skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the NHS has two problems:

1) Successive governments reorganising it (including privatising services), and

2) Successive governments underfunding it.

The rest is pretty fine.
Yep, here in America and then paid thousands for the privilege of not dying.
Makes me wonder what kind of placebo buttons will be put inside self-driving cars. Maybe a "vroom" button to tell your self-driving uber to take the fast route, or maybe even a "NY Cabbie" button to make it super aggressive in the city, along with a few honks. Latest research shows that people think biggest benefit of SD cars will be time to do other things (http://unu.ai/self-driving-cars/), but I bet one of those other things might be to hit the placebo button....
> An alternative is to take a typeclass-like view.

Type classes alone don't give you anything like Go's interfaces.

Type classes plus existentials give you something kinda like Go's interfaces, but requires explicit casts (in the form of unwrapping the contents of an existential constructor and putting them into another existential constructor).

Type classes plus rank-N types can express Go's interfaces, but at that point Haskell already has subtyping, induced by subclasses. (Or else how do you think “a Lens is a Traversal” is possible?)
Doesn't bluetooth have delay that would be nuisance to walking?
Go (the language) have at least two implementations: the official Go implementation and GCC (yes, Go is included in GCC, along with Fortran and Ada).

The latest Go implementation (Go 1.7) has made Go a lot faster. I would argue that it closer the speed of executables generated with GCC (gcc/g++) than OpenJDK, the Oracle JVM, Mono or the .NET compiler for C#.

Go (the language) can be made just as fast as C (the language), for many cases. Go has the advantage of making it much easier to use multiple processors, though.
One thing I can credit Go for is leading me from the untyped world to the typed one. I soon found the holes in the Go type system, and went looking for a stronger type system.

I now generally prefer Haskell.
Quite right. Whilst there are probably some pragmatic Conservatives, the general ideology of the Conservatives is that publicly-run services are poorly run and should be privatised, even when it's clear that they're effectively run.

To give another example, look at what has been happening with the Land Registry recently, there has been talk of privatising the functions that the Land Registry performs, even though the Land Registry is a profitable institution that makes money for the government.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/land-registry...

To be fair, New Labour also overused PFI to fund hospitals (PFI expanded under New Labour), so it's not completely one sided.
Every source control system has had a terrible UI. I mean, most of them don't even really make an attempt. (Unless you count things like Time Machine or Microsoft Word's revision tracking, those are both acceptably decent.)

But Git is a whole 'nother layer of awful beyond all of them.

Another one of the "reasons I can't get along with Linux users" is that they see something like Git and just kind of shrug and deal with it instead of getting angry that we have a piece of basically brand new software that was built without even attempting to incorporate any UI concepts we knew about at the time it was written. And since it's a CLI that about a thousand other scripts and tools consume (instead of having proper separation of the human interface from the machine interface), it basically cannot be improved at this point, not without breaking thousands of third-party tools. Sigh.
Google Street view also blurs faces and license plates. What killed it in Germany was that some people wanted to be able to have their houses blurred out, and processing these requests took lots of manual work.
I can't speak for other provinces, but in Quebec this whole story would have ended very differently. I guess we have a lot to learn from the UK in that department. From what I understand we have a shortage of Doctors AND an ageing population, which makes things even more difficult.
I'm specifically talking about the classpath, jars, separate jvm install. These are a pain to manage across environments.

I'm a longtime Java engineer, it's a great language, but I do think the compile once thing isn't as big an advantage anymore.

With the advent of the LLVM, it's easy to target specific machines. rustup, even makes it possible to build binaries for every target environment you have.

And let's be honest, how many people target more than Linux/x86_64 on the server side? Even if you target FreeBSD or Windows, my bet is that your still generally only targeting one platform.

Btw, Rust has a great std lib that is very portable across all major platforms. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/getting-started.html
confirmation bias?
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There's the nugget of an interesting point in here. A lot of journalists are struggling with the difficulty of covering someone who's essentially taking advantage of the norms of evenhandedness to get a platform for outright fabrications. The funny thing is that in other forums people use this to argue exactly the opposite, that journalistic standards force people to normalize craziness by presenting it on an even platform with sanity.

But of course, in this context, this guy is just playing the refs.
It's certainly not the norm in the US at the big chains (Marriott, Starwoods) even at their higher-end properties. I can't say the presence or absence of toothpaste (or razor, etc.) is something that I make a particular note of but they aren't common.
I'm really very interested in this, but it is beyond my ability and feels out of reach. I'm not looking for a shortcut, but where would a self taught programmer start if this field interested her?
I waited 6 hours in an US emergency room. Compared to EU ER rooms an horrible experience. All kinds of people with unfixed long term problems that apparently only the ER is obliged to handle.

Btw the reason was even more frustrating:

A us doctor (turned out nurse/practitioner) told my GF that all the obvious reasons are not the cause of her short breathness. So it might be a deadly one - we needed an xray to make sure - we had an xray with us but she wasnt comfortable looking at it because of missing education. She offered us an ambulance to the ER. We had no issues whatsoever - she just tried to cover her ass in case of.
That's pretty much true of the entire baroque edifice of unix-based CLI tools. They are what they are, and they can't really change much. Its an increasing hill to climb to become proficient, and those already comfortable have no incentive to change it.
I think the NHS is a massive government department that uses a huge amount of money (legitimately) and absolutely no government is capable of being in power and not "meddling" with it.
If we consider Go in the context of a systems (their definition) engineering language within Google's enterprise, limiting choice is not about how dumb the programmers are, but about ensuring conformity.

Rewriting code is expensive. As my office knows well. We maintain lots of old embedded systems and have to periodically rewrite or rehost it because the old hardware platforms aren't available or aren't performant enough for new features. These become multi-year, multi-million dollar projects, for relatively little gain.

By ensuring that developers and architects conform to certain conventions, it means (in theory) that this code maintenance is much cheaper, and that rewrites can be avoided or minimized. This is a good thing and lets organizations be more flexible and productive, as their time and money is no longer wasted on the old things, but can be spent on the new things.
> I had to nuke my entire Macports packages directory

I'm not sure what you were doing, but this is scary. I've been using it since 2012 or so and never had as much as a hickup.
> “If such requests did begin to trend,” explained a representative from the Wyndham Hotel Group, “we would evaluate our brand standards and offerings.”

Isn't Wyndham the same group that had a major security breach and the pleaded to congress that it's not their job to keep customer data safe from thieves?

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/06/ftc-f...

So I wouldn't expect them to understand anything that customers actually think.
> I'm not saying it should. I'm saying it's not a property of the symlink feature.

When someone uses the term "symbolic link" to mean something different than someone else using the term "symbolic link", we can assume they:

(a) do not understand what UNIX is calling a symbolic link, either because they have never heard the term, did not research it properly, or have some kind of learning disability

(b) are attempting to intentionally confuse users

We do not assume that "symbolic link ``features''" now means something else: We need justification to do that, and we don't have it:

A "link" is what POSIX calls a directory entry (§3.130), and a "symbolic link" is simply a directory entry (link) without a file associated with it.

When we are thinking about this clearly we can see what Microsoft did wrong, but we're under no obligation to support them in their definition because clearly their definition is less useful than the POSIX one.

> Some Linux distro could implement the same policy,

Users would revolt; they did revolt.

SELinux was popularized by a number of Linux distributions, and included a configuration that did exactly this, however people just turned it off because breaking applications pisses people off.

> but symlinks would still be symlinks.

No.

Just because they use the same words does not make them the same thing. You can use α-conversion to fix this without anyone else's help, and call Microsoft's "symbolic link" foo and UNIX's symbolic link bar, then you can find the sentence "foo would still be bar" the nonsense that it is.
One of the best ways to run Python on OS X (other than conda) is pyenv -- which you can easily install via homebrew
This reminds me of a strange crime spree that occurred when I was in college in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One winter, car batteries began to be stolen, soon many of my friends (I did't own a car) had to chain the hoods of their cars. Apparently, the victims, upon discovering that their car was missing a battery would become the next generation of thieves stealing batteries to fix their own stranded vehicle. I suppose bikes are a bit that way, whereas phones are not; it doesn't make a lot of sense to steal a phone because yours has been stolen, even to someone with questionable morals, because you can't simply pick it up and start to use it. Bikes and batteries on the other hand are easy to steal and use to replace your own bike or battery stolen only a hour ago.
> You have a concern - you go to the doctor.

But the NHS keeps telling us to not go to the doctor!

"See a nurse rather than a doctor! See a pharmacist rather than a doctor! Phone a helpline rather than see a doctor! Go to your high street chemist rather than see a doctor! Self-treat rather than see a doctor!".
There are many compiled languages with embedded runtimes. Haskell is among the best of them.
Only in the context of the OP talking about crimes of necessity.

Speeding may perhaps be a necessity if you're trying to get someone to hospital, but in normal circumstances near a school is plain reckless. Speeding and other motoring offences aren't a necessity in the same way stealing money for food might be. They're not influenced by poverty at all. Some of the other motivations are common though. Hence choosing to ignore in that context.
If Git were well-designed, it'd be free of rough edges and "gotchas", and it would teach you how to use it as you used it by making use of discoverability. If Git were a well-engineered piece of software, it wouldn't even have a manual (certainly not a "required reading" manual).
If you're staying at a large brand (Marriott, Starwood,etc) just ask the front desk for toothpaste. They will give you a few single use packets for free. I get 2 or 3 uses from each packet.
"I suspect that some of the meddling with the NHS is intended to be disastrous so that public opinion is more likely to accept profit-generating private schemes."

This is exactly how the Tories do things: they get agents on the inside to sabotage a system, run it down, give it a bad reputation until it can be killed-off with the public's blessing. The BBC is also being sabotaged.
One thing to note is as this is the UK - we actually have four National Health Services, one for each country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service
There is a lot of technical debt in treating thyroid problems too. T4 needs to be converted to T3 to stimulate the metabolism; most of this conversion happens in the liver. If the patient's liver doesn't work very well (because she's damaged it with cocaine, for example), she can have normal a normal Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) level, and normal T4 thyroid levels, but still be hypothyroid.

Cholesterol's conversion to pregnenolone requires T3-thyroid and Vitamin A (NOT 'beta carotene', which is a provitamin). By also supplementing Pregnenolone, and maybe progesterone, the patient has a better chance of being able to make Cortisol, if they need it. Also treating with sugar reduces the need for cortisol.
I'm from the same era, and as I've gotten older I'm much more frugal. My decised father was psychotically frugal.

I'm different than my father, but we definetly don't give hard earned money away. Now easily made money I usually spend freely.

Tooth paste--prescription grade, and use pea size amount. (Not out of cheapness--just don't want to give a dentist any money. ) Hair cutting--Flobee. Car breaks down--pull out the tools. Plumbing problems--one day at a garage sale I bought a 4' monkey wrench. I've actually used it. Emotional upset--drink. Need new clothes--pull out sewing machine, and custom fit cheap clothes. Eat out--specifical occasions. Buy Men's hair color to hide getting older in this ageist society--walk right over to women hair color and buy brown 51 for $2.99. The only item I splurge on is a certain glycerine soap. (I have thought about making my own, and might if I can obtain Neutrigenia's propriatiry formula?)

And I would never tell a date/most people any of this. When socializing, I'm a phoney spendthrift, and when it came to my pets money was never an option. I would pay anything to make them healthy/happy. Years later I was talking to a vet I befriended, and he said they have a office subscript for guy's like me--it's WPA. (Will pay anything). I remember being bothered, but their health was my priority, even when I was broke. They all passed, but I have no guilt over their care.
Also, about a minute into the video is a clip of the ball bouncing, which is a lot more impressive than the static ball in the linked article.
The abstract sounds like it. They said with no program analysis, though. I thought program analysis was good enough that it could probably auto-generate tests for every branch in a program, possibly in less time or with more assurance. W as I wrong or is this a parallel subfield?
I don't see how having a permit solves any of that though.

Moreover, I wonder how many right-side events also violate the aforementioned overly-onerous codes.
They have packets available. You get 2 or 3 uses from them. Every major hotel brand I've stayed at has them for free if you just ask the front desk.
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For lots of Americans, the copay on that CT scan is 100%.

I guess if they are getting over cancer they might be lucky enough to have met their out of pocket maximum for the year.

edit: Why is this controversial? I literally paid out of pocket for 2 CT scans last year. They both applied against my deductible (so they were 'medically justified' or whatever, not done at my insistence or something). Is being sarcastic about the high cost of healthcare in the US so absurd?
Well...

(define-syntax assign-group!
(ir-macro-transformer
(lambda (x i c)
(let ((vars (cadr x))
(vals (caddr x)))
`(let ,(map (lambda (var val) '(var val)) vars vals)
,@(map (lambda (var)
`(set! ,(i var) ,var)) vars))))))

Mind, I haven't tested this, because I don't have CHICKEN Scheme (the dialect this is written in) in front of me, and I may not have matched all the parens on the end, but it should work like this:

(assign-group! (a b c) (c a b))

Giving you your nice assigment syntax you wanted.

That's the nice thing about Lisps: if you don't like it, you can change it.
The buttons are only there because it would be too expensive to remove them.

I guess turning them into something useful is out of the question when there are not enough funds to remove them
I have run in to a lot of 4-way intersections where the button doesn't change the timing, but if the button was never pressed, once the traffic lights change the walk sign will not come on.

It needs to have been pressed before the light change to show the walk sign. It's either dumb, or it really did increase the delay until the next light change, to allow a pedestrian to cross. It just didn't speed up the initial light change.
In some ways they converge, in some ways not. On some level "nice to look at" means everything conveys some meaning, and nothing is obviously awkward. "Easy to understand" means everything you might need to know is on the screen. Those things are often aligned, but sometimes orthogonal.

Put another way, you can make something that looks simple and pleasing, but hides a lot of complexity that's required to understand in order to be able to do your work.
This is why engs don't make great product designers. They are concerned with the very important foundation and performance, which doesn't leave much cognitive overhead for the actual UX.

a consumer product will not be competitive without both the foundation and the experience being top notch.
> Sure, it’s theoretically monolithic, but you can replace modules, and it just works.

Show me an example of that being done with systemd.
The reason the EU model works is that doctors (and other medical professionals) get paid less. A quick google search suggests a US ER doctor or radiologist gets paid more than 3x what a British one does, a family practitioner 2x.

http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/People_with_Jobs_as_Phys...

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/People_with_Jobs_as_Phys...

"You have a concern - you go to the doctor" is a waste of money. We've done randomized controlled trials to study this question and the result is more money spent with no increase in health.

https://www.nber.org/oregon/

http://www.rand.org/health/projects/hie.html
Every government says that they will do something about the wait times. Which makes me wonder: why haven't they? Is wait times really do intractable?
My friend had diabetes, her GP could not even diagnose that from basic symptoms, several visits and blood test.

I strongly recommend to anyone with 'mysterious' long term illness to visit doctor in other country.
I had subpar experiences in the UK with the NHS but not horrible.

Telling people not to go to a doctor is dangerous but i can understand the intend.

Eg:
(Can only judge with Austria/Germany experience)

Pharmacists are extremely highly trained there. They are implicitly used as a simple doctor. We do the same. You feel bit weird you go to the pharmacy just to gauge what it could be and how serious they take it. If serious enough you go to a doctor asap.
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no, i don't want to work in this setting. but i want to manage my situation effectively for the time being.
Why not? In Austin after the exit of Uber and Lyft there are still multiple ride sharing options.
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I have been indelicate: What Linux calls an "struct inode" is not what UNIX traditionally called an inode[1], and I meant the latter without perhaps enough specificity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode
Well, in lisp making assignment a statement is a non-option: statements don't exist. The closest thing is returning #<unspecified> in scheme.
Which is awful, because there's nothing stopping usability development in CLI environments (look at Cortana or Siri, for example, or to a lesser extent PowerShell) except that awful stagnation.

People shouldn't have to bend their brain to work with a machine. The machine should be designed to work with human brains.

And to be that snarky person for a second: I've heard a lot of people who actually love Linux CLIs still complaining about Git's weird-ass behaviors. https://stevebennett.me/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-gi...
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Actually, Int 80h is a op-code in x86 assembly language inherited from the Intel 8008 and 8080 8-bit processors. The post announces a Free BSD assembly language tutorial for the x86.
It isn't like that doesn't happen here in the US. That sounds like part bureaucratic problem and part difficulty of diagnosis. I know plenty of people who ended up in similar situations or got the wrong diagnosis for years despite having pretty good medical insurance. You'd still have to get your medical records transferred around.
Which is idiotic. e.g. if you get tests done in one country and move to another they cannot access your scans/x-rays and end up just doing them again. Waste of money but more importantly the case history is getting distorted as you're repeating it and likely missing notes the original doctors had made.
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Yes. IIRC this occurred sometime around SUSv2 (maybe a little earlier) when many filesystem implementations were storing the contents of the symbolic link physically outside of the directory listing.
"Far side" relative to Mars's principal human installations, not to the Earth.
You're missing the wood for the trees. The 'doctor' part of the statement wasn't the important part, it's that early diagnosis is encouraged. For example, the NHS has the NHS 111 helpline for times when you want medical advice but it isn't something that requires visiting a doctor (they can refer you to a doctor if it is something that requires further investigation).

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/Emergencyandur...
I guess so. Even I am not sure though :) I would love it if someone can provide some data on the inside of such deals with numbers :)
>> "The reason the EU model works is that doctors (and other medical professionals) get paid less. A quick google search suggests a US ER doctor or radiologist gets paid more than 3x what a British one does, a family practitioner 2x."

I'm not sure if you were posing this as a problem or not but as long as doctors want to work for the NHS it isn't one.
> You feel bit weird you go to the pharmacy just to gauge what it could be and how serious they take it. If serious enough you go to a doctor asap.

They must be very confident pharmacists. If anyone ever asked me 'do you think I should see a doctor' I would say 'yes' every time.

What happens if you get it wrong? Doctors are protected by major institutions, insurance, legal precedents. What about someone working in Boots (UK high street pharmacy chain) who tells you not to bother seeing a doctor and then you die?
Until you have control over stack/heap and data locality you're never going to be able to approach C/C++/Rust speeds.

Conversely if you're using C/C++ through a ton of heap/virtual pointers then you're losing a lot of the value the language brings and should be using something higher level.
What better language did you settle on?
Are those really idiomatic examples though?

For instance, without changing too much, you could implement scrapeProfile like this: https://play.golang.org/p/sP34n9acy7 I think that reads quite nicely, although I'm sure someone else can do even better.

If you modified dumpToCSV to take an interface instead of the concrete type, you wouldn't even have to prepare the user structure. You could pass in the vcard directly.
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