skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easiest way to be sure a code path will run properly is to avoid writing it in the first place. This kind of application should be designed to run in a highly linear, predictable fashion on robust, fault-tolerant hardware.

Why is nobody questioning the propriety of using an off-the-shelf Windows PC in safety-of-life applications?
Algebra is for Terrorists
My gut reaction to the question was "The one I can understand and apply", but I think that the Huffman algorithm added a third feature for me, it expanded the way I thought about computing in general. It is relatively simple, but it is clever and it makes you feel clever to understand it when your experience with algorithms is limited and your relationship with them is tenuous.
You can buy opioids over the counter in France. Codoliprane for example has 500mg of paracetamol combined with 30mg of codeine. Codeine is not the hardest opioid, but still...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11648758
We've had issues with the latest versions of kaspersky. A burst of network activity is almost guaranteed to crash a machine.

It took us a while to isolate Kaspersky 10, and it's not even any particular component inside of Kaspersky, but only when all features are enabled. We tried different permutations of features to try and isolate the cause of our crashes, but as soon as you have any one feature disabled in, the crashes stop, Very frustrating because ultimately our clients laid the blame at my feet (new software feature, new release, blah blah blah), and not exactly much you can do in the way of hardening against this particular crash, the app generates a burst of network data, and boom, blue screen/instant reboot.
Addicts are going to get fucked up on whatever they can find. If they can't find opiates or whatever, they're going to get fucked up on cough syrup, or booze or huffing paint or whatever.

In general, though, addicts don't necessarily go straight to the hard stuff or inevitably to the hard stuff, if other options are available. Prohibition actually encourages people to go to the hardest purest forms, though.

When you're moving around contraband, you want the most expensive high you can get in the smallest volume. It's easier to move around heroin or crack than something like codeine or coca wine, so that's what's going to be available on the street.
I forgot the cites! Sorry.

The first is the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuic...

The second are the Office for National Statistics mortality data. Here's deaths: http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdea...

And here's suicide: http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdea...

(Watch out. They count slightly different things. But they should both be clear enough about what they're counting).

Here's a map showing medications that are prescribed across England. You can noodle around with the data to see what's prescribed or not, and how much, and by what doctors offices: https://openprescribing.net/
I thought you were talking about comments (and text posts, like Ask HNs). Story titles don't belong to the user who submits the story.
I remember being really bummed after finding that out.
Perfect Money is the name of the service that took LR's place.
Douglas Crockford: The Seif Project, a safe web proposal
I didn't downvote him until I read the last line of his post ("Eventually, your choices are nihilism or God. Everything else is hysterics.") He doesn't need a God, because he obviously carries an omniscient one with him in his own mind.
California yes, sometimes, I've been in such a tediously long line for 1/2" of snow on the road, it was absurd. Colorado, only if you're in an accident does it come up. So from one extreme to another. No idea about other states.
Here's the equivalent using jsonaxe[1]. The main difference is the python-like syntax, which is either good or bad depending on your tastes. The pain point about string interpolation remains, tho.

data=input.json

fruits () {
jsonaxe 'models.filter(lambda x: x["title"] == "fruits")[0]' "$data"
}

farmers () {
jsonaxe 'models.filter(lambda x: x["title"] == "farmers")[0]' "$data"
}

fruit_name_key=$(fruits |
jsonaxe --raw 'fields.filter(lambda x: x["name"] == "Name")[0].key')

farmer_name_key=$(farmers |
jsonaxe --raw 'fields.filter(lambda x: x["name"] == "Full name")[0].key')

farmer_fruits_key=$(farmers |
jsonaxe --raw 'fields.filter(lambda x: x["name"] == "Fruits")[0].key')

farmers |
# get bob
jsonaxe "entities.filter(lambda x: x['$farmer_name_key'] == 'Bob, the farmer')[0]" |
# get bob's fruits key
jsonaxe --raw "get('$farmer_fruits_key')" |
while read fruit_id
do
fruits |
jsonaxe "entities.filter(lambda x: x['_id'] == '$fruit_id')[0]" |
jsonaxe "get('$fruit_name_key')"
done

[1] https://github.com/davvid/jsonaxe
because the medical system is poor, and many relate to it. In fact, I am personally going throug this right now. No doctor "agreed" with me, and I am currently programatically trying to aggregate my test data because it is frustrating. I, and many people, can relate to being dismissed by doctors or having the medical system fail them.

To be clear, for > 6 months and 4 appointments I was told I was fine. I finally think what I have was an auto-immune disease which was what the 2nd ER doctor I saw thought my symptoms were, and her tentative diagnosis. Obviously, she could only run preliinary tests because if she ran the confirmation panels...well...she would have to follow up with me and that isn't her job.
Joe Lonsdale's response to “Inside Palantir”
Varoufakis: IT technologies will overthrow Capitalism
NASA Study: Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Will Help and Hurt Crops
Oh God no, and if any catharsis works its way in there I excise it posthaste. But I think there is value in writing each one individually and varying them as much as possible (which isn't always very much).

I do use a shortcut completer—personally recommended by tptacek as it turns out—for some things, but more on the email side.
That makes more sense. I feel like the article painted it quite differently.

In their position I would have sold it and donated the money to charity.
Sadly many people die from accidental paracetamol overdose.
WordPress适合任何产品的网站模板 – Squirrel
It gets even more fun to consider all the apps using the Facebook SDK (which is basically everyone - https://gist.github.com/ryanolsonk/e33bf9e89677da9fe8ce ). Gave any of those apps access to your photos ?
If you are concerned with outcomes I would strongly recommend not going to HR or an affiliated school. There has been internal conflict about the declining quality of cohorts, and I believe the 97% hiring statistic is no longer accurate. I went to a HR affiliate and have been unemployed for the past five months since I have graduated.

I can't comment on App Academy because I have not taken their course.
Yes, indeed. I wrote this somewhat as a joke, and I hope nobody would actually do this in production.
There's a lot more to philosophy than you think, and a lot of foundational work being done right now in the philosophy of math and science, I think.
Finances for Div 1:
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

Most athletic depts are subsized and this is just division 1. There are obviously a few winners here, but mostly losers and definitely a net loss.

Having been around that environment, it's just amazing how much money is being thrown around. The whole athletic budget is a giant slush fund, but they're just taking the lead from the university as a whole.
Does it cover the cooperative model, like the Mondragon Corporation, or the Wobbly shop? I can't find a table of contents, and DDG finds no reference to Mongragon or Wobbly on the web site. I figure that a book which doesn't discuss those two alternative forms of business organization is hiding something. For examples, hiding who owns and controls the capital, or hiding that it's not really a new model but has been around for a century.

Personally, I take the warning at https://books.google.com/books?id=IKZVKMPEQCEC&pg=PA131&dq=%... to heart:

> Industrial democracy: By analogy with political or state democracy, a description of democratic practices as applied to workplaces. There are two major ways of thinking about this concept. The first involved some liberal conception of representative structures that allow workers to have influence over decision making, responsibility and authority. The extent of such influence can vary substantially, from an employer's 'suggestion scheme' through workplace methods such as 'team-working', up to the various forms of consultation and co-determination exemplified by Kalmar, Semco, or the John Lewis Partnership and the Quality of Working Life movement. Whilst these examples provide illustrations of alternative forms of organizing, they all largely rely on the idea of empowerment as something which management does to workers. In other words, management and owners still have the ultimate sanction, and could withdraw democratic privileges if they wished.

> The more radical way of thinking about industrial democracy would be in terms of worker self-management. In this case a cooperative or an employee share ownership plan (ESOP) would mean that all those working for an organization would have a direct share in its profits and losses. As a result, they would have a clear interest in participating in democratic mechanisms to elect or deselect those who coordinate organizational activities; to dictate strategy; to take profits or reinvest, and so on (see Mondragon; Suma). Both forms of industrial democracy have been credited with increasing the motivation and commitment of workers, as well as increasing productivity and decreasing labour turnover. Whilst advocates of the liberal version might suggest that those were good things to achieve because they can increase shareholder or owner value, for the radicals all these would be secondary to the idea that labour might escape alienation in a Marxist sense. In other words, liberal ideas about job satisfaction are pale reflections of the conception of work as a form of human expression (see Fourier).
There's a concept in Buddhism called the "Dark night of the soul" which is a touchy moment when your world view is essentially nihilist and depressive and you have to pass through it. A little dangerous for depressive people looking for meaning to be in a state where they believe there is no meaning.

I'm told it passes for nearly everybody.
Source: "Regional disparities in the beneficial effects of rising CO2 concentrations on crop water productivity (doi:10.1038/nclimate2995)

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nc...
You should have a look at Deis v2. Built on Kubernetes and has push to deploy.
I completely understand cutting a chrome panda and eliminating open bar on Friday nights, but things like an employee shuttle seem like a solid use of company money to increase real productivity. Time spent driving a car or navigating a few bus/train connections just can't be that productive. A comfy bus straight to the office (probably with WiFi)? Yes.
This is maybe the stupidest HN comment I've ever seen...
What is there to treat anyhow? There's a "suffocating sensation" but no claim of any actual trouble breathing.
There are all kinds of ways to allow security camera's while still protecting ones privacy.

but we are never even talking about security camera, which by default I have given my permission by shopping in the store for the store to take my photo for the purpose of security.

We are talking about one 3rd party taking your photo with out your permission (or with), then with out your permission again transfer that photo Facebook and other companies, then those companies with out your permission again use that photo to built unknown amounts of Biometeric and other data, as well as combine that photo with other photos to build a database of unknown location, shopping, and other data, which is then combined with unknown quantities of other data about you from other source.

We need to understand the concept of PII Ownership, if a company like Facebook, google, or any one else has collected information on me I should be able to submit something to them and they should be required to tell me What they have collect, and whom they have shared that info with, I should also have the option to tell them to permanently purge all records of my PII from their databases.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to find someone blaming a physicians.
>In classes given reading evaluations, boys made an average of 33.3 correct answers compared with 43.3 by the girls. But when the tests were framed as animal games, boys’ average scores were significantly higher: 44.7 compared with 38.3 for the girls.

Girls performed worse in the non-competitive setting.
No, I wouldn't. I think I made that clear already? I'm just saying that I don't understand your definition of a "server OS".

Incidentally, my point about Windows Server is the same you have made - except that the kernel architecture is the same. It still runs pretty much this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT#/me...
You describe the exact opposite of a game - you describe a competition.
I don't think this is specific to philosophy, or even to academia in general. Trying to get tenure isn't all that different from trying to get rich, famous, powerful, or so on.

If you see tenure (or any of those other things) as a goal in itself rather than the product of doing meaningful work and living a purposeful life, then you may have just climbed to the top of the ladder and realized that it was against the wrong wall.
Thoreau called out eastern philosophy in that book at several points. Even Baudrillard isn't that original from this standpoint. Shoulders of giants to be sure.
Seems like all the links are hard-coded to use http. Any chance you can get the site to work properly over https?
I don't think you can really conclude that it works based on the linked research data. I'm assuming you're referring to table 12, where they compare the percentages of incidents with the pre-Nordic model study. I think you cannot compare the percentages (something that the author acknowledges) because in the 2012 study a time limitation was set when reporting on the occurrence of an incident (only report it if it occurred since introduction of Nordic model), but this time limitation was not set in the other study (report it if it happened at any point in time in the past). You cannot compare victim-percentages of incidents that happened over a period of three years with victim-percentages of incidents that happened over an indefinite period of time. Claiming that the Nordic model works based on such a comparison is like claiming that the birth rate has dropped in the last three years because the total number of children born since 2013 is less than the total number of children born before 2013.
The people who actually know better are too busy doing other things to piss in the wind by arguing with a theist. Absence of disproof in this case doesn't equate to proof. It may just mean that nobody is willing to give you constructive criticism.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11649541 and marked it off-topic.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11649577 and marked it off-topic.
If I don't use Facebook because of things like this, am I not fighting it?
Solving Intractable Performance Problems Through Vertical Engineering
This was close to 20 years now, how time flies... but yeah.
No personal attacks on HN, please, regardless of how wrong or provocative someone else's comment is.
We need to drown more mice to be sure.
i don't think I have any friends anymore just a bunch of acquaintances.
tl;dr; "We want less oversight. But keep those checks coming!"
It doesn't cost anything to enact legislation. Congress is a sunk cost.
I was super religious as a kid.

When I bump into people who spend all day fretting that their best friends are going to be tortured for all eternity for their poor life choices I feel pity. How do you breathe with that clear and present danger in the corner of your mind all day every day?
Fiat Chrysler CEO: Unclear who owns self-driving cars’ data
People have. type="text/vbscript" probably got the most use, but it was only ever in IE. The W3C was gungho on TCL at one point and text/tcl was used there - notably, the HTML 4.01 spec gives an example of setting text/tcl as the default with <META http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/tcl">

The problem is getting multiple browsers to agree, and no real standard has emerged there. Even if one did, you're either relying on browser creators to include a runtime, or you have to patch one in, Flash-style. I think Google was trying to do this with Dart but failed.

A modern workaround I've seen a few times is to write/compile an interpreter in JavaScript that looks for script tags with different types and runs them, but that leads to yet more JS bloat when loading pages.
Fans left furious after Booking.com cancels Champions League final reservations
How can this possibly be justified:

"To screen out business calls and casual calls, Dunbar and co include only individuals who make reciprocated calls and focus on individuals who call at least 100 other people."

I recall a recent joke about people who carry big book bags onto crowded New York City subways: your book bag is not a gateway to a hyper dimensional space outside of 3 dimensional reality, so please mind what you do with that damn bag, because it takes up a lot of space.

Likewise, your business contacts take up a lot of space. They take time and energy and brainpower, the very thing that would limit the number of people that you can possibly keep track of. Therefore any attempt to exclude business calls invalidates the results.
Please don't spoil an otherwise substantive comment by calling names ('piece of shit'). The HN guidelines specifically ask not to do this.
Ion Storm's Lost Deus Ex Sequels
How many? 100? 200? 300? Perhaps 1,000? According to the theory, you could have more acquaintances if you have less friends.
Sure it does. If you plug a USB drive full of Windows viruses into a Linux box, nothing will happen.
What it means is that women should be encouraged to give confident handshakes, not that women should renounce their femininity and try to be more manly.
Thanks for the solid numbers based on real data. At the time of this posting there's 103 comments too which IMO seems waaaaay high given 8k visitors due to the nature of the post.

Hard to say for sure but I wouldn't be surprised if a normal blog received 5-6 comments per 10,000 views.
Let me surprise you, with the code quality that sometimes is running in what is actually 'life-critical' software.

Back in the nineties, I wrote a nice piece of some 300kb of C code, for DOS/x86. It was a complete software package, controlling medical equipment that was testing speed of blood coagulation. These tests are crucial in the patient post-operation recovery.

This piece of C code had some hardware control code, some statistics, a bit of math, some visualisation, GUI, etc. Normally, you'd imagine a team of 2-3 people, carefully written test cases, dedicated QA person, and a year of time to write something like it. And independend lab, that would certify the thing. Well... in that case, yes, there was independent certification... but...

It was just one developer, and I was 13, when I wrote it ;) During after-school time, in around 4-6 months. And I must say, I still sometimes have chills, when I think of the code quality, and, um, unorthodox solutions of 13-year-old myself. Yes, I've had some years of experience at the time, both writing software and designing hardware, and advice from my parents, who both could write software. But, at the time, I've had zero formal training, aside from reading K&R and PC XT manuals ;). So, you might imagine the code quality ;) Even, no need to imagine, I actually still have it somewhere in the archives :)
It's a great question. I suppose it's a fairly solved problem at this point and very hard to do right, but when I look at what even "simple" bytecode for the JVM looks like... yikes.

It would be so nice to have a universal VM that stripped out all the unnecessary non-64 bit data types, cleaned out all the crazy method-overloading related overhead, dropped the security model and added a nice runtime reflection model and, dare I dream, a sane isolation mechanism between modules...
The JVM is making huge strides on becoming a generic, static and dynamic language runtime with the GraalVM prototype: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oracle-labs/program-langua...
Facebook doesn't belong in that list
Oh yes, just like chocolate then.
> he has two very well-educated and successful daughters. They are, in a sense, his retirement plan: Barring extenuating circumstances, they will be in a position to care for him and his wife in their later years. We should all be so lucky.

I'm not quite sure how saddling my children with the cost of my care and feeding in my twilight years is a better choice than letting them go to public school and state universities. Seems like that's just passing the buck on who has to pay that particular bill.
Can someone wiser than myself explain why there seems to be not a lot of support for languages targeting multiple runtimes? I see Clojure has a CLR version that seems to have died on the vine (maybe it didn't and I just haven't investigated enough) but I can't recall seeing more examples. Given the explanation offered int the article, it would seem especially worthwhile for a language's portability to target the LLVM since it's fairly generic. The most compelling reason I can see to not target multiple runtimes is to avoid ecosystem fracture, but it's really not that much overhead to understand a runtime as just another facet of the environment that has to be accounted for.
There are only two limitations I know of: by default Microsoft limited the number of half open TCP connections. This limitation was removed in Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, but you need to change it via a registry key:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/969710

There are limits on the maximum number of requests in an SMB session, but these are defaults and can be configured by changing the MaxCmds for SMB 2.0 clients and MaxMpxCt on SMB 1.0 clients.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn...
For a very brief time, WebExplorer for OS/2 supported Rexx as a scripting language, but it was limited to OS/2 (which had a Rexx runtime builtin). I don't think it made it to WebExplorer for Windows (and became entirely moot when IBM killed WebExplorer in a deal with Netscape).
Perhaps the regulatory control should cost more.
Literally every problem mentioned is equally endemic to highly structured organizations. "Office Politics" did not enter common use from all of our experience with anarchist company offices.
There appears to be considerable suffering that interferes with a persons day to day living.
Can Gödel's incompleteness theorem apply to quantum computers? (2013)
Which is a terrible intrusion upon people voluntarily there for actual support and help.
Wasn't Rails originally a Basecamp-specific tool because they quite literally built it as Basecamp?
> However, fundamentally, there isn't really a great model of care for people who won't or can't believe that their ailment is psychological and requires psychological treatment

To quote from the article:

> “We detected a statistically significant central location in the nasal airway that swells in the CT scans of ENS patients, but not in any control patients,” Nayak says of the soon-to-be-published study.

That doesn't sound psychological to me.