skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hsod quoted what I was referring to, and whether you buy my interpretation or not, what I said was not an "easily disproved lie".

Also, hsod didn't even quote the entire thing, and context only makes it look worse for her. The interviewer gave her plenty of chances to clarify her position, that the quote was just talking about anxiety. But she stuck to what she said. She definitely believed that she was in physical danger.
I'm curious, on the technical side, what stack/technologies have you used? Also, did you scaffold the typical crud endpoints or manually wrote them, for each resource?

I'm trying to gain experience in building APIs and yours seems like a good model for doing so :)
My experience is that the python way results in long and obfuscating chains of access checks. It's a fine idea to not make it the default behaviour, but there should be a way to do a chained check a-la coffeescript's '?.' to ease deep accesses, especially since in js objects are commonly used for data structures.
Not that this really proves anything one way or the other, but remember that in regard to the Java SSL implementation shipping with the JDK, it was very recently found that:

"...the JSSE implementation of TLS has been providing virtually no security guarantee (no authentication, no integrity, no confidentiality) for the past several years."
Matt, I'm very sorry for the loss of your father. Notable Labs is an amazing idea and I wish you great success.
> Yes, security issues are found in Java and every other language, but when these are patched all programs that use that language are patched against the issue. The attack surface is much smaller.

All patches work like that; when there is a bug in libssl and OpenSSL patches it then all the programs using libssl are patched. The difference with Java is that when a C library has a bug only programs using that library are exposed but when Java has a bug all Java programs are exposed. Moreover, Java itself is huge. It's an enormous attack surface. Your argument would hold more weight if the "much smaller" attack surface actually produced a scarcity of vulnerabilities.
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It's kind of funny. ES6 seems to be making JS more "Python", while "strong mode" makes it more like Java/C# (at least to me). I'm open to worthwhile changes; I'm just thinking about the tens of thousands of lines of JS I've written with various utilities and libraries, and how they will eventually fit into ES6...I'm not too sure about strong mode, though. I guess we'll see how it all pans out.
I laud the effort of making it easier to build apps, but in my experience the backend stuff is mostly building the rest api and cron jobs, which are relatively straightforward. Imho, bulk of the complexity is in user interfaces with lots of moving parts.
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Did you use react by itself or with (re)flux? That makes all the difference.
> Does assuming that someone is a male programmer make them sexist? Not really - not unless you _also_ assume other implications like "women can't program", or other such nonsense. But that's a leap to make.

In my experience I've found people who assume genders to have a reason for assuming. The most common reason is they don't believe women can program as well as men.
If you're new to HPMOR, don't read this. Instead, go to http://hpmor.com/chapter/1 and scroll down to "Every inch of wall space is covered by a bookcase."
What makes The Yankees special is that there are millions of baseball players, and thousands of teams around the world, and they all do exactly the same thing, so there is an objective measure that says the Yankees are the best.

However when it comes to companies and executive functions there are as many job descriptions as there are companies. We can quibble all day about the definition of world-class, but I think the article draws the right distinction between executives and employees. The rank and file will converge to average for any large company, but executives will always be a handful and receive outsized compensation, so it is reasonable to demand more from them than you could expect from everyone else.
> But yes, that was both a quest to improve that code and a mere learning exercise.

What was there to improve? It's totally sensible and readable, and you even mention that you had people on IRC tell you the function was fine as it is.
You're absolutely right. Which is why we should make the backend even easier :)
This is a good step. Things have to get bad enough to force any improvements. When monied interests feel the pain of overzealous copyright laws, only then will we see improvements.
I personally would have gone with:

> The author spends a lot of effort trying to make their functions point free.
Machines can be triggered via kue, cron, or any other process of your choice (since they're effectively just augmented JavaScript functions)
Like Apple, Google just want you in the ecosystem.

The money is really in the "App Stores" as such.
Have you considered rebuilding into already available space in the cluster?

Something similar to how ceph or swift handles rebuilds? you get rid of the individual disk sitting around as a spare. though it would break the idea of a tome being a specific collection of disks. you would need to be able to identify and move a shard around your cluster into other vaults and a shard would need to be smaller than the raw disk size.

this would increase network overhead as well. (more movement.)

I'm probably just rambling here so you can probably ignore me. (you have awesome tech there though)
> We only have to look at all the patches for java to see that it hasn't been secure.

All those big security issues aren't in the Java language, they are in the JVM running untrusted Java byte code. Not to say that situation isn't bad, but you can't compare it to C++ because nobody ever thought running untrusted C++ code without some other sandboxing was a good idea.

That aside, memory safety is great for security. Of course there are 1000 other things that are important, too, and so I'd trust a C program written by a security expert much more then the same program written by someone who thinks his program is secure because he used Java. But I'd feel even better if the security expert used a memory-safe language because I am certain that all C programs above a certain size are vulnerable to memory attacks.
Apple's app store is their walled garden and they get to do what they want. If you choose to develop native you get all that comes with it...

However don't confuse app stores for the rest of the internet. The web is still here, freer than ever. It's like the best app store ever: develop on any OS! no ratings and reviews! instant cross-platform compatibility!

I know, I know, there's money in native mobile apps (maybe... if you get lucky...). I think however it's time devs stopped salivating at the thought of winning the app store lottery and come back to the web - maybe our open field would get more respect in mobile.
Agree. I think the mobile world is facing a very hard problem: how to show meaningful and relatively large amount of content in an elegant way on a 5" screen. Squeezing the content of a 13" laptop screen into a 5" phone screen just screw it up, even if the phone has a larger resolution. On the other hand, if I have to keep scrolling to see just a single sentence, then I'd rather give up.
I'm also considering a job offer there right now. I'm currently living in Austin with a 5 minute commute to my office. About 10% of my income goes to my mortgage. I just can't imagine how much they will have to pay me to make this worth it.
Not quite

http://veridicalsystems.com/blog/of-money-responsibility-and...

> OSF typically receives about US$2000 a year in outright donations and sells commercial software support contracts and does both hourly rate and fixed price “work-for-hire” consulting as shown on the OSF web site. The media have noted that in the five years since it was created OSF has never taken in over $1 million in gross revenues annually.
Additionally, law schools have been in a bubble for at least the last 6-7 years, so seeing a decline as students realize this fact (and particularly hear anecdotes from people struggling to pay back their loans!) wouldn't be surprising to me and seems like it would make logical sense. I'm curious what the trends were with other academic bubbles to either confirm or deny this datapoint being significant.
While the firmware may be open source, the hardware is not. It's not enough to be able to see the schematic in a PDF; it's important to have proper, machine-readable, design files.

Nobody would consider a print-out of the Linux kernel's source code to be an acceptable means of distributing it.
Thanks for your questions!

Yes we'll be testing combinations, as this brain cancer has not responded historically to single agent therapy for decades.

With combinations of existing drugs it is possible to affect multiple driver pathways in the tumor at once. Similar to the dramatic improvement of AIDS therapy and infectious disease treatment with cocktails, tumors could respond much differently to combinations instead of a "one at a time approach" that has resulted in very small survival gains in this disease.

Please see this paper for more detail on the scientific approach to mutli-agent combinations to target many pathways at once.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4226667/

Patients have been taking the CUSP-9 protocol without any serious adverse affects on a compassionate use basis. This has now moved into a prospective clinical trial for recurrent glioblastoma patients in Germany
http://www.anticancerfund.org/projects/cusp9-a-combination-o...

Personalized medicine services like this could allow clinicians to move beyond traditional randomized controlled trials. Commercial services such as Foundation Medicine provide test results to oncologists who then use their discretion to treat the patient outside of a clinical trial with scientific rationale based on the test itself as opposed to a standard of care.

In a severe disease like Glioblastoma where average survival is 15 months, if the majority of patients using a system like Notable Labs live substantially longer, is a control arm necessary? The HAART cocktail for AIDS treatment never went through a phase 3 trial, so there is precedent in high need diseases.

I also would like provide a link to a recent documentary that highlights the combination approach in brain cancer by telling the story of a 20 year survivor of Glioblastoma, Ben Williams. Other patients who safely used combinations of existing drugs are featured as well.
http://www.survivingterminalcancer.com/
The Java (5+) Map interface can be typed using generics (which -- if JS eventually introduces static typing -- I hope is implemented).

Map<String, Integer> = new HashMap<String, Integer>();

That declares a Map with a String key and Integer value. Is this what you're thinking of?
Let me give some more information. First, lesson learned, do not post on HN when tired. The ups and downs after posting are incredible, even if its just a private project. I couldn't be more thankful for the powerful emotions that arrive when I see my code in the open wild after weeks and months of coding. :)

The tool here is "just a frontend" I've build as an API-sideproject of mine. So, what does it do? In one sentence: Newscombinator gathers news from different sources, downloads it, makes a screenshot, cleans it, natural language process it, and push it through a MySQL DB into a Solr index.

The Solr-select handler is passed through a REST handler. Why that, why not directly the solr select handler? Because the REST handler also exposes endpoints to the MySQL Database. Some things are just not feasible in Solr alone. For example its hard to build aggregation queries in solr (think: SELECT AVG(points), SUM(points) FROM ... WHERE date_news_found ...), I've made that available in MySQL. And its easy to shift all that to a MariaDB cluster, or to an Amazon RDS, just in case...

What is available here is a RESTful interface to a Solr-Index with all Hacker-News articles, selected Reddits, etc, starting from Oct 2014. That is around 200k of articles. Including searchable content. I think that is a good base to start with for me.

Thank you in the meantime HN, I've learned something.
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An r720 from dell or similar model from dell with 600GB*2 SSD intel s3500DC model, 20 cores & 256GB of RAM will go for 5k-7k. You can bump this to 386GB of ram without going above 10k.
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Thank you, I'll take is as a valuable feedback for the landingpage, which really needs some more improvement.

Regarding the non-JS users. I am wondering how you can survive in the modern web. That shouldn't be meant as offensive statement, rather than I have the gut feeling that most websites are more like apps currently, running heavily on JS. That really makes me wonder...
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I've never actually noticed the Whilhelm Scream during a movie. I know it's common but it just doesn't register while I'm watching.

However there's one sound effect that always stands out.

The cube fire sound from the Doom 2 final boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el72n7U4Pos&t=101

Has anyone else noticed it? Is it a stock effect? I know I've heard it in a few movies and TV shows.
This being fiction and not reality, the dwarfish ability to build underground structures is actually literally innate. Not genetic perhaps, but somehow bound to dwarves racially. Remember this is the same game that prohibited halflings from being magic-users (well, it used to. I haven't read 5th ed). Whatever the reason, the game presents certain abilities as actually being racially innate.

It's not reality. It's a fantasy world. Additionally, it's a literary fantasy world. Real-world concepts of race don't apply.

If you think it's a terrible concept, by all means play a different game, build your own world, whatever. But just because the author doesn't like D&D doesn't mean it's wrong.
If you know anyone thinking about applying, this site does a good job breaking down true costs:

http://www.lstscorereports.com/national/

A bit under $300,000 for most schools when you consider tuition and living expenses. That doesn't include interest on the debt.

It also doesn't consider the opportunity cost you mention. Finally, one thing most young students ignore is that they have to pay the debt back in AFTER-TAX income.

$300,000 in debt takes $450,000 in before tax earnings, assuming a 33% average tax rate.
It's interesting which way the double standard swings on this; for instance, the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklist was exactly the same kind of "social consequence".
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I think this service should have one-click deploy to other Node.js platforms, at least Heroku, Beanstalk and Bluemix. I have a feeling that their concept would be most useful on ipad/mobile. But for that to be useful there needs to be very easy deployment options that work with my hosting of choice.

I mean, imagine finding a bug, being able to fix it on your phone, and deploying it immediately. If it works that way, I'm sold.

Also, if this is aimed towards frontend devs primarily, then it should be noted that it is unlikely that a frontend dev would struggle with writing JS on Node. They are more likely to dislike the deployment.
And up to 768GB if you go with 32GB LRDIMMs for about $14k (intel oem chassis).
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How do you do development?
No doubt GBM patients are in major need of novel therapeutic options. My major concern with this kind of a project is that the drugs may end up killing patients faster than the tumor will. For instance, some drugs are known to inhibit tumor growth AND immune cell signaling because they target shared pathways. The tumor can out-grow this interference; the immune system cannot. You will not know if your interventions are helping or hurting the people you are treating until you do a properly controlled study.

Second: in my experience, one of the major problems with screens for synergistic (or additive) therapies is multiple testing. If you test 100 compounds (10,000 combinations), a large number of combinations will appear to work by chance. Do you have a secondary screening approach to reduce false positives?
If I remember correctly, she made a joke about male genitalia on twitter just a few days beforehand.
The article we're discussing, which you consider "a great example of anti-feminist/male-privileged mindset", is written by a woman. Perhaps she's some sort of self-hating misogynistic woman in your eyes, but she is a woman in technology.
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OpenSSL isn't the be-all-and-end-all of crypto. Simple crypto can be done simply, as it is in e.g. Tarsnap. If all you need is to pair your clients with your servers, a little bit of glue on top of NaCl is a whole lot easier to trust than the whole TLS ecosystem.

What OpenSSL is, is a magic wand that can set up encrypted tunnels between peers that don't have pre-existing mutual key pairing, by making use of well-known X.509 certificates and the CA infrastructure. Don't try to make that kind of wand yourself; 99.999% of such wands are really misidentified Wands of +5 Foot Shooting.
Reading this, I am curious about the systems you've dealt with? If you are talking the back end basically being crud apps, sure, but most services, the bulk of the work is behind the scenese (rest apiece, etc)
I thought that a16z doesn't invest in multiple companies that are competitors. The reason they gave for not investing in companies that were likely to pivot was the Burbn => Instagram pivot, which put one of their investments (Instagram) into competition with another (PicPlz) [1].

This makes me really wonder what's up with 21, though, because a16z has already funded a major Bitcoin startup (Coinbase [2]), and did so after Balaji claims to have founded Instagram. Does that mean that 21 has no intention to become a Bitcoin payment processor or exchange?

[1] http://www.bhorowitz.com/instagram

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinbase
How do we try it out? I've been in beta list for a few days! :)
I've been saying for years that in big corporations, not being wrong is more important than being right. Slightly different phrasing and intent, but same basic principle.

I think this is one of the things that kills many startups targeting the enterprise - unless the founders have extensive enterprise experience themselves, they simply don't understand the perverse disincentive structures that dominate corporate decision-making. Hell, I have 20 years of enterprise, and as a founder, it's still hard. For example, selling a product as a time-saver for engineers doesn't work, basically because enterprises don't care that much if they're wasting their employees' time.
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I think these are designed to be used with developer boards like http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/STM32072B-EVAL/497-...
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The one-click deploy to heroku button is in the works.
At what point do consumer devices start using internal optical interconnects?
I've never heard the cube fire sound, but I hope to now that you've mentioned it! There's another scream sound that is similar to the wilhelm scream, but not quite it, that I hear a lot.

The other one if the tesla coil from red alert. Holy crap I hear that one all the time. Kind of, but not quite, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOpBPXLsNrs
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I do not actually think that is incredibly important.
I disagree. Standalone gerbers aren't terribly useful for hobbyists, and you'd have no luck opening an Allegro project even if they released that (which they wouldn't due to in-house component libraries containing supply leads etc.)

This remains an excellent reference design to build upon. The world of PCB design is more labor intensive, but this would be perfectly simple to reimplement using hobby-level PCB software.
Where does the overly-opinionated title come from?

Currently: Sutro Tower: San Francisco's least appreciated landmark
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My question is simple: what are the best use cases for each framework in real life compared to the other? I am a systems backend dev (Java, C#, Go, Python) getting interested in web dev. So far I tried out some pet projects on both frameworks, and I think both are more than amazing.
That lasts until half those startups fail, and someone asks why that department has a 50% failure rate. Or until a startup needs to pivot, and they're not allowed to pivot because it's not in the business plan. Et cetera.

Here in the Twin Cities startup scene, we talk a lot about enterprise-oriented startups (because what we have here is the richest concentration of Fortune 500 HQs in the world). On one hand, it'd be nice to get Target or 3M or someone to step up on investing and mentoring for our startups. But odds are the cure would be worse than the disease.
Your problem isn't "are there ways for her to get the news" - your problem is "is there a way for her to get her news for free". The answer is no. The people who produce that content need a salary so they can feed themselves and potentially their offspring.

If Betty wants the news without all the ads and redirects and other things you list, she can subscribe to any number of publications that will provide ad-free/redirect free content. For a fee.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902105
Never? Why do you think this would help anyone?
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Delays do not affect ordering.

Relativity means that observers with different velocities view timings differently.

Mere distances do not matter.

Pick a reference frame for your protocol, and relativity stops being a problem. (Hint: If all endpoints are on Earth you probably won't have enough precision to even need to compensate for relativistic effects.)
Investors would be outraged by the stupidity because Windows Phone runs Windows.
> They are more likely to dislike the deployment.

Deployment is the worst, for everybody. We're definitely excited about the possibilities there--done right, you could wire up your app in Treeline and set it live without your feet ever touching the ground (or muck, as it were.)
I cook about 4 times a week. Most frequently I use my pressure cooker and sous vide machine. It is kind of interesting because they represent two polar opposites of cooking.

If I need something cooked quickly, I can cook chicken thighs in a pressure cooker in about 10-15 minutes with a sauce. On the other hand if I am working a long day and I don't want a steak for dinner, I can put it in the sous vide machine and not worry about it.

The third most used item for me probably would be a wok.
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