skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A burger wrapper caught on a real helicopter's rotor can induce scary vibrations & some loss of lift. Keep the burger & wrapper please.
This bugs me a lot, as I don't seek medical attention unless I damn well need it. The GPs will just tell you to take it easy, eat some paracetamol and come back in 2-3 weeks if it's still an issue.

I understand the desire to not spend resources on hypochondriacs, but the last time I heard that from my doctor I ended up being admitted to the intensive care unit at the hospital the next day with meningitis. According to the doctors there, I could have died if I'd waited a bit longer.

Needless to say, I don't feel as confident in our healtcare system after that.
Is PR2 effectively dead? Has the rapid progress of Squad helped PR in some way? How do you think Squad will affect PR as it stands today?
Wait until you get to IMAP and Exchange -- you'll learn that you're only 5% done. :(
The point you're making is that it's good because it's tradition?
I realize it's a joke, but even then it's not a good one. The reality is actually the other way around. Anyone can build a bridge that barely stands, but it takes an engineer to build one that still stands after an earthquake.
That's still a lot to pay per month for a gym membership.
I know why it angers me - it's effectively executive action, taken long after the deadline given to the FAA by Congress. Furthermore, the FAA appears to have completely ignored industry and hobbyist input with this absurdly low registration weight.
It seems like one of those out of sight out of mind kind of things that happens to a lot of students. You don't really sit down and calculate just how much money it will cost monthly to pay for your shooling. The 144k comes out to over 650 a month for 30 years depending on interest rates. That's the payment on a nice car, for the majority of your lifetime!

There are some holes in this story, but I still think the general point is there. For one, if you want to get a law or medical degree, you really need to be driven! otherwise don't do it!! Debt it terrible and can really ruin your life.
The C grammar is printed in BNF in the back of K&R and available in machine-readable form in the standards.
Fortunately, when I was in high school (1999-2003), guys didn't get naked in the locker room before and after PE.

I don't know what the girls did, because this was years before my transition, but in the guys' locker room, nobody ever took off their underwear. We all swapped our regular clothes and our gym clothes out while leaving our boxers in place. We didn't shower, either, which is something the article mentions in passing (with a link to a more detailed article on the subject).

The only time I ever saw people naked (as much as I tried not to) was on the rare occasions we'd go swimming for gym class.
250g is large enough to do damage
Because I want my work to be meaningful, and I don't want to be a shill. I want my contributions to go to mankind (the model of science) not some rich investor (the model of industry). Plus the work in industry is almost universally boring compared to the work in academia.
This is where I really like Google Play Music. I can download the album/songs I want to listen to while I'm on WiFi at home, then when I'm on-the-go it just plays the local version rather than streaming.
Nice article on why it is cheating (from a mathematical sense, independent of language) to get scores from the hold-out leader board too many times (plus some methods to mitigate the effect): http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04585 .
Except for firmware viruses. And that's assuming it's not a regular polymorphic virus, which is harder for a simple virus scanner to detect correctly.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/
Except that they aren't toys. They are flying blades and we've already seen situations in which they have interfered with lives/property being saved.

And if you are so angry at regulation then go and live in China. I would highly recommend Beijing this time of year.

Just remember to breath in deep and taste the freedom.
> sometimes it's just a few lines back in a large function

Large functions that have both side effects and return values are themself the readability problem.

Early return is not, it is a succinct way to express some functions with return values.
I think the idea is that you can achieve compliance through fear of punitive action without ever actually having to punish anyone (in an ideal world).

Before law: "I'll just fly my drone around this airport, it's not like I'll get caught or anything."

After law: "Crap, now if anything happens this is gonna get traced right back to me and my life is gonna be ruined, maybe I shouldn't fly around this airport like a moron."
>>> Showering after gym class in high school became virtually extinct in the ’90s.

Maybe in the US...

TIL Americans from the USA are disgusting pigs.
Drupal is evolving toward what Contentful does, and Drupal brings a huge international community and customer base with it.

Companies are already building sites this way with Drupal--the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon is a pretty high-profile example. You would have no idea from the front-end code that Drupal is managing the content on that server, but it is.
There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server .

You can use a headless client called softsqueeze (eg raspberry pi). The source media is actually streamed and the clients have to decode it. The protocol handles multi-room sync which I haven't seen elsewhere.

There's also an abandoned implementation of the server in python (LMS is perl) on sourceforge somewhere.
Reviews looks promising although some concerns over the amount of data you need access to. There is a huge need for this with service based computing (Citrix XenApp and RDS).
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Suppose a 250g drone fails mid-air, hypothetically at a height of 100m, and falls freely. At terminal velocity, it's a lethal projectile.

Have no illusions about the damage that can be done by small things falling from a great height, or travelling at a high speed in general. The 250g weight is entirely reasonable -- I would actually claim that it is quite generous.
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No, you didn't miss something. I experienced a memory fault and picked out the wrong car manufacturer with a W in their acronym...
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This is only because we and our allies don't face an existential threat from our adversaries. It'd likely be much more effective to, say, ruthlessly hunt down and murder the extended families and friend networks of known terrorists or insurgents to discourage terrorism and uprisings, but the diplomatic cost of such actions in what amount to wars of choice is too high, and it would do too much damage to our narrative of "good guys versus bad guys". We're bad at fighting these types of groups because we choose to be bad at it, because the narrative matters more than winning—the cost of losing, or at least of a perpetual draw, isn't nearly as high as the cost of winning using effective but brutal strategies. In a "real" war, that likely wouldn't be true.

Give us an actual threat and we'll go right back to flattening cities and firebombing civilians in no time.

(note: I'm not advocating these tactics, I just think our relative restraint is a consequence of our position in current geopolitics, not of some ethical enlightenment on our part)
I suspect a part of this is due to America's losing of a Spa culture. Korea, Russia, Germany and Scandinavian countries seem to have (comparatively) thriving cultures, which make people more comfortable being naked around each other.

I do agree with the common sentiment here though, what a tired, boring trope to pillory millennials for this quirk. It's hardly ideal that they're becoming more body conscious, but it's quite a great solace to instead appreciate how much they're advocating for tolerance in our society.
Here's what the industry task force that came up with the suggested registration requirements said in their report:

The Task Force spent considerable time discussing and deliberating about what the appropriate weight threshold should be. While general agreement was ultimately reached on the 250 gram weight, there were Task Force members who believed it was too conservative, as the weight could negatively impact the credibility of the sUAS registration program and thus lessen compliance levels because it would require registration of somes UAS generally considered to be in the “toy” category. Others took the opposite view that there should be no registration exemption for UAS of any size.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/publications/media/RTFARCFinalReport...
I replied to abrichr's link. Did you look at it at all?

They used a dataset from 2012. Are you saying that the test labels from a 2012 dataset have been kept secret until now? Really?
No, that's not true at all. Jet engines can typically handle many birds. The AA flight that landed in the Hudson was unique in that it went through a large flock of Canadian geese, which are very large birds.

I sat next to a naval pilot on a plane once and he wasn't scared of drones at all. The jet engine would tear it right up.
It's hard to take anyone who's building new .Net applications on C# very seriously. F# is about 1,000 times better--as evidenced by the fact that the C# team themselves are stealing features from F# left and right.
I imagine there will be a new interest in the sub-250 gram FPV community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sZ-N8YiTs4

And a new interest in dye cut stickers...
Heh, they actually do that calculation in the task force report, from the max allowed height.
If anyone is interested, he's talking about onthemarket.com.

https://www.onthemarket.com/

Not sure why he just didn't say it, that information is available elsewhere anyway.

https://juxt.pro/

http://blog.juxt.pro/posts/otm.html
> I have never heard the Confederate flag called a "battle flag" before the whole fracas around getting it banned.

This is just a coincidence. I've heard the confederate flag referred to as the battle flag for years and almost exclusively by those who support (or are at least sympathetic to) flying that flag.

With that stated, I agree that NPR is guilty of "linguistic contortions" but I can't think of a single news source that isn't guilty of it. If you can think of some exceptions, I'd be genuinely interested in a recommendation.
A half pound is enough to damage something when you're going 150 mph. I have seen bird strikes that were in that weight range and blew out a windshield.

I imagine the FAA is going to find out how many people in the United States are unable and unwilling to put up with their more onerous requirements. I think it will begin a real conversation through Congress about whether or not "The FAA has jurisdiction on everything above the surface of the earth". The reason they won't implement rules about flying indoors is not because they are nice guys, but because they cannot have a legislative opinion written that supports this as an area they can control.
Many doctors don't even know what they'll bill, as it's different per-insurer, etc. Their back-office staff certainly can look it up, but docs don't know the numbers.
not at all, you mean more like 1999 at the earliest.
Long ago UNIX had compiler writing tools like yacc and lex. I wonder if they are useful for exercises like this.
Insurance companies contract with providers and set reimbursement levels. An insurance company might go to a hospital and say "we'll pay 30% of your chargemaster rates". So when a patient has surgery that costs $50,000, the insurance company shells out $15,000.

If you don't have insurance, you just pay the chargemaster rate. Keep in mind this is negotiable.
Considering that a considerably large subset of C is valid C++, it should be easy to modify 8cc to be valid C++ (e.g. by replacing implicit void*-casts to explicit ones), and then you already have a "self-hosting C++ compiler", but that could be considered cheating by some...
Actually, I am a blast at parties.
this registration requirement is absurd on many levels, but the pinnacle is that it holds even if you fly only above your own property
Perhaps they went over to mutt+procmail before Sieve was written? Perhaps they don't use Cyrus IMAP, or lack the relevant permissions on their host? Both of those apply to me; I have a mutt+procmail account and a Gmail account for different purposes.
Other notable problems with our medical system would be the RBRVS[1] and Nixon's scheme to limit hospital competition[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource-based_relative_value_...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
Irrespective of what you have ever or never heard, the pattern commonly flown -- and the pattern over which there was controversy -- is the pattern of a battle flag[0].

The national flags of the Confederacy were different, though some of them incorporated that pattern.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_State...
Why do you have the youtube player defaulting to 240p?

It should set it to highest available, or let it be an option.

I like it otherwise!
I cannot measure that on anyone else other than myself. This is a place to express opinion.

I've read (and sadly written) enough code in both styles to know what _I_ (and all the peers I've bothered to ask with concrete examples, for that matter) find easier to understand, but there's of course all kinds of bias in there as well.

Taking comments in HN as fact or truth is harmful, and (replying to your other comment) waving acronyms around is equally harmful, if not more. You can't possibly assert that writing code in one or another way is easier or harder, or that the code is "more complicated" (precisely what we don't seem to agree on). To be honest, I find it easier to write methods with single return statements (and exceptions to handle... well, exceptions[^1]). It all seems clearer in a "stream of thought" kind of way. Engrish is hard, sorry.

[^1]: Early returns are exceptions for lazy coders.
Exact same years as you, the girls never fully undressed either at my HS. Some of the more bullied would try to change in the bathroom, but our PE teacher shut that down really quick for some reason.
Thanks for your reply.

I guess my wording is not entirely accurate. I meant OO-class-based-inheritance and OO-class-based-encasulation-of-state.

> I'm like, what do you think polymorphism and encapsulation are?

Well, when writing Haskell I'm not dealing with object instantiation, OO-classes and OO-subclassing. I have no problem with encapsulation per se; it is an important tool of creating abstractions needed to reach any kind of productivity. It is more that the OO-style of encapsulation is no longer something that I believe works in the long run. In popular Haskell terms "it does not compose" or more lay-men terms "its likely facilitates creating a lot of maintenance burden".
I'll have to look into this sometime.

Thanks for the advice!
Yep. Medical tourism exists when the cost of local healthcare is inflated by profit-seeking to flatly unaffordable levels, resulting in grotesque health outcomes and extreme behaviors such as traveling thousands of miles or committing crimes in order to end up in prison for care. I would like to coin a term for this kind of disturbing extreme behavior incentivized by extreme distortion of society: fever spasms. It sounds better in German, so: fieberkrämpfe.

Out of pocket price of standard blood panel lab in the USA with a follow up phone call if something is wrong, with insurance: $1500. There is no ability to estimate even vaguely what the price will be beforehand, and the bill may take a month to arrive in the mail. Your insurance agency will fight you at every turn for all but the most mundane routine procedures. There will be a billing error somewhere, and it will be to your detriment. They may refer you to collections if you do not pay the incorrect amount while disputing the charges, as happened to my girlfriend. Face time with the doctor is probably minimal, and you will be stressed by the doctor's attempts to hurry you out the door and probably forget to ask important questions.

Out of pocket price of extended blood panel lab plus two hours of doctor face to face analysis without insurance in Argentina: $50 USD, and the doctor will speak perfect English. Smartly, the doctor arranges the items on the blood panel before you visit him in the first place. No in-depth discussion of your health can begin before the doctor cannily takes your medical history via a very casual schmooze-sesh which plays out more like old friends catching up. You leave the office relaxed, understanding your health action-items.

Where do you think I'm going to go when I need serious treatment? The US medical system is a failure and an international joke.
I went to get dental work done in Medellin, Colombia. Two whitening treatments, perhaps a dozen fillings. My Atlanta dentist wanted to do an inlay on one of my teeth. I'd already had two done that year and just couldn't afford to have them keep working on my teeth.

When I got to Medellin, my dentist did not want to do the inlay, said it was too invasive and that he would rather fill it.

It cost less to fly to Medellin, get all my work knocked out, than it would have for just the one inlay. And I absolutely believe that my Colombian dentist, who spoke English quite well, did better work than the Atlanta guy did. My teeth look better than they have in years.

I will never again have significant medical procedures done in the US.
Quite a lot of people use their inbox as a task list where the task is "respond to / deal with this email". The problem here is that such a task list is world-writable and chronologically sorted.
Yeah, more coffee helps. :)

The differences are 1) maturity and 2) changes to society are generally reflected more in younger people than in older people.

My point is that many conflate #1 with #2 and therefore argue that the changes (to both society and the new generation) are bad.

But yes, my statement was more taking issue with the general attitude towards millennials appearing just about everywhere. This particular article only touched on it, but I probably responded to the the general sentiment just because I a little grumpy :).

The problem I am really having with the concept of generations is we end up judging people based upon their age rather than discerning the separate concepts of individuals + a changing society.
Force is porportional is the square of velocity. The standard must anticipate FAST drones, not just their weight.
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Does this actually happen in real life? Underwear, like cotton things you wear under your clothes normally, not swimwear?
I always thought the head first series of books were great for beginners
I couldn't compile it on Debian yet, but tomahawk (https://www.tomahawk-player.org/) looks interesting.

You could set up a music NAS with beets (http://beets.radbox.org/) as one of several sources (also you could have spotify, youtube, soundcloud) then have playlists that include stuff from a combination of them.

A last.fm type service for tomahawk is in beta at https://hatchet.is
That is literally what it is- the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. It is most technically accurate (and will slow down angry calls from readers who trying to correct you) to call it a battle flag, regardless of common usage.
I'm not that surprised. I would never remember what an app named "Birdly mobile" did, when finding out I installed it last month.

Neither would I find it again, if looking for that "receipt scan app I installed last month".

I tend to forget what apps I have installed, what they do, and their names, and anything else than a really descriptive name, such as "RunKeeper", would not get used much in the long run.
> Health care in the US is just fucked, and everyone knows it.

And yet people still move here for the "fucked" health care because it's cheaper, better, and available unlike other countries held in high regard, such as Canada. I am one such person who was lucky enough to be able to do that, and would never return to Canada after the abusive treatment handed out by the health care "professionals."
guess we should start regulating rocks that weigh more than 250g too then ...
So ... can I sit on the chair, in public?
Last week I did a visualization of all email clients in time from '79 to now (http://email-apps-timeline.missiveapp.com). It shows that there is a lot happening in the email space right now, even if the technical barrier to entry, as the author implies, is so high.
Yes. But the concept is unique we suppose. :)
What if I sit on the chair in a public place? Surely that constitutes a performance of the chair; after all to sit on a chair is to perform its essential function.
> Why use email as a to-do list, when it's obviously so poorly suited for the role? Why not use email for things email's good at, and use one of the wide variety of to-do list tools for task tracking?

I've no idea. Some mail clients even give you one-click ways to directly turn emails into todo tasks (ex.: Thunderbird with Lightning, and I think Outlook as well).
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Because the law allows you to go to any mechanic to get your car fixed, and they can't negotiate with every mechanic in the market. Most auto insurers have "approved" repair shops, and if you go to one of those, the rates can be cheaper than cash.
The problem is simple, and easily solved: fund science at greater levels.

I trust everyone knows this story - the funding rate has dropped dramatically in the last 15 years, and as a result the average age for an RO1 has gone up steadily (see [here](http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/age-o...).

Just give scientists more money, and a lot of these problems will vanish. There will be more academic positions; there will be less competition for grants.

This is entirely a problem of money. I have a PhD and have somehow managed to shoehorn myself into academia without pursuing a tenure track. There is a tremendous scope for people like me. I could hire three people today and put them to serious full-time work on difficult projects that would make a substantial impact in my field (cancer research) - if I had the resources.

It's easy to fit people into non-tenure track positions in academia, there is no structural issue. The reason people go to industry is only because there is no room made for them on the public dole. If the public steps up and funds more science, this problem will abate.
For the record: you are holding up China, a communist dictatorship, as a shining example of free markets and lack of regulation.

...I guess it's an improvement from the similarly-logical "go live in Somalia" meme.
It's also New York, and Equinox.

NYSC is basically the Starbucks of gyms in the city, they are middle of the road and everywhere. Their rates are $20-30 a month now.
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