skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever you call it, the value that patient N derives from cost C needs to be compared to the value that patient N+1 would derive from that same cost C.

When the NIH (or equivalent) turn that into a C/expected number of years, they're doing a scarce resource allocation problem. Unless you have infinite resources to give every patient every available treatment, you have to do allocation somehow.

Giving a 10-year old a treatment that you'd deny a 90-year old seems perfectly sane and rational to me.

I can't tell if you're agreeing with the concept and just disagreeing with the terminology, or if you believe there's a fundamentally better way?
Come on, your NHS is probably as badly run than my Sécurité Sociale, and allergic to consider better alternatives if it's not big pharma approved.

For the record I tried fasting for 2 weeks and it didn't do anything for me (I don't have dimorphism though). However we need scientific studies to either prove or disprove the benefits of fasting so we don't have to debate on just opinions but facts.
> But is there anything wrong with his arguments?

Yes. His sources are a WSJ article and "the loss numbers quoted in UBeam’s patent applications". That's probably not enough information to derive an accurate description of what the company is trying to do, so there's a good chance he's dismissing a straw man.

He claims that this investment took place "without even the slightest sanity check" and that "no one is doing the hour’s worth of basic math". How does he know this? He doesn't; he assumes it. The odds are low that neither A16Z nor anyone else would have asked for a sanity check (Stanford is down the street, after all), so a charitable approach (http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html) would pause to question this assumption. For a nice example of how to think charitably, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542253 from the previous thread.

But the ranting language in the article indicates that he doesn't want to be charitable. His purpose is not to investigate wireless power transmission, it's to confirm the angry worldview he recites at the end, complete with vaccines, yogurt enemas, and clueless VCs. Such articles resonate with others with similar angry worldviews. That's the real dynamic of discussions like this. It has nothing to do with physics; physics was just the kindling this time.

Who knows if UBeam will work or will make it to market. If it doesn't, though, this will likely be for some reason other than an obviously stupid mistake that a throng of internet commenters saw through in a few minutes.

Let's not forget that investors like A16Z and others are supposed to invest in things that don't work in the end. If they don't, they're not doing their job, which is to take enough risk to reach the borderline of what's possible. (Let's also not forget how another common complaint is that VCs never invest in anything hard. Internet commenters get to have it both ways.) If they're doing their job well, the likely outcome is still that this investment will fail, because most do. In that case you can expect these sproutlings of dismissal to yield a full harvest of I-told-you-so's—but they'll still likely be wrong, because the due diligence of any VC doing a good job would include precisely the sanity checks and basic math being wielded here. Are they doing their job? I don't know, and neither does any other commenter here, and in such cases it's the Principle of Charity we should all fall back on.

Wishful thinking about the stupidity of others is a dangerous thing to take pleasure in. It stops up the mind, and makes for mediocre Hacker News threads.
previously: https://github.com/JamesDunne/sslmux
React and Flux: A Docker Development Workflow
Any examples for the latter?
I would suggest buying a Kindle book titled "The End of Jobs" by Taylor Pearson http://taylorpearson.me and look at the chapter on apprenticeships. Taylor gives excruciating detail on what a would-be apprentice (and the entrepreneur contemplating the responsibility of taking on an apprentice) should do, and what to expect from the relationship.

You may find it useful in landing the position you desire.
well, when windows 10 come to phones everything will change I think
freenode #hn
Also, an alternative to `docker-machine scp` is docker-osx-dev (https://github.com/brikis98/docker-osx-dev). It will rsync a path into the docker-machine host.
Did you get the idea from a 70's copy of Cosmopolitan?
>Switzerland is one of... three maybe (Luxemburg, Norway) countries with higher standard of living than the US. Not even Switzerland's neighbours (Italy, France, Germany) with people coming from the same populations can reproduce it.

Sure, but the standard on living on most of the things she mentions is better than the US in lots of others European countries, even if they're not as high as Switzerland...

>All these great states are tiny (8M people) outliers. There are more people enjoying work-life balance in America than alive in Switzerland

That's beside the point, since that "work-life balance" is enjoyed by the overwhelming majority in Switzerland -- whereas that's not true for ANY city of comparable size in the US.
Let's be realistic here. Men are just way stronger and better fighters. It's the same story in other sports. For example Serena Williams: the best tennis player in WTA history by huge distance and she would be smoked by any men who is on ATP list even if overweight and smoking between games.

It's not an insult, it's just biology.
The first half of the article matches my experience.

I'm a software developer living in the (American) South. We just had our fourth child. A few days later my wife had some complications. We went to the hospital, taking the newborn with us. The first week, pre-hospital, I was averaging four hour of sleep a night, but then in the hospital that went down to two hours of sleep in two days. (Wife was not able to hold the newborn, we weren't in the maternity area, I needed to chase down absent doctors, etc).

Since we've been back from the hospital there's been a non-stop train of people from our church bringing food (three different people one day), teenagers to watch the older kids so we can sleep in the day, and sometimes grandmothers came to hold the new one too. The lawn has been mowed by somebody who just showed up and started mowing.

This wasn't even organized - someone just sent out an email saying we needed help, and people we knew started showing up left and right.
Doesn't even have to be that nefarious - I am blocked from using my OpenVPN tunnel (UDP and TCP) from at least two restaurants that I'm aware of.
Startups and labels constantly jockeying for better position to maximize profits, etc etc and so on; the plight of the artist at the bottom of the food chain is generally brushed over, often with the supposed consolation that "it's never been easier to get your music into people's ears". That may be true in a technical sense but it's completely meaningless in reality. I've worked as a full time programmer to subsidize basically every detail of actually getting the music heard (recording, merch, subscriptions to soundcloud and bandcamp and tunecore, gas money for shows). Granted we're exactly striving for mainstream popularity but it's hard to even conceive of how we could possibly make enough money, split three ways, to sustain it without sacrificing most of the remaining hours to working to pay for food and rent; and none of us have children to worry about. Yet we press on, for nearly a decade, primarily because we love it of course but also people seem to think we're not half bad. I suppose all these discussions matter but I guess all I'm saying is if you really care and truly like a band (even a little) go to their website or bandcamp and buy a tshirt and a record. PLEASE. And just cut all this bullshit in the middle right out.
Indeed. For now it's mostly a place where botihn copies the title and links of hn news, but it could take some discussion.

irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn
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Open API for differs (totally incomplete, but we've already released some its pre-reqs):
https://github.com/diffplug/opendiff

Archives and filesystems that we support:
https://docs.diffplug.com/1.6.1/Filesystems/
AFAIK, there is no board yet. There are investors and advisers but I have no way of reaching to them.
This is both true and false: a fall in the price of a bond reflects opportunity costs. An example: you buy a brand-new MacBook Pro (bond) today for $1800. The next day, Apple cuts the price of the exact same model by 30% to $1260 (interest rates rise, bond prices falls). On the one hand, you have exactly the same computer you had on the previous day (same stream of interest payments), so you could say that you haven't lost anything. On the other hand, if you'd waited a day, you could have gotten exactly the same thing for $540 less, so you could say that you're out that amount. And if you fall on hard times and need to sell the computer, no one will be willing to pay you $1800 for it, since they can buy it from Apple for much less, so in that case the opportunity cost becomes an explicit cost.
> I see most people saying "quit!", but really that is not fair to the business or the other people who are there. This kind of behavior gives technical people a bad name, and perpetuates the myth that we are social hermits who cannot sell or run companies.

This is hardly a fair statement. A person specializing in business, marketing, or PR would do the same thing - quit if their manager/CEO is terrible. Moreover, they would have demanded far more out of the company and left within 2 years instead of four.

People saying "quit" are doing it because it's not really worth the hassle to them. They're avoiding conflict. Which is quite acceptable unless he's going to use that conflict to better his own position. He's spent four years of dealing with this and being underpaid. He could just walk and get a better paying job in a better environment. Standing up for himself might bring vengeful behavior out of his boss. It would fit with his other actions.

> This kind of behavior gives technical people a bad name, and perpetuates the myth that we are social hermits who cannot sell or run companies.

There is absolutely nothing here that deserves you pushing a tech stereotype or hermit narrative on it. Conflict avoidance is a well-known human issue. Hundreds of people in hundreds of fields quit because of leadership issues.

It is completely unfair to make people think that you have to allow people to treat you poorly as part of a proper social structure. That's a hostile work environment, and there are laws about that sort of thing for a reason. You don't ever have to "resolve" things. Leaving is always an option.

> Unreasonable work expectations for product features and expectations that a person would be available anytime/any day weekends including to do work and support.

There's another labor violation. This CEO specializes in "business". He knows the rules. He has no excuse for his behavior. He doesn't treat his employees respectfully, so he's not deserving of any loyalty. And the other founder doesn't stop it, though I'm sure he sees it, too. Management doesn't really care.

He shouldn't have to have this conversation in the first place. Don't blame him for not wanting to have it. There are 20+ people in that company. It's not his job to be the messenger if he doesn't want to.

Though I'd still recommend doing it because it would teach him to recognize and prevent these situations in the future.
That looks like a start but implements only a fraction of the usefulness.
> I don't (yet) care about money.

Will you be happy if the startup goes under and they've been paid and you haven't?
The attitude issue is based on fear. I think people in the first world prefer to be generous, and that fear of losing what they have is what causes the friction. Whether we're talking about jobs, pensions, welfare benefits, etc.

In many European countries (it's in no way exclusively an European concern mind you) a fear of losing cultural identity is also an extremely common issue. It plays into the fear of change.

Modern welfare states are extraordinarily expensive, and require careful fiscal management. You can have a mostly well functioning one like Germany or Sweden, or you can have a disaster like numerous other examples. The fear (emphasis that that isn't to say it's the reality of the situation necessarily) is ending up in the disaster category, that the system will get overwhelmed and cuts will be required, lowering the standard of living for everyone.
I am not quite sure if you are kidding or not. I am just reading on Windows 10 horror stories about privacy.
You risk being wrong this way. Unless you are involved in the site and can testify to that. In any case, the page could be, or should be, cached in some form, either on the server or with the browser.

Which makes me wonder with your second paragraph. gzipping and caching are the easiest and one of several ways to optimize the downloading of a web page. Server side code written in C plays no part in that except if the pages are created on the fly and anything else really does slow down delivery of the page; that is, page creation takes longer than 80ms or so, but a properly coded site won't let that happen if it can be helped.

And after running my own web dev business for 11 years, I didn't have to look at anything to determine any of that.
How we went from arguing about "Top male fighters are wary of facing her." to "Beating the best male fighter at ~135" I don't know. I am not arguing that she would, just that it is not a fantasy. If she can clinch and take it to the ground early in the round, she can definitely submit top guys.

The Cyborg thing: Ronda is the champion, Cyborg should come down to her weight, not the other way around.
That is a very long article over-dramatizing a fantasy scenario that will 100% not happen in their lifetime. These folks sure glommed onto something that allows them to talk about themselves a lot.

If Mars One wasn't just a short-term money grab, they wouldn't be too concerned with collecting 75% of interview fees. That is so bush league that to imagine your whole life is going to be shaped by this organization is pretty delusional.
Blocking all ports but 80 and 443 is "the firewall" and therefore a very large component of any enterprise security policy.
I thought that too first, but actually they do seem quite similar. Main difference from computers point of view is that paper printers take in postscript and 3d printers take in gcode. Of course the printer itself is completely different but that is all quite opaque to the computer.
The ScaleWindowExtEx example certainly has no legitimate reason to accept signed ints.

Personally, the bug I introduce most often with signed ints is a failure to range-check for negative values, e.g.:

void *get(int idx) { assert(idx <= arr.size(); return arr[idx]; }
Does anyone mind explaining what is control flow integrity, wikipedia seems to be lacking an article about it, and the README of the project does not help on that matter.

I understand that whatever this does, the fact that it works on the IR of LLVM makes it interesting for a wide variety of languages that have a LLVM backend.
I would love to hear from pg himself if he still stands by this piece.
I'm sadly skeptical, given how much weight Americans seem to give to the intentions of the founding fathers when it comes to discussing the constitution.
It made it through other countries fine and then was vandalized early into its trip in the US.

I am not surprised.
I detailed a bit more in my other rant, but if you want to stay or get what you're owed, you're going to have to risk the conflict.

The only way to not have conflict about this is to leave and say nothing. If you think he won't allow you to leave at all without conflict, then you might as well choose the conflict with the better possible rewards.

You shouldn't let things continue. But whether or not you're going to attempt to point out the problem is up to you.
I think the the "100% Go" stuff is appealing in that you just have one file that works across OSes, with minimal screwing around.

For things that become part of the OS, yes, I'd rather they come via some install approach that includes the necessary integration. But for anything else, I think a lot of our packaging approaches are dedicated to saving disk space and RAM, which is something that matters way less to me now than it did 15-20 years ago when CPAN and APT were designed. In 2000, disk prices were circa $10/GB [1]; now we're looking at $0.50/GB of zippy SSD [2] or $0.03/GB of spinning rust [3]. RAM is similarly about 2 orders of magnitude cheaper. [4] Given that, it makes a lot more sense to burn space to minimize the chance of a library version conflict or other packaging issue.

Another thing that has changed greatly is the pace of updates. 15-20 years ago, weekly releases sounded impossible to most. Now it's common, and some places are releasing hourly or faster. [5] Thanks to things like GitHub, the whole notion of a release is getting hazy: I see plenty of things where you just install from the latest; every merge to master is in effect a new release.

Given that, I think both Go and Docker are pioneering approaches that are much more in sync with the current computing environment. I'm excited to see where they get to.

[1] http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update

[2] http://techreport.com/review/27824/crucial-bx100-and-mx200-s...

[3]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Is...

[4] http://www.jcmit.com/mem2015.htm

[5] www.slideshare.net/InfoQ/managing-experimentation-in-a-continuously-deployed-environment slide 27
The spelling changes from 'gait' to 'gate' later in the document. I wonder why.
Anna Kournikova also routinely beat people who had better technique in tennis. There is something to be said about indomitable willpower!
I would give up Gmail, really.
On the other hand, that inflexibility may be what just makes it work. Being held to the same strict standard makes the community much stronger.
> A few weeks ago I was driving through Calais, and there were so many migrants on the road they spilled onto the opposite lane.

> Did you stop to help any of them? If the answer is no - that answers all of your question.

Help them how exactly? They were going the opposite way to me. You do know that they armed with knives as well, right? I'm sure you'd stop too with your wife, baby, and personal belongings. Tut-tut.
SAD! Wish Project Euler quick recovery
FYI, your site is throwing debug traces in production and that is not something I or others should see: http://i.imgur.com/cWmHNMz.png
Wouldn't you get a compiler error if there was a mismatch?
>We a species have finite resources and can't sink all of them into every patient. Every time we treat or don't treat someone (and it's not possible to treat everyone of everything), we're making implicit statement in the form of a mathematical inequality about how we value money against human life and quality of life.

We spend more on dog food than we do on millions of patients.

So, no, it's not a question of "finite resources".

Or, rather, it would be, if we were anywhere near exhausting our resources.
I always model the database first then I start coding. In my experience if the DB is right the rest is easy.
What makes you think it's because of a sense of control, as opposed to, say, increased education? This correlates highly with increased wealth.
Ronda's argument counter-argument is that if Cyborg was not on steroids, she could make 135 easily. Cyborg has mentioned multiple times she can make the weight cut, yet it has not made it happen.
Just because you don't like the single binary that works everywhere, doesn't mean that others find it a problem. One approach doesn't fit every possible situation.
Yea, I saw it too.
Not anytime soon. And if there is, it will be something with most focus on mobile and phone numbers. That's why Facebook is already on top of that with Instagram and Whatsapp. Facebook might be in this for the long haul, esp with the stuff they can also do with Oculus.
Not a software guy, but to my understanding CFI is basically about being able to ensure that a program only does what it is supposed to according to its control flow graph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow_graph). The importance of this is you can have better security guarantees as long as you trust the compiler and that the architecture doesn't have any serious flaws.

Also, LLVM backends are the different architectures it supports (x86, ARM, Power, etc) and frontends are the different languages (C, C++, haskell, python, etc).
The spelling changes from 'gait' to 'gate' further down in the document. I wonder why.
"sacrificing a cow"

Also see sports as ritual, fellowship with the boys coming over and grill some brats and burgers while consuming mind altering substances while watching a ritual. Burnt Offering. Stereotypical non-sports party is almost as ritualistic.
Get a Mt. Dew
> I think the situation is pretty comparable to Serena Williams, who would win against most "regular" men, but not be able to provide a competitive match against roger federer.

Well what is regular? A regular professional would completely dominate her. Here's an anecdote of the only time she tried against a man.

> During the 1998 Australian Open, sisters Serena and Venus Williams boasted that they could beat any man ranked outside the world's top 200. The challenge was accepted by Karsten Braasch, a German player ranked No 203 (his highest ranking was No 38). Before the matches, Braasch played a round of golf in the morning, drank a couple of beers, smoked a few cigarettes, and then played the Williams sisters for a set each, one after the other. He defeated Serena, 6-1, and Venus, 6-2. Serena said afterwards "I didn't know it would be that hard. I hit shots that would have been winners on the women's tour and he got to them easily."

We're talking about two women here who ended up nr 1 players in the world (in fact Serena is the nr 1 right now, today), and were already top 10 players at that time.

Of course if you mean by 'regular' to be just anyone, like me... then sure, but if you pick the average person from the street they'd lose to a 12 year old talent, let alone someone like Williams.

As for Ronda, it's pretty well known men hold back when they spar her in all these videos for sure. She could absolutely trash us, but a professional male fighter wouldn't have a hard time at all, and he doesn't have to be world class. It's just the way it is and there's no shame in that. Just like there's no shame in a 10 year old losing to an adult, or a fully able-bodied beating a physically handicapped person, or a 15 year old beating the old and frail Mohammed Ali he is today, so what, there's a grand biological/physical difference there that has no basis in merit or talent or will and that is unsurmountable, nothing to be proud over for the winner and nothing to be ashamed over for the loser.
California plans to change to "time-of-use" pricing of electricity [1]. How will that affect the savings currently seen by folks who lease from SolarCity and other providers?

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/20/califor...
There's a new list here: http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
I have a talking SETI. I am more famous than Jesus.