skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case all the issues were avoidable if they had followed procedure which they didn't. I have evidence of this.

When I did the first poat surgery BP obs run (6 hours later - nurses had skipped her in post op, doctors not seen her either!!!) and found she was 70/40 @ 149bpm with 93% o2 saturation then I assure you its juat negligence. Plus they picked the wrong surgical method and placed the ports too close together so the laparoscopy had no chance of success.

(I had another life before EE and software which was a little closer to the ground on this). I prefer to appear as ignorant as I can tell the difference between facts and fuzz.
seams like it's faster...

upon sending/moving units there is a delay in the game

the account authorization and castle creation is fast now
> Humans want less milkweed around them. It competes with the crops we want for space and nutrients, or poisons us and our animals.

Not only is milkweed not poisonous, it's actually a delicious vegetable. It tastes like a cross between asparagus and broccoli.
Eiffel, Object Pascal, Modula-3, Component Pascal and many others do as well.

I guess the author is not well versed in programming languages history.
C# takes it even further by not allowing you to override methods unless they were marked as overridable in the base class with the "virtual" keyword.
The Turing test is not a definition of intelligence. Turing explicitly suggests the test in order to replace the question of the definition of intelligence. The test is most definitely a test, in the sense that it provides an estimate, rather than a clear cut definition.

While the limits in this case were admittedly rather strong, this does not form a fundamental objection to the test. The bar can be set progressively higher.
This is interesting and indicative of a bigger problem.

Why isn't it most profitable for the stores to provide the best experience for customers in order to be most profitable?

Suppose there are two stores:

- Store A. Offers decent experience for the customer.

- Store B. Offers much better experience for the customer.

One would naively expect and hope that, given those two choices, more people would prefer to go to the better Store B and hence it would be more profitable. Hence the stores would try to do their best to serve the customer interests.

Why is it instead more optimal for stores not to optimize for the happiness of its customers?

Could it be because customers are not adept at recognizing which stores offer better experience for them, _and rewarding_ such stores by preferring them over other stores?
Since recently, Amazon has X-Frame-Options header which forbids the browser from loading the website in a frame.
The software industry is due for an industrial revolution, part 3
It was definitely in computer sync data. I don't use iTunes, so couldn't say whether it went into the cloud from there.

Edit: there are more ways for data to get into the "cloud" than "iCloud".
Aw shit, roll back deleted my account, then I went to make a new one and it autofilled my email as my username, and I clicked through without reading. Any way to change usernames?
"What is wrong with TOTP 2-factor?"

Losing your phone effectively locks you out of all your 2-factor accounts. If it's stolen by the wrong people and unlocked/unencrypted, they'll get access to pretty much all of your accounts through a password reset. I'd say that's pretty bad and we have yet to find a good, secure way to authenticate users.
One of the tables (H2) specifies that 3,485 undergrads receive an average of $40,460.
Make sure to read the other parts if you haven't already, and as always, criticism welcome.
Rob Walker wrote a piece for Yahoo Tech this past week about a band that bought Twitter followers + YouTube views for the launch of their debut single, which is largely about those very things.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/one-bands-quest-to-boost-its-open...
> If the store owner has to choose between using the data to make more profit or to enhance customer value, he'll likely choose the first option.

Are the two things mutually exclusive? Wouldn't it be better if they were one and the same? What can be done to make that so?
Castles are fixed, take about a second to create now. Server is still pegged at 100%, going to try out modulus' multiple servo thing.
User IBM's original comment was that Apple is going for the "privacy/security" persona, which is kind of impossible if they're not also acting as a "good citizen" worthy of trust with one's privacy and security.
> schools accepting any students and doing the filtering at the outflow instead

I'm not arguing that anybody be allowed to go to college on the public dime. There would need to be some sort of qualification involved. Otherwise we would see shoddy colleges pop up that admit everybody that applies.

What that qualification would be is another problem entirely of course...

> 2) schools lowering the bars and just pulling through them as many students as possible, because you need a lot of balls to do 1) and there are not that many balls in academic environment

In my opinion, this is already a significant problem in the US. Short of having standardized exams required to earn a degree (a bar exam for every discipline), it's not an easy problem to solve.
Absolute hero. The NHS tried their hardest to be as negligent as possible with my wife.

I'm sorry that your wife had poor care - nobody should have to go through that.

But isn't the approach you've described exactly what we want to avoid in a healthcare system? Blame is almost poisonous in its ability to encourage people to cover up the truth, "misplace" documents, make excuses, and so on - this often actively hinders improvement.

Applying the principles of air accident investigation to the NHS is absolutely something I applaud, because the focus should be on why accidents happen, and how they can be prevented — not on who is responsible for them, outside of the most egregious cases of professional failure. Most medical professionals are competent and skilled, and really try rather hard to avoid causing harm to their patients. But mistakes and accidents will always happen regardless of this.

I'm actually very surprised that such a system isn't already in place in the UK. We've already got an independent body which investigates rail accidents, for example - the RAIB looks into all major irregularities or failures on the UK rail network, and rather than finding fault, identifies root causes for failures. That often includes things like the design of systems to reduce the possibility of human error, or even such things as shift patterns which risk causing sleep deprivation. They then issue recommendations for improvement to different bodies as required, and I think they have some legal clout to follow up if they're not implemented.

It seems like a system similar to that would be effective applied to the NHS, but I'm very cautious of heading down the same litigious route as the US.
You might find a 40 hr/week job easier or harder than college in terms of concentration. In any case, there is a clinical procedure for diagnosing types of ADHD if you want to know for sure.
Keynes predicted everything except how greedy people are
China is a big place. Just because there's no demand for housing in one part of China does not mean that there is no demand for housing in all of China.
Were users warned about this before the logging started?

Edit: FWIW, "track" is the word used in the CNN article I linked.
> The MAC address is stable once a device is authenticated (connected) to the network.

That is necessary to keep the gateway from having to issue a thousand ARP requests (one for every packet you send from a different MAC), but there is no reason why the MAC chosen to connect to the network couldn't change every time you disconnect and reconnect. That would at least prevent you from being tracked between visits to the store [using this tracking method], even if you actually use the network.
Sorry, create another one? I can delete it later, putting out fires at the moment.
I believe you. The problem is that surgery is complex and people are fallible. So things do tend to be forgotten and sometimes it's not a problem and in other cases it explodes into complications possibly even resulting in death.

The statistics outlined above reflect this, it includes the element labeled as 'human error' (assuming they are up-front about this, which is in a litigious society not usually the case).

A friend of mine almost had his wife bleed to death during delivery, she lost pretty much all her blood and was going out when they located a doctor capable of diagnosing the problem on the spot. He's a pretty tough guy and never at a loss for immediate solutions to whatever problems appear in life. He's never been so helpless. If not for one doctor out of a whole pile of people who happened to be there that seemed to be making things worse rather than better she'd have died. And that's 'routine childbirth' in the hospital (which they push you very much here to avoid, do it at home, so much more fun and natural)... Life is fragile, and as soon as you start cutting things or delivering babies or such then you're at risk. Routine tonsil surgery, hernias, gal bladders etc have left people with serious complications or in the morgue.

I've had more than I would like to do with the insides of hospitals in the last couple of years and I try to avoid having procedures done unless they are absolutely necessary. I don't play the lottery either...
The Ethical Cost of High-Price Art
The one thing I still like about AppleScript is the GUI scripting. I don't know of any other way to control the mouse position, clicking, and keyboard input using a programming language.

One time I had to fill out a few thousand pdf files and print only select pages from them (like pages 2-4 and 14-22) for a client. I used applescripting because it was easy to write (took about half an hour) and worked consistently. Are there any other ways to do GUI scripting in OSX?
" it will pay $N per semester on behalf of any student who meets certain qualifications to attend that college"

Well right off the top how do you define "qualifications". I mean if your answer is (and this is a question not a statement) "meets certain testing standards" or "belongs to certain clubs and does certain activities" you will almost certainly disadvantage certain students that might get accepted because the total "package" of them (as a student and a person) balances out the student body.

Then what we will have is even more of a system that feeds students in that are trained in high school only one way - to test well. This of course has already been happening with test prep however my feeling is any "qualifications" will push us more in that direction.
I live a mile from one of CA's largest monarch groves in Pismo Beach (also grew up here) [0]. As a child, we'd go to the grove throughout the winter (that's when they migrate here). There were so many monarchs entire trees were orange and you literally had to watch every step so you didn't step on them.

Since moving back here in 2010, it's pretty sad. You have to actually look hard to find them. Looking at the historical numbers [1], it seems to be 1/10th of what it was in the 80s/90s. I always assumed there was some environmental cause–haven't heard the GM theory before.

[0] http://www.monarchbutterfly.org

[1] http://www.monarchbutterfly.org/historical-counts/
I found it very entertaining. And humanizing of the writer - it shouted "hey, look, this isn't your usual rant on punctuation" early on in the piece, before the writing style had had time to otherwise distinguish itself from the hundreds of other articles we've read on stuff like this. Like some weird kind of foreshadowing.
Why start drone.vc?
It is a great tutorial for someone with some programming experience but for complete beginners it's not adequate.
"and the ability to declare bankruptcy is a major factor"

However you can't typically discharge student loans with bankruptcy, in the US at least:

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/student-loan-debt-ban...
Any update on the stats / forums??

Currently nothing loading in there.

just playing around, providing whatever feedback i can.
Showing a fake demo, it's not helping their landing page.

I would love to see the real product.
Aviation and medical practice involve lives, unlike (most of the time) software development. Same happens with the speed at which it happens — aviation, as medicine, is a "slow and steady" evolution towards improvement, while software development is ever-changing.

Yes, it would be great to have a better way to identify and tackle common mistakes in software development, but it is not nearly as crucial and universal in software development as it may be in other fields. And, after all, each tool/language is so different that few common denominators exist. In a way, it isn't really an issue — yet people dying from malpractice or negligence (either in aviation, or medicine), is.
Well put analogy.

My guess is that most people would not be okay with that and choose to opt out.

But my question/argument is, would that be a rational decision? I don't see a lot of benefit for the customer to deny the store those options, so why do it if there's nothing to be gained from denying.

> attempting to stitch your actions on the internet to store visits to more effectively sell advertising

I think this is the key factor. If people see themselves as susceptible to such manipulation, then it does benefit them to deny such behavior to prevent stores from affecting them negatively.
Apache Kafka seems like a promising alternative, although I haven't fully evaluated it yet.
Maybe not so much: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7849631
It's boring to discuss if we can't make distinctions. Linear types are also reference counted; the reference count is always either 0 or 1 and it can be computed statically.
The Ocean Cleanup: Responding to critics
Interesting idea. We can support unlimited cases by using tuples and varargs, though the fallback has to be the first argument if we don't want to return an optional:

func cond<T>(#fallback: T, testsAndExprs: (test: @auto_closure () -> Bool, expr: @auto_closure () -> T)...) -> T {
for (t, e) in testsAndExprs {
if t() {
return e()
}
}

return fallback
}

And in use:

// y is assigned "0 == 0, of course"
let y = cond(fallback: "fallback", (test: false, expr: "not this branch"), (test: 0 == 0, expr: "0 == 0, of course"))
Another Cryptocurrency Exchange Closes Taking All Depositors’ Money
Can't cyclic reference be fixed by a garbage compiler occasionally cleaning up those things? I think that's how Python does it, not that Python is a beacon of performance, but it's possible.
Some milkweed is poisonous. This is the problem with using a common name that refers to a genus instead of species.
Stats seams to be working atm, forum not so much.
Ah okay if the server is pegged, it's just taking a while to load.
Go already has the same switch behavior (plus the fallthrough keyword) and is very specific about its types while having type inference.
Notably, more recently Google has become less open. Apps written for AOSP that don't use the "Google Play Services" library are second class citizens.

Google is for "openness" only when it doesn't impact their bottom line.
If you find this interesting, check out the Design for Patient Safety Handbook - http://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/medical/downloads/report.pdf

Its the result of a multi-institution look at applying design thinking to healthcare, in the context of patient safety and risk management. In my opinion its quite well put together and has great graphics.
The suggestion that GM crops are causing the problem is absurd. The crop is simply a tool that we are using to allow us to kill off milkweed. Although I am against giving GMO suppliers too much power over farmers the idea that this makes GMOs dangerous or evil is just sensationalism.
His opinion is actually a mainstream opinion in AI, see for example the textbook by Russell & Norvig. Descartes was the very opposite of a behaviorist, namely a rationalist. I do agree that we don't have anything that is clearly better than the Turing test, but this just goes to show how far we still have to go.
The increased use of chemicals is the strongest argument against the increased use of those chemicals. If you want to regulate something, regulate that thing instead of killing off the technology that enabled it. GMOs in particular have the potential to dramatically help humanity, and it would be a huge mistake to cripple them as an alternative to banning the pesticides directly.

The internet enables the propagation of child porn. I don't think that's a compelling argument against the internet.
The last sentence in the article makes a lot of sense: “The biggest energy source we have by far is the Sun,” he says. “The best way to store energy other than in the nucleus of an atom is in chemical fuels. It's inevitable someone is going to take the biggest source and store it in the most dense way.”
Whois Google.com
Alright, I'll just live with this one for now.
There's a difference between throwing out all the rules, and throwing out merely the useless ones: splitting infinitives, ending sentences with prepositions, and such.

Having said that, I'm on-the-fence about consistent Oxford Commaing. The article's suggestion to decide case-by-case is interesting (and the argument is very well written) but I'd have to read a longer piece that alternated to find out whether it bothers me.
I changed it to 5 servos, graph still said cpu was 100%, going to 10 servos. The graph could be lying. Everything should be working now.
For a moment I though this had a relationship with the Lincoln Labs that pioneered the "personal computer". I cannot imagine the place that gave birth to the LINC would have anything to do with this.
That's what happens when your DNS server get poisoned. Change your network configuration to use a better server.
At this point we can upgrade that from "likely" to "certain", because it has had a lot of adverse effects in terms of actually being able to vaccinate people in Pakistan.
This one is actually very neat!
Would be nice if it was possible to chose your own background color.
The article may not say it directly, but both the article and the headline absolutely suggest it. To phrase your comment a bit more accurately: the article is absurd linkbait that asserts that genetic modification has anything whatsoever to do with the issue, and fails entirely to mention the actual problems, which are relentless expansion of farmland, monoculture, and (directly and indirectly) herbicides/pesticides, which are all strong corrolates of genetically modified crops but, unlike them, pose an ACTUAL problem, as opposed to a scientifically dismissed FUD problem.

It's grossly irresponsible, if you ask me. Monoculture, a lack of regard for preservation, and indiscriminate chemical usage are a problem. Business methods surrounding GMOs are also a problem. But GMOs are not.

But hey, more people click and comment with this headline, I'm sure.
Unsure if this is intended - but it appears the first castle I was placed in also belongs to another person. My username is SimpleGuy.

Not sure if the rollback had anything to do with that.
Stanford tuition from 1920 through 1993 [1]:

Year Tuition Annual Growth
1920 120
1930 300 9.60%
1940 345 1.41%
1950 660 6.70%
1960 1005 4.29%
1970 2400 9.09%
1980 6285 10.11%
1990 14280 8.55%
1991 15102 5.76%
1992 16536 9.50%
1993 17775 7.49%
1994 18669 5.03%
1995 19695 5.50%
1996 20490 4.04%
1997 21300 3.95%
1998 22110 3.80%
1999 23058 4.29%
2000 24441 6.00%
2001 25917 6.04%
2002 27204 4.97%
2003 28563 5.00%
2004 29847 4.50%
2005 31200 4.53%
2006 32994 5.75%
2007 34800 5.47%
2008 36030 3.53%
2009 37380 3.75%
2010 38700 3.53%
2011 40050 3.49%
2012 41250 3.00%
2013 42690 3.49%

Note: the growth column I added is annual growth. It is the annual rate tuition would have had to rise to get from one line of the table to the next.

I don't see much support in this data for the claim many are making in comments here that government backed student loans are responsible (or even a significant factor in...) tuition growth.

It would be interesting if someone with better internet research skills than me could dig up data for other schools (in particular, it would be nice to get data from some public schools) and see what that looks like.

[1] http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances
I would have considered going to this if the price was reasonable. As it is ($300 to $600), they are not going to get their purportedly intended audience of "hundreds of programmers and other whiz kids interested in helping libertarian and conservative causes close the digital gap with Democrats".
Great article. The checklist bit speaks to me in particular. I once worked on a team that was responsible for maintaining a medium-sized legacy application. After one-too-many failed deploys, we instituted a pre-deployment checklist. The checklist consisted of things like:

* Have the tests all ran and passed? Is CI green?

* In addition to the tests passing, has a third party (not the devs themselves) clicked around and kicked the tires on any new features?

* What is the roll back plan? Can we roll back cleanly?

* What is in this set of changes? Should all of these changes go out?

These checks seem stupid, but the simple act of taking a breath and slowly going down the list really seemed to make a big difference. After instituting the list we had almost no failed deployments.

I don't know if this is an approach that generalizes. I tend to think that for clean, well-maintained and well-tested web applications, a continuous deployment approach is safer and faster in the long run. But when you're working on legacy code, a checklist works wonders.
Between this and the Ars Technica article[1], I'm still confused: Was this a regular Turing test? Who was the humans that the machines tested against? As far as I recall, the model is two participants, one human, one machine -- the judges communicate with each through writing -- and if the machine "tests" as human more than 30% of the time, it's considered a "win" at the imitation game (the machine has successfully imitated being human). Both the machine and the human are supposed to try to appear human.

(And this is extended from another form of the imitation game, where the goal is to imitate being male, where participants are male and female)

Have anyone been able to find any more concrete information (and perhaps some transcripts)? If not I hope someone will set up a new test, and invite "Eugene" to participate.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/eugene...

[edit: We may be given some hints from the wikpedia article on the turing test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Imitation_Game_vs....

"Huma Shah and Kevin Warwick, who organised the 2008 Loebner Prize at Reading University which staged simultaneous comparison tests (one judge-two hidden interlocutors), showed that knowing/not knowing did not make a significant difference in some judges' determination. Judges were not explicitly told about the nature of the pairs of hidden interlocutors they would interrogate. Judges were able to distinguish human from machine, including when they were faced with control pairs of two humans and two machines embedded among the machine-human set ups. Spelling errors gave away the hidden-humans; machines were identified by 'speed of response' and lengthier utterances."
]
At my alma mater, 2 semesters of tuition, room, & board match what I paid for 3 years of attendance 25 years ago.
Maybe it's another ARG?
Stanford did some research on using large screen displays and google glass to increase safety in medicine, using smart adaptive checklists and good UI design:

http://hci.stanford.edu/research/icogaid/

This might also be interesting for creators of user interfaces for rapid decision making under stress.
I will try your suggestion this week. Thanks!

I like the idea of scheduling play time rather than assuming play comes after work.