skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm...I guess all those other academic papers showing that the greatest percentage of healthcare dollars go to end of life care defined as final 2 years but especially final 6 months. I am also pleased to see this analysis was in part conducted by, "we'll tell you what you want to hear as long as you pay us" BCG. Or as I know them BSG. Healthcare costs are skyrocketing because people are making a lot of money. Look back to '76 or so when the people who pushed for changes to the laws allowing for the creation of HMOs and promised enormous savings. That didn't happen. Any time you have a major consulting company telling you how to reduce healthcare costs the sound your actually hearing is money dropping in their pockets. It would be fun to skewer the article point by point but not worth the time.
I do. I'd rather not post links to them here for privacy reasons.
I don't agree with this. I love Perl, it's up there as one of my favourite languages (despite it's many short comings), but in my opinion shell scripts make more sense if you're writing scripts which depend upon a number of additional programs as the bulk of it's processing.

For me, the point at which Perl makes more sense is if your script requires more internal logic than it does depends on spawning other programs.

For example, if I'm writing a routine to auto snapshot ZFS / Btrfs volumes and delete any over a certain age, the script would be dependant on your file system CLI tools. So it makes more sense to have an 80+ line shell script than it does to write that in Perl / Python.

However if I was writing a routine which requires users inputting details, where those details need to be sanity checked and then stored some where (such as a database), then the core logic of that program resides within your script (where you'd have to read inputs, do your sanity checks and then write to the database). So a Perl or Python script makes more sense.

Obviously you can do either of those examples in each of those languages (crudely speaking as I know shell scripts aren't technically a programming language); but that's just a basic example of where I personally draw the line.

I also think this is one of those occasions where it doesn't massively matter which approach you take just so long as the code works and is maintainable (though I draw the line at one maintenance script I saw last year. It was a Python script where every other line was os.system. It just struck me as rather pointless starting a Python interpreter if you're just going to use it like a shell script - you might as well do the whole lot in the shell to begin with).
why not using authentication key if he's lazy !?
10Mbs, not 100. With Cox in San Diego could hit (IIRC) 16 Mbps per cable segment but at the time no cable modem had a 100Mb ethernet interface since that hardware was still expensive.
There's also ip.appspot.com, circa 2005

$ time curl ip.appspot.com
76.11.33.XXX

real 0m0.184s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m0.006s
What is Operations Research, and why is it related to this puzzle.

I found the puzzle easy enough. It's just a matter of calculating how many moves are needed from square 11, then square 10, and so on. The chutes complicate matters a little, but not much.
PS Ask my friend in Canada who is waiting 16 months for a hip replacement how happy he is.
Yes, but i think it initially teaches dvcs by going exactly the opposite route i.e. there is nothing central. Then latter when you get to mix central again into the concept, it gets a little (let's just say) polluted i.e. harder to get around your head specially if you have been used to something simpler in the past conceptually like svn.
Nice, just used pympler.asizeof and it reported that the slotted version has about 22% of the size of the non-slotted version.
Depends on whether you're talking about an OpenJDK you compiled yourself, or an official binary distribution.

The latter would be much easier for someone to backdoor.
Other than stack-ranking thing/general office politics, I don't really have a negative preception of Microsoft. Is this a supposed-perception, or an actual perception?

I don't know anything about Yahoo!, but my perceptions of them are still positive. If you have an awful work environment, people will just go elsewhere. especially if you're qualified to work at either company.
This is a tad off-topic but:
I'd argue that a large proportion of scientists and mathematicians don't want to waste time trying to achieve Victor's goals. We have jargon for a reason - it allows experts to communicate effectively and efficiently. Scientists don't want to waste time or space unpacking what should be patently clear to another scientist.

Now science education, that's different.
There are numerous data collection companies and they're definitely not all following the rules on background checks.

Ever heard of conflicting information on reports between credit bureaus?
I think the big summary of this post comes down to, if you don't have something like:

[extensions]
shelve =
histedit =
rebase =
mq =

As a git developer using hg you're going to be frustrated by all the things 'hg doesn't support'.

It doesn't actually not support them, they're just (for some reason?) shipped with hg but not turned on by default.
Fast Integer Log10
TD; DR version? http://rot47.net/share-picture/37
I believe window.requestAnimationFrame is preferred over setInterval, and doesn't get limited as such.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.requ...
Oh? And I suppose you're different than the rest...
I believe it's a pretty fine technological achievement and i would totally be buying into it if it was pegged to major currencies. As it is i can only see it as a globalized casino.

As others have mentioned upthread, it's just not user friendly enough for widespread adoptance. I code ASM at times and i find it difficult -- cant see any 60 yrs old getting into it. And guess what? 60 yrs olds have the most money..

Also some things about it sound so fishy i cannot think i'd ever put any money into it. Like say, for example... what if quantum computers can find all hashing collisions in a split second? That's what they were designed for more or less.

And really, what kind of message does it send when you realize that the creator(s) are unknown and anonymous? Great for a cypherpunk thriller, not so great for a supposed store of value.
I continue to follow and occasionally contact the lawyers I had represent me. I do feel I had adequate representation. Again there were plenty of opportunities for me to "refuse" to "take an offer". All of my legal rights were respected. That being said, DAs have minimum mandatory sentencing as a "hammer" to incentivize a plea bargin - and keep most cases from completing the full legal recourse.

The trade off was my lawyers could work as hard as they could to find legal loopholes, to attempt to get a judge or jury to convict on a lesser charge, however, simple possession isn't easy to create a reasonable doubt, and the jury and judge would not have any sentencing discretion so much so as I understand the way the law is written.
I lost hundreds of them due to a disk crash a couple years ago (they were worth I think $0.06 then). I think that's the biggest downfall of the currency. As time progresses, more and more coins will be "lost" and the replacement rate will slow to, well, 0.

It will become as much a currency then, as rare baseball cards or antique physical coins.
I admire the guys who can pull off something great with just 20%. I could not do that. When I have something that excites me, it soon grabs 100% of me.
Very cool. Snake was the first non-trivial program I wrote, in TI-BASIC, more than a decade ago. It was definitely less than 30 lines back then.
You'll note that the Jenkins guys were able to recover all their work. They also use a non-standard branching and access model.
I assumed you meant doctors because you singled out sicular's brother (a doctor) for making healthcare expensive. You also called the overall wealth of doctors (not equipment middlemen) sickening. To your overall point, I agreed that costs are a problem and that there are some parties that extract more than they contribute ("largesse"). My point is just that we need to be very precise in evaluating which costs can be cut.

Also, don't assume anything about my experience with healthcare-- because you're wrong. I'm not sure why you'd swing wild with that remark anyway.
Read Maclolm Gladwell's piece, "The Moral Hazard Myth"

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/08/29/050829fa_fact?cu...

"For that matter, when you have to pay for your own health care, does your consumption really become more efficient? In the late nineteen-seventies, the rand Corporation did an extensive study on the question, randomly assigning families to health plans with co-payment levels at zero per cent, twenty-five per cent, fifty per cent, or ninety-five per cent, up to six thousand dollars. As you might expect, the more that people were asked to chip in for their health care the less care they used. The problem was that they cut back equally on both frivolous care and useful care. Poor people in the high-deductible group with hypertension, for instance, didn’t do nearly as good a job of controlling their blood pressure as those in other groups, resulting in a ten-per-cent increase in the likelihood of death."
"Second, not much quantitative evidence has been given on how much the conviction rates for Blacks is distorted, relative to the true ratio of rates of crime."

I'm not sure what this means, but it sounds kinda like you're saying, "I've seen the research, but I think it's probably wrong, and black people are actually being treated fairly by the criminal justice system despite the huge swaths of evidence of dramatic imbalance in arrests and convictions and imprisonment...because of...um, distortions."

It's trivial to google examples of blacks being arrested at a much higher rate than whites, including for crimes that whites commit at similar or higher rates, for example, the first thing I found when googling for something relevant to this particular case.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/04/race-ma...
Tho' we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven
To my knowledge, reflog won't help you get back uncommitted work that you nuked with git-reset --hard.

Of course --hard is not on by default so... there is no issue here with git's default behaviour.

> "Git's model is remarkably simple, and that simplicity is the source of many of its benefits. Every other VCS out there is more complex."

Yup, exactly. The simplicity of git's model is hugely important. It allows me to not only know what git will or will not allow me to do (knowledge that in other systems is acquired by studying the docs for each particular command to see what all the flags do) but also lets me figure out what sort of novel operations are possible if I am willing to write a little code of my own.

Example: Update hook that only allows a push if two or more colleagues of the committer have pushed annotations for that commit already? With little more than my knowledge of git's data model, and what update hooks are in the first place, I know that can be done and I know how I could do it.
Can you recommend a low cost depth camera for robotics?
I didn't say that __slots__ makes JIT possible. However, it does make writing one easier. (Also makes writing a faster one easier.)

EDIT: Is it the new modus operandi on HN: If a statement isn't seemingly 100% in support of your pet language, automatically read the statement in the dimmest and narrowest way possible?
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" -Mark Twain/Google
Over the last few years, I held on to my mechanical Apple keyboards with increasing desperation as they started failing. Now, I’m very happy using a Matias Quiet Pro http://matias.ca/quietpro/ since I like the mechanical feel but was never too fond of the noise.
Steve Jobs' advice was not (only) to maximize profits, but to consolidate the products, reduce the number of products "because Google was all over the place". That's from the Steve Jobs autobiography by Walter Isaacson. So far, it looks like Larry Page took Steve Jobs advice to his heart and executes precisely on that vision: all products get integrated together (including through the Google+), innovation rate is still high and growing, company is super successful in post PC world.
TCAMs have three problems for such applications:
1) limited key length (usually less than 64 bytes)
2) power-hungry as you are comparing against every key
3) limited size -- try getting a 4GB TCAM!
Proves the point that people use Google+ to scavenge information, including real names, before attacking them... love the irony!
I do regularly consult with friends whom are law enforcement lawyers (DAs) and personal my personal representatives.

And I don't have any illusions about the concerns a perspective employer might have about the "worst case", so better not to take the risk.

I'm not at all at odds with reality, the frustration emanates mostly for me from a personal sense of vanity, and the situations where I've been declined and not offered an explanation if it was a technical deficiency or personal preference against a perceived "risk"
How this Dude gained a wife with these relationship rules. Check it out now
I didn't expect such a great response. Thank you for this, I think this answered all my questions and even more that I hadn't thought of asking yet.
MRI radiographer here. Obese people take longer to scan, require bigger and stronger equipment and more (and better trained) staff. Fat saturated sequences - the workhorses of knee imaging but also a key part of all MRI work less well, require repeats etc. All this is long hand for saying, obesity makes things harder and take longer. Do we bill fat people more? No, we make all booking a bit longer, so that when we run late, we can catch up or even get ahead. The $ billed per hour falls - so presumably the charge per scan rises to cover this. I don't set the charges, I do make the invoice.
I think they were referring to the 1990s when MS was a lot worse than the Google of today. MS did a lot of unethical attacks against competitors during that period (my favorite is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco).
I'm pretty sure, based on that post, that you have a fair bit more system administration experience than I do, which makes the whole thing even more boggling.

I feel like a professional auto mechanic is telling me, all serious-like, that he just learned the hard way why you shouldn't try to drive while running alongside your car, reaching through the window to work the steering wheel, with a brick on the accelerator.
This very issue is known in Britain as the "little old lady problem". Resources are limited, and society needs to decide who gets care first. There are many life-threatening conditions, but arthritis in the hips and knees isn't one of them.

Consequently, if you can pay, you get to the front of the line, and if you can't you'll get one eventually, but you won't die.

They always roll out the little old ladies in wheelchairs when it comes to healthcare reform.
I want to read less HN, but i can't find something better.
I have worked as a contractor before. I do enjoy the freedom and an "easy" fallback, so I'm far from going hungry. I would probably make more money as an independent consultant than I would within one of these institutions.

That being said, institutions have a certain degree of "notoriety" that perhaps appeals to me for whatever selfish reason. I just wanted to have this conversation before I went further down that road only to discover a dead end.
It may seem distasteful in some ways, but stomach-stapling is a fairly effective solution to consider for the morbidly obese. If you've not heard of this (a gastric bypass) I recommend googling. It's not the end solution, but boy does it work.
His categorization of "Area of degree" is funny. Education is part of social sciences. Since you ruled out education from social sciences, how come you combined humanities with social sciences? This does not make sense.
Yep pretty much, but it can be up to 100 lines depending on the nature of the script.

To the article, I've never used a shell that doesn't understand [[ (guaranteed to be builtin, not sensitive to the hyphen issue) and {,} expansion.

For the "for file in *; ... " that is also susceptible to the shell arg limits and is fairly hairy.

Lastly if you're concerned about performance -- well, it's definitely time to leave shell for something better.
All our workstations at school had static, publicly routable IP addresses. I never got hacked, thankfully, but I still found out about the pervasive ssh bruteforcing fairly quickly. The brute-forcing bots apparently were rate limited to once per second. Since each failed attempt gets logged to disk, this resulted in a faint, periodic "grrrt" sound. It's hard to describe how incredibly annoying this was while sitting next to the machine; certainly annoying enough to figure out what was causing it :-)
Articles like this worry me a lot.

Most of this post leaves me thinking, "Why should I be worrying about things like this?" A fair amount of it leaves me at least somewhat boggled; I suspect I'm not alone here. The idea that a user of a DVCS needs to be familiar with issues like these tells me that something is seriously wrong with the design of DVCSs.

Remember, a DVCS is a tool we use to track and store data related to a project. The project is what we are interested in: the Python or C++ or LaTeX or whatever. Git, Mercurial, etc. are just there to help us keep track of the real work. Time spent dealing with the intricacies of Git is time not spent on the primary task -- the thing that Git is supposed to help us with.

Consider filesystems, which are also tools used to manage stored data. If I'm writing some Python thing, I don't proclaim to everyone that I'm storing my work on a ReiserFS volume, and I'm thrilled by the fact that ReiserFS indexes its metadata using a B+ Tree. I just store my data.

I think a well-designed DVCS would be thought of in much the same way. Clearly, current DVCSs aren't. Something is very much amiss, folks.
63. C Users Group Extended Precision package. Written on an 8 bit S-100 machine in BDS C (Brain Damage Software, Leor Zolman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C). Late 70's early 80's.
Feeling humbled by better people is one of the best things that can cause me to improve in life.
> Explaining his sacking of Nutt, [Alan] Johnson wrote in a letter [...]

That's the closest thing to an accidental Onion headline I've seen in a while.
There's a story. Here're details.

An unknown Korean company registered the word "안드로이드" which is the Korean representation of "Android" as exclusive trademark in Korea, and Samsung negotiated with them and bought (or leased) fully exclusive right for the trademark from them. So other companies can't use the Korean word in their product in Korean market.

Google also registered trademark of the Korean representation for that but only in limited fields, (computing hardware/software), so there was no problem to register the trademark for any another fields (mobile phones, advertising, games communications, internet service, radio, TV …).
At work, my Git repos are exclusively C# and I've been using SemanticMerge [1] for resolving conflicts to good effect.

[1] https://www.semanticmerge.com/
Yup.

For a moment, I thought he'd made synthonol (that's one for Star Trek fans), but your explanation makes much more sense.

Here's the background:

UK drugs law places drugs on 3 levels of illegality.

Class 1 (e.g. heroin): very illegal. Strict punishments for possession.

Class 2 (e.g. marijuana): illegal. If you're caught with a small quantity, you'll probably be let off with just a caution.

Class 3 (e.g. body-building steroids): illegal to sell. Legal to possess in small quantities.

The law requires the Secretary of State, under the advisement of a panel of experts, to classify drugs according to the level of harm they cause. David Nutt was on that panel.

The panel advised, among other things, that marijuana should be moved to Class 3. And, for a time, that was what happened. It was actually legal to smoke marijuana in the UK. Then the government changed its mind, and moved marijuana back to Class 2. The panel resigned in protest. David Nutt complained especially loudly, and started comparing the risks of MDMA to horse-riding and so on.

Apologies for any errors. This is just from memory.
I'd recommend learning "git reset --keep" instead of --hard because of this reason.
No, english is not my first language (not even second). Here in Brazil we don't have a strong influence from the jewish culture.

When I say "rich jews" I could be saying "rich whites" or black "community". I really don't see how that could be impolite. Maybe not the best choice of words. But I do apologize if I offended someone.

I know pretty well that jews were not the only victims and surely not all of them were rich. But that was not my point.

I understand the importance of WWII and the holocaust. But the holocaust was not the only genocide of WWII (Hiroshima?), and surely not the only in our recent history.

So why do we focus so much on it?

I honestly think that the influence of the jewish culture is the primary reason. I don't think that's a jewish conspiracy. Just a consequence of history.

But I don't see anything particular about the holocaust that makes it more important than everything else.
My normal workflow with git is through the cli. Cli really is the best way to use it since git is good at prodding you along to do the right thing. Make sure to go find a good set of aliases and turn on git prompt.

When I need to look at histories or large change sets I'll open up SourceTree or go to the BitBucket repos. If I need to see the file history of a single file gitk -p -- file is the quickest way that I have found.

I'm currently dealing with 2 projects that are similar and share code but are in different repos. Git has made it easy to add remotes to each project and cherry pick commits that need to be shared. As someone who started with VSS years ago, Git continues to amaze me with how easy it makes source wrangling.
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If you're just storing data, your analogy is fine.

It breaks down with more advanced usage like integrations which can be very difficult with large teams.

I manage a VCS with thousands of developers committing to a large code base. The VC system starts to really matter and you have to understand how it handles things like conflict resolution or things can get out of hand really quickly.
Are you seriously claiming that you are not seeing the 'inspiration' with Apple's products?