skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's one of three doctors listed on the homepage, which was the submitted link here.

There's a difference between "we don't know everything" and "we have good reason to believe homeopathy is useful". Sure, maybe eating raw duck poop will cure asthma, but I'm not going to try it just in case it works.
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One thing I've thought would be useful for a while is a platform to allow people with unknown diseases to get matched up with others with the same symptoms.

While CrowdMed can help with rare diseases it's less useful in cases where a disease has never been diagnosed before.

In recent years we've seen a number of diseases/conditions essentially identified by patients discovering others sufferers (often through online campaigns) and the commonalities / genetic testing helping identify the cause. But these have largely relied on serendipity.

It would be great to have an online platform to allow people with unknown conditions to find each other.

(this is especially true with long-tail psychological issues where diagnose is often still very weak)
Again, my mistake. Not passing buck here. Borland had a language called Lucy (Loose-C) that was wild with implicit conversions, but counter-example -- my bad for making the changes to ur-JS.
> "no research into the efficacy of science based treatments"

Wouldn't that make SBM not scientific by definition?
Sadly there's no data for Utah. Salt Lake City has an amazing ratio between software developer salaries and cost of living. 6 figure salaries are the norm for non-junior developers. According to trulia, housing is about half the price (450k vs 950k).

It's hardly a technical wasteland either, historically or economically. Utah was the 3rd or 4th node on what became the internet. Alan Kay began research on what he would later call "object oriented programming" at the University of Utah.

In the startup world Utah is number 7 when it comes to venture funding http://siliconslopes.com/blog/2015/01/19/utah-ranks-7th-nati.... Personally, I've spent time working for a google venture funded Utah based startup.

I've had multiple offers to relocate to areas like Sydney, Las Vegas, Seattle and they've never been able to beat Utah's salary to cost of living ratio.

Also, having the world's best snowboarding and mountain biking is a perk for some of us.

Of course the one thing that beats working for a Utah company and living in Utah is working remotely for Bay Area company and living in Utah. Win/Win.
If I understood correctly, I think his point is that unlike HHVM, which replaces the interpreter altogether, Recki and JIT-Fu can be used for a specific piece of code or algorithm while retaining the original interpreter for the rest of the application.
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The old adage is that perfect is the enemy of good enough, but the author is claiming that GPG isn't even good enough. I have to somewhat disagree. While the ideal product in this space would be as easy to use as clicking a 'Like' button, and just as ubiquitous, GPG works well enough for now.

The most sensitive use case for GPG has to be sending correspondence that, if decrypted, could put you in severe physical danger. If the choice is between life and death, relative freedom or torture in some black site dungeon, the choice is clear. Using GPG is preferable to death or torture.

This doesn't exactly seem like a ringing endorsement, but if these are the stakes, then you are probably willing to read the equivalent of 40% of Fahrenheit 451 to be secure. You are probably willing to learn to practice good opsec.

It would be fantastic if GPG were displaced by something equally trustworthy and secure, but more user-friendly, and I look forward to the day that happens. But I think that GPG is the best we have, and we should be appreciative of that.
You're waiting for a tutorial on Coq integrated with Frama-C, or for a tutorial on any of them?
So it was with the original Pebble, and then, just like now, most people don't know the difference. "E-paper" is commonly understood as "the stuff Kindles are made of".

I actually asked them about it during the original Pebble campaign, because you couldn't really tell if the display is e-ink even though they strongly implied so. I don't recall getting any response.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9042498
I've been saying this since it was announced. The FCC has a 332 page plan to regulate the Internet (which the public does not have a chance to even look over before it is passed).

What else is in there? Even if the current administration doesn't use the power they will now be given, whose to say it won't happen in the future? Doesn't this bother anybody?

We need more transparency, especially in something as important as this.
What I've learned from one lobbying success is that the community college wants to hear from a broad swath of industry that the jobs will be there. In our case some of the larger companies actually committed to taking X amount of new graduates per year.
from last week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9042195
How Stephen Hawking, diagnosed with ALS decades ago, is still alive
We use more than 15 different data sources - mainly user reviews (Yelp, 4Square, TripAdvisor), blogs and professional media (SF Gate, Eater etc) and guidebooks (Michelin, Zagat etc). All data is collected automatically and then plugged into our data model. We extract entities and make sentiment analysis to learn what this place is good for exactly and to show relevant quotes. As people share much more in a conversation than they would on sites like Yelp matching our users' preferences with the restaurant data makes our recommendations more relevant and personalised.
Reminds me of "Ice Town"[1]

[1] http://parksandrecreation.wikia.com/wiki/Ben_Wyatt
I appreciate the sentiment overall but I have the exact opposite reaction when somebody emails me with a GPG signed or encrypted email. I immediately think it's great that somebody actually cares enough to voluntarily use it. That the contents of the email are deemed important enough that they don't want it sent in the clear.
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I use GPG often and it gets the work done. It might be the author is not happy with the long process of using GPG and the shortcomings of the documentation. I think if GPG is integrated with more applications, it might have a lot more users.
But what if condoleza sneaks a trojan somewhere in the pyston code?
Let PGP die
You are essentially pre-ordering one of their watches for a $20 discount. What's there to complain about? Sure, in unproven items you are gambling somewhat (they may not deliver) but you should evaluate that risk when you put your money in.

None of us think we are buying equity when we put money in, and yet clearly 31,000+ people are willing to put their money in to pre-order the product without equity. Good for that company, that they have that level of pre-order demand, no?
simple != easy

What you have described are simple solutions, not easy ones.
source: http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=21307...
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I feel like you're trying hard to reframe the situation so as not to admit the obvious fact here -- that your tastes are, by big city standards, somewhat dull.

It's fine if you like living in a place with one museum, an aquarium and a golf club. But don't frame it like there's some mystery about why people choose to pay multiple times your costs to live in big cities: that's where the culture is. Your Atlanta suburb is not an alternative to SF, it's a place where you can live because you simply don't care for the things that draw many others to SF. There's no need to compare the two.
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I go to a fair amount of music festivals and purchase tickets online. But I never really paid attention to how they manage all that traffic load and queues. I recently read this article http://www.mixmag.net/words/news/hackers-who-jumped-burning-man-ticket-queue-caught and was wondering how the system is constructed. If anyone can refer me to a good article about the system, I would really appreciate it :)
Theories don't advocate things, only people do.
Using X is preferable to death or torture.

That's what I call faint praise.
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You spelt "was acqui-hired by" wrong
This spirit is better for me. I'll never back another Kickstarter project in the old "spirit". One project failing and taking all my money with it is enough for me. I'm nearly certain that I'll get my watch, so I backed this one.
This brings up a big issue with this type of gamification. If someone prescribes a solution which has a superficial short term effect (think painkillers, etc), they may be rewarded in 'points' (e.g. money) because the patient is able to see a direct effect. This would reward treating symptoms rather than the underlying problem and could result in sub-optimal treatment. Unless this website is planning on adjusting rewards based on long term effects on the order of years, I'm not sure how this would be avoided.

EDIT: etc, as in et cetera
I wasn't familiar with that area of Jaynes work. Your description of it is fascinating, especially given the modern contexts of scientists trying to convince climate change deniers as well as doctors with anti-vaccine groups.
How is this different than evidence based medicine?
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Well, in the wrong place (i.e., downsizing org or stacked ranking), you do end up "renegotiating" just that its' mostly on employers terms, and quite an unbalanced contract.
It is Comcast, Verizon, et al.'s heavy-handed, deceptive, anti-customer business practices that will decide this debate. Anti-government ideologues always used to talk about how awful the DMV is but people love the DMV compared to the telecom monopolies. They're universally despised. Despite all their lobbying money there is luckily still some democracy remaining in our government.
As a member of the encrypt-everything clique I have to say, though Moxie has a point, Gnupg is infinitely better than alternative of nothing at all. Until someone comes up with a solution that preserves its power and flexibility and marries it with a functional UX -- I shall keep using it
My favorite was "always mount a scratch monkey":

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html
faint? I'd rather read 100 pages of man than die.

Seems like a meager price to ensure another 70 years of life.
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The subscription entitles you to updates, but you can cancel it and still have access to the SDK, it's tools and can also release yr game without an active subscription. The 5% is still applied, but you have to reach a certain sum of sales before it's incurred.
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When (if?) Google's End-to-End matures, it would be a game-changer for a lot of the less savvy users of GPG that I know.

https://github.com/google/end-to-end
Is there a list of credible web of trust implementations with installed bases? Is there anything on that list using new Html5 crypto plus IETF JOSE?
There are two important differences:

1. There is no discretion involved. When you're trying to finance a new development you have to convince bankers/VCs to give you money. Payment processors don't exactly need to be convinced, and Kickstarter is open to anyone.

2. The size of the cut taken by the middlemen is in direct proportion to the sales volume. With a bank you would normally take out a fixed-sized loan, then spend all the money on manufacturing, then pray that you can sell enough of your gizmos and pay back the loan. With buyer-financed manufacturing there is no guesswork involved.

Less discretion and less guesswork => less overhead.
What does "trust the map over the terrain" mean?
> Anybody have a link to the actual text of the rules?

Members and staff at the FCC have copies of whatever current drafts are circulating (which, by reports that there may be active discussions on at least one key point, there may be more than one), no one else does except as an unofficial leak (and any version that exists now may or may not be the version that gets voted on.)

Otherwise, no. FCC orders are not released in preliminary form before they are approved. This is consistent with regulatory agency decisions in general, there is a formal process for release of orders, that involves approval. Certain orders are released as proposals for comment before being finalized -- this is called a "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" (NPRM). The FCC did, in fact, issue an NPRM on its open internet rules, which (along with the public comment on the NPRM) got plenty of notice here, in the mainstream media, etc.

After comment on an NPRM, the agency reviews the comments, conducts further policy discussions, and can either abandon the effort, revise the policy and issue it as an order or issue a new, revised NPRM. All of these -- except abandoning the effort entirely -- require the agency to conduct a vote.

Regulatory agencies don't release draft orders prior to vote of the agency (as distinct from NPRMs, which, while they aren't final orders, are final products of the agency, not pre-vote drafts) much the same way that courts don't release draft opinions before the judges have voted on them.
I am curious as to to know what mail clients people are using with GPG. In OSX I am not a big fan of the native mail client at all but it seems thats the only approach if you want to use GPG. I am currently on a quest to find a decent mail client that looks good and works well and I am currently trialling Airmail 2 but its GPG support is buggy at best.
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You've missed out "Use GPG, but perform one of many steps wrongly, and thus face torture or death".

See also "deanonymizing alt.anonymous.messages"

https://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html
> If it's just that kind of feedback loop, how would the fall have started?

That's a good question. So these guys[1] have one theory. Another is that changes in SV ethos have made companies less hospitable to women. It's probably a combination of many different effects.

> I still feel like we must be missing something.

Probably lots of things. What troubles me is the pervasive lack of curiosity and lack of empathy. You see people here on HN drool over sci-fi notions of cryonics or believe all sorts of scientific "findings" of dubious nature about nutrition, but dismiss all attempts to really understand this issue. You also see people here express such decisive opinions about pretty much anything, but when a woman tells of a negative experience at a SV company, the responses turn into, "wait, we have to wait and hear the other side first".

If we realize this is important -- and I have more to say about this point -- and investigate this in depth, then I think we will have benefitted already. In the meantime, we should take it to heart that employees in our industry feel distressed by the working environment we create.

Now, why is it so important? Many people confuse sexism and racism with mere discrimination between sexes/races, or unequal representation in various professions. But that women are underrepresented in the waste-disposal industry does not make anyone lose sleep. The reason is that sexism and racism are all about power[2] (the academic shorthand for racism/sexism is "discrimination + power". It is a very serious problem when groups of the population are absent or underrepresented in seats of power, and when that happens, it requires investigation (the assumption being that no group would freely yield power -- over itself -- to others). Because the tech industry, and Silicon Valley in particular, pack so much power these days, and since we share this power and can influence its future, we should be very concerned to learn that we're distributing this power unfairly.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)
I'll admit total naivete here. Is millions of columns really something you'd see in the real world? Sure, billions of rows, I understand, but on the order of 10^6 columns?

For data warehousing, does it really affect performance that much to denormalize to such an insane degree? Like I said, I may be completely naive here, but wouldn't a little normalization there increase both maintainability and speed?

It seems a lot more like a data junkyard or landfill than a data warehouse to me.
Way back in the day I did EA Technical Support (on DOS games!)

Anyway the PS2 had a known issue where turning it on its side or over would put the CD closer to the reading laser and "fix it" it was really the only tangible fix the guys in the PlayStation queue had.
The FCC has made its share of mistakes, but that doesn't necessarily mean this will be one.

"Title II regulation was designed for the plain-old-telephone-system monopolies, where there was even less choice (one provider!) than the very worst of current local broadband markets."

My mom has one ISP to choose from (and dismal service.) More than half the population of the US have access to a single broadband provider.

"The internet, without any FCC rules, thrived and completely eclipsed that slow-moving regulated market."

When behemoth broadband providers began openly plotting to predatorily damage some of the things that had helped provide for the internet's success, it was clear to most that some kind of regulations were needed.

"new federal rules will limit what ISPs can offer and charge, regardless of what paying customers prefer."

I have yet to hear from a single paying customer that actually wanted what the ISPs were plotting.

"Upstart services offering novel cross-subsidized speed/latency improvements will require federal pre-approval or risk outright prohibition."

Yeah, they would need approval if they wanted to offer that particular service, though I am not sure how to find that disappointing.

"This is not a victory for either the internet or the "little guy"."

Perhaps, why not see what actually happens before making broad speculative declarations, though?
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I have been using Thunderbird (with Enigmail plugin) for over a decade now. Never had any issues.
Look at the physical addresses...Shrill.
Partial to Angular, but she provides good reasons for choosing CanJS (being faster with large datasets, being less opinionated).
How exactly do VCs win when the company crowd-raises $6m? Seems to me they make exactly $0 and receive 0% of equity, because they are not involved at all.
You forget the 'mere mortals' working at the company. They keep their equity rather than the VC.

On the Oculus example: I got what I paid for. Did they ever say equity? Did they ever say that backers got decision making rights for a company on the financial high-wire (both IP and hardware capital expenses).

Really, I thought the outcry against Oculus just exposed how little people think through the hard choices of running a business and how entitled they feel for so little expenditure.
>When I receive a GPG encrypted email from a stranger, though, I immediately get the feeling that I don’t want to read it.

This is an interesting case where a barrier to entry makes discourse less valuable. Perhaps the barrier makes people feel like they have to prepare a short speech in order to make the effort worthwhile. I certainly would rather converse with most people than listen to one minute speeches from them.
All of the examples shown are animating things that are being directly manipulated, not something in your periphery. What would you be concentrating on while you're dragging something with your finger?
There's a book which offers an alternative to freelancing as a serious career choice: http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Thinking-Like-Freelancer-Evolutio... I wrote an article recently which concerns this, called
Stop thinking like a freelancer http://blog.higg.im/2014/12/06/freelancing-financial-freedom... Basically I was sick of all the drama that came with freelancing. I exclusively do agency work now...
It's not at all out of character for the CPD, actually:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department#Cont...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Zuley
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Fascinating, wake me up when this ethereal bill appears and offers protections for the privacy of all humans regardless of nationality, and not just some humans.
Modern x86 (Intel) boxes can handle ~500Gbps of 128 byte packets per second with DPDK. That FPGA can do ~4.2Tbps, in theory.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9099573
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You don't, but many other segments do.
A lot of "alternative medicine" is just not science, and simply does not work. Unless you consider being temporarily "cured" by your own endorphins as an instance of evidence based medicine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise
when the map tells you one thing, and your eyes tell you another thing, go with what your eyes tell you, because the map is full of shit.

you would be surprised how often people trust "the map" more than reality. "the map" can be anything, i.e. an instruction manual, an authority figure, folklore, a rumor, whatever.
This is a very interesting point, all the more interesting that it takes someone with Moxie's clout for the message to come out.

I've been in and out of the "GPG everything!" group over the years, and I definitely agree that GPG is a pain to use. I always figured this was because of the lack of proper frontends, and was hoping for the major influx of funding a couple weeks back would help it make progress in usability and infrastructure, but Moxie says that it's obsolete at its core.

But if we're to replace it, the replacement has to not only be at least as secure, but also standardized and embeddable. A webapp or Chrome extension (which Google's End-to-End is) won't make the cut.
Hot keys can be a problem, performance wise. So people sometimes "shard the key".
I know, but for example, the 'champagne' (gold) color iPhone 6 is a very popular color in China. That's why I said it doesn't have to be actual gold.
The point is when "virtually everything" is better than death or torture, it's not saying much when that's how you praise using GPG.
Perhaps this is a side note to your point, but if when you say "ect" you mean electroconvulsive therapy, then I'll note that ECT has excellent efficacy for major depressive disorder among others and is well-studied: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy#Effic...
Yeah, you'll see it. Operations are basically atomic on a single row, so it often makes sense to have fat rows with tons of columns. You can use the version as an extra dimension, or encode multi-dimensional information into the column to make it pretty nice.
I've just carried a second hand mixer deck home on the bus.

While waiting for my stop, I noticed that if I moved my hand near the left VU meter, the needle would swing. Not much, but a little. It only worked on the left one. I didn't have to touch the case. And no, it wasn't plugged into anything. I'd just ruled out random motion caused by me joggling the deck as I moved my hand when I had to get off.

It doesn't do it any more.
where there was even less choice (one provider!) than the very worst of current local broadband markets.

I have exactly one choice of wired "broadband" provider: TWC. I'm not sure you know what you're talking about.
I find the idea of lossless versus lossy uploading of sentience amusing.
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Hey thanks! This was super useful.