skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bar for recall is actually relatively low. Basically, when you find a fault (somehow, maybe in regular QC in manufacturing, or something bad actually happens in the field, or some engineer is fucking around), the question is "can this affect patient safety/outcome in the field". If the answer is at all not a certain "no", then you're probably thinking recall at that point, unless you can adequately root cause and contain it.

Since the nature of "oh oops" is that they tend to affect systems in ways that are not anticipated, there's often insufficient evidence to rule out danger to patients, and therefore there's a recall.

For example, if you sold 10,000 diagnostics machines, and then discovered that because of stack up of tolerances in electrical components, something like 1 in 100,000 machines will have a fault that affects the customer safety. However, because your original analysis (during design phase) did not show this problem, you never bothered recording the actual performance characteristics of 40% of the components involved in the stack up.

Now you're in a pretty awkward situation, that could result in a recall. And it could very well by that all 100,000 machines sold are just fine.
It's with some irony that the ads I see on that page are for Vauxhall.

I can't zoom in because I'm on a mobile but the final picture looks like it has the vehicle off in the distance. If so, I can't believe how far off the road it is - it must have really been moving at the time. Does it have telemetry data they can use post accident to figure out speeds and things?
Trump's America is already here.

No, sorry Trump isn't running anything yet. This is Obama's America and has been for the past 8 years.
Not to be taken as a knock on Tesla, but from snowboarding I've learned the pain is not in the distance you fly, but the sudden stop at the end. Tumbling across an empty field is about the best case scenario. An unfortunately placed tree would be fatal at half that speed.
The problem with stereo-types is- that anyone just similar looking goes in the "usual suspects bag". If some hacker would went on a automated killing spree- everyone beeing pale, having glasses and drinking too much coffee suddenly would be suspicious.

Thats really troubling. How to solve this ? I mean, dirty-workaround-solve this, not wishfull thinking reeducate solve this.

Some karma system, involving how much a person is socially connected, how much it contributed to society, how much it got planned, how much is at stake in its life?

But however you refine that algorithm- you catch a lot of unwanted fish, and someone like mohamed atta slips right through. This is really tough.
I guess the best indicator is how mono-thematic your life is. If all your searches, all your interests and all your communication partners are "themed" - you desserve some suspicion. He is a math-expert, get him.
Don't remember the source, but I read a few years ago about someone who was using Emacs full-screen on a laptop and drew attention because someone thought he was "hacking"
Hey HN,

I started HelpSite.io because I was tired of choosing between always reinventing the wheel when it came to building out a support center website manually, or having to use a bulky tool like Zendesk that focuses on a million different features, when all I care about is the hosted knowledge base software.

A few nice things:

- Really fast search, powered by Algolia

- An intelligent contact form that auto-suggests articles

- A generous free plan which even supports custom domains (via CNAME).

https://helpsite.io

I'd love to hear feedback and would be happy to answer any questions!
Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression Unsubstantiated, Study Shows
Thanks! Yeah, adding a spinning drive is a good idea. It seems part list should be saved to enable comments (http://pcpartpicker.com/user/kmike/saved/QnGp99). I used pcpartspicker for the first time to well, pick pc parts (the UI is nice); haven't shared this list before.
If you use vim there's https://github.com/elzr/vim-json which gives you folding, highlighting, etc.
>> if "familiar interface" is your only requirement, I'd suggest to install a door handle or light switch

This isn't far from the truth. You'd be better of providing a console with clearly labelled buttons and switches. No operating system exposed to the user. It's not very practical to implement, let alone make changes to, but it would be more dummy proof than any desktop application.

This is also why you see a lot of kiosk-like, full-screen applications, with no ability to actually work with the desktop interface itself. A single kiosk application that cannot be alt-tabbed out of, providing screens that are easy to navigate.
I believe he was referring to Trump's America as discrimination towards non-Americans and just ignorance in general.
The Greatest NBA Team of All Time – According to the Numbers
Gitian Building: How Bitcoin's Security Processes Became a Model for Open Source
Software shouldn't necessarily try to account for errors in that manner. Usually, the most graceful thing to do is to exit cleanly.

For example, if there is a massive amount of data, it has to be stored on disk. It's too large to keep in memory. And if the point of the program is to transform that data in real time, then it has to have access to the disk.

The antivirus basically unplugged the disk. What can it do to recover? There's nothing to be done.

It should be able to survive that situation, of course. When the disk is plugged back in, it should be able to restart without any problems. But I think that's a different kind of resiliency than what you're referring to.

In this case, the only way to recover would be to copy the frozen data to a new area of the hard drive, assuming it retained read access. But such complexities result in brittle implementations, prone to acquiring bugs. What if the disk space runs out? So you check beforehand whether there's enough space. But what if some other program starts consuming disk space in the middle of your copy operation? And so on. It's an endless spiral of design complexity.

The situation in the article seems closer to hardware failure than a design oversight.
Yes, I wonder if the front end "crumpled" or merely fell apart. Was there a front end impact?
I don't see that at all. He's wearing it around his neck, not on his head. The material is completely different. The pattern is also different.
(I know this is a joke, but I have a related real story ...)

One of my friends had a problem a few years ago because she had a compass in the carry on luggage. It has a sharp metal tip, so it's forbidden. She didn't have any problem, and she could put it in the main luggage.

I think he protractors are completely safe, at lest the plastic protractors ...
That only works until people start doing it. Then it retroactively stops working.

The only way to prevent your face from being recognized is by not having your face in a photo to begin with.
This reminds me of reporting in the UK. UK libel law is notoriously loose and favors the plaintiff overwhelmingly, so you can get yourself in heaps of trouble by saying anything negative about anyone, true or not. So journalists use code-phrases; for example "a man about town" may mean a philanderer, "a fulsome spirit" may mean an alcoholic, "an engaging storyteller" may mean a pathological liar, etc.
I suspect that writing the corrective notices is cathartic for Dan.
A story about a form and two buttons
jq is powerful enough to express it in one query: it has variables (using expr as name) which make this thing at least vaguely feasible. That doesn't mean you should, but you could:

.models
| (.[]
| if .title == "farmers"
then
(.fields | .[] | if .name == "Fruits" then .key else empty end)
as $fruits
| (.fields | .[] | if .name == "Full name" then .key else empty end)
as $name
| .entities
| .[]
| if .[ $name ] == "Bob, the farmer" then .[ $fruits ] else empty end
else empty end)
as $fruits
| .[]
| if .["title"] == "fruits"
then
( .fields | .[] | if .name == "Name" then .key else empty end) as $fruit_name
| .entities | [ .[] | {(._id): .[$fruit_name]} ] | add as $lookup
| $fruits | .[] | $lookup[.]
else empty
end

(I'm not claiming this is the best way to write that query, but it's the first one I came up with.)
Oh, I didn't even mean my comment to be about Windows vs dedicated OS, at least not directly. When administered correctly and properly fenced off, using a modern Windows system is not a cardinal sin. Although I will admit that Windows 10, with its non-optional feature cadence, brings additional uncertainty.

However, I do question "it looks like Windows" as a valid rationale for what appears to be a single-purpose machine. I don't think it's likely that staff are using the operating room equipment as a desktop machine, so presumably they only care about the in-app user interface. And an application interface can be made to "look like Windows" regardless of what OS it's running on.
Sounds suspect to me. Aircraft computers are not running Android.
To be fair (and I'm really not a Windows fan), many of the BSODs on modern versions Windows can be attributed to shoddy third-party drivers.

And as a point of comparison, I've had tons of kernel panics on MacOS over the years, for various reasons. Sometimes defective hardware, sometimes odd software interactions, and sometimes for reasons I can't explain.

Windows has a lot of problems. The kernel itself is not really one of them.

(That said, I still wouldn't use Windows on an embedded device, much less a life-critical one. Even using Linux would give me pause in this scenario.)
I don't see where GP claims that the idea is wrong: they're simply pointing out that it's a relatively recent distinction, which implies (reasonably, IMHO) that we likely don't understand it very well yet, or that it may ultimately not be a meaningful distinction to draw once we better understand the underlying mechanisms.

Perhaps near-future advances in genetics and neurology will expand our definition of biological sex to explain gender identity. In that case, our current sex vs. gender distinction would simply be another way of saying "we don't understand how this works yet". There's a lot of this "transitional stuff" in science history, where we have credible anecdotal evidence that our previous understanding is wrong but don't yet know how to coherently explain it. (See: Greek attempts to explain the nature of matter; the infamous cholera map by John Snow; etc.)

That doesn't make the "transitional stuff" wrong: an idea doesn't have to have solid theoretical underpinnings to have merit. It does, however, mean we should continue searching for an explanation.
This is so true of the Midwest. I live ten minutes away from a big biotech park funded by the state that never had a single client.

Yet a local biotech entrepreneur who received no support from the state bootstrapped a company and ended up going public. Local politicians want the quick fix and if duplicating Silicon Valley were as easy as writing a check there would be thousands of them.
For the first time ever, a human with paralysis can move his hand again
Ketamine and Depression: A Breakthrough?
A PhD can give you an opportunity to work on what you call a "real" problem, but it could also force you to work on "fake" problems. In many fields, the research we academics must do to get hired/promoted/tenured is somewhat artificial and unrelated to the problems we're in the classroom teaching our students to solve. On the other hand there are great stories of PhD candidates starting businesses. I think Google got its start as somebody's dissertation.

When considering a PhD, the best thing to do is look at the advisor(s) you'd be working for and their repertoire of projects. Looking at the "discipline" isn't precise enough; there's a wide range of stuff happening within fields like information systems or computer science, everything from very theoretical to very practical.
I have BSODs on Windows too. It's almost always traceable to the graphics drivers. Nvidia software is shit.

The Windows kernel is solid. If I disable the Nvidia drivers it never crashes.
You might want to have a look at the first couple of graphs here: https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...

I'm not saying we should ban opioids. I have found them useful on occasion too. But to suggest there's no problem with people abusing them is not a helpful stance either.
Yeah.... no.
Isn't NA mandated by courts? Even for pot sometimes? A growing group could easily just mean a change in law enforcement or sentencing.
-1 for disabling zoom on mobile devices
This has happened to me so many times at my school. Almost every time I open a terminal in class, someone makes a big deal about it, telling a teacher or everyone in the class I'm hacking something. Teachers don't usually know what to think though so they just ignore it.
yeah as a tool useful. Many prepper groups suggest stockpiling for a coming war and also because ammo will be a good currency.
Did she fail her differential calculus and then got sick looking at some advanced stuff?
The tyranny of "The Tyranny of Structurelessness".
The kernel is not the problem with Windows on medical devices.
You also get Republican nominees named "Donald Trump". https://medium.com/@ginsudo/president-trump-is-your-fault-e5...
Cloudcraft does look pretty awesome, seems like great interface and tooling.....are there any downsides or disappointments you've had since using it?
Being harsh is not equivalent to bullying.
I saw that now too. Opt-in isn't enough here, the user of the messenger app should get consent from all folks on those pictures before auto-uploading anything.

What another trove of data for FB. Disgusting.
Exactly this. As I was reading the article I hoped to find this exact point in the HN comments.

The fault lies in the bad software. It could have been the indexing service, online defrag, automatic updates, or any of the other various background processes windows runs.

If it is critical software, it should be designed in a way to not fail when something non-critical malfunctions, and even the critical pieces should be built with redundancy.
I'm not sure anyone would pay for this feature to use themselves; to me it seems to exist as a side effect of searching for better advertising
Crumple zones tend to be built to safety standards regardless of the car's fanciness. AFAIK, even cheapo modern cars have immensely advanced safety features.
One of these is not like the other, opioids cause a clinical chemical dependency very quickly (as mentioned by the article, if you 12 hour dose doesn't last the full 12 hours) while the [chemical dependency of marijuana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_use_disorder) is much more subtle.
I'm interested to know the answer to this question. Is it safe to store things in the frunk? I actually keep quite a bit of stuff in my frunk (extra motorcycle helmets since I don't have much space in my condo and I have a shared condo garage space in SF).
Private schools will allow advanced arrangements, like making up work, or homework in Leiu of attendance. Public schools are not interested in expulsion, they threaten calling child protective services. Not my district but see example attendance policy http://www.escobedoms.com/pdf/Parent_Attendance_Guide.pdf from a quick google search.

Public schools literally consider too many absences a crime ("truancy"), partly because their funding is directly tied to number of days students are in class. Private schools will charge you the same tuition regardless of how much vacation you take just like college.
I can agree. Everything is fun and dandy at the start, but after a while the frustration of lack of benefits compared to friends or lack of influence/control in decisions, or lack of compensation will get to you.
Hack Reactor grad here. I was 24 when I went through the program, and was the second youngest person. You'd feel right at home being 31.
So the guy suing claims he was on 400mg a day. OC doesn't come in 200mg, right? So he must have been prescribed what, 80mg * 5? Or even more pills to take twice daily, so he could have spread the doses. At that point, what's the complaint with or point of OC?

Anyways, this just highlights the issue with the DEA. People should be able to fairly freely get pain medications. It's their choice and they should not have their freedom curtailed by professional gatekeepers and bureaucrats.
Exactly my question: what did it hit? It's sitting in a flat dirt field. Maybe it nose-dived into the ground? But I didn't even really see evidence of that from the photos.
Property taxes might be the same but money available for the school can change dramatically when kids of rich parents attend because of PTA fund raising.

In California schools are poorly funded but some public schools manage to raise thousands of dollars per student through the PTA. http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2014-02/how-budget-cuts-and-PT...
5 Awesome Android Features You May Not Know Exists
> You're talking about people who abuse the drug. Most people who drink don't become alcoholics

The article is specifically about the effects of withdrawal when a 12 hour dose doesn't last 12 hours - when people are taking it by the prescribed schedule.
> Any decent doctor should know this

It sounds like they did, at first, and the manufacturer (ostensibly the experts on this particular drug) pushed back hard.
Not entirely: boys did better in a non-competitive setting, but girls performed equally in both settings.
I use Tamsyn (6x12 on lower res screens, 7x14 on 4k monitors), http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ but it's getting more and more difficult to use bitmap fonts these days. Firefox recently dropped support for them, gtk support is hit and miss.

Where I can't use Tamsyn I use https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

I like fonts that are easily readable when small so I can get more screen realestate, and bitmaps are the best for that, but 3270 is pretty good as well.
I'm not Rory, our CEO who you're replying to, but he couldn't respond due to a HN "posting too fast" error so I thought I would chime in.

What we are truly passionate about is exposing the general public to a new means of expression through short form media. What we are seeing is publishers writing articles that are just lists of looping GIFs, sports fans browsing /r/nba and watching the 3 dunks and a block instead of the 3 hour game, etc... so we built our embeddable GIFs player that allows viewers to share, turn on sound, view source, and much more. It also has the benefit of using mp4 or webm format over the actual gif file which is not a good choice when compared to those modern formats. This has led to a lot of publishers using our product and the tremendous growth of people viewing media in our embedded player. Now we want to expand another segment of our user-base, the creator (who we see as the next-generation of publishers) by making a easy-to-use video editor in the cloud.

To finally answer your question, how could we generate revenue, we could show highly targeted ads during prime-time slots. Imagine the NBA finals game, people making GIFS and sharing them with captions. Nike wants to promote some new product and they use our ad platform to expose a viral campaign / advertisement on all of our media. That's just one idea but there are many other potential avenues for monetization that we are considering as well.

tl;dr we're not aiming to be an image hosting company
Actually, no: zero was developed in India on the 5th century. Arab / Islamic scholars merely learned it from them.

And algebra was developed by Greeks on 3rd century, although al-Khwārizmī developed it further (note btw that he was not an Arab but Persian, although he worked in Baghdad).
The keffiyeh is versatile. It can also be worn around the neck, tucked into the jacket. This way of wearing it became a fashion in the West in the mid to late '80s.
They could not care less about that at the time, as long as long as acquisitions at crazy valuations got them their exits...
using software with known problems in order to avoid potential problems from an upgrade does not seem like a non-bad decision
This looks cool. But I don't understand why anyone would so narrowly target the RPi as a software platform without good reason.

In this case, most of the code seems to be abstracted from the hardware through the cross-platform Allegro framework.

So it is hardly any more effort to make this portable to other hardware platforms running Linux or even BSD.
No, it's a good thing. It means people that are addicted (by choice or not) don't need to resort to crime or desperation to buy essential medicines.

Less doctors "pushing" really means more doctors being very critical of patients. Which means more people in pain, scared to make too big a fuss, lest they be labeled an "addict" or "seeker".

We don't accept (in theory) a legal system that condemns innocent people to suffer, why should we accept a health system that does the same?
They were actually invented by Indian/Hindu scholars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu–Arabic_nu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_algebra#Indian_alge...
I'm a music junkie and have been on a European-pop binge the last couple months. It amazes me how many beats/songs/samples are reused in the European market...and occasionally I'll find the exact song redone for Euro or American consumption (especially popular with Spanish speaking artists to do the same track in both English and Spanish for varying markets).

My most recent find is:

Yall - Hundred Miles (recently on Euro charts) ---> Beat rips off Major Lazer & DJ Snake - Lean On (from last summer)
Are there nerves / neurons in there that might have been removed there? Possibly some with an important function for some people?
His characterization is not quite accurate. FDA does not certify it; rather, the company building the medical device certifies to the FDA that it has been properly validated for use and the FDA accepts their validation.

Trust in the company's ability to properly validate the device is tempered by regular FDA (and other regulatory bodies) audits of their development process and process data, test reports and a general desire to stay in business. FDA can and will take your product off the market if it appears to be unsafe and the company does not respond appropriately.
The thing that got me was:

"The company wrote in the email that employee perks in total have been costing Dropbox at least $25,000 a year for each employee. Based on Dropbox's roughly 1,500 headcount, that would translate to about $38 million a year."

That sounds nuts, but do "perks" include health insurance, life insurance, the usual stuff? Or just the ridiculous stuff that only exists at tech companies?
> You and I will agree that the odds are your Windows system is much more at risk by at least an order of magnitude

it is a common misconception that Windows is still worse a platform than Linux when it comes to security. Not trolling ... I'm using Linux since '96 and built my life and career on it. Opinion of some people in infosec circles (@thegrugq @csoghoian ...) is that Windows no longer lags behind:

https://grugq.github.io/presentations/COMSEC%20beyond%20encr...
I'm with you. Why would anyone intentionally create data like that?
Even if they had auburn hair and tawny eyes?
Rewritten is not the same thing as having to upgrade a library. Even most enterprise apps upgrade the big libraries within 4 or 5 years due to the CVEs that pile up (see struts 1)
The other day tinfoil me finally gave in and installed the Instagram app. Marshmallow gives me more granular permission control, but naturally I had to give it access to the file system to be able to upload pictures. Knowing about their ways with Messenger, I guess it's only a matter of time before Instagram scans my whole phone for images and videos to perform biometric analysis.