skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I have free time, I spend some time working on ALS ambulances to maintain my certification level.

How EMS works in the US generally follows this path:

You get sick.

You then dial 911.

A dispatcher talks with you, routes your call to an ambulance company, and provides us with some information on what's going on. If the environment is no danger to you, they should generally tell you to stay put. Depending on the nature of the emergency, they'll have some first-responder/stopgap measures they'll want you (or bystanders) to do. If you have crushing chest pain for example, they'll explain how to place yourself into a recovery position (in case you vomit while unconscious), they'll ask for a nearby bystander (in case they have to instruct them how to perform CPR), and they'll do their best to keep you calm and aware of your situation. What they don't want you to do (even if you're 10 minutes away from a hospital) is try to move yourself there because:

If you become unconscious on the way to the hospital, it becomes so much harder to find you (rather than if you had stayed in a static location that you've described).

By moving, you might move from a safe environment to a more dangerous environment (sidewalk to middle of the street).

When the ambulance arrives, the medic will perform their own assessment of your condition. If you're alert, they'll ask you questions, ask you to chew some aspirin, place you on a heart monitor. If you've become unresponsive at this point, then slightly more drastic measures are taken.

When they load you into the ambulance, they'll make a determination (based upon their assessment) of where to take you. The nearest ER may not have the proper resources to deal with or handle your condition.

I'm unsure how emergency departments in hospitals outside of the US work, but here, not all EDs can provide the same level of care. If you're having an MI (heart attack), and you need cardiac care (a facility that can crack your chest open), it's far faster for the medic to assess you then immediately take you to the correct place.

As a contrary example:

If you happen to make it into an ED on your own foot-power and manage to explain what's going on to the triage nurse, then they still have to call in an ambulance to transport you to a hospital which can provide an adequate level of care. In some hospitals, they won't even begin to treat you (because of liability issues...it's horrible).

TL;DR. Some ERs cannot provide a certain level of care (Trauma Centers, Cardiac Centers, Psych, etc) and thus the closest ER may not be the correct ER to go to.
The Interconnectedness of the Mobile App Ecosystem
They've introduced an optional feature that records media around you. Based on their past record of changing defaults, I think it's a reasonable possibility that this feature will be turned on by default in the future.
> Explicit returns are not frowned upon. I don't know where you got that idea

From the docs:

http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/functions.html

> Using a `return` as the last line of a function works, but is considered poor style
There's hardly any 'desert' near major cities with skyscrapers. Maybe LA but still nothing like NY.
IMO putting serious money into solar panels anywhere other than sun belt of US is waste of money.
If your employer won't use provably stable and almost entirely backwards compatible language improvements, you might want to just find another job. C++ is a hard enough language that someone out there will be willing to be sane about the language version they use.

I know I'd only touch 20 year old C++ code with the go-ahead to refactor it into C++14. I'd argue that not adopting smart pointers, standard threads and mutexes, and auto type deduction make projects effectively unmaintainable at sufficient scale.
This is more cheap dismissal than a "superficial investigation". The author writes "Google News Archives are dead, killed off in 2011, now directing searchers to just use Google." and you have discovered that this is true?
Correction - jobs AT privateinternetaccess.com

Sorry ^^
I aim for roughly 50% rejections based on the rate I’m charging,

Shoot for 90%. As long as you keep pumping the funnel with more conversations, a lot of "nos" are just noise on the way to a "yes"

One note here: in most cases, being a 1099 is a much more honest relationship than being an employee. Some of the saddest folks I've seen in my IT career were extremely smart people who thought they had security in an IT job. Such a thing does not exist, no matter what they call you.
No. The article points out that the lenders will not be reimbursed.
> References and lifetimes allow you to safely return pointers to stack allocated objects. In C++, you'd have to do this:
MyType value;
my_function(&value);
When returning references, rust uses the lifetimes instead of explicit declarations to figure out where (on the stack) `value` needs to be allocated.

OMG, thank you for including this. I spent several months reading every bit of documentation that was available for Rust, and programming in it daily. Made some good progress. But I never, never came across this explanation. Very enlightening.

Rust desperately needs documentation covering these kinds of details. How on earth is someone supposed to make serious use of the language without knowing this?

I believe the Klabnik documentation hinted at this (something like, "The Rust compiler is smarter than that" and therefore you don't need to overuse pointers), but by no means did it actually spell it out. And you only needed a few sentences to cover it.

I know the Rust community is aware that more documentation is needed and has a todo list a mile long. But I don't know if technical details such as this are high enough on the priority list.
Something to consider; high-interest consumer debt is a public health problem. It travels with and exacerbates substance abuse, compulsive gambling and other social pathologies.

If we view it this way our current permissive attitude towards payday lenders and such is quite literally insane. The equivalent of allowing gonorrhea infested prostitutes to operate a brothel on Main st. that offers bareback specials.
Designing for different personality types
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Right -- explicit returns are frowned upon in the last line of a function, because they're absolutely not necessary, but everywhere else they're kosher.
Late for what, exactly?

Do people no longer write code? Because if they do, some of them might might choose to use Perl 6 for that, and that's all the success a programming language can hope for.

I see no reason why Perl 6 can't find its niche among people who prefer the Perlish over the Pythonic way to approach problems, but want a modern, consistent, cruft-free language (which Perl 5 is not).
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Okasaki's book is in ML, so any laziness he needs will be explicitly annotated with thunks or functions.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-22916329

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/02/03/facebook-linkedin-g...

I think I had a few more in the sources section at the bottom of the post too.
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Charged with exporting electronics that could help terrorists
First, I'm hesitant in making this post, as I do not intend to belittle anything getting done. Sounds like this team is working very hard on solutions, and that is ultimately awesome. And, serious thanks for the details. Sounds very fun. (And, over my head.)

I am curious on why you have "potentially" in parens. Is this just not panning out in measurements? Are these not techniques that older products could have already subsumed into their repertoire?

A lot of this reads like RISC versus CISC debates. There are virtually no techniques that one side can claim monopoly on. So it is not surprising to see that picking the acceptable tradeoffs and combining solutions appropriately is often very effective.
So "startup doesn't check if name already used"? I don't see how Nokia is at fault here.
>do you really think that the content of that comment

Easy fix for me, I don't comment on things on Facebook, nor do I ever feel the need to and I never visit the news feed. My usage is pretty much either:

- Receive email about event, RSVP.

- Receive email about group message, respond with Yes/No/Okay.
This issue is entirely about connecting to an untrusted endpoint. No endpoint-based solution is possible. This has to be dealt with by ensuring that the transit provider won't sell you out.
> arbitrary precision libraries often come with their own optimised Fibonacci functions.

I will check out some of these implementations.

http://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/7145/calculating-binet...

This post suggests that the matrix solution is desirable.

I wonder if the complexity of performing exponentiation on high precision values would ever overtake a logarithmic solution.
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s/corporations/organizations
I've watched fMRI (the God region of the brain!) studies poison the well. Pop-science is an endless, multimedia beast. Research that replicates is truth winning out. Everything else, including many high profile journal articles, is just noise.
The term, bribery, is extremely subjective in this context.

It's the same ephemerality as saying someone is a hater of "Freedom".

It makes an easy soundbite but what does that even mean?
Yes. Which is what I said. "Using a `return` as the last line of a function works" is not the same as "don't use explicit returns."
Not a unicorn as one might think. Most of senior stuff in our consultancy shop ware software architect hat at very beginning of software project, and later on do fair share of coding, mostly critical stuff.
Thank you vardump. It's numerical linear algebra kernels on C, in a multi-core environment.
Relying on DO backups hasn't really ever been an option. I've had 3 weeks go by without one happening. Didn't complain at the time as they weren't charging and used another system. I just think at this point charging for this "service" is a little premature.
How to Always Make the Right Decision
I'm an ER physician, this is a great idea for an app. It would be good to discuss further, I have sent you a connect request on linked in, thanks!
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It's proven to be really valuable and we're growing like crazy.

That's where you come in.

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The engineering team is looking for Full-Stack and QA Engineers to join our team of 10.

We use LAMP, Agile, AWS, etc. Our current big initiatives are setting up strong APIs, creating a data warehouse, and scaling to meet the demands of training hundreds of thousands of employees simultaneously.

Yes, we have perks. Yes, we have a strong engineering team. Yes, we give 10% time for side projects. Yes, we give competitive compensation and equity. But that's not why we were named the #1 best place to work by NYC Tech.

It's because of the people.[2] Everyone here is absolutely fantastic and we screen heavily for passionate, ambitious, playful people.

More about our culture: https://medium.com/@internetweek/its-the-people-how-grovo-be...

Interested in a Full Stack or QA role? Then email me directly at suragm@grovo.com. Mention Hacker News in the subject line and you'll get my immediate attention.

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I'd also be interested in someone to focus on Mobile Web Development. We think having a great user experience on mobile is really important to the success of the company.
I just played Oregon Trail through the browser with my wife and daughter taking turns! So much fun!
How many Fortune 500 do you see writing those?
At the company I work for, they strive to hire this role (which is what I do). "Architects who code". Definitely the way to go. As a software consultant, I should also note that I have worked with a number of Architects who don't code, and in every case, they took away more than they added.
This is good news. Yahoo has demonstrated that they can manage the largest bug bounty program in the world. Now it's time to elevate the difficulty of finding vulnerabilities to the same status as Google or Facebook.

Unfortunately, this will do nothing for the engineering hours being sunk into monitoring the thousands of invalid reports submitted each year.
Ask HN: Open source article extractors in ruby?
I am looking for some open source solution which pretty smartly can extract article from a web page. That is with images, videos (links), plus the actual data and no other gimmic. Something t like Diffbot but an open source / free version . Any help is appreciated.
Good approach to learn Go with simple examples. Thanks!
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The Avocados that they can actually ship (Hass) are pretty terrible. If you haven't lived in an area where they grow avocados you probably haven't had a chance to enjoy the other dozens of varieties of avocado.

Did you know that there's an avocado you can eat like an apple? The skin is thin and edible. There's another avocado with much higher oil content than the Hass and so a different mouth feel. Another kind that has a smokey flavor, and avocados that weren't fertilized by insects and so they have no seed - just a solid fatty oily avocado. And many more...

This is one of the things I miss about CA (specifically, I lived in Ventura, CA). (another is the huge variety of citrus, including a strain where they breed the acidity out of an orange and so it tasted like vanilla...)

http://edibleojai.com/online-magazine/heritage-avocados/

(the one in the lower left looks like the edible skin one I remember)

And a small list of CA varieties:
http://ucavo.ucr.edu/avocadovarieties/VarietyFrame.html#Anch...

There's even more varieties in Hawaii.
That quote appears to be the creation of an editorial writer in the 1950s:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Misattrib...
I have found that simply using Firefox with third party cookies turned off, along with the PrivacyBadger plugin and no flash installation provides a pretty good experience, while making you generally untrackable unless ip tracking, cache tracking, browser fingerprinting, or nefarious permacookies are used...

... and if those techniques are used by a big player, and it gets out (which it most definitely will), they'll have a consent decree (or worse) slapped on them so fast their head will spin. Look at what has already happened to Google when they were found to be circumventing Safari's third-party cookie blocking.

The main things that don't work under such a setup are:
1. Social buttons: meh, don't care.
2. Commenting systems such as disqus: again, meh.

The advantages are:
1. Most sites simply don't have ads under such a setup.
2. The sites that do show ads show non-targeted ads; generally related to the site content. Which is fine.

It strikes me that allowing cookies to be set or retrieved by third party domains was a terrible idea, and the current situation is a direct consequence.
Back in 2005 my employer decided it was about time to move away from C++ in enterprise projects.

Actually in most of the enterprise projects I have been involved, C++ tends to be restrained to bindings to some feature not exposed in the chosen languages.

Changing employer doesn't matter, as most of these decisions come from the customers themselves.

It might work for in-house products, not so well when doing consulting.
Show HN: LiquidLava framework – alternative to Angular and Ember
> Deja News could have ended up anywhere, including at the Internet Archive.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. The idea that a company that is falling apart and selling itself off in pieces was going to donate one of its last major assets to charity... I don't even know where to start.

That was the whole problem. Running the archive wasn't a business (at least deja.com never figured out how to make it one and eventually gave up trying), but the archive ended up in the hands of investors and/or creditors that didn't care about that. You may be partially right - if Google hadn't bought them someone else might have (maybe Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, or ...). I'm not sure about that (which is why the Google deal was good news at the time), but let's suppose you're right. All that would mean is that you would have ended up complaining about how some other buyer ran it into the ground. If you're going to make the case that Google got in the way of the Deja News archive's happy ending, you need a lot more than that.
If you want to have an idea of what makes Perl 6 compelling, check these slides that were submitted a few days ago, "Perl 6 for Mere Mortals" (which is also another talk at FOSDEM): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8953368

I hate to repeat a comment of mine, but for the sake of emphasizing just how different Perl 6 is, here's a version of Fibonacci in Perl 6:

subset NonNegativeInt of Int where * >= 0;

proto fib (|) is cached returns NonNegativeInt {*}
multi fib (0) { 0 }
multi fib (1) { 1 }
multi fib (NonNegativeInt $n) { fib($n - 1) + fib($n - 2) }

say fib(100)

Edit: Another good recent talk is "Adventures in Perl 6 Asynchrony," which shows off promise combinators, channels, and supplies: http://jnthn.net/papers/2014-yapceu-async.pdf
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I'd like your view from the trenches regarding Logstash vs Fluentd, specifically why it's better for 12+ teams? I'm having to make a similar decision myself and would enjoy your insight! Thanks
I can't find it right now, but I like how this harks back to the original announcement that Perl 6 would be ready in time for Christmas—just with no commitment to which Christmas.
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Show HN: Quizzity – a geographical quiz built on top of a Leaflet map
Good point on it sounding nutty though. I just added a reference to this http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-...