skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also Science Based Medicine - a skeptical look at screening tests.

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-scr...
I am surprised to see how an off-topic discussion generated much more comments than the discussion on this cool project per se. It seems to be the norm these days on HN...
It's for cars produced in Germany produced by Volkswagen, Daimler or BMW, so the car selection is very limited (several of the cars in the photo aren't subsidized because they cost more than €60k). Germany will subsidies €2000, the remaining rest (up to €2000) come from one of the three companies - basically a price discount.

Isn't there a similar subsidies/discount in California(?) where you get $5000 if you buy an electric car (manufacturer doesn't matter afaik)?
neither fetuses nor pets are people, and not everyone in the US is any more in favor of war, and even those who are might feel killing is only justified when absolutely necessary.

Life in prison accomplishes the same thing, but is cancelable if the person turns out to have been innocent.
When the great writers of 1950s envisioned the future of the computers, they depicted a giant centralized repository of all human knowledge, working tirelessly for the benefit of the society, because it was simply unthinkable to them that such a great power would be used for anything less grand.

Instead, (borrowing a popular internet meme) we use the computing power to throw birds at pigs.

I think you're misguided in looking at the Internet as "one global venue of communication." Users of the Internet don't need a network for global cooperation. They don't need a better world. They need a tool where you can talk to your friends and send them funny cat video (or the latest kernel patch, or whatever they feel like to share at that moment).
So, a native english speaker proposing all countries drop their languages and adopt english wouldn't be racist to you -- but someone calling that out, would?
It's also their problem. They send me HTML and I have to deal with that. I send them plain text, so they can do likewise.
Yeah, absolutely.
>The British empire was the largest spanning empire in world history.

Thus far.
Sure, but I don't think you've given a good model for vagueness. Either every unambiguous meta level up is still ambiguous, or one is not ambiguous and as such is subject to the paradox. The first seems not to describe our use of language.

(Btw, I'd appreciate if you only replied to one of these chains. I've seen how multiple chains can confuse things and want to cut it off now. I probably should have edited the above reply into my other one, but let's fix it now, ok?)
I'm not sure I get your point.

Do you disagree with; abortions? The wars in Iraq? The animals in shelters are euthanized? People who oppose the death penalty?

Regardless, your condescending tone is insulting. And, I'm not entirely sure what to say in regards to your comment that people who oppose the death penalty have a mental illness.
IIRC the legal situation of the hyperspec is a bit weird and converting to other formats could be problematic. (Perhaps someone else may be more precise)
The tech is neat and I'm sure this is just the beginning of these kinds of driverless vehicles. Dubai even has driverless cars on the road.

What's really scary is that all signs point to the end of the blue collar workforce being near. Drones to do construction, to operate the trains, planes and automobiles, so that us and our cargo get where they need to go. What's the plan for replacing work after this new era arrives?

Futurists popularized that we would have robot servants for generations and it's becoming true. They didn't popularize the notion that 1% of the population would own all the robots.
I'm still sad Massdrop removed the vaping section, got a good deal on a keyboard though!
Referenced in the actual article:

Yom loved the movie "Stand and Deliver,"
about legendary Garfield High calculus
teacher Jaime Escalante's success with
so-called unteachable students.
Stand and Deliver? Different person, different school.
Strapi – The next generation framework for Node.js
Are there really subscription plans where merely turning a phone on and receiving an SMS incurs roaming charges?

Typically people just disable "data roaming" when travelling internationally, at least until one reaches and can lock to a "friendly" 3G/4G network. Thus there are no charges for IP traffic including MMS, and SMS reception is always free because you cannot turn it off.

(I still agree that WLAN at German airports is abysmal and at restaurants practically non-existent. Another downside of Germany is the unavailability of Google Street View.)
Being lazy, I'm going to ask if you know of some LXC + Btrfs pros in contrast to Docker + Btrfs?

Right now a gotcha with Docker + Btrfs is that SELinux contexts for each container can be different, but the context= mount option currently is once per superblock (thus per fs volume, rather than per fs tree or subvolume). So Docker's work around in 1.10.x is they do a snapshot and then relabel it with the new selinux context then start the container. For my containers (very basic) this adds an almost imperceptible one time delay for that container. I doubt it's even 1 second, which in container start times might seem massive to some.
Referenced in the linked article.
what do you mean? are they switching their engine? I can't endure another tragedy like opera :(
Actually it's /u/dang who keeps me coming back. The guy is a moderating machine! Keep up the awesome work man :)
I mean, really, this is quite an argument:

1) You have a working system. You know only bits and pieces of how it works.

2) You build a crude model of the system. It kinds of sucks at doing the stuff the System is doing well.

3) People over several decades apply tons and tons of task-specific optimizations and modifications to your model. Those modifications have nothing to do with the original system, but because of them the model finally achieves good performance at some tasks.

4) You use the hype generated by #3 to claim that you were right all along and that your model captures the essential aspects of the original system.

5) When people point out that your model works in ways that clearly don't match the original system, you make a claim that it's the original system that approximates your model, not the other way around. Without any observations of the original system supporting your claim.
A 3 is widely regarded as passing on AP exams.

source: I took AP exams last year.
I used to live in the neighborhood (Lincoln Heights). It's a lower income, primarily latino neighborhood of Los Angeles. I've never visited Lincoln High School but it's a public school.

http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/lincoln-h...
Free time is limited. I'd like to spend it doing something more rewarding than job hunting.
The Soothsaying Developer – limiting the uncertainity inherent in estimation
My preferred resolution says that every group of grains of sand is not 100% a heap. I still think a theory that says it is has this problem.

If we could simulate humans, we could in theory spin up a trillion versions, show each a different "heap", and find out exactly what size makes people call it a heap.
Surprisingly low numbers, considering how many hundreds of students ace their calculus tests in college.

It's not surprising if you realise that AP tests can't be gamed as easily as tests designed (and possibly graded) by those who taught the students taking the tests.
dang has noted they randomly push some stories into the bottom of the front page to give them a shot.
The senators in the story are transparently corrupt, but also doing their job.

Their job is to represent the interests of their state or their constituency.

Otherwise, their constituency would vote them out.

These senators are working at cross-purpose with our broader national interests.
Another possibility is that they already have one of the better jobs, and most jobs do not offer a competitive salary.
Get your ex back through an app?
The erosion has been slight.

When you bought a record 50 years ago, you were still not "buying" the music. The resell right (for example) was tied to the physicality of it. You couldn't repackage the recorded music and sell it.
Pragmatic Haskell for Beginners, Lecture 1
Ah, finally a break from pure Knuth worship for something objective.

http://unisonweb.org/ doesn't espouse the term"literate programming" itself, but its ideals are comparable. Oh, and, no imports whatsoever :).
The annoyingness of cinematic screens is increased futher if your favourite TV shows are from the 80s and 90s, and your favourite movies from the 30s, 40s and 50s.
Whoa, let's not put words in my mouth here. First of all, I said nothing about denying people access to their medical data. Once the tests are done, yes, it's the patient's data (and in the US, HIPAA concurs). We're not in disagreement there.

Secondly, there may be all kinds of other uses for glucose tests that one could research, but consumers running tests on themselves in an uncontrolled manner is not research. I would never say that no other uses will ever be discovered, but let's do that scientifically, please. My specific issue was with how diabetic glucose self-testing was used as rhetorical evidence that more blood tests help people, while failing to note that those tests are done to dose (potentially dangerous, fast-acting) medications, not to "keep tabs" on anybody's diabetes in a diagnostic sense, as was implied by the omission.

You say below that "people are coming around on glucose in the same way that we now understand that the cardio signal [...] are predictive of an enormous number of physiological and psychological phenomena." That's a lovely hypothesis, but please tell me who these people are, and please show me the evidence of the predictive value.

Until then, the Credentialed Professionals are perfectly justified in shrugging their shoulders at post-prandial glucose data from healthy patients (who, contrarily, will demand that needless and dangerous follow-up procedures are ordered for them), and the companies selling consumers these tests will not be helping anybody become healthier. I could go on, but this comment sums up the societal effects better than I could, even referencing your "ideal" of the ECG for screening. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11694341
I think Loop for VOX has this, check http://coppertino.com/loop-for-vox
Researchers Intentionally Leak 70,000 OkCupid Profiles for Science
One of the big differences between software engineers and everyone else is that we type 100wpm and until we are able to do this on a phone, they remain largely useless to me unless I'm a bind and need SSH access and the command line.

On another interesting note, it seems the internet continues to be designed around people that just don't know how to type.
>These other internets that you have mentioned are not much significant outside their own little spheres.

Those "little spheres" can be 2-3 times the US market. And the rest of the English internet is of not much use to most people in their day to day lives, outside businessmen and techies exchanging business communications and technical information.

>Disclaimer: I am an Asian with English as a second (actually earlier as a third language). But due to English and due to English internet alone I could educate myself to a large extent and could come out of the clutches of the barbaric and irrational religious preachings/scriptures.

Well, not really representative of Asians at large then. There are always people that adopt a new culture and frown upon their old culture -- there's also whole thing called "internalized racism" -- feeling your ways are inferior to those of the dominant culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalized_racism
The way i see it, artificial intelligence, automation, an the internet will drive a lot of changes in the coming 50 years

Right now almost every existing industry is being reborn online. Amazon did it with retail. Uber is currently doing it with tranaportation. This interconnectivity is leading to increasing centralization in the quest of efficiency. Trillion dollar corporations might not be far off.

The internet coupled with AI and automation. will further transform entire industries. Low hanging fruit include banking, finance, accounting and legal indsutries. Will a bank branch exist in your city 50 years from now? Add robotics to the mix and then we are looking at serious improvements in quality of life. Machines could perform tasks requiring high dexterity and may match or exceed humans in this regard. When self-driving comes, it will transform how cities look and our relationship with transportation. Millions of lives could be saved. This wave of automation will put millions out of work - IIRC the trucking industry is the largest employer in the US. Since the invention of the loom people have predicted that machines would put the population out of work. So far, people have found ways to stay employable in the service of machines (making, operating and repairing them). But we may have peaked in that regard. People will find it increasingly hard to make themselves useful in this new economy. How will society respond? Will we adopt a basic income ? Will we achieve an Athens without the slaves? What will capitalism look like in 50 years?

Other stuff i cant even begin to imagine. How will medicine look like in the next 50 years? Our quality of life as measured by life expectancy may improve, but what about the quality of those final years? Will we still just live long enough to be killed by cancer? What will combat look like? War? The current drone wars seem to hint at the direction we are going. In the future, advanced nations might fight entire wars in far away lands without a single citzen being physically deployed. Will global deaths from conflict increase or decrease as a result? How will the enemy respond? What will our energy infrastructure look like in 50 years? Will we have free energy? Or at least close to 100% renewable? Or will battery technology or some other issue still stand in our way?
Bear in mind that they also filter out anything they can't get a referral fee for.
Wired's first big HTTPS rollout snag
Show HN: Sharp11 – Music Theorization and Improvisation Engine
It's weird to discuss humanity when you're talking about taking someones life without their consent as an act of revenge.

Also it could be argued the guillotine is more humane since the death is instant. The chemical injections just feel "cleaner" since the executioners wearing a lab coat.
I'm very happily employed anyway, and at no point in the 4 years since I quit LinkedIn have I struggled to find meaningful, well paid employment. If I had stayed on LinkedIn just maybe some amazing job offer would have appeared that otherwise hasn't - but I doubt it. For 8 years as a member of LinkedIn I never had one interesting conversation. And I could say "what if I moved to New York?" or "what if I learned to speak Spanish?" There's an opportunity cost to not doing those things as well.

I understand that some people can find value from LinkedIn, but I just don't feel that I'm one of them. I attend lots of meetups in London, and participate in online discussions, and that's good enough for me.
The HyperSpec is under LispWorks' copyright. The official ANSI document is copyrighted. The TeX sources of the spec, however, are fair game.
Incorrect. More people speak English in India than any other country in the world.

English is the global language (for now), like it or not.
> Isn't the problem here imports in general?

That's a very complicated question.

In a complex world, you have to do something to establish the context in which a particular piece of code is being evaluated. It's a matter of taste whether that context establishment should come before or after the code for which the context is being established. Personally, I prefer the context establishment to come before, but reasonable people can disagree. This extends even to the language level, where you have some languages (like the C family, and Lisp) where variable bindings always precede their usage, and others like ML and Haskell, where the bindings can come after they are used.

But what I was complaining about was specific to #includes, which use a very particular (and badly broken) mechanism to establish context, namely, textual inclusion. It was a horrible hack invented to appease a brain-damaged compiler which could only deal with one file at a time. In 1970 this was an understandable engineering trade-off. In 2016, not so much. The right way to fix it is to get rid of it and replace it with something less brain-damaged rather than layering more hacks on top of it (IMHO).
Before the start: The science of finding your product
About a third of the text is wasted whining about the "negative" community, which actually makes me want to look at CL again.
Well, what I mean is, with phone calls you already had (as soon as someone picked up) a data feed. If you could automate that pickup, and relay it to the ticker, you have a kind of email, albeit without the storage. Why couldn't they do something like that?

(Edit: in fairness, that would be more like "land line texting" than email.)
The American economy's big problem: we don't have enough companies like Tesla
An alternative to Go's SQL null types is simply using pointers, like `*string` instead of `sql.NullString`. Pointers function in the same way, except they marshal into JSON very nicely.
Then don't put a specification link on the home page and wait until it is done. The text is non-helpful to marketing the language particularly when books are actually available and linkable that can be read now.
Also, as a straight, white person myself, I understand that there are some discussions where my opinions are irrelevant and unwanted because I simply haven't experienced what others have and am unable to understand and empathize as intimately. Excluding my opinion isn't a slight against free thinking, it's a shortcut because I have nothing to contribute.

Or in other words, outside perspectives are never useful? All the advice about having papers / presentations proofread by people not involved, about looking to outside sources to check if you're stuck in a rut, about the value of diversity of backgrounds and opinions, is all bullshit and worse than useless?
Death isn't instant when done with guillotine I think, rather you're alive and alert for 13 or so seconds

http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/thefrenchrevolution/a/dy...
Good point, and one I've got a blindspot for because we're not coding for Android (other than via Unity).

So yes, that could be enough of the 'killer app', if Android stays with Java. Do you have any intuition for why 'nobody cares about Scala on Android'? Not doubting you, just curious.
I've done AIDE on a tablet. It'd be cramped on a phone, but possible. It pairs very nicely with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse (or wired even, with the right cable). It was pretty awesome on the old Asus Transformer line, and if you're rooted it's pretty fully functional.
I enjoyed skimming over this again -- I happen to be the guy who wrote the first comment on it.

I'm pleased to say that I've stuck with CL, and I'm glad I did. I've managed to use it at work, and have been using it to build something I can't picture doing (easily?) in any other language. I've managed to pique the interest of a few coworkers, too.

Much of what the article says is indeed true, but I just don't feel they're as problematic as they're made out to be. There are some ugly corners of the language, but they're, in my opinion, vastly outweighed by a fearsome arsenal of tools at your fingertips. I'd contend that it's warts are "warts in the small" -- some weird naming, some inconsistencies in usage. Other languages -- even pretty good ones -- have problems in things as basic as their scoping rules. I believe that by comparison, CL is actually pretty reasonably designed.
>Nearly one in two Internet users say privacy and security concerns have now stopped them from doing basic things online — such as posting to social networks, expressing opinions in forums or even buying things from websites, according to a new government survey released Friday.

Ha! I was asked to put in my email address before I could read the article. I almost didn't read it, but I put in a fake address and they let me through the gate.
> That was one of the hardest classes I've ever had to take because the grammar is so complex

Did you study Latin for several years before? I think that class is typically intended for people who have already studied Latin at the high school level for three years (most likely reading Caesar or other authors first). That would give a lot more opportunity to become familiar with Latin grammar rules.
It's insanely expensive. Like $400 a year.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11695498.
There is a Federal + State one:

http://driveclean.ca.gov/pev/Costs/Vehicles.php

For a Chevy Volt, that was $7500 Federal + $1500 State

Worked nicely for a lease too.
Probably the most natural simulation of the nature in this digital word
This is a natural language library, and languages still care very much about gender.
It's been awhile but the AP exam for me was nothing but rote memorization. You memorize how to solve n types (10? 15? 20?) of problems and then you grind through the test a) identify what type of problem it is b) apply algorithm to solve.

Furthermore the AP exam environment, IMO, varied by the school giving it. I could have easily stored formulas in my calculator (for the calculator section), I could have easily colluded with classmates, and if my teachers wanted to, they could've easily given me the answers. It was a bit of a joke really. Multiple phones went off during the exam, no penalties were given (which I agree is the right approach, but it does say something about the exam itself).

The prestige of the AP program and the experience of taking a number of AP courses has contributed to my declining respect for our higher education system really.
The Cat Psychic
I find this absurd. This is natural language processing. What do languages have? Gendered pronouns. Some languages have gendered nouns. We use language to communicate information about our environment.

Whether or not someone is male or female may be irrelevant to how they perform in certain tasks, ie, don't judge someone by their race/gender obviously. However, purposely crippling a natural language processor by removing its ability to use language to determine gender is insanity.
Do most plans not have unlimited data in America?
Rainy mood.
The Unhealthy Truth Behind 'Wellness' and 'Clean Eating'
Disclaimer: I'm the author of the post.

In this particular example, both events (item_reported and item_deleted) end up in destructive actions identified by unique id. That idempotency makes safe working with Kafka's at-least-once semantics. You can see that it's safe to execute several times this line of code:

val newItemsToBeDeleted = items.filterNot(_ == item)
What language?
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