skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eleven years ago Kaiser Permanente hired me to help roll out new software to all their hospitals in Northern California. We had like 3 months of training before going in and one of the things they had us do was some personality type thing with some psychologist.

It felt like this lady was trying to shoe horn me into some category, telling me I am some 4 letter acronym and here are my strengths and weaknesses. I just kept arguing with her pointing out events and situations in my life that refuted everything she was trying to say I was.

It seems like an overly complicated horoscope thing where people love to read descriptions of themselves and others to make sense of the world, even though by looking at someone's face for a few seconds you can make way more judgements about the character of someone.
For a simple app which just has a QML based UI and some networking, we are talking roughly 23MB of DLLs on Win 64.

5.3M Qt5Core.dll
5.6M Qt5Gui.dll
820K Qt5Network.dll
3.2M Qt5Qml.dll
2.9M Qt5Quick.dll
307K Qt5Svg.dll
5.3M Qt5Widgets.dll

(It still might be possible to strip out Gui and Widgets though.)
Australians also found that "energy absorbing headwear for car occupants might be effective in reducing the numbers of head injuries sustained by car occupants." - https://infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/publications/2000... .

Hence the old question, if serious head injury in cyclists is a problem which warrants mandatory helmet use, is serious head injuries for car drivers and passengers also a problem which warrants mandatory helmet use?

See also http://www.copenhagenize.com/search/label/%22motoring%20helm... .

The paper is paywalled. I can't tell if it addresses the population shift which occurs when helmet use is mandatory, that is, some people won't use a bicycle if required to wear a helmet. (As a simple example, someone who spent a hour on hairdo for a party is not going to crush it with a helmet.) The Guardian writes "16.5% of people say they would ride more often if they were not required to wear a helmet at all times".

I ask because the usual observation is that high-speed cyclists wear a helmet, while low-speed cyclists (like me) are less likely to do so. I bike slower than a fast marathon runner, much less a sprinter, and figure there's a good evolutionary reason for the brain to be protected from falling at that low speed.

If helmet laws shift the population to those who tend to cycle faster, which is also where helmet protection is more effective, then this metaanalysis may only mean that those who cycle quickly should wear a helmet.
The purpose of war is to get the other side to give you what you want. Killing people is just a side-effect or method to accomplish your goals.
" We already know the five basic dimensions of personality"

That model present five dimensions, to which the personality traits are mapped. It does not mean they are the basic dimensions of personality. Similarly I can map the world into 2 dimensions as in a photograph.

But I cannot say I've mapped the world to it's basic dimensions. I've lost quite a lot of data already - I'm missing 4 dimensions of data. The 3.rd coordinate, and 3 for momentum.
> You can look back on many innovations and say that they'd be impossible to imagine in the past

I'd suspect that most innovations would have had plenty of experts and other people saying why they weren't possible.
Why not give the leftovers back to customers? There's incentive in that to be a lower risk client.
Such a joke. If they were anyone else we would be calling them out. Is there any evidence that this wealth won't be concentrated in the same industry, whose stock prices would decrease if their drugs worked to treat any disease causes. A claim like this can be dismissed without evidence.
Sounds like an excellent deal for the shareholders of Medtronics.
>This is why the US is where it is. Anything pointing towards any social programs - something that benefits not only you but also your neighbor - gets shot down using the Red Scare.

This is why the US has one of the smallest militaries, the smallest public road system, unsafe aviation due to no air traffic control, no public schools for children, and unsubsidized farming and food purchases. /s
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>> Ultimately, therefore, the way to end the proliferation of bad science is not to nag people to behave better, or even to encourage replication, but for universities and funding agencies to stop rewarding researchers who publish copiously over those who publish fewer, but perhaps higher-quality papers.

I don't see why being prolific should be punished. No, a better solution is to reward research that is replicated more than research that is not yet so.

This would be much easier to do than punishing anyone. It's hard to find a good reason to punish someone because they published something; after all, even very thorough research has a chance to be wrong, and let's not get into what is "correct" anyway. And it's a bad idea to discourage people from going out and tyring things that have a very slim chance of working.

Rewarding replication might even result in some labs specialising in replication studies and that would be a net benefit for everyone, especially the researchers who would love to do replication but really don't have the resources to do it.
The expected market response should have been a flood of alternatives at 1/100 or even 1/10 the price since the base ingredient costs pennies. But these 'ideal' market scenarios that are in public interest rarely come through.

What we often get instead are completely self serving and crafty efforts in collusion with 'ngos' and lobbyists to leech tax payer subsidies and 'force' it onto institutions via legislation.

This pattern is repeated so often and widely its predictable. Also predictable is framing it as a capitalism vs socialism issue to trigger and distract while the corruption continues unabated.

The problem is healthcare is critical. If your checks and balances and idealised system does not work you risk letting people feed on others desperation and create demons. And these sociopaths then multiply within your society killing it from within. This is the biggest argument for socialized healthcare.
Victor Vekselberg is the individual that made this happen, he's very close with the PM. He's also the head of the Renova Group who are Russian government backed who had the power to choose the supplier. Originally the plan was to develop this in-house.. Didn't turn out too well.

Medtronic is the US company (Ireland HQ of course..) partnered with them.

Sources (conveniently removed, Google cache version): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YVnPx9a...

Victor's relationship with PM: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-vekselberg-pm-idUKKC...
Sweden also has a per-drug global cap on how much state money can be used. It prevents companies in monopoly position from draining the budget by just raising the price regardless of market demand, on the assumption that public health care will be forced by policy to pay it. It is as some has described it, a chicken race until the patent (and patients) has expired.
Tried, it doesn't work. Mostly because all Russian media directly or indirectly controlled by the state and they will not confront the prime minister. We never tried Western media but I don't think there will be any interest from them.

It could be a good case for FCPA investigation, though I doubt that the US will be interested in opening the FCPA case against the American company.
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Just make sure to show up for an asset examination.

It's the one thing you need to show up for. The judge usually just fines you, but can arrest, at least in CA. I had to show up for one, and my judgment holder didn't show up, and the judge fined him $200.00, even though I told the judge I didn't lose money by comming to court.

If you ever find yourself in this stressful situation, you have a lot of rights.
Then imagine anything they do still has to go through someone working at YouTube. Sure there's a chance that someone may agree with their fairly strict rules but on the other hand that someone also doesn't want to lose their job by abusing the powers it gives.
I've always adored this photograph. It manages to show just how big the universe is, and how incredibly small we are.
Yes, losses are lower with a higher voltage (which for HVDC are around 100kV/1MV - in orders of magnitude)

However doing it on terrain is much easier than doing it under the ocean
> Sounds like an excellent deal for the shareholders of Medtronics.

Exactly
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> Once everyone generates and stores their own electricity, the residential market will go away

I think solar panels will be organized in farms and electricity will be delivered by wire, mostly, even for the residential market.
LESS compiled to CSS, mainly use it because it looks better and I don't have to deal with selector weight, also variables are helpful for colors - and some mixins here and there when necessary
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Other than having others packing the software and selling it as theirs.
That may also be due to the egalitarian nature of Norway, the gap between the lowest and highest paid jobs are not that large. If you remove the statistical anomalies. So any job will allow you to live a similar life as your neighbors whom may have a more "perceived" glamorous job. There really isn't much of a working class nor upper class, just variations of a huge middle class.

Though I am not sure I share you opinion on who does the cleaning though. Maybe in a more rural hotel that is the case but whenever I go back to the Oslo especially more recently nearly all the "low rung" jobs are done by recent immigrants.

I noticed hotels seemed to be mostly eastern Europeans, offices a mix of Somali, Vietnamese etc and in restaurants mostly Swedes. There certainly was often discussions in the media of Norwegian youth being too spoilt for those jobs and the country depended on over qualified immigrants to fill these necessary roles. This may also be the case in many other countries.
They answered this in a Techcrunch article: [1]

“Our initial application to the department was to give the money back to consumers. They were not going to do it as the laws are currently drafted,” said Daniel Schreiber.

They also stated they're hoping/looking to change those laws.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/21/less-exciting-than-beyonce...
It was the first social network.

Friendster pre-dated it by 2-3 years, MySpace and Facebook by a year.

I have to agree with product50, I am an avid photographer but Flickr was never compelling for me. I would only ever see it when someone would post a link to Facebook...
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That's not the point. Both of the other uses are for open source projects, so there is plenty potential for confusion.

Chromium is also an element, but if I named a third OSS project "Chromium" (first: [1], second: [2]), I bet people would complain.

Windows and apple are common words in the English language, but I bet I couldn't name my software project either of those.

Context is important when deciding whether a name is appropriate or not.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_B.S.U.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)
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Unfortunately, this is the type of real-world problem that isn't well taught (or even documented).

We are all taught from uni about how concurrency is implemented and most applications use concurrency as a design-tool to decompose a problem into its functions.

Unfortunately, this tends to produce a sub-optimal result as the inefficiencies become visible on small embedded/real-time systems.

Its difficult to give any general advice, but have a look at real-time analysis to get an idea of the real issues.... and don't blindly throw tasks at a problem when a simple superloop is more efficient/simple/maintainable.
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Why can't solar be used to capture CO2 and produce fuel?
Yes, I know. The T series are pretty good, however those are marginal sales.

In my opinion, if those sales were important, Lenovo wouldn't be screwing over non-Windows users like they did now.
It was supposed to be obvious, I think. Dramatic irony. Elliott even calls you (the viewer) out on it in the first episode of season 2. He says he doesn't trust you anymore because you didn't tell him something you knew. I love how they handled it with the cheeky nod
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No. If the problem is computational resources, performance can't be increased by mere concurrency (while even completely deterministic STM-style parallelism would help).

Concurrency improves performance when a process accesses both the same computational resource and some other high-latency sharable resource.
You are 100% right, my apologies to Hydraulix989, HN users that had to read that and yourself.
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Was the prime minister also involved?
That Slate Star Codex article is one of the most depressing things I've read for a while, thank you.
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> That's why oil is going to stay with us for a few more decades.

In a couple of decades we might also have fusion power, and this time it's probably going to work because we have much better superconductor magnets. We can make the whole reactor much smaller.
It's fantastic that this is being worked on again, I last looked at Dokan a few years ago and was disappointed, it seemed unmaintained.

Much QDOS to the crew at Dokany :)
You can use aluminium instead of copper (see HVDC Gotland).

I didn't say it's just about "connecting countries with a common grid". Switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources is much more challenging than that. However, transmitting lots of power over long distances is doable and cheaper than many people think.
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it does cost $30 to make an epipen.

However.

It needs to be proved to work, which is rightly arduous. Unlike in (most)software, you can just fix it later. Defects kill. There needs to be a high bar of evidence to prove that:

A) the drug works

B) It doesn't cause your face to melt off

C) its reliable.

All of this is costly, Now, you have two choices, nationalise your drug R&D and charge a uniform cost spread over all drug classes, or through general taxation. Or Sweep away all your regulations on drug prices and start again. (like why the fuck is medicaid not allowed to collectively bargain on price? that's taxpayer subsidy right there...)

In the UK there is a thing called NICE, which is semi autonomous and run by people who can understand stats (ie not politicians) its job is to evaluate the cost of drugs, and crucially the effectiveness of all drugs prescribed within the NHS.

Is the drug actually effective? (sure 50% more powerful, but it costs 190%, just double up the old one, etc etc)

does it provide value for money?

is it safe?

are all the questions they ask. If a drug fails the tests its either written out of guidelines, or more unusually its banned.
It's a political problem. Tax sugar and junk food heavily and the problem will solve itself over time.
Out of curiosity, why have you insisted multiple times in this thread that those three tools have the same profit motive mission?

It could well change in the future, but in your other comment you remarked that Apple is not in the user profiling advertising business today.
> I haven't found a way to reconcile these two views yet

I'm not sure what your difficulty is. There's almost no cost to create a copy, but creating the original has many costs. Since no one is going to pay for creating the original upfront, the developer asks people to pay for the copies, and legal protections ensure that's possible.

Reminds me of an episode of West Wing that discusses the cost of pharaceuticals:

"Why do they charge $100 for a pill that costs $1 to make?"

"Because the first pill cost $100,000,000 to make."
The "horoscopieness" of almost anything related to personality labeling causes me to feel deeply rebellious. You can't pigeon hole me! Irrational or not, I reject that my personality is fixed.
There are people working as cleaners in Norway that earn about the same as the average software developer.
(cleaning offshore on oil platforms[1]).

Norway has a very tight pay distribution. Most people earn close to the average/median, and those who earn more get hit pretty hard by progressive taxing.

[1]: http://www.dn.no/nyheter/energi/2010/08/30/her-tjener-renhol...
The Norwegians also had a very sensible approach to their banking crisis compared to the US and Ireland:

>There are five features of the Norwegian resolution I would like to highlight:

>Private solutions were explored before the government intervened.

>Share capital was written down to zero before committing public funds.

>The government acted swiftly to limit contagion, but did not provide a blanket guarantee. Liquidity support was given to illiquid, but solvent institutions.

>The government did not use an asset management company - as the other Nordic countries did later on.

The "Share capital was written down to zero before committing public funds." seems smart. At least if you wipe out the shareholders it's an incentive to behave better the next time.
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This, very much. The attitudes described in the paper really make my blood boil. From refusing to share research data on bogus grounds to dismissing patients as "unhinged", then publishing its own "revised research" just before being forced to release the raw data.

The proper response from the scientific community should be to disqualify every study from Queen Mary University of London until the university owns up to its mistakes, instead of digging in.
We could ask the same question in the UK. Successive governments believed in using the money to lower taxes instead. Whether that was right or wrong no-one can really say - but consider that around the time the North Sea came online, income tax was as high as 83% and tax on income from investments was 98%.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2008/04/why-hasnt-britain-got-a-s...
Not if it induces a backlash. Plenty of companies have ended up burnt by some of their corrupt dealings.
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Pick a reference frame. Sample the state of each CPU on its clock edge. Now you have a sequence of transitions.

The sequence is heavily non-deterministic, but that's life in a concurrent universe.
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As an "Apple Developer" (not a self-identification, just what they call me on their website), I've been able to download Mac OSX Sierra for a bit. Did I do that right? Damn, it's macOS. Like iOS. I get it. Anyway, it's been downloading on my work computer for 2 days now. Not because of lack of bandwidth, but because the App Store is broken, and is bullshit.

In fact, the last three major releases of ImacOSX10Mountain have been painstaking to download. Sometimes I click download, or GET or whatever it's called now, a wheel starts to spin... And then it just keeps spinning.

I don't need the latest. I just need "a" right now. As in "a" working operating system. My Mac completely crashed (stripes on boot and everything) the other night, and I need my computer working. I don't just have a spare copy of OSX 10.11 (redundant?) lying around, so I go to iTunes Mac Storefront to download a copy. It says its "waiting".. for hours...four hours. then never.

Again, this doesn't seem like a big deal until it gets more serious. I fire up XCode to test an app for work... I need to update to be able to install on iOS 10? iosX? OSiPhone7 - an install that went smoothly... except for the 5 applications it left in "we removed these applications to make space, then tried to install them again, then got confused, then lifted our hands up to our ears and said wait why are you blaming ME?" eternal software limbo. And wait, shouldn't that be macOSCode?... the download - it sits. It spins. Not in that good way.

You asked me to log in to your stupid fucking store 10 times. Can't you remember that I want to download stuff? I mean wait around like some douchebag hipster barista and stare at the sink for a few more minutes if you want to. I'm not going to get mad. But eventually make my fucking coffee you lazy piece of shit. Some of us have work to do, and daddy needs his juice.

I'm feeling really negative now. I need to stop.
Mods: the title could do with some editing, like making it "wait for", and a space before the year. Thanks.
Does US not have pay-as-you-go plans at all? I have a pay as you go sim in UK, top it up automatically every month ~$20 and that gives me 4GB of data. It gives me peace of mind because I literally can't spend more than what I topped up, it's guaranteed no surprises at the end of the month.
> gmail account where labels would be represented as folders and emails as text files.

Okay, this sounds incredible - is this an actual doable thing here?
ST can do all these things. Search by regex, the "Find All" command inserts a cursor selecting each result, then you can do all the usual text editing operations on each selection in parallel. It has sorting and the like built in, and you can do regex find and replace inside the selections, etc.
My instincts told me "no" when the midwife suggested adding olive oil to the bath water. I didn't listen. If you've ever fought a greased piglet you would understand what happened next.
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I see lots of comments talking about the return on investment (~4% YoY) and the ~$60M in bonuses, etc. But I don't see anyone questioning why there is so much money invested in other companies outside Norway.

I'm curious to know:
1) Why do we have a savings Fund with double of the annual GDP? Should we have a limit? Why the excess is not invested locally?
2) Is there an existing plan to define when the money will be directed to the Norway economy? The current GDP per capita is around $68K which doesn't seem that much compared to the amount of money in the country's saving account. Why not invest in education and/or technology?
3) Why there are a few people earning so much money (e.g. ~$60M bonus) to manage the country's assets? Is the real purpose to make money or save the money for future generations?
It depends on a subreddit. I think that top comments on The_Donald would be downvoted to hell on TrollXChromosomes and vice versa.
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And thank goodness for that. Who says I want those 10 things handled the same way you do?
Indeed, the landlord can probably get away with mandating that his tenants buy a certain minimum amount of power at a certain cost giving him a fixed income to finance the capital outlay against.