Hacker News: billjive

New comment by billjive in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

billjive — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:22:23 +0000

Yeah, almost pivoted to fantasy sports! Clinical trials are more interesting :)

New comment by billjive in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

billjive — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:09:38 +0000

Sorry to hear this, thank you for publishing your account.

I first found you years ago from your nfldb project: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb and since then have used xsv and ripgrep.

Also, thank you for participating in the clinical trial. I pivoted my tech career several years ago to focus on that industry (the tech isn't great, I'm trying to help that). Along the way I've learned how important it is to participate in this research, it makes a massive difference so thank you.

New comment by billjive in ""Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa"

billjive — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:50:13 +0000

Any City High grads here? The School That Leads... :)

New comment by billjive in ""Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa"

billjive — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:03:08 +0000

I'm from Iowa City! It's awesome to see this pop up on HN. IC has a number of great older bars like this. Sadly my favorite (The Sanctuary) closed recently and may be lost forever.

New comment by billjive in "Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?"

billjive — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:06:25 +0000

This specific quote from the article made me think of lawmaking - the more detailed the law the harder it is to pass (someone can always fine something to nitpick). Therefore, laws are best at establishing goals, principles, guide rails, etc. Nothing is perfect but the way in which laws are implemented SHOULD remain a separate part of the law passage.

Separate rant: I live on the west coast and am annoyed when I vote because of the number of ballot measures. None of them are sufficiently detailed and fall victim to vague language that's open to interpretation. I'd rather "hire" law makers to do the hard work of details law creation.

New comment by billjive in "Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?"

billjive — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:02:03 +0000

That is right, and further - I think about IRBs like I do non-profit boards. One of the key tasks of a board is to determine what risk the organization is willing to bear. I think the IRBs at these institutions are 1) following federal laws but 2) making a judgement on the risk the institution is willing to sign up for. For example, for many clinical trials are distributed to multiple "sites" where the trial is actually administered. Many of these sites are universities. What the University of Iowa is willing to bear is different than the University of Michigan and the IRBs reflect that.

New comment by billjive in "Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?"

billjive — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:59:21 +0000

There are different IRBs to review animal research[1]. I believe it created for an ethical framework around the use of animals in science. Same thing: what are "we" accepting of when it comes to research of this nature?

[1] example: https://animalcare.umich.edu/institutional-animal-care-use-c...

New comment by billjive in "Intel’s board, and an example of when boards and short-termism fail"

billjive — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:19:23 +0000

Jim and I were on my company's board (Jive) and he absolutely has a technical background.

New comment by billjive in "Martin Luther King on “Guaranteed Income” (1967)"

billjive — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:49:52 +0000

I would highly recommend "Hellhound on His Trail." Both a good look at King and the hunt for the assassain: https://www.amazon.com/Hellhound-His-Trail-Electrifying-Amer...

New comment by billjive in "Autoscaling, Welcome to Google Compute Engine"

billjive — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:51:00 +0000

The problem with this statement is that Amazon is largely matching firebase functionality. They just announced streaming JSON out of dynamodb, and the new lambda functionality means you can trigger events on changes and push out updates. It wasn't explicitly stated but I viewed this as a firebase competitor.

Benefits Ending for One Million Unemployed

billjive — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:44:19 +0000

Politics aside, the point of submitting this article is to help one of the profiled individuals find a job. He's an unemployed programmer in Virginia - 68 years old. Broader question is, how do hackers of that age find jobs. Is it conceivable that they start github accounts, contribute, and make a name for themselves? To what extent can they reboot their careers late in life?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6975194

Points: 14

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New comment by billjive in "My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS"

billjive — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:40:34 +0000

How did Amazon detect your key in the wild? Or did they notice based on usage patterns/activity in your instances?