skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never seen a doctor research anything either

That's a little surprising to me. One of the coolest things about practicing medicine today is that I can pull out my phone in front of a patient and find guidelines that I'm not familiar with, medication side-effects, and other point-of-care resources that really do enhance my clinical ability in real-time.

Granted, I work in a hospital setting. Maybe it's different in the clinics.

BTW, though I feel I'm underpaid for what I do (which many outsiders would find ridiculous), I'm overall pretty happy with being a physician.

> I'd take a crowd sourced db of health info over a doctor's personal knowledge any day of the week.

So would I. But what you'd learn in the first week of hanging out with a doctor in a typical clinical setting is that most patients are frankly too uneducated to be able to use that kind of tool. When I did residency, I suspect most of the patients I saw didn't have internet. Many were illiterate and a disturbing number simply didn't care about their own well-being.

I'd love to build up a practice with patients like you, but people like you tend to be pretty healthy.
That's why i started to write it :)
4 weeks after 4 years (starts at 3 weeks for new employees). Note that we are forced to use 2-4 of those days during the yearly winter shutdown. There's also a limit to the accrual of vacation time, so if you let them build up over the max amount (around 6-7 weeks worth), you'll start to lose some of those days.
Is there a roadmap of what's to come? How about linking containers?
I think the Folly small vector library is much more interesting and can yield better performance (if you hit the sweet spot).

https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/sma...

From what I understand, using a "rvalue-reference ready" vector implementation with a good memory allocator must work at least as good as FBVector.
You're comparing apples and squirrels.
You probably wanted to say Linux or more mature than Hurd despite its 1 year head start, which is not as dramatic.
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I am willing to bet you've only spoken to less than 10 people who you call friends in the last 7 days. Family doesn't count.
This is a great explanation, thanks.
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It's not easy. I had the same plan a few months ago. Thought I'd share my own (ongoing) story, maybe it will give you some ideas. Some background, I'm a engineer at a YC company in San Francisco. I was also looking for a passive income side project and after a few attempts from scratch sputtered I happened upon a website auction at flippa.com for an interesting webapp: www.postrgram.com

I spoke with the owner over Skype about it, he'd run the site for a couple years, had invested a lot of time into getting the licensed mosaic software tuned correctly, but had put virtually nothing into marketing and was still printing orders himself with a giant industrial Canon printer. Not surprisingly he was tired of it. I realized the printing process could be automated and business could potentially be expended by integrating with Facebook and offering a free digital option if the customer allowed a post on their wall. Long story short I bought 80% of the business a few weeks ago and I'm working on those things right now. I'm sure there will be snags in the road but I'm on my way toward my primary goal of getting a product on the market that will not require my time to run on a day-to-day basis. Currently income is less than 1000/month but I hope to see that grow.

My advice when thinking about a project like this yourself (and it's fine to start from scratch, though that's not what I did) is to take the basic tenants of running a startup to heart and just apply them on a micro scale:

1) let the real world inform your choices. In my case I happened upon a product that already had some validation. In your case maybe you just need to find that one pain-point you can help solve. Always be thinking of ideas, ask your friends, read a lot.

2) be efficient. get good at rapid prototyping and shipping ideas for validation. Always be asking yourself this question: is this the most valuable thing I can be doing with my time right now? Force yourself to move fast. You'll get better at learning what works and what doesn't.

3) Consider finding a partner who you can join forces with. Two people can be more effective than the sum of their parts. Not to mention expanding your network of friends and contacts is in many ways more valuable than wealth.

4) follow the money. It sounds crass but after all it is the goal and it's also the most tangible effect of providing value to someone. Even at a micro scale if you're not converting customers it's a red flag.

5) my personal style is to be be wary of saturated markets like social networks, mobile apps, etc. on the flip-side i personally feel there's potential in the blogging landscape and popular product integrations (like widgets).

Sorry that ran a little long, I'm on a road trip right now (not driving), just some stream of thought ideas. Good luck!
Indeed - I've found being able to read ARM assembler extremely useful, especially when dealing with buggy closed source libraries or doing WinCE development. Haven't had cause to write very much though. Writing assembler is really only useful when you're doing vectorised or other high-performance arithmetic on the CPU.
Pretty much just a GUI in our beta. We do some things special like:

- Automatically creates a folder under ~/Kitematic for each Volume.

- One click NSEnter into any container.

- Any container can be accessed at <container_name>.dev (automatically sets up a DNS for you, so you can connect a database too using that URL).

We're really just trying to make Docker easier to use for Mac right now. More will come.
What's meant by violent protest then?

Perhaps we can use animal rights protests in the UK. These started off by increasing welfare for farm animals; reducing use of animal testing in cosmetics; reducing the amount of fur sold in department stores. But then other changes included tighter controls on what demonstrations could do and now UK government is hardline on supporting vivisection and denying rights to (even peacefully) protest such.
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> Ten years ago, I started a campaign against the use of Asperger Syndrome as a diagnosis, arguing that it was a particularly absurd diagnosis, able to reliably "diagnose" bright kids as mentally ill. After years of hearing from people like you who know nothing about the topic under discussion, Asperger Syndrome was abandoned for the reasons I gave.

Asperger's wasn't "abandoned," it was folded into the broader spectrum of autism--and not by the field in general but only by the DSM, which you seem to distrust specifically, so I'm not quite sure where you're going with this claim.

My Asperger's/autism diagnosis has made a huge difference to my quality of life, by helping me understand, deal with, and find support for my particular social, sensory, and mental-processing issues. The same is true for thousands of others, and we're kind of tired of you psychology deniers telling us that we don't exist.
Linking containers is definitely something we're looking into for the future.

In this release, there is environment variable support in settings.
A 30% error rate is far, far too large for this to be useful as a first line filter. Even error rates of less than 1/3 of that (10%) lead to combinatorial effects that make for very unreliable tests. At best, this would be a corroborating test, and not a very strong one at that.
The tagline does seem to be marketing jargon, good for them. I'm seasoned with the docker CLI and I still think this is awesome, a UI on top of docker. Mostly it means that I can convince my teammates (who, for example, heavily use GitHub for Mac) to dive into docker without whining.
> Please don't use the term "we". I'm not a sociopath and I have sympathy for people who were treated unjustfully.

A thousand times this.
I worked at TDC for two years as a CO. I have not worked there in almost two decades but I remain close with people who do. I can tell you that the budgets for things like the Windham School System http://www.windhamschooldistrict.org have been cut in recent years. Libraries have been closed. And, that it is a smaller number of inmates that are actually enrolled and taking courses than what's been posted at the Wiki.

Yes, there is no "forced labor" but there definitely is "coerced labor", as there are some benefits that will be withheld from inmates who do not work. OTOH, many inmates are willing to work for the mere reason that it helps stave off the boredom.

There are few units with air conditioning, usually only medical units, and the units get dangerously hot during the summer. Your friend is lucky to have the commissary job, as it is one of few air conditioned places in most prison units.

AMAA, I'll check back here in a few.
What's wrong with IRC? :)
The problem with that was that performance sucked when there were too many sandboxes, so the first thing teams did was combine into one yui instance, defeating the purpose.
Hadn't seen the DNS feature yet, that is amazingly useful! Thank you for that.
Does your `.dev` container access conflict with users of pow.cx? Is that configurable?
> When I did residency, I suspect most of the patients I saw didn't have internet. Many were illiterate and a disturbing number simply didn't care about their own well-being.

> I'd love to build up a practice with patients like you, but people like you tend to be pretty healthy.

There's also the factor that teaching hospitals tend to get a lot of poor and uneducated patients. Private clinics have a different clientèle, and there are definitely plenty of individuals out there who are not in perfect medical condition, yet are educated/informed enough for doctors to interact with on a higher level than they currently do.
It seems to me that every researcher will have a different level of 'amplifiers' in their writing, so this will be a really hard classifier to train generally.
I doubt many people pair an i3 with 32gb RAM.
You seem quick to blame the "profit taking business" aspect of this but what about the government regulation and interference in medicine that caused "medicine as big business" to be the only way many doctors could operate. A sole practicioner these days would drown in paperwork and regulatory overhead. Many see their only option as becoming employees of large health care corporations.
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This is exactly my experience and that of most people in the field I've worked with. In fact, many people have said the quality/processing of data is much more important than the machine learning model you use.

The exception is those fields that have physical data, like computer vision or speech recognition. In those fields, the actual model matters a lot more.

I think every job has this tendency, where the public focus on the most exciting and interesting part, and ignore the mundane but also extremely important parts.

And on the matter of skill/ability, in spite of not being a Kaggle winner, the author couldn't do their job without a good understanding of machine learning models. To do machine learning in practice, you must know both the software development/systems side and the maths/stats/ML side.
Only as a prefix operator; * has a pointer-related meaning for prefix and an arithmetic meaning for infix, there's no reason * * shouldn't be the same.
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The commissary is air conditioned, and commissary workers have the best access to limited supplies of "luxury" goods. Inmates at TDCJ aren't paid wages, but IIRC it may affect their "good-time earning class".

source: I once worked there as a CO.
Thanks for the clarification. That makes sense to me :)
Drawing ellipses is easy. Just pick any canvas library: https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/HTML/Canvas#Librar...

I'm afraid you have to calculate the intersections yourself though. I know there is a Processing(.org) plugin that does that kind of thing (might be called "intersection") and Processing can export to JS. I hope this helps at least a little bit.
Cool stuff. But doesn't work for me. It's not saving when I press prefix+Alt+s. Anyone with the same experience?

I'm on MBP, tmux 1.9a.
This does depend quite a bit on the market. Large engineering companies, for example, are often resistant to contractors billing in anything but hours, because their whole accounting/etc. system is set up to track internal and external person-hours and lots of things are keyed on that. You can de-facto bill them in 8-hour increments, and your direct contact may agree to that, but moving the bureaucracy so you can officially bill "days" is harder. Even quite large consultants end up following the hourly-billing standard, e.g. when Booz Allen Hamilton does work for oil companies, they bill hours, just like individual consultants do.
I was just looking for something like this a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for sharing!
I feel like anyone who genuinely cares about those who face hardships and put in a full effort in changing their life for the better deserves whatever help we can give them. I'm sure many people's lives of those who read HN are littered with examples of people giving them an edge that helped contribute to their success.

Me personally, I have much to be thankful for with friends taking me in when homeless and people giving me a shot at a career without much experience. I try to help those I see make good efforts at starting a career, and for those who want to enter the world of software engineering, I tutor them for free and point them to resources that would assist in their independent study.
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I think it's a mistake whether for financial reasons or in terms of personal satisfaction. You go into a field because you are interested in learning and engaging with the problems in that field. Not for status or rewards.

You can't enter a profession on the basis that it will be personally rewarding. You can only leave because it turns out not to be.
Being able to read x64 assembler even if you can't write it is great for debugging strange issues.
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i work for them, but thanks goodness never had to hear them sing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EqwvLzBWAs

Here is the same song sang by an PC/XT speaker (the speaker that beeps when BIOS fails); the singer is a program in GW-Basic

now this corporate song seems to be even newer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV2oBZU7tGg

and another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGRjLdG71TE
How would you feel about IBM's Watson providing a second opinion to help with your care delivery?

Watson thread from <1 week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8237618
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There is one on the Angular.js website itself: https://builtwith.angularjs.org/
> Despite a federal court order directing Microsoft to turn overseas-held email data to federal authorities, the software giant said Friday it will continue to withhold that information as it waits for the case to wind through the appeals process. The judge has now ordered both Microsoft and federal prosecutors to advise her how to proceed by next Friday, September 5.

> Let there be no doubt that Microsoft's actions in this controversial case are customer-centric. The firm isn't just standing up to the US government on moral principles. It's now defying a federal court order.

Whoever wrote this clearly didn't bother wondering if, just maybe, handing out customer data "overseas" ("overseas" apparently means Ireland) would be illegal under EU and Irish law. But let's not minor details like this get in the way of good PR.
Not sure yet. Still doing tests around it. [The goal of this beta release is to find most of the bugs so we can iron it out]. I'm sure we'll iron out most of them in the coming week.
I think another frustration doctors are feeling today is due to a lack of patient-doctor relationships.

Society views doctors as tools that society has a legal right to.
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Ah okay, I thought he meant personally.
If you ignore the arities, ignore the internal state, and correctly observe the unwritten rules, yes transducers act like function composition. I looked into this here: http://www.colourcoding.net/blog/archive/2014/08/16/lets-wri...

I think Rich's innovation here is extremely clever and quite subtle, but it's pretty Clojure-specific, both in terms of the problem it solves and the way it solves it.
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You are of course correct, my comment was a bit too sarcastic. The history piece was really interesting.

I work around a lot of physicians, and I've become a bit tired of hearing them complain about their jobs and pay... so I think I zeroed in on that part of the article.
We do that. [Although primitive at the moment]
+1 to MS!
Developer license here ;)

It's a monthly fee for the pro version but it's about a 2 yr bnreak even with just buying it at $199

If you're unfamiliar with the history, Prepar3d is an evolution (by Lockheed Martin) of the old FSX codebase - but they've updated it with multi-core support, DX11, etc. Most (but not all) FSX addons are compatible, and it gives better frames at MUCH better visual quality than FSX.
Linode. I'm so happy with it
Most of the increases in life expectancy came from getting more people who might have otherwise died young to live full lives. It's worth looking at life expectancy charts for your age, rather than the ones for newborns. They'll give you a more realistic view of what you can expect.
Hey, folders will be created under ~/Kitematic/app_name/volume_name, and the contents of the volume will be sync'ed across the folder and the container.
Thanks! Yeah, we still have got some work to do there.

If you register, though, you'll become a part of a community built for sharing knowledge about what's happening, and where to find cool stuff to explore. At least, we got a gut feeling saying the patterns we implement allow the community to grow in that direction.

For example, there is no friending/following. All conversations are open for everybody to see. And we allow people to vote both up and down. The filters we plan to implement, will hopefully make the community much more noise-free than other similar services.

It's a bit of work left, but we really hope we'll make it happen in not too long.
> Asperger's wasn't "abandoned," it was folded into the broader spectrum of autism ...

This is a common misconception. Asperger's wasn't folded into the parent category, instead those who were diagnosed with Asperger's, and the symptom constellation it represented, were folded into the parent category. Asperger's was abandoned.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?pag...

Quote: "Some experts worry that the loss of the label [emphasis added] will inhibit mildly affected people from being assessed for autism. “The general public has either a neutral or fairly positive view of the term Asperger’s syndrome,” said Tony Attwood, a psychologist based in Australia who wrote “The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome” (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006). But if people are told they should be evaluated for autism, he went on, “they will say: ‘No, no, no. I can talk. I have a friend. What a ridiculous suggestion!’ So we will miss the opportunity to assess people.”"

It's clear from the above that we're talking about a label, not a diagnosis. The label has been abandoned, and those seeking a diagnosis du jour with have to settle for Autism, universally regarded as undesirable.

The thinking was that, if people with an Asperger's diagnosis knew they would be recategorized as autistic, this would reduce the diagnosis rate to something more consistent with reality, and the immediate motivation for the change was to halt an epidemic of nonsense diagnoses.

> The same is true for thousands of others, and we're kind of tired of you psychology deniers telling us that we don't exist.

You mean, along with all responsible psychiatrists and psychologists, all of whom now realize their mistake in allowing this diagnosis to come into existence?

Your protest is on a par with someone who feels that his religious beliefs have been disparaged or discriminated against. I say this because Asperger Syndrome does not exist. The mental health profession now agrees and, by removing Asperger's from the DSM, has taken steps to signal clinicians to avoid use of the label.

As to "psychology deniers", you may not be aware that the present chairman of the NIMH has recently ruled that the DSM may no longer be used as the basis for scientific research proposals, for the simple reason that it has no scientific content:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-rats-of-n-i-m-h

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

The first step was the elimination of Asperger's from the DSM. The second step is the elimination of the DSM from serious conversation among scientists. So, tell me, which part of this recitation of real events is causing you the most personal anguish?

In closing, I want to say something that you ought to find reassuring -- you're not a diagnosis, you're a human being. The Asperger's story proves that diagnoses don't have rights and can be abandoned without warning. But human beings have inalienable rights, and cannot be abandoned. Start thinking of yourself as a human being -- see how it works out for you.
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Yeah, the regulation can be a bit onerous, but most of its there for a reason. Especially the record keeping part, there is no reason your medical records should ever go on paper. The amount of waste due to unnecessary tests is just staggering, and most of it comes down to poor record keeping and transfer.
if the ruling is upheld, web services that face legal discovery like google, dropbox, facebook, microsoft, etc will face an amazing burden of data retention cost.

there is an amazing tax already on these services having to implement per government specific retention policies based on where they do business. for example in ireland, by law you need to be able to produce up to a year of content even if an account has been deleted. in the u.s. the period is much shorter. so if other countries create similar legislation after seeing a u.s. version of this law stick, everyone will have to implement a myriad of retention policies, or worst case retention, in every datacenter they operate. it drives up cost and complexity in the services.

this might not be popular to say, but microsoft taking a stand here is an amazingly good thing for our industry.
Machine Learning is just a part of many steps required to solve a practical problem. In my opinion although data cleansing/pre processing is important , but so are other things like feature engineering, model selection, understanding of machine learning models. And kaggle competitions are great way to practically learn these other things.
If I undertstand you correctly:

tmux new-session -t <existing_session_name>

(Do a "tmux ls" to see existing sessions)

The one problem with this approach is that each session created this way (i.e. one that "attaches" to an existing session) actually creates a new "mirror" (?) session that will eventually clutter up your list of existing sessions.

My workaround is to create an initial named session (tmux new-session -s name), then attach to that named session. I never use "tmux ls" :p

You may also want to add "set-window-option -g aggressive-resize on" to your .tmux.conf (or prepend with "tmux" and run it in an existing session). To quote the manpage: "will resize the window to the size of the smallest session for which it is the current window, rather than the smallest session to which it is attached".
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