skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most EMTs and paramedics are trained to 'disregard' physicians on scene (notwithstanding common sense - am I going to listen to a trauma doc? Am I going to listen to a podiatrist?) - this is somewhat different.

When Call9 has a private transport arranged by the ambulance service, whose medical license do the EMTs and paramedics operate under? The county/hospital associated therewith? The ambulance service? Your physicians? And depending on the answer to that, what does the County MD have to say about that? Or the DOH EMS section for that matter?

If your ambulance service's EMS personnel are operating under county auspices, and that county has a medical protocol, how does that mesh in with instructions from your physician? What happens if your physician's instructions differ from the county protocol?

Because that could and will be an issue. An instruction from your physician could lead to a paramedic losing their job (and has happened, when physicians have instructed the on-scene medic to do procedure X when the paramedic is not authorized to do so). Do you have a clear policy for this?

"Right now, when EMTs get to the site, they don't know anything about the patient. With Call9, EMTs can begin work right away upon arrival."

This is, as someone else noted, a very hand wavy, dismissive and inaccurate description. You have access to patient history from facilities, and that is a fantastic resource.

But to say that when I roll up on scene that all I know is "Go to address X for sick person" is not remotely true.

"You'll be seeing a 65 year old male with sudden onset left arm numbness, shortness of breath, shoulder pain with no known cause, and no relief. Pt has a previous cardiac history and has taken prescribed nitro with no relief. Pt caregiver states that they have been in good health with no recent illness." is a sample 'short report' I might get en route. There's a good amount of detail there.

What's happening on the back end?

Two 911 operators listen to the call, the Call Receiver works through a flowchart to determine base complaint and appropriate response. In tandem, the Dispatcher begins assigning unit(s) and dispatching them over the air. After the initial tones to get the units rolling, whilst the call receiver continues to gather more information, the dispatcher is preparing a short report to give more detailed information to the responding units.
+1 on BA being horrible. My points for them only cut the fare to London in about half due to the surcharge that you can't pay with points. They make you pay for taxes (~$100 or so, which is understandable), fuel surcharges, and, what appears to me, to be a ton of complete BS charges.
Gene Kranz, in his book Failure Is Not An Option, describes one of the simulator runs for Apollo 11 in which the Simsup (simulation supervisor) threw a 1201 alarm at the Mission Control team. The controller receiving the alarm panicked and called for an abort, and Kranz passed the abort order on to CAPCOM. Afterwards, the Simsup told Kranz, "This was not an abort. You should have continued the landing...You violated the fundamental rule of Mission Control: You must have two cues before aborting. You called for an abort with only one!"

The controller dug more thoroughly into program alarm codes after that simulation, and wrote a new mission rule specifying a series of program alarm codes for which an abort would be called. 1201 and 1202 were not among those alarm codes. Thus, when the 1202 showed up during the actual descent, the controller was able to say, "We're Go on that alarm," and when the 1201 happened shortly thereafter, he could say, "It's a Go--same type--we're still Go." Shortly thereafter, history was made...not just because the MIT programmers had done their job well, but because the flight control team in Houston had also done their job well.
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9888387

"Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything"
After being burnt by Coin at $50, I'm not jumping at the chance to waste $150 with Plastc.
Isn't it funny that we're even having this conversation? That Google can offer two products, differentiated by a single character (Google+ Photos and Google Photos), with few obvious indicators as to which I should use?

It's confusing to me, but trying to explain it to my mom is absolutely impossible. I wonder whether the average user even knows there's a difference between the two. It's a perfect example of unnecessary redundancy.
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Any photos that were in G+ Photos are now in Google Photos.
I imagine in the coming months (years?) we will see Google transition away from Google+ as a catchall platform, and back to standalone solutions similar to their offerings from the pre-Google+ days.

A bit off-topic:

I think it's the right move for them. Google+ was (and still is) a pretty cool platform. It has a lot of neat features that existing social networks lack. Facebook just somehow holds on to their userbase -- probably due to familiarity and complacency -- and Google just can't disrupt that.

Facebook has turned into a pretty strange place compared to its early years. I don't see much but 'news' posts, spammy pictures/articles, and clickbait ("DOCTORS HATE HIM, CLICK TO SEE WHY!").

Other platforms are much better for connecting with friends and colleagues, but no one is leaving Facebook. Feels like Microsoft's 90's/2000's stranglehold. Personally, I hope to see a Facebook exodus sooner rather than later.
No. It's very clear that it has to be paid back but there's nothing about how that would work. In another place it says the company will subtract any monies owed from my final paycheck but clearly that wouldn't cover close to $35k.
Why else do you think we're turning down the old one? :)
search in repository + pattern matching --> no results

:(
Well, like usual on HN I don't read the actual linked content and probably won't here as well. For my own peace of mind, I'll recuse myself from reading the website and it's likely necessary launch rhetoric. You're right that HN suffers from less than rigorous medical analysis more often than I would usually like, but there are usually at least a few penetrating questions on the medical threads I read.

However, I have met Tim before and can attest to his interpersonal candor on problems with EMS, and the reputation for rigor of his medical training. In short, I think he's a smart, hard working guy who is legitimately committed to solving a real problem.

Given my own experience (as an EMT, working in the ED as an admin and medical student, and as a federal emergency response officer in a previous life), I do think solutions along the lines of higher fidelity information on scene will be useful for patients and providers.

There will need to be piles and piles of evidence before we can conclude that products like this will provide the outcomes we want in our health system. In the meantime, I'll try to appreciate the obstacles I know this team has overcome to get as far as they have.
Are you sure about those numbers (can you show your code?) Every benchmark I've seen shows a much bigger difference. Here's a jsperf (courtesy of the WayBackMachine) that shows a difference of about 20x+ over normal function calls.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141121220218/http://jsperf.com...
Glad to hear it. The announcement sort of suggests that photos are automatically migrated:

https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/d1XubVAZ5hV

Don’t worry, all your photos and videos will still be saved and available after you switch to the new, stand-alone Google Photos app.
I really feel like it is just to cleanse it of the connection to Google+. The product should have been an evolution of Google+ Photos, but they are clearly trying to de-couple services from Google+.

Look at the Inbox vs Gmail experiment for example. While not tied to Google+, Inbox runs parallel to Gmail and accesses the same things. Just a different window dressing. I'm sure many at Google want to see Inbox take over Gmail at some point.

This is one of the reasons I doubt we ever see a Material Design Gmail. I think they'll run with it until Inbox is "ready".
Doesn't this slam your credit rating by taking out so many credit cards? Or does he (and other people who do this) not care?
Transitioning to Flux Architecture
They had 0.893 seconds of data, some of which was from the accelerometers surrounding the LOX tank exterior.

That accelerometer data allowed them to acoustically triangulate the sound of the strut breaking. I think they even know which one.
Do you know of any references where I could read more about font formats, like the differences between OT vs. TT, the features of each, etc.?

I know close to nothing about them.
This is incredibly interesting but sad. Philae was launched 11(!) years ago and has had an incredible journey, and to see it not be able to finish its mission properly must be brutal on the scientists. You can get a sense of how long and intricate its journey has been in this video of its path among the planets: http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2013/10/Rosetta_s_tw...
Speaking as a non-mathematician, it's one of those resources you didn't know you needed until that one time you have some sequence of numbers and wanted to figure out if they meant something special.
In your early days, yes, you can take a hit from churning, but after a year or so your credit should stabilize (assuming you never miss a payment). I've been churning for a few years and my FICO is around 780.
What are some of the parts of G+ that you particularly like?
The number of unread Facebook messages I have is not printed on 30% of all the web pages I visit. This is what I find so irritating about Google+, it's everywhere it doesn't need to be. Comparisons to things like Twitter and FB fall flat for this reason.
"toxicology results will take two or three months."

Did this bother anyone else?
How many photo products has Google had? Have any of them been successful?
BA points are great... if you don't fly BA. I love using Avios for short-haul rewards around Asia that are otherwise expensive or would require inconvenient routings on the local LCCs.
How much longer before they kill Picasa and Picasaweb, which just provide a different UI (and different editing software) for the same archive of photos?
I don't think anyone would deny that being a police officer is a difficult job. But I'm not sure how you can deny that there exists a serious problem when you compare the number of people who are killed by police in the U.S. every year against the number of police in the U.S. that are convicted of a crime for their actions. Doesn't it make you curious that the police in other western countries don't seem to have anywhere near the same number of killings per capita?
I'm not excusing this -- it annoys me too -- but you can set up a user style [1] to hide this element.

[1] e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/
Ashley Madison facilitated relations between consenting adults. Full stop. The jilted spouses had nothing to do with it.

The jilted spouses weren't involved in the sex. Betrayal only occurred within a personal relationship, and the resolution of betrayal can only be handled within that relationship. For an Internet vigilante mob to throw what is entirely a private matter into a public light is irresponsible in the extreme, and tangentially is probably harmful to the spouses being cheated on as well.
I thought people liked the Picasa app? (But then again, I never used it myself ;P.)
Congratulations on the girls! I tell everybody that you cannot understand being a parent until it happens. Everything is 10x-100x more than what they say. You know you will love them but don't even know what that means (and it grows with each day). People say you will be tired but you don't really know what that means for the first two months. Totally awesome though. They are now why I do everything I do.

Anyway, my idea is in the 401(k) industry which I have worked in for 13 years. Every provider has websites from prior to when web 2.0 was a thing. Individual service is expensive for providers and companies. Many people question Social Security. Financial wellness is the buzzword of the day but I truly believe that getting people who are living paycheck to paycheck some solid knowledge and advice that a difference can be made. Getting their employers to pay for it via the 401(k) might be the way to go.
Anybody know why I can't seem to install this update? It's not previously installed, I don't see it under the available updates, and when I download the MSU file directly (Windows8.1-KB3079904-x64.msu) it says the update isn't applicable to my computer...
Why can't they fold it in with the new Photos service?
I've been using async/await for a while with babel/6to5, and love it... it helps to have an understanding of how promises/generators work, but in the end code is SO much cleaner than promise chains.
We've leaned on this functional JS library to make JS more type safe (https://github.com/plaid/sanctuary). Heavily borrows Monads and other FP concepts.
Not sure I understand - are you looking to learn about 'pattern matching' in Javascript and couldn't find anything in the book?
I actually have really enjoyed the UI for G+. I think it's really a technically excellent platform that has totally failed to execute well on the userbase side.
That's definitely something to look into in the future.
snippet summary: prelim failure cause might have been strut holding up helium tank inside of oxygen tank failed well-below rated stress causing tank to release helium into oxygen tank > failure.

snippet:

"Preliminary conclusion is that a COPV (helium container) strut in the CRS-7 second stage failed at 3.2Gs.
A lot of data was analysed, it took only 0.893 seconds between first sign of trouble and end of data. Preliminary failure arose from a strut in the second stage liquid oxygen tanks that was holding down one composite helium bottle used to pressurize the stage. High pressure helium bottles are pressurized at 5500 psi, stored inside in LOX tank. Several helium bottles in upper stage. At ~3.2 g, one of those struts snapped and broke free inside the tank. Buoyancy increases in accordance with G-load. Released lots of helium into LOX tank. Data shows a drop in the helium pressure, then a rise in the helium pressure system. Quite confusing. As helium bottle broke free and pinched off manifold, restored the pressure but released enough helium to cause the LOX tank to fail. It was a really odd failure mode."
And do you just never close the cards either?
The comment is not about solving the problem, it is about "there are so many problems, this is one of them"...
Location sharing in realtime is one feature my wife and I still use to keep track of each other. Even if I can't answer the phone (in a meeting, didn't hear it go off) she can take a look and see where I am.

Hangouts is great. Remember that Hangouts launched as a part of Google+ before breaking out.

Ironically, Google+ Photos is also one of my favorites. If you snapped photos on a vacation, you may return to find that Google has stitched them together into a "story" -- including where you were when you took photos, who you were with, etc. It's a nice way to relive the memory.

Circles is also a very simple concept for social network security. It's easy to understand, and I like that Google left it out in the open as something you should definitely do. Facebook has a similar feature, but it's not in their best interest to highlight it.
For maximum impact, you'll need to choose your programming language carefully. I would suggest Elm with a sprinkling of Coq, though I think using either K or MUMPS would earn you a lot of kudos in some quarters.
Yes! We use them to check for weak passwords server-side. (Passwords arrive already hashed, we have a large dataset of known bad passwords that we load when the application starts.)

https://github.com/lavab/api/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=bf
My school requires a financial commitment by mid-August so unfortunately, I'm not able to apply without taking a risk. Something to consider if you continue with the program.
I absolutely agree. If my memory serves me correctly, it was the first Google app to feature "cards" -- which has obviously made its way to almost every other IP that Google owns. The UI is slick, and it felt very fresh when it debuted.
>Betrayal only occurred within a personal relationship

I'm not sure about you, but I wouldn't test my luck with expecting a previously unfaithful partner to suddenly be faithful with me if they have a track record of unfaithfulness.

I have more personal value in knowing if someone is unfaithful than if they are an RSO - and yet being an RSO is made public knowledge.
Apple Watch user satisfaction (Survey results from 800 users)
Ironic, when your only solution is firing everybody.

As stated before, my solution is to create robust independent police review boards. It'd be something like New York City's model with an independent "Civilian Complaint Review Board", complete with subpoena power against officers.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/ccrb/html/home/home.shtml

Anyway, Chicago's review board has indications of weakness, and the article above is simply a note of what is going on in that agency. Maybe the review board needs to hire more non-cops and more lawyers from the ACLU.

The correct action depends a lot on the politics of the Chicago review board are. If the review board is appointed by the direct election, then the leaders need to be voted out and reformed.

If the review board is appointed by the local mayor / city counsel, then we should organize political protests and bring up the Chicago Independent Police Review Authority as an actual issue during Chicago elections.

If you don't live in the city of Chicago, then of course the article posted here doesn't apply to you. They don't apply to me either, but if it were happening in my city, that's how I'd start.
>keep raising rent, because they know they can.

What is bad about this? It's a scarce resource so they charge more. Ideally they charge enough to keep 100% occupancy and make the most amount of money possible.
The way I think about it is less as an encyclopedia of sequences per se than it is a kind of projection of mathematics onto sequence-space. The point being that an integer sequence, because it often has so many mathematical interpretations, acts in some sense like the intersection of those interpretations. There are of course many ways in which two or more mathematical concepts are linked, but a shared integer sequence is among the most useful, precisely because it can be browsed and searched like an encyclopedia.
Indeed: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=growing%20a%20language&sort=by....

It was fine to repost, because it hasn't had significant attention in the last year. Also, it's one the best talks ever.
If you call tails, I catch the coin and show it to you. If you call heads, I'll catch the coin and invert it before showing it.
If you're downvoting, is it because of the "machine politics" expression, or because the person's point is invalid? It seems like a valid counterpoint to the statement that the CPD was not, in fact, influenced by the Republican governor.
At least when I researched about a year ago, it's uncommon to get a true chip-and-PIN in the US. Most of the chips are chip-and-signature.
> What? Isn't px a fixed multiple of pt

CSS 3 defines pixels that way (1/96 inch, pt is 1/72 inch), but the previous definition was rather different, and had no fixed relation to either inches or ems.

But I thought the change in CSS 3 was because pretty much every actual implementation of CSS 2.1 had taken the definition, chucked it out the window, and used 1/96 inch anyway. So, I don't see how any problems could arise in practice from using px instead of pt.
Computer Programming to Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”
This is the shortest one of the solutions so far. Wonder if it's the shortest possible? (Other than empty = empty)
I've used OEIS a number of times for obscure mathematical problems in programming competitions. It's a pretty useful resource!
Timelapse of the volcano on Io referenced in the article http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/io-volcanoes... (2013). It's easy to forget Pluto & co. are not the only things unravelled by the New Horizons.
That is a user interface, one that (1) requires the user to enter many keystrokes instead of click a mouse a few times, (2) requires the user to guess at the formats your program can accept, and (3) doesn't provide any supplementary hints about which calendar days correspond to which days of the week.
SpaceX says 2-foot strut snapped, brought down rocket
No, I don't think that's a valid Step 0. Here's a simple counter-argument:

If we were talking about Air Companies instead of Record Companies, you wouldn't say that Step 0 is to stop breathing air. You'd agree that in an environment where "stealing air" without a licence has been criminalised in some way, it is nevertheless acceptable to continue breathing even if it's illegal and costing revenues from the Air Companies.

So then the question reduces to: how comparable is music to air?

Obviously that depends on the person, but I'd argue that it's precisely those for whom music is most important, who have a relationship to music similar to one's relationship to air: it's a necessary part of life. Those are precisely the people most likely to still be spending significant sums of money supporting the record companies, and my argument is that those people have a moral duty to stop supporting the record companies.

Much like in the air analogy, though, that doesn't mean that Step 0 is for them to stop breathing or listening to music. I think Step 0, 1, 2, 3 and all the rest, consist of operating as if the record companies did not exist, and wait them out. Once the record companies have gone bust, we can start again with a system that's worth supporting.

Just my opinion, but I think it's very defensible.
I've been using IBM Container Service. They have Docker containers running on bare metal servers with a free tier and a trial account for 30 days. With respect to clusters, you can set up a scalable group with min/max sizes and they'll take care of routing across the containers in the group.
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While we're at it, let's move GDI out of the kernel...
Indeed, it appears that they had to test thousands of struts. Most passed but they found one that failed. Microscopic examination showed bad grain structure. They're made by a vendor so it would appear that vendor has a quality control problem.

The delays will be in setting up a QA process to test each individual strut part, as well as eventually testing all vendor-supplied parts. If anyone can do it, SpaceX can. No reason they can't design robot systems to test every part.
They are. It's really just a renaming of the service and putting it on it's own domain.
That's a really big debate: small vs big government, Keynesian vs Hayekian economics, public vs private sector and so on. I'd say from my side that government and private sector have a role in protecting you.

Government tends to excel at things like air traffic control and lighthouses where there isn't much scope for competition and where competition may harm. Private sector tends to do things more efficiently when competition is feasible.

So both have a role and the role of private sector is an important one. If we pass laws that restrict innovation, the risk is that things that would normally be in private sector will become government roles and won't be done as efficiently or as effectively as they could be.

I'd say at the rate we're seeing attacks escalate, providing the most effective protection we can in infospace is very important. I'm completely ignoring issues like investment opportunities, job creation and so on because I think the core problem we're all trying to solve is to protect individuals and businesses. We need to get that right first and move from there.
Me, I have an adblocker and let other people do what they want to do.
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