skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ideas presented here seem pretty sensible. However, there is a risk that if such data is collected, it may later be used to compare surgeons to each other. One of the reasons that is risky is that good surgeons tend to deliberately take on more complex and riskier operations than those less capable, and therefore have statistically worse outcomes. There can also be geographical biases if statistics are summarised, such as certain hospitals having poor outcomes because they happen to get a lot of gunshot wounds, or stabbings, or the local population is older than average, or childbirth rates are higher, etc. It would difficult to control for all possible such variables, and ever more difficult to explain the methodology to the public.

It's probably a universally good idea as long as there are safeguards to ensure that the data is not shared generally, which might lead to misinformed reactions and subsequently, target-chasing (see: Goodhart's law). Using the data purely for personal improvement seems like it should be effective. I think it's reasonable to assume that most surgeons would want to self-improve if they can. Also surgeons tend to be especially competitive, so creating a competition against themselves could be a good motivator in itself.

The data could perhaps be used to weed out poorly performing surgeons too. I believe the right way to do that would be to share the data anonymously with peers who are able to interpret it properly. These peers could then flag any worrying anomalies in the data that can't be explained away, which should trigger a follow-up investigation of the individual concerned. This could perhaps stop the next Harold Shipman, as well as weeding out incompetence.

Of course, it may not be possible to usefully anonymise case data since some of the more complex cases may be sufficiently unique that the surgeon could be personally identified from the description. This would only work if case can be classified broadly enough to avoid personal identification and narrowly enough to provide enough information for peer review.
My bet is on the chinese, making sure the peace price is delivered to the "right" people.
Hi, I plan to liberally use your API to add the illusion of users to my game changing social media startup. The IPO will be hyper inflated and your compensation will be silent gratitude. Thank you.
I'm too young/immature/irresponsible to be productive working remotely. And I feel too isolated/lonely to enjoy the freedom it provides. Turns out it wasn't the office environment what I hated from my job a year and a half ago, it was the toxic office environment. Just started a new job in an awesome team and it's like being born again.
Figuring out your weakness and exploiting it.

Sql injection to get information/gain access, cross site scripting attacks, some service that you forgot to lock down, etc... The bad guys can be extremely smart and motivated.
> Why is length essentially a weak hash?

It's utterly trivial to match by itself. Adding length to a real hash is a mild difficulty increase. Adding a second hash is a massive difficulty increase.

> Isn't it an additional constraint that works orthogonal to the hash?

Yes. But so is a second hash.

> It serves to restrict the space of collisions and hence directly reduces the exploit surface.

Very inefficiently.

> Moreover, the length can be independently verified of the hash function, and its space & time complexity is negligible.

A second hash is independent of the first hash too. Hashing a second time compared to downloading and hashing the first time is pretty close to negligible.
Wow, a Reddit level of down voting. So anonymous down voter, care to explain what you have issues with? ArangoDB does all of those things.
Corollary to that I once heard: "Any business idea too complicated to sketch on the back of a bar napkin won't work."
Or, we could learn to do brief history searches and check out past user comments if it really matters.

I'm generally pretty suspicious of any sort of computer-generated personality profiles, and though I understand the appeal to techies of empathy-as-a-service I don't think it's something we should consider relying upon.

Hell, half the fun in life is trying to figure out who other people really are.
Sounds like a great idea to me!
Hm, this article reads like kind of a puff piece for Amplio.

>  similar efforts to “grade” American schoolteachers, for instance, have perhaps generated more controversy than results.

Yes, for good reasons, namely...

> It’s all about trust.

No, it's not. At all. The author even notes the problem with scoring systems, that happened in this exact field. When you start scoring people, they start gaming the system to increase that score. It's the same problem with "grading teachers". You give surgeons huge incentives to start "fudging the truth" about their patients' surgical risk.

"Oh blah blah blah it's private". Great. Hopefully everyone involved can see the obvious future problems (which 7 comments in, other HN posters have zeroed in on), but they haven't given any assurances that these fears will never come to fruition. Or any prevention plans.

> It’s like Vickers said to me one night in early November, as we were discussing Amplio, “Having been in health research for twenty years, there’s always that great quote of Martin Luther King: The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.”

I actually laughed when I read this. How pretentious.
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No I didn't. My point was that when you expand or change the model, you open up a whole new range of possibilities. I'm not particularly interested in how the model is parametrized or what parameters lead to what result.
Because there are racial-alike tensions within the Caucasian people, such as Nazi/Jews, West/Slavic, Protestant/Catholic.
What is weird from my perspective is how the races as concepts still are accepted and used, even though they are ambiguous and deeply problematic. For example those that have the "pleasure" of hearing "but you are white" will understand that there is a scale of whiteness and you've just been graded on that scale.
All of this, end to end. We're seeing the same subsistence-level "success" phenomenon in video games now, though. The giants make money, the occasional odd hit turns into something, and everybody else had better be happy with selling too few copies to pay your staff at $3 a pop during a Steam sale, because paying $5 is Just Too Much, Ha Ha Ha.

I guess we could all go make free to play games that are designed to exploit consumers and get them on an addiction treadmill. Because that's ethical.
If this moves you, follow Einstein's logic to today's world and join in the struggle. There are marches today, consider this your invitation!

SF: https://www.facebook.com/events/675598982556580/

Oakland: https://www.facebook.com/events/858052834217501/

NYC: https://www.facebook.com/events/959630214065046/

Boston: https://www.facebook.com/events/1559794327598726/

(and I'm sure there's one near where you live as well)
I don't know the history of it, but it seems likely that Greece waged a lot of war with the (slavic) countries north of it, so their slaves would be predominantly of slavic descent. Slavic people also have a pretty easily discernable look to them, at least many do, so it's not hard to imagine they could be subject to racial discrimination in Greece.
Cool tech is only cool when used to build cool products.

Crazy obvious, I know! But it is a thing I learned this year.
I'd recommend Flask-Restful https://github.com/twilio/flask-restful
I've recently used in an API project involving Elasticsearch.
Aside from Composer (which is a good thing for managing dependencies), I'm not sure why you would think "this is how people develop and deploy PHP stuff nowadays". The author uses these tools out of choice, not convention. Just like some Ruby devs use Bower and others don't.
Meno was written by Plato.
Plato wrote Meno and Aristotle presented a very clear belief system on slavery in Book I, Chapters 3 through 7 of The Politics and in Book 7 of the Nicomachean Ethics.

"But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature?"

"There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule."

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.1.one.html

edit - mind you, he also had a tendency to write stuff like: "If a woman looks at a highly polished mirror during the menstrual period, the surface of the mirror becomes like a blood shot cloud", so it isn't as though the slavery thing is a small unfortunate oversight in some otherwise wise philosophy. If you forget for a minute that you are dealing with Aristotle, he is consistently quite considerably bonkers, and seemingly just winging it through a lot of his writing, though there is plenty of genius in there as well.
All men are created equal. Except Blacks. And Muslims. And non-Americans. And Native Americans.
I've never even heard of a hand signal for braking, and we were taught the rules by the police in grade school. Maybe it's very country-specific.
I'd like to register my objection to the currently fashionable, yet toxic idea that when a point of view is only 95% stomped out that that is still a sign of "sock puppetry" and that the remaining dissent, rather than being celebrated, must be stomped out even harder... and then that this is treated as some sort of improvement of public discourse instead of an inevitable degradation of it.

This is, admittedly, not 100% a reply to any of the ancestors of this post, but, well, it's definitely an opportune time. Labeling all disagreement as "sock puppetry" is already a popular rhetorical dodge and this news is only going to make that worse. If you want real free discourse, you need real diversity of viewpoints and you need to foster that diversity, not insist on conformity.

If the only place that diversity is coming from truly is sock puppets, well, I would consider that a condemnation of the community in question. (And make sure you read that sentence very carefully before replying; it doesn't say "we should trust the sock puppets" (hardly!). It means that there should be diversity in the community, before we add in any viewpoints, right or wrong, expressed by sock puppets.)
Welcome to every artistic endeavor ever. You go into a field for love, you have to pay for the privilege by competing against an overcrowded market because everybody is making a labor of love.

To me, the real solution is not go pay more for labours of love, but to institute a shorter workweek so everybody can pursue their own labours of love on the side.
>Seriously, take care of your health and everything else will call into place.

"Your most important asset is your health" - Warren Buffet

>Its made me realise that keeping in touch is absolutely essential no matter what.

Don't wait for people to reach out to you; reach out to them. What is the last time you reached out to someone?
US gov. actually admitted that it has a trolling network - it used to be called "viral peace". They claim it operates on "terrorist websites". And of course they give no definition of "terrorist websites" - But I think it's safe to assume reddit, twitter, facebook are terrorist websites.
on a case by case basis: >=

overall assessment: >
One of the other fun ideas we had: display a personality rating next to the comment input field.

Imagine how it would affect people commenting if they saw that what they are supposed to post is aggressive, or passive-aggressive ;)
I started to learn to play the guitar. I haven't played anything in twenty years... It's wonderfull to discover that drilling the chords over and over again starts to eventually pay up.
Without having checked the code (it is open source I believe); this is a neural network right? Do they understand why it reverses when it bumps into the wall from the activity observed in the neural net?
I know that feeling. Working at home seems ideal so it takes some real maturity to realize when it just isn't working.

My employer goes out of their way to make my workspace comfortable and I greatly appreciate it. The commute still sucks, bring on the self-driving cars!
If you ask me, a good program is one that is documented accurately and thoroughly. So a good programmer is one who cares enough to document well, and has enough skill to do it with precision, speed, and with good judgement.

Of course, being a good scientist or mathematician requires the same skills: know who you are talking to, what they already understand, and why your work matters to them. And be obsessive about doing it the right way.
Racism will continue to be a problem as long as it serves as a useful distraction for the people to prevent us from really scrutinizing the ruling class and the complete disparity between the goals of the super-rich people and the needs of the rest of us who are just trying to get by.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, drugs, guns, taxes, war, spying, all of it are just distractions because whether the issue goes left or right won't matter to most people. What really matters is whether or not people can feed their children, have a roof over their heads, have something meaningful to do with their time, be warm in the winter, be free from violence. These are the things that matter, but we're all caught up in bikeshedding over how to get there.

And in the process, a very small group of people get to come in and unilaterally take action to fill their own pockets. Everything else that happens is the rest of us playing Lord of the Flies.

Isms will end when the majority takes up the cause of the minority, because in actuality, it's their/our cause, too.
I had the biggest arguments with people where we later found we were both right. You can be right without the other person being wrong, that's another point.
I honestly don't get why they got that much flak over a few bill items. Would it have been any better for them to hide how much they paid for various parts of their show?

(So what if they paid X for lights? If they wanted _those_ lights... etc.)
It appears GeNuero has found 47 million dollars from investment partner, Servier, and "GNbAC1 has successfully completed Phase IIa, demonstrating an optimal safety profile and encouraging signs of efficacy on a first small cohort of patients." http://www.geneuro.com/en/news.php#news
Unfortunately

Why is it unfortunate?

No white person in their right mind would honestly prefer to live in a half-black community over an all-white community. Sure, they may say they would to save political face, or to look benevolent or "tolerant" and progressive, but deep down? No. The difference in crime rates and quality of life is just astounding. To prefer to live amongst more blacks is to prefer to be more at risk of having a violent (or other) crime committed against you and having your property values diminish greatly.

Yes there are lots of bad white people out there but they're much less concentrated within the race.
This is why virtually every small-time musician I ever spoke to called for some sort of unobtrusive, universal DRM -- and if you care about music, you should too.
Oh man, that's cool. I must have just missed out on this when taking CS152, we played with simulated SPARC when I took the course IIRC.
Somehow you reminded me this XKCD: http://xkcd.com/810/
Again, the point was not the model, but the story.
Nice list. I try to reserve my downvotes for these behaviors especially excessive verbosity, redefinition of common words and other non-substanitive content. I think I am going to add the now common request for citation (seriously, you are on the Internet, google it yourself, man.) I am all about reading different points of view but they they should contribute something new.
The tech demo series is fantastic.
This is if all the comments came from the same IP and if the puppeteer was stupid enough to post all the comments at once.

Additionally if the AI can beat the turing test then comparing the posts would not be practical. Passing the turing test signifies that it is not possible to distinguish the comments from human comments by looking at the comments alone.
Let's think of the idiocy of Slashdot not using SSL on their pages. It's now known that British intelligence services carried out MITM attacks of this popular tech watering hole to attack targets of interest. Given Slashdot knows this has happened and still, no SSL. Sure, they are not processing payment transactions onsite, but they can serve as a MITM puppet and don't seem concerned about this, surely because it might impinge on Dice's ad revenue.

This is why all my blogs/sites are on SSL (or being converted in 1 case). Do you think people really check those md5sum's on the downloads from your OSS project page/blog? Make that unnecessary and use SSL. BTW, my CloudFront charges only went up 5% (i.e. a few bucks) and all my certs cost $2/ea because I stocked up at a sale. It's not a matter of money for most admins.

The question is not "Why SSL" by "Why not?"
"Main keyword is long coast, harbours operational throughout all of winter."

Hit the nail on the head. The Norwegian fjords, due to their nature, would likely be one of the hiding places for a NATO fleet in a Soviet/Russian battle. Basically they would make the fleet, carriers or subs very hard to find by the one of the biggest threats posed by the Russians, the anti ship missiles launched by aircraft like the Bear. It would also make the Soviet/Russian attack submarines have to work a lot harder and become more exposed - esp to any anti-submarine warfare craft which might UK-Iceland-Norway triangle to operate from.

By hiding in the fjords, NATO could still strike using conventional aircraft, cruise missiles or nuclear forces - while the Russian aircraft would have to be much more exposed in order to get a radar picture of where the NATO fleet would be hiding.

The Norway coast also offers a wide open flank that NATO can use for attacking any Soviet/Russian nuclear missile submarines and/or attack subs which might try to sneak out over SOSUS into the Atlantic. It essentially has the effect of controlling any movement from the Baltic, Norweigan or Barents Sea - essentially the areas from which some of the most important Russian ports are. A combined fleet/marine assault on a Russian port would also be an option. NATO would also want to deny it to the Russians as it offers a close route to attacking the UK and arguably the Russians see it as an exposed flank.
Invertible bloom filters are an elegant and simple solution to one of the main limits to bitcoin scalability: the time it takes to propagate solved blocks. Once that's fixed, we can use as much bandwidth as available. The VISA average of 2000 tps could be handled with under 10 megabits/sec, available on residential connections. As home gigabit rolls out, we can go higher.

Blockchain storage would still be a problem, but pruning old empty addresses will help a lot with that.
Patreon is a great model, in theory, when it works. But it irritates me that this is what we've come to in the creative sphere of our society. Artists literally have to beg publicly for money, to resort to what amounts to a medieval patronage scheme, just to survive at all, all because the audience has simply decided en masse that the value of all creative work is effectively zero.

Quite. The big gain of copyright was to liberate artists from that to some degree and put them on an economic footing of productivity, where their work could be valued for its commercial potential, with the reasonable proviso that people who wanted to enjoy it would pay to purchase it in some form. Despite the flaws of the publishing industry this worked pretty well and there was a cultural explosion that paralleled the industrial revolution.

In HN debates on the subject, I've noticed a small but persistent core of resentment for professional artists, based around the idea that artists shouldn't be so greedy as to ask for money because being an artist is fun. And while it certainly can be, a lot of the time it's a tedious grind same as any other line of work. I find this analogous to saying software engineers shouldn't be paid because they like playing with computers.

I read the original Pomplamoose piece and while I respected the position of 'hey we're a startup, and while we haven't made it we are making it, plus being in a band is awesome' it nonetheless radiated an air of desperation. The cold hard reality is that you can do a 2 month tour, play to packed houses of paying fans, and still lose $10,000. Criticisms that they paid too much for the stage show are misplaced; it costs money to hire those things, and you need some of those things so that people say your show was fun and exciting rather than dull and boring. People go to a concert to be entertained, after all. Traditionally, bands signed deals with labels because labels have the capital and know-how to promote music, much as studios have the capital and know-how to put out films and so forth. It's very very hard to build up that capital organically, and it's also very hard to produce a marketable product without a capital investment.
Tell us something we don't all already know?

It's a fact that rich black students on average have a lower IQ and do worse on tests than the poorest of white students. Just as men are different from women, in many ways, blacks are different from whites in many ways. There's no point in trying to hide from it.
> I honestly don't get why they got that much flak over a few bill items

Because it discredits them. It isn't far off from when Fox News dismisses the problems of poverty with "but they have refrigerators" or when people (often around here) yet to reorient reality so that the cause of poverty is buying $5 quality-of-life improvements instead of societal economic intent.

It helps folks sleep at night.
Behold the futility of the sock puppet accusation in practice.

(Preempting "jerf is a sock puppet". Let's skip that.)
* notational velocity for notes.
* Dokuwiki for documentation with Notes directory mounted in it.
* taskwarrior for todo lists
Then, if there are sessions too, <form> was just an example.

You're right for the path though, but for a majority of users, this doesn't matter, that is because a website often has a specific subject (porn, warez, etc), so if one DNS lookups the website, then that pretty much gives it all if the middle man is interested.

Read: My opinion is that it's useless for most people, and is problematic for old infrastructures. Therefore there are as much benefit as negative effects, or more negative effects, so it doesn't seem worth it.
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The techreport's SSD endurance series covers which SMART attributes are relevant to which manufacturers [1].

When we were getting ready to move some production systems over to SSDs we took one drive and wrote random data to it until it died. After every complete write cycle we collected the SMART attributes so we would know what a dying drive looked like.

[1]: http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experim...