skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People often forget that dealerships often abuse their power and take advantage of consumers.

Aren't corporations selling directly to consumers known for doing the same?
Why don't providers just set up a system that creates a country-level null route for a given destination IP? And have a UI with a checkbox for the user to do it, for any selected country. It would mitigate the issue, and once it's over, the user can un-restrict traffic / or just keep blocking if it's a non-valuable source.

I know you can do this on the server, using many different techniques. But this does not help as the traffic still reaches you (that you have to pay for).

You can also do this with Geo DNS (and get much less of a bill).

And the ISPs, datacenters, and anyone with a router can block ASIA or China allocated IP ranges. Especially if it's not the type of a flood that's designed to attack the routers (instead of the web-server).

So what's stopping Amazon?
I can't wait for the when all of the shitty professions are 1:1 too. Wonder if I can get a free ride into the nursing profession.
Coke Life is sweetened with Stevia, but I don't know how wide spread a distribution it has.
>from dreams of the infinite to realities of the finite

It certainly feels like the entire developed world is at this awakening point. Some cultures are just built to handle it worse, or better, than others.
Making a boombap beat with dilla and the Web Audio API
Obama suggests requiring everyone to vote
I got flagged as spam pretty reliably by GMail, but I eventually discovered it was because my mail server was delivering mail to GMail over IPv6, and I had never set up proper records for my IPv6 addresses.

GMail was the only one I had that problem with because few mailservers are using IPv6.
Not exactly a hard-hitting analysis.
> Somehow car dealers in the U.S. have managed to enshrine this sleazy sales model into state laws, which is certainly an amazing feat of lobbying.

It's a perversion of originally customer-friendly laws. The regulations were from an era where being able to be sure you have a local presence to service your car was very, very important.
Nice Work!

I am part of a startup that needs this like yesterday.

Who can I email regarding this?
They have 133 customers paying $7/mo. I don't think that's quite enough to be profitable after paying for taxes, web services, and the team's salary; I'd be surprised if it could cover everything. It's a nice start, though!
High consumption of sugar alcohols causes GI upset in a lot of people, which is why you usually only see them used in small quantities (gum, mints, or non-edibles like toothpaste and mouthwash).

Russel-Stover makes sugar-free chocolates, peanut butter cups, and other confections that rely on sugar alcohols and sucralose to replace the missing sugar. They carry a warning on the bag that eating more than 3 pieces may cause diarrhea.
My instinct here is to write the query in such a way that even if pg changes in the future, or if I migrate to an almost compatible alternative tomorrow, it should work the same way. Perhaps more importantly, it sends the message to future devs (including me) that rows should only be deleted after they've already been archived. It also covers that 0.000000001% chance that everything else went wrong and the intern did it manually and managed to screw it up.

In the end, queries are code, and code is our way to communicate or intent to the next developer, so it's better to do the delete after the insert
Hey @up_and_up - would love to learn more about how you could use Akido! Shoot me an email at jared@akidolabs.com and let's set aside a time for a call/skype/coffee (depending on where you live)!
Have you ever tried miracle berries? I have, in a demo they did for us at Cantu's restaurant. It's not a sweetener. It alters your sense of taste, for a fairly long period of time; it changes how everything tastes. It's really cool, and you should (if you haven't already) order some and play with them yourself. It's hard to see how they'd displace aspartame, though.
The bounds checks for matrix multiplication over fixed length arrays are completely optimized out by LLVM, and LLVM will also optimize the bounds checks for non-fixed-length arrays in many cases. The slice length is an SSA value, so it's subject to constant propagation and SCCP.
There's no need to "smear" him. By appearing on RT, he's discredited himself enough.
Turn the web console of your site into a tunnel to your slack
I was worried about this too, but when I think about how many times I've shared my Github profile/projects and not had people look at it, I doubt it's a real concern. At most people will look at your score, not at the details. That doesn't mean it won't be in the back of my mind adding anxiety while I'm playing the game though.
Just make a snapshot on terminal.com and then the state of your web application can be distributed at an instant in time. You can verify its exactly what you say it is since the snapshot is bound to your user name.

You can make a snapshot for free right now if you want to. This should solve your problem.

Let me know if you have any questions, but using terminal's snapshot feature you can distribute your web app at a known state.

Edit: it's like git versioning for machine state.
Heh, was just wondering this at the pharmacy a couple of days ago... For one type of insulin I use (Lantus), it costs $400 for ~2.5 months worth, without insurance—which I happen to be without atm. Frustrating.

What's worse are the prices for 'test strips' for blood sugar monitors, though: about $120/mo for the cheapest kind, and insurance doesn't help much.

And what you really want is a continuous monitor, but they're over twice that last I checked.

And what you REALLY want is a glucose monitor/insulin dispenser feedback loop—or a new pancreas (speaking for Type 1's) :D —but those solutions obviously have their problems as well.

[/rant]
Infosys whistleblower: H-1B workers have minimal skills
> Can they be points but only rational points?

They can be, but then the total area of your pixels would be zero. Which is fine, since this isn't a real monitor we're talking about, this is a math monitor. But:

One property of our computer monitor that we'd want is that when displaying white, it should have uniform brightness -- the amount of light emitted from a rectangle R should be proportional to area(R). The total amount of light emitted from the monitor should be nonzero, too. Let's say the area of the whole monitor is 1 and so is the luminosity.

Your pixels are what's emitting light -- they're point-sources? Suppose p is one of your pixels (or its location). Then let's consider a sequence smaller and smaller squares around p, with side lengths 1/20, 1/21, 1/22, 1/23, ... The luminosity of each of these squares of sidelength 1/n must be the square's area, 1/n^2, because the brightness is uniform. So the pixel p must have zero luminosity, because if it had nonzero luminosity, then some very small rectangle around it would be emitting more light than it should be, and the monitor would not have uniform brightness.

From this argument it seems that each pixel's luminosity is zero. And then you can enumerate the pixels, since they form a countable set: p_1, p_2, p_3, .... The luminosity of the whole screen is a countable sum, which is sum[i = 1 to infinity](luminosity(p_i)) = sum[i = 1 to infinity](0) = 0.

So I don't think the idea of dividing a math-monitor into countably many pixels, each with zero area, works. It's OK that the total area of the pixels is zero, but you have to accept non-uniform luminosity or say that the pixels aren't point sources, they "bleed". However, if you have uncountably many pixels, then it's okay if each "pixel" (whatever) has zero luminosity. You only get nonzero luminosity when talking about sets of pixels with nonzero area -- their luminosity on the uniformly bright screen is proportional to the set's area. That's perfectly compatible with intuition -- the same way it's intuitive that the area of a unit square is 1, even though it's an uncountable union of sets having one point each, each of whose area is zero.
Fulltext: http://sci-hub.org/downloads/a18a/10.1056@NEJMms1411398.pdf / https://www.dropbox.com/s/wzdt3ioryz4n7rb/2015-greene.pdf
Instead of this, Apple or Facebook could pay $20,000 to their partners, if they stayed at home with a kid.
> Moreover they are even more likely to pay proper attention to it if you are not rude.

It's funny how some people don't learn this.

Years of internet commenting has taught me the uselessness of posting in anger, and the value of a well-argued, well-written point. Strong emotions one way or another diminish the authority and impact of what you say.

It's easier said than done, of course: strong emotions are often specifically what lead you to make the effort of commenting.
> artificial sweeteners stimulate appetite and promote weight gain

I do not see evidence or argument in your link to support your summary. The closest I found was mention of a large observational study where people that were observed to became fatter used more sugar substitute. The difference between the groups of +2lbs was statistically significant, but seems irrelevant given the obvious observational confound of people that gain weight also switching to substitutes to reduce calorie intake.
Speaking as a physician, I'm deeply heartened by any attention to health care software from outside of the entrenched players.

Most current EMRs are execrable. Their difficulty is not only frustrating and user-hostile, but potentially unsafe.
More like a unicorn 10X Developer shortage. Companies will be pleased to find candidates who are eager and willing to jump through yet another proving ground, after having had so much fun with commit histories and stars on GitHub, SO points, and what have you[1]. They'll find smart candidates who are willing to work for them in exchange for being able to work on Interesting Problems and the occasional you-are-so-smart implicit approval.

[1] Meet the new standard; same as the old standard, and in addition to it.
>If they care about X, it's better if your don't work there.

Not speaking about private repos per se, but whether it comes down to a close call between you and another candidate, or one person on the hiring team is looking to make a quick decision, it's just smarter to avoid meaningless points of contention.

Sure, it's likely you'll never be hurt by this, but it would be sad to miss out on a great opportunity because of some flotsam... and you'll never know why.
get your ass into therapy
This site has this line in bookstrap.css:

/* Use responsive pixels */
font-size: 1px;

Since Firefox uses the font size to determine scroll distance, this page scrolls really slowly in FF.
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I've been running my own mail server since 2001 (and other servers before then). The only time when I had a problem with blacklists was when I used a colocation/server provider that didn't give much care to RBLs blacklisting his entire subnets (so, check your provider's reputation before signing up!).

Except for this problem, blacklists have never been a problem for me. I guess it's different if you send newsletters or other mass-marketing mail.
One reason is because mirrors (freespace optics in general), are limited in how narrowly confined the beam can be. Generally speaking, waveguides can have cross sectional area of ~ λ^2 or less, while freespace optics can only get below that for some small focus volume. So a chip with mirrors on it would have to be much much bigger to handle the beam width of all the laser light.
Scale Your Jenkins Compute with Your Dev Team Using Docker and Jenkins Swarm
Uber is doing a productive thing and reduces the number of fatalities and drunk driving deaths. You are obviously stuck in some state of acute infantilism of perceiving dominance games when we should be talking about the results.
The article is horribly written...
I was unaware they had a monopoly on language usage. A byte is not an SI unit. Base2 is vastly more defensible and natural than base10. The real issue is that everyone in networking likes round base10 numbers divided over some arbitrary cesium fluctuations. This leads to 1GB / 1Gbps not being 8 seconds, which is confusing. But in JEDEC's and others defense: "why should I have to change, he's the one that sucks."
Do you have a list of supported EMRs and how does the API communicate with the EMR?

Is this a sort of translation from HL7 to web services API?

Edit:

I found the list of EHR software on the site.

In my experience working with a variety of these types of software is they are all differently difficult and constantly changing. Ones like Cerner can be completely driven by HL7, although not all are like this.

Will this be all hosted in the cloud, or on-site, or both with some "connector" software? What's the cost structure and set-up fees like? Do you have any customers yet?

Edit Edit:

I'm not exactly in the market for this, even though I'd love an API to sit over all the systems we have already integrated including one large COTS LIMS system, a custom LIMS built from scratch, and a third-party cloud system all communicating via web services with varying degrees of functionality.
I don't comment on the Kanzlerakte, it's obvious fake.

US barracks are not extraterritoriality zones, please cite your claim.

"US soldiers are not under German jurisdiction", this is only partly true. It's part of the "NATO-Truppenstatut". With Art. 19 Abs. 3 Satz 1 ZA (Zusatzabkommen) the foreign soldiers are part of German jurisdiction.

Again, please cite your claims.
I have a work-in-progress guide for folks wanting to host their own email servers which provides a step-by-step process for taking a Debian (or Ubuntu) server and building out a secure install of Postfix and Dovecot to provide TLS 1.2/PFS enabled SMTP, IMAP, and webmail services along with competent spam filtering with low false-positive rate and all the required DNS and other settings to ensure your mail is accepted by GMail and the like.

I've never really posted it up, but I feel like if you've read this article and are wanting more, this might help you. It's work-in-progress because I've been sidetracked from finishing the Client piece and also creating a Dockerfile that generates a group of self-contained images configured as recommended, but all the steps for the server are complete and tested.

You can find it at http://securemail.tristor.ro/#!index.md It's all written in Markdown and I accept pull requests at https://github.com/Tristor/securemail.tristor.ro

Hope that anyone in the process of setting up a mail server finds this helpful.
I especially like your point there that this will highlight people who don't have a spectacular Github profile. Lots of people complain that they have a great track record writing proprietary code and the recent focus on Github profiles is unhelpful to them. Hopefully a Starfighter score, compared to a Github profile, is more fun to develop, less intimidating to share, more meaningful when still "unfinished", more digestible by hiring staff, less entangled with employer IP, and perhaps most importantly requires less "vision" to get started.
I'll defer to another commenter about the challenge of doing this without generating more carbon to generate the required power.

Also, plants don't, "Convert Carbon into Oxygen", they separate the Oxygen from the Carbon and release it.

FWIW the Ocean processes like 3-4x as much carbon as the rainforest. It is of concern that the rainforest is losing its' capacity to, but perhaps it has been overloaded as dead spots in the ocean expand.

Sylvia Earle's project, "Mission Blue", is trying to help the ocean regenerate by fighting overfishing and other practices. There's a great film on Netflix by this name that includes a lot of dive footage from decades ago, and from present day.
I attended a workshop hosted by the Center for Applied Rationality, and the most valuable part of that was getting more social contact with the kind of people who are into that sort of thing.

Like, spending four days and $4000 to have a dozen short conversations with Anna Salamon is probably a good buy. It's rather hard to evaluate, since you're getting things that are difficult to buy with money.

I don't have any experience with YC, but I imagine that it's a similar sort of deal - especially since I've heard that they focus on community-building.
Seems OK for me with FF 33 and 36 on Mac.
Excerpts from FTC Staff Report on Google’s Search Practices
Material Design in XAML Toolkit Improvements: Fields, Combos, Hamburger
How Startup Financing Works
once upon a time, all of silicon valley basically operated like this.
v. late reply. Was busy working:-) There is a lot of empirical research that attribute grit, perseverance, practice to success. The best and most "successful" creatives, are also the ones that started the earliest, are the most productive (worked the hardest),.. http://pmarchive.com/age_and_the_entrepreneur.html

More anecdotal research like the 10000 hour "rule" for mastering a skill,... also state the same thing.

Sure you can be born rich and this doesn't apply to you.

But most people aren't born rich, so, what is available to them is hard work.

Ok, I'm going back to work now. Thanks for listening
I've always wanted to try those, but at first I couldn't decide to order in some online shop, and next time I looked the shop had closed.

I think they wrote something about not being allowed to sell miracle berries in the EU, because it was categorized as some dietary supplement or so, without the necessary certifications.
What do you think of Apervita.com, which is also a platform for working with EHR?

They seem to want "health authors" (developers/scientists) to use their "authoring environment" (locked in IDE/language... wow) to build "insights" (apps) that are locked into their market.

I don't understand the virtue of that model unless they think that they can achieve a monopoly on a lot of data. Is it possible they can?
The prices quoted here seem rather low for a biologic drug. The way insulin is made is somewhat complicated, the best standard is typically production in yeast, followed by reverse proteolysis, then purification and formulation. The chem. Eng. Flowchart is ten 'steps', most requiring lots of chillers; insulin is not at all a thermostable drug (patients know this, over time insulin will flocculate and become useless)
I just set up Postfix to use an SMTP relay and then send them through a provider specializes in transactional emails (even though the emails I send through them are all hand written).
Same scenario here. Blacklists have never been a problem for me, but they have been incredibly useful for keeping the spam out. Email wouldn't work without them.
Well the other discussion of non-overlapping pixels is definitely teaching me a lot, but I think this settles what the chosen screen should do. It should use overlapped addressing so you can not only put a picture on it with a countably infinite computer, you can put a picture on it with a finite computer.
Please, don't perceive this as being rude, it's not meant to be.

Having provided IP transit at a largish network provider in a previous life, you have no idea at the complexity involved what you're asking for. It could be done, but the costs involved are non-trivial.

If you're honestly interested in the complexity involved, start reading about BGP, dynamic routing protocols, router/switch fabrics, control plane integration, autonomous systems, peering agreements, etc.
Using Mumble had never occurred to me, but it's a great idea. Thanks! :)
Q&A with Wired.com's Jake Spurlock
Is Akido something like BlueButton+ [1] but which is used (about to be used) by real EHR systems at real hospitals?

If yes, I'd love to give it a try.

[1] http://bluebuttonplus.org/
Tesla makes it 'impossible' for drivers to intentionally run out of range
There are. For sound recordings, there is the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC). For the musical work (of which there may be many recordings) there is an International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC). For an entire album, at least in CD format, there is a Media Catalog Number (MCN). (CDs also typically contain an ISRC for each track.) Albums often have a label catalog number as well.

There are also community identifiers, such as MusicBrainz IDs.

Not sure what there is for movies, however.
Or, you know, just drink water.
It can't bend light without loss... It actually is pretty lossy (the paper references an attenuation of 270 cm^-1, or 1/e loss per 270 cm.)
A simple Unix-like “which” command in Python
How does it compare with SMART/FHIR ?
That sounds too good to be true. I guess after a 24/7 china DDoS their costs are higher than that and they ask for more.
Using FF 36 on Linux Mint, same issue. Thanks.
GMail has been strict about reverse DNS on IPv6 since the beginning.
Great answer! Thanks for sharing.

So how long do you think one should stay at big companies to train their coding skills then?

Or what should they at least learn there?
It is you who is misinformed.
With public companies it's more a case of what a remuneration committee - itself composed of multimillionaires - has to take all this into account when approving the salary package when their preferred candidate for CEO has requested an additional $X million

If the less preferred CEO candidate is marginally less efficient in maximising profit it costs the firm $XX million. A botched acquisition costs $XX-XXX million. Misguided strategic changes could cost $Xbillion over the next few years and be irreversible. If the markets disapprove of the less-preferred CEO candidate their appointment might even wipe $XX million off the share price overnight, before they've even had a chance to act.

How much the lower echelons of staff able only to affect the performance of their own department earn doesn't even enter the calculus, except perhaps to note that the new CEO can certainly justify $X million more if he's really good about identifying which areas those staff need to be cut.
I dual boot Windows 8.1 and Linux Ubuntu in a Dell Inspiron 13 2-in-1.

It's true Intel network drivers suck. Not only WiFi. I have to transfer the Ethernet network driver for the desktops in the office via USB, as any Windows Install does not have the driver in the disk. And this is for wired networking.

Nowadays most network hardware is done by Intel. So it sucks everywhere.

In contrast, Ubuntu is totally plug and play. I have an external USB drive that can boot in the desktops and in the Dell laptop. Even with different video cards (AMD vs Intel), it just works.

I can change the sound output device with a single click in Ubuntu. The laptop boots in 'secure mode' and Ubuntu is recognized by the UEFI loader.

But not everything is perfect in Linux.

The accelerometer (or whatever hardware that autodetects the laptop's rotation) only works in Windows. Then, for reading comics, I boot to Windows.

The video performance is better in Windows. I always get screen tearing in Ubuntu, while I get perfect playback in Windows (unless I use display mirroring and output to HDMI and the internal display at the same time).

If I want good FullHD video, I have to boot into Windows (and output to only one screen).
Well good then. It still seems silly to have the text I quoted on the main page - especially since someone who'd loaded the code is then legally free redistribute it without requiring registration or an email address.