skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, the translation of microscope from Greek is also 'small looker', if we didn't have such a fetish for using Greek and Latin words to make things sound more 'sciencey' English would be equally transparent.
XiaoSong,

Interesting service.

My first question is what differs Call9 from any medical first responder?

My second question: Thinking long term. Where do you forsee the barriers of our reactive emergency services in the U.s. from making traits of Call9 more standard.
The problem, though, is that some of Obama's accomplishments aren't "accomplishing nothing"--they're accomplishing bad things. In particular, the "red line" in Syria and the (effective) capitulation to Russia over Ukraine feel eerily similar to the run-up to WWII, where the Allies capitulated to Hitler rather than go to war and ended up going to war when Germany was a lot stronger and harder to counter. In contrast, the situation of the Cuban missile crisis was resolved in large part by JFK refusing to let the USSR declare a new normal.

As a thought experiment, do you think that Putin would have attempted to dislodge Crimea from Ukraine or Assad would have used chemical weapons had Bush still been in power? If you're tempted to answer "no," then that is a success of Bush's foreign policy. But if words will never be backed up with power, then words are just words and can be safely ignored.
The bias against solo founders seems to be being mentioned a lot. There's actually a solution to this in Europe - Entrepreneur First (joinef.com), a seed investment programme which you can apply for before you have a team (and even a concrete idea). Most people who come to us as individuals meet their cofounder on the programme and go on to raise some of the largest seed rounds in Europe.

Full disclosure: I work for EF - but if you're experiencing the sole technical founder problem you should check us out.
Yep. They're currently in the same building as a big medical incucellerbator. The Nabisco building is silly big.
I think your math is wrong.
I suffer from occasional SVT episodes and gave up caffeine as a result (it causes them to trigger more frequently). I'm not sure how it would be in other industries, but as a software engineer, telling colleagues that I don't consume any caffeine at all is almost always met with looks of disbelief and horror. I never realized how dependent on it so many people around me are to get through their day until I gave it up.
do you sometimes feel like you're spending more money in order to get the miles?
What Coin has managed to do in such a thin package is really impressive. It’s a shame they weren’t able to do it more reliably.

It's a really cool idea. I actually wonder what the technological hurdle was that held them back - mechanical (reliably magnetizing the coils, easy-to-break components due to narrow size), software (programming issues), or QA (reliable SoCs, reliable builds, reliable solders)?
Hello pot, I'm kettle. Need I remind you that you started out accusing me of bringing race into the conversation? So please don't lecture me on stuffing words into people's mouths.

Now as to the actual discussion, you said that if we don't keep pride in mind, it will be difficult to get officers to reform. You further presented the example of the Baltimore drive-by which the police refused to respond to after their pride had been hurt. That, to me, sounds like you're saying that if we hurt police pride they will turn on us by failing to obey us and by failing to protect us. Is that not what you meant?

As for my "awesome leadership skills," are you saying that firing police officers who refuse to respond to an incident because they have hurt feelings due to protests is the wrong action to take? If I understand that correctly, please elaborate. In any other job, refusing to do perform a critical duty required by your job without a very good reason is generally a firing offense. Why is that not the case for the police, and what action do you suggest should be taken?
To be fair, a modern Teddy Roosevelt would probably do that.
Our other products were "successful" as in people liked them, but we never broke even.
This is really interesting. I know it's not a replacement for it, but 911 seems so inefficient and outdated to me today. I'm excited to see how this company progresses. Small improvements here can really save lives.
Why not just call an ambulance?
In my experience, Data Science isn't replacing statistics, it's replacing Business Intelligence. And a lot of that is driven by PR and marketing departments that saw that business intelligence was boring and trapped them in the IT department, so they needed new buzz words. You can see the relationship on Google Trends as well, and it's stronger than comparing it to 'statistician', which looks flat more than declining:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=data%20science%2C%20...
> Hello pot, I'm kettle. Need I remind you that you started out accusing me of bringing race into the conversation?

If this is your level of maturity, then I shall have no part in the rest of this conversation. Your "awesome leadership skills" can't even comprehend the concept behind "morale" anyway, I'm not sure where to even start a discussion with you.
"Now hurry up and move to the US so you can come hang out and meet the team! ;-)" These were Josh's last words to me on an email.
I would have no problem with public speculation about the manner of or motives behind the death of any of my friends or family.

Most speculation is a bunch of hot air, but such threads also provide a place to talk about the deceased and his works, and to talk about other, related things. I, for one, appreciate the vast majority of conversation attached to this HN post.
"Now hurry up and move to the US so you can come hang out and meet the team! ;-)"

Josh's last words to me on an email.
A minor note on word usage here: usually the word "theory" is reserved for explanations with a good track record rather than wild speculation.
It looks like this product introduces an extra delay before an ambulance is called - terrible idea. When you have a heart attack, you want an ambulance, not an Uber driver (UberFIRST-AID) or a Skype call with a doctor (this startup).
Pep257 (python docstring linter) 0.6.0 released
Given a set of facts, it isn't always clear if something is legal or not. Hence, case law, and appeals and so on. Was obamacare illegal? It wasn't clear. A judgement has been made at this point, but to suggest it was an "objective" decision wouldn't be accurate. The supreme court judges could have just "decided" it was illegal if that was their opinion. Several did. The very existence of the supreme courts highlights the fact that the law is a subjective thing, there isn't some nice big leather bound book which you can just consult for every single situation and go "yep, ok, that's legal".
Wouldn't this device-level accessibility zooming not allow the user to also zoom in on a website in Mobile Safari that had user-scaling disabled?

It sounds like your point supports my point!
Not sure why you're being downvoted, it's a real issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/24/news/24iht-radiate_ed3__0....

> A 1996 paper published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found a higher incidence of myeloid leukemia, astrocytoma, prostate cancer and malignant melanoma among 2,740 Air Canada pilots than in the general population.

> One study of female flight attendants in Finland and Denmark found an increased rate of breast cancer.
I taken to writing up tutorials for tasks that take me a non-trivial amount of effort to accomplish and are obscure enough to not have decent existing writeups on the first page of Google searches. Little things about [automating file upload in Ruby](https://davidyat.es/2015/02/26/automated-file-upload-in-ruby...) and [setting up a UniFi controller with SELinux](https://davidyat.es/2015/03/02/unifi-centos-selinux/). I had doubts about whether I was actually providing worthwhile content that hadn't been provided elsewhere before (especially in the latter post, where I paraphrased another person's post for half the article (with credit) just to get to my part), but they've ended up some of the most popular posts on my blog.

Even when I discover [I can't do something](https://davidyat.es/2015/05/13/notes-on-csrf-and-json-apis/), it's good to blog about it, just to straighten out my thoughts, contextualise my work and aid the research of future people going down the same tracks. And even if it's just something tiny and silly like [this awful injection-focused SQL query](https://davidyat.es/select-only-nth-row-in-t-sql/), it's nice to have it written down for easy public access -- for your own benefit as much as anyone else's.

And even if very few people ever read them, I find writing posts about little things helps improve my understanding -- it's just a good way to organise my thoughts and make sure I remember the stuff later on. And the benefit of publicly accessible blogposts over a personal notebook is that I can reach them from almost any situation I might need to, and refer friends and co-workers struggling with the same issues to them. It's a great feeling having someone ask "how do I do XYZ?" and being able to say "I wrote a blog about it!". Plus it saves you the trouble of remembering long terminal commands and exact syntax offhand.
Apologies if I misunderstood.

I'm just trying to fathom a situation in which another type of employee could use 'pride' as an excuse for failing to do the job they are tasked to do in a way that is not injurious to their customers.

I think there are good arguments in support of the police in the way they effectuate their job responsibilities, but "pride" is, in my opinion, not a terribly good one.
And he died on my birthday :(
These are the two points:

1. Millions of people being revealed for committing
adultery isn't anything to rejoice about.
2. This is not the way to handle such a situation.

Neither of these are cowardly, and neither of these give anything to people threatening violence. Outing someone to their abusive partner is clearly morally wrong.
#PhoneVerification #Security #2FA #TwoFactorAuthentication #OTP
I've Added Bold, Oblique and Retina to Monoid (Open Source Coding Font
I received my Coin about 2 months ago. I was excited to test it out after preordering almost 2 years in advance. The concept of having all my cards on one central card was a great idea. But having it not work at some locations was rather embarrassing and frustrating. I have decided the Coin was a fail and I will not carry it anymore. But, Coin, keep innovating. You tried.
Ethiopian Arrests for Internet Security Training Undermine Right to Privacy
John De Graaf: How I Would Change the World
It's not about looking native, it's about being as easy to use as a native app instead of feeling like you're controlling a desktop website with a touchscreen interface.

I use VNC on my iOS devices all the time - I pan and zoom around and use actual desktop apps and browsers from mobile devices. I guarantee this is not the most optimal way to control things from a mobile device!
Launchpad Pro: A Hacker’s Dream
> Because if you spend more than you make, you are essentially borrowing from the future (with compound interest).

Not if you never pay it back.

> Eventually the quickly-compounding interest and principal overwhelm you and you have to spend most of what you produced to service/repay the debt for many years

If the fed holds the treasury securities, the treasury just pays the interest to the fed. By law, any profits the fed makes go right back to the treasury again. Why would the interest payments be a problem?

> (exactly the situation Greece is in)

Greece can't issue their own currency.

> Printing money without the accompanying increase in goods/services produced is _stealing_ from everyone who has savings using the currency.

Right. But I was asking about a scenario in which there would be an accompanying increase in production.

> The only sustainable way to prosperity/affluence is through increased productivity, not financial shenanigans.

Agreed. But financial shenanigans do have the potential to hurt our prosperity/affluence. Wouldn't preventing the supply of money from growing in line with our productive capacity count as such a shenanigan?

We tend to expand credit/debt to keep the economy running and then it all comes crashing down when we start calling our debts back in. THAT is not sustainable.

Instead of expanding the amount of credit, why shouldn't we just expand the amount of actual money?
> Or is this only financially viable due to the transaction fees the credit card companies get?

Yes. These reward cards work out to about 1-2% cashback equivalents after the sign up bonuses. From the credit card perspective, the financials are basically identical to their normal "cashback cards".

If you are like me and just want a couple free plane tickets a year, you just pick up 4 new credit cards [~160-200,000 points/miles] and cancel them. If you put 100% of your spending on credit cards and just cycle through the sign up bonuses every 3 months, its really easy and 160k miles is 2 round trip tickets a year anywhere domestically, with some leftover.
I disagree. We need more state rights and autonomy, we don't need the Feds to come in and babysit a state.

What Chicago needs to do is get managed by IL. And IL needs to realize that the corrupt people are getting voted in by IL citizens.
So you can get an ER doctor as the first point of contact instead of the last.
It's not going to seem so outdated when you or one of your loved ones has a heart attack, and the ambulance is rushing him to the hospital where an interventional cardiologist is going to unblock his/her heart arteries in an operating room.
Wi-Fi Unusability
If the patient needs an ambulance, the Call9 doctor can easily order one. One advantage of this system is that the doctor can prep the EMTs on what they need to know as they're en route to the emergency. The TC article elaborates on this a bit.
Assholes attacking other assholes online? Meh, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Some of them will get what they deserve (personal opinion, of course), on both sides.
The joke that I think I saw here first:

A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco.
I think this is entirely misguided. People have selective memory: all but one of these companies had multiple founders. Hell, most companies we associate today with a single person had more than one founder. It's just that one held the most publicly visible role:

Apple: Steve Jobs | + Steve Wozniak + Ronald Wayne
Microsoft: Bill Gates | + Paul Allen
Google: Larry Page | + Sergey Brin
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg | + Dustin Moskovitz + Chris Hughes + Andrew McCollum + Eduardo Saverin
Uber[1]: Travis Kalanick | + Garrett Camp + Ryan Graves
Tesla[1]: Elon Musk | + JB Straubel + Martin Eberhard + Marc Tarpenning + Ian Wright

[1]: Travis & Elon musk weren't even founders of Uber & Tesla. They just "became" founders post factum in startup lore.
Erlang, AFAIK, doesn't even report runaway processes (that are stuck in native code). Doing all you want is a matter of putting back -- and I'm not exaggerating -- 10 lines of code. Alright, maybe 20. I'm just telling you that it doesn't help. Everything you do in Erlang you can do in Quasar. I can even make you a promise -- if you find that explicitly marking the CPU-bound threads is a burden (and you only have to do that for fibers that are constantly CPU bound -- not bursty ones), I will turn on that feature again, with a big thank-you and a personal mention on our blog. I can assure you that we've spent a long time testing it, and what you imagine to be an issue is not one in practice; not even a slight one (if it were we wouldn't have disabled that code).

Trust me, there are real issues with Quasar, but the one that you fear will bother you isn't one of them.
In Chrome I see Java but not Coldfusion. Weird. http://i.imgur.com/RjF1pOP.png
Right, but the COBRA premiums could easily eat up a significant chunk of that grant.
Uber Cofounder's 'Uber for Healthcare' Startup Raises $14M
Is there a technical reason why this is done?
The gcc command isn't just a name, it's an API. And though I'm sure the FSF wouldn't troll the legal system by claiming their API is copyrightable, the federal court system has been pretty split on the question.
Yeah, those women knew what they were getting into. Not to be callous, but you don't marry someone who would kill you for cheating without knowing somewhere in your heart that's a possibility.
I'm curious to know whether given proliferation of the NFC alternatives available now like Apple/Google Pay is there a problem that Coin Card addresses which the former don't. Is paying in the restaurants one of those use case or will we see table side point-of-payments in near future which would make it obsolete.
But does that include situations in which you quit your job to do something like this?
I'm not sure why it is repeated over and over that 12k is small sum of money.

12k can easily pay off 2-3 months rent, server costs, marketing stuff, even a few flights. That's mental peace for 12 weeks to build something with 100% focus. That's an extremely high value priviledge.

This should make sense for a lot of startups.
Putin didn't have a problem invading Georgia on Bush's watch. North Korea didn't have any problem letting off nukes either. Saddam didn't have any problem letting of chemical weapons during Reagan.
When ‘Jesus’ was ‘Judas’ and other Bible typos
Actually, from my understanding, this is more like an ER doctor acting as the ambulance dispatcher. Instead of waiting on a minimally trained phone operator to get you an ambulance, you can have an actual doctor figure out what's going on while you wait. Seems like a big improvement to me, you get to a doctor first rather than last.
We get an ambulance to the scene faster than 911, which is a great benefit of using Call9 - I completely agree that it would be a terrible disservice to cause a delay in emergency response. Because we have a direct line to an ambulance service dispatcher, we don't first need to go through a central call-center like other 911 emergencies. Therefore, we save time by a) not having to explain if its a medical vs. police/fire emergency, b) not explaining our location - they know it already, c) having the doctor tell them if advanced life support is needed vs basic life support.
It's all good, that's exactly why I was curious. Your understanding isn't exactly wrong, but basically, all that code relies on there being an 'alloc' and 'free' symbol, so you can swap that out with whatever you want, so you wouldn't actually need to re-write all that code. Also worth noting, there's a clear line between libraries with no allocation (libcore) and the rest, so even if you did throw it all away, you'd still have a chunk of the library.

That interface is super unstable at the moment, and we're working on stabilizing it, but yeah, that's what you'd have to do: write your own allocator and hook it up.
Who funds the "community-funded" fire protection services if not the community? That is, the people who would stand to benefit from those services, should they ever find their house on fire.

The most "libertarian" example of a community funded fire service I've ever heard of is the one where you pay "dues" to the fire department, and they'll come put out the fire if your house ever catches. If you don't, they'll come up to your property line and make sure the fire doesn't spread, but otherwise just stand there, watching your shit burn.

This actually happens, and I have exactly zero sympathy for the people who don't pay in.

That's what I'm talking about when I say "idiocy": people who claim to be Libertarian, but whose attitude is more, "Fuck you, I've got mine!" punctuated by, "Oh, shit! Someone expend community resources to help me with this!" You don't get to have it both ways; either you contribute meaningfully to the upkeep of the society whose membership you wish to benefit from, or you don't get to benefit from participation in that society.

EDIT: Sorry, I guess, if my tone is dismissive or offensive. I'm just sick to death of people walking around, talking a "Taxes Я theft!" position, but who expect to benefit from the things that those taxes pay for.
If I have the dreaded "Pre-Existing Condition!", somehow I doubt that would work.
I started doing this recently while I've been learning the programming language Nim. It's been fun putting together little answers as I go: http://nim.community/ I'm hoping that as Nim gets more traction these answers can get more accurate and there can be a breadth of answers that constantly stay up to date since the website is open source :)
It sounds like just another startup hardware offering with a spotty launch. But I've always been confused about the perceived "embarrassment" of a card not working at the point of a transaction. This seems to be a common marketing trope in payments, but I don't know what it comes from. It's a piece of technology, and tech often doesn't work quite right. Sometimes my phone restarts itself. What's the big deal?
I agree that some of Obama's accomplishments were negative.

But none of them came anywhere close to the debacle of Iraq. The "red line" nonsense was definitely bad. Making big declarations and ignoring them is not smart. But it's not even on the same level as invading a sovereign nation, getting a million or so people killed, and wasting an unimaginable amount of money for no reason.

I don't know that Ukraine qualifies as bad US foreign policy. We don't really have a responsibility there. (Contrary to the popular rhetoric on the internet, the treaty under which Ukraine gave up their Soviet-era nuclear weapons merely required the signatories to respect Ukrainian sovereignty, not guarantee it. Russia is violating that treaty, but the treaty does not require the US to assist.)

Would Assad have used chemical weapons had Bush still been in power? Maybe not. But seeing as how Bush is responsible for the whole regional mess in the first place, that hardly seems like plus on his side.

Would Russia have taken Crimea if Bush were still in power? I don't see why not. Not only did Bush waste a ton of lives and money, he also set the precedent that he would ignore any country capable of actually resisting. He invaded Iraq for imaginary WMDs, but ignored North Korea's actual WMDs even though they were a part of the "axis of evil." Russia has even more WMDs than North Korea and I imagine they would be confident that nothing would be done.
It's my understanding that the grant should be used on the business, not necessarily the incomes of the people working on it.
You wouldn't find it insulting, if you actually understood what he/she said
I wouldn't doubt it. I imagine it's due to a backlog and lack of funding.