skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The counterissue to standards being higher (which might or might not be true) is that programs are ramming students through at a faster rate. They're reducing and compressing course and theory and pushing them out into clinical settings more. You could argue that this exposes them to real-world learning faster, but my impression is that it's driven mostly by just getting extra free help in the clinic. I think once you exit the classroom, too, you're at as much of a risk of unscientific idiosyncracies of supervisors as you are likely to benefit from real-world learning.

A this point, in a lot of schools, PAs and MDs get about the same amount of in-class training, for example (especially when you consider that PA prereqs are often stricter than MD prereqs in terms of prior coursework and experience). A PA with 2 years of experience is at about the same experience as an MD just out of school. The discrepancies with specialists (e.g., optometrists, dentists, psychologists, and so forth) is even greater.

I don't think MDs are incompetent, but I think our healthcare model is basically wrong, in that people just aren't able to juggle everything in their heads, regardless of how smart they are, and someone focused on their problem, with access to the internet, just might be able to get more traction than the person trying to remember 1 out of 10000 things in their head. I think this is also why there's been a push toward specialists: it's just easier that way, even if the problem isn't that specialized, because the specialists only have to remember 1 out of 20 things.

The basic healthcare model, with MDs at the top, followed immediately by PAs and nurses, needs to change, to be more decentralized. There's a role for those training backgrounds, to be sure, but many of the same tasks could be accomplished in different ways, and many things are maybe done more efficiently and less expensively through different routes (by relying more on pharmacists, for example, or expanding training and practice for optometrists, psychologists, and so forth).

Maybe if a pharmacist had been consulted, for example--maybe if there was less of an expectation that you start with an MD, or rely on an MD to provide all the answers, or expect them to know everything--the side effect of that med would have been confirmed earlier.

This is the one silver lining that I might hope for in a renewed healthcare debate, which is a restructuring of care systems to increase competition and decrease costs. So far everything has focused on how to pay. That's not to say I agree with moving away from a single-payer system, or that the current government will lead anywhere productive, or that I've seen anything innovative from them in that area, but it's something that hasn't been done yet.
I don't know what else to do. I don't know this guy. I don't know anyone who knows this guy. I live in another country.

What would be the right thing to do here?
Just letting you know, this bug is fixed in STP Release 22
> We are working to set up a secure and completely anonymous file deposit system for the future.

Provide a mailing address to which to send hard drives.
Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive By
It's great to see their efforts. What are you doing? What am I doing? Reading about it isn't nearly enough.
1. The download button takes about a 1/50th of the screen estate on the page.

2. In which way does focusing on Firefox not support an 'open and free internet manifesto' or is at odds with such an manifesto?
I am also curious what your use-case is for every instance inside of your VPC having a publically routable IPv6 address. Usually you only need public addresses for your load balancers and ssh jump/bastion host. All other instances inside the VPC are private networking only.
I hope someone found him while they could help. His last two posts could have been clues :(

- https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/01/24/adieu/

- https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/01/24/love/
Statistics is full of p hacking bullshit. You can mislead and lie with stats and stull sound intelligent. You being a case in point. It's funny you mention psychology, they don't accept p-value assholes in their journals any longer. You have a hammer and see nails. Foolish little fuck you are.
Thank you. It's such a horrible and powerless feeling knowing that there is very little I can do all the way here in Australia. I sent them a Facebook message, but I am glad someone was able to call.
If it's a friend or family member and you feel capable of handling it yourself, and are nearby this might be good advice.

But regarding a stranger thousands of miles away? When every second counts? The police seem like the best option.
This is is sad and avoidable. As stated in other comments we don't seem to do enough or talk enough about mental health and suicide in tech circles.

If you need help please get it. Here is one resource:

http://www.headquarterscounselingcenter.org/

Disclaimer, I'm on tbe Board of Directors. But if not this resource please get help from somewhere. There are people here for you.
That's quite a sweeping generalization. Even if true, they may know who is better able to handle the situation.
Effects of jet lag on physical performance
I just want to add something really important onto this.

ALWAYS READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT DRUGS YOU ARE PRESCRIBED!

Sorry for all caps, but it is super important. Not that your dad is in the wrong, lots of people have justified (to a degree) trust in their doctors. However doctors are people and just by that alone aren't perfect.

A few years ago my doctor prescribed me an antibiotic for an ongoing illness I had. I read the entire pamphlet for it and did some reading online about it. All before taking it. Turns out it can cause seizures if it interacts with polypropylene glycol, one of the main ingredients in e-cig juice, which I use daily. I had told my doctor I use an e-cig.

Really I cannot stress how important it is to be knowledgeable about the drugs you are taking.
I've done so for an online acquaintance in Boise (not even in the same state as me) for a much vaguer report; his post didn't even say he was in danger. They sent a police officer out (about 10pm even) and called me back to confirm that he was unharmed and not alone.
An evidence-free fad diet? We're looking at dozens (maybe hundreds) of research papers published over the past 40 years. Most of them are not based on conjectures but on clinical and dietary surveys looking at long-term health effects. Perhaps you think this is irrelevant because of selection bias, however, if a study found the diet had any relatively negative health effects, I'm pretty sure it would also get published. Of course, this can always turn into an unsolvable "faith in research" argument.

"Boring" diets, yes, because these long-term studies are necessary in order to convincingly support the idea that a diet is healthy, which necessarily implies that the diet is pretty old and probably won't hit the news all that much.

Finally, and as an edit, don't worry: I haven't gotten sucked into the diet that I'm using as an example. I don't follow or endorse it, in part because it relies too much on unsustainable fisheries.
The narrative that somehow Safari’s release cycle is causing major problems in the "industry" or that somehow, macOS and iOS users are being left behind is false, especially for everyday users.

I use an old MacBook laptop running MacOS 10.7.5 with Safari 6.1.6, an ancient version of Safari by today's standards--about four years old--when I'm out and about. Otherwise, I'm using macOS Sierra with Safari 10.x on two different iMacs.

On the MacBook I use Facebook, Slack and many other websites without a problem. I get a warning banner on Gmail that says my version of Safari is no longer supported; other than a few cosmetic issues, I can send and receive email just fine.

The point: web developers have long figured out how to deal with multiple browsers across different platforms with different capabilities. Many differences and bugs have polyfills; it's not a show stopper.

Look, there are major features and minor ones; Safari has been at the leading edge with support for CSS Grids, wide-gamut color support, variable fonts, 100% of ES6, CSS Snap Points in addition to rendering speed and power efficiency.

There certainly have been calls to reduce the pace of new specs and releases so we developers can catch their breath and so that Apple, Google and Mozilla can release quality implementations--there's nothing wrong with that.
While I understand your concern. You're wrong on a number of fronts.

Firstly, as others have mentioned, you don't really have better options besides (perhaps?) trying to find/call relatives. If you call EMTs they won't report without police (for good reason), if you call a local hospital (of any kind) they will just tell you to call the police.

Secondly, police absolutely do get training to handle mental health issues and get training to specifically handle this situation. (http://www.nami.org/Law-Enforcement-and-Mental-Health/What-I...)

Thirdly, this is Canada. While I'm sure the level of CIT training penetration in the USA is not ideal, I would imagine that Canadian police are far better and will show up with Canadian bacon and maple syrup and some tim hortons coffee and make it all better.
> This is indeed a problem with languages without mandatory variable declaration.

Typos affect everyone. It is not a function of the language that causes you to mistype. It is that the program is long and you cannot see the whole thing that causes you to miss it.

> Is it the case of K, Q or whatever its name is?

{foo}[] generates an error because foo is unbound. What's the difference between {foox} and {fooy}? They both might be variables, and yet it is only by reading the program that you can tell which one is correct.
>There's no reason whatsoever that we couldn't have what Switzerland has, other than some assholes at the top see it as an impediment to their having all of the money.

There are lots of reasons the countries are nothing alike.

For one, Swiss immigration is very picky so they just choose highly skilled immigrants to avoid having to deal with unskilled poor people.

Second, the population density is about 5 times that of the US so it's very easy to focus on public transportation because so many more people get value out of each dollar spent.

Third, Switzerland gets the benefit of paying very little for the military by taking a very nationalistic stance and avoiding involvement in conflicts regardless of the atrocities . Criticizing the US for its imperialism is definitely fair game, but you can't pretend it doesn't cost money when it comes time to compare what a country can offer its citizens.
Administrative contact:
Name: Dennis Forbes
Postal address: 2273 Britannia Rd
Burlington ON L7P0E8 Canada
Phone: +1.9053158373
Fax:
Email:

http://whois.domaintools.com/dennisforbes.ca

Call ???
My understanding is that they will disallow access to a webpage if a robots.txt goes up but they will keep the copy of the webpage in case the robots.txt is ever changed[1]. So a future administration could change the robots.txt and the webpages would be accessible again.

[1]: Seems like that happened here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine#Netbula_LLC_v.....
This is generally (amongst mathematicians) considered to be a problem, not a good thing (Source: work with university Math departments).

Edit, see http://mathoverflow.net/questions/8295/origins-of-mathematic... for the confusion this causes..
Thanks for calling. AT&T AGAIN disabled my international calling and the group that can turn it back on only works 9-5.
There is also https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/01/24/adieu/ which is datetime="2017-01-24T19:21:50+00:00", 13 hours earlier.
I just phoned, the police are aware, and are responding
Fac€book?

Alternatively,	ƒacebook, but that's probably too subtle (and a minor currency anyway).
There's a 99% chance that someone has done the hard work for you and made your perfect configuration. Try the top community configs. They are usually the best. I've never had to tinker much with my SC because people before me already have.
This guy doesn't seem unusually mentally ill to me. He seems well within the bounds of normal. Depression happens to everybody. (I'm not sure if we actually disagree or I'm just choosing different words.)
The competition isn't another browser, it's Android. If you don't like Safari, use Android. As long as iPhones are a minority device in the market, regulators won't care what they do.
I would like to read through this when I'm not so tired. Thank you!

From what I can tell, PostgreSQL is sensibly structured. At least, it seems better than MySQL. The hackiest thing I have heard so far about MySQL is that if you run the exact same SQL text more than once, it will fetch the result from cache. If you run a differently worded query, it will skip the cache, even if the query were to bring back the exact same data.

This is different than what I remember about PostgreSQL (correct me if I'm wrong). I remember reading in some book that PostgreSQL just let its rows become memory pages, and if a query resulted in data already in memory, then it got it from memory, otherwise it got it from disk. No need to make sure you didn't insert a space or something into your query the second time.
Hoping with every fibre of my being that someone can get to the OP in time.

I've been close to this sort of situation before, with a six figure tax debt that I thought I could never pay out. Several incredibly tough years later, I have paid out that debt and am well ahead. I often look back at that dark patch in my life and am glad I never took the option that I thought was my only recourse while in that particular mindset.

Things can get better. The worst of times will pass. I wish I could talk to this guy and tell him my story face to face.

Whatever deity or cosmic force you believe in - hope/wish/pray that it delays this man's decision so that someone can save him.
I'm 42 and this is what the USDA has been saying all along with their food pyramids and four food groups and what have you. I think as a whole, nutritionists have always been on the same page, but those selling diets keep changing their opinions. Sure, there has been flip-flopping recently on fats and sugars, but the edict "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" doesn't concern itself with those. I can't recall anyone ever promoting a diet with less vegetables (even the Atkins fad diet known for it's meat and dairy included vegetables) and make sure to overeat at every meal and I highly doubt either of those will ever be considered a good idea (provided the vegetables aren't tainted by radiation or chemicals or the diet's authors aren't overly politicizing GMO or some other arbitrary thing about production). Fad diets are all about selling supplements and books and are indeed snake oil. The problem is separating the wheat from the chaff and that's what this article is really about.
Given the HN article earlier today about people claiming they were humbled when they aren't, I find it amusing that the article quotes the CEO saying: "We are both humbled and proud that the P320 was selected by the U.S. Army as its weapon of choice."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13480255
>> Apple store discoverability sucks.

I will never understand this complaint. If you are depending on people to "discover" your app, you have no business plan and should never have developed the app in the first place. The majority of useful apps are not "discovered" - they are searched for by name by users who already interact with the company via their web service, desktop app, and/or real-world business.

I don't understand why developers, trying to jump on the get-rich-quick or "be my own boss working from home" bandwagon, are so surprised that there's no such thing as an algorithm that is going to give their one app any visibility over the other 90% of similarly unwanted apps vying for the same treatment.

Build a business outside of iOS that makes money providing value to its users. Then add an iOS app as a convenience and incentive for mobile users to continue doing business with you. The percentage of apps released solely to try and "make it big" which will ever do so is laughably small. Ignoring that fact and then complaining that the system is unfair shows a complete lack of common sense. Being capable of simply developing an app does not entitle one to earn a living doing so.
Switzerland will not allow you to join its society unless you bring a lot to the table to start (highly skilled worker). They only allow the most qualified candidates so they get to reap the benefits of that.

It's the same thing as saying, "Working at Google has ruined me for working at other companies."
https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/seeking-a-well-capitalized...

(emphasis his)

EDIT 2016-01-24: Hello readers. This page is seeing dozens of uniques per day from non-bots. Whether it’s interested parties or just people casually entertained I don’t know, but I will say that if you’re thinking about this contact me now (dforbes@yafla.com). My window of options is incredibly tiny at this point.
GOP asks FCC to kill plan for helping customers avoid cable box rentals
I haven't read the entire article, but I find it a bit ridiculous that the author claims that "big data" is allowing the "rise of fascism" in the 21st century. Trump has been known to give the metaphoric middle-finger to big data analytics and marketing [1]; on the contrary, almost every move of Hillary's campaign was dictated by the "advanced" big data engine called "Ada" [2]. While Trump "spent a fraction" of what Hillary did on ads and technology, he did run a paid Facebook strategy [3].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-08/no-big-da...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11...
[3] https://cambridgeanalytica.org/news/press/1380
With great certainty, I can say that most all police and first responders in the US and Canada have been trained on how to handle a suicide.

Whether or not they recall and follow through on their training, that is another story.

Please, if you think a friend or family member is on the verge of suicide, do seek the assistance of the police. They considered to be on the edge of suicide if the answer to the questions below are "yes".

1. Do you have thoughts about killing yourself?

2. Do you have a plan to kill yourself?

3. Do you have a means to kill yourself? (Purchasing a knife or gun for example)

If the answer to all three questions are in the affirmative (or even if it's one or two out of three), seek help. Do not leave them alone unless your safety is threatened. Call a suicide prevention line, call the local authorities, call a family member; do all three.
Sorry to call it like I see it, but your comment is so wrong on every possible level.

There is nobody else to call when someone is telling the world they're going to commit suicide, where is your compassion? I don't even know this guy, never read his blog and I live in another country, but reading that post and the "love" one he posted with photos of his children, that hits me right in the chest. I feel compelled to try and do something.

Police aren't just there for tending to crimes, they are there to serve and protect the community and in this case, protect someone in the community from themselves who is clearly suffering from immense mental stress and needs help.

The way society deals with people who clearly are suffering from mental illness needs to change. There are so many people out there just like him working in tech and non-tech alike feeling the same, sadly many don't get heard or the help they need. Remember Aaron Swartz?

It's easy for people to say, "he should tell someone, he should tell his wife" when they've never experienced mental illness before. It's easy to be uncompassionate when you're lucky to be a normal functioning human being.
I saw the Adieu post at the top of my feed yesterday. I had an empty body. I assumed it was a mispost or he had found an investor or like many of us just got tired of blogging.

Then tonight I read the Love post and thought it was rather touching until I got to this one. Then it fell into place.

I've followed his blog for years but otherwise don't know him personally. I'm sick to my stomach.
"The site can be clunky to use, often sending users to Web pages in foreign languages."

That has not been my experience. In fact, I'm amazed at how when I paste a paper title into sci-hub, I get immediately redirected to the paper's PDF. I doubt such a service could be provided by Google Scholar or by the commercial publishers even if it were not for the pay walls.
What a coward.

This man still has a family. Has children. He should do what millions of others have to do. Suck it up, admit his fault, and do what you have to do to survive. This is the epitome of selfishness.

I hope this man doesn't die the shameful death he hopes for but instead lives to be an example of what it means to overcome failure and show the world what you're made of.
I think the parent was asking 'who pays you money?' not, 'for whom do you provide value?'
I hope he has not followed through. He may feel like a failure, but he is much more valuable alive to his family. His kids will be devastated. You can survive anything with your family there, but without a dad those kids are going to be far, far worse off than any financial damage you feel like you've caused.
I think she has been publicly linked to Sci-Hub for a long time; by the time of the Elsevier lawsuit they knew to contact her directly.[1] Considering that she's already hiding from extradition, a little more PR probably doesn't hurt?

[1] - http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york...
Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
It seems to me that journalists and activists could benefit from software that could help track networks, timelines, etc., and organize unstructured data the way an intelligence analyst would. Anything like that out there?
Why not Glock, I wonder. If you're going to go striker fired anyway, Glock is the Kalashnikov of handguns. Simple as can be, and just keeps going no matter what. I have a Sig P226, it's a fine gun, I'm much more accurate with it (shooting stationary paper targets), but if you asked me what I'd take to a war zone, I would take a Glock 17 or a Glock 19. Much less of a chance that it'll crap out on me at the worst possible moment, which is an important feature, when your life is on the line, IMO.
> He should have told his wife about his problems so she could help him get professional help. He also could have done a crowdfunding campain.

We don't know what his relationship with his wife is, or what his capacity is to ask for help or to organize and execute a crowdfunding campaign(!).

A very unfortunate irony of mental illness is that it interferes with the person's emotional and cognitive ability to solve their problems. It's like telling someone with a broken leg that they 'should' run and get help. But at least with a broken leg you have the capacity and will to figure out what you want to do and to try to do it.
AWS used to as well. However, that doesn't work if you're an enterprise moving legacy systems up to the cloud that expect certain network addressing schemes.

Amazon.com itself didn't move to AWS until VPC supported the bring your own address primitives. Not everyone can clean slate rewrite systems to bring them to the cloud, Amazon recognizing this is going to keep them dominating the market.
You can do the same with almost all services I know. Well, at least connection-oriented ones.
If he had the ability to think clearly he wouldn't be killing himself would he. Don't be so judgmental.
Totally disagree. Depression is a very serious illness. He is not a coward, he is very sick. He is not selfish, he is very sick.