skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if this is good or bad but wearing contact lens while on the computer does help me notice much faster when my eyes dry up. That prompts me to blink and look around.
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Compare jet travel to other forms of hauling humans around, and they start to look pretty good. Of course we're not going to be stacking people into ship cargo holds; that comparison is pointless.
On the other other other hand, there is no such thing as "clean" power.

Wind power takes up land that could be better used for nature or growing food, and kills birds. The turbines are made out of materials that have the same problems as other things. Clearly reducing demand for power is still a good thing, even if we got to 100% renewable power. (And at current low renewable power levels, 1 extra KW of electricity is directly coming from oil or coal or something nasty)
I went the other way with it: high-functioning autism is a component of more-evolved humans. The autistics are more rational, often less selfish in my anecdotal experience, and cause almost no harm to others vs baseline. A world full of them would've largely eliminated famine, pollution, war, violent crime. It would be a fraction of what we see. Further, autistics and introverts are often behind many great advances that push progress of our species forward. That would increase greatly.

So, I've always thought of us as the next thing after homo sapiens. Jokingly call it Neosapiens from a cartoon as it was a cool name. Not likely to actually happen but a nice example of how the world might have been better. My ideal one, though, preserves the different types of people with two modifications: built-in mechanism where causing harm to others makes individual experience personal pain; built-in need to connect outside local sphere to reduce isolationism. These two would keep world more interesting than the safe, autistic one while also eliminating many problems. Just two, small changes in the brain.
So, I'm in strong agreement that it's reasonable to have weight cutoffs as requirements for surgery, but let's make that argument based on facts, please. You said:

> This survey doesn't confirm that surgeries are refused for the fear of lower ratings.

The articles says:

> And 42 percent who picked a body mass index cutoff said they had done so because they were worried about their performance score or that of their hospital.

The problem with this story isn't that it's facts are wrong or misrepresented, it's that they're only reporting one side of the debate in a situation which is very much not one-sided.
Most doctors will also tell an alchoholic to stop drinking.
> On the other hand reference counting is extremely slow. So slow that it puts a lot of restrictions on API design and that is definitely a mental burden.

This is very wrong on both points. Reference counting has a lot less mental burden compared to GC, because it's predictable. You can rely on destructors to actually work and be useful. For example, you don't have to keep track of whether you closed your file descriptor or not, but in GCd languages you have to do that manually, sometimes even with the same reference counting, but hand-written and explicit. Reference counting is also very fast, with the exception of concurrent decades old implementations, that are irrelevant today.
You can get a lot better results with `git log -m --first-parent`, which effectively shows you only the merge commits, and shows all changes that were merged in as if they belonged to the merge commit.

I have a `git log0` alias for this, as well as `git blame0` and `git show0`.
never had slow search on Firefox. also Firefox can search a string on all source files, while chrome you have to know the file beforehand
(not the person you're replying to)

The implication seems to be that the parents also exhibit traits of the autism spectrum, so it's hardly surprising that their kids would do the same.
Swift memory management isn't nearly as expressive as C++ when it comes to references (i.e. unmanaged pointers). You can use in/out/inout parameters on functions and that's about it.

I agree with the parent that Swift memory management is basically like Go or Java: everything is GC'd (reference counting being a form of GC).
Great analogy
There's not a lot yet, but you can take a look at the shim used by Docker Engine: https://github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim
>The doctor’s scale went up to 350 pounds, and she was heavier than that. If she did not know the number, how would she know if the diet was working?

The important bit of that anecdote that you skipped over. Every doctor will tell overweight people to lose weight, but they also tell them not to lose it too fast, or it can lead to liver and kidney problems.

If a doctor says "lose weight", but can't actually assist you in doing that in a safe, controlled and sustainable fashion because he doesn't have the equipment, he's actually not very useful. My grandmother could tell a 500lb woman to lose weight, but I wouldn't pay her $200,000 a year to do so.

However, the key allegation of this article isn't just that doctors don't have the equipment to give first-world-quality health care to overweight people, it's that they have biases that cause them to not want to rectify that problem, even though that's as simple as buying a sturdier scale.

That's a much more serious issue. It's one of the key reasons AIDS was such a problem 30 years ago. No one wanted to treat ~~the gays~~ in the 70's, and so HIV was allowed to run rampant rather than be treated. Within a handful of years of our society realizing it didn't actually give a shit about whether people like butt stuff or not, HIV went from a terminal diagnosis to a manageable condition, because /doctors actually started taking the people it affected seriously/.
> and find that the other question is completely unrelated.

Did you take advantage of this opportunity to comment or flag the answer for moderation? If a question has been inappropriately marked as duplicate, that's something that the community should be aware of, and SO has methods for doing so.
I believe op is asking what is the "total" the cost of the internet infrastructure (so power, hw, administration, etc).

most of the replies here are approaching the question from the view of the sender's host point of view ignoring the server cost of the destination and the middle servers (??-- actually I don't know if the emails are still doing "hops" and using middle servers!?)

the calculation is even more difficult to be replied because different currencies and economies are being involved

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If cheap labor is the problem then it is also the solution. Ship the subwoofer to the country that produced it for cheap, and have the cheap labor there repair it.
I would say that your depression comparison isn't totally accurate.

There are safe, reliable, and well-understood ways to lose weight. They're not easy, enjoyable, or fast, but they're almost certain to work, excluding other medical conditions.

Depression on the other hand, is far less well understood. It's also far more more difficult to treat and fight, and while weight loss has an effective general solution of eating less and exercising more, no such general solution exists for depression. Plenty of people spend their lives chronically depressed with little to no improvement, despite trying countless medications, forms of therapy, and lifestyle adjustments. The same can't really be said for weight loss.
Huge congratulations to the entire team! Their growth has been really impressive to watch from a business perspective, and even more so from a technological perspective. If you're interested see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJbflVZJD4g (their CTO's presentation about scaling to 15B ad requests per day) or this (slightly outdated) post on HighScalability: http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/9/applovin-marketing-...
> Denial of care, or dangerously mismeasured care, is not acceptable simply based on BMI (a non-scientific measure invented in the early 1800s).

How did you conclude that BMI is non-scientific? Did you know that Centigrade was invented in the early 1800s, and the first realization of the metric system was in 1799?

BMI definitely isn't accurate for people with high lean body mass, but the patients in this article aren't bodybuilders whose muscle mass drives up their BMI--people with high lean body mass are less likely to need hip and knee surgery. Sure, BMI is an approximation with some well-known cases where it's inaccurate, but doctors are well aware of this fact.

> If you look at the statistics on weight loss success rates, asking a 500lbs person to lose 200+lbs before you're willing to treat their disease with actual evidence-based medicine—looking at symptoms, pathology, etc—is tantamount to outright denial of care.

I'd like to see those statistics.
In terms of GitHub stars:

https://github.com/vapor/vapor: 6,300+

https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect: 8,400+

https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura: 4,200+
Lots of human activity boils down to finding patterns and labeling them. Don't you think there could be some benefit to having a label on this cluster of issues, such as making it more efficient to find useful remedies?

I do agree though that there's a danger with this kind of thing to think of it as some kind of single agent and oversimplify. I think we need to be careful to keep in mind the underlying nature of the meaning of these terms.
I don't think you really contradicted anything the GP said, and in some cases you supported it. Apple raced headfirst into abandoning old technologies, which everyone wanted to do but couldn't easily, and was able to pull it off because of their market position and status. Others soon followed.

So,"early" not as in before expected, but during the beginning of that time (i.e. more akin to "first").
Because only people need clean air? This is the armchair ecologist viewpoint I hear all the time. If it doesn't bother me, its not a problem for the environment right?
You can install the free Windows Server 2016 evaluation version in VirtualBox (which should run fine on Home). Download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-...
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It wasn't even a discovery for Europe because Vikings had already been to the Americas in the 10th century.
Such a question is best addressed in a personalized way, starting from what capabilities the asker has and what they are trying to accomplish. Offering multiple viable technical solutions to a person who asks such a question is quite likely to leave them confused and adrift as most of the answers are not comprehended.

So, you're absolutely correct. Demonstrations of the many ways to do so are extremely useful to many people! It is, however, highly likely that few - if any - will be useful to the person asking the question.

You're very right - this is a personality test. Do you try to jump directly to trying to answer an apparently-simple question, or do you cautiously consider if the simple question hides complex depths (deeply nested structures, arrays of variable length, etc.) that make a simple and straightforward answer difficult?
I agree. The example in the start where the patient asks how will they know if theyre losing weight as theyre off the scale does not make any convincing point. If they actually ate 1200 kcals a day they would definitely be losing weight. It wouldnt be necessary to confirm via weighing.
Whn I am driving or on my bike, I like to play 'Drunk or on the phone?', a game of guessing whether a driver exhibiting the signs of drunk driving is actually drunk or just using their phone while driving.

It's always the phone.
and when you trip on that chrome bug you will move to what? IE?

btw, try to disable referrer on chrome ;) ... or even set it to only send to the same domain
Sega's strategy for battling Nintendo. Let's add some more details about the console wars too:

1. The Untold Story of How Sega Nearly Won the Console Wars - https://www.wired.com/2014/05/console-wars-book-sega/

2. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation - https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generat...
Incidentally, and in no way related to the discussion, "Chatty" in Nottinghamshire (UK) speak means "unclean or dirty".

Realistic example in a sentence: "Pigpen from Peanuts worra right chatty bastard."
Disagreeing with the article and agreeing with that they lose weight does NOT imply lacking empathy. Then entire article states some ridiculous claims. If you're obese, it is a danger to your health. If go then go to a doctor what do you expect the doctor to do? Ignore this because the person might not want to hear it?

You're rephrasing things with "just lose weight": nobody said it is easy to lose weight. But if you're obese, you're in the danger zone.
A rule of thumb I've heard is that your monitor shouldn't be any brighter than a sheet of white paper held next to it.

http://i.imgur.com/5Cwiuif.jpg

Mine isn't quite that dim, but it's not nearly as bright as the view out the window behind it.
So the opposite of Cash for Clunkers.[1] Would a Keynesian then expect these tax breaks to crash the economy?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
I guess they'd need to explicitly de-classify commonly repaired items from this?
Yup, my personal experience too. I keep screen brightnesses and ambient brightness low.
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Makes sense, because he doesn't endorse addressing Climate Change because "the earth will be engulfed by the sun someday anyway."[1]

This guy really needs to get his shit together on the phrase, "relevant timescales".

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/09/gary-johnson-...
It's kind of like measuring the performance of vehicles by looking only at the chemical energy of the fuel they use and how far they go on a given amount of fuel. Those seem like reasonable measurements, until you try to put jet fuel in a motorcycle or bunker oil in your car. The design, efficiency, and maintenance status of the engine matters a lot.
That's not quite the point I am making. The point is that taking either condition at its most surface level and just saying "why don't you just fix it?" is unhelpful.

The fact that there are known ways to help solve weight loss isn't the problem. Obese people know there are ways to lose weight. The issue is psychological - not believing one can achieve the goal, not being ready/willing to fully commit to the goal, feeling too ashamed of oneself to believe one can improve one's situation, and on and on.

Plus, you suggest that because the way to lose weight is clear (it is), that makes it easy. That's a false equivocation. I'm speaking from experience when I say it's simple, but quite challenging. That's like saying "winning the Olympic 100m sprint is easy, just be faster than everyone else." (No, I don't think my weight loss is an Olympian effort, but I am exaggerating for effect.)
You can hardly see source in Chrome without the dev tools. The Ctrl+U "functionality" just generates huge HTML document (a table filled with spans to highlight syntax) and it is very slow on large websites (both generating it and rendering I'd assume).
> The solution is to make the closed question not appear in Google search results. If the same question keeps appearing the solution is to let someone answer it.

This is a great idea. Have you considered discussing it on the Meta site?

The solution would definitely have to be more nuanced - sometimes "closed" questions have useful answers on them so you wouldn't want to remove those from Google. But removing "closed" questions that provide no value would probably be an improvement.
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dragonwriter is right in general sense. We can evaluate it, though, from our own perspective. It's a step forward in terms of intelligence and stability in world. It's a giant leap backward in terms of success or happiness in a world of non-autistic people. Evolution would also consider it a negative in that autistics get laid and reproduce less than non-autistics. They also are more likely to loose in competition in corporations, battlefields, and jungles. So, it's a net loss overall for evolution's main function but autistics persist for one reason or another.
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Surgery isn't riskless. This source shows knee surgery has serious complications in 2% of cases.

That's for all patients. But it states the risk of knee fracture is higher for overweight patients.

http://www.zimmer.com/patients-caregivers/article/knee/knee-...

Here's a source specific to overweight patients. Obesity is often comorbid with conditions that make it harder to heal and increase the risk of infection, such as diabetes.

http://orthoinfo.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00745

Here's a crucial section:

"However, if you have obesity, you may never achieve the increased mobility and range of motion experienced by a patient of normal weight.

You may also experience more implant and prosthesis complications after surgery, including:

Component loosening and failure
Dislocation of the replacement joint, especially in the hip

In some cases, a second "revision" surgery may be necessary to remove failed implants and replace them with new ones. "

That section would be based almost purely on weight. Certainly, BMI is a crude measure, and it doesn't work well for weight lifters and athletes. But that's mostly an issue an issue for people near the "overweight" cutoff at 25. The more obese someone gets, the less false positives BMI has.

There's clearly an issue where past a certain level of adiposity, knee surgery is not sensible: the risks become high, and the outcomes become poor.

What would you do instead? To operate with the expectation of poor outcomes is not good medicine.
Consider why you might want a functional approach in the first place: perhaps you have a large dataset to manage and want to use an approach that minimizes the amount of garbage you generate. Or maybe you have a major algorithm that is simply easier to express and maintain in a functional style.

But it's part of a larger project. That project could have other constraints that make C++ a better choice (or it could be an existing codebase).
That's a pretty blunt instrument though. It looks like it just hits retailers, not manufacturers, and the fee is assessed regardless of whether the device ends up disposed. Seems like such a fee would serve only to make everything more expensive, instead of actually incentivizing the production of longer-lasting goods.

Another idea (probably full of holes, I'm sure): Tax manufacturers based on the length of their products' warranties, say 100 minus YEARS. So no warranty means company pays 100% of the product's sale price in tax. 5 year warranty means company pays 95% of the product's sale price, etc. down to no tax if the company offers a 100 year or more warranty.
The manual is pretty detailed. You can read it and decide for yourself if you think it's easy or not.

https://sc4.us/hsm/manual.html

Personally I think it's pretty easy by DIY standards.

Will definitely keep HN posted as things progress. You can also sign up for our mailing list to be sure not to miss an update.
"The number of possible permutations the Eureka can run through is a dizzying 26 million."

It seems to me that rather than being a programmable computer, it is more similar Llull's Ars Combinatoria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull#Mechanical_aspect)
What do they use for SDN or is it proprietary? My impression is that this is a major part of each large cloud provider's secret sauce.
Why is Gruber's link to a Verge article the one attached to this discussion? Why not the Verge directly?
don't use Iron http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...
In order to take the train to the airport you need to take the E train to Jamaica station. From there you will need to exit the underground an go upstairs and buy an $8 dollar ticket on AirTran. This is a separate purchase and a separate train line. Your monthly card will not cover this "special train."

I wasn't referring to airport-related taxes, I was referring to the taxi surcharge to take a taxi to the airport during rush hours. Of course airport related taxes are disproportionately paid by visitors. Its one of the most visited places in the world. Why is that relevant?
this does not work with time based animations right?
A tool that would be really nice for developing time based animations would be one where you could switch easily between time and mouse movement.
I think Chromecast would fall under the "lock in" category.
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So they don't prescribe statins, and just tell people to change their diets, yes? Hold back on insulin until those nasty diabetics stop gulping soda, even the thin ones? They tell people who do physical work to suck up the back pain, because they should have taken care of their body?

Your needlessly weird comments about equipment betray your bias, as does your implicit belief that everyone who has a weight issue can do something about it. But even if you can't get past your personal feelings, I'd hope you can see that the rather nasty condemnation and moral judgement implicit in how this line of thinking runs looks pretty awful when applied to other medical conditions.
A 1 year suspension and continued trust of previously signed certificates?

Sounds very generous to me.
For those who aren't already aware, tomorrow (Tuesday 9/27) at 1:30pm CDT (18:30 UTC) SpaceX will be revealing their Mars colonization plans in full at the International Astronautical Congress.

The live stream will be available here: https://youtu.be/A1YxNYiyALg
>not acceptable simply based on BMI

It's not simply based on BMI. It's based a lot of things, but at some point the BMI will be bad enough that the other things become irrelevant.

>asking a 500lbs person to lose 200+lbs before you're willing to treat their disease with actual evidence-based medicine—looking at symptoms, pathology, etc—is tantamount to outright denial of care.

It would be if that actually happened in any systemic manner. And even in the cases where it does happen, it has less to do with whether the doctor is willing and more to do with whether the doctor is able to diagnose.

> But just saying "we have a BMI cutoff" is pretty much discrimination masquerading as medicine.

It's discrimination in the same way that saying people under a certain height can't ride rollercoasters. There isn't some conspiracy amongst theme parks to alienate short people. It's dangerous, and it's nothing to do with prejudice against short people.

And in reality, it's not "we have a BMI cutoff" as the only criteria. It's "we have an extensive and exhaustive list of things we look for before we recommend surgery to patients, since surgery is a dangerous and often life threatening procedure. One of those criteria is a BMI that doesn't cause undue risk to the life of the patient".
This isn't about what I'd expect a doctor to do. Of course I'd expect a doctor to say "lose weight." What I am taking issue with is the way commenters here are treating that imperative, "lose weight," as though it is some very simple thing for severely obese people. It isn't.
Well no cure aside maybe not looking at a backlight. I really wish there were marketed displays without a backlight. There's got to be a way.