skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised the average income for a GP is $161,000 in the US, thought they would be paid more than Canadian MDs who's average is $300k http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/healt...

Canada also heavily relies on US medical labs in Houston. I had to have a blood analysis done as part of a health check for a work contract years ago and my provincial health authority shipped my samples there for testing. It's cheaper for Canada to outsource all this work to Americans wonder what they are paying lab technicians.
This is a really good example of how lobbying works. On one hand, these telecom companies have a clear interest in not having to "compete" with cheap, publicly funded broadband. On the other hand, their position just happens to tie in with a broader political debate: states and municipalities are on the verge of bankruptcy, and municipal infrastructure projects are a disaster outside a few well-managed cities like NYC. The telcos aren't incorrect in saying that these sorts of projects often turn into boondoggles, or disproportionately benefit parts of the population,[1] or cost too much and end up underfunded and poorly maintained in the future.

With these lobbying measures, the telcos can tie something that benefits them to a position (municipal infrastructure projects), that many people oppose for entirely different reasons.

[1] It is worth noting that only 1/3 of adults 65+ subscribe to broadband at home, and that many poor people access the internet through libraries or cellular phones instead of home computers.
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I still don't understand why people who want to learn amd64 assembly won't read x86 tutorial. I write both x86 and amd64 assembly from time to time, and I don't think there are anything that make x86 tutorial/manual not applicable to amd64.

Sure, there are differences: register name, C ABI convention, system calls, memory modes, etc. But those information can be find easily in references. And you need reference for x86 anyway. Otherwise all mechanisms are the same.
There are weasel words in the standard that let implementations still be pretty inefficient. The problem is that memory reallocation is a leaky abstraction, and an interface that doesn't make guarantees about memory behavior can't be relied upon at scale.

The implementation of std::deque I just read uses a circular queue, resized to a power of two upon growth. It would exhibit the same bad performance as std::vector.
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The STL is not optimized at all in this case, this is precisely the point. And like it or not, but Facebook has talented engineers to do that.
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I've heard this from several sources, but is it worse than any other FS? I mean it seems obvious that data corrupted in RAM will be corrupted when you write it to disk. I think people are worried about software RAID vs hardware RAID, since all hardware RAID platforms have ECC cache and software RAID should too.
Emacs can display and edit vector graphics. I wrote a dedicated vector image editor a while back ("Minara") in which the application, tools, and images were all just Scheme code (using Guile).

I'm now wondering about representing and manipulating bitmap images in a similar way to Emacs' vector handling. I think it could be fun and I don't see any practical impediments. Just represent the image as a PPM-style text while it's in Emacs then write it out as binary afterwards.
> They did it neither for PR nor "principles", but for mere money.

Why can't it be all three?

Sticking to principles can be quite profitable, but it still needs balls.
The tradeoff between fewer faster cores and more slower cores has been mostly solved by turbo mode. If only a few cores are in use they will turbo to a high frequency and the others will turn off. Unfortunately in practice the turbo isn't very good on Haswell-E.
Please try the TFL JourneyPlanner:

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk

It gives you a selection of routes to choose from, with times.
Two things I think will help you:

1. Leverage other social networks

I know it sounds ineffective, but other social networks are a great channel to go through if you make sure people understand you offering more than they can find there. Think Pinterest, who also ask you to sign through Facebook.

2. Provide guarantees you will not be a place for creeps

This again can be achieved through 1. Think Chatroulette here. Phenomenal space for people to communicate but their efforts to dwarf the creeps came in too late.

Besides these two points, here are less important ones:

- I think your value proposition needs some work. Start with examples first and highlight your strengths (the fact that this leverages people around you).

- Communicate why usernames such as mine are not valid.

- Why is it that your Facebook posts redirect to your homepage?

All in all very good concept and a lot of potential. By the way you guys are not English speaking right? ;) I recognize it from how your keyboard renders the apostrophe.
I can't believe what I'm reading. I'm flagging you for all those insults directet towards me, because you don't know anything about me at all, and honestly, what the fuck.

Still, to satisfy the curiosity of others who might be wondering about how my Facebook interactions work: I have 500+ friends, around half of them are people who I interact with every couple of months. Call it "weak ties", those are basically people I had fun talking to in real life on various events, conferences, meetups, friendly local Starbucks baristas, grocery store clerks, etc. I sometimes end up helping them with some real-life tasks if I can.

The other half of the people, my real-life friends, family and co-workers, are people who I interact all the time in all the spheres of life. For many of us (myself included), there's no difference between Facebook posts, Twitter, talking on IRC or meeting face to face (which we do regularly). We choose the form of communication that is most efficient at the moment, and we do so fluidly.

Believe or not, there are people who find their lives vastly improved by the pletora of digital communication tools available. Not only I am able to keep contact with many of my weak ties (who sometimes advance to the level of closer friends), conveniently exchange thoughts with my real-life friends who live many kilometers away from me, I also appreciate the fact that there are many scenarios, where textual communication is superior to spoken word.

Even as I write this comment right now, on another browser tab I'm using Facebook to facilitate a new set of workshops for kids for the local Hackerspace; I got introduced to my interlocutor by a common Facebook friend of ours.
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The code doesn't render with links2. Does it rely on javascript?
Non-US anaesthesiologist here. I love my job and relish going to work each morning. I spend almost no time on non-clinical paperwork. I work reasonable hours, have some busy on-call shifts but am generally well supported by my department. I earn good money in the state system - enough to raise a family comfortably and have a nice house, but not silly money. I pay no malpractice insurance, but pay $400 annually to a non-profit society for medico-legal cover. If I want to I can do additional private sector work to earn more (but I don't). I live in a country where a high standard of medical care and longer life expectancy is provided for less than half the per capita health spend of USA, and the public health system is so good that the private health sector really does struggle to offer much additional benefit.

There are many great examples of socialised health systems in the world, I'm not sure why the US ignores them? Some of the WSJ comments list all the problems inherent in the US system and then blame socialism for them when the problem is completely the opposite?
Haswell-EP will be used in a Mac Pro refresh, but I would bet against Apple using any preciousss keynote time to discuss such a minor refresh.
what's halved is the tablet shipment "growth rate" forecast, just to be clear..
Firstly, JavaScript was specifically created (tailored) for browsers.

Secondly, despite all the negative rants and how awful it is, JavaScript is very flexible and forgiving which is a good thing for web pages. Imagine if you get a parser error message preventing you from viewing every page that has a little error/bug/incompatible code with your JS version, etc.
There are WebKit integrations in Emacs available [0]. The beauty of emacs is that it's actually programming language kernel that has a text editor built in. You can extend Emacs far beyond text.

[0] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WebKit
s/dead/complete/ ;-)
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Capsule hotels don't usually have attached showers though do they? It's more of a communal thing, which maybe that would work just fine for what mmanfrin was thinking of. Though historically Americans aren't as accustomed to communal bathing (well except for gyms) as the Japanese.
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The business model for doctors works out to is surviving a grueling educational process to gain a license against which they charge rents.

The business model for professional athletes devolves to surviving a grueling selection process in the service of building their brand as a performer against which they can charge rents.

The business model for performing musicians devolves to surviving a grueling selection process in the service of building their brand as a performer against which they can charge rents.

This has a personal cost.
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It's hardly stupidity, just an unfortunate clash of usability.
The example given, provided one is running the GNU tools, can be equivalently done by:

cp --no-clobber * ../tstfolder
You sound like someone who's not a Facebook regular ;).

Facebook for people like me is a kind of glorified address book. You don't interact with all your 500+ friends all the time. But it helps you keep in touch with various "weak ties"; people who you don't interact with on a daily basis, but you might want to talk to every couple of months. That cool barista from Starbucks you used to chat with before she changed her job. This guy with interesting ideas about technology you met on some conference. A person you used to borrow homework from in your high school. Etc.

Think of it as a big party for 500 people who all met each other at least once before. People naturally form small groups and talk within those groups. But every now and then, someone overhears an interesting conversation from the other group, so he might join them for few moments, and sometimes maybe a few groups get together to have a conversation on a common topic. It's how Facebook feels, except "to overhear" means "an interesting post from one of your 'weak ties' somehow ended up in your news feed".
Is there a difference morally between doing it for PR and doing it for money?
In which country do you work as an anaesthesiologist?
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I don't see Apple mentioned in this article so why "against Apple" ?

But then again even Microsoft has been complicit with PRISM along with Apple and many other Silicon Valley companies. (Yes I know Microsoft is not Silicon Valley)
"positions somewhere between a nurse and a doctor"

I think this is what a physicians assistant and nurse practitioners are. At least that's my understanding. They don't have an MD but are able to do a number of diagnostics and can prescribe medicine.
IMHO it is quite easy to make a reliable estimation of well-planned project. However it is extremely difficult to plan the project more than one step ahead of what is already done... This is why agile development is so popular.

In general when under-estimating the project you can make it:

1) on time and within planned resources,

2) with all the planned functionalities and

3) without sacrificing quality.

Pick any two.
If you take it with a meal you won't have problems.
Or perhaps you're just misunderstanding my complaint. The comment taken as a whole ("in context", if you prefer) proposes that social networks provide a brief jolt of happiness in the short-term, but its net result is making unhappy people feel more unhappy in the long-term. Under those assumptions[1], only the most committed pedant would claim that it's incorrect to say that "social networks don't cause unhappiness" is true.

[1] This is the reason I clarified that I was limiting myself to your comment, because the question of whether your assumptions are true is another one entirely.
Not to be an Apple apologist, but do we know if Apple's faced a case like this? Or other companies? It's not like Microsoft chose to be targeted here. My guess is that this is so insanely overreaching that the major industry players would have done the same as MS if they were the ones hosting this one Irish email account in question. Plus, Apple and others have filed briefs in support of MS and have been lobbying against what's been going on.

I personally would have enjoyed listening to more of Tim Cook on this topic if Apple and MS swapped places. Earlier this year, he said the USG needed to cart employees out in a box before they can get access to Apple servers. Interesting quote for sure.
How is the involved cognitive and manual labour virtual.

eSports are no more virtual competitions than chess.
My friend and I built this so we could watch a few of Derek Jeter's final at-bats without having to watch entire Yankee games. We also have a friend who is getting called up for the Twins this coming week.

Any feedback welcome (or ideas for other sports).

Direct App Store link:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/on-deck-baseball-alerts/id91...
The actual experience in the US has been that healthcare functioned best when it was closest to a free market, and the more we socialize it, the worse it gets. (We have been slowly socializing it for many decades through regulation.)

You can argue that we haven't been socializing it "properly," but the way we are doing it is just the way government works in the US, and that's not going to change.

In general, we don't have an efficient, honest, effective government, so it can't do anything right on a large scale. Though there are some exceptions, those are exceptions. Look at the Obamacare website scandal. That is the rule.
Hiding vs open: think about what happens when you drive by a manned speed trap and you don't see it: nothing. You don't slow down (assuming you're going somewhat above the limit, as almost everyone does), and some people get tickets. Mission accomplished (taxes).

Now think about what happens when you drive by one of those radar trailers that tell you your speed as you approach: most people slow down. Mission accomplished (safety).

If they wanted you to slow down, they'd be visible.

They're tax collectors with a gun.
Yup- they're gists. I'm pretty sympathetic, setting up pygments, etc., is sort of a pain.
Thank you. We edited the title to say that.
I've yet to see a x86 motherboard that isn't Linux-compatible out of the box.
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I think you're misreading his comment. His latter proposition pretty clearly implies causation: "The more time you spend on it, the worse you feel [if you're already unhappy]". It certainly limits the domain, but that's about as clear about causation as one can be when speaking colloquially.
Not that I don't respect the decision, but something tells me that we would be less happy, in other instances, to see giant companies like MS decide when the law should apply to them.
Docker also has a Btrfs filesystem driver which makes use of Btrfs's snapshots and CoW features. BTRFS has been in the mainline kernel for years, and I have been using it for just about as long.
>The actual experience in the US has been that healthcare functioned best when it was closest to a free market,

When was this?

>the way we are doing it is just the way government works in the US, and that's not going to change.

That's some nice fatalism you've got there.

>In general, we don't have an efficient, honest, effective government, so it can't do anything right on a large scale.

Except for all the things you forget to mention, or even to think of as government programs, because they tick quietly away, working perfectly, in the background.
Yes! https://www.google.com/search?q=folly+facebook+benchmarks
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> Judge Preska of course feels differently, and she has consistently agreed with the prosecution argument that the physical location of email is irrelevant because Microsoft controls the data from its base in the United States.

I find this bit very interesting. As opposed to Microsoft being a US company, it is that it's operations are located in the US. I wonder what effects this decision could have on the US labor market if companies relocate operations in the same way they relocate certain things for tax avoidance.
"Once I played against an NBA player and I couldn't do anything against him. I felt sad and demoralized. I still don't think I could win against an NBA player, but everyday I do (among other things) play basketball with my friends! And, you know, there're so many problems in basketball aside of dribbling and stuff: you have to find space to play with your friends, you have to convince the guy that doesn't want to play this evening. Once I didn't have time to play that day, and if it ever happened to you: it doesn't matter how good you are at dribbling if you don't have time to play. So I decided to write an article for you guys to know: that stuff they do at NBA has nothing to do with basketball!"
> IMHO it is quite easy to make a reliable estimation of well-planned project.

Evidence suggests otherwise. Sure you can estimate +/- 100-200% early on but that isn't what anyone is aiming for in a software project. Even detailed plans of repeatable (non-trivial) software projects do not result error bars that anyone really desires.
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Hm, looks like this argument about Kaggle pops up all the time.

This is true, that getting and cleaning data is an important part of a workflow in data science and it's a necessary skill to have. But I don't believe anyone ever claimed Kaggle is enough to become a good data scientist. That's like studying algorithms is very useful, but who said it's enough to become good at software engineering? The skill consist of multiple parts which can be practiced separately or in combination in a real project where you do everything from scratch.
I have a feeling that USG already have the data they need and are just running "parallel discovery/whitewashing" here.

Still it is nice to see MS take a stand.
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Well, I'd rather say all of these are valid reasons. Plus, not breaking the law in other places. Complying with this court order may get you sentenced in where you took the data from.
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> Sheldrake has for years been trying to convince people that telepathy is real. To this end, he's done a series of experiments which had the kind of inconclusive results you'd expect.

Do you have a reference? The dog experiment seems statistically significant (http://www.sheldrake.org/research/animal-powers/a-dog-that-s..., shows ANOVA, F-value (df 2,22)=20.46; p<0.0001). ). What exactly about that experiment is inconclusive?

Note that I'm not saying telepathy exists. I'm discussing an experiment for which I have no sensible explanation. Is there some data/papers/methods I'm missing?
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Assigning noble motives to Microsoft's actions is ignoring the actual motives of a business. How do those same people explain why Microsoft has given the US government user information on other occasions? It's just a calculation of what's the best thing to do for the well-being of the business. Just as banks happily take a "record fine" for breaking the law because it's a small expense to making a lot of money.

We get in so much trouble trying to understand companies as if they're individual humans. Evolutionary biology for corporations needs to be taught.
Let's look at these at these two facts:

1) Many companies have pulled their data from US-based data centers for fear of government intrusion after the Snowden revelations.

2) The future of Microsoft's server business is in the cloud and they have (likely) told customers their data is safe if stored in the EU

Thus it stands to reason that in order to keep customers and make money, they are motivated to win this case.
In US you have socialized the costs. Not the healthcare system. I think the only social type of medicine in US is the VA (they have the purse, their own hospitals and staff IIRC) and last time I read their costs of delivered product were much lower that the US average.
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I agree. That was the primary reason back in 2011 we chose YUI over jQuery (plus a variety of plugins).
Me and my wife love quality spices and experimenting with different recipes. We had been thinking of starting our own business. Sending out Indian stuff monthly is one of the ideas we had been toying with. When one thinks of stuff from India, spices seem to come at the top of the mind. (honestly we haven't thought this through yet; the idea was inspired from a Japanese candy service). I am aware that spices are available in most places in the west these days. But I guess it is not easily accessible in all the places. Convenience can be reason for someone to subscribe to the service. Another value add is accompanying details introducing the spice, its properties, uses and some sample recipes.

This is a time intensive operation. As of now, I m not convinced the returns would be high enough.
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I went and actually checked the first 6 links in this search, and none of them really address the problems brought up in the OP. If you're going to be arrogant about this issue, you should at least be correct.
Guh. They've been down for nearly an hour :|
Some terminal emulators are pretty weird about sending the Alt key. If you open vim, in insert mode, and type <C-v><Alt-s>, it'll show you what is keys are actually being sent. If it's not what you expect, try remapping it to something other than <Alt-s>.
Demographics is huge headwind for doctors. In the past 30 years, median age of the population in North America went from about 27 to almost 40 and is still rising.

Doctors are usually on a fixed fee for service arrangement but every year as people get older, the length of time it takes to perform the average "service" goes up. The amount of time and ressources needed to treat older patients is almost exponential with age. Older patients' state of health is often very complex with all kinds of interactions between illnesses and medication side effects to manage. Sick people get more "services" but also each service takes significantly more time to perform. Yet doctors are expected to be able to perform as many of them each year.

There is an oversized population of people in their fifties right now. This is the age where people start to get sick but are still young enough that they are often the main income earner for their family having one or more dependents.

Doctors have to work more hours for less money trying to help families cope with increasingly common and tragic medical conditions. When a family is collapsing because of an illness and people pile up in the doctor's office (justifiably) in tears, there is no ethical way to "process" these patients in the time that is supposed to be allocated to them.
or at least "appear" to take a stand...