skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has pretty much always been true in my experience; if you're really determined to learn something in depth, you gotta go past page 1 of the search results and look for the folks who've spent years writing about some obscure topic and only get links from other people who are similarly dedicated.

And then hope their blog doesn't disappear from the 'Net before you finish digesting or need to refer back to that information. Buy their book if they have one.

The founding goal of Stack Overflow was literally "programmers seem to have stopped reading books"[1]. NOT "programmers shouldn't read books", or "book learnin' is inferior to superficial familiarity", but simply... "they appear to have stopped". There are probably a lot of reasons for the tendency folks seem to have of not investing effort into building a deep understanding of the things they're working with... But ultimately, it doesn't really matter: either you provide information in bit-sized chunks, or someone else will and you lose the ability to influence the quality of that information. Not the choice we'd like, but the choice we have.

Disclaimer: SO user since '08, employee since '11.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/04/16.html
Yes way. Now I'm using Tab Center experiment from Test Pilot, which makes it easier for me to clean up unused tabs, so now I'm keeping it around 100, but earlier it was very common for me to have around 600-700 tabs open.

Once I got to 1200. It started to feel a bit sluggish during the usage and I had to restart it daily. Restarting took about 3-4 minutes, but it was fine for some time after restart. Eventually got tired of it and reseted the whole session.

On the other hand, Chromium becomes almost unusable with around 50 tabs. I cannot imagine having more than 200 tabs open in it, both from UI and CPU/RAM perspective.
through multiple abstraction layers no less!
"But there should not be blanket refusals to operate on fat people"

I don't know anyone who would disagree with this sentiment. And the article doesn't present any evidence that there are blanket refusals. Sure, the article presents a few anecdotes, but that's not enough to show that blanket refusals are happening on a larger scale.

> You can inform people of the increased risks and possible outcomes and let them make their own decisions about their bodies.

It's really not that simple. A medical doctor's mission is to help people and very specifically to "do no harm". When the data suggests that they are more likely to do harm by operating, then the doctor is following their oath by not performing a surgery.
Scale is important.

Not a lot of stuff lives over the middle of the ocean or even under it past the continental shelf's. Further, the ocean really does dilute this stuff to a rather extreme degree. Granted, it's still an issue, but it's simply a smaller one than CO2.
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Console wars aside, it's interesting to note that they put a lot of hope into arcades/movies/amusement parks... all of which have not seen nearly the growth rates as home entertainment.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-death...
Parent is missing the point that you were making, which is the benefit of not squashing vs. squashing.

What masklinn means is that when you just merge a PR, the history is retained as-is (same as with rebase). But instead of the history being flat, it's bumpy.
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Doctors have to use their best judgment in providing care to patients. An ethical doctor will not provide care to a patient that he or she believes is more likely to cause harm than good. Letting patients "make their own decisions" to this extent doesn't happen in any part of medicine. If you go to the doctor and say "Hey I have really bad anxiety and I've had success with Xanax in the past to manage it" you'll get denied 95% of the time. Are doctors discriminating against people with anxiety because they don't allow them carte-blanche over the medical care provided? The answer is no - doctors know that drug dependency is a huge issue, and in most cases of anxiety, the risk of that dependency doesn't outweigh the quality of life reduction from anxiety. They will have a lot of alternative options to someone with anxiety, just like they have a lot of alternative options to someone severely overweight: lose the weight (in itself it will relief symptoms), mild exercise, steroid shots, physical rehab, anti-inflammatories, the list goes on.
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One more thing , what could be the important concepts which should be covered ?
OK, the thing I lead yesterday went well. There were a couple irritating people there but that's just people. The penalty for leaving the house is pretty low. :-)
It's not trolling, people are just really stupid.
" Putin acts" Are you describing Russia or Sweden?
How is it lying? You're getting what's advertised.
Obesity is an actual condition.

Being athletic is not a medical condition.
As someone who has dealt with both, I personally think weight is far easier to deal with than depression, specifically because I know what to do about weight. Neither is "easy" in the absolute sense, though.
Biggest problem I can think of there can be answered with most of the warranty repairs I've ever had done.

"We don't have any parts for your $old_thing, here, have a $new_thing"

Great from the consumer standpoint, but useless when it comes to reducing the amount of trash. And I'd be willing to bet that once something doesn't have any parts, it's not gonna be refurbished, it's gonna be scavenged for useful parts (if that's even possible), if not outright destroyed.
Actually, the tab argument is very poor. Chrome does not cope well with more than low tens of tabs open, while Firefox handles it very well (from my experience up to around 1000).
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I guess that's because in Rust you never need defensive reference counting thanks to the borrow checker.
No, UberX does give recommended pickup locations. It just did it to me two days ago in London and has done it several times in Manhattan. It doesn't force you to use them, but that's why I said it's a recommended location.
Implicit in comments correlating IQ to autism is this strange HN notion that Asperger's/autism is some sort of super power.
>let them make their own decisions

Why would a doctor let his patient take on a risk that he isn't willing to perform? Patients should not get 100% say in their treatments. If there's a high mortality rate for something as trivial as knee pain, then the compassionate thing would be to refuse that operation and look at alternatives like pills or physical therapy. Having that person's family deal with 'suicide by doctor' is a non-starter here. This is like saying mechanics should respect the wishes of people who want to output their exhaust into the cabin. Afterall, the customer is always right!

Also, people in pain aren't terribly rational and don't make good decisions. Doctors should be the gatekeepers here on a certain level. I shouldn't be able to demand surgery willy-nilly and expect doctors and surgeons to act like a concierge service. Surgery is a serious risk and no one is going to casually perform malpractice here. Worse, knee repair is a tricky thing. If your knee can't support 300+lbs then a repair is only going to be a temporary solution until you damage it again, which will probably be soon after. We're not engineered to handle these kinds of loads, thus the weight loss recommendation.
earth shattering news? Something something about a flavor of the month tech blog.
> well, but freelancers pay their own healthcare, 401k, etc.

And are paid more to compensate for it. Whereas if you're working for two employers you're "paying" for two sets of healthcare etc., which seems wasteful.
The link was already posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567848
Do you have resources on the scientific basis for BMI's efficacy as a health indicator? Comparing to linear measurements like temperature and distance seems a little apples-and-oranges when BMI is attempting to do something different, which is to reduce a fairly complex system to a single number.

> I'd like to see those statistics.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10449014

"Data from the scientific community indicate that a 15-wk diet or diet plus exercise program produces a weight loss of about 11 kg with a 60-80% maintenance after 1 yr. Although long-term follow-up data are meager, the data that do exist suggest almost complete relapse after 3-5 yr."

And that's 11kg… the situation described above is 90kg. You're essentially telling someone to go away and come back after 2+years of dieting to get medical care. Don't you think that seems unrealistic?
> Disagreeing with the article and agreeing with that they lose weight does NOT imply lacking empathy.

That's true. Dismissing the studies cited in the article clearly showing that doctors do give inferior care (particularly, in being less willing to refer for medically-appropriate diagnostic tests) to obese people (which, incidentally, inhibits their ability to give useful direction to those people on how to safely and effectively lose weight) goes beyond mere lack of empathy the whole way to willful ignorance and active hostility.
This is pretty much how I felt when I read these comments. The argument being made by the piece is that weight is treated as a binary issue, without nuance. Yes, the problem is there—it's apparent, they see it right in front of them, thanks for noticing—but that doesn't mean that other issues should be looked over in diagnosis.

Some doctor choosing not to even consider a patient's medical problem without looking past a single issue—especially when that patient is actually seeing some success in dealing with that issue on their own, as seen in the Patty Nece example highlighted by the Times—is a waste of everyone's time.

From a purely economic perspective, a patient who is paying thousands of dollars for insurance and not-insignificant copays is not getting what they paid for if the doctor treats their patients in this way.

Yes, weight loss solves a lot of problems, but the complication of losing weight for the myriad metabolism types out there makes the solution a challenging one for many types of people. For all the doctors know, their patients could be walking five miles a day and eating a 1,500-calorie vegan diet, but finding their success rate doesn't match the amount of work they're putting in. Their weight may yo-yo in a dramatic way that can make sustaining a healthy weight very challenging.

Weight loss is not like aspirin. It doesn't work exactly the same for everyone. (And there are bad ways of losing weight, of course.)

This Times article from May, while it obviously highlights extreme cases (Biggest Loser contestants), is worth bringing up in the context of this conversation: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weigh...

Obesity is a hard problem to solve as a society. To solve that problem, we have to consider the issue thoughtfully, from all sides.
IPFS already has a peer-to-peer chat room that can share messages, files, and streaming videos without a central server. This means users have a way to share content without worrying that it could fall into the wrong hands or be censored by big entities like corporations or governments. And it all depends on tech like WebRTC.

That kind of infrastructure is crucial to the freedom of information and therefore the freedom of global citizens. You will not realize we need it until it's too late.

The revolution will not be televised, it will not be in your news feed, it will happen in the streets and in the minds of citizens, and we need to prepare ourselves with the proper tools for that time, because it is coming sooner than you think.
https://raindrop.io/static/pro

I see labels like "proTitle", "proTitleD", "proTitleDD", ect...

Edit: seems ok right now
I looked. I was not "impressed".
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I'm sorry that you've never used them, but I most certainly have for various projects. I can't use - much less recommend - any product that breaks stuff that I've built both personally and professionally.
It is an interesting piece of software, but what is the purpose? For someone that wants to emulate a Pentium computer there are many better ways, for having fun there are many better ways, so what is left for this particular one?
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Oh, yeah, that definitely happens. It happens to young people, too. They come in with X symptom and doctors are like "nah, you're so young, you're just fine." Then it turns out you are not fine. This also negatively effects people who have unusual or hard-to-diagnose conditions that exhibit symptoms similar to those of other conditions.

Doctors apply 90%-suitable heuristics to 100% of candidates too often, in my opinion.
This is an extremely shallow analysis.

Price discrimination has always been fundamental aspect of business and economics: companies often offer different "values" different price points.

BUT, software businesses have another aspect many physical product & service companies do not: the ongoing cost of maintenance and support for legacy applications, and the (typically) increasing cost to add new features.

Consider the opening example: Microsoft Outlook. It's highly likely that Microsoft was motivated by cost issues, and was not executing a deliberate de-feature move.
Getting a job is sometimes a way to write an in-depth article, as with this article: http://uk.businessinsider.com/i-drove-for-uber-for-a-week-he....

However, it looks like nobody was able to reach him, which might mean he had an accident.

Regardless, keeping coworkers in the dark is bad form, even if Apple was pressuring him to do so (which might not have been the case at all).
The circular economy as a $1 trillion opportunity
Mondoweiss? That's an extremely biased source. It's propaganda, not journalism.
Obesity is a descriptor of somebody's physical state. It's not technically a disease. Your physical state is your medical condition. So, being athletic is an important piece of medical information. Athletes are at risk for some things that non-athletic people are not.
"Before we fix your knee we're gonna need you to start running more"
If it's that, without finer detail, it's also a weak argument. I behave like my mother in many things; doesn't mean I was genetically predisposed to, as plenty of behavior is acquired from the parents.
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My advice is don't mancave or cubicle if you have an option. Fight for that window seat at work. I'd rather have a window cubicle than a windowless office. Enjoy the view every couple minutes.
> it's deeply unethical and unprofessional to refuse consideration of any other cause than obesity, and to limit treatment to a scolding about dieting—no matter how high a person's BMI is

It would be if this was actually happening, which is never. Maybe there's like a handful of shitheads out there doing it, but this isn't a wide-spread problem.
What features from those safer languages you want, that cannot be applied to existing OpenSSL code base? Pretty much everything they have is possible to implement for C without massive rewrites.
You have to be careful with OTC reading glasses. If your reading PD is much more narrow or wider than about 57mm, then you're introducing prism. At the powers you've mentioned, it _shouldn't_ be a problem, but higher powers can cause headaches and eye strain.
> Due to EU regulations there is no more "add extra water" feature like in older machines

Not sure I buy this, I just bought a new Miele (to replace the broken Bosch) that has a dedicated "Water Plus" button.
This is the sentiment that I hear from my friends who are doctors.

And it's not that they're trying to be disparaging or mean. It's very frustrating for doctors who have to explain to patients repeatedly the root cause of their issues, and that there is no "fast fix" or medicine that will fix their problems until they lose weight.
But it does ensure your child/ren have access to medical professionals, which causes what the medical community as a whole to see an increase in cases.
Using international waters to avoid legal punishment
Eh, in that case, I would assume/hope he had those instructions in writing, as The Verge's burn has surely put a huge dent in his employability, and very likely libelous.
These comments are simply unbelievable. Autism is not a super power. Visit families with meaningfully autistic children and come back and tell me if you think it is a "step forward" in "intelligence and stability". These children will need to be institutionalized as adults.
The compiler can provide better error messages and guide the user, whereas with library types, at least on C++'s case it requires help from external tooling.

With Rust, while you can make use of the type system, it is harder for the compiler to provide such guidance, unless the types are somehow blessed.
I'm curious then, which GPU do you have and if it's AMD or Nvidia, are you using the proprietary driver or the open source driver? I ask because I've had lag and rendering issues under the Nouveau driver that disappeared on the proprietary driver. This is on a modern workstation with a GTX 960 and both Firefox and Chromium were affected.
This exactly.

I knew someone who jumped from TiVo to Google and part of the contention in the timing of the switch for him was options vesting.

So Google (well his hiring mgr/HR) told him to keep working at TiVo and get his bonus from them and they'd have something lined up for him to jump immediately afterwards. They couldn't let him work on Google proprietary stuff, though.
Don't assume that because it's easy for you to be fit and skinny, it's easy for everyone.

I'm neither fit nor skinny.

I am empathetic, what I am NOT is sympathetic. I have a problem, and I need to fix it.

I'm working on it. But even when I'm not, I understand that my health problems are and will be primarily weight related.

I actually sort of resent the comparison between "why don't you just cheer up?" and "oh, just lose weight." Everyone understands that weight loss is diet and exercise, even if they've never have to do it. Most people don't understand that depression isn't just an extra long bit of being bummed out, let alone know what the resources a person might need to overcome depression are or how much more complicated it can be. Sure, they both have an initial inertia that needs to be overcome to get started on fixing it, but I'm much more sympathetic to the depressed.
Thanks. Too late to edit it now though. And nandhp's detective work was right, the adjective was originally "awful".
Depends on your threat model. Whilst a bare-metal solution is preferable for analyzing malware, I wouldn't procure my laptop from Amazon. See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/301itv/buying_your_...

After the Snowden revelations, I am highly skeptical of the trustworthiness of any computer hardware ordered online. Even if I don't fall into the bucket of somebody especially interesting or worth targeting. I mean really we should have a database of xray scans of motherboards so we can diff them, and compare store-bought laptops with ones shipped via mail, but until then I will be persistently buying up all the store-bought Thinkpads I can find and modifying them to prevent evil maid attacks.
Google may launch Andromeda OS on rumored 7 inch Huawei Nexus tablet
Exactly what I was reminded of when I saw this. Very cool stuff.
Take a look at this book, he Second Brain : The Scientific Basis of Gut Instinct and a Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestines:

http://amzn.to/2dmlrM4

It touches on how the enteric nervous system has similar structures to the brain and also produces neurochemicals.

Interesting perspective.
I find that repairing it myself is often faster than getting a tech out to repair things. It seems to be a minimum of two appointments, one to diagnose things and order the part, another to come back to fix it. With the wait windows the repair services want, it's less time to do it myself.
The human body has a tendency to attempt to attenuate sensory input. The process you describe is similar to a practice in audio engineering where by an audio engineer will start with the lowest volume and gradually turn the volume up. If you start the volume high to begin with, your ear (and in your case your eyes) will attenuate the sensory input down which causes unnecessary strain.
There's another angle too. For a long time the only tailor in town was basically a bridal tailor. They charged steep prices for simple work on everyday clothing, and wait times were long.

Fast forward to today. I had ripped holes in a few pairs of pants, and was wondering if it made sense to have them repaired- I was pretty sure I was going to be charged as much as the pants were worth for a fairly simple repair. Luckily there's a new shop in town, run by a group of older ladies who seem to have grown up tailoring, that charges sane prices.

Anyway, the point is repairing can be uneconomical simply because of lack of availability of repair resources.

As an example on the other side, Autozone has enabled countless mechanics with their tool library programs and other basic shadetree services like easy oil recycling.

(P.S. Maybe I should learn to sew & get an inexpensive sewing machine, but that isn't the point)
They do. Weight dosing is way more common in pediatric medicine, though, since children cover a pretty wide range of weights.
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Why must everything have a purpose?
I still think it's better to have a logical grouping of related work. I prefer merge commits, but even squash merges at least achieve this as well.
Help :)
Hello, before anything I will say this is about money, just wanted to clear that up. I recently got a bill I am not capable of paying, I do not have any job atm, but I am trying my best to get one. I need to get this billed paid before 04.10.16 If it isnt paid before that date, it can give me serious consequences. If anyone here, or anyone you know are willing to help me out, just with the smallest amount, that would help alot. The bill is on 238 Dollars, or 2126 kroner (NOK) Anyone willing to just help with something, will get their money back in 3-4 weeks.. Some of you will probaly ignore this completely, which I do understand. Please, help me :)
That's fair. I don't mean to judge your specific experience.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ocp-2016-building-on-...

https://www.opendaylight.org/
What her doctor actually probably said was "the limits of what I can diagnose show that you would most likely see a great improvement with weight loss. I can refer you to a specialist who can conduct more tests (MRI etc) but those tend to be very expensive. I wouldn't recommend it without trying weight loss first, which is very important beyond the symptoms you came in for today".
> Google detecting further abuse of notBefore via Certificate Transparency

You don't need to rely on Google. All certs issued by WoSign since January 1st, 2015 should be on WoSign's own Certificate Transparency log from which you can download them. StartCom is logging all new certs too, but I don't know for sure if they pushed all older ones too. If you ever encounter a cert that isn't on the list, that's definitive proof that they are backdating again.

The list of certificates is too large for Mozilla to include a list of hashes in Firefox, but it might be a nice opportunity for a Firefox add-on.
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> People who get to these extreme levels of obesity are basically suicidal.

Sometimes they might be, but this is far from universally true.
Isn't this better? Manufacturers can make rational decisions on tax breaks vs additional costs. Here, they have to compete with a "easily repairable!" label from a competing product. That's hard to price.