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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.

I live with an ER doctor, and the problem with US ERs is EMTALA: https://www.verywell.com/emtala-the-emergency-medical-treatm.... If you want a better ER experience you must fight that first (or get a concierge doc, which is another route).

If it makes you feel better many doctors are themselves disillusioned with the system: http://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-nu... and I have heard many ER docs complain about how they don't have enough time to adequately see, understand, and diagnose each patient. And the rants against EMRs are epic. One friend said that he chose a hospital because they still use T-sheets.
Cognitive behavioural therapy is falling out of favour
WTFUK Turned back at the border
Britain and its expansion of surveillance powers
I can't remember ever seeing a walk button in Manhattan. In Brooklyn I do see them sometimes.
I have seen this in some cities, but not much. It would be very cool to have.
There's actually an `analytics` command that saves you even having to manually do this. `brew analytics --help` shows the options.
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Imagine the entire skeptical climate blogosphere focusing its energy into p-hacking the raw climate dataset and models to prove their point. From the scientists' perspective, they wouldn't have a lot to gain by enabling this.
What is your motivation for defending the status quo? My goal for posting was to point out that existing mental health treatments don't work, and that there are promising developments that point to a better model. I didn't share all my references.

> There are undoubtedly better treatments out there, but either they haven't been discovered yet or they haven't been proven to help.

Antipsychotics have been shown again and again to be ineffective over the long term:

http://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-C...

> There is no nefarious motive behind sticking to the status quo.

Just inertia and institutional retardation.
I have had two family members die from NHS mismanagement. If they had been in the US system (which I have experienced first hand) they would most likely still be alive.
This is not the place, but I've been frustrated in the last few days by jupyter not being able to run these notebooks with an up to date python scientific stack. The kernel dies whenever a cell is run that attempts to generate an in-line chart.

Alright, I'll go and open an issue now :)
"New York City cab medallions, which sold for as much as $1 million a year ago, now are priced at the $500K level, battered by competition from Uber, Lyft.

Some Independent owners, having paid upwards of $1 million, are “under water” by hundreds of thousands of dollars on the mortgages they owe on the medallions."

http://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/6471/2016-03-08/uber-ly...
I am almost positive that Simple does not support business accounts currently. I am not aware of any "online-only" bank that supports business accounts.
The article definitely resonates with me.

An intelligent friend of mine told me that she figures that I don't enjoy watching baseball because I was just a nerd in school and don't realize the value of sports.

I was captain of my swim team in junior high and lettered every year in high school in swimming. I also pole vaulted in high school (not very well). In college I did one year on the swim team and one year on the gymnastics team (I wasn't very good). I did Judo for around 20 years and competed in the state championships in my 30's (not very well). I qualified and ran in the Boston marathon in my 50's. In most races i was in the top 15% of my age cohort.

I was never a great athlete in any sport, but overall more active than most; however, because I don't want to drink beer and yell for players that I have no connection to other than that they live in the same city she thinks that I'm too nerdy to appreciate the value of sports.
I guess that's under the "Be Clear on Cancer" stuff?

https://www.nhs.uk/be-clear-on-cancer/symptoms/bowel-cancer

> If you've had blood in your poo or looser poo for the last three weeks, tell your doctor. Chances are it's nothing serious, but you're not wasting anyone's time by getting it checked out. Call your GP today.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-its-f...
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9407119

Because of the cross-platform focus of the NetBSD developers, I can replicate my package installation workflow on any number (20+ at last count) of operating systems with the same command set. This saves me from the mental overhead of having to pick up Mac-isms, which is nice.

Also, binary installs!
In my experience very rare. It's so rare I'd say it basically doesn't happen.

You'll get some fluctuation, a bug may come up half an hour earlier or not. But results tend to be pretty reproducible. If you find a bug with a specific test and tool in x hours then the next time you try for at least x+1 hours you'll find it again.
For what it's worth, I'm sort of in between the both of you, and I know a number of people like myself: I almost always make sure to bring my own toothpaste, but I'll begrudgingly use someone else's if necessary.

But similar to the previous poster, I (and the people similar to myself) don't have this at all with soap or shampoo.
Macro assemblers. It would be a pain without macros.
FWIW I'm not trying to strawman the argument behind not having features like this. Rob Pike said this in a talk about Go:

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers [...] They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

I'll concede there's the possibility for some weird tongue-in-cheekness here, but it definitely seems to be the canonical view among gophers that Go's paucity of features is about accessibility for programmers that don't understand them or find them cumbersome to work with.

I think this idea that "paucity = good" is so easily abusable that whenever this comes up from gophers I wish they would concede that this is an unhelpful simplification of what they must actually believe. Assembly language has possibly the highest paucity of concepts given it offers no ability to introduce language-level abstractions (other than say conventions about calling, etc.), but Go is nothing like this.

The argument can't be that paucity is good as a general condition, its that there are forms of abstraction and programming language features that Gophers find unhelpful or difficult to understand. The problem I have with this when applied to parametric polymorphism, is that Gophers already work with these concepts daily, so it can't be that use of them is complicated.

I also have a hard time believing that the ability to define parametric types and functions costs you anything. It's almost always self-evident when to use parametric types or functions, things that are "wrappers" or "collections" probably account for 80% of their use. I also don't think I've ever experienced ambiguity of choice with the feature. For instance I don't think I've ever been in the situation where I had to trade off implementing a generic definition vs. N specialized definitions. The frustration of using Go is actually that I now have to consider the later as a possibility or trade off type safety by using unsafe casting.

If there's a place where parametricity truly introduces complexity, I'd love to hear about it from a Gopher instead of a blanket statement about how "programmers don't understand it", "it decreases readability", or "Go is simpler without it".
Without going into the rest of your points, which seem bizarrely furious at a piece of software, nothing about Homebrew forces you to live inside `/usr/local`.

It is recommended, but if you want to run in `/opt/brew` or `~/brew` you'll get a warning some things may not work but that's it. There's no hard block, and the vast majority of core formulae can pour their bottles anywhere.
> My main caveat would be that even a basic language needs a mechanism to glue related code together, objects, modules, structs with row-typing, existentials, not sure. But something.

While not perfect, I think ML's solution is pretty reasonable: a separate module language, whose complexity doesn't infect the core language.
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Neoliberal is effectively conservative with less guns and religion.
At least 90% of these would be self-evident by someone.. ehm.. intelligent.

Then again, I keep seeing these issues on websites, so...
I understand nothing past Mickey Mouse will ever be public domain, but how can this conceivably not be subject to expired copyright? Or is this merely a matter of some special claim of authorization by the Beinecke library? The article doesn't enlighten.
> The amount of waste in terms of time and money were eye-watering, every time. The amount of politicking was immense.

Have you ever worked at a reasonably large private organization? It's exactly the same there. It's a complete fairy tale that large private organizations are somehow more efficient than large state-run ones.
Blood tests, to get second opinion. GP disagreed with patient suggestion, and had loundry list of treatments to try first (including shrink and accupuncture).

Three months is reasonable number if you have no GP (have to register first), bad english and live in poor neighbourhood.

Visiting foreign doctors is cheaper and faster.
I know, but I feel it would be dragging politics into HN something I think I'll try even harder not to do in the future than I have so far.

My point was just to add some anecdata that:

* Report buttons seems to work, sometimes.

* Facebook is not necessarily a neutral party.
Yup, same here (without the wife). I always make sure to have both a normal and travel sized tube of my preferred toothpaste. OTOH I don't really care about soap or shampoo.
It's very possible that one has enough money to add something useful, like a count-down, even if there is no money to use for something cheaper, but plainly useless, like removing the button.
Obviously this all varies wildly by state
And if you don't need types, there's LuaJIT with all the dynamic features, best inline C FFI ever done, runtime performance in par with native compiled languages, and tools for producing self-contained binaries if needed - https://luapower.com/bundle
In retrospect, my other comment was stupidly obtuse. Both too technical (in the sense of specificity) and too unstructured (in the sense of presentation order). A more appropriate path from CS might be analogous (well, inverse if anything) to the path Robert Goldblatt has taken. It dips into nonstandard analysis, but not totally without reason. Some subset of the following, with nLab and Wikipedia supplementing as necessary:

0. Milewski's "Category Theory for Programmers"[0]

1. Goldblatt's "Topoi"[1]

2. McLarty's "The Uses and Abuses of the History of Topos Theory"[2] (this does not require [1], it just undoes some historical assumptions made in [1] and, like everything else by McLarty, is extraordinarily well-written)

3. Goldblatt's "Lectures on the Hyperreals"[3]

4. Nelson's "Radically Elementary Probability Theory"[4]

5. Tao's "Ultraproducts as a Bridge Between Discrete and Continuous Analysis"[5]

6. Some canonical machine learning text, like Murphy[6] or Bishop[7]

7. Koller/Friedman's "Probabilistic Graphical Models"[8]

8. Lawvere's "Taking Categories Seriously"[9]

From there you should see a variety of paths for mapping (things:Uncertainty) <-> (things:Structure). The Giry monad is just one of them, and would probably be understandable after reading Barr/Wells' "Toposes, Triples and Theories"[10].

The above list also assumes some comfort with integration. Particularly good books in line with this pedagogical path might be:

9. Any and all canonical intros to real analysis

10. Malliavin's "Integration and Probability"[11]

11. Segal/Kunze's "Integrals and Operators"[12]

Similarly, some normative focus on probability would be useful:

12. Jaynes' "Probability Theory"[13]

13. Pearl's "Causality"[14]

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[0] https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Topoi-Categorial-Analysis-Logic-Mathe...

[2] http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/phil/UsesandAbuses%20HistoryTopos...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Hyperreals-Introduction-Nons...

[4] https://web.math.princeton.edu/%7Enelson/books/rept.pdf

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS9fsr3yGLE

[6] https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Probabilistic-Perspe...

[7] https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informat...

[8] https://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Graphical-Models-Princi...

[9] http://www.emis.de/journals/TAC/reprints/articles/8/tr8.pdf

[10] http://www.tac.mta.ca/tac/reprints/articles/12/tr12.pdf

[11] https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387944098

[12] https://www.amazon.com/Integrals-Operators-Grundlehren-mathe...

[13] http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia...

[14] https://www.amazon.com/Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-P...
The correlation between fatality rate and speed of impact is so well established that you should just be doing your own research here and looking it up.

If you can't be bothered, the answer is that it depends on which 5 mph it is. Speeding by 5 mph in the 30 mph school zone mentioned above is substantially increasing risk of fatality of pedestrian hit.

Likewise, the correlation between speed and time to stop is also rather well established.
For comparison, in Sweden the practical test is 45 minutes of driving on public roads (including a highway) where things such as eco driving and safe driving (not slowing down past a parked bus is an automatic fail) are also judged. The standard is doing it in a manual transmission car and a minority choose the exception of doing it in an automatic. Sweden's a Nordic country so we also have a mandatory snow driving (skid pad) experience before you can take the test.
Also when writing C you don't have to be 'an experienced assembly programmer' to write performant and portable code. That is one of the driving points of a HLL: you don't need to know as much minutiae to write good maintainable code. I understand getting into assembly for the purpose of learning or squeezing out that last bit of performance, but it isn't a general purpose programming language anymore and shouldn't be a default choice over a HLL for most applications.
Do believe the hype. It might be imperfect, but it's definitely better than what people go thru in the US, and hype is something it could use.
I find the NHS is good for the little things, gets worse as you go for the more complicated things.

My dad had pancreatic cancer and went to the doctors, did every sort of cheap test they could. They didn't believe him, and said it was psychological and sent him to a psychiatric hospital instead. Again nothing worked

After constant complaining, eventually they went for the expensive scan, and found that it was pancreatic cancer wasting several months.

Awful.
Struggling to understand your point of view.

It's not really a case of GP or A&E. They are two different things with different purposes. The A&E is designed for problems that shouldn't wait. Your GP is for ongoing issues that aren't crucial to be sorted right away. It's called Accident and Emergency for a reason.

The NHS is far from perfect but I don't know what a better system would be.
The US is obviously somewhat better at non-arbitrary enforcement than China, but Three Felonies a Day ought to be mandatory reading for Americans: http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/.... Virtually everyone is guilty of something if someone wants to look hard enough.
I think that's right for just picking a different PRNG seed. When you start looking at modifying the search heuristics, mutation operators, or other parts of the "strategy", you definitely start finding different bugs, though.
I looked at your submission history but I don't see anything. Are you deleting the stories? Do you have another account?

Anyway, you can contact the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com in case this is a false positive in one of the automatic filters. This kind of post are sometimes unnoticed.
"Neoliberal" is a particular economic approach within the broad umbrella of political conservatism. (In the US this is somewhat confused because lots of the Democratic Party is neoliberal, but the Democratic Party is basically a coalition of moderate left to center-right, leaning more to latter.)
Lamda expressions and callback in TypeScript
"But times have changed. For better or worse, the absolute majority of computers in existence today are built with the Intel family of microprocessors. Thus, portability is much less of a concern."

I'm guessing this article is somewhat out of date. The systems where performance matters most - those most likely to be constrained in some way, where coding in assembly would yield the most benefit - are mobile platforms, which invariably means ARM not x86.
Are there placebo buttons in regular cars? Why would self driving cars have this as a feature? Especially whoever is paying for the car which would have to pay money for this useless feature.
Ouch. That quote is incredibly unkind to his colleagues. I remember back when Google practically required at least a masters degree for their new hires. Throwing out Georgia Tech grads with 4.0 GPAs and only a bachelors.

Guess they don't think so highly of their hires anymore.
illegally drove in a bike lane to make a right turn at a light, cutting off another car at the light that was legally trying to proceed right

Diverging off-topic, and your account is light on specifics needed for this divergence...

http://pedalfortcollins.com/righthandturns/
What we like to keep missing is that golang innovates not as a language, but as a tool to contribute to software project success.

Project success in the software industry is abysmal, and we still keep thinking we can spin up another language that will contribute to project success because it let's us express ourselves in new ways. Well, how's that working out so far?

The reason why golang appears to have such wide adoption in such a short period of time is that it really does seem to contribute to helping devs get their shit done. Massive amounts of working code are being written in golang, and that's good for the software industry as a whole.

Currently I run a massive project written in the standard issue kitchen sink corporate language (C#). It's got generics, functional extensions, all kinds of shit to make the most discriminating programmer happy. Well guess what, IMO C# for all it's features still doesn't serve the business of software dev as well as golang because it doesn't pull off what golang is brilliant at (easy to code for wide range of skill levels, easy to mentor, easy to test, easy to hire for). The result is difficulty finding productive devs, and a code base that is not up to my preferred quality standards.

This may be hard to swallow, but it might really be the case that you can get more quality work done with more devs if toolchain simplicity is emphasized over language features. If the evidence continues to bear this out for golang, then it's time for me to shed some language biases just so I can remain competitive.
I always press the street crossing and elevator door close buttons, even though I'm well aware that in many cases it won't work. Why? Sometimes it actually does work, and the effort required is minimal. I don't do so because the button has provided the illusory feeling of control.
Tesla Model S wireless charger to arrive later this year
There is, but not in the same way. In the UK driving lessons are not typically taught in schools. At age 17 you can apply for a provisional driving licence, which allows you to drive on most roads with 'L plates' attached and a fully-licenced driver in the passenger seat. Many people pay for lessons, but it's possible to pass your test after only informal practice. There's a theory test that must be passed before taking your practical test; your practical test will be on real roads and not an area designed for that purpose.
If uber gets a monopoly and is charging too much, another company like Google, Apple, or whoever will start offering ride sharing, to get a slice of the pie.
Some of the images appear to be upside down. Is this a known bug?
I would put that number closer to 99.9%, if not 99.99%. :)
With many jobs, such as sysadmins, companies will just need fewer and fewer people. Instead of needing two dozen people to manage your fleet of servers, you'll need... two (really one, but you'll want a trainee/backup).

I read an article about how you don't need to go to the doctor anymore for most problems (persistent cough, fever, etc) because you can just pull up your smartphone and video-conference with a doctor 150 miles away.

Another example is Coursera and the like. You have Ivy League schools recording their lectures. Well... if I can learn CS 101 from MIT for free...

It's super convenient, and also means we in aggregate need a lot less doctors and teachers and, well, everything else. But those we need we REALLY REALLY need.

So then the question is... what the hell are we all going to do with ourselves? and... if you only need the super-experts... how do you ever get the chance to be one?

Pretty interesting stuff! Exciting times we're coming to live in.
This article seems to suggest that it's all in good fun because "traffic flow is now computer-controlled", the suggestion being that traffic is cars and cars only.

In many many parts of NYC, pedestrian traffic dominates cars, yet signals and streets continue to give preference to cars and other motorized vehicles. If there is an overflowing sidewalk full of people waiting for a signal it's a testament to the 1960s era thinking that permeates DOTs planning and construction.
Once one is done, its wow factor really starts to decline...
The article is nice but a specific comment caught my attention which was "I honestly live in fear of having an accident or getting sick here in America."

This. No matter what we claim about American healthcare, this points resonates so well with most of us in America. It absolutely is scary to imagine being sick even with insurance. Without insurance, forget about it. Then comes the maze of crazy terms like co-pay, co-insurance, deductible, pre-authorization, in-network, out-network, Specialist referral and god knows what else.

Now may I rant about the Insurance companies if I may ? Obamacare was supposed to fix healthcare but it added to the red tape further. No real solutions. Insurance companies still have too much power and they call the shots, not the doctors/hospitals. Good luck fighting a denied claim unless you can shell good amount of lawyer money.

I don't know the solution though. America still has one of the best facilities in the world and even though the process is too bureaucratic and downright idiotic in many cases, the care that is actually provided is still pretty good. And I say this as someone who is aware of medical tourism and countries such as India.

One solution could be to get rid of insurance scam (yes I call it a scam) and then lets hospitals/doctors compete with transparent pricing in a free market. For catastrophic events, let insurance companies exist. I hate it that to even get an X-Ray, I need insurance and without it, they will look at you as if you came from some strange land. And if you do end up getting a service without insurance, good luck looking at the bill when it finally comes. You can be a crypto expert but won't be able to figure that one out.
Ask HN: Is SteemIt a scam?
I'd ask on SteemIt, but there's a lot of Koolaid drinking going on there. It has some cool features, but also some glaring warning signs. If I trust anyone's opinion, it's HN. What do we think: next Reddit, or pyramid scheme for suckers?