skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As we understand it, Plaid Connect offers connections to a limited number of banks. We (will) offer connections for tens of thousands.

Also, consumers of the SimpleFIN protocol (apps, your own scripts, etc) do not need to register with SimpleFIN Bridge (or any other provider of the protocol, for that matter) before consuming the data feed. In this way, it's a bit like key-secured RSS.
Great tip! We'll keep it in mind ... I've even considered buying a couple of things to list that would be perfect to 'heynay'. Yeah, we want it to catch up as a verb ;) ...

Thanks for your comments, I think so far we have been confirmed that we have to engage users in non-traditional manners.
and also the aptly named "TaskCompletionSource", which would be the promise equivalent (using Facebook's terminology)
Indeed, any good intro to Rx points this out: Observable is the plural of future/promise.

When people are trying to do fancy streaming stuff with futures and come to me for help, I generally recommend they do the streaming with Rx instead. (eg rxcpp from Microsoft)
It's interesting to me that they didn't include Microsoft in their data.

The article itself states that Microsoft employs 100k people in the Seattle area - more than the ~78k they show for Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon combined.
It isn't clear to me that the destination is always strictly determined; in the article, the ER doctor or consulting cardiologist would sometimes divert the ambulance. So the simplest implementation has the copy being easily available at the 'reasonably local' hospitals, rather than having someone push a button to send it to the diversion destination.

edit: I see in your other comment that you are talking about scrolling to the correct hospital. It seems less good for the immediately involved technician to spend time on this than for whoever it is at the hospital to do it (I did already mention the caveat about record matching).
robots.txt files are not mechanisms for authorizing access; they are guidelines designed to instruct user-agents on relevant resources. They essentially say to the user-agent "the content marked as 'disallow' should not be crawled for indexing purposes for unspecified reasons"

Adhering to a robots.txt file is not mandatory, though it does make you a good netizen/curries favour with server admins.
Try with the stylus, I could be wrong but last time i played with a Surface Pro, I noticed that using your fingers on the touch screen game touchEvents and using the stylus gave mouseEvents.
The question becomes, if there is a bubble, what could make it pop? Tech jobs leaving the area and not creating salaries that support existing house prices?
But how many hundred, or thousand hours did it take for you to learn enough to be able to write those few lines?
Not to poo poo your choice of headphones (they look great), but replacement pads are $15 if you go OEM; less if buy knock-offs.
Because features are not always isolated, sometimes they change behaviour based on changes in other branches. Testing features in isolation is different from testing an entire release.
Insanity. When I was out looking a few weeks back, my realtor got a call from another realtor who had just closed on a house for $402k, which had been listed at $365k. Lots of people getting blown out by all-cash offers. Every house you look at, the sale history shows it was bought in 2014 for $172k and it's on the market for $300k, a lot of that sort of thing. I looked at basically a dilapidated shack that was $300k because it was near the New Seasons on NE 33rd.

I waited until I had a full 20% to get in the market, turns out I should have bought earlier because the 20% isn't going to help me now anyway given the all-cash offers out there. From what I have heard, a lot of this is due to foreign capital looking for a value store. But I also think this will just continue and get worse, as people in the Bay area look at the quality of life in Portland, compare housing prices, and conclude (rightly IMO) that the move is a no-brainer.
So is selling counterfeit goods, so I'd guess they figure it's mutually-assured-destruction. And of course it's a lot easier to prove that someone is selling counterfeit goods from your brand than for them to prove that you intentionally wrote a web crawler to exceed unauthorized access. And IIRC it's considered legal to exceed unauthorized access in order to report a crime (I think that's been the case a few times with people who've hacked into computers and then reported child porn they've found to the Feds, which is kinda moral hazard IMO because it'd be very easy for a hacker to frame someone that way).
Some of the replies at this assume "Borges" as the cause, the response to "Why".

It can also read as a simple association, as in "this article brings one word to my mind: Borges". In Borges, libraries are a recurrent theme, as there are labyrinths, and Argentinian folklore, timeless, godly structures, etc.

Borges himself basically grew in a library.

He also wrote this: http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/library_of_babel.html
What does self-crowdfunding mean? I think you might just want to say you're crowdfunding your Series A.

I found it weird that I couldn't immediately see how much you were looking to raise, what the terms were and how much you've raised so far right from that page. I found on the deal terms page that you're doing it at a $16M pre-money valuation, but I'd still want to know the other numbers.

https://invest.onevest.com/dealroom

As I signed up, I laughed at this question:

http://cl.ly/image/2E3H2Z2V0V3R

What do most people put down for that? We have effectively infinite time horizons for our investments at YC and we're always worried when investors come to us with expectations of returns that are short of many years. The way you've set it up, it makes it seem like shorter expectations for returns are what investors should expect on this platform. I know, probably a subtle conclusion, but still. Good investors think long.

It's nice to know that I was confirmed right away, but it would have been nice if you took me back to the deal I was trying to look at when you forced me to sign up.

http://cl.ly/image/0D1d302g3J3T

Basically, I had to go check my email. Click it. Go browse investments again. Find yours. Click on that page and then to the deal room (since I'm trying to get more numbers) and I hit this at the bottom of the page:

http://cl.ly/image/291U1E2S071H

Why do I have to request it? Why don't you just give it to me? Now I have to wait again. You're making me work way too hard to figure out how to give you money. I'm concerned that you're forcing me into this flow so you can measure this activity over doing what's best/fastest for making an investment just happen. Of course, now that I have an account, I'm sure further investments on this platform will be easier, but still. I didn't love this process.

This all being said, the best way to attract the best investors is to have the best startups. If you have that, people will jump through your hoops. Thanks for sharing and good luck on your round!
No, C does not expose a 1:1 mapping to assembly in any architecture, at -O0 or otherwise. To give one simple example, the C pointer types correspond to nothing meaningful in any commonly used ISA.
Well, there is http://www.ohwr.org/
There isn't even a Consistent UI as it is, System Scroll Bar is not a consistent thing, it changes by OS, or theme of OS if you are into that sort of thing.
There was an article about that in the economist (http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21644164-gentrif...) which basically said the economic indicators for an area are better for everyone when this happens.
You're overlooking the possibility that drivers who don't want firearms in the car might prefer a policy that forbids passengers who are carrying. If there's a clear majority preference that's the opposite of yours then Uber's business interests will incline them towards pleasing the larger rather than the smaller group, regardless of whether you find the majority's position logical or persuasive.
This is like RewindHN.com (created by user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kami8845) before it bit the dust.

It's open source: https://github.com/doda/rewindhn
St Johns. Lents. Milwaukie. East Portland. SW Portland (Markham, Terwilliger, Multnomah Village)

There's some good deals out there still but yeah.. in the same boat as you. I'm working on compiling historical pricing on a neighborhood basis so I can focus my attention on areas that haven't been seeing 10%+/yr gains. West Hills, for instance, homes have been appreciating only about 3%/yr. Of course those were way out of my budget to begin with...
By taking a picture of it on their phone and transmitting it via Whatsapp, which is just about the ugliest, hackiest and probably borderline-legal way of transmitting patient data imaginable, but it gets the job done.

Patient privacy laws really do put some perverse constraints on the system sometimes.
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Exactly the same phenomenon happens when hydro fracturing comes to town. Except the ramp up is much faster and incurs much more disruption and, unfortunately, so far, is far more short lived. By the time municipalities catch up with the demand the industry goes into a bust.

Technology on the other hand brings, so far, long term prosperity to previously declining areas. The problem I see is that municipalities want the prosperity without the consequences. They want the tasty burger without the cholesterol. Western economies, or rather, societies, have this strange unease with rapid urban expansion. An unease I have not encountered so much in Eastern economies and societies. In the east, progress is seen as generally good, whereas the west has greater suspicion of it.
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This is quite the antithesis to the experiment with the five monkeys and the ladder: http://i.stack.imgur.com/MyQki.jpg

Often it's not possible to find out the reasons and in the end you will end up with lots of useless stuff.

how can we get away from both bad sides? Document why you are doing what.
thinkcomp is that you?
How do you know which feature will be merged last? In the teams I've worked in previously, everything happened in parallel. You had no way of knowing what feature was going to be merged when. So, essentially, we completed a feature-branch, tested it, and merged it into develop. Then, at set intervals, we did some heavy testing on develop and fixed any outstanding bugs, before creating a release by merging to master.
Well the reality is, many people are bad at their job. But then there's the select slice of those who are also embracing their own hubris in the process and thoroughly expect they won't be called out on it.
Same as It Ever Was: Why the Techno Optimists Are Wrong
People have actually gotten into trouble for accessing subdirectories which aren't accessible via links from the site's index page. But I'm not sure if that extends to robots.txt, at least as it pertains to stuff which is intended for public consumption. Otherwise people who host sites containing illegal content would just put the entire site in robots.txt.
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> Tech jobs leaving the area and not creating salaries that support existing house prices?

Sure. But other things could, too -- bubble-driven overbuilding of new housing and then having the influx of jobs stop could do it, especially if updates to shared infrastructure were deferred and the tax revenue to support them didn't materialize because the growth stopped -- the new houses would sell at lower prices because the new higher-paid workers they were made to appeal to wouldn't be there, but the total infrastructure demand would be similar, adversely affecting property desirability.

There's probably other scenarios -- and I'm not saying it is a bubble or that any particular popping scenario is likely (I don't know Austin that well), just that the fact that purchases don't seem to be mortgage-fueled doesn't mean that there isn't a bubble.
Why we need German thinking
I'm a little confused. You are saying you don't want people to be familiar with implementing an algorithm before you ask it? Like are there actually candidates who can come up with implementing red black tree rotation on the fly without ever having seen it, be it class or a book?

Can you clarify?
Many of the locals appear to be avidly hoping to follow SF in anti-growth measures and laws.
You're already thinking too far ahead in the process.

This isn't about what to do with a problem - this is just saying that if you wish to fix things rather than break more things, you need to understand the system before changing it.

It starts:

In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them,

Drawing an explicit distinction between re-forming and de-forming, I'd interpret reforming as meaning 'changing in an attempt to make better'.

And it ends:

Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.

It doesn't say "Then when you can come back and tell me you see the use, and it's wrong, you can destroy it.". It says you "may be allowed to destroy it" - that once you understand the system, then we can begin discussing changes.

"If you want to make a system better, you must understand it before changing it."

Or, to put it back into software... You're talking about how to deal with a bug in the code. Chesterton is saying that if you're trying to build a better application, you have to understand what the application is even trying accomplish at a high level before you can begin writing code.
I wouldn't say certainly, but sometimes. There are a lot of more common causes of ST depressions than STEMIs. For example, left ventricular hypertrophy with tachycardia.
Animats is, I believe, John Nagle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm
Similarly the one big box bookstore of Vancouver, Chapters, just closed its doors. They're supposedly going to find a new location downtown at some point, but that does currently leave the city with no major book store in the CBD.

Even for small independent book shops I feel the city is lacking. There are two great, tiny, shops that I'd recommend to visitors, but that feels like a very small number.
This is very fun for me, even as someone who's not a sports fan. Great way to engage this other segment of readers.
Oh, yes, I see, and I agree: that's a completely inappropriate and misleading picture.
Scientists Discover the Body Part Used to Sense the Earth's Magnetic Field
For sure, blinding is an important tool for reducing bias and essential for optimum experimental validity.

I'm more familiar with the medical field but the fundamental issues are the same. In recent years there's been growing concern about the limitations of blinding.

In pharmaceutical research, the random controlled trial (RCT) remains the "gold standard", but over time, increasing strength of placebo response has become a big problem. IOW as separation of conditions is less affected by blinding, it ceases to be a useful experimental tool.

Of course, this may not apply so directly to observations of insect behavior but it does illustrate that "blindness" to experimental conditions is relative, not absolute.

The publication process could itself inject biases into experimental design and conduct. Having to pass through peer review potentially distorts things. If the experimenter believes reviewers favor particular methods or outcomes, it could influence the experimental set up or even whether the experiment is carried out.

I've long thought one way to improve publication quality would be for editors to forbid authors drawing broad conclusions vs. just putting results into context. After all, "first findings" are prized, but such results are preliminary or unconfirmed. It will take many studies for genuine patterns to emerge. The conclusions have to come later as the community of science determines what findings mean.

Avoiding premature speculation about conclusions will reduce bias because "negative" studies would then just be more data, part of the pattern to be puzzled out, and more likely to be published vs. relegated to the "file drawer". The quality of the study becomes more important than having to ascend to the top of the heap, to show my conclusions grander than the others. Eliminating that contest will improve the discourse immeasurably.
Yup, agreed; that was the point of my second paragraph.
no, when I said viable, I meant, buy on Amazon. cheap.
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The jury is still decidedly out on that whole Snapchat thing.
1. What are you actually doing to secure this? Are you encrypting persistent data? What data do you retain and for how long?

2. Who's in charge of your application security? Do you have a full-time security person on staff? Can we see who they are?

3. Have you retained a security consultancy to review your code? Are you doing it on a regular basis, or as a one-shot thing?

4. Do you have a security page somewhere we can see? What's your policy with regards to outsiders/strangers testing your application for vulnerabilities? Have you provided permission to do that?

5. What stack are you running on? A PHP site would be more worrisome than a Rails site, which is in turn more worrisome than a microframework Java site or Scala site.

6. If you were compromised tomorrow, how quickly would you be able to ascertain exactly which users had their data compromised?

7. What provisions do you have to lock down your system (sacrificing availability for security) in the event of a confirmed compromise where you don't know the vector the attacker used?

8. Do you have administrative applications of any sort? Do admins access your server by SSH'ing into them? How are administrative channels exposed to the Internet? How many people are on your staff, and how many of them have any access to admin functionality?

9. Are all of your internal applications and system access (VPN, SSH, Github, &c) two-factor enabled, and all your users audited to ensure they're actually using two-factor?

10. Where do you get your email? Is everyone on your team two-factor enabled for their mail accounts? A sizable chunk of all compromised go [random app]->[employee email]->[password reset]->[whole system].

Hopefully this is helpful; this is the off- the- top- of- my- head list of questions I'd want to be able to answer if I was doing something that had the words "secure" and "financial" in its headline.
As someone who moved to Seattle for a tech job, it's very exciting seeing the boom. Jobs are spraying everywhere; hope and life are flowing. It is frustrating to see the house prices go up, but the sense of change in the air is often almost palpable. Very thrilling.
I'm filled with joy to see that PicoLisp runs on OpenWRT. I would love to see PilOS itself running on a wireless router, if only to be able to brag: "My router runs Lisp!" :-)
Additionally there is http://www.opencompute.org/, which was initially created by facebook. I also think arduino may have some open hardware as well.

As for why they're rarer? Hardware is expensive, has a smaller margin of error and has had good vendors for a long time. Few companies build their own hardware, and many that do consider it a competitive advantage (Google certainly does)
> Send end-to-end encrypted email from Gmail

Isn't that: install Thunderbird, install Enigmail, send encrypted email?
Fair enough, but I don't think you addressed the parent's concern.

I placed the concern into a historical context re: language comparison wars.

Most mainstream programming languages fit in well with the larger world, that's why a lot of people use them.

Deployment is a big issue. Go really shines in this regard.

They also have working debuggers, a ton of libraries and tools.

My point is precisely that the 1st and last items above aren't everything.
Great job guys! Thanks for the effort! constexpr is an useful feature that some library devs have been waiting for.
I thought about having a shell that is lisp based for Linux, as a way of forcing myself to use lisp more often, since I'm on and off with it. Though running things like apt-get and such would be interesting (sudo (apt-get (install racket chromium-browser))) or so
The Valley Is a Harsh Mistress (2000)
Spectacular patterns found in rare, big numbers used in encryption schemes
Prices have gone up something like 20% in the last year. Houses are going for $10-20k over asking in cash within days of being listed.
There is a demo next to the sign-in options.
Fascinating. In the pseudocode there is this line here:

if there is unconfirmed data still in the pipe

What does "unconfirmed" mean in this context?
Wrap Feature B in a feature toggle if its development ready but not business ready. Then when it is business ready, flip that toggle.
Probably because, for all that we complain endlessly about the evils of capitalism, if someone isn't making enough money off of it, there is no motivation to make it available.
Compare the population growth in the Houston MSA against San Francisco's: the Houston area grew by 9.6% between between 2010 and 2014 while the SFBA grew by 5.9%.

Compare that to the two regions' 5-year housing price index (a measure of the movement of housing prices). The Bay Area sits at 36 yet Houston at 25. Despite faster population growth, Houston's housing prices have not risen nearly as dramatically.

I have to imagine that can be at least partly attributed to the seemingly limitless number of houses being built around Houston.

(This comparison would probably make more sense if we could compare CSAs rather than MSAs but I couldn't find a breakdown of housing price trends at that level)
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But who calls an ambulance? Now that's an opportunity for a wearable device.
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While not directly related to the article's line of reasoning, an honourable mention goes to the Gates foundation - they're willing to take on some of the more "risky" high risk high reward projects that other charities that are accountable to the public can't risk.
Former Google exec raises $10m to block the adblockers
Funny how omitting a few details makes it seem like it deserves the title. While most of what it says is true, it fails to talk much about the "import restrictions" that it briefly mentions:
"Amazon does not have an Argentinian site and import restrictions make it a bureaucratic nightmare to purchase books from international internet sellers"
This problem is not only one for international sellers, but for international publishers. As a publisher these days it is almost impossible to get into Argentina. As an Argentinian bookstore it is prohibitively expensive to bring books from foreign publishers. That's a huge problem and very far from what the linked text paints.
They included ambulance drivers’ transmitting electrocardiogram
readings to emergency rooms, E.R. doctors’ deciding whether a
person was likely having a heart attack, and hospital operators’
summoning treatment teams with a single call. These hospitals
also continually measured performance.

I know it's a really minor thing, but the term 'ambulance driver' is a little irksome... It's like calling a doctor a 'prescription writer'.

In the case of a heart attack patient, a paramedic recognizes the possible indications, takes an interprets an EKG, considers the possible differential diagnosis, makes the appropriate hospital notifications, and provides advanced level care to speed things along at the hospital (obtaining IV access, administering various medications, etc). We do a bit more than just drive the ambulance...