skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> How do you explain the fact that this only appears to manifest when turbinates are reduced, and not as a result of any other surgical interventions on the nose?

By all fairness if you haven't had turbinate reduction it's going to be very hard to think you're suffering from a condition that is said to be caused by turbinate reduction.
LR just provided the ledger, you bought in and cashed out through 3rd party exchangers who were supposed to do all the KYC checking. LR also would freeze any account that moved more than some arbitrary amount that I can't remember but you could open pretty much unlimited accounts with slightly different info to keep under the limits. They weren't as bad as the DoJ claims unless there was private side dealing they discovered.

When the exchangers started allowing Visa/MC ATM card loads is when all the org crime flocked to LR to cash out their stolen db sales and attention from DoJ started.
XOmB: An exokernel operating system written in D
That indeed looks to be the problem, we have some ideas in store to fix this but for now source media is limited to one hour.

I filed an issue to report the correct error message and log this as an event so we could see how many times it's happening.

Sorry about that and I hope you find some other AoE videos to gif!
Do you know of any sites actually running kerbernetes-on-mesos? I've been using that as a talking point for a while too, but have yet to hear of it actually being used anywhere. Not trolling here, I just don't know.
> People are going to be putting stuff into the frunk, even stuff that may be really solid and pointy and likely to breach into the cabin in the event of a crash.

Others may have different practices, but for my wife and I we put very little there. The trunk is quite spacious. We keep a small emergency kit and an autosock[0] in the frunk but otherwise it's generally empty. On the rare occasions when we've used it on road trips the geometry has always made it most convenient to fill the frunk with winter coats and other soft goods that pack well into arbitrarily shaped spaces.

[0]: http://autosock.us/
Is the medical device working right now? Yes. Could, upon upgrading, the device stop working, possibly in a subtle way that might kill somebody? Yes.

The approval process for medical devices is rightfully difficult. Software upgrades, even if they seem trivial, should not be a backdoor process of bypassing testing and approval.
Why Is No One Writing Language Runtimes?
Downvote all you want but IMO this is a Rube Goldberg machine that uses 5!!! AWS services to persist what? 5k comments for the entire lifecycle of the website?

The modern programmer is quite good at playing Legos with the myriad of micro webservices out there (which is good play/training) but has forgotten how to think like an 'engineer' must think.
I totally disagree.

Sure, usually the most graceful thing to do is exit and hope a human fixes it. But that's usual because the usual condition is that sudden failure is NBD and a human is right there to screw with it.

That's becoming less common, though. When software was mostly something running on a PC doing some boring office task, reliability didn't matter. But as software is running our airplanes, our cars, our medical devices, and even, as with implanted pacemakers and insulin pumps, our bodies, then reliability gos from NBD to BFD.

We see the way forward with things Chaos Monkey [1] and crash-only software [2] and the sort of design for failure you see in things like Agent supervisor hierarchies [3], where the way to reliability is through designing for failure recovery from the beginning and testing thoroughly to make sure it really happens.

[1] https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software

[3] http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/fault-tolerance....
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No, insurance is usually referred to as "benefits". "Perks" are things like snacks and massages.
Maybe we can create a system that inserts imperceptible perturbations to generate adversarial images when uploading.

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/07/deep-learning-adversarial-e...
As someone who has chronic pain, tapentadol has been a godsend for me. Its an opioid which also has norepinephrine agonist effects to help reduce pain in a multi mechanistic way. It was developed as a 2nd generation version of Tramadol, which is also a very amazing drug. Tapentadol is brand name Nucynta and cost 1500 for a 30 day supply compared with morphine at <$50. But tapentadol is an engineered alkaloid..designed to be less addictivr, more selective for the mu opiod receptor and norepinephrine agonism for better medicinal use than morphine. I agree with other posters about prices necessarily harming those who are poor and more inclined to abuse drugs due to a dismal outlook on life. On the other hand, having taken various opiates and seen how effective and therepeutic Tapentadol is, makes me want to reward Depomed who researched and developed an improved version of their already very successful Tramadol. They took on an endeavor that needs to be justified by some type of risk rewarding lucrativity. Its not all carnal..

My energy levels and ability to be active during an entire day was borderline geriatric before I started taking tapentadol. Opiates are addictive but are also the gold standard for pain relief. Pain reduces energy levels, its fatiguing. I would sometimes want to just cry out of how weak I felt. No one should have to 'just deal with it' when it comes to nerve splitting pain.
It wasn't a rhetorical question. What could this program possibly do to recover?

If the CPU fails, no one would say the program was unreliable.

In this case, the disk failed, because the antivirus unplugged it. Was the program unreliable?
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Heart Rate could be correlated with levels of stress and therefore pain.
> By all fairness if you haven't had turbinate reduction it's going to be very hard to think you're suffering from a condition that is said to be caused by turbinate reduction.

In all fairness, did you read the article? The patient suffered the symptoms first (before ever hearing of the syndrome), then went looking for an explanation, then found a syndrome exactly matching his symptoms linked to turbinate reduction, thought that was weird because he didn't think he'd had that, and only then saw "turbinate reduction" in the records from his surgery.
> 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.

Yes and no. I was referring to restarting internally when the error condition went away but restarting the app and waiting for telemetry to return can be a valid solution.

Think of your torrent software. If you crank your firewall to block it while it's running it will not crash. If your disk fills up it won't crash. When the network comes back or more drive space if freed it will restart it's internal mechanisms. You wouldn't want it to restart in these conditions. If it runs out of memory however choosing to exit might be the best recovery mechanism.

I think a life critical medical application can at least strive for internal restart and do an external restart if all else failed. The article stated they had to reboot the machine to get it back. Now that's way worse.

> The situation in the article seems closer to hardware failure than a design oversight.

Hardware failure is almost always a permanent condition. This was a "my I/O stopped briefly and would have came back if my code could handle it".
The AMD Pro Duo seems aimed at the workstation/rendering market rather than the compute market.

NVIDIA is totally dominant in the compute market. They have an enormous amount of software running on CUDA that you would be locking yourself out of with AMD, and since NVIDIA has such a dominant share of the compute hardware you would also be tuning for what amounts to niche hardware.

AMD has recently been working on getting a CUDA compatibility layer working, hopefully this will improve in the future.
I'm pretty sure the entertainment system runs on some version of Android.
this is actually a little disappointing form the Economist which usually has great high quality content. Do we really need to visualize statistics to prove that comp sci pays more than a degree in library studies? how about if you get your MBA from a community college vs NYU or Wharton? Once you compare apples to apples you'll certainly see a statistical difference in ROI based on the WHERE.
Assuming that the concentration and mining of huge personal datasets is inevitable, can we design systems (other than law) that prevent these data to be misused?
It is like a storyline from The Big Bang Theory with a slightly more obnoxious (if that is possible), scruffier version of Sheldon.
First of all, because anxiety and depression are well known to manifest with physical symptoms. Which is why if you present with physical symptoms, anxiety and depression are diagnoses of exclusion, coming long after everything else has been exhausted. Notably, I didn't say they're /imaginary/ - just psychogenic. Anxiety is well known for significantly reducing the threshold for attention to stimulus: someone having an anxiety attack can feel things without somatic prompt, or they can feel something horrible with an underlying somatic prompt that, if they weren't having an anxiety attack, they'd never have even noticed. Generally people don't get brushed off as having mental disease. Although that's the popular narrative, again, (1) it's usually the last dx, and (2) even in these people's narratives, they go from physician to physician. Doctor after doctor looks at them and detects nothing.

This doesn't mean nothing is there, of course, but mystery illness is rare and anxiety is very common. It would be bad medicine to overlook the prevalent condition that explains your symptoms.

Second, post-surgical anxiety is quite common for a variety of conditions. I actually addressed it at the end of the post I suspect you didn't read. You presume this is somehow unique to turbinate reduction; that is an untrue assumption.
>If someone is experiencing a physical symptom and you tell them it's not actually physical, that is dismissing it.

If you think diagnosing something as anxiety is the same as dismissing that person's experience and suffering and need for help, you're part of the problem.
Date: March 3, 2008
All my computers are Macs. I use Inconsolata (version that supports Hellenic letters by Cosmix) patched with devicons. My editor of choice is VIM on iTerm 13 pt, see sshot[1].

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3s165lgha1ci01/vim-sshot.png?dl=0
Raspberry Pi Gets a Vacuum Tube Amp Audio Add-On Board
As a somewhat frugal person, I feel really uncomfortable when companies buy me unnecessary things (that could be going into my salary...).

SV sounds like it's becoming a nicer place to work to be honest.
This brings to mind something I said a while ago about Holocracy. Holocracy doesn't get rid of your managers. Rather it just prevents you from knowing who your manager is. Instead of having clearly defined priorities (e.g. I need to handle requests from person A before I handle requests from person B), you have to do a subtle political calculation, evaluating the relative social capital of person A and person B before choosing who to listen to or follow. And if you guess wrong, then you end up marginalized and fired, often without knowing precisely why.
Bureaucratic control grows exponentially.

I don't believe it has to be tied to specific trends in crime. Only a few random but well covered stories of crime is enough to persuade the public into handing over more power and calling for new stronger laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
All true, but I think a good measure of "brokenness" of a regulatory apparatus is the extent to which you need someone on the inside in order to understand what you need to do to get approval, as opposed to being able to find that information from easily discoverable documents as an outsider.

So yes, humans are fallible, but the extent of this reliance on "knowing the right people" is the extent of the fallibility.
This may be an artifact of how sparse the fossil record is. If something was around for 0.5m years it's far less likely to be seen than something around for 5m years. Combined with the facts that smaller animals evolve faster, and efficient body-types are preserved. EX: Sharks.
During a surgery, the program doesn't have the luxury of showing a screen that says "No telemetry available." Such a program would be considered equally unreliable. Worse, it would lead to confusion: "Why is the telemetry unavailable? What does 'Error Code 2931' mean?"

A spectacular crash immediately led to pinpointing the problem: The antivirus.

If the program's sole purpose is to transform a massive amount of data in real time, it must have disk access by definition. It can't not have disk access. What would you suggest it do?
The disk did not fail. An I/O operation failed. The first is a permanent condition, the second can be permanent or transient. Big difference.

In Linux a signal can cause an I/O to fail. In Windows it's antivirus and other background tasks can cause I/O to fail.

What can it do to recover? Retry the I/O operation! It should keep trying until the operator tells it to stop.
ElGamal encryption. I'm a Cryptography fanatic. But really, any algorithm involving modular arithmetic is pretty cool.
My first thought would be that they removed hairs and follicles, so you can't sense the air moving. Maybe I'm way off base, though.
The Wikipedia article on this (famous 1972) article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...

Short version: if you try to avoid the problems of existing organizations by not having an explicit power structure, you instead end up with an implicit power structure. That is not a problem at small scales when the organization is for discussion rather than for getting things done. But it has many subtle problems.

At the bottom, there's a nice list of things to experiment with as organizations search for useful explicit power structures: delegation, responsibility, distribution of authority, rotation of power, allocation of work, diffusion of information, and equal access to resources.

Since this article is about women's movement issues from 40+ years ago, it can seem irrelevant. But given how non-traditional organizational models are of the moment (e.g., open source projects, holocracy, Occupy, BLM, twitter organizing), I think it's useful material for anybody who's shaping an organization.
Minivans are anti-teslas. They are tippy and have almost no crumple zone. In a front impact the engine block ends up where your legs were.

If you have the money for a Tesla then you would be crazy not to put your kids in one. Ideally you would want to put it in some sort of valet mode to limit the performance.
While I get what you mean, there's absolutely no (soft or hard) limit in 1850 or any date in the past for that matter.

People have always been people, and most of their concerns and theories were more or less similar. Even the most alien ones can still be relatable (in fact that's already an ancient, roman, idea: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", by Terence).

Until very recently (up until the seventies or so) when humanities still reigned supreme in universities and schools, being able to read, enjoy and understand anything from Homer and Plato to Shakespeare and Kant was nothing special for higher education people.

That said, often being able to parse those things is question of being accustomed not to an era, but to a way of thinking. (E.g. Anglo-saxon vs continental philosophy).
IMHO, a lot of the ideas about competition in society come from a deep (and sometimes purposeful) misunderstanding of natural selection. [1] is an decent taste of this line of inquiry, and America's early 20th century obsession with eugenics is fascinating in a really, really, really unsettling sort of way.

That said: I disagree that individual competition brings out the worst in people. It can certainly do that - but applied properly, it can also improve attention, creativity, and other indicators of task-based performance.

Also, life/society as we currently understand it does contain aspects of competition, often in subtle ways. A person might decide between multiple potential mates; a prospective employee might negotiate their starting offer; a student might organize a club to help distinguish themselves from thousands of other graduates. Whenever I buy food or clothes or whatever, I need to buy it from someone (not being a diehard homesteader), so there are multiple vendors competing for my attention and custom. We might be able to do without some of this, but a lot of it is driven by limits on resources (material, population, etc.)

(You might also be interested in the New Games Movement, one of the many weird outcroppings of hippie-era counterculture: they sought to build a corpus of games that highlighted cooperation over competition. The movement died a somewhat predictable death, but its games live on - if you've ever played any of the circle games popular with camps, youth groups, and teachers, you've probably played something that has its roots in the New Games Movement.)

(Last diversion: game-theoretic dilemmas are also really interesting, since most of them revolve around cases in which individual optimal strategies lead to worse overall strategies. See also: bystander effect / volunteer dilemma, tragedy of the commons.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest
Since when is the TSA an intelligence service?

They're mall cops.
At the some time, income is inversely correlated with impulsiveness, which is correlated with being addiction prone. (The old one/two marshmallow experiment.)
Have you used the autosock? How well did it work? Looks like a nice alternative to chains.
The article says yes:

> No one knows for sure why some turbinate reductions result in ENS and others don’t, but there are currently two prevailing theories. Houser’s theory argues that for ENS to occur, turbinate tissue must be removed or damaged, and then the sensory nerves in that area must regenerate poorly. Some methods of turbinate surgery can damage the nerve-rich mucosal layer more than others.
Can you give me a general direction how to do this project?
There's a reason Google has an absolutely massive office in Zurich. Anecdotally, some of the sharpest Googlers I have ever collaborated with are in Zurich.
You left out the predicate, you know, the part that makes this sentence worthwhile.
No worries at all. 'Tis the nature of text communication!
> it has the distinctive keffiyeh chequered pattern

No, it has the equally distinctive and extremely popular and well-known "Houndstooth" pattern.
I see things the exact opposite way. Giving the state (for the purposes of the majority of taxpayers) a monopoly on education produces schools that are uniformly bad, with terrible standardized curricula, insufficient institutional motivation to improve, and stifling bureaucracy. We have insufficient competition at the moment because the majority cannot afford to get into the good districts or uproot themselves every few years chasing them; a district with a good elementary school might have a bad middle school, or a district that was good when you moved in could go bad as your kid ages. This is simply too much trouble for all but the highest achieving and most dedicated parents, which only furthers the achievement gap that comes from exploiting it.

Instead, we could transition from a system of state run public schools to state funded private schools. Give each parent a tax credit that they can choose to spend on whatever school they like. Your school's funding is directly tied to the number of students that chose it, not the neighborhood it's in. Remove any restrictions on zoning or the number of schools allowed in an area. Remove the concepts of districts altogether. Get rid of mandatory curricula and give educators room to innovate.

I think the majority of parents out there care about their children and want them to succeed, they just don't have the money or extraordinary amounts of time to ensure it. But with a tax credit system and an abundance of competing schools in every metropolitan area, finding the right school for your kid and actually getting them into it would be much more achievable for a much greater portion of society. Yes, the most dedicated ones that get their kids into a dozen extracurricular activities and help them with their homework and whatnot will always have an advantage over the latchkey kids, but it'd still be a significant improvement over the status quo.
I just leave this here as a form of sanitizing contrarianism to counter all the empty buzzword abounding in this thread.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blo...

Democratization /= fueling the televisization of the Web
I think redis definitely has a place as a pubsub channel in a micro services architecture, and that in this capacity it solves the issue of sharing information among services. I'm not really seeing your point about atomic operations though. Would be curious to hear more about it
Happens ALLLLLLLL the time, though. Improper or not, look around at corporate America and you'll find a lot of people who were regulating a company as a government agent, then soon there after, work for the firm they were regulating.
Out of the box, they only accept Google OS updates. For reference, the OS is basically Gentoo+Chrome.

If you've a mind to, you can put the Chromebook in "developer mode" with a magic sequence of commands (requiring physical access as it's a boot procedure). This gives you root. To protect naive users from being exploited, a Chromebook in developer mode will display a nasty warning on boot. This warning lingers on the screen for an annoying amount of time, accompanied by a beep. The only way (and it's undocumented) of skipping the wait and the beep is with Ctrl-D; pressing any other key while on this screen results in the Chromebook being completely reset. All this is to ensure that it's virtually impossible to run under developer mode unintentionally.

If all this gets too annoying and you want to use the Chromebook as a fully general device, you can blow it away by replacing the bootloader. Doing this requires disabling write-protection on the flash, which requires opening the case.

Disclaimer: I own a Samsung ARM Chromebook. For all I know the precise details may vary across the Chromebook line, though I believe they all work similarly. Fuller details are here: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...
This article misses the second part of the study, as elucidated by Derek Lowe here http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/05/06/it-...:

In a rather elegant experiment, the authors deuterated ketamine at the methylene next to its carbonyl group, and showed that this compound (as expected) displayed the same NMDA activity as the parent compound – but that it was far slower at producing the metabolite, and had no activity in the antidepressant screens.
Oh, they are still working 40 hour weeks, just with a crazy schedule.
Should switch the link to the author's own website: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

Especially since she specifically mentions that this piece has been widely republished without her permission.
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