skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have said, do these jobs more efficiently. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see how a machine that does a "sizable portion" of the work would ever be good enough to be worth using. A human expert would always be needed to check the work.

If the proposition is that this would lead to fewer humans being needed for these jobs, I suppose that could be the case. In my own field, my criticism of automating, say, legal research and writing, is that the time it would take for me to check the work would be nearly the same as doing it myself. I don't see much efficiency gain, which is why I think the only thing that would truly be better than a human would be an AGI.
The author might not believe this, but I can't help to think that she was specifically targeted as a woman who went 'off the reservation'. And that the intent of this was to limit this woman's academic freedom. I don't know the specifics of title IX, but she might have a case.
I'm sorry to hear this. Cancer is awful. Best wishes.

I feel horrible about joining a young business as an albatross instead of an asset.

Don't. It's not your fault. You don't even know that you're going to have any effect on their premiums and even if that happens, it's going to be a small effect in comparison to everything else that startups have to deal with.

If I start at my new job I'm afraid I will endanger the business and raise everybody's premiums.

Don't worry about that. You shouldn't feel guilty about anything... unless you're a health insurance lobbyist or executive or a legislator who fought healthcare reform, which you're obviously not.

Just focus on getting well and giving the people around you, your job, and most importantly, yourself, your best. Seriously, fuck everything else. This is your life.

Besides, an 18-person company that can't survive one employee getting cancer (and I suspect that it can) is a company that doesn't deserve to stay in business.

So: take the job, get covered, and work when you can.

I left my old job on good terms but have no idea how they could justify re-hiring an employee who left and may not be productive / able to work.

You'll be able to work, although not at 100%. It's not like life stops when you undergo chemo or radiation. Yes, those therapies are brutal (my mother had cancer, twice) and you'll probably need to take a few days off for each one, but you can still be productive some of the time.

Let's say that you need 6 cycles of chemotherapy (over 18 weeks) and that each involves three days during which you can't work. (There's a lot of variation. Some people drive themselves to chemo. Some people need a week to recover. Three days seems to be average, from what I've heard.) That's only 18 sick days. It's nowhere close to a deal breaker.

Focus on getting well. Don't feel guilty because you didn't do anything wrong.
I am just recovering from cancer myself so a few thoughts from having just gone through something similar.

1. Get all your information first. Just because it's been deemed cancerous doesn't clarify what's ahead. It could range from intensive treatment, down to rather localized surgery. Talk to your specialists about the specifics and you'll know what you're in for.

2. Cover yourself foremost. I understand the altruistic desire to not affect those around you but you do need to take care of yourself. Ultimately that has to be your top priority. That said don't assume you would just be a burden on a team. Once you get all your details you may find you could still contribute during treatment.

3. Don't panic, that will only stress you and make things worse. We still call cancer "The big C" but in reality the outlook varies widely and many are completely treatable. Once you have all your information lined up you'll feel better.

My email address is in my profile if there is any way I can help further or if you just want to talk. All my best.

Edit: In retrospect these should be 3, 1, 2 in order of priority.
Go on, live life, take the new job, get a biopsy, and if needed, kick cancer's ass. A lot of the crappy things insurance companies would do in the past regarding pre-existing conditions and cancer are now illegal. Your new co-workers should understand that this came out of the blue, and that you'll be doing what you can to work hard, and to beat cancer. You've caught it soon, so there is a good chance that you'll be able to pull through without any problems. Good luck.
Bummer, I've used Homejoy a handful and times and really like it. Handy makes you sign up for a recurring plan (every [1, 2, 4] weeks), where Homejoy allows ad-hoc cleanings.
A question:

Should the OP tell his new employer right now? Or hold off until down the line?

OP: As far as your lump, dammit indeed. Good luck and beat that thing!
If I were in your position I would:

1) Calm down.

2) Gather information.
More specifically, if you know a doctor, contact said doctor. If you can't, find a way to meet with a physician as soon as possible and get a second opinion. Get someone to explain to you what this diagnosis means. Explore fully your plan, Cobra, etc.

3) Tell fiancee, family, etc (not in an alarming way). Or not.
That is, decide whether you want those closest to you to know. This is very personal and we can't choose for you.

4) Save money

Above all don't panic. The most important step is getting informed on what is happening and what your alternatives are and what options you have.

Perhaps right now you don't see this, but like others have said, you can beat this. Now is the time to act swiftly and gather information. Don't waste time. See a doctor ASAP.
Sounds like the technique that uses CSS to "brute force" your browser history. http://davidwalsh.name/jquery-spyjax
How to download video subtitles from Viki.com (all languages)
Do everything you can to stay alive. Make sure you keep your coverage. Get cobra coverage until your new plan takes affect.

Take your new job and work until your dr advises otherwise.

Being alive > personal finances > startup finances

Contemplate the differences between time and money, time has a fixed and unknowable amount which is constantly ticking away, money is virtually infinite and you can always get more of it, and you can live on very little of it.

Paul Allen didn't kill MSFT and when your read his story MSFT sounds like the morally bankrupt entity and not Paul Allen.
This would be significantly more useful with the ability to filter by location. Believe it or not, not everybody lives in San Francisco and New York.
Really sorry to hear that this is happening to you.

First of all, it's good you found it now rather than, say, months from now.

Second and most importantly, focus on taking care of your health first. I once knew someone who had something similar to what you're experiencing. It was lymphoma and he was just about to begin what was a very competitive program.

He was fortunate enough to be able to defer it.

Your health comes first, no matter what. So look hard at all your options (eg. parents, friends, etc) before killing yourself to deliver on someone else's bottom line.

Life's way too short.

In terms of insurance coverage, the only thing that matters is make sure you have coverage. Don't go cancelling or changing coverage at this point -- especially to the benefit of the employer. Now that you have a known/likely diagnosis, no insurance will want to touch you.
Are you hosting your own email server?
For most people it is just search and email. Replacing email is easy, but search is harder since only Google has really accurate and relevant results( besides other giants that also snoop ). The best way to replace search is to use engines that respect privacy and if you need relevant results, those that convey Google's results to you.
SR sold drugs, yes. It also sold identity theft kits, credit card fraud kits, hacking tools, and other gear that is meant to harm others through coercion.

Fuck Russ, and fuck you for repeating the lie that SR was nothing but drugs.
Another note: Don't you think it's worthwhile not down-voting every idea that hasn't become widely used? Certainly if I ever get cancer I hope that people throw every idea they even vaguely think might work, for me to consider, without people down-voting them for genuine offers of obscure ideas that might plausibly work.

To downvoters: I'm mentioning this only because I'd try it myself in this situation. I am not claiming it's a proven cure or that the OP should not try other things. Obviously he should talk to his doctor and discuss whether this would be detrimental in combination with the best possible proven treatments.

This may be completely medically wrong, so please investigate further before acting on this in the least, but a thread a while back on HN linked to an article that recommended fasting (for several -- even 5 days at a time) as a way of causing improperly behaving cells to be used as food. I think the author of the article may have said he'd do that if he got cancer. Anyway, among many other options that's one I'd think about (obviously IN ADDITION TO seeking all medical treatment available at any price).

(Update: here's the link I think was at some point posted elsewhere on HN... http://thequantifiedbody.net/water-fasts-as-a-potential-tact...)

Also, if in several months you get bad news about this (hopefully not) you might want to consider talking to Alcor about cryopreservation.
Yeah, I guess. Unless I messed up the calculations, the four batch impact is carrying about 2 million joules.
You can make a lot of propaganda by choosing facts.

>>"The professor sued for defamation various colleagues, administrators, and a former grad student whom, according to his complaint, he had previously dated; "

She's repeating a 'fact' out of the professor's complaint, while leaving out the supposedly defaming statements. The additional relevant information might include the conditions under which they started and stopped dating, or if it happened at all.

So this person said something about a sexual assault suspect, then got sued for it, and he said they had dated. Then some other professor writes about her, and nothing about what actually happened. (And we, still now, are mainly relying on that other professor's narrative.) And the article she's mentioned in is extremely dismissive of the whole situation.

So who's getting attacked for free speech and stating facts here?

Let's not forget the professor's most recent book "Men: Notes From an Ongoing Investigation (Metropolitan Books, 2014)."
Be sure you don't let your insurance lapse. Go on COBRA if you have to until your new policy is in force. If you let coverage lapse more than about 30 days you are more likely be hit with a pre-existing condition exclusion.

You say fiance; if you are not actually married her plan may not cover you? Unless they cover "domestic partners" not actually married (some will, some won't).

Anyway, manage the insurance situation. This sort of thing (unexpected, and potentially costly) is EXACTLY what insurance is for. Much more so than birth control or annual checkups which are entirely predictable expenses. Don't feel guilty about using it for what it's meant for.

Take the job, it will keep your mind busy on something besides your health. You're not contagious; you are not endangering anyone by going to work.
First off, wait for final results. I know more than one person (including my wife) that had a scare like this and it turned out to be benign. It really doesn't have to be cancer.

Second, if you do get bad news, don't change anything. Be honest with your employer, and go on with your life. At your age, chances are you'll be able to continue working through the treatment and long after that. It's unlikely that your company's premiums will go up, but that shouldn't concern you.

Third, if you do get bad news, ask the doctor for a professional to talk to. At your age, you need some guidance and perspective from someone you trust.
The war of art is a good book on resistance. It is a very motivating book. The hardest part about tackling something you want to do is starting. Once you start, it's easy to get locked in get into the rhythm. Have fun, enjoy the moment, get a friend to help you; set small goals and make progress. You just got to man up and fight it.
btdollar it appears you've been hell banned.

I really think this is a cruel waste of peoples time, and HN should strongly reconsider this method of moderation.

EDIT: Down votes for telling someone they are hell banned? Pathetic.
The silent majority agrees with this sentence.
That guy's response makes no sense to me. I worked in finance and banking for five years and didn't even once see M used to represent thousand. Perhaps times have changed and that used to be common. k (thousand) and M, m or MM (millions) were used though.
The chairman of the company I consult with has been managing a major engineering project and last week headed off for a cruise and train vacation in Alaska, all in between radiation treatments for colon cancer. He's 59 and determined to beat it and not let it slow him down.

Take the job and follow the treatment regime.

You will beat it, too.
Oh, you've got the cure for cancer when you don't even know what OP has? No worries mate. Don't know why all these scientists waste time on cancer cures when you can just starve yourself so the body eats the tumour and corrects the mis-generation of cells.
And more importantly, the guy tried to have people killed.

This is not a good prompt for a "war on drugs is evil" rant. I sympathize with the position, but using somebody as an example of supposed injustice, when a big part of his punishment is because he hired hitmen (plural!), is not going to make your point look at all good.
Even if it's a large amount of money tell them to go stuff themselves.
Ugh! It's such a shame companies like Twitter do this shit. I'll admit, twitter and facebook provide useful services, they really do, but it's all this sneaky invasive stuff that makes me hate it all. I know you have to make money, but this kind of behavior is going to be their downfall.
EDIT:Original comment was written in response in part to HN policy to kill large controversial threads, and this comment was made in a new thread that then got merged to the older, larger thread which has magically now gone back onto the front page.

Moderators essentially do not want political and community discussion.
Why would anyone disagree with this sentence, unless someone thinks having people killed is a normal part of business?
I know I have an unpopular opinion, but I'm glad Clayton Lockett had a gruesome execution. He eventually died of a heart attack. He was convicted of rape, sodomy, kidnapping and murder. HE BURIED A 19 YEAR OLD GIRL ALIVE. Fuck him. I hope it hurt. I hope he was scared. I hope he is rotting in hell.

Every one of these god damn articles on the death penalty, THEY NEVER SPEND ANY FUCKING TIME TALKING ABOUT THE VICTIMS. They have a fancy chart for how 15,000 murders were executed. Do they have a fancy chart to count the victims? Do they have a fancy chart to show how many of the victims were raped before they were murdered? Do they have a chart to show how many victims cried out for their mother while being tortured? No, because you can't undermine the death penalty unless you turn the victims into faceless abstractions.

The last time Bill Richard saw his son alive was right after the boston marathon bombing. The bomb exploded and 8 year old Martin Richard was still alive but gravely wounded. Bill had to leave his EIGHT YEAR OLD SON TO DIE ALONE so he could rush his seriously wounded daughter to the hospital. Bill may have advocated against the death penalty for Tsarnaev, but no parent who has experienced that should be denied witnessing Tsarnaev's death if they so chose. It isn't about revenge, it is about justice.
Let's not forget that this guy got the same sentence as the Boston Marathon bomber.
Your medical problems are not your employers business. Period the end.
For people wondering about use cases, a friend of mine has been working in this area for a decade and is now starting to get traction in the fashion industry: http://www.lara-grant.com/
iOS Crash Bug
A line of text that will automatically crash and reboot your iPhone http://m9.my/go/ptct. How do I solve this?
Hehe, well yeah... thanks but no thanks.
I mean at least they are honest about it, but when this option exists within the app, doesn't mean that they are not using it. Maybe they are just not giving you your "tailored" information but are still grifting your data.
Right. Cancer is not a single disease, and so the drugs that will be effective depend on the particular cancer, and in some cases on particular mutations in the tumor (see for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncogenomics). So any time someone hears you have "cancer" and suggests a chemical to treat it, you can safely conclude their advice is not worth following.
Thanks, HN. You really helped me think it through and get my head on straight before lighting up his inbox unnecessarily.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to the death penatly. Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison.
I didn't read the new indictment, I assumed from articles they dropped all those charges
http://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross-...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/29/technology/silk-road-ross-ul...
"Prosecutors had charged Ulbricht with commissioning six murders-for-hire but those charges were dropped"

The overt act is there in the new indictment they changed after dropping the 6 murder for hire charges, guess it's my fault for trusting journalists who said nothing about it http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/...
and if you are rolling your own are you having any issues with spf or spam flags?
Didn't Level3 recently have Net-Neutrality issues with Verizon? While I think that botnets are a serious issue for internet security, I don't see how carriers have the authority or mandate to engage in selective traffic filtering without it contravening their support for NN.

If ICANN or the RIR's (APNIC, RIPE) were vested with the power and responsibility of maintaining botnet-blacklists then that might be better? I just don't think there's any legitimacy in carriers taking on this role.
Use https://search.disconnect.me/ .

You can use Bing, DuckDuckgo, Google or Yahoo as the search engine. "We don’t collect any of your personal info, including your IP address, other than information you voluntarily provide." See https://disconnect.me/privacy .
FairTax – A simplified tax system with a basic income built in
Because I don't want this to be my full-time job again. I was only doing this part-time, and the rest of my time I've been spending on projects of my own design. If I have to take care of my tasks and clean up after someone else, then there isn't enough time for my own projects.
> See: privately owned prisons that require a quota to be filled

That's not quite correct. The contracts do not require that a certain number of prisoners be kept in the prison. They require that a certain number be paid for. The contracts are essentially of the form that the state will pay $X to house up to Y prisoners, and $Z/prisoner for any prisoners beyond Y prisoners.

Since private prisons are only a small fraction of the prisons, the people that should be most annoyed by this are the employees of state run prisons. If crime goes down in a state and they want to close a prison to save money they most likely will make sure to fill the private prison first (since they are already paying for it) and cut staff at the state prisons.

(NOTE: this does NOT mean I'm saying private prisons are fine--just that contracts that guarantee a minimal payment regardless of occupancy are not necessarily bad. Private organizations tend to have less oversight than state run organizations, so it would not at all surprise me if the private prisons have staff that are not as well trained or as accountable as state prison staff. If I were setting up a prison system and it was going to allow private prisons, I'd probably require that the warden be appointed by and employed by and answer to the state, not the prison owner, and has the ability to fire private prison employees who are in jobs that involve direct interaction with the prisoners. I'd also require penalty clauses in the contracts that reduce payments if conditions are not at least as good as those required of state prisons.

It would be interesting to look at the strength of whatever public employee union represents state prison employees in each state, and see if there is a significant correlation between that and state use of private prisons. I'd expect weaker unions would increase the chances of private prisons.
Many deserts are within convenient pipeline range of the sea. Including Israel and California, the deserts being discussed here.
Replacing email should be easy, but a surprising number of people, even tech people (which makes no sense at all as they should know better), not only use Gmail for their email storage but also for their email address, and so can never entirely extricate themselves from Gmail.
Never said that. Just said there was an article about this, and with my limited knowledge of biology it's a plausible thing that I'd personally try (along with everything else). Certainly I'd do whatever the doctor says, and then add this only if they said it was likely it wouldn't do much harm.

https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene...

Seems like it might not be harmful at least.

Here's the article that I believe was at some point on HN, which I was referencing in my first comment. The guy could totally be a quack, but like I said it seems plausible enough that I'd give it a try along with everything else if it wasn't declared harmful by my doctor.

http://thequantifiedbody.net/water-fasts-as-a-potential-tact...
AV Music Morpher Gold Crack, Serial Number Free Download
You're missing the point. He has no authority to take care of this now. Continuing to nag the boss after he's already been told 'no' in no uncertain terms not only won't make the company more successful, it will make him unhappy, get him a reputation as a troublemaker and not a team player, and possibly end up getting him fired.
My uncle had stage 3 colon cancer and beat it using a mixture of both traditional and alternative medicine (such as a raw food diet and some other treatment which wasn't available in the US). I strongly recommend looking outside the mainstream. I recommend watching the Burzynski documentary and checking out the Burzynski clinic.
These comments are breaking the HN guidelines. Please be civil.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He could prefer SQL over ORM due to knowledge about object relational impedance mismatch, I often prefer SQL over ORM for lots of use cases. Maybe you could get him to use a query building API that handles escaping user input for him [like an ORM does], but still allows him to work in SQL which is preferable to ORM in many cases. For example if using PHP: https://github.com/jstayton/Miner
Lawyers, particularly specialized lawyers with a good reputation, tend to cost a lot of money. The author is a professor.

The question becomes, why didn't the author find good, pro-bono legal counsel willing to fight against students in a title IX case.
I wonder why people assume Ulbricht tried to have someone killed? History has proven time and time again that police and prosecutors will fabricate information to get a conviction or even get bail removed. I wouldn't put it past the prosecution and DEA to stoop to such low-handed tactics.
The best information available suggests that he actively solicited hitmen. Yes, I suppose if you take the position that "absolutely anything incriminating is fabricated" then you could claim he didn't.
The Muppet Show Pitch Reel [video]
No, not really. To get the death penalty you have to be either a multiple-repeat offender or do something really horrible and show no remorse. Most people who do this are arguably sociopathic and beyond rehabilitation.
Let's just kill a man to protect my darknet Web site.
Show HN: EngageSpark, Voice IVR and SMS Text Campaigns Made Easy