering world that have a different supply/demand balance than the mainstream (see: game developers). It will happen to us too. Hopefully not in the near future.
Reminds me of the old saying that <em>"Linux is for people who hate Windows, and *BSD is for those who love Unix."</em>
we've got the market playing for us. Once supply catches up, there won't be as high of a salary.
Yes, the police are mere automatons with no choice but to behave as they do, driven by inevitable forces of nature. It's always the fault of people who are abused by the police for being near police.
Not everybody targets all their code for the web.
They give it to the NSA, and the NSA shares it with other govt. bodies through that search engine (and probably a dozen other ways).

Anyway, it always freaks me out a bit when people cheer a megacorp like MS. They're not fighting for you, they're fighting for your perception of them. The faster you cheer, the less they'll do.
It's a shame there is a huge disconnect between what data scientists ACTUALLY do in their day to day vs what's published in the media. Many people see machine learning as synonymous with data science when a data scientist's real job is to leverage data to achieve business objectives.
This has a wide range of implications from producing reports, to visualizations for understanding different kinds of trends.

Model making is, imo, the fun part of the process, but by far from what actually needs to be done.

That being said, kaggle is a great platform to learn on.

There is a lot of value in understanding how to train a model, but it's only as valuable as understanding how to take data from disparate sources, cleaning and normalizing it, doing some EDA, and then understanding AFTER all that if you need a model to achieve your goals.
Calculate with Tcpreply how many simultaneous users can your service support
If you're spending a lot of time changing the size of a std::vector array, then maybe std::vector isn't the right type of structure to begin with...
I had been thinking of starting this service.
Good quality spices are expensive. Also I think shipping costs are relatively higher from India compared to developed world.
Considering these points the subscription price would have to be slightly high.
Do you think there would be enough interest at a relatively high price point?
Software Engineering is a regulated profession in some cases.

Here's one of numerous standards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62304

Here's some FDA guidance covering Software Validation in Medical Devices:

http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/deviceregulationandguidanc...

It's absolutely essential that the FDA and international standards be applied when building a medical device, and that means that software must be developed according to the regulations.

Here's one reason why:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
>I just know more about lobbying than most people who harp about it.

Well then, enlighten us all as to why it is such a lucrative business despite your assertion that lobbyists primarily write persuasive letters extolling the virtues of employment in the coal mines.

If you're not just being obtuse, and really cannot see the connection between campaign finance and political influence, then it's time to question the source of your lobbying knowledge. Have you merely collected a large number of facts pertaining to lobbying?
First Class Functions and Delayed Evaluation in Swift
I agree with first comment. You definitely want to be more specific in the early adopters you're targeting. You mentioned exploring, that is a great word to use and should be part of your headline, something like "Explore the world around you." Your facebook page does a good job of giving examples of what the best use cases are. It will help for you to focus on travels who want to explore the city they are in.
> Chattanooga has the largest high-speed internet service in the US, offering customers access to speeds of 1 gigabit per second – about 50 times faster than the US average. The service, provided by municipally owned EPB, has sparked a tech boom in the city and attracted international attention. EPB is now petitioning the FCC to expand its territory. Comcast and others have previously sued unsuccessfully to stop EPB’s fibre optic roll out.

I did a quick search to see pricing for EPB's internet service and wow is it cheap[1]. The two plans listed on the site are 100 Mbps for $57.99/mo or 1Gpbs $69.99/mo. Oh and both plans are symmetric so you get that for upload as well.

I don't know of any city where the local cable co offers anything like that, let alone at those price points. No wonder they want to block this through legislation; competing in the market would not be pleasant for them.

[1]: https://epbfi.com/internet/
What, no ISO 8601?!

How very US-centric.

http://enwp.org/ISO_8601
What do you call as "spoken"? Does IRC count? If so, than yes, I did. I would have spoken to all of them face-to-face, but I missed last social gathering we have because I'm working on my thesis.

Does IMs like Hangouts/Facebook Messenger count? If yes, then again, I did.

If they don't count, then please explain to me the qualitative difference between talking on IM, texting, talking on the phone, e-mailing, writing letters and speaking face to face as form of thought exchange.

EDIT: now that I think about this... I guess instead of writing this comment I should have just taken your bet :).
Indeed, they're bound to lose many contracts if they're forced to comply.

Also it would be interesting to see if someone would be criminally liable in Ireland.
Good job for Microsoft being the first to stand up against a surveillance government. If only everyone else was brave enough to follow, we would see change.
Really, please, follow the links and read. Some of these drugs were or are being developed in other countries, so it's obviously not axiomatic the NIH's research had anything to do with their development.

And at least 3 of them are being done in conjunction with the FDA, 2 approved, the CBD drug in Phase 2/3 FDA level trials. This massive tainting somehow hasn't convinced the FDA that THC and CBD are bad.

Errr, I hope it's obvious that drug trials produce clinical data....

As for your final point, I would hope bmelton's comment would underline the folly of trying to use raw herbs of uncertain potency for reliably getting what is needed. Does Charlotte Figi need serious, hard to obtain quantities of CBD to stop her seizures, or will any old weed suffice???
Ask HN: What's the most challenging thing you've worked on?
I've been getting this question a lot lately in interviews, and am having trouble coming up with something. Either it's imposter syndrome and I think that nothing I've worked on was challenging, or I really haven't.

I'm wondering what other people would answer for this question, and how much detail would you give?

I'm specifically asking this question in a Software Engineering/Programmer context, not that interested in manager type challenges.
Really seems that you can take emacs back to the core by just looking at the origin of the name. Editor MACroS. Says it all right there, it isn't just a text editor.

Indeed, the text editor portion is almost incidental. Emacs is a set of programs that all operate with the text editor as the common environment.

This works remarkably well with things that communicate through text. Which is, not unsurprisingly, a lot. Doesn't work as well for purely visual things. Especially not those that are lacking a text representation.
Show me a programmer who is trying to reoptimize the STL, and I'll show you a programmer who is about to be laid off.

The guy who tried this at EA didn't last long there.
Show HN: Grunt-file – a command to quickly create, save and reuse gruntfiles
No, it is not arbitrary. Grandfather specifically praised navigation UX within maps. You should pay attention next time.
No, entirely new books/stories. New books can get a nice bump in sales if they make it into the "New and Noteworthy" list or if Amazon mentions them in their "New books in [x category]" emails. Publishing a revision to an existing book does not change the publication date.
I'm confused about the need. Although I live in a small English town (pop 110,000) which has a number of shops selling a wide variety of spices.

Would you be selling small kits of spices to prepare a meal, with a recipe delivered at the same time?
I don't understand what is so radical about firefox os. Why the other thinks that Android and Apple are inhibiting innovation in mobile OS ?
What's worse is when people take pictures of the receipt from a sushi restaurant to show off how much money they blew but they will not post anything negative that happens afterwards. #mercurypoisoining #yolo #expensivesushi

I see such people with 500+ even in some cases 1000+ friends on facebook. When talking with them in real life, you can feel that these type of people are social butterflies, placing quantity over quality of relationships. Not placing judgement on this style but when you have so many people on on facebook, it'd be a wonder how one can keep up with all of them, they probably don't. They probably constantly place people in different levels of relationship, far more often than someone with average or little friends on facebook, to filter out the social noise.

It's so easy now to make connection with someone you barely knew in university or college. It's suddenly overwhelming when you like someone's post and he/she has never been close to you. A constant battle for likes, as many as possible, from whoever possible. It's like highschool but you interat with each other with a yearbook only in separate rooms.

I can't even talk to 500 customers in one week by myself, if it was just through email by email basis with carefully thought out custom messages tailored to each individual written on the spot, it would take forever. 500 people alone is a staggering figure, I just don't know how people keep in contact with all 500 people with all the time. It must be exhausting.
What has always confused me is that the perceived gap between doctors and nurses is so big. I have the impression that nurses could benefit a lot from better training and there could be a good case for positions somewhere between a nurse and a doctor. Considering the effect that _care_ (time with patient) has on patients the current model with a demi-god in white just does not scale.

My optometrist (the guy selling glasses) measured my eye sight and found that I needed a correction for some corneal irregularity (pardon me if I did not translate the terms right). I had never been given such a reading from my ophthalmologist (eye doctor) who just wrote down dioptry corrections. My optometrist then told me that the specific doctor never wrote down these numbers (i.e. ignoring a condition). This tought me a lot about medical professionals and highly educated doctors. My doctor probably is just a little bored to measure and monitor visual acuity changes in a person with small eyesight issues. That ophthalmologist also had very good reputation working with accident victims, etc.
I'm also afraid of water, particularly large bodies of water (river, lake, ocean) where I can't see what's in it with me or see the bottom. My fear came after I learned how to swim. Its taken me years to build up the idea of trying to do something like this to get over the fear.
Well, we can say that every company does everything only for money, and that's probably not far from the truth. However, exactly because this can be taken as an universal truth, it's generally advisable to not ponder on this while discussing what and how they do, because it does not add anything to the conversation. In this case, we can agree that it's the right thing (for us). Similarly, if you buy a good car, you don't always think on that 'they made this only for money'.
Are you proposing a 32-issue processor instead of eight 4-issue cores? One problem with that is that most software doesn't have enough instruction-level parallelism to use such resources. Such a complex processor would also be likely to become bottlenecked on central control structures like the issue window (which can be solved with clustering, but then you're almost back to multicore). But check out EDGE/TRIPS/E2 for some ideas in this area.
Ask HN: Why did JavaScript win the browser?
I'm trying to understand why Javascript won the browser.

There were tens of other languages one could have added in a browser, and yet this particular one, which wasn't even an established language but a new one, ended up being implemented in browsers.

How did that happen? If you were implementing Netscape or IE back then, what was going through your mind when you sat down implementing version one?
You mean there's code... not on the web?!
There is also a strange obsession with consulting. How do you find customers that aren't mom and pop shops looking for someone to build their site for $200?
All this sounds quite a bit like Marx's theory of alienation:

"The theoretic basis of alienation within the capitalist mode of production is that the worker invariably loses the ability to determine his or her life and destiny, when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of himself as the director of his actions; to determine the character of said actions; to define their relationship with other people; and to own the things and use the value of the goods and services, produced with their labour."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation
Me and my wife love quality spices and different recipes. We had been thinking of starting our own business. Do you think there are enough enthusiasts willing to pay for monthly exotic spices + exciting recipes? I am trying to do market research of sorts :) If there is enough interest, will roll out the service pretty soon.
That said, I don't think this has much to do with protecting MS's customers, or for that matter standing up for them as it is presented. I'm pretty sure it's more about MS operations being able to continue to run in Ireland and the rest of the EU. If MS hands this data over, you can be assured that MS would face stiff penalties and restrictions to even be able to operate in the EU, and would likely have their Azure facilities shut down as a result.

MS is stuck between a rock and a hard place here, no doubt, and I think it's important for this stand to be made. Hopefully sanity will prevail here...

I don't think the U.S. government would appreciate if Google were forced to turn over the Google Apps data of scientific universities to China because of a court order there.