skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have your house blurred out in the USA, too.
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
― Milton Friedman
Considering it's a pretty common diagnosis I'm willing to bet your friends experience is anything but usual.
Thank you very much for taking the time to write these comments.

I have a friend in somewhat similar circumstances, though she does not appear to be manifesting overt psychosis. Nor do I have full insight into her treatment; however, the ongoing appointments are very infrequent. Hospitalization did give her 6 days with a very well regarded addiction specialist, and the ongoing medications as the result of his prescribing appear to be doing good. Among other things, she's become very consistent about getting good quantities of sleep.

She's been a bit worried about her diet and weight gain. Some of the cravings, I now see as potentially lining up with your description. Maybe she can "let this go" for a while, while her body continues to recover and rebuild -- to the extent it can.

Any opinion on exercise? She runs extensively, although some new soft tissue irritation is now potentially putting a multiple month crimp in this. That exercise is new in her life, as of a couple of years ago. I hope it is sparking her body's capacity to renew itself.
There are lots of tools in Go that make up for issues people have with the language. Another example is the IDE macros people use for the standard if err != nil {} block.
Going by the standards required to get into medical school in the UK from high school I don't think there is any lack of applicants!

Might also be worth comparing the cost of qualifying as a medic in the UK and the US!
> I'm specifically talking about the classpath, jars, separate jvm install. These are a pain to manage across environments.

I agree with the classpath issue and hopefully it will be fix in Java 9. Separate jvm install? Why? JVM is backwards compatibility.

> And let's be honest, how many people target more than Linux/x86_64 on the server side.

Those that develop non server apps since Java is a general-purpose language.
I'm not posing it as a problem. I'm simply pointing out the real reason things work in the UK is that people pay less for the same thing.

Tangentially, if anyone proposes UK-style solutions to health care problems in the US without proposing 50-66% wage cuts for doctors/nurses, they are lying to you.
That may be, but Linux also uses the term "inode" to refer to what the BSD's refer to as a "vnode", which also have similar names.
It's always possible to get someone to be a doctor. Since there are many other jobs paying competitive salaries for smart folks, paying doctors less necessarily means they will be lower quality all other things equal.
First I doubt all of this money is going to the actual taxi drivers themselves. I would bet a large portion of it is going to taxi cab owners, and taxi companies.

Second, of all the poor people in the U.S. that need money why select "taxi drivers" as the category to advantage?

I identify as a liberal. But of all the ways to help people, writing checks to taxi companies and hoping it filters down to taxi drivers is the silliest and most inefficient way I can think of to accomplish this goal. Instead just write checks to poor people. Who cares if they can't work because they used to be a manufacturer, a taxi driver, or just because they don't have the emotional/intellectual/social ability to compete in a 21st century workforce.
First of all I doubt all of this money is going to the actual taxi drivers themselves. I would bet a large portion of it is going to taxi cab owners, and taxi companies.

Second of all the poor people in the U.S. that need money why select "taxi drivers" as the category to advantage?

I identify as a liberal. But of all the ways to help people, writing checks to taxi companies and hoping it filters down to taxi drivers is the silliest and most inefficient way I can think of to accomplish this goal. Instead just write checks to poor people. Who cares if they can't work because they used to be a manufacturer, a taxi driver, or just because they don't have the emotional/intellectual/social ability to compete in a 21st century workforce.
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Peronsal (european biased) thoughts to this:

1) I cant believe that it's only the doctor costs.

I see people with all kinds of health problems in the US that should be treated early. Classic example is people with foot problems not treating them asap -> soon stumbling, crutch, amputee.

2) Comparing salaries in the US to the UK/EU are super hard. We have by usually lower costs of livings in europe (health, education, housing).

eg SE:
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...
http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...

Personal anecdote: i could earn half my money i earn in california and would still be top paid in germany/austria. i would be able to save more money though.

3) I am unsure how much doctors should earn. They earn very good money in Europe. But maybe that's just my "it's a mandatory service not a privilege" pre-trained mindset speaking.
Oh OK I thought that there was mandatory lunch time for teambuilding.

Elective lunches and socialization is certainly a thing at my office too. It's just there is such a variety of lunch activities in my office and it's never been a hinderence to the team dynamics.

There's also some people with strong opinions on your relationship with your co-workers should be business-only and others who have met their best friend or even spouse at work.

None of this has ever hurt team dynamics though.

My office skews older though.
as said above - almost all jobs are Nx paid in the US. Doesnt necessary mean you have more money NET in the end
The author should consider the continuous gearing system, the Nuvinci hub, developed by Fallbrook Technologies. No loss of power whilst shifting gear.

http://www.nuvincicycling.com/en/home.html
Even in America, it hardly seems universal in the social sphere; Glassholes didn't take their nickname from spying on private property.
Well the median of measure that are only aggregated by average (RRD, carbon ...) is ... biased.

Hence the reason I made my own backend for making very high precision measurement using a percentile filter (10%, 50%, 90% and average for the fun).

It was fun to watch linux «monotonic» clock not being monotonic.
Now I wonder if phones have been made with some kind of z-sensing to provide depth mapping for the image. You could share your data and cross corelate like Microsoft picture merging technology.
I'm not sure this Hyatt thing is true? I recently stayed at a Hyatt and didn't see toothpaste in the room. Maybe their spokesman misinterpreted for "standard in room" and "available upon request"
They get paid what their market value is in the EU.
If you do any of those things and it turns out to be something they can't handle, they send you to a doctor. I've phoned 111 a couple of times, once had an appointment made for me with an emergency dentist, and once been told to wait my illness out (severe stomach pain) as it was unlikely the doctor could do anything for me aside from prescribe painkillers. If I'd seen a doctor the second time, it would've been a waste of the doctor's time.
This may be an unpopular observation, but it is nevertheless true.

http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/ModernWorldHistoryTextbook...

tl;dr: In 1832, one observer saw how the skilled hand weavers had lost their way and were reduced to starvation. “It is truly lamentable to behold so many thousands of men who formerly earned 20 to 30 shillings per week, now compelled to live on 5, 4, or even less”
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I was born a few years after WWII. I used to have a library occupying many shelves of about 10 years of CACM, JACM, SigPLAN, and other CS journals, along with file cabinets full of copies of research papers from other journals (like Software Practice & Experience and ACTA Informatics). There simply was no other way to look things up: curious about Alpha-Beta pruning? You had to find Knuth's 1975 article on it, published in Artificial Intelligence.

Things are so different and so much better now. However, I do find that the way I can so quickly browse so many publications, blogs, wikipedia, and source on the internet means that I don't retain the information I do process as well as I did when I had to find a research paper in a university research library, read it, and take notes. In the pre-www days I had an almost photographic ability to remember the research papers I read; now, not so much. (Maybe it's age, my wife has to help me find my car keys!)
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The Conservatives are so brazen about it they'll even spell it out in writing. This is the Google Books synopsis for the book Privatising the World by Conservative MP Oliver Letwin:

"Identifies the reasons why governments in a number of different countries have chosen to privatise their nationalised industries. The opposition to privatisation and the techniques used to overcome this opposition are also analysed."

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Privatising_the_World...
1) they are really well trained usually

2) If they are unsure they will tell you.

3) If the judgement is the same as any one else would have done i dont think it could be considered grossly negligent.
While i own an A500 (still sitting in the basement) i was too young to really grasp what i was dealing with.

Recently i learned that the Amiga was effectively two computers in one. you had the 68k doing its thing, and then you had the custom chips doing their thing, and in the middle you had a shared RAM pool.

I guess to a degree the current CPU+GPU setup comes close, but that on the Amiga the GPU had priority.

That said, the tight coupling of CPU, RAM and the custom chips was perhaps the Amiga's Achilles heel. While on the PC you could switch out the various parts, the Amiga, at least on the A500, A600 and A1200, could not.
Some doctors suck, no matter what country you're in. I've heard similar stories from people in the US, India, everywhere. You have a right to a second opinion in the UK - use it if you're unsure.
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> To receive this care all my cousin had to do was provide her name and birthdate. No copayments, no preauthorizations, no concerns about the radiologist or orthopedic surgeon being out of network

For the vast majority of people in the developed world, that's how heath care works.
Well, the NHS is socialism so as far as I can see an approach like that wouldn't be ideologically acceptable in the US.

NB Regarding the "socialism" part, from NHS founder Aneurin Bevan:

"A free health service is pure Socialism and as such it is opposed to the hedonism of capitalist society."

I always think it is worth noting that the title of Bevan's book on the NHS was "In Place of Fear" - which I think sums it up nicely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan
Probably Rust.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12288306

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12263341
Pharmacists, in the UK at least, have to train almost as much as doctors, and have much of the same knowledge.
> We should probably break the news to her that there is no "drivers ed" in the UK.

There isn't? Care to explain?
Yes, but look at how many people go to see a doctor with a cold or at the first signs of a sore throat. That, along with missed appointments, are what makes the process so inefficient.
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Yep, but I think there are others that will fit people's needs as well. Rust suits my needs/wants perfectly.
Maybe not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akmal_Shaikh
Yep. Add those and a proper type system and you have yourself a decent language. But when the creator of the language doesn't see the value in abstractions [0], then it's probably never going to happen.

[0] https://github.com/robpike/filter
I recall camping at some relatives that had a waterfall near enough that you heard it any time you were outside. After about the second day or so you hardly even noticed.
The article mentions a keynote speech by Rob Pike* from 2012 which is quite illuminating. The trade-offs made were all centered around google-scale and the pain points of such a massive operation. It stands to reason that people working outside of that environment may be less pleased with the language.

[*] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Go-Google
On the other hand... for a lot of things, NHS Scotland handles long-term healthcare better than NHS England. NHS England essentially got forced into creating a watered-down version of the Gender Reassignment Protocol a few years after Scotland implemented theirs, and from my understanding it's incredibly difficult to get anyone to follow it. I wouldn't give up NHS Scotland for the English system - and I think many Scots would agree. (And I voted No to independence!)
That's even worse - if I had a penny for every time a useful, but unpopular thing was shut down, I could fund my own startup!
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If I remember correctly, the offsets were measured in words (16 bits on the M68k), and then you had scroll registers where you could offset with 0-15 pixels.

This was complicated a bit since you only had two scroll registers, one for even and one for odd bitplanes.

No idea how this was implemented in hardware.
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They don't. Doctors in the NHS work longer hours than their U.S counterparts, and those who go through the system tend to move to either private practice, Australia, or the U.S after their residencies. For now, the system is still working, but it's clear that medicine is a much less lucrative/desirable job in the U.K than, for example the U.S. (And maybe that's a good thing – I don't know).
Well, that's the UK for you - we don't have single legal or educational systems either!
> haskell is among the best of them

There is little need for this kind of absolutism.
Citing a haskell as one the best language in a contest where op ask about rust and c++ is dangerous.

To op : if your domain calls for modeling relatively 'type stable computation', and need strong correctness garanty, haskell is a great match.
Maybe they accumulate downvotes locally for batch ?
One reason EU doctors get paid less is that in most EU countries you don't have to go into massive debt for your education
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I never knew there were other copies of Mona Lisa from Leonardo's time period, so to save others some confusion when googling: OP is talking about a copy of Mona Lisa in Museo del Prado in Madrid.
So 1 out of 5 break even or make money?

Not as bad as I thought.

I think it can be an interesting hobby, if you only trade with 'losable' income.
Gambling is always in favor of the house, and aside from Poker and Blackjack, there is no skill involved in general.

At least if you are into day trading, you are most likely engaged in the world news, information technology and math. You could do worse.
Java is battle-hardened and has seen almost every situation in the business programming. Go has miles to go before it can even be eligible to be compared to Java in terms of productivity and maintainability.
Quebec has a shortage of doctors because the College des Medecins is prejudiced against foreigners and makes it harder for immigrant doctors to practice there (compared to other provinces), meanwhile the doctors that do get a degree there are probably not interested in the low salaries and also go elsewhere
There are few things more infuriating than a placebo button. They talk about illusion of control, but it's actually just a cruel and borderline sadistic demonstration of the control you don't have.

“Doing something is better than doing nothing, so people believe. And when you go to press the button your attention is on the activity at hand. If I’m just standing at the corner I may not even see the light change, or I might only catch the last part of the change, in which case I could put myself in danger.”

Probably the most condescending and patronizing statement I've heard in a long time.
1) It's also nurse costs, etc. The bulk of health care costs is labor.

Again, I linked to RCTs showing that improving access to health care doesn't improve health and does increase costs/utilization. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

2) The UK is 6% more expensive than the US. I don't know where to find the exact PPP factors, but you can back them out of GDP statistics by dividing GDP(PPP) per capita / GDP(nominal) per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

Where do people get the crazy idea that the US is more expensive than the EU? Is it just personal experience from their vacation to NYC?
You buy a copy of the highway code and you learn it. You then do a theory test, which has a relatively high pass mark - covers rules of the road, hazard perception, etc. Then you do your practical test. Most folks seem to fail at least once. I failed twice.

I've both UK and US licenses - did drivers ed in illinois in the 90's, aged 15. Watching gruesome films didn't make me a better driver, and I remember being stunned when I was told I'd passed - we didn't even go on a public road!
They say they will because it's what everyone notices. And a long wait for medical attention seems scary.

They can't because the solution is more money and more doxtors and nurses, which isn't easy to solve in the duration of their mandate as a politician.

Imagine if the solution is possible but you won't detect it for 10-15 years. That's not going to get you re elected in 4.
Go allocates on the heap unless it can prove something doesn't escape, in which case it's on the stack. Not explicit programmer control, but I think you can reasonably make it do what you want.

Because it exposes pointers as a first-class concept, you also have good control of how data is laid out in memory (=> locality).

It's not like Python or Java where everything is a pointer and gets spread out all over memory.
> Thank you very much for taking the time to write these comments.

You're welcome, thanks for the feedback.

The only thing my girlfriend can do for herself while in the mental hospital is eat sugar for the stress response and caffeine-free coffee for the magnesium & Vitamin B1. The drugs they put her on are known to harm the metabolism, so she's put on a little weight, but sugar is a better source of calories than starch.

As for exercise, I think weight-bearing exercise is much more helpful than cardio (which is very stressful). Muscle burns calories; endurance runners waste away.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11589373
Not NASA, but related: I really want the raw climate data and atmospheric models to be made open and publicly available. I don't understand how researchers can claim that climate change is the most serious problem facing our species while at the same time hiding what they are doing. I know that some data is available, but considering that our government funds most of the research why haven't they put this stuff up on github?

Is the secrecy really necessary in order to get tenure and win grants?
Do you really think it costs $2000 to publish a PDF on the Internet these days?

I'm talking about putting the documents on S3 with a simple paginated frontend that would allow searching the name/synopsis.

You must work for the government?
> Another example is the IDE macros people use for the standard if err != nil {} block

Which doesn't make code easy to read when there are 10th of these blocks in a single function.
This also let you make "memory peekers". It was just a simple assembly program that would offset the pointer to a bitplane based on the mouse vertical movement. You could "look" at the RAM and it was one way to rip images since you would see the bitmaps of images from the game still in RAM after the reset.
You are not taught how drive as part of the curriculum in England and is not offered to students by schools like it is in the US.
Having my dad buying an IBM PC with a CGA monitor, I can't say how much you are right. The Amiga graphics architecture was so much above everything at the time... Few years after that I wen into the demoscene and it was horribly difficult to achieve what the copper CPU could do... You had to time scanline readline with devious accuracy, change palette registers in non obvious ways, atc. And don't even talk about the music , the Amiga soundchip was eaqually powerfull and the soundblaster card, although it could play better sound, was absolutely nowhere to actually mix sound. Oh yes, I missed the Amiga :-) Fortunaltely, the PC took over, so what I've learnt chasing the Amiga is actually useful :-)
I'm not much of a Go programmer but I would definitely regard Go's multiple return and error handling (save the 'no assertions' clause) as very cool. I'm not sure if any other languages have experimented with that approach before the rise of Go, but to me at least it appears much saner than the prevalent ridiculousness of exception handling.
> You end up with significantly less lines of code that's easy to understand.

That is very interesting claim, but there is something more than just tooling and number of lines of codes - a paradigm. Elixir is a functional [1] but Go is imperative [2] programming language. It changes a point in discussion quite a lot, especially when you say 'code is easy to understand'. Personally I prefer Elm over JavaScript/React, because it is 'easier and simplier', but I remember a situation in college when after C#-course we had introduced Prolog and F# and many of newbies found functional programming very difficult... But maybe it is matter of taste.

> Everything about the language and the surrounding tooling is polished.

I don't have strong Elixir experience, but playing with Phoenix framework made me really happy to see how many packages are well documented to create backend for web application. But is almost perfect, almost - because it is not Go.

Go is way more performant (Elixir have results comparable to Python or PHP[3]), has great virtual file system [4], auto generating docs (godoc), gofmt, gorename, golint, gocode (no matter which editor you use - VSCode, SublimeText, Vim you have great autocompletion) and a lot of other things (i.e. examples) which makes learning Go easy for newcomers (i.e. devs who are bored of PHP).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming

[3]: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...

[4]: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/godoc/vfs
"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure of the windowpane."

Pale Fire really is a joyous tour de force, and it prefigured much of modern literature -- DFW's endless use of footnotes has its source in Nabakov's loopily self-referential novel, and it's probably, despite its idiosyncratic form, the best book to start with if you haven't read Nabakov before. (Ada: Or Ardour is a great follow-on, feeling like a denser and more literary Phillip K Dick.)

And when you read Nabakov's luminous prose, remember that English was his third language, and he wrote equally brilliantly in German and his native Russian.