skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did you read the article?

Yes.

> The patient did not go to jail.

The patient was almost taken to jail. The EMS left him there to be transported to jail.

> There was a 10 minute delay in care, until the patient became unresponsive and was transported to the hospital.

Please don't be apologetic for other people's screw ups. We have enough of that everywhere already.

"Oh it was just 10 minutes more of stroking and stuff. No biggie." It's a stroke, you die in that 10 minutes.

> Do you really see no difference in culpability between someone standing by and allowing torture to happen, vs someone who attempts to argue with, but eventually concedes to a guy carrying a gun?

No.

We are talking about the legal system, where such cases can be used as precedents.

When you are an EMS or physician otherwise, you were at fault, and it is pardoned because "I was so very much intimidated oh my," it will be pardoned as long as you can prove you were "intimidated."

"Oh judge it was a CIA agent, I was intimidated so I stayed and supervised it."

I find it disturbing and disgusting that (1) the defense attorney is using that as an excuse, and (2) the EMS allows his defense attorney to do that.

And where is the lawsuit against the cop for intimidation (civil) and misconduct (criminal)?
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The Souped-Up Speed Test Mapping Canada's Digital Divide
Why would you immediately think the poster was referring to you? Seemed directed at Romney.
Even though there exists only single data points, I think it is instructive to ponder the following:

1) Life appeared on Earth early pretty much as soon as conditions arose that would support it (as soon as the planet cooled enough). So that would point to life being "easy" to form.

2) Biogenesis only happened once (as far as we can tell), so that would point to [a] life being hard to get started, or [b] life was seeded from space (panspermia).

3) It took a really long time for multi-cellular life to appear. So this step appears to be very hard / rare.

4) It took a really long time for nerves ("thinking" cells) to form (and likely only happened once).

5) So far, no sign of microbial life on other planets in the Solar system, so may rule out panspermia from point (1) above.
Virtual Therapy: Why It's So Comforting to Talk to Screens That Listen
PHP actually has a default request memory limit of 128MB.
Bloodborne and the History of Horror
Appreciating our teachers
More importantly, modern telecommunications (internet etc.) are government/military infrastructure under government control and surveillance. Just like GPS etc. It's often hard to remember this and sometimes we even pretend that the internet is a place free of government control, which is delusional. The wires, cables and radio towers are under military control in any kind of crisis.

It boils down to this: If you're a freedom fighter/terrorist on the internet then you're there because the government's cost-benefit analysis favours you being there. Sometimes that's as innocent as the government having principles, avoiding bad PR or collateral damage, but if you're allowed to be on the internet then you're either not quite dangerous enough or the government's too weak technically or politically to shut you down (not relevant for those in the semi-developed world).
It's still weird to showcase a project with what is quite a strain to the eyes for most people.
"Make the world feel big" is rule number 5 or 6.

"Your audience is lazy" is rule number 2 or 3.
You surely mean 8 bit PCM (without "AD") sounded horrible? ADPCM encodes differences in just 4 bits but the decoded values are in the range of 16 bits.
> The police officer is 100% at fault here. The paramedic has medical equipment. The cop has weapons.

This is not a zero-sum game. They can be (and, I think, are) 100% at fault.

The paramedic has a medical responsibility to ensure the medical safety of the patient. He abandoned his job because he got afraid / didn't know better. These are not valid excuses.
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Historical Baggage. If someone starts speaking Russian, we've got a whole cultural idea of what it means for them to be speaking that language. I expect they wouldn't want to tint character personalities with biases from reality.
High school grades correlate with college grades. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/02/...
Researchers Can Make Your GPS 100x More Accurate Than Before
It might be "friends and family (and myself)".
I think taciturnity arises from a general "engineering" orientation. You don't want to change more than one variable at a time, so you're very sparing in your actions in general. Or perhaps engineers don't want to make a bad situation worse: if you mess about too much, you'll never figure out what went wrong.
> Understanding how your thoughts are distorted can better prepare you

The trouble is that anyone with profound issues no longer has the capacity for extreme metacognition.
The Oldest Ancestor of Modern Birds Has Been Found in China
Ripple fined for acting as a money services business without registration
This Is What Thunder Looks Like
Kickstart CSS Library 3.1 Released
These Artificial Muscles Are Made of Onion Cells
To some extent, the initial product wasn't important. Yes, it needed to resonate with an audience, but it's sole purpose was to test the waters and prove that we could ship.

We liked the radio because it was unique enough that we felt it would stand out. Instead of flipping between AM/FM stations, you'd be flipping between podcasts. I think that would have sold pretty well... or at least well enough for us to prove the concept and raise the large amounts we needed.
Unboxed variables is a possibility some people have thought about, and I think HHVM does it. Given PHP 7'a parameter type hints it might be practical to do. Though a problem would be that if you strip off the type tag, you have to add it back again whenever you pass the value anywhere.
The Hidden Cost of JPay's Prison Email System
I hate the latest "we only accepted 5% of applicants" measure.

It forces people to freak out an apply to more schools. Which means top schools get more applicants. Which means to accept the same number of people as last year, they have to reject a higher percentage. Which makes people freak out, etc.

When I applied to college, I did 3-4 and thought that was excessive at the time. Now I hear of students applying to 10.
You may be right. We liked the radio because it was unique enough that we felt it would stand out. Instead of flipping between AM/FM stations, you'd be flipping between podcasts. I think that would have sold pretty well... or at least well enough for us to prove the concept and raise the large amounts we needed.
I'm with you on having a narrative and conveying the drive. Did you find that some investors understood that and made decisions based on it or was it that you found them to be speaking a different language?

Btw, I respect the effort and thought that went into analyzing the reasons for failure and the courage required to be open about it. Hope things work out in your next attempt.
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This is like waiting for people to click "ACCEPT" in a Counter Strike: GO match.
Why Do We Play Video Games That Feel Like Work?
PHP automatically scores a few demerit points in most circles, but it's not just any-old PHP. It's PHP that's evolved over the better part of a decade and is full of bad ideas that are now baked into the WordPress system permanently.

Like Drupal it's overgrown with weeds. You need to keep pruning to keep moving, or you'll be a victim of backwards compatibility. Just ask Microsoft about that, or those trying to clean up OpenSSL.

There are other systems that are far worse, but they're not as popular so they're irrelevant. Nobody cares about Movable Type any more, for example.
Software:

- http://www.videoscribe.co/

Services:

- https://ydraw.com/

- http://thedrawshop.com/

As for other features, as an Adobe employee, you've probably seen http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html
One of the quirks of tech transfer offices is that they have emerged from government agencies and universities because it turns out that making technology and patents freely available doesn't do much for commercial adoption.
Hey all, I'm part of the PriceMethod team.

Appreciate your comments, and certainly agree, whats taking place in the peer-to-peer space is fascinating.

Excited to play a part in helping host build out what we think is the future of the accommodations space.
Yeah, it's all editable. http://i.imgur.com/8pJMhCb.png
Feds no longer need warrant to search phone location records
I am surprised how nobody here seems to have drawn the obvious conclusion here which is these changes (making the test less g loaded) is a massive bias in favour of the rich over the poor. Kids who are naturally smart, but who attend bad schools will struggle with any test that is not heavily g loaded.
The effectiveness of a placebo may depend on someone’s DNA
Some soothing background audio if you just want to listen to the sounds of nature (or watch). It's part of BBC Four's 'go slow' season (inspired no doubt by the 'slow TV' concept from Norway)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02q34z8

For those not in the UK, someone's uploaded the programme on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNDtIwNLbao
...I use Ableton Live to do quite a bit of non loop-based composition. It's quite easy to do and feels well supported.
Google Invests in AppScale Systems to Drive Compatibility with App Engine
1000-Year-Old Town Told to Stop Using Name from Hotel Founded There
It's a nice slide deck. It doesn't appear to be a pitch deck.
I've secured a job, but the others are still looking.
Asana's GitHub integration is superb also.

Be aware, Asana is pricey, but they have a special offer for startups.

https://asana.com/pricing
Amazon drops gendered categories for toys
That case is still alive and kicking, actually. Craigslist just filed a motion to amend its complaint (again).

Full docket: https://www.pacerpro.com/cases/158665

Motion: https://s3.amazonaws.com/pacer-documents/N.D.%20Cal.%2012-cv...
I'm not sure that heirlooms are inherently more sustainable. Genetically modified strawberries for example don't freeze at lower temperatures, it is also possible add heat resistant traits, or make other modifications. Immunity to certain pesticides is just one business model for GMO's.
Impressed by the UI polish, well done, fun to play, the pwups are great.

only minus is it keeps crashing to home page =(
7 IT executives share their strategies for smart risk-taking
Playing Cards. For Developers. By Developers
Poor choice of TLD, the io registry will capitulate with a takedown just as fast.
I don't know how fast that was, but my company already blocked it. So I don't think it could have been that fast.
Very fun game!
I also liked the radio idea.
I'd think the problem you're seeing has more to do with the size and available resources of the company rather than the sector it operates in. Any company in its early stage growth period has to prioritize time to market over most other priorities, but this is true for startups in all sectors and not limited to software.

Comparing an established telecom with a predictable revenue stream versus a software startup doesn't exactly make for a fair comparison.

If you instead keep the size and available resources at least somewhat consistent, and look at software written for say a large telecom vs a large software company, or say a software startup vs a hardware startup, for instance, I think the tendencies I outlined in the original post will still hold in an overwhelming majority of cases.
I'd guess Apple did a mixture - air freight for the peak of the demand (aka early adopters), and ships for the time when initial demand has settled (if existing stock is enough to cover the demand, why expensive air transport when restocking can be done for cheap).
Yes, I inferred the idea that there should be rules from the comment I replied to and replied in order to reject it.

I think I probably agree that police shouldn't base searches on smelling weed (I'd have to think about whether they should be able to stop a car and tell them to tone it down).

What I don't agree with is making that determination based on concerns about fabricated statements about smelling weed.
Ok. I was wondering if the breakeven is set as 5 years but if the cycle of tilt to full makes the life shorter for the battery, then it may not be worth it. I agree that if I've to weigh battery life vs my time, I would go with the latter.
See also: http://www.demon-sushi.com/warning/
As a french, i'm ashamed of those (idiot/useless) politics
You don't like big waterfall projects like the Tower of Babel? You must be one of those microservices people... b^)
Reference: https://youtu.be/QR465HoCWFQ

Also:

"Two things get your ass kicked faster than anything: one is making a cop run. If he catches you, you're 18 years old, you've got fucking Nikes, he’s got cop shoes, he's wearing a utility belt, if you fucking run and he catches you, you're gonna take some lumps. That’s always been part of the code. Rodney King could’ve quoted that much of it to you."

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on...
Sheryl Sandberg makes first public comments about her late husband
11 illustrations that perfectly sum up life in New York versus San Francisco
Depends on the OS you target. IIRC Windows will handle misalignment for you.
No, emotions are extremely complex phenomena and can't be detected with this type of hardware.
Ahh, finally something tasty.
After the initial demand surge at product release, is supply really that constrained? istocknow.com shows the iphone 6 is currently widely available in the US. If they're not in short supply in stores, why not save some $15 million?

Sitting in a cargo container in the middle of the Pacific vs the back room of a store for 30 days doesn't seem that different to me.

The watch, however, is sold out until July, if not later for some models, so it would make sense to ship them by air.
This is really cool! Good job!
The biggest bang for your buck with columnstore indexes is for analytical loads. In a data warehousing situation, these are negligible restrictions.

Your use-case is not representative.
The Fake 'Asian' Who Fooled 18th-Century London
Silicon Valley Pays Tribute to Dave Goldberg at Memorial Service
You're right. We are not a substitute for therapy in cases like this. Pacifica works very well for people with mild to moderate anxiety, but in the more extreme cases (e.g. OCD, PTSD), it is necessary to be working with a professional. But a lot of people experience anxiety on a daily basis while maintaing a capability for self analysis.
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Next they need grooveshark's excellent queuing interface.
Only Jeremy was offered a position. The rest of us are pounding the pavement.
Who knows, maybe the web team messed up with the image post processing step and coders aren't aware of the error yet.
The server seems to keep crashing on me. Otherwise, well done.
Judge: Feds owe trucking company nothing over DEA informant murder (update)
Eek. This is only kinda true. You ought to talk to a copyright lawyer and get a handle on derivative works and data compilations. You can get started by reading this Supreme Court case:

Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)
https://casetext.com/case/feist-publications-inc-v-rural-tel...

Disclaimer: IAAL but IANYL.
I'd allow browsers and sites to be extended by languages that weren't JS.

- Support sandbox'd languages in browser, perhaps python.

- Plugin support for other languages, perhaps python.
Ah, nice. I was just looking through the github repo and found some config files for qt with color schemes. And yet my question stands: Why present a project like that?
Ehh, intelligence/nervous systems aren't the hard part. It's development of the eukaryotic cell that's extremely chance.

Microbial life in no way entails higher life. It's only by the insanely chance event of the eurkaryotic cell emerging that sophisticated multicellular life became possible on earth. Even if life is common in the universe, sophisticated multicellular life is extremely rare.

The selective pressures on bacterial life favors small size and rapid reproduction, jettisoning any unnecessary genetic material.

Mitochondrial ancestors relieved those pressures in a couple ways. Once the eukaryotic cell developed, multicellularity has evolved several times. All the cool things (multicellularity, eyes, flight) have evolved independently a bunch of times, and the eukaryote has happened only fucking once. Here's a longer explanation:

http://ronbarak.tumblr.com/post/25996121029/life-is-it-inevi...
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Ask HN: I am quiting HN, its rigged
I have raised this issue a lot of times of hn being
rigged, and this is the final time I am doing this. here is some more evidence.
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Exactly. However, a superintelligence might by vastly more superior to us than we are to chimps: http://intelligenceexplosion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/...

I actually don't quite agree with the spaces on this chart because the scientific method should set us far apart from mice and chimps so that they would almost merge in a single point.

Anyway, there are a handful of reasons to assume that an artificial general intelligence would likely turn out to be far superior to us: (1) Hardware is a much less noisy computation environment compared to the badly insulated neurons in our wetware (though this might be a feature rather than a bug), (2) our neurons operate at about 200 Hz, microchips at 10 million as much, (3) they would have extremely fast access to physical simulations and other computational resources, knowledge bases, other AIs, (4) they would never get tired, no body to maintain, no social obligations, and (5) they could replicate within seconds and easily modify their own sourcecode.
That's like a little kid who, when told to make an apology, says "I'm sorry you're so ugly."
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"So I think direct-mentorship can be very helpful to some people"

Something to think about is when my father was still alive and retired/contracting he charged about $200/hr for very specialized database work in a very specific financial field. I've heard thats not totally out of line today. Anyway my point is some of these bootcamps cost $16K and for $16K you could hire "most specialized programming consultants" for 1:1 time for a rather amazing 80 hours. Obviously you'd be better off with a modest amount of hours across many consultants unless you've already found a specialty or someone you work very well with.

Now most tutors aren't going to charge $200/hr for some easy noob questions, then again the middleman (and they'll be middlemen) are going to want an unacceptably large cut.

Its just something to think about, throwing out the advice, that if you've got questions and $16K burning a hole in your pocket there's already a strong and established ecosystem of consultants willing to take your dough in exchange for some answers.

As a point of comparison, music teachers and flight instructors don't really make that much per hour, although much like programming the pros at the top of those fields do clear $100K/yr.

It seems like a rational alternative.
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These really gross, noisy EEGs are useful for some things, but they're being peddled alongside all manner of snake oil. The structure of thought and emotion is so complex and obscure that leading scientists are barely able to even define it, much less detect it with powerful, invasive tech — much less again with this type of device.

If you find using an EEG device improves your life in some way, that's great - go for it. But exercise skepticism when it comes to the claims being made about just what is being detected here and with what level of accuracy and precision.
There is another related condition which is anorexia nervous sans willpower. Without the willpower to not eat then the condition is not lethal, but it does come with all the same mental anguish to the sufferer.
Dejure you are correct, but not defacto. The ability of an officer to arrest someone and openly carry firearms (Canadian) sets them apart even if they're not using them, particularly as they can abuse their powers.

Police should be held to a higher standard to compensate for this, and the civilian legal system is poorly equipped to handle them.
What is "beautiful" that fat people aren't allowed to consider themselves such?

Those who gripe about such things have their own cognitive distortion... they have ingrained behaviors to value physical attractiveness (and fitness) beyond any utility it might provide them.

Are you going to hate the fat girl's personality so much that you can't stand her? Probably not.

(Apologies for being crude) Is her pussy going to feel like sandpaper on your dick? Probably not.

You mistreat such people because you're afraid that if you were to become involved with them, your social status would decline. But the only reason humans care about that is because of mating prospects.

Your truths are subjective, and self-harming.
I would argue that their cost of capital is 1.55% for a five year tenor, or 3.45% for a 30 year tenor.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/apple-said...

For 30 days, it would of course be even lower, but not zero.
This is why there are turtles at the base of the columns at the Supreme Court.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/morgonmae/2437913438
> It may surprise you to know that cops often deal with truly violent, aggressive individuals and often place their lives in danger.

Violent, aggressive EMTs trying to treat a patient?

And a huge portion of the people jailed in the US are jailed for non-violent crimes.

If you can't deal differently with violent, aggressive people than with people who are clearly non-violent and not aggressive, you have no fucking business being a cop.

Having lived and worked in some pretty nasty areas, I've dealt with some violent, aggressive individuals, yet every day I manage to restrain myself from wrongly accusing people of crimes and beating up innocent people. I'm not sure why you think this is hard.

> The cop-hate is really getting out of control.

I think I have a right to hate people who are violent and aggressive.

> Inner-city blacks kill a lot more black people than cops do, yet we bend over backwards to not be judgemental of them.

No, I hate inner-city blacks who kill people just as much as I hate cops who kill people. I just don't talk about it much, because we don't seem to have much problem giving inner-city blacks who kill people the jail time they deserve.

> But automatic hatred of cops is really driven by the same kind of thinking.

I don't automatically hate cops. It just so happens that cops frequently go out of their way to give me reason to hate them.
Wow, talk about churnalism.