skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know where BBC got that information, but it is very wrong. It's entirely opt-in.

You need to either:

1) Register your wishes with the National Board of Health and Welfare

2) Fill in a donor card and carry it in your wallet

3) Notify next of kin/will etc

Upon your death you need to be pronounced dead twice with at least 2 hours apart, sometimes after a brain scan.

The low participation is indeed true, but according to a 2010 poll, 83% Swedes were positive to organ donation, but very few register as such.

Edit: Actually the participation doesn't seem that low [1].

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/blood_tissues...

On the Swedish system, in Swedish:

https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/donationsregistret

http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/pressrum/nyhetsarkiv/sverigeha...
If you owned shares in gold mines and got burned, it had nothing to do with the value of the gold itself. The price of gold has seen a steady upward trend over the past ~17 years at least (that's how long I've been looking at it, anyway).
In my experience, recruiters who are too honest generally end up getting you a bad deal or not fighting hard enough for you.

On the other end of the spectrum, the really slimy ones are so dishonest that the deal doesn't happen at all.

The best ones have enough honesty that you can at least bet on them giving you an accurate general picture and they are just slimy enough to do and say what needs to be said to get you the job.
There is a blog post from 2015 about an API for security and compliance motoring.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2015/04/2...

I respect that fact that CrowdStrike and others have spent the time with the api and made life a lot easier for others. As someone who has spent more time than he wanted with the Office 365 API I am a fan of people who make my life easier. That being said I am not buying the drama that these API's have been hidden.
Single-party systems by definition have either rule-by-decree or rule-by-consensus as a feature; so I’m not even sure the “rule of law” applies in the same sense when the rules are that the people in power are a hegemony that can change the rules whenever they want.

Because those who abuse power often do it through selective enforcement, and because the population has no “acceptable” way to depose those who abuse power, you get a situation where the things you do matter less than who you are.

I wouldn’t claim rule of law systems are immune to this type of influence, but a feature of a strong democracy is having checks and balances on who writes the rules vs who enforces them. You don’t have that in China, and there are definitely different sets of rules for different people.
Does anyone have any insight into why Apple's QA took a turn for the worse over the past couple years?

Buggy IOS/OS releases and now the hardware issues... I always equated Apple with quality and consistency (along with price), but now I can't really see how the price is justified with the issues they have been having.
I have a MacBook 2012 with the same crappy butterfly keyboard that I barely use as I can't stand it.

I wanted to practice soldering and I picked up a TiBook from a junker, and somehow by just stripping it down, and cleaning it up I got it working. So I put it together, and I hate to say it, but for a 2000-2001 design I love it more than any new laptop I have.

The keys have enough travel to feel like a keyboard, the monitor is nice and big, and it feels like such a nice machine. Granted with only 512MB of Ram, and a 500Mhz G4 it's not going to be anything useful today, but It's such a damned shame that it feels so ergonomically nice.
I mentioned what Windows does and talked about something else i can compare.

My relevant point was : It's measuring activities and performance yes, it's not stealing your information as the user activity is also anonymous.

I don't see you making a relevant comment though.
Did you read cost function of YOLO in both languages?
The ideal thing for them would be to ban ads for ICOs that do not comply with certain requirements like disclaimers, SEC registration, etc., but that would be really hard to implement so they just ban hammered the whole space.
and if they don't sell, the Zuck will just create a project with 1000 of his engineers to duplicate CoinBase and offer everything at free commish's for a year or whatever it takes to bring CoinBase to it's knees.
T-25 days until Chrome starts flagging HTTP sites as “Not Secure”
perhaps these:
https://javascript.info
http://www.learn-js.org
http://jsforcats.com
Even so when I worked at a world leading RnD organisation we used apples, pets etc.

One of the most interesting ones was using a BBC micro to front end a huge model of the terminal outfall for a nuke plant in china - allegedly one time some Chinese visitors where so impressed they sent the weekend buying up BBC micros to take back with them.
SpecDrum, the spectrum drum machine!

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

"£29.95, and at the moment its only available from Boots"
How to use OpenAPM.io to design your own open source APM solution
Funny, I dumped tensor flow a few years ago because it wasn't possible to do bleeding edge stuff.
You’re making the bold assumption that there is anything being said that is worth paying attention to.
Rigor in logic but, it seems to me, not often rigor in description. There's a lot of willingness to say "if we change rule X to mean something totally other, then you can do this thing" and then just describe it as "you can do this thing". Sure, but "this thing" now means something different.
>Yes, manufacturing may happen overseas, but generally the product is still sold to the consumer by a locally based entity.

What about online sales that are shipped from overseas? Legislating against sellers isn't going to work well when the seller is on AliExpress and shipping in a small package from China.
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These are great points, thanks.
Have any details about the DNS resolution stuff?
The authors of the paper, if I’m remembering from reading it earlier today, built a static analyzer to help find these types of problems! Some of the work has already been done!
I recall at my fist job one of the engineers coming into out terminal room and logging onto an ICL mainframe at AWE and sighing when she saw 48 jobs in front of hers in the queue.
It’s fun and interesting to figure out. There are lots of ways to represent numbers but they don’t change the thing they represent.
If you want to set aside 7/8 of your income and run around handing it out to janitors, you're free to do so.
George Washington cosplay on impact
> I also use Keras for stable complex models (up to 1000 layers)

That sounds interesting, are you at liberty to say what you are doing?
This is about having a single, unified interface for all operations. This is all explained in great details by SQLite itself at https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
Mass shootings are insignificant in the total amount of shootings.

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states

2016: 38,658
2015: 36,247
2014: 33,599
2013: 33,636
2012: 33,563
2011: 32,351
2010: 31,672
2009: 31,347
2008: 31,593

Which year have mass shootings by whites amounted to at least 1% of total gun deaths?

As for Death Metal bands, how many of the performers in this genre have been arrested for gun-related crimes?

How many were killed by guns and went on to achieve cult status?

> are largely produced by white people/entities.

Jewish, not white. Jewish culture is distinct from generic white culture. You can get away with a lot with Jewish privilege, like Bill Maher's casual N-word use on television. A random white John Doe's career would have been done right there.
Markets for speculative assets and commodities are generally down, and the dollar is up. So what do you expect?
Well, I believe in Denmark if you opt out you are put in the end of queue in case you will need donor in the end (and you can't be never sure about that). I think that's fair system which could be adopted in other countries.
I would be curious if you think the same about "why save everyone?", when it would be your life in need of a organ.
>"Also the lack of PCIe lanes forced Apples’s hand on USBc only design,"

Can you elaborate on this? Is this related to DDR4LP? Is there a connection?
If the fingerprint frequencies are in the audible range, wouldn't you hear a brief humming when the fingerprint signal is being broadcast?
I dont have a source for this, but I've been told a couple times that doctors who get cancer tend to decline chemotherapy/treatment because of what the treatments do to the body. It was described as aging your body to a frail old person (not matter what your initial age was), that is not reversible.

Or think about this on the extreme end: I think many people would choose a time to die peacefully rather than sit in a semi-vegetable state in a hospital bed for the rest of their life.
Yeah, for many bleeding edge things you still need PyTorch ;-)
I'm not the person you asked, but my LinkedIn profile is very out of date, and only lists my personal email address.
About the July 1984 Data Protection Act

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

"The increasing ease with which personal details can be obtained has worried groups concerned with civil liberties"

"Holding personal data on your computer will probably mean sending form E22 to this address in Cheshire ..."
The real joy of this article was the following:

Some academics (Yang, Subramanian, Lu, Yan, Cheung) were able to produce massive improvements in about a dozen large, mature, battle tested open source projects using just a few lines of code.

This should give hope to all those tepidly trying to get into open source. Just go and take a look at the dozens of open source projects in Django or whatever and you could improve the performance by keeping an eye on the ORM.

Better yet you might find another thing that makes them even better with ease.

Of course, I should add, I think the really clever thing the academics did is to come up with this random link clicking program to time the worst load times of the projects. That whole setup was gold.
Try having a QA department keep up with bugs when the culture changes to move fast and break things
BP buys UK's leading EV charging company
How is this shady? I worked with a recruiting agency that had a contract to find employees/contractors for a company. I was hired by my last employee through the recruiting agency. I then started working with the agency as a team lead to hire developers.

It would have been unethical for them then to try to place me somewhere else, especially with the inside knowledge they had about the company.

When I was looking for a job, while I was still there. The recruiters I had worked with for years before I started working for thier client, wouldn’t touch me with a ten foot pole. Fair enough. Now that I don’t work for one of thier clients they would be glad to work with me.
>Am I the only one not so very enthuastic about organ donation ?

No but most other people have religious or similar reasons.

I don't see many people not donating organs because they simply don't care. So congratz I guess.
It's a faith based investment. With a treasury, you are still hoping that the government won't default, which is why some government's notes have higher rates than others. Same thing with municipal bonds.

The market determines the price of anything based on supply and demand (which includes a risk calculation).
I could be wrong and certainly was wrong before, but I believe that what we're seeing here is the biggest game of musical chairs, ever.

There will be a lot of hurt when the music stops, represented by not finding anymore "investors" to fuel the hype.

In other words: I think you're spot-on!
Science need not necessarily have any practical use. That’s why it is called Science. Science, the way I define it is: Study for the sake of it.
If you're writing a REST api, invest the time to learn Django Rest Framework. It is well worth it.
Is there a place where the world can provide ideas on how to solve complex global issues? Something that that curated the best ideas, forms pros and cons to approaches proposed and automatic weighs the risks? I guess what I imagine is some sort of machine learning solution that takes in account the knowledge of the internet and allows for weighing of various factors based on assigned trust scores. It seems weird that we live in this information rich society, a ton of ideas float around the web but they are never acted upon or formulated in ways that harness public support. Am I just envisioning a utopian idea or is this possible to build? There Must be a way to pull most prominent ideas into one place for public scrutiny without creating additional noise.
>https://www.secretflying.com/posts/fuel-dumping-basics/

>The extra flight added on to the itinerary that causes the fuel dump to occur is called the “strike”. This flight should be short and inexpensive, otherwise it defeats the purpose of this whole practice.

why would adding an extra flight to the itinerary remove/replace the fuel surcharge? surely this must be a bug in their booking system?
The (later) MacBook Air keyboard has similar problems (to the ones described in the article). My previous MBA had keys that stopped working after a year. And you cannot easily replace the keys without breaking them. :(
Came here to endorse jOOQ as well. It alleviates a lot of boring boilerplate like ORMs do, but you don't trade off control neither take the risk of wrong use silently causing problems.
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(Spaniard here) No sorry. No. Just no.

The fact that no money is involved is a critical part of this system. It also is the fact that no money is involved in RECEIVING an organ.

This makes the system purely altruistic a removes the kind of questions of "how much should an organ cost", "could I accelerate the process paying more for an organ?", "could I sell my organs, or the organs for my just deceased relative for more money?" "Is this enough money for selling my organs?"

Eliminating the money from the equation makes this simple. You don't win or lose anything for donating. If you don't want to, is cool. But if you want to, is totally selfless. Which strangely, makes more people be cool with the default and donate more. Because the only thing involved is feeling generous and helping others, unless you have some sort of religious feeling or fear. But, again, nothing to earn.
From my understanding (although second-hand), the law theoretically describes an opt-out system, but this is (due to legal uncertainty about the details?) not acted on by the healthcare system, which instead relies on explicit consent.
Could you link to some explanatory source for that?
Every dependency is one more thing that can go wrong in my mind. I always drop them at every opportunity.

There are some exceptions. Like I really don't want form building to be in the standard library, and I don't want to write it myself.

It is nice when your package manager only takes a short manage to fetch and build though, and you can have more confidence that any mistakes will be your own (under your control) rather than someone else's.
So like "the singularity" and "transhumanism" - millennia-old religious ideas, repackaged for a technological age.
That depends.. 100B in cash, Facebook stock, or crypto-currencies? :D
> That's probably not a very common occurence - wouldn't a lanyard do a better job there?

Nope, little plastic arms
The main "rumours" are an analyst in the article suggesting that they should buy it as their initial footprint in cryptocurrency. Clickbait until there is serious reason to believe that Facebook is going there.
That's a very important thing to keep in mind.

"Facts" and figures quoted by governments, or even by various organisations not only can be twisted seven ways till Sunday to present a nice or gloomy picture with statistics, but even the raw numbers themselves can also be very different than the truth on the ground.]

>So I wonder, in the case of this article, how many of those people no longer living at the adjusted poverty line and now only marginally above it and no longer included.

There are lots of subtleties there as well. A family with very little to no income, but living in a traditional e.g. African or Amazon community where income is not really required (even European rural communities lived perfectly well with making most of their own food and minimal actual "jobs" and money well into the 1950s), could be much better off than a family that now makes $2 a day, but has been driven out of their land and forced to live in piss poor conditions and work their bones off in some slum.
You're challenging the conventional wisdom about how valuable Bitcoin is.

The way I see it, cryptocurrency gets a lot of its "value" from emotion--it signifies what people want to be true. Cryptocurrency is, in some ways, a dream incarnate. It's backed by nothing except the dreams of those who believe in it--and energy expenditure (if one believes that).

It's like a religion: Challenge the faith and you will be burned as a heretic, so-to-speak. I think that has a lot to do with why rational comments are down-voted so much on HN. You're assuming the discourse is rational when it is actually quite emotional. Cognitive dissonance abounds.
> I'm confident you could find that same situation or better so long as you looked at medium size and smaller cities

Are you certain? In my experience, there really isn't an "affordable medium size city" in the US. There are affordable suburbs of medium sized cities. There are affordable suburbs that technically lie within the cities legal boundary lines, and are so-called 'urban' (by legal/taxable status only).

But if "city" is being used as a measure of minimum density (and not a line on a map) then there is no such thing as an "affordable for families" large or medium-sized city in the US. Any urban area developed enough to have an average building height of 5 stories or higher is unafforable to the vast majority of US families.

This remains true even in the so-called "low cost of living" mid-sized cities.
The BTC chart since last year looks very much like a classic bubble / burst sequence. Build up, running up to a hyperbolic frenzy, then precipitous drop, followed by long decline of lower highs and lower lows. This seems to be only punctuated by significant buys just around psychologically important 'support levels', which correspond with the several credible articles I've read about Tether coin being used to manipulate the currency.

The chatter is always about the next 'support level', and it always gets broken. I'm expecting it to slide down well into three digits (<= USD$ 999) before any real recovery, if there is one. The real use cases are materializing much slower than expected as the scaling issues and transaction times increase.

Edit: (& BTW, I'm a generally enthusiastic supporter of the cryptocoin concepts, just noticing that it is apparently much harder to really get there than originally thought)
> transplant law, which presumes consent unless otherwise stated

The same law is being applied in France, you have to be registered as not a donor in a national database. But, as the doctor said, the problem is with the available organisation, not the laws that are applied.
As did the US market. In fact the ZX81 was available in the US as the Timex/Sinclair 1000 for under $100. It was briefly quite popular, although not useful for much other than learning BASIC. Later on, Commodore had a promotion where you could send in your TS 1000's in for a discount on the C64. Rumor has it that the people at Commodore's HQ used the sent machines as doorstops as their wedge design worked well for that.
This. I've had linux on the desktop since 2002, and unstable, insecure, hot and noisy are the polar opposite of what I've experienced on the whole. Sure, from time to time a tool would experience issues and cause heat from pegging the CPU, or they're would be some vulnerability cause it to be insecure. I'd doubt it's anymore insecure than windows or osx, and I certainly feel like it's more secure.

Unstable? I really only run LTS, though prior to ubuntu I ran debian stable, and I rarely run into anything unstable except for certain glitches which are often graphics related and worked around with different approaches, sometimes resorting to using a different window manager.

How did I do it? I ran business level laptops. Not high-end consumer laptops - those are junk, I mean 3 generations of the Dell D series, 3 generations of the Dell E series, HP Z Books, etc.

I should also point out that mostly kept with distro packages. If I broke down and installed another, I kept it out of /usr and in my homedir or /usr/local to isolate it, or I used a PPA from a trustyworthy source (Just because it's a PPA doesn't mean it's written by a competent person). When things did break, upgrades, etc. I did not blame Linux, I blamed the package that caused it.
One problem with environmental degradation is that effects are often non-linear whereas taxes are typically linear. So "do all the X you want" is not the appropriate response if the tax is simply used as a lever to move behaviour in one direction.

On the other hand, if the government is selling emission rights then this can model non-linear effects. Then it makes sense to say, "go on, use your rights to the full extent."
The entire surrealist movement knew each other, at least in its early days. They absolutely worked off each other's ideas. I think that Ernst and Tanguy match up together well, but also look at the works of Kay Sage and Dorothea Tanning (their wives, btw, which is likely why themes were shared amongst those four quite strongly), and you'll see how far some of the visual themes were shared. I always liked Tanning's work in particular because she used the surrealist themes as a starting point, but really took it her own directions, producing a large body of work over the years, including paintings, furniture, crafts, and writing.

Overall, the surrealist movement was an interesting moment in time, but if you like it, I recommend looking at the later works that came from the artists involved with that movement.
To be fair, it's the combination of DevOps done wrong and Full Stack done wrong that will cause interminable chaos. Like "Agile," it's the given manager and team's understanding and method of implementing DevOps and Full Stack that are the issue.

The term "Full Stack Developer" is especially problematic because taken at it's literal meaning it suggests that a developer should be fully competent at ALL aspects of developing an application, which necessarily include deep understanding of system administration, database administration, tertiary dependency (caching apps like Redis, for example) administration, network infrastructure configuration and maintenance -- all of which are impossible for one person and we haven't even gotten to code yet! I think a different term needs to be coined which implies variability until defined at a given shop. I propose "Wide Area of Responsibility (AOR) Developer" which, for Acme Corp, might mean "Is competent in writing server-side REST endpoints AND managing development/production database schemas AND load balancing traffic to production web servers" whereas at XYZ LLC it might mean "Can develop UX designs in Sketch to customer specs and then code them with HTML, CSS, and a JavaScript framework along with writing the REST endpoints into which back-end developers will connect business logic from myriad systems based on the contract the 'Full Stack Devs' specified for the needs of the UI."

Just a thought.
Yes, they had a ban alongside with Google. However, it doesn't appear that it was "enforced". I was seeing crypto ads all the time. (and most of them shady or outright scammish)
I get those on Twitter a lot. Also about Tesla. Reported then several times.