skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good analogy is Cuba- they have one of the most rigorous schools for becoming a doctor, but they wouldn't know how to operate an MRI since none exist in the country.

A report here from 2006 says otherwise:

Cuba spends ∼16% of its GNP directly on the health system, roughly $320 per year per person. As would be expected, tertiary medical facilities lack both the amenities and the technology found in industrialized countries. A recent modernization campaign, however, has brought interventional cardiology and MRI, for example, to the 48 referral hospitals and ultrasound and endoscopy to polyclinics.

http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/817.full
Sounds to me like they were pushing the feature so they can run up against hi-res machines from competitors.

Anybody with one of the new 5k imacs want to chime in? Similar graphics issues.
I (and many I know) tend to think of programmers (or coders) as those the concentrate on specific tasks, such as programming a specific type of hardware, phone system, manufacturing machine, or those that write code as a part of a larger project but typically work only on small pieces of the larger whole, with tight guidelines.

Developers are those that work at the next level. They have their fingers in the project as a whole, or at least in multiple modules. These people are are typically the leads, or senior people in the group.

For the engineer comparison... I would compare them to software architects. They probably aren't writing much code, but they are building out specs and test cases.

Where the engineer designs the bridge, the contractor handles sub projects, and the worker welds the beams... the architect designs the software, the developer manages interfaces and algorithms, and the programmer pounds out lines of code.

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Are you sure about that? The FCC seems to think otherwise:

> 17. I don’t use my cell jammer in public. Can I use it in my own home, business, or vehicle?

> No. Jamming devices may not be used regardless of whether the device is operated on public or private property. If you own a jammer, do not continue to operate it. You risk substantial fines (of up to $16,000 for each violation or each day of a continuing violation, or up to $112,000 for a single act); seizure of the device by the government; and criminal imprisonment. Signal jammers do not respect property lines, and federal law provides no exception that allows for the private or commercial use of a jammer. [1]

A Microwave oven isn't a jammer. It's an authorized device that has to comply with certain regulations, essentially the same as for other devices using the 2.4 GHz ISM band.

[1]: http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf
On the contrary. That's desired. It makes he motion more smooth. Lots of photographers with high end DSLRs have been asking for 1/24 when shooting at that framerate.
You hit the nail on the head as far as what I was thinking with the Rift.

After experimenting with binaural beats out of the Monroe institute, I think a similar auditory experience is important. You're definitely right that together they could be quite powerful. My email is in my profile if you'd like to chat more.

Right now, I'm leaning towards the Muse. Does anyone have any suggestions for a hacker friendly EEG?
Given that some people are "unbalanced, unhappy" people, isn't it actually a good thing, rather than "depressing" as you say, that they can find companionship in their workplaces.

Is it really better for people with nothing to do at Xmas eve to go home and be alone anyway? Is it the employers responsibility to ensure that the company culture makes zero allowances for these people?
I work for myself. The only problem is my boss is incompetent.
This topic is very valid, but far to complex and nuanced to be addressed in a single article.

Long hours at Google? Please. The long hours argument would certainly hold up at many of the other companies on the list, however. Point being that no generalization can define why these rankings are misleading (though they certainly can be).
Extensive prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8792565
We'd probably just deal with it the way we'd deal with wild animals and other things that ignore human laws. You might have some people with an interest in the legal rights of automated software just as some people have an interest in the legal rights of animals. But at the end of day, a dog can't appear in court and neither can a computer. So if humans decide to collectively work together to terminate a rogue piece of software (much like we already work together to try to stop malware), that's the end of it from the law's perspective.
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Speaking from experienced (startup that's made 3 hires, going on our 4th), is you have to find "culture fits". People who share your appetite for work, who want to be a part of the vision, and that you can stand spending a lot of time with. We'll never win the perk war, but we are the only company just like us, and look very hard for the people who will get along with us.
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Krebs is a journalist, not a cybersecurity expert, fwiw.
I also found some very hard and crusty pieces of cotton wedged between a few of the hammers that didn’t look like they were supposed to go anywhere and were blocking some of the parts

Those were the dampers, without them the sound will be "harder" and more percussive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Piano_action_-_Project_Gut...

With such a big LCD I think it would be a fun addition to embed a PC inside it, with the keyboard of the piano acting as its... keyboard. After all, the original PC/AT keyboard only had 84 keys.

...and those who liked the article might find this interesting too: http://www.linusakesson.net/chipophone/
Dear God, that Homejoy job posting is terrible. Just completely tone deaf.

> right now i’m taking a quick break and after a quick lap around the office, i notice actually many more people here. i wonder — how am i so fortunate to be the ceo of a startup where people are so driven?

I dunno, maybe the people noticed that the CEO is at work on Christmas Eve and fear that if they aren't there too they'll be pigeonholed as slackers?

Leaders lead by example. If you, the CEO, are sitting in the office on Christmas Eve, you won't have to tell people they're expected to come in. They'll observe your behavior and come to that conclusion for themselves.
> large datasets on disk

I saw this benchmark a while back comparing Pandas to SQLite in-memory databases. While Pandas did edge out SQLite in several areas, it was by well under an order of magnitude: http://wesmckinney.com/blog/?p=414

Pretty solid performance plus the ability to work with large datasets on disk seemed like a pretty big win to me. I could imagine a set of SQLite extensions (a la spatialite) that could further optimize for various data.frame use cases. As an added bonus, the same libraries would be very portable between different languages--even languages that don't currently have something like dataframes.

EDIT: What I don't know about is memory efficiency. Perhaps SQLite isn't, but I'd not bet against?
I especially love his marble machines. They're absolutely mesmerizing.
The FBI doesn't have any special ability to trace connections, especially not outside the US. The NSA might, but it's questionable that they would tip their hand and release classified covert intel just because one company got hacked. China has been hacking our corporations for over a decade but you never hear this much about it in the press.

Edit: then again, China doesn't threaten to bomb our theaters. Could be NK just goofed. But the whole thing is too ridiculous to be plausible.
What if it formed (or was) a corporation?
It's not the job of employees to provide companionship for their employers. You're hiring workers, not friends.

If employees want to get together on their own time and spend the holiday together, that's cool. But it gets less cool the more you mix in expecting them to do work for you and/or fill in gaps in your social life.
Recent extensive discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753526
I see comments talking about protecting privacy and fighting the police state. Is it not immediately obvious that the whole point of this service is to facilitate blackmail? I mean, they named the thing "Slur."

"Zero day exploits. For the market defined value rather than a price determined by the corporations under the guise of a bounty with the veiled threat of legal action should the researcher choose to sell elsewhere."

"Stolen databases. Corporations will no longer be able to get away with an apology when they fail to secure their customers confidential data. They will have to pay the market value to suppress it."

This isn't about exposing corrupt secrets for the public good. This is about giving data thieves a way to squeeze more money from their victims (deserving or not) by letting others bid against them. They're not trying to hide it, guys.
Sounds good.

This was what I was referring to above, seemingly the most hacker friendly EEG of them all, and shipping in January:
http://www.openbci.com/

My research indicated that monaural and isochronic patterns are more effective than binaural.

However, if binaural beats were synchronized with optic driving (an audio pulse arrives in the given ear at the same moment a photic pulse arrives at the corresponding eye), then this kind of integrated approach could certainly trump them both (and simple optic driving as well).
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> It certainly is when you pick a free software/open source OS over a proprietary one.

A whole lot of people have convinced themselves that it is, at least. I'm not quite ready to accept that using the wrong operating system makes you a bad person. I'm kind of amazed that I even have to say that.
I am under the exact same impression. Many smart people repeatedly advocate deploying e-voting systems without understanding the basic underlying problems, which are not technical in nature. I don't think even homomorphic cryptography helps when it's possible to physically stand behind a remote voter and witness exactly what they vote.

So yes, the only reliable way to vote is to require every voter to enter a physically controlled area in which they are guaranteed the privacy of secret voting. If they can vote anywhere else, they can be coerced to voting according to someone else's will, whether that's a family member, a briber, a foreign agent or some other kind of oppressor.
I think there is another HN thread on this. I don't believe the conspiracy theories, but this did remind me of the employee poaching fiasco.
LOL
My 11 & 8 yr old thought that was pretty funny too...
Btw, flow (http://flowtype.org) already comes with React propTypes integration. When you write `x: React.PropTypes.number.isRequired`, it knows how to correctly translate that to static types.
I personally switched from Pandas to SQL. While Postgres is a heavy duty database for large production operations, it is fully capable of doing day to day analysis of CSV files with nice SQL syntax.

There were two reasons for the switch. SQL syntax is cleaner and more well understood by others. The second is if you get a dataset bigger than memory, you aren't stuck.
I'm of two minds on that note:

On one hand, I somehow feel it's appropriate that an open online course limit itself to methods that are accessible outside of medical research labs and hospitals.

On the other hand, I agree completely that someone could walk away after taking this course, never understanding that they would be dealing with a quality of data of considerably lower fidelity, to the point where failing to take that variable into account could easily lead to false conclusions.

Maybe this is why part of me is "glad" I cracked my head open at a young age and still have a significant gap there in the skull bone - I can get higher amplitude signal placing an electrode there than anywhere else on my head!
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Mine doesn't seem to be able to make a decision and settle for it.
Different take on this: being perceived as "the cultural leader" is actually detrimental to a company.

Let's take Google as an example, although any large company with a strong reputation would do. Take technical or cultural or managerial attribute Q (say, which programming language to privilege). Ask "what is the best Q option for Google?" Most people will admit that they don't know. There are lot of variables. Ask "what is the best Q option for the cultural leader? Suddenly you get a bunch of bikeshedding product executives trying to throw their weight around. Now that it's not "Google" being discussed but "the cultural leader" hanging in the balance, peoples' opinions get much more entangled and politicized (if less relevant to the specific needs of the company, Google).

The concept of "the cultural leader" in technology is flawed and dangerous and it attracts people for the wrong reasons. You should hire the people who want to make a cultural leader by doing great work and, um, leading... not people who want to hold high positions at an organization already recognized for leadership.
Mattias has a great youtube channel. Highly recommend subscribing. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCckETVOT59aYw80B36aP9vw
As well as readability (mentioned above), I find Evernote's Clearly to be a great extension for reading anything on the web (medium.com tends to be notorious to read)...

https://evernote.com/clearly/

Note that you don't need a evernote account to use this (I don't, and it just works).
As to executables, I think the big issue is that people keep on packaging some variant of Node-Webkit into these sorts of programs. What we need is something like the JVM for Node-Webkit: install once, and then apps only have to ship the application code (like Java apps don't ship with a JVM most of the time).

I think Firefox and Chrome have things, but we need that be unified (and I'm not sure if they're too sandboxed for local apps)
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> The only moral system when dealing with such poverty is one of voluntary charity. Anything else is a crime against humanity, for there's nothing more disgusting than 'charity' at the point of a gun.

Objectivism in a nutshell: It is more moral to let an innocent child die in pain than to require someone to help them.

And just like Rand, you'll fight like a demon to suppress public assistance until it's your neck on the line, and then suddenly it's Social Security and Medicare on the sly, like a homophobic preacher hooking up blowjobs in men's rooms.
You're the one claiming he's being hostile towards non-Americans for no reason and making trite comments about pseudoscience in the face of the reality before you.

> with no actual evidence?

There is evidence, look at the thread you're posting in. Also you could imagine what phenomena you might see when individual actors following personal incentives make choices. Maybe you could then ask yourself why centers of gravity sometimes seem to move around, and look at examples in history, and then why not ask yourself how being in a world with more affordable travel would affect things. You could then understand things about how the world around you works. But no, it's easier to cry pseudoscience and not have to think about things.
This keeps getting repeated, but while globalization destroys some jobs, it often generates much more.

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/economic-globalisatio...
Because they buy laws that favour them and increase that inequality.
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> European states mobilized their populations with an efficiency that dazzled some Americans (notably Theodore Roosevelt) and appalled others (notably Wilson).

Yes and no. People nowadays really don't even remember the end of World War I. Russian troops began shooting their officers and marching back to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Earlier that year were the massive Nivelle mutinies of French enlisted men. There were the German naval mutinies of 1918, followed by a powerful but ultimately failed revolution in Germany by communists (put down by the socialist-run government - echoes of the French communist party ending the 1968 left-communist uprising which caused de Gaulle to flee France). Hungarian workers had an uprising and established a Soviet republic in 1919, which lasted until it was defeated by an invasion by Romania. Italy saw the Biennio Rosso with factory occupations in Turin etc. which were finally ended when Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922. As late as 1976 the Italian communist party was getting over 1/3 of the vote in Italy, with the Socialist party (with a hammer and sickle emblem) getting 9% of the vote, and the left-communist Maoists getting over half a million votes (never mind the non-voting anarchists/autonomists).

Europe mobilized its population twice in the twentieth century. The first time Russia became communist, the second time everything east of Steppin to Trieste became communist. With Europe needing the US with NATO, Marshall plan, Gladio etc. to keep post-WWI western Europe (Spain, Italy and France) from becoming communist. Eventually Europe's capitalists learned going to war with one another's countries didn't help them all that much.
I've had _exactly_ this same experience in the past as well.
Then again, had the attackers made their intentions clear up front, media outlets would be reticent about doing someone else's very dirty dirty work for them. By releasing what amounted to to celebrity gossip and no clear demand, lots of outlets that would otherwise hold back dived right in. Only when the story was well and truly a monster did the attackers show their full hand.

If this is, in fact, what happened it represents a far more media savvy approach than most people would expect from NK. That suggests any involvement they had was in partnership with people who actually knew how to operate in America.
Once again, Jason Scott and archive.org demonstrate why it might just be on of the crown jewels of the internet.
I wrote this with shelly open in another window; it's intentionally got some similarities. It might be possible to extend shelly's Sh monad so it can generate shell code, rather than its current behavior of running IO actions, but that seems like a stretch to me.
Your app seems much more put together than the other one - at least I understand what it is from reading the site :)

Cool concept, i'll check it out soon! Best of luck.
Edit: Nevermind. I was confused when the article said, "Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission recently allowed UberX to operate in the state, but not Philadelphia." I took that to mean they were not operating UberX in Philadelphia. But maybe it means they are? Illegally?
goes to show that the only ones upset by Uber are those in competition with them
best places i worked at i'd not call a "Best Place to Work" as it was about successful work and not about being a "Best Place". Currently i work at a typical BigCo, mindless work, mindless management, one of those highest rated "Best Places to Work" for those who care :)
No. It is a disgusting channel that is filled with white men who seriously advocates for slavery, rape, and frequently makes threats of violence against people who they don't like.

I used to go there. The complete lack of decency and empathy for anyone who is not a rich white man that subscribes to their cult has turned me away from IRC in general.
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people upset with them. I use uber pretty regularly, and there is no way in hell I agree with the government sponsored monopoly that taxis enjoy, but I don't like them. They're a shady company with shady legal practices.
1. Hire qualified people regardless of where they came from and what they look like. In other words, be careful about falling into the "culture fit" trap that is responsible for a lot of the "I can't find candidates" complaints at startups. Diversity is healthy, and when you don't have a homogenous workforce, you're far less likely to end up with a bunch of 20-something "go-getters" who aren't yet wise enough to understand that output (work product) matters way more than input (hours worked).

2. Be careful about perks that have social implications and/or require employees to spend non-work time at work or with co-workers. A lot of the perks startups offer today, such as catered lunches/dinners and frequent group outings, send the message that you're trying to build a family, not a company. Many people have a life outside of work and these "perks" ask/require employees to give up what should be their free time.

3. Don't ignore management. A lot of startups eschew basic management practices, mistaking management for bureaucracy. The reality, however, is that a healthy dose of competent management is one of the best ways to promote productivity and avoid time-wasting dysfunction.
> Europe mobilized its population twice in the twentieth century. The first time Russia became communist, the second time everything east of Steppin to Trieste became socialist.

I like how you gloss over the fact that Russian occupation and military domination of eastern Europe, rather than populist uprising of leftist movements, is what caused the latter.
Agreed. I think the TypeScript integration will actually get easier when React supports native ES6 classes.
I'm glad I wasn't the only person to think this...it was one of the most depressing job ads I've ever read. Even if the truth really was that Homejoy was so great that employees are willing to work on Christmas there...very, very few people on the outside are going to believe you. And the ones who do give you the benefit of the doubt, they may feel more pity than admiration about your work ethic.

Note/edit: it is possible that none of the employees working at Homejoy tonight celebrate Christmas...but then, that wouldn't be much of a sacrifice then, nor something to really remark for this job ad, any more than if it were just a typical Wednesday/Thursday of a work week.
>It's pretty clear that the UK would arrest him the second he walked out the door and promptly turn him over to the US

How is this clear? A warrant for his arrest is for extradition to Sweden. In the case that the US wants to get him, he would then have to get the permission of the UK and of Sweden.

Last I check Assange doesn't have a warrant for an extradition to the US
"I don't seem able to reply to your last comment."

There's a delay before you can reply, and I think it might grow with depth...

"Sorry I haven't done very well with your comments; it's not been through deliberate ignorance, just lack of time."

No worries.

"I hadn't been previously aware of UBI in Native American tribes and had thought you were referring to social problems and welfare."

Gotcha.

"I will have a read over the link you provided when I have more time. Thanks for letting me know about it."

Of course! And I fully understand you having better things to do right now - Merry Christmas :)
? Isn't the lawsuit about UberX?

> Checker and the plaintiffs group contend the UberX drivers are operating an illegal enterprise
If you're interested in getting into the nitty gritty of piano building and maintenance, check out this book: http://www.pianosinsideout.com/

It's basically an engineering textbook for pianos.
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The problem is one of supply.

Any post that says "Remote" and is prominent on "Who is Hiring" or "weworkremotely" is getting 100s of applicants per posting.

If you're someone that knows someone that knows... that is the better way at getting a remote position for your girlfriend.

Lastly, you shouldn't treat online customer support as a "by-the-way" type of job. I have found that customer support is sometimes the only interaction companies have with clients and this can become a major lifeline/lead-feed if managed well.
A very informative heartfelt write up. Lots of great insights from battle-hardened entrepreneurs here. Thank you.