skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dying sooner, degraded quality of life, and costs associated with treatment/management.

It's complicated because the costs are borne by a number of different parties: the patient herself, her family, the insurer (private or government).

For example, a patient could live longer but develop disabilities that require extreme measures in terms of treatment and family care, and cost a lot of money. The risks of all these are going to be unknown in very novel approaches, and people with different values are going to vary in their preference.

Understanding those risks and developing guidelines on when to pay for what are one activity of the FDA and major payors like Medicare. A patient and family facing a decision about the value to them in a time of crisis is going to be a lot less informed than those agencies, and it will be a lot easier for a doctor to mislead them (intentionally or not, but doctors aren't immune from over-optimism that their clever ideas might work).

At the same time, it does seem like there should be some protocol where a terminally-ill person can be considered sufficiently informed to take the risk. This is hard, because the risks accrue to individual parties (e.g. the university getting sued in this article) whereas the benefits are diffuse (medicine learns whether induced brain infections improve survival in glioblastoma patients). But without this protocol, we are always going to have stories of patients whose treatments and deaths could be teaching us life-saving lessons if only we could legally do what they want to do.
>your best employees are the ones tied to your office and location, not mercenary college grads shopping around every couple years for a raise.

My experience disagrees. In my experience, the best employees, by definition, will have other options. Worst case, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, or whoever else will be willing to pay to relocate them to the Bay Area or Seattle. The ones that are tied to your company, the ones who can't get a job anywhere else, are more likely to be a drag on productivity than a boost.
More accurate: "people keep piling into a bug thread about one symptom with many possible causes for over a year".
Putting Your Waterlogged Phone in Rice Is Dumb and Doesn't Work
Most likely due to lack of resources.
Wow - it's astonishing that you can't even speak about NSLs with people who (or at least some of whom) have top secret clearance...
Cats are smart enough to drink water when they are thirsty.
As it is right now, you can choose whether you want it split vertically, horizontally, or undocked with the dock button if you click and hold. This is just a different set of defaults if I understand correctly. It should be trivial to set it to how you want (and currently it remembers your prior preference, so hopefully that continues).
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This jumped out at me:

“Part of the reason Sheryl was able to say to me so bluntly, ‘You sounded stupid,’ was that I knew that she cared personally about me. She had done a thousand things that showed me that.”

This suggests that before one can practice radical candor, one needs to build a foundation of caring and trust first. Without it, my experience suggests that the results will be more hit-or-miss -- some people just get defensive almost no matter how you frame it.
To add to this, some people (both Christian and Islamic fundamentalists) believe any sort of progress is 'wrong' (or at least superfluous) because Jesus will return (ironically Muslims also believe Jesus will return, but that he's Muslim, and not quite the son of God, just a great prophet) to smite their enemies anyway and bring about the 'end'.
Note that the courts striking down a law is a rebuke to Congress, not the executive agencies exercising it. Nor have I heard anything about the FBI ignoring court decisions - the second court case was the result of an amendment to the law, and its final result on appeal was not to ban NSLs, but merely to increase the role of the courts in evaluating their validity, and, if the recipient of one wishes to challenge it, to force the government to initiate the lawsuit rather than the recipient. Relatively dry stuff. It's hard to see how any of this implies that law enforcement has "gone rogue, stopped respecting Congress and the courts", except the one instance of misleading Congress about the number of NSLs issued, a decade ago.
That's true. J Edgar Hoover did do this. Of course, Hoover is also one of the great villains of US history, and there was a major course-correction in the 1970s regarding the legal process federal law enforcement has to adhere to.

"The FBI is run by the modern equivalent of J. Edgar Hoover" is also an amusing and dramatic interpretation of the facts we have now. But they don't square well with other facts we know, such as Ashcroft's hospital-bed refusal to reauthorize STELLARWIND. And that was John Ashcroft, who is not exactly a cuddly Sesame Street muppet on these issues.

In case I need to make this clear:

I don't think sacrificing the integrity of online services for DOJ goals is a good tradeoff. The wins seem very marginal, and the long-term costs are huge. But I'm a technologist with a security/privacy concentration, and Congress is composed mostly of lawyers.
They make more on peripherals than the Mac or Software. http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Screen-shot...
Almost all major internet companies have to deal with NSLs. For example:

Facebook: https://govtrequests.facebook.com/country/United%20States/20...

Google: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/U...

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/transparency

More could be found at: https://www.accessnow.org/pages/transparency-reporting-index
Point 6 in his appendix is in counterpoint to his own article in that it states the benefits to the US of the USD being the international reserve currency. Wilson and Riley's article is accurate! However they fail to mention that US denominated debt is simply an instrument for controlling the overnight interest rate target, rather than a borrowing operation used to fund government spending (ie. it's not really "debt" at all) and that the US government has the capacity to pursue full employment because it runs a sovereign, floating exchange rate currency which gives it maximum domestic policy space. Wilson and Riley correctly state that running a trade surplus is a disadvantage to the local population in that exporting everything increases costs to local consumers -- exporting is a net cost, importing is a net benefit.

For more on this see:

Introductory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i35uBVeNp6c

Book that describes everything in detail: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Money-Theory-Macroeconomics-Sov...
It is unfortunate, but given that the product is quite solid, time may change that.
One recommendation if something does not work as expected and people claim that it should (be it positive or negative): as the creator, never ever say "sorry"!

This will help you to keep the 'correct mental direction', which is that YOU provide the additional value and the issue poster wants something from you.

Also if you are the maintainer, put a warning to people with too strong words and throw them out of your mailing list if a second violation occurs. Also newer 'mailing lists' (like discourse.org) help here with flagging capabilities, edit buttons and more.

Try to ensure that the discussion stays 'emotionless' and without sarcasm or if you allow it do so only with emoticons ;)
I have to keep it closed 1/2 the time, which makes it a terrible solution for multi-device syncing and sharing files. All this in addition to laughably primitive functionality! The worst part is I pay for nothing to ever improve.
Not mentioned: micro plastics are also trapped in arctic sea ice

http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2014/05/trillions-plastic-p...

Also, lots of nasty stuff in DWR (common in technical clothing) winds up in the environment like PFOA / PFOS. Patagonia, Columbia, and Mountain Hardwear (among others possibly) recognize the problem but haven't found anything as a suitable replacement yet.
The issue is really incentives. If you have access to the capital of Apple, Google, etc. then it's simply giving a green light to spending more than might make sense, and doing so in a way that makes sense.
Nature Has Lost Its Meaning
Korean County Achieves Its Goal: Less Birth Control, More Babies
One thing I've learned: most people do not understand even the fundamentals of how money or the economy work on any level (including most economists, and most people who work in banking, finance and government). The level of ignorance is astonishing, at all levels.
All it will do is create yet-another-strandard.gif. The recording, performance, and production industry isn't throwing away wired headphone jacks any time soon, and is not swayed by apple trends -- and neither are audiophiles, but they're a smaller market driver. For the most part, it will lead to more fragmentation and higher markups on proprietary devices.

Frankly, I don't see the pain with the headphone jack. It's raw sound delivered in the simplest possible circuits. I don't understand what we gain by complicating the transport of soundwaves, as it's certainly not quality. I wish historic search was easier, because this whole "apple is getting rid of the headphone jack" gets repeated and squashed year after year.
While both "the dress" and prism appeared in the news, lets not forget some news is actually newsworthy and some is forgettable mind candy. Prism needs to be remembered and including it in the protocol message ensures it will be discussed for much longer than the dress -- as it should be.
The appliance industry has it figured out. The parts are so discrete and they control the finite supply. Not worth counterfeiting/cloning, because there are too many models/factors. In fact, they won't make replacement parts for pieces they know will last longer than the warranty.

Serviceman Jim can find a belt/board for your 1987 washing machine and have it delivered in 2 hours for $90.

Serviceman Jim says to scrap that 2015 washing machine and buy the 2016 model. The company knows about that recurring problem that every household with that model has, but they're not recalling it.

HVAC unit, fridges, dishwashers, washing machine, dryer, vacuums, etc. I recall there being small businesses with overflowing stock for repair parts for all of these items. Its so much easier to just throw away the item and replace it. Its the age of recyclable electronics, and I can't wait to get an 'iPhone7t multiplied.'

It just saddens me in the age of 'we need more STEM.'
So it's more like Windows {95,98,ME} and Windows {NT,2000}. Eventually both combined into a single version that could run almost all the prior software of either (XP).
thank you for that concise explanation. i love Dali's flowery language but its awful for actually getting a point across.
Historically, Perl6 was supposed to be the next version of Perl (replace Perl5). There was a plan for Perl5 and Perl6 to share a new virtual machine and for there to be some sort of compatibility layer so that Perl6 could run Perl5 code. However when it started to take decades to complete Perl6, and when it started to become clear that Perl6 was so different from Perl5 that it was essentially a new language, working Perl5 developers started working on Perl5 again and porting as many Perl6 features as possible to Perl5 (although typically not as new minor versions of Perl5, but as modules on CPAN). So for example we have Moose which brings a lot of the best bits of Perl6 objects to Perl5. As a result many Perl5 programmers stopped waiting to be saved by Perl6 and just got on with it. Over time the distance between Perl5 and Perl6 communities grew, despite some efforts at unification, so that now the fact that both languages share the Perl name is a bit silly (in my opinion, but I know that's not universally shared). In fact there's been moments of hostility between the communities, over the Perl name and so forth. So sorry this is confusing to you, you are rightly confused and it saddens me that it happened. I wish that when it became clear that Perl6 was not replacing Perl5 that we'd have chosen a new name for Perl6. Unfortunately the groups running this are not democratically chosen people to represent the Perl community, just people that showed up and did work, so they often don't feel or care about the confusion. What I usually do is consider Perl5 the language and the version is 22 (the current release of Perl5), and I think of Perl6 as being alpha or beta for version zero. If you consider the number part of the language title it sorta can make some sense.
There's no incentive to fix it and plenty of incentive to let it remain "Someone Else's Problem" or indeed make it worse.

See also: military industrial complex, corporate lobbying, the blue line, security theater, budget in-fighting
I wonder how much Apple's draconian employee secrecy policies hurt their recruitment. Developers that like to blog and contribute to open source are probably wary of joining Apple.
I'm getting downvoted by people who don't like the reality, I guess; I'm just pointing out the truth as I have experienced it myself.

About what you said, most projects, if not all, will be struck by hordes of users asking for all kinds of things, some of them will be reasonable, some of them will not. Never hesitate to say NO to a user, even if he's written a patch already. Never merge things out of pity.

Another important thing: if the project grows large enough, it'll attract collaborators that, despite their best intentions, screw up often. Obviously you must be friendly towards them, but be sure to make it clear when they've screwed up.

You will also find collaborators that not only screw up often, but also defend themselves and think they are always right. Do not hesitate to make it clear that that's not the place for such behaviour and if they don't improve kick them out, outrightly or in a subtle way.
This is a pretty good way to remind ourselves ("Never Forget") why some things are the way they are. It stands out and is perhaps unexpected, giving a chance to have a discussion around the things we want to avoid or combat. That it shows up in the protocol gives relevance to a FAQ entry on the topic, vs just being a by-the-way FAQ entry that is easier to ignore.

It could just as well have been ECHELON [0], however PRISM has more recent, and documented, meaning and more mindshare specifically around/related to domestic spying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
I wouldn't necessarily reduce my claim to "high inflation environments", but this link might prove helpful:

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/051905.asp

Here's another:

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/102915/do-hedge-fund...

Or perhaps they'll just buy all the companies that store commodities of a certain type. I've heard horror stories (from a family member in finance) about hedge funds who will buy up all of a certain type of commodity (in this specific example all of the farms that produce a specific type of egg) and just wait until the manufactured "scarcity" causes prices to go up, and then they'll start selling.

So even if it's not necessarily part of their "plan", I know of at least the one case above. My relative assured me there are plenty of other examples out there. I'd say at the very least Hedge Funds have proven to be a very opportunistic bunch who would probably salivate at the idea of a scarce commodity that was the primary component in all batteries manufactured in the world.
an alternative..

Some of the Purdue campuses in Indiana have reduced their administrative cost by re-aligning and pairing two commuter campuses together with one administrative body..expected savings $500 to $1000 off of tuition costs per student.
I can't read the paper now but I've read on that specific topic before. The assertions were usually that people drawn to the clear-cut answers of engineering also wanted to organize the world with definitive rights and wrongs, and those 'black or white, no shades of grey' people are more likely to agree with the zealotry of terrorist groups.
The next headphone connector standard is Bluetooth. No messy cables, great quality, and good battery life (I get 20+ hours with my headphones). I don't get all the fuss. Just make it thinner already.
Here is an idea:

First there is put up reddit/quora mashup. List of questions submitted by people. Ranked by up-votes. And you can dismiss questions by clicking "I have seen this". Only catch is that everything has to be a question.

Then put bounties and deadlines for the questions. Regular users can pay to increase the bounty. A week after the question is posted comes the deadline. Then every article written as answer gets posted to everybody who up voted the question.

Then the money is distributed so that 20% goes to the company running the website, 80% is shared among the authors, closely reflecting the up votes of paying users.
They're a monopoly in local reviews, a modern day Yellow Pages.

They had $377mm in 2014 revenue. Their biggest competitor is Angie's List who's now facing competition from Thumbtack.
Why BlackBerry Is Exiting Pakistan
Oddly the NYT article doesn't link to the product itself: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/LED-grow-lights-Plan...
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The only way to do it without swimming against the economic flow is to create some new universities not encumbered by all the academic cruft that accumulates over multiple decades.

Any new business that can focus solely on the elements of what makes university education valuable in the first place, and can maintain that focus for enough time, will end up eating the old guard's lunches, turning out grad with 90% of the useful skills and 50% the advantageous social connections, at only 10% the cost. Those grads will go on to jobs that pay 75% as much, but their student loan payments will be 10% as burdensome.

College-age kids are not quite so dumb as to never realize that they could get along just as well academically, at less cost, while living in a decrepit old dorms, capsule hotels, discreetly parked converted vans, or parents' basements.

In short, existing universities can do nearly nothing to meaningfully cut their own costs. Their hands are tied by foundation requirements, tradition, alumni expectations, and countless boards and committees. Their budgets are so strictly controlled by vested interests who have built both careers and pensions on them that they can sooner fire an adjunct than to refrain from installing a bronze plaque dedicated to Someguy Alumni in the Inverted Aquatic Basketology building.

Start 100 new universities from scratch, and let 90 of them fail. Repeat until tuition falls permanently.
Feedback loop is a good way of putting it.

Yeah, I remember when the area beyond Tech Square or so was basically "there be dragons here." There was a lot of, shall we say, underutilized land from Cambridge's day as an eastern Detroit a fair chunk of which MIT owned but hadn't developed.

I would walk to Kendall when I was an undergrad but I thought of that as being totally disconnected from where the long-gone Lechmere was.
> If it's income inequality, then why are most terrorists highly educated and relatively well off?

As I understand it, Middle Eastern terrorists are disproportionately from the thin and relatively insecure middle class, neither the oligarchs nor the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.

I don't think this is at all inconsistent with income inequality being a major contributing factor, though its not as simple as personal poverty being a driving factor.
Comments like the grandparent are neither true nor false, but rather self-fulfilling.

If you believe that the open-source world is filled with mean people who will grind you down and the only way to avoid this is to give as good as you get, you will behave in a way that ensures that only people who are mean, aggressive, and tactless will gravitate to you. Nobody wants to work on a project where the lead is looking for the slightest sign of misbehavior to jump on people. So it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: people who can firmly but patiently & politely establish norms of behavior that attract patient & polite people, while people who believe it's a Wild West where everyone's out to get you establish cultures where it's a Wild West where everyone's out to get everyone else.

Most people would rather work in the former culture than the latter, and so in the interest of not establishing more cultures like the latter, they downvoted the grandparent post.
The best recipe for monogamy is clear:

* Keep rape illegal

* Reduce male economic inequality

* Reduce female personal wealth

Since rape would still be illegal, female desire would still be the agent that determines reproduction and mating. But since females have no personal property, they would have to acquire resources by accessing a male's resources. Since males are all roughly equal, she will prefer to find a male who does not provide resources to other females.

Voila! Monogamy.
How much of currency reserves at the time consisted of debt?
He heroically lost the crypto keys to all of his users data in order to try to protect one user's data?

To me, there's a difference between a "hero" and "not the worst person in a particular conflict".
I'm not sure. You'd have to record your calls before they call you.
There can be multiple real counterfactuals based on multiple contributing causal factors.
FBI launches eFOIA System for faster FOIA requests
On Windows, Dropbox has a global file watch and does filtering to determine if the files should be synced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9136546
Weakening currency and a bit of inflation would be great for most people in the US, reducing unemployment, strengthening US experts, and reducing debt load for all the folks struggling to pay off their mortgages and student loans. Prices on imported goods would of course rise a bit, but prices on non-tradeables like healthcare, housing, and education would probably stop rising so fast, or might even drop a bit. For the last few years now the US has had too little inflation (this year it’s stuck close to 0%), and too strong a currency. Getting inflation up to about 2–3% annually (the Fed target is 2%) would be great.
Look at the name people give it. Scroll-hijacking. The web designer hijacked the scroll action and modified the behavior to something other than the os and/or browser level setting. When I scroll, I expect to scroll based on the settings in my browser. I don't want your website to stop scrolling and use my scroll action to play through the frames of your slow-loading animation. I just want to scroll down and keep reading.
Dropbox is in my opinion synonymous with poor performance. The client always consumed way too much CPU. On a Mac, Dropbox will react to changes anywhere in the filesystem, and consume excessive amounts of CPU even if the files you work on have nothing to do with Dropbox. If you use selective sync, stuff that lands in folders not synced to your computer will still cause Dropbox to consume CPU.

Storing a lot of files inside your Dropbox will also cause performance problems. Which means that paying for extra space (I do) isn't that useful if you intend to keep your git repos with source code there.

It has been like that for years, the company has made little progress performance-wise (instead we got useless things like photo-something-or-other-that-tries-to-access-my-photos).

I learned to live with it, because the advantages of Dropbox outweigh the disadvantages of a poor implementation. Dropbox is still a very good product, even if you have to pay a hefty price in CPU and battery life for it. I dream that one day someone will decide that performance is a goal worth pursuing and finally optimize the thing.
Interactive computer algebra with C# in Visual Studio