skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Asking for Glassdoor reviews is kind of OK, since Glassdoor is meant for employees to write about their employment.

But asking for "good Glassdoor reviews"?

That's a shitty practice that's in the same class as "Politely suggest that all employees vote for $CANDIDATE in $UPCOMING_ELECTION" or somewhat similar to the District President doing: "At the end of an all-hands meeting, mention that employee contributions to the company lobbyist have dramatically fallen off recently, present and drop on to the presenter's table a stack of ~1000 contribution forms, pull one off of the top, and fill it out, announcing that you're making your contribution right here and now and that -while you're not instructing anyone to do so- everyone is more than welcome to do the same.".
I just finished a biography of Harry Truman. If I recall that part correctly, he actually vetoed one city (maybe Yokohama, iirc) because it wasn't clearly enough a military target.
I've given up on discovering new music using technology and gone back to curated lists. No matter how hard I've tried to exploit technology, friends/bloggers who are obsessed with music are always the best sources.

Subjective tastes tend to diverge too rapidly with machine learning.

If (fingers crossed someone is doing this) there was a really easy and non-spammy way for people to build a playlist using _any_ source material into something like muxtape (or opentape) I would use it. Until then, I will just continue to ask them for youtube links and bandcamp profiles.
It lets you know who's playing in the sandbox, to extend the analogy. You can then use that to require training or stay in touch regarding changes to restricted airspace or whatever.
All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others
"drones are a very serious problem for airplanes"

Can we get an elaboration on this? I understand pilots being very skittish about things moving anywhere too close (as in "if I can perceive it, it's too close"), but is there a brighter line between "objectively problematic" vs "hysterically paranoid"? I assume the Parrot Bebop drone I want is over 250g, and don't see the reasoning for registration when I'm not stupid enough to operate it anywhere close (however construed) to a potential manned aircraft flight path.
> They set the list price high for the same reason many sophisticated goods are set at a high price (cars, houses, enterprise software, etc.).

Everything else in your comment is true, but this line is not. Healthcare is expensive, just like cars, houses, and enterprise software, but the reason that healthcare prices are high is very specific to healthcare (there aren't any other industries that have similar models).
This is still one of my favorite bits on the market: http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/

One possible explanation for what we saw in the linked article: Once upon a time, the strategy really was valid. Full stop. No coincidence. Exact reasons still unknown, but one example argument is that you'd basically be arbitraging the fact that in the 20th century, prices were more capable of moving and being communicated than actual news about the company, meaning that an otherwise-naive "just watch the tape" attitude may have worked. Of course, as soon as we see computer trading become practical, then big, this strategy disintegrates almost instantly; it's so simple that, heh, patio11's and tptacek's Stockfighter game could probably have you implementing it in under a day, from scratch. Of course that's not a viable strategy anymore; once the strategy was representable, a dozen algorithms are already exploiting it to death. Anti-inducted.
India's system works efficiently and simply for those who can afford it, which is a minority of the Indian population. For the ~70% of Indians in rural areas, and especially the ~50% who are living in poverty, they often have little access to health care. What they do have access to is often substandard.
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What's the current state of the "stochasticity" view presented here? I've always thought of Monte Carlo as being a convenient way to avoid expensive analytical solutions, rather than a reproduction of a stochastic reality, but I'm not a frequent user of the techniques.
Why Very Low Interest Rates May Stick Around
Auto scaling has a cost effect too which is not small if you're doing it from your own pocket.
So al-Qaeda and ISIS are less evil? And the 1988 attack is more worrying than the 2001 one and everything that happened since? I don't understand your reasoning, especially looking at it as an European. (The only "annoying" thing Europe remembers Gaddafi for, from the times before the war, is his son getting drunk somewhere in Switzerland or something like that.)
With the huge caveat that "nobody" uses these tools for production compilers because decent error handling becomes a nightmare.

There are exceptions, but if you dig into most larger compilers, they usually sooner or later end up adopting their own handwritten recursive descent parsers.
I would rather see more articles like this on hacker news!
Why not "evaluate" them under a VM instead? Seems a lot more likely to actually work...
> I have a mixed feeling — I learned a new stuff, but I could have learned that without spending this much time.

Story of my life!
>While the news likes to drum beat about large commercial aircraft, it is "unlikely" that a drone could be a real threat.

You have to keep in mind that many of these drones are made of things like carbon fiber and are almost certainly carrying lithium-polymer battery packs with a smattering of metal parts thrown in, though. I'd think the potential for damage to a turbine is quite a bit greater than that of a small bird of similar weight.

>PS - I actually fully support regulating pigeons, those things need to be taken down a peg or two.

Little known tangential fact about Captain Sullenberger landing on the Hudson - one of the things to happen as a result was a mass culling of Canadian Geese in New York:

>To prevent similar incidents, workers from the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services and the city's Parks and Recreation Department and Environmental Protection Departments descended on 17 locations across New York capturing and gassing 1,235 Canada geese in June and July 2009.[118] The Agriculture Department undertook another goose control measure by coating 1,739 eggs with corn oil, which kills developing goslings by depriving them of air.[118]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549#Long-te...
My guess is that the top part is the bus/decode, middle part is the ALU and the bottom part is the register bank.
It defaulted to auto for me.
To say honestly whenever people compare nation states like Singapore , Denmark or even provinces like Hong Kong to large swathes like Africa or countries like India and compare their development it seems cringe worthy.

As long as National security is not the biggest concern , a homogeneous population or at least a shared of common values in the country controlled by a single party with a goal for the greater good can achieve economic development unlike anything else. It also helps being an outlier in the given region and attracting industries that other neighboring countries can't.

Except for Chinese provinces (which is a magic in itself due to the ruthlessness of a single party system) no other developing areas of the world have developed faster. Most of them share similar problems which have although reduced a lot over the past couple of decades. Even these places want a better future for themselves, the spread of information has made many individuals in all these areas aware of the world around them and they aspire for a better standard of living.
This reminds me a lot of Lotus Notes. Which I guess is no bad thing: it was an amazing environment to work in.

Would it be fair to characterize this as a re-invention of that, or are there significant differences I'm overlooking?

Notes wasn't without it's problems though: version control and data typing being two important ones.
Yes, this includes comments.
As long as you make the public leaderboard set small, and the private one shot leaderboard set very large, the number of submissions matters very little in the final rankings. The only real issue is hand labeling the public leaderboard set to augment training data.
> One thing which I couldn't understand is why in a developed country, lab tests are so expensive. An Xray, costs about $100; similar thing costs about Rs 80 (equivalent to $1.25).

Many lab tests - though not all - are effectively commoditized. There is little difference in quality, and the requisite supplies are widely available at low costs. X-rays have been used for medical purposes for literally over 100 years, and it's not very difficult to train someone to take an x-ray properly using modern equipment. (Actually interpreting the results of a test is a different matter).

For tests which fall under these categories, it will always be more expensive to obtain them in the US than in India, because the cost-of-living in the US is much higher, and paying people to actually perform the tests dominates the costs of the test itself.

There's a little more to it than that, but that's the general idea.
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Im sorry to hear that you had bad experiences in Canada. However your personal story is effectively one data point and not necessarily representative of a good comparison between healthcare systems. This analysis is a pretty good overall analysis of the quality, efficacy and safety of different healthcare systems. That’s not to say that just because the US is worse overall that it doesn’t perform better in a subset of medicine, in your case, mental health. But no matter what your own personal situation, you have effectively moved from a bad system to a worse system (even though it has been good for your family personally).

The original posts point which you quoted is that the US health system is Fd and everyone knows it. The analysis presented here supports that. The US spends a lot more per capita on healthcare with worse outcomes and less people having access to healthcare. I’m very glad your move has has worked out for you.

(UK Medical Student)
Well, that is annoying. The German article mentions a larger timespan. I had hoped the english one would be equivalent, but it seems that’s rarely the case anymore :/
No results found for "airline drone near miss"

Ok, that's a bit pedantic - search for "airliner drone near miss".

But what are we talking about re: "near miss" here? The phrase itself defines as no actual impact. How many actual problems are we talking about here, vs "close but no harm done"? I'm just trying to bracket the issue.
Similar experience here.

Re: recommendations from blogs, did Hype Machine do anything for you?
It's fairly heavy in lexing and parsing theory, especially around finite automata, pushdown automata, etc. It's the kind of book you might want to read if you're reimplementing yacc.

Modern code generation has moved on a bit, so I wouldn't dig too deeply into the latter third or so of the book.

All in all, for a hobby compiler, it would be a poor choice; heavy on unnecessary theory in the front end and outdated on on back end stuff.

Let's Build a Compiler by Jack Crenshaw is one of my favourite guides for the hobbyist, although it's a bit dated now since it used Turbo Pascal and targeted 16-bit x86.
I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
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> Giving a fuck about what someone thinks about your body is dumb.

Giving a fuck about what someone thinks about you is the natural human condition. That's not really the point, though. Privacy isn't about having something to hide, it's about the right to choose.

But if you personally prefer to stare at dongs all day, you'll still have the internet and politics.
In fact, it is often the case that people achieve high accuracy because they are not confident, causing them to be more critical of potential answers. Forcing such a person to be more confident would deprive them of the advantage that makes them successful. Confidence inspires complacency.
We've basically never left the days of AOL keywords.
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Of course!

This guy:

http://medellindentist.simpl.com/index.html
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Very cool, and indeed combining your strength and helping other ppl at the same time is key for a successful business. Best of luck with Netsparker!
My 3 letter .org turned 17 years old last week.

Not that I'm interested in selling, but nobody's ever tried to buy it from me for more than the registration fees. I feel left out.
Thanks, I love hearing the behind the scenes stories about the classics that we all thought we knew.
>I have seen bird strikes that were in that weight range and blew out a windshield.

Anyone who owns birds or places bird feeders or bird baths must register.
Disclaimer: It has been many years since I was involved in this professionally, pre-ACA. It may have changed since then.

Depending on the arrangement with the insurer, and what the recovery period was like for that type of operation, nobody in the office probably had any idea (and I bet their guesses were pretty far apart, too). Some medication used in recovery is very expensive and can add five-figure variances if someone doesn't respond well to the procedure or is in an abnormal amount of pain. And as you mentioned any complications can double the cost in an instant.

From the insurer side, they will decide after they receive the care provider's bill what they're covering and for how much. They may decide she only need five hydrocodone, not eight, so there's (3 * $n) out of your pocket (I am not googling the cost of hydrocodone at work :)). What's more is this "justification" is rarely given to the care providers. The insurer is billed $50,000, they pay $47,000 and that's that. The cynic in me wants to say it's so they don't actually have to justify partial payment, but who knows.
It makes lots of parks and open areas in places that people don't think of as being near airports into unintuitive no fly zones. Or take a city like Tucson where nearly everything is within 5 miles of an air force base. Which I'm sure every university student realizes.
In theory, I knew how it works. In practice a music box is really a black box that only seems unsophisticated due to marketing and mass production as toys since my childhood.
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Link the German one; my German is incredibly rusty, but I can see if I can muddle through.
>At terminal velocity, it's a lethal projectile.

So is a bullet. Guess we should require all bullets to be registered.
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Is it a problem that's more pronounced in some provinces than others? My understanding was that there's a nationwide mandate to provide universal insurance, but that the details are left to the provinces.

As for mental healthcare in particular: thanks for the insight, I know very little about how that works in other countries. Seems like an area with room for improvement just about everywhere, unfortunately. I'll definitely keep that kind of thing in mind when reading on related topics in the future.
I was startled at how quickly incompetence spread throughout the organisation, like a metastasising cancer.

Sounds like an example of the law of crappy people in action.

http://www.terrencebrown.net/the-law-of-crappy-people/

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/02/ben-horowitz-the-la...
https://freecodecamp.com looks pretty good. Takes you from html/css through javascript, has some algorithm challenges which are pretty fun. Worth checking them out
I'm not arguing for "democracy", I'm arguing for democracy - the extension of popular power, which, I agree, must be preserved through constant action against ossification and entrenchment of power (viz. the current American "democracy"). I'm also not arguing for the replacement of autocracy with nothing. Caesar was the product of years of devolution of the Roman Republic, the corruption and decay of its democratic institutions in the face of military power, wealth, and slavery. His removal could not produce democracy merely by its absence.

What I find most interesting in this Star Wars argument is this lack of faith in democratic power and the seeming resignation to autocracy that seems to be generally present. These are all things that are happening now, to our own democracy. I find this lack of faith disturbing.
ha. like my dad
I might just be confused, but from what read/understand I don't think FP vs OO is a proper comparison.

I think the right question should be FP vs imperative languages? As far as I know even functional languages can have OO features, but functional programming is more about getting away from an imperative style of programming.

Maybe someone who knows more can chime in though.

But in my personal experience, using a functional language just helps me write correct code. Using an imperative language makes it easy to be sloppy and include bugs
It seems like a LOT of people here didn't read the actual report. I'm skimming through it, but the most interesting thing in here is that the limits are based on only one line of reasoning: "what would cause death or serious injury due to a UAS (drone) and a person on the ground." They said that there wasn't enough data to support a rule based on anything else.

"The Task Force ultimately agreed to use a mass-based
approach to determine an appropriate category of sUAS to
recommend for exclusion from the registration requirement.
This was based upon the probability of a catastrophic event
occurring (i.e., death or serious injury) due to a
collision between an sUAS and a person on the ground.
Because of the lack of data on UAS-aircraft collisions,
engine ingestion, propeller, and rotor impacts by UAS, the
probability of a catastrophic event occurring due to those
events was not part of the consideration. This approach
best satisfied the Task Force’s concerns about safety and
provided a minimum weight threshold for registration that
is easy to understand and apply and would therefore
encourage compliance. The formula considered was
identified to the group as a standard aviation risk
assessment formula used in consideration of manned aircraft
safety."
Sorry for edging over into what may be partisanship, but I don't see why this doesn't get more ink.

It seems that the Left is fond of trumpeting how the 2nd Iraq War was a mistake, leading to the genesis of ISIS. But why do they stop the narrative there? If you're going to tell the story, don't you need to continue on the US strikes on Libya, Syria, etc., which created the regionally widespread power vacuum in which ISIS could take root and grow?
pjc50 recommends the millennials to snake people translator [1]. I concur; it certainly improved my enjoyment of this discussion.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-sna...
Does this differ significantly in principle from the proxy-compression that Opera Mini has been doing since ~2006?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality

Or is it primarily a new/better/alternative implementation of the same idea [probably it was also done by someone else before OperaMini...]
Make an electronic tea timer (part 2)
I use readability for that. Firefox has "pocket" and Safari the "Reading list".
Stop making sense.
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Progressive Versioning
Wait a second. I thought that the millenials were too busy sexting one another, or at least it seems as if that was the current moral panic. Now they're afraid to be seen without clothes?
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Any way for someone outside of Scandinavia to purchase/rent some of these public IPv4 addresses?

VPS? Datacenter?
Curtas are great, I ran across them a few years ago and I've wanted one ever since.

I'm a huge fan of flight computers too - they're basically a circular slide rule with common units marked. A lot of people don't use them regularly now that we have electronic calculators, but an E6B never runs out of batteries in midair. They're very easy for quick conversions once you get the hang of it.

ASA makes a nice one in aluminum that I really like: http://www.amazon.com/ASA-E6B-Metal-Flight-Computer/dp/B003Z...
New branch, new area of regulation, more personnel & resources needed to administrate & investigate ... typical self-serving bureaucracy growth incentives. Like with firearms, the governing agency is tasked with regulating anything that can, by any stretch of the imagination, be construed as risky.
If one is streaming (legally owned) music for their own (and only their own) personal use, would that even matter?
A lot of these are actually bad practice, or things you should already know. Before you use any of them, you should research each of the rules separately to see how they work.

Code maintainability is #1 in css, and is the hardest thing to do. The main focus should be on that, and not trying to be clever or tricky.
> The point being, of course, that the ergonomics of smartphones as reading devices are not only kind of rad, but historically so.

You can also turn this around and say that smartphones throw away three centuries worth of ergonomic improvements in reading. I personally find smartphones completely unusable for any kind of longer text.
> Part of the problem is you can thank the stranglehold the AMA has around the US healthcare system to keep the number of doctors artificially low so their salaries remain ridiculously high.

The AMA is a common scapegoat, except that the AMA has literally nothing to do with the number of of doctors supply-side.

You're probably thinking of the AAMC, which has nothing to do with the AMA, and is responsible for the number of medical students who graduate each year from the US. Except the AAMC has very deliberately and openly increased the number of medical student slots each year for over a decade, specifically with this goal
in mind.

But even this is a moot point, because the number of people gradating with MDs is not the bottleneck - the problem is that doctors can't practice medicine until they complete a residency program. We graduate more medical students every year than we have residency slots available, so increasing the number of graduates even further will have no effect.

Increasing the number of residency slots is up to Medicare, because Medicare funds residency programs nationwide.