skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good thing about socialised systems (don't get me wrong, there are plenty of problems too) is that they often have more protocol homogeneity. What this helps with is that best practice gets codified and protocols written. Then a clear pathway is made for clinicians to follow, with a review system to allow for improvements. Fragmented systems with owner operators (usually sub specialists) can have other motives ($) and little to zero feedback on care quality. Large systems with set protocols helps reduce unneeded tests. Getting the money saved put back into other parts of the system however, can be.... Tricky.
You can make the same argument about "something being wrong" with a language like Scala.

Some people like "slim" languages like C, Go, Clojure, Python, others like "fat" ones like C++, D, Rust, Scala, CL. It's just a matter of taste. I tend to like the "slim" ones more but maybe a "fat" language is better suited to wrangle the browser-based-dev can of worms.
now that is silly. you don't know what kind of infection it is unless you go to the doctor.

You really need to get a health plan if you don't have one. If you're young it might only be $100/$200 a month, even if you're unemployed.
this is the final text being sent to the steering committee for endorsement

I think that is correct. The Working Group had put up draft 9 for public vote, which (narrowly) made the 85% ratification requirement set by their charter. There was a final objection made by Gerald Jay Sussman, whose opinion carries a lot of weight when it comes to Scheme... The WG voted unanimously for a change that addressed his concerns, and the Steering Committee approved the making of this change, after which we had this tenth draft. I do believe the WG is done with it. Therefore it seems basically set in stone, unless the Steering Committee edits it, which seems to me outside the scope of what they do (although I don't feel I completely understand how this works).
With such a kitchen-sink list of features, I can't believe he left out named parameters (seriously) and refinements (sarcastically).

Though this is definitely the best compile-to-JS language and I'd choose to use it if I'll ever feel safe enough using anything else than plain Javascript.
Not necessarily; in most cases I would imagine only the book store themselves retain data about your purchase (details of the SKU(s) you purchased, images of you making the purchase on CCTV, etc.)

If you use an electronic payment method, only 'metadata' — to use an expression in vogue — about the transaction will be transmitted to third parties, not the details of the particular item(s) you purchased.
I use Dvorak, and I have almost no problems typing QWERTY. But this only came after I became completely fluent in Dvorak. When I still had to think to type Dvorak, I couldn't switch to thinking about QWERTY without getting all confused. Now I just peek a little at the keyboard with QWERTY, especially for non-alphanumeric symbols, but it's no problem.
This concept is also well known in the practice of the occult. It is known as the Law of Contamination. The gist of this is 'once in contact, always in contact'.

This principle is also the basis of using bits of hair in a construction of a voodoo doll, as the hair touches the doll, so the person is the doll.

Even though this thought is prevalent in the occult, it does easily translate out of that limited area. The paper below also explains for similar things, like not wanting to wear shirts worn by a disliked person.

Homeopathy also has roots in this idea, where a drop of "cure" is diluted somewhere by 10^50 times, and still is considered a cure.

http://www1.appstate.edu/~kms/classes/psy5150/Documents/Rozi...
> Hmmm - but: military pilots are also known (especially in some cultures) for an over-strong respect for hierarchy, resulting in a willingness to go along with dangerous instructions. Also, at least some military pilots are trained to have a higher risk acceptance than civilian pilots.

Can you elaborate more on what how dangerous instructions would work in a civilian scenario? Where does a hierarchy come into the picture?
I wonder if switching to a new keyboard layout is easier for people who are already used to switching between layouts (I use both Azerty and Qwerty), like it's easier for someone bilingual to learn a new language.
The problem with fb has never been CTR %, but volume. This is why they will never end up eating into search budgets, specifically with midsize e-commerce businesses (largest group of retargeting advertisers).
Looks very interesting! The features that caught my attention are:

* immutable values
* cascades
* try/catch/else/finally
* promises
* async
* optional typing
* curreid functions
* generics
I am a bit disturbed of him calling virtualized hardware safe. It by definition is not.

I think that every person should have personal encryption router from whih to access the cloud services
That's not a bug, it's just the result of Python variables being references to values, instead of actual values. When you write "[[]]", what you're doing is creating a list that holds a reference to another list.

If you use a variable it's easier to understand:

a = []
arrays = [a] * 5

What you have now is [a, a, a, a, a], so if you modify one of the lists, it's no wonder they all get modified: they're references to the same list.
What about the quality of the clicks?
In Java. For a low-level in-process library that most people link in to their actual app Java is completely unsuitable. Not quite sure how this replaces most of the BDB use-cases, but if you are going to run in another process then there are a whole host of options to consider. Tupl looks pretty interesting and it would be fun to have a reason to play with it, but this does not handle any of the cases where I turn to BDB.
"bitand" for bitwise & is weird
On the proton therapy: As a particle physicist whose best friend just finished (photon) radiation therapy for brain cancer, I know a good chunk about this. First off, not all proton therapy is the same. It's heavily dependent on the linac and gantry a hospital has. UCSF has proton therapy in Davis or somewhere targeting glaucoma and stuff, which is completely different than the facilities at Loma Linda or Massachusetts General. Of higher energy proton therapy centers, there's only about 5 such facilities in the US. As far as general hadron therapy goes, there's none. So a proton therapy center in Washington isn't likely to serve just Washington and/or Baltimore, it's likely to service Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and even farther out possibly. On top of that, it's still heavily research based, and moving pretty quickly as we've moved towards modeling human tissue with GEANT4 and Monte Carlo simulations.

Anyway, while I don't know the specifics of the proton therapy centers mentioned, the assumption that a proton therapy center would just service Washington/Baltimore metropolitan areas is silly. After LLNL shut down their proton therapy center/experiment, we don't even have any proton therapy centers in the Bay Area.
That's bullshit, because even if you pay for OS X, Apple can always decide that OS X needs to be sacrificed in favour of iOS.

And guess what. With iOS you're the product again, as the real customers are the mobile careers.
> I quitted Ubuntu because the latest versions of Unity uses 3D acceleration that consumes a lot of battery in a VM. I didn't find a solution for it (except using it natively).

I don't use Ubuntu, but I have to ask -- why did you quit it because of Unity? You can install anything else you want.
We are open about our secrecy.

"It is transparent, that’s why we set up the FISA court." - Barack Obama
It takes me a month to get a physician appointment with private insurance in US (and you cannot go to the doctor
without first going to physician). I don't even bother anymore and just go directly to urgent care.

Part of the problem with US healthcare is not just that prices are insane, but that it does not provide an adequate service even given those prices. Again, a sign of a non-free market.
Abu Qatada deported from UK to stand trial in Jordan
Nice. I haven't committed this particular error in python 3 yet, so it's good to know they made it more sane.
Stegospam lets you hide your data in spam to avoid NSA/GCHQ spying.
What I'm really after, which doesn't feel like a hard thing for a large company to add, is a read-only api. Give me an access token and a set of endpoints to get my data out and I'll be a happy bunny, because then I can build my own tools on top.

I find it's a shame that they don't really compete on features like this. Most people still go on personal recommendations (/OH GOD AVOID THIS BANK comments from friends). Either that or who will give me a few quid a year?
Whereas the means of storage are different, don't be so quick to dismiss the comparison based on the purposes of the two organizations. In official/propaganda terms, Stasi was depicted by the German state much in the same way that the US is depicting the NSA today.
Python is fine, parent is just a troll.
If you're interested in OSX or iOS programming Objective-C would be the obvious choice.
Out of interest - which "Chinese"?
For exploration, I still play with the app.

Personally, I find the HUD useful in those situation where there is no keyboard shortcut associated with a particular menu item and one can't be configured either.

Plus I find it easier to just write a few characters than having my finger perform a meaningless dance involving multiple modifier keys..
Alief seems to be the "gut feeling"-type of conclusion that happens before more elaborate conscious processing takes place. Contrast that with Belief in Belief which is characterized by the astounding process of logical thinking required to anticipate and explain away the opportunities for the falsification of a belief in something imaginary - suggesting that at some level believers do in fact know that they're propping up a fantasy.

It's not really conceptually related to be honest, but BiB is an excellent article that pertains mainly to religious belief and it was a very entertaining read. Thanks for linking to it!
That's because of the implicit copy() only copying by value 1 level deep?

On the topic of the bug in OP, would a Python newbie expect the similarly confusing behavior caused by interactions between (im)mutability and function arguments being passed as a "reference"?

Using OP's foo():

>>> a = [1,2,3]
>>> foo(a)
[1, 2, 3, 9]
>>> a
[1, 2, 3, 9]

if 'a' were an immutable object like an int, it wouldn't be modified.

>>> def bar(n):
n += 1
print(n)
>>> b = 3
>>> bar(b)
4
>>> b
3
I have exhaustively read the history. Perhaps you misunderstand my presentation. Or perhaps you choose to view the compromise from a purely Southern point of view.

Representation was apportioned according to free, legal persons. The slaveowners argued for representation according to total (free and non-free) population, specifically including slaves, to increase their presence in Congress and the electoral system. The compromise was struck to mitigate disproportionate representation on the basis of counting the slave population who secured no rights as persons, but allowed greater place at the legislative and electoral table.

The compromise can hardly be called a Northern initiative, as it was, specifically a compromise. The South increased its representation 3/5 more than the North wished it to have. During debates for amending the Articles of Confederation, the North wanted to increase the South's burden of taxes, while the South wanted to diminish it. During the Constitutional Convention, however, the greater interest was found in the Southern states' desire to have greater proportional representation that did not exclude slaves (they were both property not deserving of recognition as legal persons, but human beings which the South believed entitled them to greater representation).
Just having a look through the current conversations on @BofA_Help, I suspect that if "SA" is a bot then it's employed to triage extreme negative sentiment; if there's an actual complaint behind it all then a real agent steps in, eg. https://twitter.com/BofA_Help/status/353641709789388800

Quite an efficient way for a customer service team to work, but I'm not sure how it's going to affect the perception of them now that people have pointed it out.
One thing that really impressed me is how Angular does dependency injection, seemingly through magic.

This blog explains more: http://www.alexrothenberg.com/2013/02/11/the-magic-behind-an...
That's quite interesting, as I've had an opposite experience (substitutions ahead). Switching to dvorak lifted my speed on it as well as qwerty, and my Japanese has only helped my French. There was certainly a lot of weirdness at the moment the two sides reached the same level– if I froze up for a second, I might start mixing in French words or reaching for Command-Q with my left pinky. The only real obstacle has been slowdowns from going 6+ months without using one or the other which isn't all that hard to work around. For typing, triggers are anything with a 'd' in qwerty including the word 'dvorak' ironically, 'the' in dvorak. With language, the rhythm and intonation are usually a dead giveaway. In your case however, the subjects are quite similar. Colemak is a change from qwerty, but it's not as overtly different from qwerty. That might make the transition easier, but it could be one of the reasons switching between them is hard. Spanish and Japanese is also an interesting combination as the sounds are, at times, quite similar (and not just due to the Portuguese loanwords, a la パン or カステラ). Perhaps your difficulty is in finding distinctive enough triggers.
What is the point of a constitution if any judge/lawmaker can create loopholes around its most crucial articles in complete secrecy?

What is the point of a judiciary system that uses secrecy so easily while at the same time putting common people behind bars for perjury?

How can people think they are free when they can be subjected to "laws" they never heard about at any time?

To be honest, I'm not a citizen of the USA so I shouldn't care. But all that is increasingly appearing to be the norm around the world and it's becoming extremely worrying.
Your implicit (and somewhat rude) argument was that D9u should have known the Supreme Court of the US is the top court because it is named the "Supreme" court.

The New York courts are relevant because they provide a counterexample that refutes your argument. You owe D9u an apology.

You happened to be right in your conclusion that the Supreme Court of the US is the top US court, but that is only because you already knew that and tried to construct your argument backward from the conclusion.
Node.js: The Good Parts? A Skeptic's View
Can you please send a Koding invite, can not find your email on the profile page, mine is salik.adhikari@gmail.com
The War on Terror is very much like the invisible dragon in the closet. I can almost picture the discussion:

Me: Ok, ok, so you're at war. Is this a civil war?

This Other Guy: No, no it isn't.

M: Ok, so you are at war with someone.

TOG: Yes!

M: And... who are you at war with?

TOG: Terrorists! We're at war with terrorists!

M: Fair enough... so where's their army?

TOG: Ah, no, see, this is kind of tricky. This is an unusual enemy. His army can be everywhere!

M: Ok, but you aren't fighting them where they might be, you have to fight them where they are. You can't do much war otherwise...

TOG: Well yes, but you can't just wait for them to pop up and blow up your brains. You have to be everywhere!

M: So then, if you're everywhere, you will always have someone to fight with.

TOG: Yes! And he's definitely going to be a terrorists!
What bothers me most is that Americans can actually file these petitions and receive answers. What about Europeans (and others) who have been spied on by a foreign state?

Not so long ago, this would've been considered an act of war, to spy on your allies on such a grand scale. The sad part is, that our governments or either in on it, or running their own spy programs.

I really don't feel like I am living in a "free world" any more.
That doesn't seem quite right to me. If there's any occult notion that fits, I'd imagine it's more things like "true name" or "astral body" or a "weird" that reflect a more honest representation of the self than is consciously noted.
> whih

I thought this was some technology I wasn't aware of until I realized it was just missing a 'c'. :P
Massive work.congratulation for achieving this.

My main concerne is with optionnal typing ( which is my only real concern with javascript at the moment ) : it says that types are checked at runtime.

Does this mean i still have to run unit tests that goes into all my code before i can be sure i don't have a type error ?
> if I have two different web apps in two different windows (or simply two different sets of task specific tabs), they are two completely different tasks to me, I don't want them grouped by application goddamit!

I don't really use webapps in that way but you can integrate them with Ubuntu directly and then they get their own icon[1]. You can even use system controls to manipulate options within those apps to a certain extent.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUTNxi6b-hw
Japanese railway company plans to sell data from e-ticket records
This isn't really that surprising, offensive, or disappointing. I wouldn't expect them to divulge specific data just because it was discovered that they were collecting it. In fact it could be a really, really bad idea. The best outcome here is to get them to stop collecting the data. Neckbeards sending FOIA requests isn't serving any purpose.
You do then have to wrap values in lambdas if you want to pass them in.
it took me a year from when i first started trying to learn colemak to actually completing it, had a 6month break in the middle, and many lapses, but after doing the trainer program for 10min for 2 weeks i fully switched and it went OK.
I use it on my smartphone too, in the beginning i also had that thought that maybe it's worse on smartphones, but using swiftkey i haven't noticed all that much problems, only for words that look alike and have the same first letter, so usually when i get the first letter right the rest can be all wrong but it will still guess the right word.
http://css-tricks.com/how-nth-child-works/
They fixed Alt-Tab when I had never before realised it was broken. The new paradigm just makes so much more sense: Alt-Tab switches between applications and Alt-` switches between individual windows of that application.

When I have to use a desktop without this functionality I am now painfully aware of how cumbersome and slow the old behaviour was when I have plenty of windows open.
There is for the former, not sure about the latter.
Thanks for the interesting insights. As said in another comment below, there are some great advantages of self-publishing.

However, buying back unsold copies from a publisher, even having to invest a single dollar in something other than researching the book is pretty unheard of for renowed publishing houses, at least from what I can gather through my limited experience and contacts.

In addition, a lot of the editing, layouting, franchise and distribution work is far more reliable, affordable and streamlined through a publisher's capabilities compared to kick-starting my own efforts on these topics.

Self-marketing your books online might have experienced a great change indeed, but I believe there's a whole lot of work between writing the book and selling it. And that's where the publisher usually stands out (still, unfortunately).

Happy you like the idea, this is reassuring. Thanks!
Sending a FOIA request is probably a nice way of guaranteeing you will be given some special attention from now on, even if they didn't have a file of you beforehand.
I use the Bépo layout (dvorak equivalent for French) on a TypeMatrix at work and a TrulyErgonomic at home.

I've had the same experience as you though, I switched to touchtyping, changed the layout, and the keyboard (columnar) at the same time, so I can always switch back to an AZERTY (french QWERTY), but only on a regular standard keyboard (and it's a pain to use BÉPO on a non-columnar keyboard, slow and lots of mistakes).

As for the speed, well, I was around 70wpm on AZERTY, and now (around 4 years later), I'm around 100wpm on BÉPO, so yeah, I'm never going back.
This should be obvious, but click volume is a bad thing if conversion rates are low. Your KPI is cost-per-conversion, not cost-per-click.
"Neckbeards sending FOIA requests isn't serving any purpose."

Could you be more judgmental? Whomever is sending these requests, shaving habits aside, may not adhere to your premise that 'The best outcome here is to get them to stop collecting the data'. It could very well be that they just want to know what has been collected on them.
Woah, this is actually pretty cool.
In short: Entropy. Facebook, Microsoft, (admittingly have handed this information with ease), etc.... what we know is too much for you to handle so for your own protection and the protection drafted by a few is what now jurisdicts what we can and can not say. We (our govt / those granted amnesty ) can no longer divulge information.

What is key and what is troubling everyone since the jump is what 'they' are going to do with this information, and what 'they' have been doing.

For a lot of you it is easy hyphothesis what a person can do with this information, for instance it has made Mark a billioninaire and countless others rich. It would be a sad state to see this information fall into the wrong hand(s), so it is my hope that someone somewhere makes the decision that no one goverment should be privy to it for the true sake of this freedom we so vicariously fight for.
vim config?
I've used nvi for over 15 years. Also use a small vim install here and there. Also have done several talks on grokking ex mode and regex at local vim user groups.

In my early days when first learning the system I used ee, a HP public domain pico clone which is distributed on *BSD systems for new users.

The original Berkeley UNIX had a modded vi named edit which was aliased to ee and while normal vi operation was aliased to e. I'm assuming ee stood for easyeditor back then.

The video you linked states in its about section that nvi is not customizable. This is simply not true. It's just as easy to script as ed and ex.

Though Bostic never included lisp support like the Joy's editor for extending vi with the shell has always been the main UNIX way of doing it. The classic tutorial to show someone how to extend nvi is to have them do external spell checking with one of the many spell programs.
The FPS shooter fans would be delighted - where previously WASD were used now they read WARS!
And I'm not saying his practice went under exclusively from insurance companies. And it wasn't how much they were taking, it was more that it took them months to actually pay him for services rendered, and it consumed tons of time to just keep track of who hasn't compensated him yet (besides copays). And medic___ were just as slow.

He might have made it all up, was living it lavishly and just lied about it, but it seems like that would be hard to hide from the extended family. He's had the same car for 8 years now, and his wife works. But he was still a general practice doctor in Augusta that closed his practice and went to work elsewhere for some reason, and if he was making a lot of money, it wasn't showing in how he was living (one house he had for 20 years).
That's a good classic, but don't forget to also read his excellent writings of the connections between data compression and artificial intelligence:

http://mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html

Also, his book "Data Compression Explained" was a great help and eye opener for me:

http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html