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

I have. It's terrifying. I recently went to the GP, told them my condition (which had been diagnosed by a different GP) and their first response was to look it up on Wikipedia. Seriously. I understand that a GP isn't going to know every condition you come in with but Wikipedia as the reference material?
The cool thing is the other office shuts down for Thanksgiving, but we don’t (inorite?) so instead they give us 3 days to take whenever else we want (pending approval).
Counterpoint: try googling "Volstate EPB".

I'm no expert, but I think it would be a shame if small struggling ISPs get the short end of the stick. It's hard for me to make a judgement on this specifically.
What are ‘nearables,’ and why is Ideo so excited about them?
On #2, they do tell their customers that, in fact it's even a significant component of their cloud marketing. One of their attempted selling points vis-a-vis Google Apps for Business is that going with Microsoft for things like hosted email is safer from an EU-compliance point of view.
Terrible, awful legal pseudo-advice about DMCA and "ownership." Do not fall for this, devs.

There is a very strong chance that a payment dispute will legally be viewed as just that -- a matter to be solved by negotiation and perhaps a monetary judgment. The rest of the contract will all still stand, likely including any copyright assignment, work for hire, etc.

Trying to DMCA someone who hasn't paid an invoice is a chump move that has a very real chance of winding you up with a bad faith or tortious interference response, or worse.

A contract dev doing 25k worth of work should generally not be lawyering up, unless there's a major non cash component (eg equity in the project). If you don't trust the counterparts keep them on a tight leash for invoicing meaning get paid often and don't build up a receivable. But spending a thousand bucks on a lawyer and trying to get a company who probably actually does have "standard" paper and very good reason to want to stick with it, to customize their docs for your tiny one off deal is a rookie move and a waste of time and dough.

The stuff you say about keeping an evidence chain of work and commits etc... That's spot on. But the reason it's spot on is that it's just good business.
KEGG filters for organism, although it's automated and not 100% correct.

There's also a lot that's not on either map, like specialized secondary metabolite synthesis pathways (although kegg has select secondary pathways).
Read the comment I replied to. I'm pretty sure s/he was being sarcastic, but I'm also pretty sure a lot of kids now think of a fire extinguisher as a useful tool for navigation in gravity wells.
Does anyone know what's a good macro-assembler these days? The article recommends NASM, but I don't know if it's comparable to MASM for larger, more complex projects.

I rather fancy getting back into writing asm, just to sharpen that skill. I haven't really written any since MASM 6.x on DOS, 20-ish years ago. I actually found it quite enjoyable and it's surprising how complex an application you can write from scratch in assembly without it becoming unmanageable, so long as you get into the right mindset and make effective use of macros.

Of course, any significant piece of assembly code is likely to contain considerably more bugs than just about anything else of the same complexity. You'll also experience a lot more segfaults during development than perhaps most are comfortable with, but there's something rewarding about controlling precisely what the machine is doing at that level. This is especially true if you manage to find a novel solution that just wouldn't exist when the hardware capabilities are abstracted away by a high level language.

In the same way that everyone should learn a Lisp to think in terms of ASTs and code-as-data, everyone should write at least one whole application in assembly just to appreciate how the hardware really works. Also to see how often there are many ways to solve the same problem (especially with an x86 instruction set), sometimes with wildly different performance characteristics.
>How do you explain Bell inequality violations without involving entanglement?

i still can't in details :) I so far have worked my way only until double-slit experiments - no superposition there :) For Bell violations i bet we have the same mis-interpretation of statistical aggregate description as individual realization (this "mis-interpreation" is the Copenghagen's superposition) as in double-slits. In case of Bell violations experiments it seems to be the same as "disjoint sampling loophole" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopholes_in_Bell_test_experime...

>If we get quantum computers working at a non-trivial scale, would you consider that to be strong evidence for entanglement?

it would be strong evidence for superposition and thus for entanglement. Want these computers like anybody else, yet don't really see them happening :(
I don't want to disagree with what you're saying, I just want to disagree with your methodology here. Just one point:

How can you start up ad hominem attacks on the woman here, "repeated problems with the law", while completely (and I'm hoping not knowingly) omitting all that similar information about the officer? I don't understand.

How can you be so slanted in your presentation? Let me just fill in the details, from your link [1], that you dropped:

Officer Bovell said that the police department’s Internal Affairs
Division had suspended him for five days without pay, docked him 25
vacation days, rescinded his second job as a bank security guard and put
him on probation for a year. He said that in addition to the three
tickets that he was penalized for, he had also fixed three other parking
tickets.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/nyregion/officer-stands-by...
My MacBookPro's fans start running right after I launch this.

Activity Monitor shows that the node-helper process is eating
up no less than 20% cpu, even when no apps are active.

(are all Meteor apps like this?)

This looks nice but unless you can fix that I'm just going to
stick with using Docker on OSX the hard way.
Software effort estimation methods fail because they ignore the margin of error. In Mathematics, engineering and statistics a result does not mean anything if it does not include the margin of error. One month may be one month if the margin of error is one day, and one month may be one year if the margin of error is one year. Classic estimation techniques like Cocomo or Albrecht Function Points ignore this fact. They have no mathematical rigor. If presented with mathematical rigor they would be absurd, because their margin of error is between 100% and 600%. Classic software effort estimation techniques are harmfull and dangerous, because ignoring the margin of error they invite to make decisions that ignore existing risks. No automatic method can replace human experience and wisdom. They have not bound margin of error too, but at least they do not pretend to hide existing risks.
I like having a tablet around for quickly looking up stuff, or showing someone a video or photos. However, I got one free with my phone and it's good enough that I'm not sure I'd bother buying a more powerful one.

On a side note, what I would buy is a tablet with an HDMI input so I could use it as a portable monitor (field monitors are too bulky and pricey!). Anyone know if such a thing is available?
Seriously, I can't even count the amount of times I read about a company doing something good/bad/neutral in a day and reading comments about said action that boil down to "they only did it for money". Who fucking cares what their motivations are, a business is an entity designed to make money and they are made up of multiple different people with different morals and convictions. I wish these people would comment on the actual events and not the "corrupt money grubbing motivations" behind said events.
Being charitable the GP wanted to know what misinformation the patients come in with.

Being realistic: yes, it's terrifying. GPs are subject to the same biases and prejudices as everyone else.
How Facebook killed by mistake a 250k users app
Using !important for good, not evil
lets be honest, the VA is not a shining example of health care. Much lower costs are not worth it considering the stories coming out of the VA.
If MS does hands over the data. Governments by regulations will outlaw every European company and government entities to store data with them.
There is too much hype, solving data-related problems requires many different skills and it depends on the problem. In general you need background in quite a few of these areas linear algebra, probability, statistical modeling, stochastic processes, computer science, programming, signal processing, etc. We used to call this electrical/computer engineering :-)
Telcos are a disease in the American economy.
The article makes the opposite point - that government bureaucracy (and the mal-incentives it creates) is what is killing the relationships between doctors and patients.
Often a technical realistic schedule is derived and presented, but the business side deems the project cost is too high and asks the schedule to be "optimized." The optimistic scenarios of the schedule is adapted and revised. Of course reality sets in when the project goes forward and it ends up taking as much time as predicted.
I don't disagree with what you are saying, but you are not answering my question.
It's not as straightforward as Kaggle representing one stage in a pipeline. Kaggle also fixes this stage in an unnatural way.

In real life, there is a feedback loop from modelling, to data processing. In Kaggle all you can do is improve your model. You can't go back and change how data was processed, or collect different sorts of data.

Also, some flows simply don't fit into Kaggle's train/test paradigm. E.g. suppose you have an online algorithm that continuously updates parameters. Or situations where the model is used to generate the train/test data.

Finally some situations may have stringent computational requirements, e.g. <100ms to classify a single instance.
I still see old login screen when I click "sign in" in incognito mode on amazon.com

Out of 5 loads Amazon showed me old screen 4 times and new screen 1 time.
For experienced programmer this is most certainly true. If you are just starting however it is much easier if tutorial uses the same platform you are targeting.
Parallel Universe (YC S12) Is Hiring a Developer Evangelist
Parallel Universe is building next generation server-side open source infrastructure software, that lets developers write simple code that is extremely performant and scalable. We believe while hardware architecture changed drastically almost a decade ago, software hasn't caught up. Current software clashes with hardware, and requires more effort to be expended on scaling rather than on business logic. The problem is most severe in server-side software that ingests real-time data, and needs to respond to a very large number of concurrent requests at low latencies. It facilitates software that is harmonious with modern hardware -- with multi-core and multi-cache, with the storage hierarchy and the IO-to-processing ratio -- rather than software that fights the hardware at every turn. The result is applications that require far less hardware, while at the same time provide much greater performance and headroom for growth.

As a developer evangelist, your job would be to help drive adoption of the Parallel Universe stack. The job is a mix of marketing, coding, sales, and geeking out. On the job you will:

* Write demos and benchmarks, and blog about them

* Write introductory blog posts and tutorials

* Speak at (and organize) developer events and hosted tech-talks

* Study the problems facing potential users, and help direct our software to best address those problems

* Provide support and guidance on technical forums and social media

* Provide on-site support and guidance for customers

* Build and cultivate relationships with US companies

Requirements:

* Experience writing software for the JVM, especially in Java (knowing Clojure is a plus)

* Strong familiarity with modern server-side architectures

* Participation in developer communities

* Strong technical writing skills

* Public speaking experience

* Strong social skills and an outgoing personality

* Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area

You will work from home, but travel in the Bay Area (and occasionally in the rest of the US) to visit companies and participate in events. We offer a competitive salary (with benefits) and equity.

To apply, email jobs@paralleluniverse.co
X86 assembly video course
The VA is not a good example of a working system though, it has been heavily in the news for denying timely treatment, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Administration_...
> The problem is that the industrialization of medicine makes it increasingly difficult to be helpful.

Atul gawande, which is a doctor and a healthcare journalist ,and knows the medical system from inside, thinks that industrialized medicine is exactly what's needed:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/13/big-med

And in general the positive results from decision support systems seem to agree with him.
According to Wikipedia[0], Brendan Eich was originally supposed to put Scheme in the Netscape web browser. Instead he decided to create Javascript and used that instead.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Netscape_and_JavaS...
I don't think the foreign country would care unless it was data that was owned or related to an entity in that country.

Its an american owned and operated data center in Irelend (where I live). Presumably the email is 'owned' by an american and the case involves all american actors(cant really make that assumption I guess) so there dosn't seem to be anything to spark the interest of the Irish legislature. Unless you make the leap to the point that now america can just demand ALL the data in that data center which you certainly could.

This isn't really the same as a warrant either is it? They are not demanding to be allowed access to or to search the data center. Microsoft in America is being ordered to hand over a document that they have access to, where that document is seems irrelevant (just playing devils advocate).

Also the chances of any small to medium sized nation (particularly Ireland) getting on their high horses about this is quite unlikely due to the amount of money these large multi-nationals bring here. In fact if this is upheld I imagine it would be another boon for Ireland as the american companies will have to set up even more infrastructure so that they can argue that its a completely separate entity that they simply funnel customers to or whatever. If the companies act first they could even get favorable Irish legislation passed to prevent the type of treaty talked about in the article (although this would be a pretty ballsy move for Ireland)
Give me a $199 eInk tablet optimized for reading PDFs, and I'd buy one. I would want a hi-rez 13" B&W screen on which PDF charts, diagrams, maps, B&W photos, etc. looked as good as on a 300dpi laser printed page and a battery that would last for a few days of reading.

At that price, I'd risk carrying it with me all the time. With that battery life, it would usually be usable, and with that screen, I would be able to read what I really want to read (journal articles, programming books, textbooks with lots of equations, history books with maps, etc.), unlike the plain-text fare I'm usually limited to with a Kindle eInk device.

I don't know if such a thing could be built yet at that price, but there are tablet niches such as these serious reading devices that haven't been served yet.
I wonder if there will be a similar increase in sales of laptops etc. Smaller laptops can have similar battery life to a tablet but with the advantage of more power.

Or is it that people are buying devices in cycles that are roughly synchronised?
Not sure if calc already existed in 1984.

But Stallman argued (in one of the early emacs papers) that dynamic scope is much more convenient for a editor than lexical scoping (as implemented in scheme or Common Lisp)

Dynamic scope makes it easier to change some variable per buffer. With lexical scoping you would need to simulate dynamic scope somehow to be able to change state per buffer.
it may already be too late for your city. often when cable companies wire up a town, they offer free access to gov and school buildings in return for exclusive development rights. no one can compete with them, including the town itself.
The importance of calling a spade a spade
This is because the USG already has backdoors, right?
A guess, but I think he lives in India and probably cares more about INR return than USD return.
To me it sounded more like "the problems they do at Mathematical Olympiads are not the real mathematics done at academia/the enterprise," which turns out to be quite true in many ways.
When GeoGuessr first launched, some of the locations seemed non-random. This made it less enjoyable to play because it hinted that the locations were maybe solvable or famous enough that they should be recognised.

For me the thrill of GeoGuessr was always finding yourself at a random point of earth and trying to work the continent and the latitude based on vegetation, road markings and vehicles.

Still, restricting the guess area to a country or city might be fun if you have visited it and could possibly name a place or two.
A good overview of the paper is given by Ran Bi:

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/06/deep-learning-deep-flaws.ht...

And a previous discussion of the results can be found at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7916877
Huh? Of course it makes sense to ponder on the reasons behind a particular companies decision? That is what we call "the stock market". Theres such a thing as strategy.

What I'm saying is that there are companies that care about your data for it is their strategy, and then there are companies like Microsoft that will happily steer the ship given whatever wind is blowing at them on any given day.
Are they slowing or are they shifting to giant phones?
> Microsoft is not a person with principles. It's 90,000ish people with different principles. I'm sure some people really believe in the right to privacy, some want to avoid angering customers, some don't care, etc. The reasons and motivations behind a company's actions are as diverse as the actors involved.

No, they really aren't. It's not even true for a democracy, where "we the people" get to vote for a small elite, which in turns will enact laws taking into account lobbying pressure, pressure from political allies, personal interests, likelihood of being re-elected, and occasionally the interest of the people and personal convictions.

A company, especially at this size, is not a democracy. Maybe the janitor believes in privacy, and the clerk trusts the government, but at the end of the day, strategic decisions like this one rest in the hand of a small group at the top. Some of them may occasionally put their principles before "shareholder value" or "next week's bonus", but it looks pretty rare in practice.
That'd be a syntactic ambiguity (in C-type languages) between "a * * b" being a to the power of b (i.e. "(a) * * (b)") or "a * * b" being a times the dereferencing of the pointer b (i.e. "(a) * (*b)"). You may be able to disambiguate this by prescedence, though it would be very ugly in the lexer (you could never have a STARSTAR token, it would have to be handled in the grammar) and would be terribly confusing.
The decline in laptop sales has slowed [1]. IMO a big part of the decline in tablet sales may have to do with Chromebooks. They have hit a niche in the lower end that tablets supposedly killed 4 years ago. That combined with a saturated market and no new Wiz-Bang Tablets so far this year.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2599990/windows-pcs/mac...
Legal sources of ivory will only increase poaching.

We have problems with blood diamonds, do we really want to allow a legal market that involves the harvesting of living beings for luxury resources?

Unless we're talking buying 100,000acres and running a breeding operation (inseminating the females) and culling all the excess males I don't see this being remotely possible, and even if it was possible in a practical sense the morality issues outweigh all.

I can't even grasp why anyone needs something made of ivory. If your life is so devoid of meaning, and so full of money to waste on material excess... I actually just pitty you.
What is your CTR in AdSense? (I have an average of 1.3%).
I resisted buying a tablet right up until I absolutely had to (to help a client finish a web dev project). Now that I've had it for a while, I wouldn't go without one. I've got everything from Pythonista and Codea to Machine World on there, and my wife is always borrowing it to take on short trips with the kids. Although I could certainly get by without a tablet, now that I have one, it's like this whole new world has opened up.

So...if you are leaving comments here about "I would buy a tablet if..." That's where I was a few months ago, and I think you should just bite the bullet and buy one. They're good enough now.

(and using Pythonista and Codea...brilliant IDE adaptations to the tablet + finger use case)
Oh yeah, that'll totally help when debugging my iOS or Android code.
I'd imagine the proportion of "good" doctors might be about the same as good programmers, or good teachers, though probably exceeds the supply of "good" politicians.

Point is medical care is only as good as the quality of the "team" consisting of the doctor and the patient. It's a partnership, an expression of the doctor-patient relationship. Not every two people will form a natural team, after all, many marriages fail.

It's kind of a cliche, but still true, find a doctor you can work with, someone you can trust and relate to. More likely than not, that's the the definition of a "good" doctor.
So true. Also, in San Francisco, many nurses in certain departments earn much more than doctors do.
How I build stuff
Do you have Minara available somewhere? I'd be interested in taking a look.
Mathematical Predictions for the iPhone 6
There is the Data Protection Law, which makes, as far as I understand, transferring data to the US as ordered by the judge illegal.

That said, why would you be surprised that the same governments happily collaborating with the NSA wouldn't do anything about privacy? We're pretty lucky as it is to have a privacy protection law at all.
The Universal ‘Anger Face’
I still run an iPad 2. Even though its not as responsive on iOS7, it does the job.
No monthly data caps either according to these reviews http://www.dslreports.com/comments/3492
When was this glorious time? Certainly doesn't seem like that would have been anytime since the 19th century, at the latest.
Security vulnerability database. Security vulnerabilities, exploits and more
Googling around turned up some pretty interesting results from programmers specifically: http://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/1n93n4/the_lsd_m...
Anatomy of a touch interaction: Swipe to peep
I don't know that I'd say it's easy, but it is certainly possible. The big takeaway from the article that I agree with is that historical data significantly improves estimates. If you know that e.g., the last 5 projects took an average of x weeks on the authentication layer, then it's likely that your project will take somewhere around the same time.

The problem is that most companies don't record this data. Start today!
Thanks for all replies. I tested this before the tmux solution, and I must say I'm impressed.

Ctrl-c worked like I was running a single app:

16:44:33 scss | QUIT
16:44:33 webpack | QUIT
16:44:33 nginx | QUIT
16:44:33 go | QUIT

This was better than expected! I suppose tmux will be preferable if one of the apps is slow to start and must be killed individually.
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