skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It ain't perfect in Canada either.

I remember losing my hairs and getting patches of super smooth bald spots. Super embarrassing for a kid in a bad neighbourhood and bad school.

Went to the doctor she looked at my charts and said I was super low on iron so low that I might even die if it continues to lower. I was given iron pills.

Two months after I went to the doctor again and said my hair patches are not fixed. She looks at my chart again and said... hey you don't have low iron you have perfect iron and I never told you to take any pills.

Then upon investigation it was noted that the staff gave her wrong chart; of a pregnant woman who had a similar "feminized" version of my name.

Edit: Addendum: finally I was sent to a skin specialist who injected me with steroids for months until my patches were fixed. They said I had alopecia.

I was furious what if the said person had cancer and they started chemo on me?

Same doctor once injected my mom with the wrong fluid. To this day we don't know. We filed a complaint but she then resorted to personal attacks in her report and the "college of medicine" or whatever it's called didn't do anything. Till this day my mom has a red/purple bump on her arms.

Finlly, most other docs don't even check me out they listen to symptoms and say it's nothing, it will go away, etc while looking miserable (no doctor should watch House MD lol). Other times they solve the symptoms by tossing prescriptions at me. Said symptoms always keep coming back and I keep getting more of the same prescriptions.

Thanks for the free health"care" Canada.
Nice little Python script I whipped up to poll Amazon Prime Now to get my Switch: https://gist.github.com/bryanhelmig/3225bf42e5d2b8fb0cb4b720...
Alphabet’s Verily shows off health-focused smartwatch
Facebook highlights its fight against “Fake News” in print
It's not necessarily an ego or union thing. It's more of a protocol thing. The nurse needs to know what papers have been signed and generally where the patients are in terms of paperwork. I'm a medical student, and I've been amazed at how efficiently the inefficient system in an outpatient clinic works. There's a very specific protocol that all the assistants, nurses, and doctors adhere to, and any deviation from the protocol seems to halt the entire system. If the doctor in your scenario moved the papers herself, the nurse would be out of the loop. The papers probably signified that your patient visit was almost over, and the nurse needs to be aware of that so she can get the next patient moving.
There are times it feels like outside of the USSR's involvement, WW2 was a battle between various fascist interpretations.
If I had a 0-day for openssh I'd be selling it to people I could be sure would keep it a secret.
You scoff, but I'd wager that a USB stick would count as folksy in 50 years.
I have a few old ones tucked into my travel folder where I keep spare credit cards, emergency cash, etc. I really need to take them into the bank and cash them one of these days.
> There's no electronic lookup to verify cash is valid.

That's why cards (credit or debit) are faster; cash is validated in amount by manual counting, and for validity of individual bills often by even more cumbersome manual counterfeit detection measures. Electronic verification makes cards faster.
Dear Car Companies:

If you would really like to advance the state of the art for self driving technology, I invite you come up to the mid-west, especially in the winter months, and make your toys work under those conditions.

Working up here will push your technology quite far, with snow, slush, worn away lane markers, cold temperatures, wind, potholes, washboard roads, ice, clogged sensors, blocked GPS, and any number of the above challenges thrown together in random and unpredictable patterns.

If you can get to level 4 or 5 automation in those conditions, making them work in the eternally sunny portions of CA will be a snap.

Sincerely, a Montanan (who is annoyed they had to deal with snow, ice, blocked sensors, and cold temperatures just this morning)
I think it's great for doctors to solicit feedback from departing patients to see if there is anything they could be doing better.

But on a related note: I'm not sure about the value of using patient satisfaction surveys to evaluate physician performance generally. Patients will love doctors who tell them what they want to hear, over-prescribe antibiotics, over-prescribe powerful pain killers, go along with non-vaccination, prescribe homeopathic remedies or similar nonsense.... I think most people are not in a good position to evaluate the quality of care they're getting outside of things like bedside manner, so I wouldn't pay much attention to reviews for doctors.
Hopefully saving someone a search...

SVG browser support: http://caniuse.com/#search=svg

Pretty much everything of any significance supports it except IE 8 which has 0.3% market share and is no longer supported by Microsoft.
Trump to Nation: You Can't Handle the White House Visitor Logs Truth
> The counter point (to that convenient strawman :) ) is that the chances of someone getting ill are not as easy to determine and that that someone might have gotten ill anyway. Cause and effect are a lot more distant in that case and much harder to relate to each other.

This is wishy-washy logic. There are real evidence/data-based scientific studies that show the specific measurable increase in infections of various diseases based on how many members of the population refuse the available vaccines. There have been flare-ups in California with dozens of people becoming infected (and some dying) when herd immunity is lost. This is not hypothetical; it is simply fact. Similarly, it's hard to say whether any individual pack-a-day smoker will die from lung cancer, but we know that, in aggregate, smoking significantly increases your risks of dying from lung cancer, so to make wishy-washy statements attempting to justify smoking as maybe not unhealthy would similarly fall on deaf ears.

And lastly -- this isn't all theoretical. I want you to watch a video of an infant, too young for vaccination, that has contracted whooping cough thanks to failure of herd immunity (i.e. anti-vaxxers). Even with all the benefits of modern medicine there is a good chance that infants like this one that contract whooping cough will die. This is what enabling anti-vaxxers does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZrMGDMMw
Real-Time Programming (2004) [pdf]
>It's not that simple. Single payer systems also decide who to treat and for what sicknesses, what machines to buy etc.

So does the US, they just use one's wealth as a proxy to arrive at demonstrably worse results for everyone overall.

If you want to have a system where one's income determines their ability to survive because you have enough money and that works for you right now, go ahead. But at least drop the pretense that it's in any way just or moral.
Taser’s Free Body Cameras Are Good for Cops, Not the People
Oh, wow. I see.
That's a genuine bug. How long as this been going on for?!
It's interesting to read through, but little disappointed that there was nothing on his methodology — is this all just the hypothesis of the author having read a lot of menus? Or did he do anything more in-depth?
But having state sponsored employees is so obvious, effective, and cost efficient it seems odd to assume it's not being done. The US found a bunch of Russian spies a while back.

But true, it's not right to assume any particular vuln is from spies.
> somewhat recent versions of Windows

Windows 7 was released in 2009, eight years ago. I wouldn't call that "somewhat recent"
Microsoft Developer Products Version and Release Numbers
This has literally never happened to me. I find, however, that the quickest replies are seldom the best-considered.
Do note that an SMB exploit does give you privilege escalation once inside a network.
Just an example of "Worse is better"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
I saw him interviewed in a documentary on Fandor called, 'The Net.' The interview took place in his home about 15 years ago. There were a number of topics, but I particularly remember how he spoke of how fear is borne out of ignorance. Well worth checking it.
> I just want to get some insight into what the 'average American' thinks about Snowden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M&t=26m50s
Not sure why you were downvoted. Microsoft started blocking security updates on Windows 7 & 8 for Ryzen and Kabylake CPUs as of yesterday.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3189990/windows/microsoft-blo...
It's a long long way down to the bottom of the uncanny valley.
Twitter's character is the Fail Whale.
I really like a some of Mike Judges work but B&BH is not part of that.

Where is the humor in killing an ant with a magnifying glass.

I see were it was heading/went for the better but no. Don't like B&BH.

It was a non clever, be cruel but true to parady show to start IMO. It had truths but not cleverness.
https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2015

Exactly. In 2015, most (50.08666%) wage earners earned less that $30,000/year.

While it isn't a majority, the fact that 3-in-10 (29.72726%) earn less than $15,000/year is a travesty.
I think this is a problem with registrars. It is the same if they would arbitrarily share access to your domain setup to another person. They should not allow registering domain names that look identically or very similar.

And of course we should stop using passwords and switch to physical keys.
I worked at MSN a while ago, and even we didn't patch everything immediately. It had to go through our team's QA first. We found a few bad installers and that reinforced the practice.
17 More Must-Know Data Science Interview Questions and Answers
How does this compare with the Superbook?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14114266
Nintendo Switch First Month Sales Nearly Hit 1M in North America
I'm not so sure about "have their priorities straight there". Using the state to manage healthcare brings up strange priorities: "Should we cover kidney transplants or should our soldiers have real bullets in their guns this year?", "Should we build the new transit line or increase coverage to include penile transplants?", etc.

I don't want people voting based on their appendix, their bad knee surgery, or a skin rash. Involving government in healthcare inevitably leads to possible futures wherein a country is brought to it's knees by colonoscopies. One's enemies can only laugh.
Learning AI If You Suck at Math – P7 – The Magic of Natural Language Processing
It's not necessarily a matter of oppressing non-ASCII languages if it's a symmetric relation. So if "epic.com" is registered using ASCII, that precludes registering the cyrillic version, but if it's already registered in cyrillic, that precludes it being registered in ASCII.

There is a starting advantage for ASCII because so many domains were registered from English speaking countries in the early years of the web. But non-ASCII using countries are just as vulnerable to this attack.
Bureaucratic mishaps and mediocre care providers are bound to occur in any sufficiently complex system.
Mossberg: A plan to preserve the internet – Recode
Well, IANAL, but I believe that it's actually not illegal for him to possess it.

And what would be the gain in harassing him? I'm sure that the NSA has by now figured out what he took.
If you routinely have to wait 30+ minutes when you arrive to your appointment on time, and then have to wait even longer if you show up a little late then the office is already backed up on a regular basis.
How to Draw a Cat (1930)
You sound like a shill. Typical deceptive argumentation tactics. Casually dismissing anything you don't like, ignoring common knowledge, veiled insults toward your opponents, and hypocritically advocating blind faith in your position without any evidence behind it--a position which happens to leave you completely vulnerable to trivial deception by plausible deniability.

Oh, and a new account, too. I should hope that few people here would be so naive as to not see through you.
How do we know that they're not online somewhere?
Les Animaux tels qu'ils sont" (1930) is an art instruction book, teaching children how to draw various animals. Blog post contains various scans of the original.
The way I see it is as long as the state provides effective and accessible healthcare, things like hospital choice over equipment or drug supplier is a "nice to have". Prioritizing these things seems like freedom for freedom's sake.
I guess.

Medicaid and Medicare are more than a third of spending and don't necessarily cover the total costs of the care provided under the programs (any unmet costs are a hidden tax). The VA is not nearly as expansive as those programs but is another couple whole percentage points of US health spending.

And you've also got Tri Care and some BIA stuff, and state expenditures that are outside of Medicaid.
Does it spread well on toast?
The logic seems to be "if it's not going to start on time anyway then my being late shouldn't affect anything". That seems reasonable to me, or at the very least, if a doctor's office is chronically quite behind anyway, then your being late is only contributing to the problem, not causing it.
Well, what makes the cards so great? Seriously?

* Collect miles? I prefer the Cash back I have with my CC.

* Zero foreign transaction fees is a nice feature.

* Create virtual credit cards is a good feature.

* Travel insurance? Have a better one that any CC could offer me, including air evacuation. Don't need that with my CC and also would be worried about the fine print.

* Lounge Access? If you are a frequent flyer you should have Elite or whatever status anyway, hence I don't need this either. If you really need a card with "lounge access", Diners Club is still available in some European countries for less than US$ 100 per year. (Dines Club Lunge access included)

If I miss something with my CC then it is bicoin access:
https://bitpay.com/visa/

If you need a "prestigious" card, try here:
http://creditcardforum.com/blog/most-prestigious-credit-card...

AH, Just saw. 100 bucks for, at least previously, 100k miles is not so bad. Most "prestigious" cards I know have fees from 400-1000 USD

"Introductory Annual Fee of $0 the first year, then $95."
dupe, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14117555
Yes! Come to Canada and try out your tech. California is so soft.
Seems like it would be much easier to convince browsers to make punycode in the browser bar opt-in than to convince every registrar to stop selling certain punycode domains. For starters, who draws the line on which characters are unsafe?
I am Italian, and I live in France.

> Does anyone make better cookies, pastries and desserts overall than the Italians? We don't think so! And bread? Please.

Yes: the French make better bread, cookies, pastries and desserts. French bakeries are just so good.

I am not a self hating Italian: Italian cuisine is vastly superior to French cuisine (really overrated!); Italian wine is on par (if not better) than French wine. But French bread, pastry and desserts just win. Like: hands down. They are just so much better.

I am in Paris since 2012, and I am not yet tired of buying bread every morning: the smell of fresh bread in the morning is like heaven... Nothing is quite like a good French croissant, or croissant aux amandes, or...

The quality of Italians bakeries and pastries is not even half of the French ones. I ignore why Italians totally lack of a "culture" of bread... we can do so much better.
My favourite one:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta/3523832414/sizes/l
Earlier you write:

> Its important to remember that in a state economy where
> healthcare is free or semi free it's operated as a cost
> center and thus has budgets that are politically mandated
> not determined by market demand at least not directly.

and later write:

> My personal suggestion for a good balanced system is that
> most people pay most of the cost for normal healthcare costs
> like going to the doctor for a checkup, most of the cost for
> one of things like a broken leg but that society pays for
> more serious and longer term situations like cancer, heart
> surgeries where you are supposed to stay at the hospital for
> a longer time.

But here

> It's 100% free to go to the doctor yet a lot of people don't go for checkups it's not a common thing to do.

you allude to Danish data that show prospective patients do not take advantage of healthcare even if that cost is 100% subsidized.

So which is it? Does healthcare that is 100% subsidized distort demand so that people seek unnecessary care, or is demand so inelastic that people and populations who would benefit from it decline to use it?

EDIT: add third in situ quotation. Add comma in last sentence/question. Change pronoun to conjunction in last sentence; pluralize noun.
> Then upon investigation it was noted that the staff gave her wrong chart; of a pregnant woman who had a similar "feminized" version of my name.

This has happened many times to me. It's quite scary once you realize it. Thankfully no one ever told me I was pregnant.

> We filed a complaint but she then resorted to personal attacks in her report

Care to go into more detail? I'm really interested in knowing how these details.

> Said symptoms always keep coming back and I keep getting more of the same prescriptions.

This is just called making sure your business is recurrent.
One of the big fails of OS/2 was the IBM never had the desire that it would ran on any PC clone. They priorize doing something similar what does Apple with OSX on lesser degree. In other words, there was few drivers for hardware that wasn't on a PS/2 computer. Add to the mix the non cheap SDK...
The Wheel and the Knife
That seems more a theoretical or ideological objection. Yes there may be some outlying cases where people can't their treatment paid for and have to resort to going private, but the vast majority of citizens in countries with state healthcare enjoy free and effective healthcare for their entire lives.
EU systems get much better outcomes for a fraction of the cost, and you think that's 'unsustainable'? 'lobbying' can be dealt with a either side of the pond, the only thing you are arguing for is making profit from the poor and sick.
More than slightly. Linux only had somewhere to grow because GNU was in place. RMS may be a kook to the wider world, but goddamn if he wasn't right, right from the start.
I abandoned an orthopedist last year because I felt that he was using hard-sell tactics on me to get me to agree to surgery for my broken ankle. Basically, he had a surgery slot open in a few days and it seemed like he wanted to book it, with increasing discounts (including exploding offers!) on the surgery as I kept demurring. He was a referral from the urgent care clinic that I went to immediately following the accident, and I think they recommended him solely because he was in the same doctor/hospital network (although he did not take my insurance!).

So I spent several hours doing research on orthopedic surgeons and went to visit one of the best ones at the best hospital in the city (who also happened to be in-network). He looked at my X-rays and recommended against surgery, saying that the break wasn't that bad and that it would heal fine with just the cast I was already in! He was not as personable and a bit more robotic than the other guy who was giving off the salesman vibes, but I trusted him because of my research rather than the first doc who was essentially just some random referral through happenstance.

A year has gone by now and I'm glad that I didn't get the surgery, because my ankle healed perfectly without it (the second doc was right). I would've been walking faster with the surgery, it's true, but I also would've had permanently implanted metal hardware (which can cause lifelong irritation issues), and which could have necessitated a second surgery for later removal. In hindsight I regret nothing, and of course not having the surgery was also much, much cheaper.

So if that first doctor were to ask me why I'd leave him, I'd just say that it seemed like he was placing profits above the best interests of the patient, or, more charitably, that since he's a surgeon he thinks of surgery as the solution to every problem, even when it's not necessary.
Trump innovation push overshadows Obama’s tech agencies
Love in the Time of Numbness; Or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer
Why young men queue up to die in the French Foreign Legion
This is really great. As someone who has done quite a few size-sensitive projects/experiments, have you considered providing them in a small website? So artists can contribute with more icons and developers who want to use them can modify them when downloading (border radius, background, etc). I could throw a quick prototype if that sounds good.
Hmmm it's probably because of Zelda!

Though subjectively the Switch isn't all that innovative like the Wii. Also, I do not see a ton of compelling games scheduled, as the next game is Super Mario Kart 8 which is a rehash from the Wii U.

Im hoping Microsoft's next console has some innovative features like their Illumiroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGGMv9RnJIA
Explained: Neural networks
That's actually not so weird. The 8042 simply had an unused GPIO. The other option would have been to put a whole peripheral on the bus for this purpose, to the tune of like 3 chips and $40 of retail price.

The point was just to have a compatibility hack for old apps, not to pollute the architecture going forward. The reason that pollution happened was actually that the PC clone makers incompletely and incorrectly copied this feature, so later OSes never knew a priori whether or not it would be enabled by the BIOS, and they all had to have the same 10-20 instruction sequence to turn it off. And that meant that future PCs needed the same 8042-looking device on the bus to handle that request.
The kids and I play MineCraft with the fantastic open computers mod (http://ocdoc.cil.li). Doing this gives a good base understanding of what is easy to program and what is not. When I'm programing they are pretty interested in whatever problem we are solving, and suggests ways we could solve them.

I'm somewhat a believer in teaching kids things when they want to learn them. So I'm teaching my daughter who is six years how to code, even though I've not taught her older siblings yet.

For actually getting started teaching though, I just use the JavaScript console in Chrome. You get live feedback, and there's a lot of stuff to make happen.

Functions are monsters that hold arguments in their hands and either make things happen, or transform into something else. Variables are boxes. My six year old literally calls her programing "playing with the monsters".

On another tangent, I think the kid's world right now in professional America has a little too much emphasis on STEM. It's worshiped like the football team in coal America or being a doctor twenty years ago in Asia-American circles. I love coding, breathe coding, and can't help but pass on, but I know that my kids have unique, individual gifts. I'm not going to force them code. I'm just going to support them if they want to, and coding is always going to be around the house simply because that's what I do.
China Pushes Breadth-First Search Across Ten Million Cores
HIGHLIGHTS: Inter 2-2 Milan
Tuscan style bread has one fatal flaw and that is the lack of salt in it.

On theory is that it's often eaten with other highly salted foods so things balance out.

But on its own... no thank you.
Great idea. One of the points made in the post is "What kind of security is protecting your data? How can you audit that security?"

Yet, many people would say that they rather trust their data with Google/Facebook than self-host or use some random provider or host it at home. Is this a common shared sentiment? Just wondering if this opinion is shared among a more technical HN crowd (most of them use gmail even on HN).
Maybe non-latin domains should use non-latin TLDs? Or at least registrar should reserve all alternative spellings when registering a domain.