When ethics committees kill - <AUTHOR> http://www.badscience.net/2011/03/when-ethics-committees-kill/

<comment><USER2> Reminds me of a quote I posted on LessWrong: [http://lesswrong.com/lw/37k/rationality_quotes_december_2010...](http://lesswrong.com/lw/37k/rationality_quotes_december_2010/35rk)

> 'One day when I was a junior medical student, a very important Boston > surgeon visited the school and delivered a great treatise on a large number > of patients who had undergone successful operations for vascular > reconstruction.

> At the end of the lecture, a young student at the back of the room timidly > asked, "Do you have any controls?" Well, the great surgeon drew himself up > to his full height, hit the desk, and said, "Do you mean did I not operate > on half the patients?" The hall grew very quiet then. The voice at the back > of the room very hesitantly replied, "Yes, that's what I had in mind." Then > the visitor's fist really came down as he thundered, "Of course not. That > would have doomed half of them to their death."

> God, it was quiet then, and one could scarcely hear the small voice ask, > "Which half?"'

Dr. E. E. Peacock, Jr., quoted in _Medical World News_ (September 1, 1972), p. 45, as quoted in Tufte's 1974 book _Data Analysis for Politics and Policy_; [http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/12...](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/12/the- ethics-of-random-clinical-trials.html)

</comment><comment><USER3> "Against medical ethics" is a similar blurb written by a med student: <http://squid314.livejournal.com/285785.html>

_Let's say inmates on death row aren't getting kidney transplants. A normal person might think "Well, that makes sense. There are only a few kidneys available, and if we give one to a death row inmate who we then fry the next day, we've just lost a kidney that could potentially give a dying person decades of healthy life for literally zero gain."

Does it surprise you that there are medical ethicists who are ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGED that death row inmates are not receiving kidney transplants? And this isn't the result of me looking for some outrageous cause to cherry-pick and put in an article. This is the result of me typing "medical ethics" into Wikipedia, clicking on the first name I saw, and seeing the sentence "He has urged that death row inmates be eligible to receive kidney transplants" in the bio._

<comment><USER4> Said ethicists may have noticed that a whole lot of death row inmates seem to be getting exonerated lately.

<comment><USER5> And said ethicists may also be of the prevalent opinion among civilised people, that death penalty is an abomination.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I know that organized randomized studies are what is really needed, but there is a poor-man's substitute : Simply gather the data systematically, and data- mine anonymized records.

Of course, there will be unwanted correlations in the results (Dr X always does steroids), but those can be weeded out statistically (similarly for Hospital Y kills patients). But if the patients are receiving/not-receiving steroids at anything approaching random (as claimed in the article) then good data collection, and good statistics should be able to tease out results.

Many important findings in medicine are due to meta-analysis : whereby multiple trials are aggregated, and answers gathered across the meta-trial (and the questions being answered may even be different from what the trials were originally seeking to answer).

<comment><USER7> Hmm, I wonder if it's any harder to get the results of these meta-analyses "generally accepted" than if you did your own (equally statistically valid) trials?

In any case, weeding out the extra correlations requires more data, yada yada, people die while you're collecting it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> I can see the argument is this case, since it is a treatment that may be applied in the field anyway.

But in general I would actually tighten the restrictions for which research should be allowed very drastically since Doctors have shown a consistent disregard for peoples rights since basically forever. Go read the wikipedia list [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_Un...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_United_States) it is very instructive in showing just how little many prominent doctors care about their patients. It goes back a long time, but there are some recent entries on that list too (and I bet there are still ongoing trials that will be added in the future)

Some choice quotes:

In 1953, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ran several studies on the health effects of radioactive iodine in newborns and pregnant women at the University of Iowa. In one study, researchers gave pregnant women from 100 to 200 microcuries of iodine-131, in order to study the women's aborted embryos in an attempt to discover at what stage, and to what extent, radioactive iodine crosses the placental barrier. In another study, they gave 25 newborn babies (who were under 36 hours old and weighed from 5.5 to 8.5 lbs) iodine-131, either by oral administration or through an injection, so that they could measure the amount of iodine in their thyroid glands.[51]

From 1963 to 1973, a leading endocrinologist, Dr. Carl Heller, irradiated the testicles of Oregon and Washington prisoners. In return for their participation, he gave them $5 a month, and $100 when they had to receive a vasectomy upon conclusion of the trial. The surgeon who sterilized the men said that it was necessary to "keep from contaminating the general population with radiation-induced mutants". One of the researchers who had worked with Keller on the experiments, Dr. Joseph Hamilton, said that the experiments "had a little of the Buchenwald touch".[79]

In 1962, twenty-two elderly patients at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, New York were injected with live cancer cells by Chester M. Southam, who in 1952 had done the same to prisoners at the Ohio State Prison, in order to "discover the secret of how healthy bodies fight the invasion of malignant cells". The administration of the hospital attempted to cover the study up, but the New York State medical licensing board ultimately placed Southam on probation for one year. Two years later, the American Cancer Society elected him as their Vice President.[45]

So no, ethics committtees don't kill. They restrain doctors from going out of control.

</comment><comment><USER9> Protecting ourselves to death. This article's about consent requirements, which for the unconscious can delay treatment hours and worsen prognosis. And also that ethics panel makes trials difficult to organize, so new medicines are delayed.

The article doesn't mention it (since it is about the UK) but it the US the FDA takes unapproved drugs from the sick. For example in the 80's when aids victims brought dextran sulfate back from Japan, the FDA seized it at the border. This didn't stop until 88 when the drug was proven to work (at least up to FDA standards, costing millions of dollars and years after other countries had done).

Everybody wants to ensure medicine is ethically tested and safe, but that means some will die waiting. Mary Ruwart (a doctor and also a leading candidate for the libertarian party's presidential nominee in 2008) has written on this subject: <http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap6.html>.

</comment><comment><USER10> Looks to me that the meme "Citation please" clearly needs to spread. The irony here is that it applies to the folks on their high horse; i.e. the ethics committee...

<comment><USER11> In debates over divisive topics, I've found that this two work request very quickly and efficiently isolates and weeds out sloppy thinking faster than any other technique.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> There are other similar situations in other fields, as well as medicine; Robin Hanson had a post last Saturday on "Institutional Review Boards" in academia. They are involved in all human research, social as well as medical.

<http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/03/against-irbs.html></comment>


Bluetooth 5.1 has new direction finding feature - <AUTHOR> https://www.bluetooth.com/news/pressreleases/2019/01/bluetooth-enhances-support-for-location-services-with-new-direction-finding-feature <comment> g-n First of all, the way this direction finding works differs a lot from how beacons work. With beacons, it's your phone that does the processing and the beacon that sends a signal.

If this standard works more or less the same as other indoor positioning services (IPS) available on the market, it will require a few antennas on the ceiling to triangulate the position of the device, it means the processing is now done on the antenna instead of on the device.

The big problem with all the vendors nowadays that don't use computer vision to track somebody or something is that their solutions require physical tags with batteries. But if it becomes part of the Bluetooth standard, every person will have a potential tracking-device in their pocket.

</comment><comment><USER2> What you think? Will this finally bring the breakthrough for indoor navigation?</comment>


Byton unveils futuristic 'smart' car - <AUTHOR> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42599345 <comment><USER2> Considering that smartphone use is now the number one cause of accidents in Germany [1], I'm pretty sceptical that a rich interactive touch interface without haptical feedback is the right thing to use to control a car. At least, until autonomous driving is fully developed.

[1] [http://www.sueddeutsche.de/auto/strassenverkehr-tod-durch- ti...](http://www.sueddeutsche.de/auto/strassenverkehr-tod-durch- tippen-1.3777316) (in Geman)

<comment><USER3> how is this any different from the giant ipad in tesla models?

<comment><USER2> I do believe that one is critical as well, and I'd really like to see some UX videos of drivers using that thing. Ideally with eye tracking.

<comment><USER4> Do you ever change the radio while driving? It's about the same level of involvement. I haven't found it to be a huge issue in the ~2 years I've been using it.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> >> In front of us is a huge display that stretches out across almost the entire dashboard.

One thing all these tech people keep forgetting is that the driver is supposed to look out the window. I like to use flying as an analogy. Legally you only need 3 instruments to fly a plane in VRF conditions, you're eyes are supposed to be looking out the window. I think the same is true of cars - you primarily need a speedometer and gas gauge. Everything else is optional and distracting. This idea of an expansive touchscreen spanning the whole dashboard seems absurd. It looks cool, but what's it for?

<comment><USER6> typo : VRF -> VFR

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Two items for me.

first, how do they deal with the steering wheel air bag? Which way does the screen flip if it does at all? What are EU requirements for air bags?

second, i have seen this before where a company implies that Tesla or anyone else needs to open up their stations. I am still waiting for the first city, state, or country, to declare such and just force the issue. That we cannot seem to get everyone on board for the same plug this will have to be resolved within the next few years one way or another.

</comment><comment><USER8> It continues to blow me away that every single electric car outside of Tesla is built to look "cool" or "futuristic" instead of simply looking like a good car. I suspect that a lot of Tesla's success is that their cars look "normal."

<comment><USER9> This looks like a slightly fashion forward 2018 vehicle IMO. I would call it an upscale Honda HRV with design cues from the Tesla 3 and Chrysler Pacifica.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> "Fearing the car may be spotted and shared on social media, the company insisted on an indoor drive"

...and let's BBC film and publish a report on the car. Doesn't add up, what's the real reason to not driving outside?

</comment><comment><USER3> The walled garden charging network looks like it may be a problem in the future, why hasn't an independent entrepreneur started setting these up and charging money for them? Why haven't gas stations caught on to provide 1-2 charging stations?

<comment><USER11> Consider the usage of a typical gas station parking space. People park, go buy their snacks, cigarettes, groceries, etc., and are gone in 3-6 minutes. Usually the spots are used by people who are not buying gas. Those people leave their car parked at the pump while they shop.

Now you want to dedicate one or two of those parking spaces to charge a car that will be there for 30-60 minutes.

The only way that will be profitable is if the fee to charge your car is at least 10x the average amount a customer spends. Otherwise, what happens is the parking spots fill up and prospective customers go elsewhere and offering car charging actually causes the station to lose money.

OTOH, restaurants offering charging spots could be a moneymaker because now there's a reason to keep customers there longer, and longer stays will generally mean they buy more.

<comment><USER12> At least out west I notice a lot of the gas stations on major interstates have plenty of extra room on the peripheries of their lot that could be turned into charging parking spaces. This is where I see the majority of drivers charging their vehicles on a long trip. Once you drive into the city these lots become a lot smaller and are designed for exactly what you described which makes charging more difficult.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Ahh yes, a massive touch screen right in front of someone operating a multi- ton vehicle at high speeds. What could possibly go wrong?

So smart.

<comment><USER14> Reminds me of that iPad+Velcro fanmade-commercial (where the guy sticks velcro on the steering wheel).

[0] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__ZYWtcGeTY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__ZYWtcGeTY)</comment></comment>


7 Interesting HN Startup Month Apps - <AUTHOR> http://www.minklinks.com/weblog/2010/11/14/7-interesting-hn-startup-month-apps/ <comment><AUTHOR> I thought I'd write about some of the apps that are coming out this november (as there's now over 30 of them). What does HN think? Are there any of the apps on startupmonth that sound interesting to you?</comment>


Ask HN: How do you control home WiFi traffic? - <AUTHOR> I am concerned about my kids' usage patterns around gaming, and wish to tap into the WiFi connection between their computers and the main router.
Then i would like to control which sites and services they use, without having to adminster their computers.
Any tips? <comment><USER2> _I am concerned about my kids..._

[random advice from the internet]

Talk to them. It's not a technical problem. Doing something untrustworthy makes the relationship untrustworthy. It's unlikely you will like everything your kids do. Figuring out ways of talking through those things is better in the long run. Good luck.

</comment><comment><USER3> You can always deploy/update (remotely via Ansible or something else) custom hosts file on their workstations. [https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts](https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts)</comment>


Almost everyone who is unhappy with life is unhappy for the same reasons - <AUTHOR> http://qz.com/647197/almost-everyone-who-is-unhappy-with-life-is-unhappy-for-the-same-reasons <comment><USER2> [citation needed], any citation will do. Otherwise the tl;dr is : Some research one time at a named university, therefore my thing.

</comment><comment><USER3> This is a pretty low quality article full of unsubstantiated claims.</comment>


Somebody Please Explain This... - <AUTHOR> http://xkcd.com/839/ <comment><USER2> <http://www.explainxkcd.com/2010/12/27/explorers/>

</comment><comment><USER3> On this 3x3 chess board, the black bishop can only ever move on a diagonal, which means it can only travel onto white squares: it can never land on a black square. Since the central square is white, the bishop has put the food in the middle. The white knight can only make knight moves - from its starting point, it can only move edge-corner, edge-corner, edge-corner, edge-corner before coming back to its starting point. The knight can never land in the middle square at all, so it will eventually starve. The knight can, however, move onto the black squares: in fact, it _has_ to land on a black square every other move. The bishop's claim that he was "that close" to capturing the knight is also exaggerated - it can be shown how, barring an error, the pieces could move about that board forever in an endless loop.

</comment><comment><USER4> It appears to be a bunch of mixed gaming metaphors. "He stepped up to the plate and scored a touchdown.. checkmate" kind of thing.

<comment><USER5> That's the "backstory", the main joke is just about how the chess pieces move, i.e. that the bishop can't ever get into a black square and that the knight can't ever get to the food. I think the rest of the dialog is just the scenery of a world where game pieces talk.</comment></comment>


Ask HN: My startup PrintMosaic runs a contest for the first time. Any advice? - <AUTHOR>

Hello,
I've been running PrintMosaic for a while (https://www.printmosaic.com) and I am now experimenting with contests.
PrintMosaic allows people to create photo mosaics easily. Choose your main image then choose the small images and it assembles them for you. It is then possible to order a print or a high resolution image if you want to print yourself.
The current contest allows people to win a free poster as well as credits for high resolution images.
In order to enter the contest, all you need to do is to create your mosaic and apply with it. The mosaic with the most votes wins. So you might need to invite your friends to vote for your mosaic. This contest ends on November 30, so the votes will be counted at midnight that day.
Here is the contest page, with rules and prizes: https://www.printmosaic.com/contest/events/1-November
Is there anyone here who has run a similar type of contest on their startup? I would be curious to hear stories. I'll be happy to share my experience once this is done as well. <comment><AUTHOR> Clickable links:

Home page: [https://www.printmosaic.com](https://www.printmosaic.com)

Contest page: [https://www.printmosaic.com/contest/events/1-November](https://www.printmosaic.com/contest/events/1-November)</comment>


Your Logical Fallacy Is - <AUTHOR> https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ <comment><USER2> I have an acquaintance whose main method of argument is shouting out names of logical fallacies without pointing out to the person he's arguing with where and how it applies.

This list is helpful as a guide to spot errors in reasoning. It is not helpful as a tool to facilitate discussion.

If you use this reference, do us all a favor and discuss how the fallacy applies in the current discussion, and treat the person with some respect at least.

<comment><USER3> So he should read the section on the "fallacy fallacy."

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> When you have to resort to pointing out the name of your opponent's logical fallacy, you have already lost the debate.

<comment><USER5> If only more people understood this.

Pointing out a fallacy might as well be a fallacy itself.

<comment><USER6> You might enjoy this,

[http://existentialcomics.com/comic/9](http://existentialcomics.com/comic/9)

but more to the point, conversation is more constructive when folks engage in the practice of principle of charity [1] where you will interpret the other's argument in the strongest possible light. This helps create more light, less smoke and avoid the gotcha-ism associated with fallacy fallacy.

[1] [http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html](http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I guess they didn't like Schopenhauer's eristic dialectic. "The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument"

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right)

<comment><USER8> Another underappreciated classic. Thanks for posting.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> Various groundings in truth, logic, deduction, inference, scientific method, and mathematical proof, are useful.

I'd start with the distinction between _didactic_ and _rhetorical_ speech, for starters, a distinction and conflict which goes back to Plato's contempt for the Sophists (from whence: sophistry). I had the realisation in the past year or so that I'm frequently, so to speak, bringing a didactic knife to a rhetorical gunfight. The two modes mix poorly.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic)

There is the distinction between formal logical argument (syllogism), and more informal argument.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism)

And between _valid_ and _sound_ arguments.

The field of epistemology, and _criteria of truth_ is one that far more people could use grounding in. _How do you make a determination that something is or isn 't true?_ Based on incomplete information, partial understanding of that, and limited time? Turns out there's a study of the problem, within philosophy, and some useful guidance:

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criteria_of_truth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criteria_of_truth)

Protip: apply _coherence_ , _consistency_ , or _pragmatic_ principles where possible. Be aware of the others and their weaknesses though.

The best use of logical fallacies I've found is to apply them to my own thinking, and to be aware of their use as rhetorical ploys by others.

I'd stumbled across a set of frequently used "dirty tricks" some time back, collected here:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2d0r1d/the_rea...](https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2d0r1d/the_reactionary_political_debate_playbook_karl/)

<comment><USER9> Is there some newsletter or blog I could follow with more thoughts of yours like these? I find myself spending more and more time on this topic and a comment like this is a wonderful jumping-off point for me on my 'down whatever rabbit-hole' study days :-).

EDIT: just realized we have profile pages and you have links on yours. Silly me.

<comment><USER8> Principally [https://dredmorbius.reddit.com](https://dredmorbius.reddit.com)

I cooked up a lot of these ideas posting to G+ as well, see especially my Epistemology collection:

[https://plus.google.com/collection/8lUNg](https://plus.google.com/collection/8lUNg)

My definition of "Tech and Media" is expansive, but there's some coverage there:

[https://plus.google.com/collection/MVQzY](https://plus.google.com/collection/MVQzY)

<comment><USER9> Cool, thanks. And right in time for my weekend reading adventures too!</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Open-sourcing our recruiting process [Next Big Sound] - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/nextbigsoundinc/The-Way-We-Work/blob/master/interviewing%20at%20Next%20Big%20Sound.md

<comment><USER2> Note that this is not about GitHub's recruiting process, but a company called NextBigSound

<comment><AUTHOR> Doh! Good point. Fixed!</comment></comment>


Show HN: LSD – The Game - <AUTHOR> http://lalo.li/lsd/

<comment><USER2> Very fun. I found bug(?) The ball slip through when confined to a very small square.

<comment><AUTHOR> there are some other bugs in there, too i.e. try if you manager to let the ball fall exactly at one of the end the lines (it's NaN error ...)

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> The goal is the one you make up for yourself, but basically get the dot into the square! Again and again and again!

Loosely based on [http://annotated-code.maryrosecook.com/circles-bouncing- off-...](http://annotated-code.maryrosecook.com/circles-bouncing-off-lines/) which was on HN a few months ago.

See the source: [https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lsd](https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lsd) \- MIT

If you find a bug or want to improve it, you are welcome! If you want to "steal" the code and make something complete different with it, just do it. Want to make a native app, sell it for 99c and get a millionaire, go ahead.

<comment><AUTHOR> note: LSD is the abbrev. for line square dot

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> With no limit on the length and number of lines that can be drawn, making the ball touch the square is just a process of drawing successively smaller triangles.

<comment><AUTHOR> that's why there is an average counter on the right hand side top, you can play agains yourself (aim to get a better average over time)

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Addictive.

<comment><AUTHOR> it's called LSD (even though some people now told me that LSD isn't addictive)</comment></comment>


Eleanor Holmes Norton 'kills' driverless car - <AUTHOR> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/wp/2014/06/25/eleanor-holmes-norton-kills-driverless-car/

<comment><AUTHOR> Having an emergency button to shut it down seems not too bad, though I wonder how it handles being pressed while driving at 60 miles an hour in traffic.

Not being able to immediately restart afterward is pretty crazy.

<comment><USER2> Probably an in-development safety mitigation.</comment></comment>


Swift 5 Released - <AUTHOR> http://www.swift.org/blog/swift-5-released/ <comment><USER2> I hope they will consider supporting more Linux distributions or otherwise create something like rustup.rs to make simpler to install Swift. This is mildly infuriating, and it makes me think they consider Linux as just an afterthought.

Supporting FreeBSD in their build system would be nice, too, considering that it builds pretty well on it after modifying a few scripts.

</comment><comment><USER3> I just tried updating XCode and that failed because my latest installed version of macOS was not recent enough.

re: Swift: I am very excited about the Swift version of TensorFlow. I have tried it on Ubuntu and macOS - early days, but I expect it to be awesome.

EDIT: removed a little off topic rant</comment>


I didn't become a physician to do data entry - <AUTHOR> https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/08/i-didnt-become-a-physician-to-do-data-entry.html <comment><USER2> Welcome to the wonderful world of software based rent seeking enabled by America's fetishization of technology, capitalism, and the insurance industry.

I've worked on EHR systems before. Guess what the priority is?

Well... Let me list what it isn't.

It isn't

A) encouraging industry level interoperability through gathering major stakeholders around a table and nailing out a spec.

B) it isn't streamlining the experience, workflow, display, or data entry experience in such a way as to make front line medical personnel's lives easier.

C) It isn't to ease the communication process between medical service provider and patient.

D) It isn't to provide transparency, simplicity, or up front awareness of the cost of treatment.

EHR systems have not, and will not ever be made for physicians. They are made for the procurement departments of major health provider networks and insurance companies.

They will never do what YOU as a physician need it to. As a company product, it will only be customized in as much as it doesn't effect the ability of a software company to improve it's bottom line by selling to more customers.

When discussing "Quality" of the software package,whether or not it actually helps you do your job better is secondary to "Can it integrate with insurers, and are we still maintaining market share?"

I hate the software industry more and more every day. It isn't about implementing the right solution anymore. It isn't about empowering users. It's about creating technological dependence and maintaining the pain level just short of your customer going elsewhere.

That is the dirty secret. That is why your computer feels like an enemy. That is why that wonderful portal to the world of the 90's has started to seem more like a portal to hell through which demons and merciless taskmasters reach out and suck you dry of time, money, and attention.

The Personaal Computer is dead. The Digital Market Human Interface Device reigns supreme, and shows no signs of slowing down until we as an industry of software makers wake up from our generously salaried, and market force driven ethical, intellectual, and moral coma, and say enough is enough.

More than anything else, I'm trying to figure out how to teach every last person how to code and understand computers. You CAN'T TRUST that a programmer that isn't you is truly operating with your interests at heart, because even we programmers, software engineers, and Quality people are enslaved by the tyranny of the Market.

The computer can still empower you. YOU have to learn it though. YOU have to share in the suffering. YOU have to know enough to start holding the tech industry accountable, or that industry WILL carve you up and sink it's teeth into you as a recurring revenue stream.

Think I'm crazy? Just look around. Pitch an idea for something to solve a problem, and watch how much time gets spent trying to make it maximally monetizable. It ain't about you. It's about good business, and if you don't like it, feel free to get out of the way of those that do.</comment>


Brain Gymnastics: Programming Language Keyword Abuse - <AUTHOR>

To get to know a language a little better, this is a fun way to spend an hour.
Simply try and use all the keywords of a language of choice. Then try to reduce the code to contain each keyword as few times as possible. Also, try to remove as much as possible that isn't a keyword.
The code should run, and all paths should be executed.
This is my Javascript snippet containing all keywords only once (except "this" which occurs twice). Only one non-keyword is used -- the variable "e".
Have fun!

    try {
        do { var e; continue } while (void delete typeof null in undefined)
    } catch(e) {
        with(e)
            if ((function(){
                for (;;) break;
                switch (true instanceof this){
                    case false:
                    default: throw new this
                }
                return
            })());
            else;
    } finally {}
 <comment><USER2> Branf*ck:

      <>[]+-.,

What did I win?

<comment><AUTHOR> I'll go for Whitespace then.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> In scheme does this mean all standardly available functions or just the truly fundamental special forms?</comment>