skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Click and Clack would refer to the check engine light as the "empty your wallet light" (paraphrasing).

If your car starts easily and runs well, has no changes in fuel economy, and you have been keeping up with basic maintenance, it's probably fine.

Same with people. Sure there are some people who just drop dead out of the blue. But most people have symptoms. Unexplained weight gain or loss. Fatigue. Difficulty sleeping. Changes in bodily functions. For most people, if you have no symptoms and feel healthy, you most likely are. If you have family history of certain problems, of course be more vigilant about that.

We can't possibly continually test everybody for everything that might possibly be wrong with them, at least not until we have Star-Trek style medical devices. Unjustified testing in the absence of symptoms will simply further drive up the cost of medical care for those who really need it. One could argue that it already has.
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Revoking has an actual cost itself for them too (and for all client, in the end) due to the revocation list growing.

Revocation isn't part of the normal lifecyle of TLS certificates either: you'll only need this once you've had a security breach.
At least any brain trauma Pacquiao sustains will be consensual. http://mobile.sportingnews.com/article/4643166-floyd-mayweat...
I don't understand, so basically if you're homeless or don't have a bank account, or if you're not in the workforce for one of a million reasons, you don't get a say at all?

Am I missing something?
>"I think many people don't appreciate the danger of false positives."

Yes, but to most people, we compare that danger with the danger of a positive test that never gets done. More information is never a bad thing. And I'm reasonably sure that for almost every test that can have a dangerous false-positive, there is also a corresponding test that can corroborate those results, if not detect the false-positive.
I made something similar available here: https://github.com/tiborvass/go-jsx/
I don't think "the tyranny of the majority" is really the problem.
I should have clarified a bit: I live in Argentina, and yes, this sort of ARS for USD trading is illegal. Selling commodities for foreign currency is also illegal (he states he sells BTC for USD too).
My comment was based on the reports of several different channels I've followed that have had to deal with spurious Content ID claims. According to those reports, there was no mechanism for further appeal if the Content ID claimant denied the initial appeal. In particular, there was no apparent mechanism to file a DMCA counterclaim and have the content restored despite the Content ID claim. The "DMCA Notice" box in the article's flowchart appears to be a terminal state.

On top of that, according to the article, you can only have so many appeals in progress at any given time, and Content ID claimants can delay responding to such appeals for 30 days.
I'm not a huge fan of the distros either, because they should've been on guard for this (having seen the nonsense of, say, PulseAudio).

The bulk of the blame, though, lies with Poettering and friends. Without rehashing every "systemd is terrible" argument out there (and there are many, and I find them as tiresome as you do to review here), the fact remains that political wheeling and dealing is the reason that the project has taken as much root as it has, and that the sheer smugness in the face of reasonable critiques is irksome.

Poettering is part of the group that is "Hey, Linux can be on the desktop too!". History hasn't borne this out, nor likely will it. They'd be welcome to experiment elsewhere, but for them it is anathema that the ecosystem as a whole not follow in their footsteps--and that kinda makes sense, honestly, because for their plan to work they have to kill off all of the features that conflict with their vision of the desktop. Unfortunately, those features are what are kinda important to us folks writing server and infrastructure systems.

It's never going to get fixed, and so we must go beyond the rim.
The whole point of this seems to be to avoid oppression of minority opinions by weighing in how much you care.
It seems important to distinguish between actually voting, where everyone votes or has a chance to vote (at near-zero cost), and lobbying for individual legislation, where only the very highly-motivated "vote", at high cost.

In the latter case (lobbying), most people seem to believe that small groups exert too much power over the process. But that's entirely because the majority have essentially zero influence. If some small industry has an intense preference for a special tax break, they would easily be defeated if everyone else expressed their mild disapproval. The problem is not that the rich get too many votes, but that the first vote is too costly.

In ordinary voting, the opposite situation is more likely. A small group of people are very passionate about some issue (gay marriage, drug liberalization, environmental protection), while the majority doesn't know or care very much, but is slightly negative on average. In that case, the weak preferences of the majority win out, giving an inefficient outcome. This is where Quadratic Voting could help.
> There's one simple way to drastically reduce the amount of brain damage caused by fighting: take off the gloves.

Well, that and not doing the thing to begin with. This and almost all things to do with Everest are similar. They're non-problems.
"In times where compilers are smart enough to basically rewrite and change code for
performance reasons it is completely inexcusable that the order of source arguments to
process is still that relevant."

After reading the comments on C and the difficulties the author had in the compilation process.... All I can say is Garbage in garbage out. I have worked in the HPC enviornment for a number of years using both Fortrash and C. The errors the author encountered would have been avoided by someone with any experience developing large softwares. I learned these things after working on my first project and now they barely, if at all, factor into my development time. Make sure you build and keep a dependency graph while you are developing and this becomes a non issue.
Before you do anything, please look into this kid's (?) mental state and try to gauge how hypersensitive he may be to being critiqued.

As you said, he's a newly hired coworker. I think the last thing he wants is to be "outed".

If I were you, I'd offer some explanation as to why you want to reject it, and then offer to start him on the correct path.
As if I said anywhere in my post "I must pop pill x." Side effects = none. Cost = negligible. Could I afford to exercise more and lose a few pounds? Sure. But that is not going to reduce what was too high blood pressure quickly enough to not be a risk, particularly upping my exercise regimen with untreated high blood pressure.
Fortrash

Why the hate? One could misuse any tool, but that doesn't make the tool bad at what it does.
No, you miss the point.

Being $X richer is now meaningless. Whoever is in power controls the currency and the time value of money sufficiently that they can manipulate the next round of voting.
I love Cmder but went back to Console2 because I find it almost impossibly confusing to configure (there are 900 settings) and more importantly, it occasionally stops accepting input for ~5 seconds.

I hope the Windows 10 native console improvements are as good as they sound.
I read through the court order and didn't see the part where the court orders Wi-Fi networks to block the infringing content. Is it even common for enterprise-grade access points to have support for blocking specific content? How does the court want it to be implemented? Removing DNS records? Active SSL inspection? Are they compelling CAs to issue fake certificates?

This seems poorly thought out and poorly implemented. But I wonder if it's time to cancel my HBO subscription.
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Based on what I've skimmed, which is admittedly not that much, I'd bet the author spends most of the book making mind projection fallacies like this one:

> while we can easily recognize a familiar face, we cannot describe that face precisely enough to enable someone unfamiliar with it to recognize it as easily as we do (see pp. 110–111). Thus, when we know a face, we possess a type of knowledge that cannot be expressed as methods or rules. We can readily use this knowledge, but we cannot explain how we do it. What this means is that the only way to acquire this knowledge is by allowing it to develop in our mind; we cannot acquire it by learning some facts. [...]

> [...]

> For a phenomenon that is a complex structure, the only exact representation is the phenomenon itself.

Here the human inability to directly introspect on how we recognize faces is explained as an underlying facet of reality. A fact about faces, instead of a fact about the limitations of our mental architecture. That's why no one has ever been able to write facial recognition software that works even a little bit /s.

It would be wrong for me to say the book is not worth your time, because I haven't read enough of it to make that judgement, but I can honestly say I expect it to not be worth my time.

(Also I want to complain about a minor error the author keeps making again and again: stating that scientific explanations form hierarchies. This is simply wrong. The graph of we-use-X-to-explain-Y isn't a tree, it's a directed acyclic graph. For example, consider jet airplanes, chemistry, aerodynamics, and physics.)
Votes are cheap when you just want a few of them. Perhaps the first one is free? Then you get a windfall for being a voter, because all the money spent is redistributed per capita among the voters.
Depends on your situation, but yes... they can be bad. First of all, false positive tests are a thing. It happens. More importantly, let's say you are diagnosed with something untreatable and terminal. Do you really want to know before you have to? Or perhaps it's something technically treatable, but with a low chance of cure and at a high cost to quality of life?

The thing to think about when you test for something, is what are you prepared to do about it if the results are positive? Not everyone will answer this question the same way.
I don't think that's what the article is about.

What I read was about a President who to eager to please a population with a sense of national pride. Indonesia, being a former colony, has obviously a low self esteem and only seem to be able to be ruled by some sort of iron fist which has to show the world that they are really smart, clever and "sovereign".

Whether or not the death penalty should have been applied and whether or not this "cures" the drug problem is not really the discussion (I believe). That a small group of people had to sacrifice their lives for political gain, and to prove a point, seems to be a more interesting discussion here.

I certainly hope Widodo and his henchmen will be brought in front of an international court to clarify themselves over this.
Whooping cough is caused by bacteria (Bordatella pertussis). It is virtually unheard of for whooping cough to re-activate, catching it again as a new infection is much more likely.

Incidentally, there is a zoster vaccine that can prevent shingles[1]. If you have ever seen anyone with the debillitating pain that shingles can cause, you will realise that this vaccine is definitely worth it.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/shingles/vacc-need-know....
Seems it avoids conspiracy theory in the first few pages: "This book attacks the mechanistic myth, not persons. Myths, however, manifest themselves through the acts of persons, so it is impossible to discuss the mechanistic myth without also referring to the persons affected by it."

Skimming through the book, personally I'm sympathetic to its approach and would probably learn much from it. (I happen to disagree with very many conclusions, but fine.) The discussion of irrationality and mana in dev seems useful... and morbidly hilarious.
Seriously ? gloves cause more damages than they avoid ? I'd never thought a fist would suffer against a skull, and that without gloves it would be a blood bath.
Very interesting topics! It seems to be one the 5by5 podcasts and they generally have good quality material.

Even the topics you mentioned are quite different from each other, no wonder if interviewers are not experts on those or even close. :)

Thank you for the suggestion!
Yes, I read that. But it's also most logical explanation for why I don't remember the ending.
Well, yes it does, at least on Ubuntu x64. (I'm using it now).

See:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1328965
We use Doors for that. I think we tried TeamCenter for one project but it was a bag of hurt.

The UI for doors is a little clunky (looks like a win95 app), but it fulfills it's purpose.

Doors equivalent functionality could be built with a web interface and a sql db backend. Maybe any kind of database would work, relational just makes the most sense to me.

That said, assuming DO178B is similar to DO254, it's more about making sure you have a design process and that you are following it, and less about how good that process is.
If this was implemented, it seems like the best strategy for an interest group would be to spread their funds over as many voters as possible. I wonder what kind of complications that would cause?
Beware it is violent by the number of blows thrown.
I'm not sure how C is specifically to blame for something like int overflow - while in many languages this specific problem won't happen, in many popular ones it would happen the same way as in C. E.g. doesn't Rust also have limited integer types?
I think this is too clever-its like the people who claim football will be safer without pads, just like rugby. It ignores that a lot of brain damage is apparently from sub concussive hits, like when two linemen collide into each other. Boxing sans gloves sounds like a solution, but I'd want to be sure there isn't any other way to get brain damage, and that its not just a feel good solution.
Please tell us the name of the company! Are they still in business?
I deal with this in another paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2571012
There are two questions - whether someone who can afford it would receive a net benefit from more testing and whether we want to pay for that for everyone. Many of the answers given to the question of whether more tests are worthwhile don't make this distinction.
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Ask HN: Why Did YC Kill RFS #1: The Future of Journalism?
The first Request for Startups created by Y Combinator was about the "future of journalism". The original RFS is quoted here [1], but does not appear on the current list [2].

What happened to this RFS? Does YC consider this a solved problem, or alternately, unsolvable? Do they just consider it to be less important than other problems?

I'm curious because I think it's an instructive way to think about the online content market (why are some of the best people in startups apparently no longer interested in the space?), not because I care for the sake of how it would impact an application to YC.

[1] http://www.wordyard.com/2009/08/16/y-combinators-request-for-startups-in-journalism/

[2] http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
Becoming president of school clubs isn't entitlement. What I mean is that the culture around leadership positions in high school incubates the attitudes that Michael was complaining about. Some students do legitimately learn a lot being the president of a high school club and are able to do good stuff with it. Many students, though, just run for the resume item, to help themselves rather than really to serve the organization and help it do interesting things. And because of the way our culture treats leadership, as if it were something that can exist without context, that becomes part of their identity. They've been the "leaders" of organizations all their life (which in some cases involves little more than organizing social events), they've gone to these fancy schools, and now, as a result, they ought to be in charge later in life, because that's who they are and because Harvard doesn't train followers, it trains leaders. But just because someone is the president of a social club or an a capella group in college (not to say that this is not a worthwhile thing to do), it doesn't give them any more right or qualification to be the leader of a law firm, or an engineering firm, or an advocacy group, or a theatre troupe. Leadership isn't a single skill or quality; it exists entirely within a context.

I don't have any problem with club presidents in general. I do have a problem with some of the ideas U.S. culture (or at least middle class upward-aspiring culture) has about leadership, and I think those attitudes do lead to a destructive form of entitlement.
Two sets, in very controlled laboratory settings, have turned out well:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
and
http://rangevoting.org/GoereeZhangMar2013.pdf
> I would also be letting somebody do a
> programming exercise for an hour or so.

Aye, but that comes after the filter. In particular, with FizzBuzz there are loads of follow-up questions you can ask to find out which way the applicant thinks. For example:

* Can you clean the logic flow to avoid duplicating tests?

* What if the tests are actually very expensive?

* Did they combine the mod 3 and mod 5 tests into a mod 15 test?

* What if that's not possible?

* What happens if you unroll the loop?

* When might that be a reasonable thing to do?

Most of these are structural questions that have analogs in live code, and serve as good starting points. They need to be adapted for the different types of work.

Programming exercises are well and good, but if the applicant passes the filter, and can discuss the various issues it raises, a "programming exercise" is really a bit marginal. I'd rather move on to pairing with them on some real code that they'd be likely to be working on.

Currently there's no service I know of that I would trust to run a coding test for me.

I still start with FizzBuzz (or similar).
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Not directly. Rather, gloves protect your hands, allowing you to punch much harder than you could without them. They don't do much to protect the receiving skull.
Given that the most of the article is just throwing jargon at random instead of explaining anything, it's no wonder you had hard time reading it.
Some journalists still care to acquire correct terminology. If somebody is reporting from the court and call somebody accused of car theft "murderer" because you don't know the difference between the two, they'd probably get laughed at.
Thanks a bunch! I did hope so, too.

Specifically for re:publica, we're hooked to a JSON API and are pulling the sessions hourly. There's still a lot of change going on (which is common for conferences that size, of course). Here's the last report of our sync script with the result pushe to Slack[1]. The state of "Doomguys" face shows how well formed the data came in(;

Before the conference starts, there's going to be more pictures and probably better metadata.

1. https://www.evernote.com/l/ABM-710binBGILS0TSfzyK1J_qFBoJ23y...
Check https://www.acefitness.org/certifiednewsarticle/2882/resting... or http://www.calculator.net/bmr-calculator.html.
I don't disagree. Fortran is brilliant at what it does.... but I find many of its object oriented features to be very obtuse compared to C and C++. The way it uses pointers drives me insane. Building certain datastructures in fortran just takes too much time.

I kind of wish I could find a good way to make Fortran and C play nicely together. (There are some compiler dependent peculiarities that I have encountered that make it difficult.)

Fortran's intrisics and file handling capabilities make it indispensable in the work I do.... So it is really a love hate relationship.
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Hacker news is a community of (from what I've seen) strong critical thinkers, with a poster in a thread often having a specific background in the field being discussed. Doctors aren't mythical beings, and discourse here about what medical tests are 'worth it' seems both appropriate and really interesting.
I was aware of Jolla using it (I've a Jolla phone), but didn't know about android. That adds some pretty important backing to it.

I don't generally dislike cli, but using I've never felt comfortable using it for networking. I like the popup notifications when I get disconnected, and the very visual menus, for some reason. I'll try to give it a try though.

> Check mutt-kz too, soon it will replace mutt+notmuch.

FWIW, mutt-kz has pretty good notmuch support. At least as much as I've needed.
It's the saying doctors learn in medical school. "When you hear hooves, think horses not zebras."

Probably 99 out of 100 people with GP's symptoms (if not more) actually do have acid reflux. It therefore makes medical sense to assume that until additional symptoms indicate a different conclusion.
If you look at "old timey" boxing pictures, you'll see that their stance is very different. Rather than protecting their chin and their jaw, they're protecting their upper body because that's where most of the hits would go to. People ONLY started dying in boxing once gloves were introduced.
You can't consent to being seriously injured by someone else. (Medical treatments not only require written consent when possible, but are based on competing harms.)

Why is there an exception for letting someone try to hit you in the head, repeatedly, for "sport"?

It seems like the only reason it's legal is that it wasn't really acknowledged until recently that repeated blows to the head (and the resulting brain and neck/brainstem trauma) could cause serious long-term cognitive deficits, and the legal system hasn't caught up with that yet.
I'd really hoped they were design to limit damages, diffusing the energy on a larger surface. I was worried that wave could cause a different kind of harm, instead of breaking a jaw, you'd break a neck or cause brain movements.

Anyway, it's still disturbing.