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null | null | Some primitive cultures don't like to be photographed because they think the camera will "steal the soul" or something along those lines.<p>Sort of happening now, in a way they couldn't imagine. | null | ams6110 | null | 1,462,662,860 | 2016-05-07 23:14:20 UTC | comment | 11,651,806 | 11,650,233 | null | null | null |
null | null | > <i>I really don't like having my picture taken anymore. You don't where it's going to end up.</i><p>feeling similar sometimes but it's weird to be the "crazy" person in social settings to not wanting to take photos | null | ljk | null | 1,462,672,329 | 2016-05-08 01:52:09 UTC | comment | 11,652,223 | 11,650,233 | null | null | null |
null | null | null | null | null | null | 1,462,738,764 | 2016-05-08 20:19:24 UTC | comment | 11,655,572 | 11,650,234 | null | null | null |
null | null | Not by today's standards no, but this was the 1500s.<p>They saw casting the horoscope of the royals in the same way that we would view someone now who had inside knowledge of (say) a major development project in some part of a city and who used that inside knowledge to buy land cheap in order to speculate. | null | keithpeter | null | 1,462,640,710 | 2016-05-07 17:05:10 UTC | comment | 11,650,346 | 11,650,238 | null | null | null |
null | null | More info: <a href="https://mess110.github.io/blog/ki-framework/" rel="nofollow">https://mess110.github.io/blog/ki-framework/</a> | null | mess110 | null | 1,462,639,341 | 2016-05-07 16:42:21 UTC | comment | 11,650,247 | 11,650,241 | null | null | null |
null | null | postgresql please, thanks! | null | code_research | null | 1,462,702,885 | 2016-05-08 10:21:25 UTC | comment | 11,653,449 | 11,650,241 | null | null | null |
null | null | I think you should go back and re-read the conversation, particularly kibwen's comment above and your reply: they seem to be totally unconnected. I was trying to understand how you thought they (Servo upgrading Rust versions and a musl-compiled rustc) were related, I was not arguing. There is in fact <i>no</i> mention of glibc until your comments, nor is there any implication in my comments that I don't understand what musl does nor do I disagree that it is useful (in fact, I used Rust's easy ability to link binaries against musl just a few days ago). This discussion is <i>purely</i> prompted by me trying to understand why you thought it made sense to talk about musl on a seemingly unrelated comment... maybe there was some insightful connection I missed, but it seems not. | null | dbaupp | null | 1,462,662,319 | 2016-05-07 23:05:19 UTC | comment | 11,651,775 | 11,650,242 | null | null | null |
null | null | That was my first thought too. And why there is an anti-virus running? This equipment should not be connected to the internet nor some staff should plug-in a flash drive on the first place. | null | riyadparvez | null | 1,462,639,660 | 2016-05-07 16:47:40 UTC | comment | 11,650,268 | 11,650,245 | null | null | null |
null | null | It's cheap to find Windows programmers and even cheaper to find ones that are not hindered by knowledge about software quality and safety. That's not their fault; no-one ever told them something like that exists. | null | tluyben2 | null | 1,462,639,964 | 2016-05-07 16:52:44 UTC | comment | 11,650,291 | 11,650,245 | null | null | null |
null | null | I never realized just how lucky I was to have been born when I was. I can't imagine building embed devices which aren't running a very simply super loop or an ARM RTOS. | null | kosmic_k | null | 1,462,642,795 | 2016-05-07 17:39:55 UTC | comment | 11,650,503 | 11,650,245 | null | null | null |
null | null | I believe that it's strongly related to the dashboard software being targeted towards "familiarity" by the doctors / customers and having old GUI-centric software from back in the mid-90s ported to run on Windows over the decades prettied up back when there was nothing really viable for end-user accessible embedded systems besides even more grotesquely expensive custom software with even less capabilities and far worse SDKs than anything under Windows back in, say, 1994. This isn't that different to me than banking software with a COBOL backend with Java middleware and a PHP frontend that's extremely common for retail banking sector.<p>Given the sheer amount of overhead in enterprise BS medical hardware has (read: sales people likely get the biggest chunk of the absorbed costs) it wouldn't be a surprise to me that the engineering teams amount to a skeleton crew while 70%+ of the personnel involved are non-engineers that override the professional decisions of the engineers. | null | devonkim | null | 1,462,643,494 | 2016-05-07 17:51:34 UTC | comment | 11,650,565 | 11,650,245 | null | null | null |
null | null | I feel there are two very contradictory views on HN. The first of these, is that anything safety critical needs to land on an RTOS. The second of these, is to avoid C.<p>Both of these have reasons behind them and appear to make sense. Leaders in the RTOS space appear to be QNX and vxworks. Suitable languages people raise are Rust and Go.<p>Based on some Google time, neither of these platforms support either of these OS's. Multiple "Introduction to vxworks" documents are all exclusively in C.<p>In terms of accessibility, safe languages are far easier for someone to get their hands on, test to death, than some of the OS's recommended. | null | technion | null | 1,462,797,147 | 2016-05-09 12:32:27 UTC | comment | 11,659,257 | 11,650,245 | null | null | null |
null | null | Agreed, but they should also be allowed to use opiates. Canniboids do not operate on the same receptors that opiates do, and the mechanism of pain relief is different.<p>They are not substitutes. Just options that may work for patients depending on just what manifests the pain and how they need to manage or cope with it.<p>One significant consideration is how well a person can function in a cognitive sense on both options. This varies extremely widely among people, and it's not simple to understand what will work for who.<p>They (opiates) are effective, but do require education and management. I am short on time, but one thing near completely ignored in this discussion is the pain trigger for medication and how that differs from other triggers and addiction.<p>Secondly, there are natural and effective addiction treatments out there that can work extremely well to get people off opiates. We don't talk about these because money and morals...<p>I have got myself off them, right along with a dozen others. The tolerance, once understood, and combined with things that work to marginalize withdrawl, is a solvable problem for most people.<p>Frankly, I've been asked to publish by medical practitioners and so far have not for fear of a legal option being scheduled away for profit.<p>Just know this dialog is not inclusive. There are powerful interests aligned against making this all workable.<p>The oxy manufacturers want to sell. The moral authority don't want people to get high, and cannot differentiate that from legit pain management.<p>Both do not want to face remedies and education needed to keep people out of trouble, and society contributes with an irrational dialog about these things.<p>In the 90's, I ended up there, did research, solved it for myself and to date, many others.<p>The dialog is broken. We can manage this to a net benefit for the vast majority of problem cases today. That we don't have THAT discussion is the problem, not the drug.<p>BTW, it has a 4 hour effective life, not 12. This is widely known. The whole 12 hour relief line of discussion is avoidance. True. 4 hour relief being bad is also avoidance, given there are meaningful, workable options out there today. | null | ddingus | null | 1,462,643,748 | 2016-05-07 17:55:48 UTC | comment | 11,650,584 | 11,650,246 | null | null | null |
null | null | I suspect that <i>writing</i> the corrective notices is cathartic for Dan. | null | scott_s | null | 1,462,659,194 | 2016-05-07 22:13:14 UTC | comment | 11,651,575 | 11,650,248 | null | null | null |
null | null | Maher doesn't say that vaccines are bad. He's saying that not all vaccines are good, and that Merck has discovered that it's a new stream of profits by convincing doctors that everyone should take vaccines for low-risk diseases.<p>So there's a difference, and I agree with him. I vaccinated my kids, and I even take the flu shot because my kids are still young. But given the fact that the flu vaccines is sometimes less than 50% effective some years especially in the years when it's a new strain, it's mostly an enormous waste of money that is going into the pockets of the drug companies. They have marketed the idea and created vaccine militants when practically it's not effective. If you even dare to say you don't want to take a flu-shot, you're labeled as an anti-vaxxer kook, basically exactly what you did. | null | pfarnsworth | null | 1,462,640,845 | 2016-05-07 17:07:25 UTC | comment | 11,650,359 | 11,650,249 | null | null | null |
null | null | We detached this subthread from <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11649577" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11649577</a> and marked it off-topic. | null | dang | null | 1,462,666,518 | 2016-05-08 00:15:18 UTC | comment | 11,652,004 | 11,650,249 | null | null | null |
null | null | Because there is a big selection bias in university education, it's hard to say that Harvard caused someones income to go up using your math. I prefer this post from last year which tries to calculate value-added.<p><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/10/value-university" rel="nofollow">http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/10/value-u...</a> | null | tdaltonc | null | 1,462,639,670 | 2016-05-07 16:47:50 UTC | comment | 11,650,269 | 11,650,251 | null | null | null |
null | null | From <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution</a><p>" ... However, C++ itself is a very complex language, and providing good interoperability with C++ is a significant undertaking that is out of scope for Swift 3.0. " | null | justsaysmthng | null | 1,462,643,135 | 2016-05-07 17:45:35 UTC | comment | 11,650,527 | 11,650,257 | null | null | null |
null | null | My point is that Apple has no interest in doing any of that.<p>> If people could reliably and legally install it on any PC they want it could still cut into Windows' share a lot more than it currently can.<p>But Apple would lose a huge amount of money on hardware sales, which is where they <i>make</i> their money. Apple even tried an approved clones program in the 90s, it was a miserable failure and one of the first things Jobs did on his return was kill it.<p>> It's not hard to imagine that before long, enterprising people will release custom "distros" of it<p>Which Apple <i>really</i> wouldn't want. One of the selling points of OS X is the lack of variation in both software and hardware. | null | untog | null | 1,462,640,878 | 2016-05-07 17:07:58 UTC | comment | 11,650,362 | 11,650,258 | null | null | null |
null | null | Apple's already done what you're asking for.<p>The Darwin kernel is already open-source, released mostly under the Apple Public Source license. It's the kernel for OS X and iOS.<p>Granted, there's not much userland... | null | gcr | null | 1,462,642,788 | 2016-05-07 17:39:48 UTC | comment | 11,650,501 | 11,650,258 | null | null | null |
null | null | Oh man where were you a few months ago where I had to write simple apples just to do some of this stuff... also this will be so damn handy!:<p><pre><code> csvsql --query "select name from data where age > 30" data.csv > old_folks.csv</code></pre> | null | Apofis | null | 1,462,682,371 | 2016-05-08 04:39:31 UTC | comment | 11,652,639 | 11,650,260 | null | null | null |
null | null | I don’t think legalization will reduce addiction (though would defer to empirical studies here). It would make the economic cost of addiction lower for the individual – one problem instead of two.<p>More importantly, it would make doctors (and regulators) more honest participants. If a doctor wants to recommend opiates, it would largely remove their economic incentives for doing so. We don’t think of doctors having much economic incentive for prescribing acetaminophen or ibuprofen, by comparison. | null | mwsherman | null | 1,462,640,088 | 2016-05-07 16:54:48 UTC | comment | 11,650,299 | 11,650,261 | null | null | null |
null | null | It's not just making it more available. Legalization has to bring better treatment and a shift in public perception to it being perceived as what it really is- a mental and physical health problem. If nothing else, people would be far more likely to seek help if they weren't treated as criminals for doing so. Also, truth in education makes a big difference. See Portugal for a good example. | null | givinguflac | null | 1,462,640,184 | 2016-05-07 16:56:24 UTC | comment | 11,650,307 | 11,650,261 | null | null | null |
null | null | Addiction can be managed, it's only a catastrophic problem for the patient in limited circumstances: the dosage is too strong or <i>you can't get it</i>.<p>Where are you getting the goal of fewer people taking it, and why is the number of people taking it a concern at all? Pain management is the issue at hand. | null | rhizome | null | 1,462,640,782 | 2016-05-07 17:06:22 UTC | comment | 11,650,355 | 11,650,261 | null | null | null |
null | null | Controlled legalization of other currently illegal drugs may or may not have benefits that can't be proven yet due to research of these drugs being illegal. There is empirical evidence that certain psychedelic drugs may reduce or eradicate opiate addiction. Even if these drugs were also addictive, it may be that the harm they cause is orders of magnitude less than opiates or similar. Replacing one problem with a lesser one is indeed a better outcome than what we have now.<p>None of this will be known, though, until certain deregulation and controlled legalization occurs. | null | sev | null | 1,462,645,541 | 2016-05-07 18:25:41 UTC | comment | 11,650,714 | 11,650,261 | null | null | null |
null | null | > addiction-prone (low-income<p>Are low-income people more likely to become addicted? I'd like to see some statistics.<p>A few thoughts:<p>* There are many more low-income people than wealthy people, so low-income addicts may be greater in sheer numbers but not in rate.<p>* I expect that addition tends to reduce income, so people who started wealthier may become low-income<p>* Prescription opiods are by reputation the wealthy person's heroin. Given the high cost of presecription drugs, and that low-income people sometimes can't even afford drugs necessary for their health, I wonder if Oxycontin is widely abused in low-income groups. | null | hackuser | null | 1,462,645,745 | 2016-05-07 18:29:05 UTC | comment | 11,650,727 | 11,650,261 | null | null | null |
null | null | Addicts are going to get fucked up on whatever they can find. If they can't find opiates or whatever, they're going to get fucked up on cough syrup, or booze or huffing paint or whatever.<p>In general, though, addicts don't necessarily go straight to the hard stuff or inevitably to the hard stuff, if other options are available. Prohibition actually encourages people to go to the hardest purest forms, though.<p>When you're moving around contraband, you want the most expensive high you can get in the smallest volume. It's easier to move around heroin or crack than something like codeine or coca wine, so that's what's going to be available on the street. | null | empath75 | null | 1,462,665,683 | 2016-05-08 00:01:23 UTC | comment | 11,651,962 | 11,650,261 | null | null | null |
null | null | You can learn how your roommates parents started a billion dollar company (i.e. How to be successful) at Harvard. You can't at your state school -- because your roommates are playing video games or went downtown for the night. | null | Chronic51 | null | 1,462,651,709 | 2016-05-07 20:08:29 UTC | comment | 11,651,172 | 11,650,262 | null | null | null |
null | null | 2: <a href="https://xkcd.com/977/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/977/</a> | null | martythemaniak | null | 1,462,639,830 | 2016-05-07 16:50:30 UTC | comment | 11,650,280 | 11,650,265 | null | null | null |
null | null | I assume they think this is a good choice, but I disagree. It's just confusing. Why add such friction to data display? | null | slazaro | null | 1,462,640,382 | 2016-05-07 16:59:42 UTC | comment | 11,650,322 | 11,650,265 | null | null | null |
null | null | I wanted to comment on that as well. Very cool to see. I really hope the Fuller projection goes mainstream.<p><i>"Fuller argued that in the universe there is no "up" and "down", or "north" and "south": only "in" and "out". Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created "in", meaning "towards the gravitational center", and "out", meaning "away from the gravitational center". He attributed the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias.<p>"Fuller intended the map to be unfolded in different ways to emphasize different aspects of the world. Peeling the triangular faces of the icosahedron apart in one way results in an icosahedral net that shows an almost contiguous land mass comprising all of Earth's continents – not groups of continents divided by oceans. Peeling the solid apart in a different way presents a view of the world dominated by connected oceans surrounded by land.<p>"Showing the continents as "one island earth" also helped Fuller explain, in his book Critical Path, the journeys of early seafaring people, who were in effect using prevailing winds to circumnavigate this world island."</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map</a> | null | akkartik | null | 1,462,640,637 | 2016-05-07 17:03:57 UTC | comment | 11,650,338 | 11,650,265 | null | null | null |
null | null | "Cheaper" or "remain within the budget" doesn't excuse using inadequate parts that don't meet the design requirements.<p>Unfortunately, this total disregard for safety isn't just software anymore. When we stat skipping lessons that we've know for a looooooonng time (such as why a split bobbin is an important feature in a transformer[1]), we have evidence of a serious need for strongly enforced regulation.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474730" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474730</a> | null | pdkl95 | null | 1,462,642,348 | 2016-05-07 17:32:28 UTC | comment | 11,650,463 | 11,650,266 | null | null | null |
null | null | According to the article, it was the hospital IT that misconfigured the antivirus, not the application developers.<p>Is there some reason to believe this wouldn't occur on a Linux system? There are plenty of dumb IA requirements that antivirus be installed on Linux, too. | null | Amezarak | null | 1,462,644,653 | 2016-05-07 18:10:53 UTC | comment | 11,650,656 | 11,650,266 | null | null | null |
null | null | That's not true. They have to keep a record of the data for the patient file. So it does have to communicate remotely in some fashion. | null | ars | null | 1,462,675,210 | 2016-05-08 02:40:10 UTC | comment | 11,652,365 | 11,650,268 | null | null | null |
null | null | Why does selection bias even matter? If you go to Harvard, you will make more than had you gone to a boring state school. Period. Is there selection bias? Yes. Does it change the fact the Harvard kid is wildly successful? No. | null | Chronic51 | null | 1,462,651,632 | 2016-05-07 20:07:12 UTC | comment | 11,651,166 | 11,650,269 | null | null | null |
null | null | From what I gather some of the appeal is that what we've been doing doesn't seem to be working, so why not shake it up? I don't agree with that statement, but I can see why people fall into it. | null | sosborn | null | 1,462,642,178 | 2016-05-07 17:29:38 UTC | comment | 11,650,450 | 11,650,270 | null | null | null |
null | null | He says things that people agree with, that other candidates wouldn't say. And he comes across as a strong leader who would actually implement change. It's as simple as that.<p>I would never vote for him. But it's hard to not have sympathy for someone you see getting attacked and slandered for saying something you agree with. Political rhetoric like "supporters are X are idiots" creates polarization. People who were on the fence before become stronger supporters of X, because they feel they are under attack and need to stand up for what they believe.<p>Trump is a master of this tactic. He says things he knows lots of people believe, but that are very controversial. This gets him tons more media attention than other candidates. | null | Houshalter | null | 1,462,642,643 | 2016-05-07 17:37:23 UTC | comment | 11,650,488 | 11,650,270 | null | null | null |
null | null | null | null | null | null | 1,462,645,028 | 2016-05-07 18:17:08 UTC | comment | 11,650,678 | 11,650,270 | null | null | null |
null | null | The US Congress has an 11% approval rate. The idea that people would support a candidate from outside that system is not hard to fathom. | null | malz | null | 1,462,657,314 | 2016-05-07 21:41:54 UTC | comment | 11,651,460 | 11,650,270 | null | null | null |
null | null | Who are the clients and how much do they pay for these services? Whats the typical size of the dataset? Speed benchmarks shared with the public? | null | yyin | null | 1,462,640,710 | 2016-05-07 17:05:10 UTC | comment | 11,650,345 | 11,650,271 | null | null | null |
null | null | The interesting thing about the Snowden releases was just how <i>good</i> GCHQ where technically, goes to show that when government wants to do IT projects it can, I guess that shows where their priorities lie at least. | null | noir_lord | null | 1,462,642,202 | 2016-05-07 17:30:02 UTC | comment | 11,650,451 | 11,650,272 | null | null | null |
null | null | I don't think so. I prefer people simply not identify. I don't prefer associating with other atheists just because they are other atheists. I rather loathe proselytizing evangelizing atheists they irk me as much as the young adults in white shirts black slacks and black ties.<p>Now, I welcome an ebb in Christianity and Islam. As well as the expansion of atheism, I just prefer soft atheism over the more Religious-like atheism. It's antithetical to being an atheist. | null | mc32 | null | 1,462,640,714 | 2016-05-07 17:05:14 UTC | comment | 11,650,348 | 11,650,273 | null | null | null |
null | null | I consider my protests and vocal opposition to christianity being enforced on my family from my family, and my vocal opposition to its ongoing role in politics as a defensive tactic.<p>I am often labeled as being on the offensive, and it'd be nice to talk about this line more (when is it offense, when is it defense). | null | proksoup | null | 1,462,640,768 | 2016-05-07 17:06:08 UTC | comment | 11,650,352 | 11,650,273 | null | null | null |
null | null | I was not familiar with those, perhaps they will. Very fascinated reading about them now. I guess I don't follow the specifics, ... to give an example of my confusion, a journalist can't livestream a protest without blurring out the faces of the protestors? | null | proksoup | null | 1,462,640,437 | 2016-05-07 17:00:37 UTC | comment | 11,650,328 | 11,650,276 | null | null | null |
null | null | I would disagree, actually. I am a woman who loves powerlifting, actually, and I think that the attitudes of many women in the United States toward lifting heavy things renders them less likely to actually do it. Many women believe they'll bulk up, they'll be unwomanly, men won't like them, women won't like them, it's ok to be physically weak as a woman because you can always get a guy to open the jar/lift the box. As a result, these women don't try to lift heavy things and when you ask them why, they say, "I can't! I am just not good at it." I'm a relatively small woman who got up to a 220-lb deadlift without much effort -- I know active helplessness when I see it. | null | kaitai | null | 1,462,936,266 | 2016-05-11 03:11:06 UTC | comment | 11,672,416 | 11,650,277 | null | null | null |
null | null | > <i>Are we to claim that ovaries and testicles are sex, and the brain and pituitary is gender?</i><p>That about sums up the usual definitions, yes. | null | groovy2shoes | null | 1,462,787,240 | 2016-05-09 09:47:20 UTC | comment | 11,658,572 | 11,650,277 | null | null | null |
null | null | This is so true. I am not sure we can accept or reject any hypothesis unless the treatment factors were assigned in a completely randomized way. | null | tonmoy | null | 1,462,640,727 | 2016-05-07 17:05:27 UTC | comment | 11,650,349 | 11,650,279 | null | null | null |
null | null | What effect do you think that has?<p>If smart students choose selective schools and smartness is associated with ROI, we would expect to see a correlation between ROI and school selectivity. That we don't is interesting.<p>If merit is highly correlated with school selectivity, then selectivity can be considered a proxy for smartness/determination/etc. If that's the case, education ROI appears to be not strongly correlated with merit (via the selectivity proxy). That is <i>very</i> interesting. | null | msellout | null | 1,462,641,367 | 2016-05-07 17:16:07 UTC | comment | 11,650,397 | 11,650,279 | null | null | null |
null | null | Actually, the chart shows a pretty damning story for selection bias: despite all the selectivity of schools, there's no sign of improvement in returns for more selective engineering schools. It makes a bit of intuitive sense: any MIT/CMU/Stanford/etc premium on degrees would be capped by management salary structure, since fresh grads don't typically earn more than their boss. It's possible that a linear fit is not a great model, as the little data there is on the far left chart is all above average, but the 10x engineer isn't registering on the radar.<p>As for what people can do differently: if you have equal chances of succeeding at the most selective arts and humanities college, or the least selective engineering, choosing engineering will net you better 20 year salaries. Especially relevant if you're considering humanities as a law degree path -- the LSAT has logical reasoning test, and if you can hack that, you can probably do okay in engineering math / CS classes. | null | jldugger | null | 1,462,650,798 | 2016-05-07 19:53:18 UTC | comment | 11,651,116 | 11,650,279 | null | null | null |
null | null | I generally assume that ++x is idiomatic in c++, and x++ in c, because in c++ you may be calling against some non-primitive type, where the update-and-return-the-non-updated-value semantics of the postfix version are not optimisable away. | null | sbmassey | null | 1,462,642,619 | 2016-05-07 17:36:59 UTC | comment | 11,650,485 | 11,650,282 | null | null | null |
null | null | Well, I guess we're both going to do it the same way in swift 3, which is probably the whole point... | null | kinofcain | null | 1,462,644,547 | 2016-05-07 18:09:07 UTC | comment | 11,650,649 | 11,650,282 | null | null | null |
null | null | Gene Weingarten won a Pulitzer for that article and his Pearls Before Breakfast one - <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721_pf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gene-weingarten" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gene-weingarten</a> | null | celias | null | 1,462,647,445 | 2016-05-07 18:57:25 UTC | comment | 11,650,855 | 11,650,289 | null | null | null |
null | null | >"hindered by knowledge"<p>This is a great phrase. "Joe was hindered by knowledge of what a p-value means and so didn't claim he discovered a key to understanding the disease." | null | nonbel | null | 1,462,640,768 | 2016-05-07 17:06:08 UTC | comment | 11,650,353 | 11,650,291 | null | null | null |
null | null | You'll want to read the whole pitch about Linkerd [1], which the article seems to assume the reader has read. In short, it's a sidecar proxy that performs all the functions needed to glue apps together. This allows apps to be simpler; they can implement a minimal interface and rely on simple protocols such as HTTP, with no knowledge of how to reach their remote partners. Linkerd implements a bunch of techniques such as health checks, load balancing and circuit breakers.<p>[1] <a href="https://linkerd.io" rel="nofollow">https://linkerd.io</a> | null | lobster_johnson | null | 1,462,644,152 | 2016-05-07 18:02:32 UTC | comment | 11,650,612 | 11,650,293 | null | null | null |
null | null | To expound on the second approach listed, what I've seen is not just a service discovery layer, but client libraries (as opposed to sidecar) that connect to your service discovery (e.g., Netflix Ribbon which is EOL).<p>Curious what people think of a sidecar approach versus the client library approach? Any preference? | null | rdli | null | 1,462,706,761 | 2016-05-08 11:26:01 UTC | comment | 11,653,577 | 11,650,293 | null | null | null |
null | null | Parent is referring to the anti-crushing design that was later introduced. It's in the article, grep for "crush". | null | gkop | null | 1,462,641,601 | 2016-05-07 17:20:01 UTC | comment | 11,650,413 | 11,650,295 | null | null | null |
null | null | I have to agree! The bad floats with the good and likewise.<p>From the New York Times: "Actually, Prohibition Was a Success By Mark H. Moore; Mark H. Moore is professor of criminal justice at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government."<p>"... Second, alcohol consumption declined dramatically during Prohibition. Cirrhosis death rates for men were 29.5 per 100,000 in 1911 and 10.7 in 1929. Admissions to state mental hospitals for alcoholic psychosis declined from 10.1 per 100,000 in 1919 to 4.7 in 1928.<p>Arrests for public drunkennness and disorderly conduct declined 50 percent between 1916 and 1922. For the population as a whole, the best estimates are that consumption of alcohol declined by 30 percent to 50 percent.<p>Third, violent crime did not increase dramatically during Prohibition. Homicide rates rose dramatically from 1900 to 1910 but remained roughly constant during Prohibition's 14 year rule. Organized crime may have become more visible and lurid during Prohibition, but it existed before and after. ..."<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibition-was-a-success.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibiti...</a> | null | SCAQTony | null | 1,462,645,257 | 2016-05-07 18:20:57 UTC | comment | 11,650,696 | 11,650,299 | null | null | null |
null | null | > It would make the economic cost of addiction lower for the individual<p>Isn't a low cost of addiction a <i>bad</i> thing?<p>I'm also not just talking about legalization, but mainly the thing about deregulation/competition. I see your logic though, I hope it's not too wishful to assume that less doctors pushing drugs on patients will solve the issue. I suppose it definitely will cut it back some. | null | capote | null | 1,462,653,646 | 2016-05-07 20:40:46 UTC | comment | 11,651,272 | 11,650,299 | null | null | null |
null | null | Apache Hadoop, Hive and Pig, among others.<p><a href="https://www.palantir.com/wp-assets/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Palantir-Solution-Overview-Cyber-long.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.palantir.com/wp-assets/wp-content/uploads/2013/1...</a><p>And actually, it's usually an enterprise distro such as Cloudera's CDH rather than Apache Hadoop itself, which is kind of a nightmare. | null | vonnik | null | 1,462,651,323 | 2016-05-07 20:02:03 UTC | comment | 11,651,152 | 11,650,300 | null | null | null |
null | null | Well at least in EN62304 the installation of AV on medical devices is recommended. The whole thing reads like as if it was written by people who picked up a few buzzwords and read a few articles in a computer magazine. | null | datenwolf | null | 1,462,643,111 | 2016-05-07 17:45:11 UTC | comment | 11,650,525 | 11,650,302 | null | null | null |
null | null | I wonder if one could buy insurance against the deductibles vanishing? | null | eru | null | 1,462,689,100 | 2016-05-08 06:31:40 UTC | comment | 11,652,931 | 11,650,304 | null | null | null |
null | null | List of FDA medical equipment recalls for 2016<p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ListofRecalls/ucm480134.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ListofRecalls/ucm48...</a><p>At least three of them are Class 1 - May cause death<p>And all of those are software related, none run Windows<p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ListofRecalls/ucm481966.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ListofRecalls/ucm48...</a><p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ListofRecalls/ucm489108.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ListofRecalls/ucm48...</a><p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ListofRecalls/ucm485790.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ListofRecalls/ucm48...</a> | null | SixSigma | null | 1,462,642,317 | 2016-05-07 17:31:57 UTC | comment | 11,650,461 | 11,650,309 | null | null | null |
null | null | Thank you; I hadn't spotted that XKCD quote about teacher and condom, but it will be very appropriate the next time someone asks me about the antivirus in the server software we do (on Linux). | null | ptaipale | null | 1,462,643,062 | 2016-05-07 17:44:22 UTC | comment | 11,650,521 | 11,650,309 | null | null | null |
null | null | A Scanner Darkly is maybe relevant here too. | null | proksoup | null | 1,462,640,519 | 2016-05-07 17:01:59 UTC | comment | 11,650,333 | 11,650,310 | null | null | null |
null | null | I doubt it, unless you drop your entire life at the same time it shouldn't be too hard to associate the new face with the old identity.<p>And then there are other ways to identify a person. Like how they move. | null | zardo | null | 1,462,642,503 | 2016-05-07 17:35:03 UTC | comment | 11,650,482 | 11,650,310 | null | null | null |
null | null | Second this. It is terrifying to know that mission critical, medical grade software runs on a consumer operating system. Military/aerospace systems have numerous requirements and clearly defined practices and ways of developing these systems, often going through various layers of documentation and using specifically designed programming languages(like the Z programming language) to write specifications, which are then re-written into code, but it seems like medical industry has been neglected. | null | aavotins | null | 1,462,645,216 | 2016-05-07 18:20:16 UTC | comment | 11,650,694 | 11,650,313 | null | null | null |
null | null | I've been working in Medical for a couple of years... it's because Medical is extremely fault tolerant. They put up with a lot of rubbish that wouldn't be accepted in other industries.<p>Aeronautical and Automotive are both engineering driven, Medical isn't, it's a big grey area. | null | radicalbyte | null | 1,462,656,202 | 2016-05-07 21:23:22 UTC | comment | 11,651,408 | 11,650,313 | null | null | null |
null | null | You might be surprised to realize that many applications of medical devices are not used for affirmative life support and therefore should not be held to the same standards as aviation.<p>This application (cath lab activity logging) is not a life-support activity. Product failures of any kind (either due to design error or product defect) represent a diminished capability of diagnosis and treatment. This does not represent a risk of harm to a patient.<p>That said, some medical device manufacturers treat this aspect of design very seriously and go to great pains to use defeatured and heavily restricted OS and settings. | null | wyldfire | null | 1,462,674,209 | 2016-05-08 02:23:29 UTC | comment | 11,652,321 | 11,650,313 | null | null | null |
null | null | That doesn't really give an example of them injecting malware into the http traffic of an innocent user.<p>With the Great Cannon, not only did they inject malware into the traffic of <i>an</i> innocent user, they injected malware into the traffic of <i>all</i> innocent users whose traffic went through certain Great Firewall routers.<p>I've used this example several times when talking to website owners who think they don't need https. My goal is to provide a specific example of how their website visitors are being attacked. With the apparently targeted attacks of Quantum Insert, the website owners could convince themselves that only terrorists are targeted, and that thus they don't need to bother protecting anyone. With the completely untargeted Great Cannon attacks, I hope to prove to them that their website visitors are actual innocent victims. | null | Buge | null | 1,462,683,146 | 2016-05-08 04:52:26 UTC | comment | 11,652,671 | 11,650,318 | null | null | null |
null | null | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_Box" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_Box</a> | null | _______-_______ | null | 1,462,717,085 | 2016-05-08 14:18:05 UTC | comment | 11,654,135 | 11,650,321 | null | null | null |
null | null | It took me a moment or two as well, but you won't get change without making change. The Mercator was historically good for navigation, but is a poor representation of the globe. You need only look at their last figure, with the more granular data, to see the level and ease of detail would be lost in Africa and Eurasia. | null | Amorymeltzer | null | 1,462,641,222 | 2016-05-07 17:13:42 UTC | comment | 11,650,384 | 11,650,322 | null | null | null |
null | null | It was confusing to me too. Maybe they should list the reason they used that map in the caption | null | CaptSpify | null | 1,462,641,346 | 2016-05-07 17:15:46 UTC | comment | 11,650,396 | 11,650,322 | null | null | null |
null | null | Can you dynamically load DLLs? If so, there's your UI kit (sortove). | null | colejohnson66 | null | 1,462,650,072 | 2016-05-07 19:41:12 UTC | comment | 11,651,053 | 11,650,324 | null | null | null |
null | null | Maybe it'd be possible to use code from the Microsoft iOS to Windows bridge? It's for objective c, but it bridges UIkit to UWP controls...<p><a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/tree/master/Frameworks/UIKit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/tree/master/Frameworks/...</a> | null | Maarten88 | null | 1,462,652,141 | 2016-05-07 20:15:41 UTC | comment | 11,651,190 | 11,650,324 | null | null | null |
null | null | I wish we had more information on the engines used and their configuration. | null | analognoise | null | 1,462,640,876 | 2016-05-07 17:07:56 UTC | comment | 11,650,361 | 11,650,325 | null | null | null |
null | null | That's fine, because simply a face is not at the moment considered to be personal data <i>and</i> there's a general exemption for news reporting <i>and</i> livestreaming is not 'data retention' (and I think not 'data processing' either, for the purposes of the directive.<p>Maintaining a facial recognition database however is definitely not allowed without appropriate consent: <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/7/3964550/facebook-deletes-european-facial-recognition-data" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/7/3964550/facebook-deletes-eu...</a> | null | pjc50 | null | 1,462,645,388 | 2016-05-07 18:23:08 UTC | comment | 11,650,703 | 11,650,328 | null | null | null |
null | null | I would argue against the laws. I wouldn't harshly respond, or make a claim against their character, to someone who may not know that you can speak ill of the President in the U.S. I'd try to educate them and expose them to the fact that not everyone and every culture observes the same rules. That's all I'm trying to point out and say. | null | jrs235 | null | 1,462,646,306 | 2016-05-07 18:38:26 UTC | comment | 11,650,769 | 11,650,329 | null | null | null |
null | null | This is probably the xkcd strip you mean: <a href="https://xkcd.com/451/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/451/</a> | null | theoh | null | 1,462,648,650 | 2016-05-07 19:17:30 UTC | comment | 11,650,932 | 11,650,330 | null | null | null |
null | null | Maybe, but that is what he called it himself on facebook, and it has the distinctive keffiyeh chequered pattern and he wears it like a keffiyeh. | null | Zuider | null | 1,462,650,153 | 2016-05-07 19:42:33 UTC | comment | 11,651,060 | 11,650,332 | null | null | null |