skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They had decay underneath fillings because the original treatment had essentially only gone as deep as the patient could stand.

In the middle of a root-canal my anesthetic completely wore off. I was able to feel the nerve root in my tooth being twisted up into a metal file and snapped out, along with all the canal filing and packing that happens afterwards. White-hot all-encompassing pain. There's no way any of those patients got a proper job done.
Unnecessary jab at Mumbai.
Chargebacks are an easy countermeasure. Costs them a $30+ fee plus time expended to challenge it. And, if it succeeds, it is perfect evidence for any suit the hotel brings.
Welcome back Simon. I am really, really glad to hear that you are blogging again. The internet as a whole lost something precious in the move to "social".
This research is highly debated and is by no means a sure thing. The research so far has been correlational, inconsistent, and weak. Twenge
hugely overstates the confidence we should have in the findings.

See https://medium.com/@OrbenAmy/social-media-and-suicide-a-crit... and https://twitter.com/shuhbillskee/status/955070356091555840 for some critiques of the work.
My suspicion is that paracetamol / acetaminophen and ibuprofen are so incredibly not-good for you, and this anaesthesiologist knows this, that he covering his ass by minimising how much he doles out.
It ,ay be hard or impossible to do, but the potential certainly is there. http://theconversation.com/emotions-affect-how-pain-feels-as...:

”Beecher initially wondered whether these war-wounded men were generally insensitive – for chemical or hormonal reasons, for instance. However, this turned out to be untrue since even badly wounded patients who claimed not to be in pain cursed medics who were rough when giving them an injection. Instead Beecher concluded that the best explanation for the men’s lack of pain involved their emotional state. They were not suffering because their wounds represented an escape “from an exceedingly dangerous environment, one filled with fatigue, discomfort, anxiety, fear and real danger of death,” but because they provided them with “a ticket to the safety of the hospital”.”

Simplifying the explanation, it seems optimism (?or delusion?) (“things will get better” or, maybe, “the pain prevents me from doing things that will do more harm”) helps decrease suffering.
The downside of scanning for everything is that you'll end up increasing the cost of medicine considerably for extremely little gain. Case in point: breast cancer screenings catch a lot of malignant tumors in an early stage helping many patients before their cases become more serious. But the downside is that it has caused a large number of un-necessary procedures as well raising the costs and - and this is the kicker - blocking the available capacity with cases that would never become serious in turn denying that capacity to people whose cases are serious.

A bit of googling will give you lots of articles on the subject, the same kind of evidence exists for prostate and other cancer screenings as well as other diseases.
Same with me when I was a kid.

My parents also missed tons of opportunities to help me start other hobbies such as learning to play a instrument which I would have loved.

So I stayed with the PC...lots of gaming initially, which lead to learning about hardware and how to build computers myself (gotta overclock that CPU)...but I also have to admit that it sparked the interest to make my own games early which led me to pick up programming and that opened up a ocean of opportunities later in life.

It’s really hard to know what skill will be useful later in life...so now that I have kids in my own I try to support their natural interests which also allows my wife and I to moderate thins like gaming to some reasonable degree.
Pylos Combat Agate Evokes Tales from the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ (Nov. 2017)
Lots of cough/cold medicine will make the user drowsy. The typical cough suppressant dextromethorphan can cause drowsiness on it’s own. First generation antihistamines such as doxylamine are also often included in “cough and cold” medicines and can cause significant drowsiness.

Near as I can tell, doxylamine has literally no purpose in these medications except to cause drowsiness. It doesn’t do anything for the cough or for a runny/stuffy nose caused by an infection. You’ll find this combo in NyQuil.

So yes, it’s really a thing, though it probably shouldn’t be (the doxylamine part at least).
Cryptocurrency trader 'forced at gunpoint to make Bitcoin transfer'
Wargames under a certain definition involve players playing against each other. Hardening their own system and attacking their opponent's. Since these games don't involve defending your own machine, under that definition they don't qualify.

However, they're still super useful and when anyone tells me they're interested in trying hacking I point them there first.
Note that Facebook has outsourced the moderation to an external company (Arvato Bertelsmann) and isn't employing these people themselves.
Yes, looks very fake. The parts about if your dog needs to go out, how they target women, whether your chair scrapes or not? Just silly.
The problem with hardware lockdown is that at the end of the day x-boxes and PlayStations are only interacting with a screen to display media.

ATMs on the other hand are designed to interact with physical hardware that sucks money up and spits it out. Locking down the operating system is easy, but if the hardware is controlled by serial interfaces then you've got a weak point there unless the serial interfaces are encrypted (spoiler, they are not!). To encrypt them you'd need to put something at the OS side and something at the hardware (pneumatics/motors) side and ensure they aren't accessible (ie, located inside the safe part of the ATM). Its not impossible to do, but I somehow doubt they'll do it anyway.
DST has it's place I think, but given the choice between having it active never or always I'd choose the latter. The extra daylight is great.
No, Linux is not immune: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/web-h...
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He was playing on the computer too much so you are training him to be a pervert?
I did it back in the day. Sleeping in my car, hungry, and I stole some candy bars from a grocery store.

Throwing me under the bus wouldn't have been terribly productive. I knew it was wrong, but hunger is a powerful motivator. I picked a big chain on purpose. Doesn't make it right, but I did try to consider to impact of my choices.

Going to jail wouldn't have made me somehow remorseful. It would have just made me bitter. I totally get the thought pattern, but living it is different than talking about it.
as someone who has had a proper merchant account in the past, my impression is that the customer has a lot more power than the merchant, when it comes to chargebacks. Chargebacks are super damaging to the owner of the merchant account[1], and while you can fight them, and sometimes win, my impression was that at least as a small operator, the end-user had the benefit of the doubt.

I'd bet money that "we made some ridiculous claim to be able to charge you after the fact for doing something reasonable" wouldn't hold up against the chargeback.

This is the thing; in most countries, America included, 'freedom of contract' is constrained by many laws, including 'reasonableness' tests. Personally, I think this is a feature, not a bug.

[1]chargebacks are one of the things that changes how much 'reserve' the merchant account holds back... if you don't have great credit, and/or if you have chargebacks, sometimes the merchant account will hold your money for months before releasing it to you. You really want to avoid chargebacks, as a merchant.
Just 12% of the US population is black.
Different meanings ... "Something untethered Tether" vs "Tether untethered something."
What was the base called?
I doubt the Abbey Inn, a small bed and breakfast in Indiana, has a legal department.
Hence the tiny text on the bottom of the screen about "paid actors" or similar. But again, that's about prohibiting unfair business practices, misleading advertising in this case. It has nothing to do with the legal capability of the actors to contract to tell lies, and nothing to do with free speech (except that it's a limit on the free speech of the actors and the company).
For the first six weeks the employer (small employers need mandatory insurance for that), after that their health insurance (which gets some lump payments from the federal government for that).
Not familiar with the author's agenda, but:

1) is this just showing retirement patterns? (I.e make lots of money in a state with higher income /cost of living then move somewhere cheaper/warmer once you stop making money? The reverse probably doesn't happen?)

2) Is this just mapping relative state incomes? I think people moving between states randomly would produce this pattern given income differences.

I'm also not sure what the point is from a policy perspective. Even if the pattern is true doesn't necessarily mean that states should change their policies.
The article says that Maersk is taking the opposite approach. Quoting the CEO, Jim Hagemann Snabe:

"And this was a wake-up call to become not just good —we actually have a plan to come in a situation where our ability to manage cyber-security becomes a competitive advantage."
Mastercard is not going to drop Marriot because some manager got a little overzealous with his directive to make sure his franchise has good reviews.
http://www.momminitup.com/emily-thinks-shes-funny/objects-in...

Nothing new under the sun.
One of the best known wargames is the DEF CON Capture the flag competition where opponents attack and defend target infrastructure to collect points.
Science is not being advanced by disproving crackpots. It's a waste of precious resource better spent elsewhere.
Better still, default to having a strong opinion only with good reason, and the capacity to quickly give it up when presented with a more compelling view.

And then of course... we shouldn't expect to be able to sum up highly effective heuristics for understanding the world in a single sentence.
I've always enjoyed your opinion on alternative operating systems and languages. I love plan9, I wore my thesis in it, but that was based on the knowledge that other distributed operating systems existed at the time, amoeba being the most fun to learn about. Now it's a wasteland... And I really would prefer to explore.

I think better or worse isn't the important theme here. It's that we've lost variety...
(edit: I read your answer again. It made me smile. Original text:)

Maybe you are right, and xupybd too. This is why I still think my parent had an interesting and insightful answer. I actually wanted to understand that this way, but was put off by the "at such a tender age". This does not look neutral to me. "at this stage of life" or "at this young age" would not have triggered this in me.

Unfortunately, written text is not sufficiently precise for this kind of things.

I'm biased though. I happen to have met (independently) two people last year who were sorry for me and wanted to make me believe in God (which is okay. When you have convictions, you may want to make people adopt your convictions - but they didn't seem to understand my point of view). I also went to the US and met people there who were seeing atheists as extremists and intolerent people (I was ok for them though, because I am agnostic - so for them, I consider the existence of God).
Nerves were killed by arsenic. Still very painful, yet not a (fully) live nerve fortunately.
> it was difficult enough that they said a broken jaw during the procedure was a possible complication.

This is boilerplate for tooth extraction. I was told the same when I had my wisdom teeth removed.
Would love to see some sample chat logs -- anyone know if they're available?
"Loneliness is distinct from the number of friends a person has or how much time he or she spends alone, but is rather defined by a longing for greater social interaction."

I think this is a good distinction to make. Something I've been realizing from the way I see other people talk about and deal with being alone in situations, is that I have a much higher-than-usual tolerance for solitude. (Maybe a trait shared by others here on HN because of our interests and pastimes?) I'm pretty sure I can be in an isolated place for months at a time. (Of course I'd want the internet, books, music etc... being alone like in The Shining or in solitary confinement is a whole different situation.)
Compared to Inferno? It's simpler. I think plan9 is great example of getting a lot done with a very simple design.
> Sure, such a Lipschitz bound could give us some help on lower bounds on the objective function value but for those bounds we would need some constraints! Then at least in principle, we are back to the Kuhn-Tucker conditions again.

You don't need constraints for the bounds. That's the beauty of it.

The idea is to sample from the domain and use Lipschitz bounds (or a semi-metric in the cited paper) to upper-bound the target function via the distance to the samples. The question is how take samples in a principled way that garuantees a "good" speed of convergence.

There is no free lunch. So some assumptions have to be made on the non-convex target function. However, a semi-metric around the optimizer is much weaker assumption than a Lipschitz constant. The function doesn't even have to be continuous!

Of course performance is a lot slower than, say, linear programming. But this is non-convex optimization, a much harder problem.
I find the features of Jekyll important; I use it for client projects and mock up designs. While I don't like everything about how it's structured and I've written my own for fun, it'd be a lot of work on my part to create and maintain something equivalent.
If the article is meant to walk someone through creating their own microservice, it begins to miss crucial code snippets in the `Accepting POST Requests` section. It doesn't point out that one should go back to the Cargo.toml file and add the `url` and `serde_json` crates (and possibly `serde` and `serde_derive`). Also, it's missing these crates in the point regarding updating the `use` statements. However, if the article is not meant to walk the reader through creating their own, but just to follow along from your git repository, then think about updating the article to have the repo url listed at the beginning. Good article, otherwise.
YouTube, like TV and the newsstand, has good content and bad content.
It sounds like lonely people are adapted to being lonely by reducing viral defenses (unnecessary without people around) and increasing bacterial (inflammatory) defenses.

It would be interesting to test this in a third group of people whom I'd term solitary, i.e. alone by choice and comfortable with it.
Uplink is fairly clicky though, if you're sure it was CLI then it might have been the Hacker Evolution series.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/70100/Hacker_Evolution/
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In some systems the PC maker controls the update path and not the operating system. As such it was important to get PC makers on the Team, otherwise users would have been left undefended.
What happens if you check out and you’ve already canceled your card by the time they try to charge you for trashing the room?
This was discussed here 2 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10894047
Summary:

> We ended up building a key-value store which allows you to save any JSON data without strict schema validation, in a schemaless fashion (hence the name). It has append-only sharded MySQL with buffered writes to support failing MySQL masters and a publish-subscribe feature for data change notification which we call triggers. Lastly, Schemaless supports global indexes over the data.
The blackmail issue is really just noise though. It's totally unlike traditional blackmail where someone can threaten to ruin your life by revealing crime or adultery or something. Every business has a handful of bad reviews, and it's no big deal.

The only businesses that can be upset by this are (1) those who are taking it too personally and (2) those which are getting no good reviews as counterbalance.
A lot of inside sales teams use LinkedIn for active prospecting. It's reasonably successful.
Asians are the opposite of blacks here - they have higher household income than whites, and are getting negative affirmative action in school entry because they have higher grades than whites.

Asians having outperformed white Americans should be seen as a credit to white people's lack of discrimination IMO.

Different groups have different distributions of abilities and will have different average outcomes. You can leave it as a free for all or you can try and make it fairer or more inclusive etc by introducing quotas.

Prestigious universities are not just after maximising top marks, they also go after connections to power, old money, seeking future alumni donations etc.
I mean, there is no way to know about what is happening in people's heads, so you may well have made the correct choice - however when I was 16-17, I played online games a fair bit and the reason for it was because I enjoyed them a lot and had friends on there I didn't have in real life.

When I went to uni I met similar friends which led to my social life improving, but before then there really was no substitute for online games at the time simply because I did not enjoy the company of the people I'd met at the time.

When I didn't have access to online games I'd just read the same amount instead.

I guess what I'm saying is that a lot of the time (but not always), online games are a symptom, not a cause.
I’ve had a root canal where the anesthesia didn’t wear off but simply wasn’t complete. It was still the most painful thing I’ve experienced. If I needed a root canal without anesthesia I’d just ask for an extraction. No way I’d even attempt a root canal without anesthesia.
It's a complete rewrite of this article but worse

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/well/mind/how-loneliness-...
It measures capital flowing from the high tax (CA, NY) to the low tax states (TX, FL, WA).
It's the culprit of corporate self-help. I don't look at it as anything else.
True, but whoever handles the contract on Marriot's side is going to become extremely aware of a sudden spike in chargebacks and where they happened in short order.
What he needs is a good set of friends. Not just acquaintances who he sees during an event (like say volleyball) and never again, but a couple friends(or atleast one) who with whom he feels like he can hangout with all day, year round. That'll help greatly with the depression. Even if they stare at a screen, they'll do it together. I speak from experience.

Now how you can help him get a couple good friends, I don't know. It is something that has to happen very organically. Forcing it won't help in most cases (you'll know within a couple interactions). Don't try to push him to events he doesn't want to do. You can be around hundreds of people and still be lonely.
Tax-based (example: NHS of United Kingdom)

Public -> pays to general government budget -> government pays to health care services

vs.

Social Healthcare Insurance (example: Germany)

Employer + Employee + self-employed + Students + Pensioner -> pay to Private/Public Sickness funds/Insurers -> Sickness funds/Insurers pays to health care services

See:

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/how-health-care-is...
Not really, portability was not easy to accomplish back then when you were constantly shifting between work stations and different setups.

Even to this day, I don't know of an easy way to switch between fresh devices all the time and use a "real" email client.

I don't see the problem with someone preferring gmail - personally the +suffix tagging was what I still use to this day.
Can this have a 2016 added to it, please?
It is possible, actually, if a certain percentage of their credit card charges result in chargebacks.
> This sort of joint sovereignty is called a condominium, and Faisans Island is one of the oldest in existence.

I don't think this strictly counts as condominium. In a true condominium, France and Spain would exercise joint sovereignty 100% of the time. But in this case, they never exercise joint sovereignty, it is just they have agreed to transfer the single sovereignty of the territory back and forth on a regular basis.

New Hebrides (now known as Vanuatu) was a true condominium in that 100% of the territory was under joint British-French sovereignty 100% of the time (until independence in 1980).
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As a percentage it is high and I think that’s the main reason some teams try to get away without doing it.

I’d estimate 25-50% at least depending on the complexity of the feature.

The point above is valid though, how much time was spent dealing with the fall out of not writing tests? Not easy to measure unless people are meticulous about tracking hours over numerous releases which probably doesn’t happen. Leads and managers need to see the ROI in a visible and measurable way.
The payment processor can drop the client or increase the fees. MasterCard doesn't care that you are the Marriot if you have significant amount of frauds, significant meaning one percent or two.
> Locking down the operating system is easy

No, it's not. Look at pretty much every console ever made except for the xbox 360/one.

> unless the serial interfaces are encrypted (spoiler, they are not!)

Yeah and that's obviously a problem. Nitpick though, the interface doesn't need to be encrypted, messages just need to be authenticated. Confidentiality of these messages isn't really important since you'll see the cash comming out, and you actually probably need some kind of challenge/response protocol to avoid replay attacks.

But you want them authenticated by a key that is very difficult to get out of the thing controlling the cash dispenser/serial/whatever. Which is why I said put a gaming console inthere, millions of dollars have already been spent, and are still being spent making sure nobody is getting secret keys out of them, even with full access to the hardware.

> To encrypt them you'd need to put something at the OS side and something at the hardware (pneumatics/motors) side and ensure they aren't accessible (ie, located inside the safe part of the ATM). Its not impossible to do, but I somehow doubt they'll do it anyway.

Well no, that's the point. You only need to make sure the pneumatics/motors only take authenticated commands, and that nobody can mess with those. For the OS side you piggy back off console security.
Revenge is sweet, though.
Pretty incredible level of detail. I can see the main roads on my FOB in Iraq. Definitely not the greatest thing ever.
Huh?

You don't need a prescription to get paracetamol, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen