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> It's not super-cheap either, but there is plenty of Valley housing <$3k.

You're right. You can find studio and one bedroom apartments sub-$3K in places like Redwood City. The problem for starving founders is that landlords aren't going to lease to you when you can't show a sufficient, reliable income source (read: a real job) and sufficient credit score/history.
If I may clarify some of the misunderstandings of what happens in a typical emergency. If a patient is clutching their chest, we're calling our ambulance service, not doing an EKG. However, the great majority of heart attacks don't present with crushing chest pain. If they did, Emergency Care would be easy, and EM docs wouldn't have had to do 11 years of schooling to recognize and treat these subtleties. The patient that the TechCrunch article is referring too had a subtle tachypnea (slightly elevated respiratory rate because the dying heart muscle causes the blood to become acidic and so the body compensates by blowing off Co2) and a vague abdominal discomfort with a lot of confounding factors like constipation. This patient would not get an EKG in the overwhelming majority of nursing homes in the country, and it's not their fault! It's just because the system doesn't allow for the evaluation the patient may need. Also - an EKG is quite easy to do - this is a non-issue.
People who attempt data science without validating the statistics should eventually end up with a pretty bad track record and leave the "data scientist" job market. My perception of what data scientist currently means is a statistician who knows how to program machine learning algorithms and manage large data sets. Based on what you are saying, there are a lot of impostors out there, which is most likely true. However, every time I see a job posting for a data scientist, it almost always requires some formal math or statistics background.
I stay in hotels a lot, and I don't remember the last time I've used their internet -- it generally sucks!

Having your own hotspot is generally a more pleasant experience, instead of having to re-authenticate all the time, and call the support when their inet is down or has ridiculously bad latency.

And I'm talking about brand-name hotels like Courtyard by Marriott, or Hyatt House / Hyatt Place.
When will we realize that as entrepreneurs, founders and creators that we have to support each other?

Let's have an open door policy when a fellow entrepreneur reaches out to us to ask for help, advise or just wants to talk to someone who can relate to what they are going through in starting, running and growing a new business or just life in general.

There are those in our community who wake up and live breathe and are motivated by a mission to make an impact in the world. Its not all about the money. The true leaders of our generation are motivated by being of service to others.

It costs no money to make a friend in your own community and let's not try to be so cut throat. We are the ones fighting giants who are failing every day to adjust their strategies to adopt to a new generation who could care less of "how it's always been done."

RIP Josh. You will be missed by everyone.
""This will cause some cost increase in the rocket," he said. "But nothing, we think, will increase the price.""

A further reminder of Elon Musk's commitment to disruptive pricing.
I think most nascent tech are buggy. It's part of growing pains. If I'm using something like that, it's mostly to encourage the people behind them by my patronage and for providing them with data from usage outside the controlled environment. I suppose its similar to why there is a community around product hunt, kickstarter etc.

I believe the "embarrassment" trope crops from the misunderstanding behind the motive.
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I fully agree with the Code of Conduct (which has more and more become a thing recently), but I don't think it needs an extra mention or file in repositories.

Not harassing and respecting others is common sense. There's just no need to mention that.

I fear soon repository owners will be considered rude if they don't want extra clutter added to their repos (if this hasn't happened already).
I'm not even talking about deciding questions of fact. If you take a set of facts as a given, it's still often not clear if something is legal or not. Legislation is often written in broad strokes and it is up to the courts to fill in the details. There are always new cases coming up that don't fit the same fact pattern as existing cases and hence no one is quite sure what the law says on such matter.
Can anyone give some cases of where Bloom filters are used? Has anyone used one in their job?
Hi, this is Jessica from Call9. Just wanted to address a few points here:

1) When you call 911, you talk to a gatekeeper. That gatekeeper is a phone dispatcher, not a doctor. Talking to a doctor is not a delay in care--it's the reason people call 911 in the first place.

2) Since Call9 works with facilities such as nursing homes and has access to patient information, using Call9 actually saves time in the dispatch process.

3) As described in the article, it's not always that clear to the person calling 911 has "suspected heart attack symptoms". In the given example, he presented with abdominal pain. That is why having the doctor be the first point of contact is so important.
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I have built WOPR - a simple markup for rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics

You can try it:

$> curl tty.zone/1\?cols=$((COLUMNS))

(if you experience firewall issues replace tty.zone with ec2-23-21-64-152.compute-1.amazonaws.com)

Or if you can handle a full deck:

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More details:

http://github.com/yaronn/wopr
We should be glad. Eventual consistency is hard to reason about, particularly when its tradeoffs have to do with other people's systems...
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Sorry - let me explain myself. The term SCD is often used as analogous to SCA (sudden cardiac arrest). In this context, SCA is a more proper term - good catch. The only difference between the two is that the SCA didn't get treated in time and so the patient expired.
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I must be sleep deprived. 1024^3 = gigabytes, not terabytes. Wow, then they've definitely over-engineered it, and disk isn't even necessary in the event of a 10-fold increase in the database size. Tries, search trees, or properly sized hash tables on phone number prefixes should be plenty fast and the whole thing can fit in RAM on a modern laptop...
I completely agree. But to play devil's advocate: is there a percentage of business travelers that would prefer an AirBnB experience over the lure of elite status and hotel points?

Time will tell if this is a smart move or just AirBnB smashing together something that it already has anyway. But I'm curious if anyone has an insight.
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Mobile, on demand services. So hot right now.
What's odd and strange is how many ten-lane superhighways we don't see. Because while the highway may just be a "infinite stone plain of death" to an ant, it's there. But you look up in the sky and you don't see stars reduced to heat-radiating Dyson shells, or towed around by Shkadov thrusters. And you really ought to, because any civilization before us should by any reasonable dice roll, be millions of years ahead of us.
It’s disturbingly easy to become a hacker millionaire
Some people have started cross-linguistic communication with the huge sets of emoji that are now out there in Unicode (including telling stories!).

There are really no communication systems that are "safe" in the way you mean if their users can adopt codes that give new meanings to old symbols. For example,

🍨 💄🍨🌋🌎 🍨📰 🐑🚑📰 🍟🐓🚑📰🐱🍨🐑🐱🐙

(Hint: vpr pernz, yvcfgvpx, vpr pernz, ibypnab, rnegu, vpr pernz, arjfcncre, furrc, nzohynapr, arjfcncre, serapu sevrf, ebbfgre, nzohynapr, arjfcncre, png, vpr pernz, furrc, png, bpgbchf.)
> Argon2 will be the "basis" for the final winner

I expect there will be a long review period before the winner is considered suitable for common use. It reminds me of the backlash at NIST for some late changes to the SHA-3 winner, Keccak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-3#NIST_announcement_contro...
Because some may assume that you don't have enough money to pay your bill.
That is true. But there's a difference in being able to see the patient vs. having a bystander explain the situation verbally. There's no question that a dispatcher brings value to the CPR process - I think that we can bring more.
Stop. Look at it from the employee's perspective and all your issues go away. There are a lot of employees (and growing) who would prefer AirBnb lodging to hotels.
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This is dangerous for one reason and one reason alone: It conflates the message of "Medical emegency, call 911". We've had that drilled into our heads and drill it into our children's heads.

Now, you want people to question that in a time of emergency? "Crap! Mom is having a heart attack! Should I call 911 or use Call9? It's supposed to be better! Shit, where is my smartphone, all I have is this landline. Crap, my smartphone is upstairs, I'll just use my tablet. Wait, I don't have Skype installed on my tablet. Dammit, I'll just call 911".
Web browsers use bloom filters for filtering out CSS rules during selector matching. Here's the implementation of this in Servo (the project I work on): https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/3212

I believe browsers also store their Safe Browsing (anti-malware/phishing) blacklists in bloom filters.
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This is spot on. It's another name for BI, which was another name for reporting, albeit with fancier tools. But fundamentally the job is about querying, aggregating and representing data -- the methods by which these are done may be more complex, but the goals of the data are the same. It's just that with so much more data available, there need to be a lot more people to build the reporting systems.

But yeah, you're right, nobody wants to do reporting because it's tedious and doesn't pay particularly well. And really, most suits are just looking for data that fits the story they want to tell, so the quality of the analysis that many "data scientists" do is irrelevant. This isn't the case at every company, but I've seen it happen enough to know it's not a rare occurrence.
But they use empirical evidence to back up that statement. YC is in the trenches everyday and see how much work it is. It's an observation from past experiences.
> It might be cool if we could take apart the browser monolith and have something more like components somehow.

On the other hand, imagine the developer test-coverage nightmares that would produce!
I worked 911 in NYC and LA. The incompetence of Nursing Home Staff is often quite astounding.

It was common to arrive for a call of "general illness" only to find the patient in respiratory failure or cardiac arrest with no CPR in progress.

I see this as providing a fast way for clueless staff to up-triage patients.
I think it's fair to distinguish between organisms that process electrons and organisms that process all manner of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats to produce carbon molecules that are used to generate molecules that induce inhaled molecular oxygen to function as an electron acceptor and drive ATP production.
I was going to make logingone's argument but here's a better one:

All maths done till ~1600 AD could have been done in 50 years, if you see it from perspective of a civilization which has a stable existence. And forgetting all abstractions, stability of surrounding civilizations is basically a random phenomenon.

And I'm sure maths done in physics departments is beyond understanding of 80% people outside it, let alone any civilization which started 400 years before us.
"I heard a couple of definitions: a data scientist is 1) a data analyst in California or 2) a statistician under 35."

http://blogs.gartner.com/svetlana-sicular/data-scientist-mys...
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Very interesting. Do you spend as much time as before in AirBnB-style rooms now?

I agree that after a certain point business travel becomes "soulless," but I figured it was due to being away from home instead of the surroundings. And the allure of accumulating hotel points to use at the high-end places is....alluring.
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Rob Tibshirani at Stanford had a funny slide about the this phenomenon when all the ML researchers started getting more grant funding than statisticians:

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/stat315a/glossary.pdf
I've programmed bloomfilters for my job.

A certain product of ours keeps track of certain urls visited. We're talking millions of (unique) urls. We use bloomfilters to quickly check if a url was visited or not. If the bloomfilter search is positive a more expensive search inside a log file begins that gives a conclusive result (since bloomfilters have a (very) small false positive-rate, but we want to be perfectly sure).
I don't know about tech, but if the embargo is lifted, car enthusiasts will swim to that island. I hope the Cubans realize those old cars might be their only retirement, and don't sell to, "It's only worth this much to me?" Guys?
thanks for this. we'll work on it right away.
There is definitely a market for this, especially in a city like Manhattan where business rate hotels are hard to come by and can be inconveniently located compared to an AirBnB. When we have remote workers come visit us we put them up in an AirBnB that is a 5-minute walk from the office to get better, more spacious accommodations than a hotel for under $200 (which is for an entire apartment, not just a room). And who needs room service when you have Seamless, Postmates, Caviar, etc.

The only downside to AirBnB is the lack of daily housekeeping. Maybe there is room for a 3rd party service that caters exclusively to AirBnB hosts to provide regular housekeeping.

That all said, I'm not sure what this "Business Travel" service provides that you can't get from a regular booking. Is this just a shared AirBnB account for teams? Are there special business rates or liability insurance policies associated with it? This page does a fairly poor job of explaining the merits of creating a business account with them.
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Is any of this (realistically) applicable if you are european? We're still reluctant to use credit cards at all here.
Microsoft issues emergency security patch
The statement in the article that they take no other nutrients is patently false and poor writing. They must have a source of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, trace metals, etc. The interesting thing about these organisms is that they can take in energy poor forms of these elements that require energy to process into usable forms (e.g. co2 instead of sugar) and to do this they can draw power from electrons directly instead of indirectly using chemistry.

As for engineering them, one of the largest problems is that these organisms are mismatched to our electrical technology. Biology is low voltage high current (~500mV is already too high because that electrolyzes); our power systems are high voltage because P = I^2R second order in current but P = IV first order in voltage so by pumping to a higher voltage you can limit power losses over transmission distances.
FWIW, I work in a cardiology department and "Sudden Cardiac Death" and "Sudden Cardiac Arrest" are used interchangeably. You even hear the term "sudden cardiac death survivor": http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/8/623
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^ "The app is currently unreachable." I'd like access too!
So I'm a little confused about "points". Those are owned by the employee, not the employer, right? Even though the employer pays for the expenses?
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An interesting point; but there are "efficency" hotel chains that have a complete kitchen/laundry/etc. Does today's business traveler need a yard and other accoutrements?

Private parking is a really good point, though. In a metro area that can shoot up the cost of the stay some if one must rent a car.
Comparing Cassandra Write Performance on Google Compute Engine and AWS
But it could easily be: "Once you arrive, proceed to the loft which is 2 blocks from your meeting site and punch in this code to enter. There's a beer in the fridge and the remote for the Apple TV is under the 70 inch flat screen."
I use a British Airways branded Amex here in the UK and put almost all my spending through it. Thanks to their Companion Voucher my wife and I get a couple of business class trips on the house each year (Spend £10k in a year on it and get a Buy one get one free flight with points)
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Distributed Hash Table (DHT) networks often use them
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Initially I was in the camp of reluctant to associate myself with "data science" because it might be just a passing fad. It still might be, but for now I have started using that label.

I started in industry as "an applied or pragmatic statistician" that is someone trained in social science research with a strong quantitative methodology bias. As I went along I added focus group moderation, in-depth interviewing, competitive analysis, ROI analysis and strategy consulting... so I stared calling what I do "Research-based Consulting."

But that label doesn't seem to quite capture building taxonomies and text indexing systems or doing latent semantic analysis. Nor does that "Research-based Consulting" capture teaching myself web development in order to create data-focused web applications. And, what about all the database work that I do in operational systems? Or, how do I fit in things like managing and validating data collection and aggregation systems that track prices for ~10K sku's across multiple retail websites, combine them in a weighted algorithm that reflects my client's business priorities and drives thousands of automated transactions every day?

So even though I came from a background with a lot of grad level statistical training and even at one point somewhat identified as a statistician it feels like current definitions of "data scientist" captures more of what I actually do. So I have come to be at peace with the term.

I totally agree with the points in the article about a mult-disciplinary team. I would love to recruit people who are better than me at each sub-discipline and figure out how to help them work together.
> bloomfilters have a (very) small false positive-rate

One of the neat things about Bloom filters is that you can choose your own false positive rate, by tuning the number of hashes and the storage size.
The first time I heard of bloom filters was back when I worked at Google a decade ago (on the search indexing team). We used them in MapReduces when doing cross-machine table lookups. The idea was to load the bloom filters into memory on the machines doing the lookups and then to only do the lookup if the bloom filter test passed - this optimization worked because a large fraction of the lookups were for entries not contained in the tables.

I can't actually remember what data was being looked up in the tables, though.
IE has spoofed Mozilla browsers since at least IE2. When was the last time you saw a browser that didn't claim to be Mozilla/5.0?
My experience is they've always accrued to the visitor/employee.
i think you can force consistency on DynamoDB for a price.
My experience has been the exact opposite. I'm not a heavy user, but I've stayed at an airbnb at least 5 times now and each one of those stays were significantly cheaper than a comparable hotel, but with a way better experience in almost every way.

Also, finding multi room hotel suites for a reasonable price is usually next to impossible.
I figured something along those lines, with "SCD (sudden cardiac arrest)" in your original comment. Always happy to clarify and get clarification!
>Actually, "300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute".[1]

That's simply an incredible amount of data. The storage for all that must be huge.
Agreed. The coin absolutely failed me. It didn't work far too often for me and I always had to carry backup cards (my debit card because BofA's ATM can't read it, and my credit card because I still want my rewards on purchases when my Coin fails). Needing to carry 3 cards completely defeated the purpose of the Coin, and I ended up ditching the Coin just to have one less card in my wallet. The irony.
Anyone can make that argument about anything, so what you're saying is "I don't believe there should be such a thing as privacy".
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty reluctant to let any company "View, manage, and permanently delete your mail in Gmail". Yes, I could create a new email address that I only use for purchasing stuff, but that's a big change.

This product looks cool, but I'm not seeing past the privacy issues right now.
NEET, a NEAT library in Haskell
Slightly OT, but I just finished reading The Martian [1] by Andy Weir. I have always been fascinated by space and space travel, but I never really had a good grasp on the technical complexity of it all until I read that book. Now that I understand that, I have a whole new appreciation for how awesome the Rosetta/Philae and the New Horizons missions are, and exactly why it is so incredibly exciting what we have done in only the past 60 or so years of space travel.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B...
(Also on github: https://github.com/raymoo/NEET)

I wrote this NEAT library from around a month and a half to a couple weeks ago, and I haven't gotten much review from other people. This is the first haskell library I've written that could have wider appeal, so I don't have a lot of experience behind me. Are there any obvious deficiencies in the way I've coded this? I don't expect anyone to use it heavily at this point, but if anyone does, it would be nice if I could have some feedback on usability too.

Here's an example program I wrote to mess with NEET: https://github.com/raymoo/neet-cave (requires OpenGL, GLUT, GLFW, maybe some others)

EDIT: Neet itself also comes with an example program in Neet.Examples.XOR.xorExperiment. Note that for some reason it freezes for me if I run it from a ghci session in emacs, but works fine if I do it outside my editor.