skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About half of all medication is taken incorrectly.

It doesn't seem to matter how serious the consequences of non-compliance are -- a bunch of donated organs fail because people (who had to wait a long time to get that organ) are non compliant with their meds.

It also doesn't seem to matter if people pay for their meds or not. Here's an old (2006) programme transcript talking about prescriptions in the NHS. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/casenotes_tr_20060509.sh...

> In 2004 prescribed medicines cost the NHS more than £8 billion in England alone, yet 4 out of 10 people prescribed medicines by their doctor don't take them regularly enough to derive any benefit. I'll be finding out about the financial and social costs of not taking medicines properly, and what can be done to stem the wastage.

[...]

> And poor compliance - or non-concordance to give it its politically correct name - isn't just a problem for drug safety campaigners like Professor Shakir. Studies have shown that as many as 9 out 10 cases of rejection in people who have had kidney or heart transplants happen solely because they don't take their pills properly. And if they don't follow instructions, after all they have been through, then what chance do the rest of us have.

> About 20% of the population take their medicines properly and they get the full benefit. Another 40% take their medicines well enough to get some benefit - which is good. But 40% of people with diabetes and asthma and schizophrenia, high blood pressure, don't take their medicines at all or they take them so erratically as to get no benefit and some harm.

> Yes, I've been doing my sums on this and these are approximate figures but last year UK GPs issued approximately 1 billion prescriptions, costing approximately £12 billion. If 40% of that is indeed wasted and we are fairly sure it is, that means that non-compliers are wasting somewhere around £5 billion per annum, that's eight times the current hospital overspend that's causing so much fuss in the media.

> And I have to emphasise - it's the same in the USA, Sweden, Australia - any country where it's been researched.

The English NHS has very strict rules and they will not take back meds. You can hand meds to your pharmacist but those get destroyed. This is supposedly to protect the chain - to prevent counterfeit goods getting into the supply. (I'm not sure I understand that reasoning but I've heard it said more than once).
Yes, non-terrible data entry UI.

Seriously, have you ever looked at the software your nurse or doctor is dealing with while they are supposed to be talking to you? It's hot garbage.
I'm sure we are not alone in the "Must Run Some Windows Software" requirement. ARM might make that tough.
Mysteries (are they all obvious?)
Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (2008)
I'm not sure I agree that about the mismatch issue. I would certainly agree that for the majority for programming nowadays, quality takes a back seat to quantity. On the other hand, there are still many jobs where quality is very important, like dealing with the mechanical/aerospace industry, security related software, and financial software. Those businesses don't seem to have problems finding the right people and working with a different set of constraints.
We're trying to develop a set of algorithms that can detect if two online accounts are the same person as well as whether or not the person can be trusted.

Not saving the world but its still a fun challenge!
For those wondering whether parent comment is hyperbole: yes, that is quoting Ted Kaczynski's manifesto.
Goat Age: Origins.
Goat Effect.
Goat Raider.
Goat Space Program.
Goats of the Old Republic.
Goatville.
Sins of a Goat Empire.
Just a guess, but say you have an array of continuously changing values. What value you get out depends on index (spatial) and time (temporal) of the access. You could abstract over either: an index through iteration, and time through observation.
Redesigned GNU C Library manual
Someone this sensible is probably more likely to a) pick a reliable partner and b) get a prenup.
Firesize uses ImageMagick, which in my experience consumes more memory and is slower than libvips [1] for simple image resizing/optimization.

I built a simple image-resizing server with a query string API using libvips [2]. This is based on sharp [3], a good wrapper of libvips for Node.js.

[1] https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips

[2] https://github.com/nthtran/imgop

[3] https://github.com/lovell/sharp
Well, my objection was not on the "belief" part, it was on the "letter of the law" part.

Atheism is just not something that has laws that can be interpreted or not. You can't be a "devout atheist" or a "non-practicing atheist", or practice parts of atheism but not others, it makes absolutely no sense. Atheism is by definition a binary property.

If you wanted to list different categories including non-religious ones, talking about national laws or vegetarianism would have been pertinent in a way that atheism was not.
Judging by Firefox Extensions: It just works until it breaks since extensions are usually not part of the core team's responsibility, and the APIs they use may change with every FF/Gnome release. The time it takes me to install something is really not that relevant, as long as it's <10min - what's relevant is the time it takes me to keep it running for the next 5 years at least.
The founder of the first start-up I worked for around 2006 told me that most of the money and network was centered around Harvard. It was difficult to get funding as a non-Harvard alum.
Martin Luther Insult Generator
Thanks for your work!

In that particular timeframe (Sept/Oct 2014), the Debian maintainer just hadn't uploaded a newer version of the package: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/opam

It's a pity, because I think Debian's Experimental section would've been ideal for this.

I've been using Debian long enough that I'm a bit ashamed not to be able to package things on my own yet...
easier said than done. every system has its own perspective of the patient, but you can't simply share that. there has to be a canonical format that works in multiple contexts, but all of the so called standards have been horrible.

just consider the case of drug records. most standard vocabularies are based around the pharmacy's view of the data, which does not work for prescribing meds. and then there's the problem of importing data ... you're usually downloading a prescription history, but what the doctor almost always wants is a record of meds the patient is currently on ... not prescriptions from years ago. and then there's privacy issues when it comes to certain specialties that make it difficult to share prescription data freely. and this doesn't even get into all of the units problems that lazy software developers can't ever get right!
As an guy with Autism, this is an absolutely great read.
You're right, it should be called Schönfinkeling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Sch%C3%B6nfinkel
I bought Sanctum a long time ago and honestly I could not play it for more than an hour. I LOVE tower defense games, but there was just too much stuff on the screen for my taste on Sanctum. By the way: the same happened with Dungeon Defenders, never got to really enjoy it.

Those are two great games that lost me because of their excess.

Goat Simulator is a joke-game. It's absurdly hilarious all the way through, and purposedly idiotic. There is a lot of fun to be found on the game, but you got to have the right type of humor, and be very fond of goats, to find it.

Also it is a sandbox of sorts. Sandbox games please a range of gamers, but they're not for everyone. This could be your case.
It is common for employers to advertise their job openings on sites with domain names other than their own - taleo and the like.

If you direct me to some other domain, and I link to a page at that domain, you are indirectly promoting a business other than your own. By contrast, if you have your own employment listings at your own site, then my link would promote your business interests.
Are you going to buy them the digital technology? Are you going to pay for their internet access? How are you going to provide equal privilege?

It may come as a shock to you, but poor people have cellphones and internet, too.
Members of the all-volunteer military are significantly more likely to come from high-income neighborhoods than from low-income neighborhoods. Only 11 percent of enlisted recruits in 2007 came from the poorest one-fifth (quintile) of neighborhoods, while 25 percent came from the wealthiest quintile. These trends are even more pronounced in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program, in which 40 percent of enrollees come from the wealthiest neighborhoods-a number that has increased substantially over the past four years. (...) American soldiers are more educated than their peers. A little more than 1 percent of enlisted personnel lack a high school degree, compared to 21 percent of men 18-24 years old, and 95 percent of officer accessions have at least a bachelor's degree.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/08/who-serves-...
Designs for the US's more advanced fighters, like the P-38, P-47, and P-51, were begun in 1937-39. They were not initially available when the US entered the war.

The M4 Sherman tank design began about 1940, although it followed closely on US light and medium tank designs from 1935.

If by "prior to involvement," you mean 3 or 4 years prior, you're probably right. Most of the design and development work was done to supply the British well before 1941.

Further, the Great Depression not withstanding, and certainly by 1941, the US had the strongest economy in the world.
Reminds me of Cory Doctorow's "Reasonable Agreement," [1] reproduced in full below:

> READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.

Oops, sorry. Did you read it?

[1]: http://boingboing.net/2007/01/25/reasonableagreemento.html
Look, if you want to talk about code, the easiest and best way to sidestep this issue is to have people bring code (somewhere between 200-1000 lines) to the interview. While they may not have a github presence, they've probably written something on a computer outside of business at some point.

I really don't understand why more people don't do this.

It doesn't even matter if it is their own code. The fact that they will have to talk intelligently about it means that it will accomplish its task.

I used to get this issue interviewing with VLSI chip companies all the time. "Do you know Perl?"--"Yes, I do, but I don't know YOUR particular favorite subset of that write-only language" doesn't go over well in interviews.

After getting tired of getting dinged on questions about a language that I had used for almost daily for 5 years and that I abandoned for good reason, I took an old program of mine from Python and ported it to Perl. I bring both.

Now, I have something concrete to talk about, can actually compare the points of two languages, and most interviewers realize that "Gee, you're probably better at this than I am."

This shifts the conversation from "Technical Jeopardy!" to "Ah, you know how to program, let's look.", "I did this. Here's why.", "Oh, that's interesting. What does that do?", etc.
I didn't file my previous company's IRS Form 940 because I didn't pay myself that quarter, and so had no withholding tax. Eventually the IRS sent me a letter in which it demanded that quarter's 940.

So I neatly printed my quarterly return, with "0.00" in all the fields. The IRS of course responded - after a long wait - by demanding my 940 yet again.

I was able to bring the problem to a halt by including a cover letter with my second filing, to explain that I had already filed and that all the entries were 0.00 because I had no payroll for that quarter.
Goat Theft Auto
Ask HN: Feeling pressured to accept startup job offer quickly
Hi,

I recently got offered a startup job at a nice little company in SF. Everything seems OK with the company and job. After going back and forth a little on the compensation we came to an agreement.

However, they are pressuring me to take the job asap because they have a short list and who ever says 'yes' first gets the job.

I've never encountered this situation before. Is this normal?

Here's something else that makes me suspicious: I'm a terrible interviewer and not a great programmer and am suspicious that there's a company that will accept me. The interview process was a bit long and through with a phone screen and an office visit and a follow up interview. Maybe this is the interview I finally just nailed after many failed interviews. I can't really tell.

I'm a little worried about leaving my current job because now I'm wondering if this is just a tactic or foible on the part of the CEO or is it an actual sign of something is wrong.
I'm not in disagreement with your ideas behind your political party, but I do not agree with the system you want to institute.
There isn't. You don't do generic containers in C; you implement each specific data structure from the ground up to do specifically what you need.

This is both a strength and a weakness.
I'd like to correct you on that, Oscar is not just a pretty design smacked on-top of an insurance company. It's the entire insurance stack redesigned from the ground up.

Algorithms and ML are all heavily used in analyzing member data to improve the lives of people.

We're engineering systems that give us real-time feedback on the insurance system as a whole, rather than the usual "30-60 days". Building a claims system from scratch is not an easy feat.

If you'd like to learn more about what we're doing i'd be happy to demo it for you.

Don't be fooled by our pretty and simplified website. It's all of the hard engineering efforts that you don't see that make the simplified experience possible. :)
And the ones who don't?
Wonderful story!
>>with the constitution

At the federal level we can change the constitution if we get enough votes. But its hard to achieve such a consensus, as it requires more than a simple super-majority. So it always comes down to thresholds.
If that was all it was they could easily hire a non-Jew to monitor it.
It's not a democracy at all, purposefully so.
try starting a democracy here: http://hub.democracyos.com
I don't need to actually click that link, do I?
I probably wrote that comment.

> especially when there's empirical evidence that shows otherwise.

It's very difficult to explain how hard is to do a good measurement to someone that has never been inside a physic lab. If you have 5V electrical signals up to 100KHz you can be quite confident in your measurements, everything else is more complicated.

It's easier to compare this with another experiment: the faster than light neutrinos.

It was a experiment run by a more serious group, with a lot of specialist and a lot of published papers in that subject. They got FTL neutrinos, and most of the comments here explained that it would break the physics laws and give a alternative explanation of the source of the error. I think I upvoted the wrong explanation :(.

They have a wrong measurement, and a few months later they realized that they have a problem with a fiber optic cable. (Protip: Always check the wires again.)
It's clear you are not allowed to transact business on the Shabbat. But is your computer allowed to? Not so clear.

Different Rabbi's have ruled differently, that's why they are different. Some say don't take any transactions at all, other say it's fine to collect the info, but don't actually bill.

Letting the computer serve web pages is fine though, computers don't have to keep the Shabbat. The issue of business is that it's really you collecting the money, not the computer.
The original EPR paper [pdf]
@tptacek, I'd be interested in your thoughts on how one could adapt your methods from Matasano to, say, a startup doing web dev or to an enterprise software company. I've done some thinking based on some of your writings and the idea that the best way to test someone for suitability to do a job is to have them do the job, and haven't really come up with any good ideas.
The original paper by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen that challenged the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and first described what is today called quantum entanglement.
I conducted quite a few interviews at my previous job and my solution for the whiteboard anxiety problem is to give a set of coding exercises/questions on a piece of paper to the candidate and give him/her as much time as necessary to answer these in private in a separate office.

When the candidate is ready he/she announces it and we review the solutions together.

It is not perfect, but I find it much less taxing than being asked to solve a technical problem in a white board in front of an interviewer.
This article makes a point about mis-diagnosis. It's an important point. Look at dyslexia. There are a bunch of different reading disabilities, but school children are mostly tested for dyslexia. If they have dyslexia they get a bunch of help. If they have some other reading disability, well, it's hit or miss whether they get the help or not. So some people with mild dyslexia are geting copious help, while other people with moderate reading disabilities are not getting any help.

This is why accessibility is important. The people who meed the help and who need the assisstive tech might not be able to get it. So, please, do remember accessibility.
Please check out: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/security/2014/08/30/every-vote-count...

This is a paper describing an end-to-end verifiable self-enforcing electronic voting system called DRE-i (Direct Recording Electronic with Integrity).

In my opinion this is a superior solution to any other electronic voting system developed to date.
I see 'Test question: __none'
> I think RapGenius (i.e. Genius) is a really powerful way to arrive at a crowdsourced understanding of what content is.

I dunno if I agree with that.
The current world population is 7 billion people.

Approximately 1 billion smartphones are sold every year.

Do the math.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

[2] http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2665715
In Europe, perhaps. In Syria?
Counter Strike: Goat Offensive
It could also be distance or lack of time or avoiding creepers or having more fun things to do or not knowing about the event in the first place or some hidden factor we didn't think of. The point is that there's a filter and its effects aren't necessarily known to us, so it's hard to deduce what's wrong when some people don't show up.

It seems like figuring out problems like this is what marketing is all about.
You completely missed the point.

God allows sin to exist so that you the person don't do it, as commanded. If God made sin impossible then how can you reward people for following the commandments?

The loopholes are different - God did not say "don't try to find loopholes, God instead made very specific commandments, with clear holes in them".

You are mixing physical impossibility with carefully studying and following the commands.
Respectfully, I disagree that you cannot be a devout atheist, but I think we are digressing.

Certainly national or government laws are applicable to my point of people who will follow the letter of the law, but find every little loophole they can if it benefits them, even if it harms others, and those that follow the spirit or principle in-which the law was enacted, sans loopholes.
You are grossly overestimating the competence of those industries:

http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/2/Toyota-s-kill...
To me the question comes down to money. How much is it going to cost to create a modern, technology-aided health infrastructure that is actively utilized, in a top-down fashion? I think the answer is a lot more than we would guess, and a lot more than anyone is willing or able to pay.

I don't think a startup really wants to be in this space, even though it seems like a great idea. The size of the necessary workforce, the legal complexities, the complicated interface with government and regulatory bodies and the enormity of the required indemnity make life impossible. I mean Dropbox of all companies has Condeleeza Rice on their board to smooth over dealing with the government - the mind boggles who on earth a successful startup in the healthinfotech space would need on their board, but half of congress might be a start...

I would stop trying to kill yourself dealing with hospitals, it isn't worth it. They are run by either status quo bureaucrats or cost slashers. The only way to reform things is bottom-up - creating applications that patients or clinical staff will use en masse outside of a hospital's IT system eg on their smart phones.
A few off the top of my head:

- Trimble
- Granular
- Farm Logs
- The Climate Corporation

I work at Climate, and we work on some pretty cool science based projects to help farmers make better decisions.

We are hiring for a variety of positions you can check out here:
http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=JobL...

If you (or anyone) is interested in a role on the remote sensing team (satellite/drone suff) or the Climatology team, you can reach out to me directly at skhalsa@climate.com
Pardon, I think you meant to say:

http://www.helionenergy.com/

http://www.generalfusion.com/

http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/

http://emc2fusion.org/

http://www.lockheed.com/

http://www.sandia.gov/

http://www.washington.edu/

I'll send you my bill in the mail.
Yeah, HDMI cables are a really bad example. Even with the monitor example it sounds like a lot of the price difference had to do with reducing the markup. I always assumed that this was monoprice's strategy, find items being sold with huge markups (e.g. HDMI and audio cables), and reduce the markup. I would be interested in hearing/reading more about the other ways they reduce costs which they talked about briefly (re-engineering to reduce production costs).
I am a bit confused how you could say that you are both a sceptic and "happy to say it's caused by humans". Or are you saying you're a sceptic about the catastrophic potential?
This is a banal question, flame bait at that.
Unless I've missed something, this isn't a redesign of the library, it's a restyling of the manual as a website.
It's much easier to do in C, as no cast is required.
A new Android reference app for multi-device applications
The sharing economy and human behavior
> You can't be a "devout atheist" or a "non-practicing atheist", or practice parts of atheism but not others, it makes absolutely no sense.

Sure you can. You can believe God exists, but decide, like an atheist, not to follow any rules because you don't think God cares. You can believe God exists and cares, but did not actually make any rules. You can Believe God is actually the laws of nature and is omni-everything, but not intelligent. You can believe God made the big bang but otherwise left the world alone (so there are no laws to follow).

Even "devout" atheists still have to believe in something that made the big bang. Some just ignore the topic, others think "we'll figure it out", others feel "whatever made it is outside the universe and thus of no concern to me", other feel "I only care about proven things, unproven things I ignore".

> Atheism is by definition a binary property.

As you can see from my list there are a tremendous number of shades of gray here. Like any religion there are multiple branches of atheism.
3rd or 4th time this has been posted in the last two days.