skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but they should also be allowed to use opiates. Canniboids do not operate on the same receptors that opiates do, and the mechanism of pain relief is different.

They are not substitutes. Just options that may work for patients depending on just what manifests the pain and how they need to manage or cope with it.

One significant consideration is how well a person can function in a cognitive sense on both options. This varies extremely widely among people, and it's not simple to understand what will work for who.

They (opiates) are effective, but do require education and management. I am short on time, but one thing near completely ignored in this discussion is the pain trigger for medication and how that differs from other triggers and addiction.

Secondly, there are natural and effective addiction treatments out there that can work extremely well to get people off opiates. We don't talk about these because money and morals...

I have got myself off them, right along with a dozen others. The tolerance, once understood, and combined with things that work to marginalize withdrawl, is a solvable problem for most people.

Frankly, I've been asked to publish by medical practitioners and so far have not for fear of a legal option being scheduled away for profit.

Just know this dialog is not inclusive. There are powerful interests aligned against making this all workable.

The oxy manufacturers want to sell. The moral authority don't want people to get high, and cannot differentiate that from legit pain management.

Both do not want to face remedies and education needed to keep people out of trouble, and society contributes with an irrational dialog about these things.

In the 90's, I ended up there, did research, solved it for myself and to date, many others.

The dialog is broken. We can manage this to a net benefit for the vast majority of problem cases today. That we don't have THAT discussion is the problem, not the drug.

BTW, it has a 4 hour effective life, not 12. This is widely known. The whole 12 hour relief line of discussion is avoidance. True. 4 hour relief being bad is also avoidance, given there are meaningful, workable options out there today.
>"You really did a lot of work but just missed the cutoff" to "You learned basically nothing from your undergraduate education."

Or maybe they learned exactly what they needed to do to game the system. Does doing a lot of work correlate to learning more? Seems both sides of the huge distribution got the same perceived outcome, just one did it easier.
> How come we could find that evidence for all sorts of people, up to and including CEOs, after the S&L crisis?

The perspective of Bill Black, senior regulator and litigator during the S&L crisis:

"So at the peak of the savings and loans crisis — again, one-seventieth the size of this crisis — of those 2,300 total FBI agents, 1,000 of them were working on just one industry, the savings and loan industry, to produce that incredible wave of success that we had. As recently as fiscal year 2007, there were only 120 FBI agents assigned to mortgage fraud, and that’s despite the fact that the FBI itself, in September 2004, warned that there was an epidemic of mortgage fraud — ‘epidemic’ was their word — and predicted that it would cause a financial crisis — ‘crisis’ was their word — unless it was stopped."

"And what people don’t understand about the criminal justice system is there are roughly a million people employed in it — and of course, millions incarcerated in it. But of the million employees, 2,300 do elite white-collar investigations. And of those 2,300, you have to contrast that to the number of industries in the United States, which is over 1,300."

http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/17/hundreds-of-wall-street-exe...
I think that Go's biggest mistake was making goroutines multithreaded. Libmill takes a much safer approach by making everything still run on one thread (and by taking advantage of libmill, Venice brings a similar scheme but with the added safety).
Yes, sorry, I should have said sequence points also.
FDA approval shouldn't be determined by your ability to write product language effectively, but by your ability to do valuable research and to produce a useful product.

If the FDA is approving drugs based on their advertising budget or methodology, then they're worthless.
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What is in your opinion the right way to check whether you have actually graduated at Oxford and what grades you had if not asking for the official documents that contain this information?
Why is there a virus scanner on a PC inside the operating room?

Don't tell me that PC is connected to the internet...
I left out something: the Supermicro 6037R-TXRF Server is dual socket and has ten slots and since it's an older dual socket even with CPUs and RAM it can be had for <$3K so together with five GPUs you can have it for less than $6K. It's a whole another question whether almost double the price worths adding another GPU (no).
"If you're going to say something radical, make sure you wear a suit"
One word: Gentrification.

It affects other aspects of our society, not just education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
It helps with reading comments on HN that discuss tiers of schools. Shared context and all, even if the tiers themselves are meaningless (see Big 3 CS companies etc).
Also covered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11648758
Why is Penn always referred to as generically 'Ivy League' in articles like this? You don't really see that with Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia...
Was it just to make a point? Anyone can Google "Richard Stallman" to retrieve more than enough training data to train an image classifier.
I'm trying to do something a bit similar here: https://github.com/wtpayne/hiai
I find it deeply ironic that you're being downvoted for questioning the presumption that the woman was herself making stupid/racist presumptions.

Everyone's got their favoured narratives, I guess, and get uncomfortable when they're challenged.
I love atom. However, I use VS Code, because atom is slow. I am primarily a JS developer and often have to interact with bundled js files. Atom freezes for 10+ seconds whenever ever so much as click on a bundled file, while VS Code is instant. Moreover, sometimes I like to have 2 instances of the editor open (one for each the client and server). When I do this with atom, my laptop's performance is visibly affected.

So at least in my case, the '"Atom is slow" meme' is still relevant.
Your contention supposes that Nigerian scammers are stealing money because they're keen to invest in easily confiscated securities instruments rather than spending the money like it's burning a hole in their pocket. And that the purported successes of the Nigerian "EFCC" are real and typical rather than government propaganda from a government trying to spin their country's association with 419 scams. And that having your money stolen and then going through an international bureaucratic process to maybe get some of it back is in any way comparable to not having it stolen to begin with.

But let's suppose all of that is true. If someone in Nigeria steals your money, you pick up the phone and in five minutes they're in jail and your money is returned. Then you're doing this:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapo...

Because there are still many places where no such process is available. Many of the attacks from China are state-sponsored. Many of the attacks from Russia are from organized crime who have law enforcement on payroll. ISIS. You haven't done anything to refute the point, you're just arguing about which examples I should be using this year.
It's also the case--and I've seen this first hand--that if a passenger feels unsafe for some reason and doesn't want to continue on a flight that's still on the ground, airlines are probably a lot more likely to allow that person to deplane as opposed to telling them they're an idiot and should just shut up. I've been on a flight that ended up going back to the gate to let someone off because the passenger was convinced she had heard some electronic noises in the overhead even though no one had and the flight attendants couldn't find anything.
Is there a reason to believe that choosing Windows was a bad decision?

The bad decision was installing antivirus software. Otherwise, most any modern OS would be fine. This machine probably shouldn't be connected to a network (if it was), the USB ports should be disabled; data can come off on burned CDs, autorun should be disabled, etc. That's how you deal with IA concerns on a standalone mission-critical system, not by installing antivirus.
Url changed from http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/05/eco..., which points to this. We'll keep its more sensible title though.
> That means you can't take half the pill and a few hours later the other half which is what some people did to get around the false 12hr relief advertising before the DEA and other government meddlers got involved.

can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure how the mechanism works to prevent splitting the pill in two. (I'm not sure how the mechanism works at all, really.)

I found this article: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/science-un-cru...

edit:
read through it, splitting should still be possible.
>>and that Merck has discovered that it's a new stream of profits by convincing doctors that everyone should take vaccines for low-risk diseases.

Depends on what you mean by "low-risk disease." If you mean diseases that are rarely seen, then I think you need to re-examine your stance. The reason a lot of those diseases are low-risk is because the population has herd-immunity from decades of vaccination. This is a good thing. But if people stop vaccinating against those diseases, they will become higher risk.
How is it in comparison with upshot? http://howlingmoonsoftware.com/upshot.php

Other than being on github?
You'll want to read the whole pitch about Linkerd [1], which the article seems to assume the reader has read. In short, it's a sidecar proxy that performs all the functions needed to glue apps together. This allows apps to be simpler; they can implement a minimal interface and rely on simple protocols such as HTTP, with no knowledge of how to reach their remote partners. Linkerd implements a bunch of techniques such as health checks, load balancing and circuit breakers.

[1] https://linkerd.io
I'm more interested on the impact it will have on the 10 series as a whole. I literally just bought a 950, now I'm wondering if the 1050 will be priced just as reasonably and offer big performance gains. Also, what is the time table for the rest of the 10 series?
If the guy was an Arab writing out his suicide note in Arabic, with specific references to what he was about to do ("I'm about to bomb this plane because virgins"), it would be less of a problem, yes. It's a question of what "reasonable" means.
I dunno, free failover is pretty enticing. But obviously one can just buy some GKE.
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At times it seems the only thing we are doing with microservices is shifting complexity into different areas.
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I don't understand what this word (AI) means anymore.

Everyone seems to be doing it, except me. It has something to do with "machine learning" and "big data" and it's done using neural nets, which have been around since 1940s.

Somehow I feel like you can use the term AI to any algorithm that takes some input data, does some processing and produces output data. After all, that's what it is.

Because this term is so ambiguous, I will try and translate it into more boring terms:

AI which builds AI means algorithms which produce other algorithms ?

In other words, a program which can write other programs, right ?
Agreed. At first I thought it was an old April Fools joke. How could they have miniaturised a jet engine to that size? And what is his and the teams background?
Ask HN: What do you use to write/draw your software/cloud architecture?
Hm, I can't edit my comment anymore, but French wiktionary claims that French "livre" (meaning pound) comes from the Latin word for the measure that weighed about as much as a book. ("livre" also means "book" in French).

I guess "lb." and French "livre" (meaning pound) aren't necessarily related. More likely: wiktionary could be full of shit, meaning I was wrong.
Off topic but the title in that link was so ambiguous:

"Economist Removed from Plane for Algebra"

could be
1) An economist was removed from "Plane for Algebra" (a book, maybe?)

2) The magazine "Economist" was removed from "Plane" (maybe a group or an app or sth. and replaced with "Algebra"

3) The economist was removed from an airplane going to "Algebra" (but that can't be a city; even if it is, i know enough cities already)

4) "Economist Removed" (a poem maybe) from "Plane for Algebra" (a book, maybe). It's the capitalization

I didn't click.
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Seems to be being worked on, an attribute @_cdecl has been merged into master [0] and seems to compile in the current beta of 3.0 [1] although I haven't tested it.

[0] https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/013aad13d4245a012cfb76...

[1] http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl/d68be430e72609717f718...
Staying off Facebook is not enough. Facebook could easily write a web crawler to find off-site photos of people tagged on Facebook. They could even create shadow accounts to track tagged people who don't have Facebook accounts. Even people not tagged could have shadow accounts seeded from Wikipedia or news photos.
Does anyone know why video cards have stayed on a 28nm process for so long? It's appears that a significant factor in this incredible leap of performance is the process change, but I'm puzzled as to why 22nm was skipped.
Maybe it will differentiate w/ the flavor of their libraries? It seems Go is the go-to networking and low level language, whereas Swift may be better for graphical applications and user-facing apps?
I am not the parent poster, but may I ask why is this comment being down-voted? I'm not speaking for the parent, but he or she seems to be implying that medical equipment with anti-virus software with automatic updates (used as such) may potentially compromise a patient's safety, and may be indicative of further bad design practices, which could result in, at worst, death. Is this somehow off-topic, or not worthy of discussion?
Parent poster is speaking from the perspective of a hiring manager trying to evaluate the candidate. From that perspective, the critical question is "Will this person perform well at my company if I hire them?" Gaming the college degree system and learning the domain-specific information needed to perform well at a job are very different skillsets. Assuming a small team with a focused mission, general work ethic and ability to quickly absorb information correlate well with the latter, but not the former. (In a big company where nobody knows what anybody else is doing, the correlation often goes the other way and ability to game the system correlates better with success, but usually those don't have individual hiring managers evaluating resumes.)
There are monitors with 10 bit color depth, what exactly are you hoping to get beyond that?
Oops, thanks for the correction; I blame my phone. Unfortunately too late for me to correct the post now.
State chemist was high daily, thousands of drug prosecutions jeopardized
It's witch-hunting, isn't it. Amist the hype of fear, you'd better not showing your knowledge on anything, (for the witch, it's knowledge on herb and natural healing).
Are podcasts okay? I've become a big fan of Risky Business, one of the podcasts I most look forward to each week: http://risky.biz
Air travel is very stressful, so stressful that I am scared of the security more than any threats they supposedly protect us from. I fly regularly for my job and about 6 months ago I was "randomely selected" for extra screening -- even with TSA pre check. The person swabing my hands asked why I was shaking, I just told him flying makes me nervous. Truth be told, he makes me nervous with unlimited power over my ability to get back home and see my son. Flying itself is statically very safe from point A to B, the security isnt.
Weird. I'm using the same version of Xcode, running on a trashcan Mac Pro running OS X 10.11.4.
The title should really be changed to "Liberty Reserve" rather than the shameless government propaganda from Bloombag.

Bitcoin, lacking untracability, will eventually just decay into the same non-fungible identity-dependent status quo. But the lack of direct persecution like LR/egold/etc really highlight its one technological achievement.
Indexing UBI to a revenue stream is a bad idea because the revenue will tend to swing up and down in sync with economic cycles, making bubbles frothier and recessions worse. Constant spending by contrast acts more like an automatic stabilizer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_stabilizer
I'm curious as to what HN is using since I usually do it my way.

I usually stick with what I know, such as powerpoint, but I have a difficult time making it look professional.

I love the README files in markdown in any git repository that are pretty descriptive on what their architectures are.
Getting your picture taken kind of puts you on the defensive, but that probably isn't going away. You have to be able to go outside, go to the bank, go to work, and go to the grocery store. Each of those places are going to have cameras up for their own peace of mind.

The alternative would be to not go out and enjoy life, which is the worse of the two options.
The complexity of non-trivial software goes beyond what a regular person can model in their head.

You can break things up into "modules" of functionality. Mental models are themselves abstractions. But eventually, some part of a large enough system becomes so complex that even the abstractions of those indivisible components become too complex.

This is becoming a greater problem as computers, and networks become more powerful, fast and pervasive. Complexity management is the new game, not efficiency.
Digital #LoveLetters from children of the incarcerated
Then they had to do it on foot, like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides

Not an easy task for sure
That's not the scary part.

The scary part is that people are feeding the facebook DB with pictures, and many more data. They did it, they are doing it, and will keep it up, despite everything we told them.

The scary part is that nobody cares.
Well, I guess we're both going to do it the same way in swift 3, which is probably the whole point...
I don't disagree with you, but how would that work? How would you select pupils to fill the limited number of places in the desirable schools from a pool of candidates that would be much, much bigger?
You just sold me on a Pinboard account. That is great.
Better education is always a great idea. Unfortunately, regulation becomes a necessary fix for immediate problems.

Note that regulation is the nicer option; the other way to force people to get the necessary education is liability, which could get really ugly in the case of medical devices.
Microservices is about tradeoffs. Many people will reiterate this over the coming years and attempt to make it clear its not the be all and end all of software engineering. Before it had this name it was known by many others. It is in fact simply distributed systems.

The logical evolution of ones architecture when scaling from zero to orders of magnitude beyond is to eventually split out functionality so it can be worked on and scaled independently. That's it, that's all its about. And over time you find this becomes the pattern that helps stabilise and speedup an organisation as the number of people increase.

Most of the time it's an organic process. I would never tell anyone to start with microservices but to merely keep these ideas in the back of their mind and pick tools that simplify the process of moving to distributed systems later.
the same reason that SWATing is so effective. The cost of in-action is perceived too great to ignore even the vaguest threat.
Was it this, by any chance? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013997
According to the article, it was the hospital IT that misconfigured the antivirus, not the application developers.

Is there some reason to believe this wouldn't occur on a Linux system? There are plenty of dumb IA requirements that antivirus be installed on Linux, too.
Funny thing is, Tesla Model S isn't your best value for money as a track car either.

Its 4500lbs minimum, the P85D is even heavier (larger batteries I guess?). Its got a skidpad turn of .85g, while the good high-performance cars are .95g or higher.

A $25,000 Subaru WRX achieves 5-star safety rating and gets 1:45 Laguna Seca lap time.

The Tesla Model S "Performance Edition" gets a 1:48 Laguna Seca lap time.

https://forums.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/model-s-laguna-s...

I think its weight forces the Tesla S to take slower and wider turns, while the more nimble cars manage to beat it on the Track.

Once you leave the 30k price range and into the cars that are ACTUALLY competing against the Tesla Model S, you start getting to Cadelac CTS-V and faster cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la6BZ89Z6bs

1:38 on the CTS-V.

And yes, the CTS-V is a large 4000lb luxury 4-door sedan. Its price, size, and weight-competitive against the Model S.
I really wish java.util.logging was good enough to just use and be done with it. But it isn't.
> If you say that 10,000 people have died because of this, well we have spent $700,000 on the deaths of each of those individuals, 7.6 billion on TSA, to prop up the paranoia security apparatchiks.

That's not $700,000 per person, it's $700,000 per person per year.

And that's just the TSA, to say nothing of the rest of the War on Terror.
Grade inflation has really made these inferences even more difficult; for example, the median grade at Harvard is actually an A- (not the well-balanced distribution you hypothesized).
I feel similarly to the GP. I'm interested in PaaS solutions and have had successes with Keberenetes. If this filled some of the gaps in the PaaS space for me, then I'd be really interested.
The big losers would be the bright and willing children.

It's hard enough being a nerdy kid today. Such kids almost always are in decent places because kids tend to be like their parents. Kids with the potential to succeed come from parents with the potential to succeed.

Education doesn't work if the classroom is full of kids who can't behave. Education doesn't get very advanced if the classroom is full of kids who aren't bright and willing to study.

Mix things up, and what do you get? A few strangely poor-yet-viable kids will move from very bad schools to slightly bad schools (nice but insignificant) while all the bright promising kids will end up in less-effective schools. The best schools will cease to exist. (by changing that is; they don't physically go away)

It does make us more equal, largely by inhibiting the success of our brightest and hardest-working students. Is this what you want?
Awesome, thanks so much for pointing that out.
TSMC doesn't have a 22nm process -- they offer a 20nm process instead, but it was heavily delayed, had huge yield issues, and most of its production capability was double-booked with Apple, all of which meant it wasn't feasible to use in time for Nvidia's previous generation (Maxwell) launch.

Maxwell had been planned as 20nm, but when TSMC couldn't solve their process issues the first Maxwell was taped out at 28nm (GM107 aka the GeForce 750), while they waited on the rest of lineup. 6 months later, with TSMC still having issues at 20nm, the GM204(GeForce 980/970) was launched at 28nm.

16nm FinFET wasn't subject to massive delays (it launched early, in fact), and seems to have better yields than 20nm early on, so Pascal skipped right down to it.
using a computer could make it worse. I can imagine what would go through some people head seeing someone use an electronic device full of weird symbols.