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I'm not saying it. National organisations are saying it - Public Health England (part of government); the Faculty of Pain Medicine (part of the Royal College of Anaesthetists); NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, a non-departmental public body) all say it. So, unusually, do the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/opioid-prescribing/index.html

If they were effective and if addiction could be safely managed you wouldn't see increasing rates of people addicted, taking dangerous amounts, and dying of overdose. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/17/cdc-guideline...

People take opiates because doctors inappropriately prescribe them (in some countries); because the word "opiate" is well known; because people reject other treatments; and because people stick to the med they know. That's why co-proxamol (and very dangerous, ineffective medication, is still being prescribed today even though there are many other better meds).

They continue taking them, at massive doses, because they're addicted. And that's the problem - if they were addicted but getting pain relief we could understand the continued use of opioids as first line treatment, but most people don't get good pain control with opiates for long term pain. They end up having to mix different meds, these combinations are often dangerous. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/09/us-patients-...
This article is interesting, but too often misinterpreted.

People most cite it as an argument for why you need hierarchies in your organization. However, I don't think the article gets to claim such thing. Instead, it claims that one should not let structure be implicit, because then it degenerates in tyranny.

People are too used to think that structure == hierarchy that we assume that the corollary is that hierarchy is needed to avoid tyranny. David Graeber in his "Utopia of Rules" [1] makes a good counterargument: if your goal is to avoid tyranny it's little difference to have it implicit or explicit. In the later case, you are just giving some moral justification for it -- you legitimize it, in the most literal sense of the word. What you need is, if you want to avoid tyranny, a resilient and explicit flat structure, with mechanisms in place to identify and reject emergent tyrannies.

I understand, though, why we are becoming disillusioned about the word "flat" in the business world. Most businesses that try to go "flat" still have a vertical ownership structure. What "flat" actually means in that context is: "you have to figure out how to make money for me, but I'm not going to tell you how!" This creates a lot of anxiety, because at the same time that workers are told to feel empowered and take responsibility, everybody spends so much energy in figuring out what are the invisible walls of the cell, and what their patrons actually want from them. I think it takes a lot of alienation to really thrive in such environment.

That does not mean that flat is impossible in the business world, in my view, you just need an explicit flat structure that begins with your ownership model. A company that I know of that has such structure is Igalia [2] (discl: I don't work with them but have acquaintances there)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Utopia_of_Rules
[2] http://igalia.com/
My personal favorite was trying to search for things related to the IO language, being a generic computing term as well and a fairly obscure language too.
The law isn't like programming. Judges typically see a difference between driving your family around driving for cash on Uber
Having listened to the earnings call, this article makes me facepalm. When explaining the internal July 1 target date, Elon repeatedly said he would explain it at the risk of it being misinterpreted by the media, and then this article misinterprets it. That date was never meant to actually be the production start date, only a date that they are aiming for with all suppliers so that they can hold their feet to the fire when an inevitable few of the thousands of needed parts have delays. Also, about the complexity of building Tesla cars, he points out that the Model 3 is vastly easier to produce than any of the other models, since it was designed expressly for being simple and very easy to manufacture. Go listen to the actual earnings call.
They would also have to identify their vehicles with a logo (slap a magnet on the side of the car), avoid obstructing an active street or bus stop, and pay one of three fee options (at Uber/Lyft's choice).

It's not going to cripple Uber/Lyft's business model. They disagree, of course, which is their prerogative. There are still taxi services available in Austin who find those regulations perfectly workable.

If you dislike your health department making you wear hair nets or meet food-holding temperatures, you are perfectly free to discontinue providing a service that goes against the public interest.
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You're talking about acute, short term, pain. I have repeatedly said that I am not talking about short term pain. I am talking about chronic, long term, pain.
Or worse. Look up "flail chest" sometime. You really should think about finding something else, or at least a newer steering wheel.
The difference happens when you're involved in an accident, i.e. when personal or financial harm is involved (insurance etc). While there is an amendment stating that a suspect cannot incriminate him/herself, I don't think it applies to a traffic accident (where the car is impounded and its data read for information that could previously only be gathered by looking at skidmarks and the like).

Automatic fining, best not, but alternatively as a driver you should be able to automatically limit your speed, especially in a car like the Tesla where speeding is very easy.

Wouldn't you agree that preventing an accident is better than finding out who is to blame, or survival chances, etc? Speeding is still one of the main causes of traffic accidents, and even if it's not the cause, it's the primary factor in the amount of damage caused.
The question of where to draw the line does not come with more telemetry data collected by cars. If you would deploy lots of speed traps everywhere, you'd have a similar situation.

Overtaking a slow-moving vehicle does probably not allow you to ignore speed limits. And I'm pretty sure you are allowed to ignore speed limits to a certain extend in case of emergencies. I don't want the car to enforce the speed limit by itself, and even if, you could solve that by an "emergency button" of some sort. You'd need to justify it's use when asked by the cops of course.

I also do value freedom and think that absolute safety is not something desirable, but considering the tens of thousands of traffic deaths each year, people apparently abuse their freedom in traffic and we do need more safety there.
You are talking the conversation far too extreme. No one is forcing EVERYONE to work every day onsite. No one is forcing you to give up your life, or pick a side in work vs home...

Merely, I just state remote has its drawbacks. There is a tradeoff. If remote is so superior, then everybody should already be doing it.

For me, what OP suggests feels like a myth, just too good to be true, by ignoring the potential frustration.
> Meeting will be a huge pain.

VoIP exists. Video conferencing exists. Meetings are usually better when kept short, so the reduced/shortened meetings are a positive thing.

> And the communication is not as easy as you can do in person.

Remote working means you have to communicate via either text, audio, audio + video, or diagrams.. So the only thing you can't really do, is touch the other person. Im pretty sure most work places discourage that kind of "communication" anyway.

> Also some ideas/conversations sparks during casual talking, if remote, those small things will be missed.

Why, because you think remote workers don't have casual conversation? I worked for several years with a medium size company that had a couple of hundred staff all around the globe. I'd argue the amount of non project specific, but still technical discussion was higher than when I worked in an office.
If you like these kinds of game AI competitions and are looking for a more serious challenge, you should have a look at [0] (Starcraft Broodwar leaderboard and yearly tournaments). Most mainstream programming languages are supported out of the box (C++, Java, Python, etc.) and there is an active community around the process of bot development. IRC channel: [1]

Besides, talks are that this is the next problem the Google Deepmind team is going to tackle.

[0] http://sscaitournament.com/

[1] http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=BWAPI
Yeah, but why not just show all that in order?

It's not like it's big or broad enough for the reader to only be interested in particular 'chapters'.
I think this article (from 2005!) is still quite good introduction to HDR: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/10/04/brightside_hdr_e...

Your link is now bit outdated in the regard that these days there are plenty of consumer HDR standards/names out there. HDR10 and Dolby Vision are the two main competing standards, and we have marketing terms like "Ultra HD Premium" or "HDR Compatible".

https://www.cta.tech/News/News-Releases/Press-Releases/2015-...

http://www.whathifi.com/advice/ultra-hd-premium-what-are-spe...

I think NCX is being bit overly negative (in his characteristic style) in his predictions. Sure, there will be cheap crap released, but considering that almost all major manufacturers are pushing this tech heavily on TV screens it can't be that long until it trickles down to monitors too. Of course you can plug your PC right now to one of those fancy new HDR TVs, I'm not sure though if you can get HDR actually working. I guess that would be mostly a software issue?
> It found that over the past four decades, the average age-corrected male BMI rose to 24.2 from 21.7, and in women rose to 24.4 from 22.1.

Could this be due to an increase in people going to the gym?
A bmi of 24.x is still < 30 and not unhealthy.

Therefore, I wonder whether we see two different things here: 1.) More people become obese (those with an bmi > 30 [and even there could be some corner cases due to the fact that bmi is by no means a perfect measure]) and 2.) more people lift weights/become (somewhat) healthier.
So breaking traffic laws and being held accountable for it is now the cops screwing you over?

Same with the insurances bit. Allowing yourself to be held accountable for your driving habits creates a safer world. There's a fad saying that traffic will be safer with more self-driving cars; it'll be safer with people being held accountable for their driving habits, too. Driving would already be 90% safer if nobody was speeding, driving drunk or running a red light; if telemetry and financial advantages (i.e. insurance) can help with that, then by all means. Much cheaper than self-driving cars, too.
There are lots of options for optical cabling (e.g. cheap plastic fibers vs. glass fibers) and all have different tradeoffs, e.g. available bandwidth vs. cost. However from what I've seen basically all options are more expensive then equivalent electrical connections (we use both optical and electrical networks in cars).

A major advantage of optical is that there are no EMV problems and that you are electrically decoupled (e.g. no hum loops). This might be one of the reasons why toslink is optical. For displays ground loops are typically no problem compared to amplifiers/speakers.
Wouldn't the shock-absorbers still at least retain someone after being used once? I gathered that regular seatbelts will have to be replaced after an accident anyway, they too stretch a little in an accident without retaining their stretchiness.
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I'm glad to hear you're alright. As I'm sure you know, dissociatives can be terribly addictive. I've watched friends with similar supplies (nowadays it comes in bulk powder from India) turn into the walking dead. That's not even to mention the permanent damage and having to urinate every 10 minutes.
HTTP basic auth is a widely supported and widely used way of doing paid podcast feeds. Most typically the podcasts apps just require you to enter the login details in the feed URL, some fancier apps have proper UIs for entering the username / password. There is very little need to have a fancier protocol than that.
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If a commit is signed, one can verify that the author is indeed who s/he claims to be. See https://git-scm.com/book/it/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work.

Some excerpt:

Git is cryptographically secure, but it’s not foolproof. If you’re taking work from others on the internet and want to verify that commits are actually from a trusted source, Git has a few ways to sign and verify work using GPG.

In Git 1.8.3 and later, “git merge” and “git pull” can be told to inspect and reject when merging a commit that does not carry a trusted GPG signature with the --verify-signatures command.
I think they regretted saying anything about kOS early on, I think it won't be mentioned until release.
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Research by Microsoft suggests that distributed development has no impact on various software quality measures (bugs, code churn, complexity, etc). See: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1023...
I'm actually not familiar with criminal background checks, but they work like this right: if you get caught for some crime, and spend time in prison, then you will have a criminal record, and be discriminated against for the rest of your life?

This seems very unreasonable to me. Perhaps some very narrow/limited discrimination would make sense. Like if someone gets caught several times for drunk driving, then perhaps that person should not be allowed to have a drivers license for a long time afterwards. But if someone gets caught for smuggling drugs, then that person should never be allowed to drive a taxi for the rest of their life? That seems unreasonable.

Some groups, such as people with criminal records, sex workers, the mentally ill, people who enjoy other drugs than alcohol and until recently homosexuals, are treated very badly in some democracies. However, it's interesting that the mainstream press never makes much fuss about such human rights violations in democracies. In a democracy the majority has the power. Also, it's the goal of the mainstream press to sell as many newspapers as possible, get as many page views as possible etc. in order to make as much money as possible. Thus, they need to appeal to the majority. Pointing out that the majority is behaving in an unreasonable way will not endear them to said majority so they don't do that much.
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The most successful are generally the most resilient genetically. Nothing unreasonable about that. They also generally are the most intelligent or at least capable of problem solving and have symmetrical faces. Nothing really wrong with this except we're all lied to saying when someone is pretty they're usually crazy and things like that. It's all bullshit!
OTOH, why the spying concern? In a Japanese spa or Finnish sauna, everybody goes naked, male and female alike.

Tear down the walls!

Bonus: You could play cards with your neighbor. If the toilets faced each other, you could balance a chessboard on your knees and theirs.
It's not circular at all, it is simply a fact that the education system works that way. Why is Harvard prestigious? Because it has a policy of only admitting people who would be successful whether they went to Harvard or not... And "Harvard dropout" carries as much cachet at "Harvard graduate", which should tell you something.
0.5 mg/kg. 5 mg/kg will be a hell of a ride.
There's no escape on my tablet. Also, the whole experience is horrible on tablet also wrt the other parts of navigation. Doesn't fit right on screen, navigates when trying to adjust, jumps around when trying to navigate. Hard to hit the arrows. I bailed out on this after three slides. Unusable.
> there likely are ways to do things in a decentralised way

Judging by recent trends in media consumption (DRM, iTunes, Kindle, Audible, Netflix, Google Play, Facebook, etc), nobody is going to do that, the overall strategy being to lock-in users and screw them of any sense of control, portability and ownership and to milk publishers for all their worth.

Decentralized you say? That's wild imagination.
It's a serious issue. Just because you don't see it working that does not mean it cannot work. How else are we to solve the living standards issues? We can't all be 24 year olds forever!
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Obligatory when is it coming to Android question.

My default keyboard offers emoji based on what I type. For example, I type "fire" and the fire emoji is one of three suggestions. I find that I use it a lot. If this image search was quick and snappy then I would definitely use it.
Twilio, Plivo, etc.
What are your skills?

What skills do you want to be using?
There's some video here: http://dudug.co.uk/category/the-artists/
It's the open standard for VoIP.

It's used in many places, but mostly offices. An office might have an exchange system, with features like voicemail and routing different types of call over different networks.

I have a personal account which gives cheap international calls, which I added to my android phone. I can receive calls at my SIP address, from anyone on any provider. When I make a call, I'm given the option of using the mobile network directly, or SIP.

Naturally, neither the phone networks not the big tech companies want you to use SIP. They'd rather you used normal calls, or their proprietary system.
It's telco VOIP. Anyone can get it, e.g. https://www.sipgate.co.uk/basic/

And there are various providers which will let you do 'trunking' into the phone system, so you can have any number of handsets with the same origination number appearing on outgoing caller ID.
I've seen ads (either in the US or UK) that didn't market drugs directly, didn't name any brands or anything, but was basically "If you have erectile dysfunction, go see your doctor, there may be something for you".
Ask HN: Is there a Facebook group or something similar for users of HN?
My mother works for a doctor, she's gotten some drug company swag and passed it on. I have (had?) a pen somewhere with a floating viagra pill, and a notebook in the form of a Cialis box.
I would argue passing around all data as text is suboptimal, not only from a performance point of view but also in terms of robustness. Parsing plain text using regular expressions and suchlike can lead to some useful outcomes but it's easy to derive false positives from this. On the other hand a binary-based object-oriented approach can give better performance and make it easier to parse data.

This is just one example of where the old ways aren't necessarily the best. I'm fairly confident we could come up with something better than POSIX if we were willing to make the effort.
Weird - I wonder why they use their own and why they haven't open sourced it.
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KxCon2016 is coming up May 19-22. Arthur Whitney is scheduled to give a presentation on K6. You might try asking on the Kdb+ Personal Developers Google group afterwards.
Ask HN: How can I make subway tunnel monitoring system
I'd like to design a system to monitoring the subway tunnel which is hard for manually checking(mostly for safety checking). Can anyone give me some advice on the features/functions I can provide? Any suggestion is welcome.
I'd be interested to know how you know that. Did you just experiment? Others have said that "space" will take one through the slides in sequence. Is that genuinely discoverable? How does one know when hitting space that one has seen all the slides, and not just taken a single path through a subset.

These are genuine questions - I'm heavily into usability (in a different context) and I'd be interested to know what people try, and what they conclude. In my context people are uneasy about hitting keys and random just to see what happens. On some web sites I'm afraid to move the mouse, because the mouse-over event has been trapped, and things happen that I don't want, and can't undo.

So how did you discover that ESC will produce an overview?
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John Lewis is a coop like Mondragon - which makes me doubt the source your quoting.
Thoughts about package modularization
>Of note, during validation of Model S roof crush protection at an independent commercial facility, the testing machine failed at just above 4 g's. While the exact number is uncertain due to Model S breaking the testing machine, what this means is that at least four additional fully loaded Model S vehicles could be placed on top of an owner's car without the roof caving in. This is achieved primarily through a center (B) pillar reinforcement attached via aerospace grade bolts.

https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-model-s-achieves-best...

Please spread more FUD.
It looks nice. Personally I worry about the contact form submission limit. What happens if I go over the limit? Users won't be able to contact me any more? Limits based on docs make sense to me much more.

Also just curious how this compares to helpscout docs?
Though of course we can't run an exact experiment, the premise is that the occupants would have seen much worse injuries had it been an average car without the saftey ratings of the Model S.
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This aricle falls foul of what I might call 'security shopping'-- passing mentions of lots of brightly coloured complex sounding security things with very little regard to what exact problem they're solving.

They mention a VPN or insecure access panel having bad permissions, but recommend a mixed bag of differently coloured jellybeans as the solution without once reccomending shutting down the PHP script, allowing access from the VPN only through certificate, password and hardware two-factor authentication, and ensuring good access controls and employee on- and off boarding systems.

Far more importantly, I question the efficacy of any security recommendation that doesn't mention threat modelling at all. What is it you want to protect? What's it going to cost to protect these things? What's it going to cost to lose them? What's the simplest and most effective best way of protecting these? Is it really moving your entire system to a different platform and upgrading all your cypto -- ask yourself -- are we really installing air bags, or are we building our car out of armour plates? Some kid is going to spend 2 hours on XSS in your app if you spend all your resources investing in in-datacentre encryption and service-to-service authentication.
Can you explain it in simpler terms - what is 'symbiotic object system' and how it's an alternate to an universal intermediate code?
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> passing around all data as text is suboptimal

POSIX is not Unix.

Passing data around as text is a tenet of the Unix philosophy, while AFAIK POSIX doesn't mandate any of that.
Somebody once had a hobby project of a stack-based language called V. Can't find it now.

I don't think anybody could use Z, since the Z formal notation is too well known.
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