skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks, though seemed to me thaumasiotes who I replied understood perfectly! In particular he is correct that "Of the three non-fraudulent clinics, two show pretty elevated levels of that particularly lucrative code, the one that clips the ceiling for the fraudulent clinic. How much of that is fraud?" which he only could tell by correctly interpreting the graph (reading across that drug's column) - and it's a good question.

His second paragraph was only about the one clinic in question, he ignored the other 3 in his second paragraph, though he wasn't explicit about this, and asked a year-over-year question about the drug, concerning clinic A only.

My point was kind of tangential, that, INCIDENTALLY if the colors matched up in the rows (were repeated in the same order 4 times) you could look at it another way visually that you can't right now without counting by hand. Specifically, you could look at the aggregate trend for all four clinics year-over-year for the drug in question (the one with the spike) by seeing with your eye how the six colors move as you move your eye from Stripe A, to Stripe B, to Stripe C, to Stripe D. Right now, with your eye you can only tell or ask about year-over-year changes for a specific drug for clinic A, not for the other ones. If all four 2009's were peach, you could easily tell if there were 4 spikes in that year or just one. In fact in 2009 all four do seem to spike somewhat. Not being able to visually see aggregate year-over-year comparisons is probably the downside to the current presentation.
yep, remember when we used to "air-gap" computers for safety?
Why Android is a Better Platform for Startups than iOS
Yeah, it's insulting to give that test for a programmer position. I've seen it a couple of times and it was always a bad job for other reasons also.

Just to give you an idea, this is the exact same test they give to NFL players during the combine.

You can save yourself some time and decline the interview.

They intentionally designed the test so that you can't finish it in the allotted time.
> And the more you have robots out there, the more you will need maintenance people, industries to manufacture robots, and the whole lot of engineering that goes with it. Because, like it or not, we have not discovered a way to do super smart robots than can design themselves just yet.

This argument is often made, but the fact is that the amount of jobs created by robot manufacturing and maintenance will always be smaller than the amount of jobs replaced by robots... after all, if this weren't the case, robots wouldn't be used in the first place because they wouldn't be profitable!
I don't know why someone downvoted this. The wonderlic test IS ridiculous.
I did that and didn't get that message. Wasn't a very extreme dip though
Author of hnhistory.net here. Thanks for mentioning it. I didn't get any feedback back then. This will give me some motivation to work on it again.
Mine actually scrapes hn... This was done before the api came out.
Hmm, in your opinion do you think this would be a good technique then for digitizing paper maps? And if so, could you point in the direction of a library or textbook you'd recommend?
Customize the iOS Navigation Bar / Status Bar with NativeScript
Two things strike me here. First is that the effective cost to you was over ten times the amount that the judge (or whoever) thought was sufficient to serve "justice". That's fucking insane.

Second is that the people in charge treated you like a hard core alcoholic. Without knowing anything else about you I'm going to guess that's not the case. Regardless of motivation -- although profit is a safe bet -- it's stupid in the truest self-destructive sense for society to automatically treat you like this for [edit: a drink or two].

Edit: I'm getting my BAC numbers mixed up, but it doesn't really matter. I see that in our state 0.02 is DWAI for <21 years of age. It's like we're looking for ways to fuck up peoples lives.
Looks cool..
:)
It's what all their friends are doing.
I really appreciate that, thanks
Advice joining a startup
Hi, I need an advice about joining a startup. I'm a young (~3y exp) full stack developer (java, javscript) working for a dev shop (french SSII). I always wanted to work for a startup so I purposed to a not yet startup my services. It'll soon raise angel money and they purposed me to work as a frontend dev for 4% of equity + 1% based on performance. It will be work on the side of my current work. A competitor who will do nearly the same thing just raised 3M€. So they estimate to raise in 4 or 5 months at least 1M€.
For joining them, as to say I'll be commited to the project, they want me to give them 500€.
Is it a good purposal ? Can you help me make my decision ? Thanks
It's a good place to meet people.

It's interesting.

It's fun.
A federated social web implementation
I would like to know how our society expects people to follow laws that are incomprehensible to the average joe.

I (and most HNers, I'd presume) have the reading comprehension skills to navigate through legislature. Most do not.

When attempting to show people the actual legislation that is behind what they heard was a "law", they tend to get glossy eyed and shut down entirely.

IMHO, this is a problem worth solving.
I'm working on something similar. Though I have started in C++, I'm considering moving to plain C. It was nice seeing this here. Nice project.
Let's try a little harder:

* bees for pollination

* cotton for the cloths

* chickens because they are cheaper to raise

* bananas because in some countries are the main "cereal"

* soy because it naturally fixates nitrogen

I'm not sure what to select to get all the vitamins. And remember to add lot of fungus and beetles to eat the scraps. And a few fishes for the dolphins.
Ugh! I hated to upvote for all those expenses, but that was a great documentation of the actual costs involved. The real eye-opener for everyone should be that sadly the majority of those costs are collateral consequences that are added on so that various for-profit companies can all get a little piece of the pie.

Ignition interlock is the biggest scam of a for-profit company I have ever seen. My ex-fiance had to get one in Florida. The place to have it installed was about 50 miles from our house. They told her she had to drive the car there herself and present her valid driver's license to get it installed. Not really thinking about it, I drove her over there. They were about to turn her away because she wasn't driving, yet her probation condition says she can't drive without one installed. They did overlook it after some pleading, but then asked for her driver's license. All she had was a state ID card because she couldn't get a valid driver's license until she had the interlock installed. She ended up never getting it installed. Funny story though, we moved to a different state a few months later and the court order for the interlock didn't follow her. She was able to get a driver's license free and clear. Ironically, when we broke up she moved back to Florida and because she had a valid driver's license from another state she walked right in and got a Florida driver's license.

But I would say the worse part for you was the job loss. While the expenses are high, losing a job is a much greater loss in my opinion. I don't understand the travel portion for some non-violent felonies. I had a similar clause, ended up costing me a couple thousand in attorney fees to get them to let me travel to a different county in the same state for an overnight work meeting. It is completely out of hand in my opinion.
I agree with you.

But how does that differ from how YC type consumer startups operate?
If you like this, you may also like

* http://indiewebcamp.com/
There are biweekly meetups in SF and other cities https://indiewebcamp.com/Homebrew_Website_Club

* W3C Social WG - https://www.w3.org/Social/WG
This is the relevant quote:

"But from a deep, fundamental point of view, this is
nothing new," he says. A gravitational field is merely
another environment to interact with, so invoking it
does not explain whether quantum behaviour might lead to
classical reality if gravity’s influence were
mitigated—for example, by doing the experiment in
gravity-free space.

It's an interesting piece of work, but doesn't seem to add anything fundamental to the discussion of gravity and QM. It just shows how gravity can result in decoherence if different parts of the wavefunction experience different clock rates due to gravitational fields.
Because we should budget for the cost of actual programs, and not have to guess based on how much various constituencies might allocate their tax dollars.
All reasonable concerns, but your identity is connected to blood donations anyway in many places anyway, not least because of disease management as discussed above. If any bad actors in the scenarios you describe want access to your DNA and you are int he habit of donating blood, it's trivially easy for them to get it anyway. In the US you have to give your name, show ID, and give your SSN to donate blood (at least to he Red Cross), so any idea you had of anonymity is already long gone. I don't feel like researching it on a country-by-country basis right now but I don't think that IDing yourself is exceptional.

The only new thing I'm seeing here is that you get a text message when your donation is used, and it's in that context I'm saying it's a good thing. I can't donate blood in the US (have spent too much of my life in Europe, so it's possible my blood is too socialist) but I wouldn't have had any expectation of privacy if I did so beyond normal confidentiality laws.
I loved that game - thanks for sharing the code :-)
On the other hand, nobody has been upset that humans are constantly misidentifying that jaguar print sofa as a leopard print.
Jekyll – how to link to next/previous post on your blog
the earliest form of justice was "eye for an eye" --> From there, it was noticed that the first person who lost that eye gained nothing when the criminal's eye was taken.

From there on it progressed to some variation of "pay for the eye or for the opportunity cost", in which the criminal had to barter his resources ( existing property, strength, time, etc ) to compensate the victim. This is the justice described in those voluminous biblical or other laws.

From there on, those criminals who were unable to compensate ( too poor, or cost too high ) were deprived of something till they were able to or forced to compensate. This started the concept of 'debtors prisons'

Now, when the concept of compensating the victim ( individual / society / government ) has been removed, this very act of putting a criminal in prison is itself a crime.
Similar thoughts here.

The biggest problem for C++ that I see is that it has historically not had any batteries included. That strokes the ego of an average programmer and gets the creative juices flowing. Rather than doing discliplined research and picking an off the shelf solution, you end up with a poor copy or incongruent invention. Or even worse, some crap bolted onto MFC.

Roll on a few years later and the patterns haven't scaled well, the original programmers have left after becoming frustrated with the corner they coded themselves into and the only justifiable cost is to put 12 months of cash on the table and start again because your business' greatest cash generator is a hairball and you can no longer evolve it cost effectively.

The last three chunks of work I have done are to get companies out of these situations. Not pretty and a loveless task, but for me I'm right at home. The crimes I've seen are worst in the C++ and PHP areas. I suspect they suffer from the same problems and most of the problems are caused by inexperience and the ability to merely hit a few keys to generate a large hand grenade.
Well that's a fine point you make -- predators vs. opportunists. And I need to be reminded that wealthy white-collar criminals don't often experience the same kind prison as does the common man.
Iain M Bank's culture novels are predicated on this, as an aside.
anybody think that maybe the $100 was the incorporation fee?
For a second I thought it is about how hospitals bill tens of thousands dollars only to settle for 5% of the total with insurance company (if you are lucky to have one, otherwise you are screwed)
As South Park said, this is the problem with all freemium games. You need to make the game somewhat fun (so people will pay), but not too much fun (so people don't feel obligated to pay more so it's more fun).

When you design a freemium game, your target audience isn't the guy who plays it for free or pays $10. Your target audience is the person who gets addicted and spends $1000+, due to the power law nature of spending.
Agree. But there is an element of truth to it. And that same element can be applied to doctors and lawyers. Probably especially lawyers. Doctors and lawyers don't fundraise for themselves, either. They don't need to.
nice execution of an interesting idea!

i see removing the parens as an effort to rid the 'lispy' feel to the language, but how do you go about lexical scoping without parens like clojurscript or indentation like coffeescript? For example,

fact 'init variables and return expr' {
should let(a=1,b=2){a+b} => 3;
}

to what point will the let bindings be valid?
500 Euros seems like a steep charge. I've never heard of a startup that charged you. Usually it's the other way around - they pay you, even a small amount. Most startups are also unable to raise money. This startup would need to differentiate itself from the competitor and/or show traction to be able to raise money, unless they're VERY well connected with the angel investors.
US Navy Caught While Trying to Buy Zero-Days Exploits
I've seen computers that have a spread spectrum* feature meant to reduce EM emissions. How would this analysis fare against such a machine?

My guess is probably not at all. Because I've never seen the option in a notebook computer, and as the purpose is to pass emissions regulation, I assume it was enabled in the machines they tested. And that the difference in the emitted frequencies of various operations is much greater than any variation of the base clock.

[*] http://www.anandtech.com/show/2500/20
After legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, Colorado has seen a 50% increase in Marijuana related DUI arrests [0].

The state/counties already tax the hell out of the plant (roughly 23% in my county). The state always finds ways to make money off their citizenry. This created a market for a less expensive product that's also conveniently illegal.

The dispensaries can't open bank accounts and are forced to maintain multi-million dollar cash stockpiles. They are so afraid of being robbed, they hire ex-military to travel around town with them armed with semi-automatic rifles [1]. Isn't this asking for more violent crime?

[0] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/06/26/col...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/business/marijuana-industr...
You are 200% right! We are actually working on something remotely like this. There are so many collateral consequences associated with various laws. For example, some states require a waiting period of 1-5 years before you can even apply to get a barber license if you have certain misdemeanor or felony convictions. While the judge and society feels it is fair to say hey we caught you with an pound of marijuana, here's a fine and a year probation to serve. The true consequence is that you are now a convicted felon and lose many rights, including some job opportunities or at minimum the ability to obtain an occupational license as is the case for a barber.

In short, on top of several other services, we are building an overlay to job search for ex-offenders that will allow them to easily see if they qualify for a job/occupational license based on their offense. If they don't it will tell them the criteria if and when they can. It is a tedious process because sorting through laws and various legislation is not exactly the most exciting startup concept at 3am and can be open to a wide array of interpretation by design (criminal lawyers gotta make their money somehow). We don't intend for it to be the holy grail for information, but at least it will provide a guideline for job seekers with criminal records to be able to easily sort through and identify opportunities.
Yes, that's what my sense is: it would, within its very limited domain, beat nginx and co. fairly easily.. its interesting because this sort of thing could be made to be modular and thus feature extendable without the overhead if done in a smart enough fashion - many webservices today are sufficiently specialized that they only use a fraction of the features that modern webservers include.
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The MNIST analogy reminds me of the "Teaching Me Softly" article that was posted here last year:

> When Vladimir Vapnik teaches his computers to recognize handwriting, he does something similar. While there’s no whispering involved, Vapnik does harness the power of “privileged information.” Passed from student to teacher, parent to child, or colleague to colleague, privileged information encodes knowledge derived from experience. That is what Vapnik was after when he asked Natalia Pavlovich, a professor of Russian poetry, to write poems describing the numbers 5 and 8, for consumption by his learning algorithms. The result sounded like nothing any programmer would write. One of her poems on the number 5 read,

> He is running. He is flying. He is looking ahead. He is swift. He is throwing a spear ahead. He is dangerous. It is slanted to the right. Good snaked-ness. The snake is attacking. It is going to jump and bite. It is free and absolutely open to anything. It shows itself, no kidding.
Brown_Cornerart

> All told, Pavlovich wrote 100 such poems, each on a different example of a handwritten 5 or 8, as shown in the figure to the right. Some had excellent penmanship, others were squiggles. One 5 was, “a regular nice creature. Strong, optimistic and good,” while another seemed “ready to rush forward and attack somebody.” Pavlovich then graded each of the 5s and 8s on 21 different attributes derived from her poems. For example, one handwritten example could have an ‘‘aggressiveness” rating of 2 out of 2, while another could show “stability” to a strength of 2 out of 3.

> So instructed, Vapnik’s computer was able to recognize handwritten numbers with far less training than is conventionally required. A learning process that might have required 100,000 samples might now require only 300. The speedup was also independent of the style of the poetry used. When Pavlovich wrote a second set of poems based on Ying-Yang opposites, it worked about equally well. Vapnik is not even certain the teacher has to be right—though consistency seems to count.

http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/teaching-me-softly

That article in turn reminded me strongly of "Metaphors We Live By" by Lakoff & Johnson, and the works they have written since, where they claim that humans make sense of the world using systems of rich, conceptual metaphors. As I understand, the work is well-known to machine learning researchers.
If Mike Mamula can get 49/50 I'm sure you can improve your score. Reading, understanding, and answering those sorts of questions under time pressure is a learnable skill. For example, part of it is learning to read the question just once, or maybe just twice, instead of rereading it multiple times, mentally double-checking your answer, like you would on other tests -- there just isn't enough time.
To be clear, EEG is useful for non-quack things like characterizing epilepsy, coma, sleep, etc.
Just pretend that (s)he thought that (s)he was in /r/economics or /r/basicincome and it makes a lot more sense.
Yet they've seen a large increase in marijuana related DUI arrests [0].

They're just shifting the crime around, not eliminating it.

[0] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/06/26/col...
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By "lobby" they mean.. bribe?
Only problem I see with this is if they are trying to stream multiple users from a single server/copy. For example, my app saves state (though you can choose to clear it to start over from scratch) so if you have been through part of a path before you don't HAVE to replay that. What happens when the next user comes along and finds half the game skipped, doesn't realize that, and chooses not to buy because they could play what was left during the preview time window?
It's a "people centric mailbox". instead of a email-subject centered mailbox like most.
Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption
Race After Race, Teenager Crosses Finish Line, Then Collapses
Ah, I see, and take your point. I should have worked on a more reader-friendly version of this graph so I just assume people don't understand its bizarre nature. But, my work had been done many years ago with the investigation.

Here's the part that stood way out even with that unsophisticated graph: the flat land between various prescription codes. It's just there. It draws the eye and makes you ask questions, which is what we did. Another dimension not pictured there is distribution of doctors vs prescriptions. Theirs stood out on that too.

Even in their busiest years, they didn't treat any common ailments with any degree of distributed variety. By contrast, rest of the clinics did business as usual: whoever walked through their door got treated for whatever random thing they had.
Russia, The US, India, Pakistan, and China have a full on orgy of various alliances against various combinations of counter alliances, that whole region if completely fucked up everyone is sleeping with everyone while trying to fuck everyone else, now days it's getting even more complicated with the EU trying to get a foothold in the Caspian sea to bypass Russia for better energy independence which kinda messed up the wired but some what stable status quo that region had.

If people think that the middle east is complicated they really have no idea whats going on just north east of it :P
It's not about having a currency for criminal activities but to have a currency at all that is widely accepted in outside countries. Only in tourist areas of Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and other bordering countries you can change your pesos into something else but definitely not at the official exchange rate.

Also with an annual inflation rate of 25% - 35% you don't want to have your savings in pesos. That's why many people buy dollars on the street if they can't get it in legal ways. Also BitCoin is usable as it can change in any kind of currency without to much red tape.
I wanted to verify their production code worked. Instead of using a real customer's credit card, I used my own. If there was a bug in my code, my own card would be at risk, not a customer's.
This is already done interstate. Yuma (which is hot even by Arizona standards) gets prisoners from Alaska.
IIRC what it does is add some (tiny amount of) jitter to the clock signal; what this does is to "flatten" the spectrum of the emitted signal slightly (because instead of having a peak at 1GHz, let's say, it's going to be spread around, but centered on that frequency)
This was using their mobile API. Their SDK allows for a name param.
I agree. The 500 euros are a big red flag. Also:

>> It'll soon raise angel money ...

Soon is usually not as soon as expected.

Do they have another "employee"? Did they have someone before at your position? How did the story ended?
I really don't like 'Growth hacking'
can it support more than 2 parties?