skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you don't have any actual facts to back up your earlier statement. Meanwhile in reality:

https://medium.com/backchannel/exclusive-why-apple-is-still-...

"“From the ergonomic standpoint we have studied this pretty extensively and we believe that on a desktop scenario where you have a fixed keyboard, having to reach up to do touch interfaces is uncomfortable,” says Schiller. “iOS from its start has been designed as a multi-touch experience — you don’t have the things you have in a mouse-driven interface, like a cursor to move around, or teeny little ‘close’ boxes that you can’t hit with your finger. The Mac OS has been designed from day one for an indirect pointing mechanism. These two worlds are different on purpose, and that’s a good thing — we can optimize around the best experience for each and not try to mesh them together into a least-common-denominator experience." -- Phil Schiller

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/tim-cook-apple...

"We feel strongly that customers are not really looking for a converged Mac and iPad,” said Cook. “Because what that would wind up doing, or what we’re worried would happen, is that neither experience would be as good as the customer wants. So we want to make the best tablet in the world and the best Mac in the world. And putting those two together would not achieve either. You’d begin to compromise in different ways." -- Tim Cook

You're unable to develop software using OS X. Other people do not seem to be so impaired. If you think Notification Center is an example of important UI convergence, it doesn't take much imagination to come up with possible explanations.
I had a similar reaction to the piece, which painted doctors as not being part of the problem - when they have a profound amount of political power.

I had a friend who worked as a QA engineer (hospital processes) for a presitigious children's hospital. The QA department came up with any number of potential, well-conceived plans, but the falling-down point was always the doctors. One of the primary pain points was the lack of interoperability between different departments' record-keeping. Each department head had their favourite vendor, who would give them all sorts of goodies on the side, and as such, none of them wanted to change.

So, you'd have a heads of department meeting where the new QA plan would be discussed, which necessitated regularising the software across departments. The standard refutation was "If I can't use software X, children will die". Everyone knew this was utter bullshit, but there's nothing you can do when the head of department is considered the final domain expert. "Children will die", uttered by doctors and surgeons, killed more efficient processes in that hospital.

Another story of his was at another meeting where one specialist ventured an opinion. It was derided by one of the old-school, a veteran of nearly 30 years: "We don't do things that way; you'd know that if you'd been here any length of time". Said the opinion-venturer: "I've been here 17 years". That is one insular society...
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This wasn't the brain surgeon it was the anesthesiologist.
Everything that Epic touches turns to dust.
> before deciding that I can build something better

It's very likely that something better already exists. The reason you use something terrible is because "better" does not result in adoption. Personal relationships, salespeople, and marketers drive adoption, not the quality of the actual product.
Careful when SSHing into an untrusted host. They can find your public key(s) that way and maybe identify who you are on GitHub.
> this is a completely reasonable response. People have lives outside of work.

For someone in IT, perhaps, but the professional expectations in medicine are starkly different (although they are admittedly growing more lax, to the chagrin of the old guard). In this particular case, the geriatric meningioma patient had already been cancelled on once, rescheduled with the promise of being the first procedure of the day, and then delayed to the end of the day because she tested positive for MRSA and they needed to do a decon of the OR after her procedure. You would seem to find it reasonable to reschedule her yet again, but neurosurgeons don't have much room in their schedules to play scheduling games with, and in general, patients aren't undergoing elective brain surgery for the fun of it: they need it now.

Perhaps the IT analogy is that neurosurgery is largely a hard real-time system: you must execute within a given time window or you fail.
Yikes. Sounds like it's time your company looked into a single sign on solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single_sign-on_impleme...

Or at the very least you should sign up for a password storage system like https://passpack.com
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Might I at least suggest using an easy-to-execute algorithm that you can apply to your note to turn it into a real password? There are many options, from adding a prefix, a suffix, adding a small integer to every number, or some combination of these. This, I think, is about as secure as you can get since a targeted attack would just install a keylogger and be done.
It's a lot harder to FOD a jet engine with a laser pointer.
I live in a huge concrete building, yes ...
If documentation exists on how to build from source, but it doesn't work [ +10 points of FAIL ]
Your source is configured with a handwritten shell script [ +10 points of FAIL ]

Most projects I've ran into fall under these categories. As soon as I see a Makefile I know I'm going to spend two hours hunting down libraries or hacking in macros. it's very frustrating.

Your source builds using something that isn't GNU Make [ +10 points of FAIL ]

I've had less headaches with cmake, and it solves (most) of the first issue. In general I'd recommend cmake over make.

There's been many times I've wanted to submit a one line pull request, but I doubt my self too much to use gitlabs code editor. After a few hours of trying to compile I'd just give up.
Animals are harder to control. Asking them to follow the rules and stay away from aircraft doesn't work. It does work for drone pilots, once you make it clear what the rules are, and enforce them.

A lot of people are hurt or killed in car crashes with wildlife. Moose are especially deadly, but deer are a common menace. Should we then take this to mean that it's OK for anyone to put a large, heavy obstacle in a roadway in front of an oncoming car, since this is a danger that drivers have to deal with anyway? Or should we say that animals doing it is not an excuse, and punish people who endanger the lives of others?
erm, what? I don't even there's mailbox and carousel

i've been just using the basic feature of dropbox, which is just upload/download/sync files

did they put in effort to advertise it?
Anybody familiar with Conway's Law can probably identify a solid "revolving door pattern" -- somehow Gang of Four left that one out.
Just build your thing with whatever you've got. The important thing is to finish. Once you finish it will be pretty obvious what you'd like to improve. Start looking at other tools and languages from that perspective. Your goal should be to know what different things are good for (and what they aren't) and when to use them, rather than mastery of any single technology.
The largest thing NASA has moved above low earth orbit since the early '70s is, what, Galileo? How many orders of magnitude are there between G and your asteroid?
Road to 9600
"Merchants of Doubt"-style manufactured confusion, false-flag issue-advocacy and pseudo-contrarian FUD to smokescreen the reality of civilization-impacting health and environmental issues... from smoking to coal and more.

It's all about ease of delaying regulation to maximize profits, not conspiracy theories, just dirty tricks as means to ends.
Do the wallpapers/paints block cell signals at all?
Beijing Air Pollution Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) for those interested:

http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/
I have a GPS unit sitting on my desk right now that I could swallow if I put some effort into it. And I'm pretty sure a good chunk of it is packaging that could be trimmed away if needed, too.

The radio equipment needed to transmit the data from the GPS unit is a good point, for sure. But any model aircraft that can't carry the weight of a GPS unit itself won't pose a threat.
> To paint a caricature: they almost seem to say "We had 100 people and 50 ingots of iron and we produced 200 forks and 30 novels. If we'd have 50 people and 25 ingots of iron, we'd only produce 100 forks and 15 novels." Which is retarded.

If you want to beat a strawman, be my guest. You can even get to call it retarded, it wont care. But to follow with your example.

If you start with 100 people + 50 ingots of iron -> 200 forks + 30 novels. Then you cut your inputs by half:

1. If you want the magic fairy of science to come and sprinkle its progress dust on the ingots so you can keep the same production as before... I am going be calling you something much more offensive than 'retarded'. Most people around here have firts hand experience of how that kind of paralogic results at the end (ahem, Deathmarch).

2. If you value forks badly enough, you might get to produce maybe 120, not the 100 expected, but neither the 200 demanded. You will be able to do this by cutting on the novel writers and put them to figure out better fork designs and more efficient manufacturing projects. You will end up with like 3 novels instead of the expected 15, but probably 10 out of those were going to be crap anyways, so you did not miss much. The best creatives just have to go and express their creativity regardless of financial gain.

3. If you want to push your luck and build 150+ forks, you will succeed in the short term, but then you will face a fork crisis a few years down the road. You cannot apply infinite brain power to make infinitely better physical stuff. If you have only so much iron ore, and you try to make too many forks out of it, the material will be spread too thin and it will break under tenssion. Now your overworked 99 fork makers (1 recognized novellist, 2 moonlighting authors) will have to design a second process to refurbish the broken, low-quality forks, diverting valuable time and resources from making brand new forks.

So, do not dismiss those theories out of hand. You don't have to agree 100% with what they say, but give'em the benefit of doubt and analyse them before making any judgements.

The issue with the crowd that hangs around this "finite growth" thing is another matter. I think they do a diservice to the theories they claim to support by crying "Wolf! Wolf!" like in the old fable.
You should also try out Brogue! (https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/)

Brogue is shorter and tighter than DCSS. If I had my way, we'd cut down crawl to 27 levels. In Brogue the maps are smaller, the food clock is more punishing, enemies tend to be more distinct from one another. I've joked that every time we need new content for crawl, we just steal it from Brogue.

Edit: Please use this key when connecting to crawl servers -- http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key

Some server admins have disabled password login.
When you got the meningioma, you better hope that your surgeon will work until the work is done, instead of delaying it because somebody's unable to find a babysitter.

Medicine was always about putting the patients' needs above your own, and I sure hope it stays that way for the foreseeable future.
Has anyone done any studies to correlate intelligence with net worth? Since the +3 or +4 SD people usually work to satisfy their own curiosity and thirst for knowledge, I would assume that it doesn't pay really well above a level...

I find it rather discouraging that mediocracy really punishes people for being extremely smart. Evolutionary punishment is decreasing their fitness (money, social stature, e.t.c.) and thus decreasing their procreation chances. Smart women are affected even more. Not to mention the intentional punishment/oppression by different intelligence class supervisors.

PS: one of my favourite relevant reads: http://prometheussociety.org/cms/index.php/articles/the-outs...
Single sign on solutions don't work when some of the systems you sign on to are air-gapped and will never, ever, EVER be connected to any network. Other networks I access are completely separated from the greater internet. It would be useful, but single sign on would take my 25-30 passwords and shrink it to about 15.

Which would be useful but would still require me to keep track of them manually.
It's also just a lot of legacy stuff that no one wants to touch because it currently works and brings in money. Good design and practices compared to today just weren't around 10-15-20 years ago. Building a large and robust EHR and/or practice management solution from scratch using good techniques and design (and good security practices like, stupidly enough, parameterized queries instead of string concat) would be great if it wasn't astronomically expensive and risky from a business standpoint. Then by the time you were ready to hit the market you'd be five years behind or something.

Plus everyone will ask "Can you convert some other EHR's notes/data into your system's notes and vice versa?" and now you get to inherit all of that system's bad decisions in that area.
You can play on WebTiles via your browser too at http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/ and a few other servers.
>> ‘I’m not starting a big meningioma at 4 p.m.,’ she declared, turning towards me. ‘I’ve got no childcare this evening.’

so with the scale of the money involved, the system can't deal with several hours of unscheduled in advance childcare? No intern around to send take care of it?
Are you still driving that 1992 Satern? Why not?
https://www.change.org/p/dropbox-open-source-mailbox-app/sha...
But the problem wasn't finding a surgeon. It was finding an anesthesiologist, who from the story's own description, isn't extra specialised.

Unless that person is on call, it sounds like someone screwed up the schedules by putting an anesthesiologist on a surgery that would take longer than they were still scheduled for.
I have a couple of things I add to each password that I don't write down. I change those things every month. That's about the best I can do.
We don't see them falling out of the sky at a high rate because collisions are uncommon, not because collisions are harmless. And the fact that collisions are rare is not an argument for increasing the risk.
Nice list! Should be akrasiac instead of akrasia, though. :)
Go is definitely part of it. It's the first language I've used that makes so much of this easy to do, and still produce robust software.
Sounds like they need another anesthesiologist or they should have bumped someone else to start the meningioma procedure earlier in the day.
What are some good ways to protect against that?

My first thought is to create an entry in my ~/.ssh/config with an entry for the untrusted host I'm going to ssh in to, using the "IdentityFile" keyword to point to some bogus/misleading identity file. How does that sound?
He wouldn't have to do anything. All he would have to be is a puppet, a mascot for hate and intolerance towards Muslims. Just having that guy take a seat in the Oval Office would make life significantly worse for everybody of the Muslim faith. Good luck being a brown kid in the playground when a white kid's parent puts a Trump sign on the lawn.

At this point I really hope his goal is further success in the entertainment industry. Anything resembling outsider public service has long since disappeared.
Are these really even products if they have no plans or even really options for monetization? Mailbox was a free app with no ads and no freemium features. It was doomed from the start. Although Kudos to the founders there that were able to turn a good idea, a great marketing strategy, and a couple months of work from a small team into an immediate 9 figure exit. Those founders knew what they were doing.
Having an insanely strict password policy is begging for having 60% of the passwords written on a post it near the keyboard of every user.
Don't be silly. Shoving around a mountain is laughably beyond NASA's capabilities. Moving the moon would be ridiculous.
Not entirely sure why you're being downvoted. Sun terminals have had smartcard access for, what, 15 years? (Yes, for hospitals). It's a good idea. Some sort of complementary directional RFID might be even better.

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R497CzmKyVQ&t=38s
I love how "mediocre software developers" are called out in the header, but then it goes on to list about 10 different people in different roles that are causing actual problems, all systematic, where a developer would make no difference whatsoever.
Curious that they are still on sourceforge.
The Fresh New Bundle
The Economist.
A simple solution would be to create a dummy account and use that for sshing into untrusted hosts.
I find it somewhat distasteful that a doctor would compare an obese patient to a whale while implying it's less worthwhile to treat them than other patients. It's not the job of medical professionals to pass moral judgment.
It is too bad they decided not to open source Mailbox. I would have liked to run my own mailbox service perhaps as a docker container.
Slightly offtopic but I had the fortune to visit Istanbul in October and it was by far the highlight of our European holiday.

The culture is fantastic. Turkish breakfast is an amazing thing. Fresh simit pastries are insanely good. I love the hamam, the bazaar, and even turkish delight.

If Istanbul isn't on your list, it should be!
The difference between doctors and engineers is that doctors indeed know which parts of the workflow are critical, and which will indeed cause children to die.

To this date, I'm not aware of any record-keeping software that's at least half as useful and efficient as the old and tried handwritten paper records.

There were only three useful IT innovations in medicine : (a) PACS [1] allows to easily compare and transmit X-rays; (b) lab work records; (c) appointments software.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_archiving_and_communic...
So there use 5GHz?

Or use http://www.amazon.com/YSHIELD-EMF-Shielding-Paint-HSF54/dp/B... ;)
Lebron sells more shoes than all those guys combined.
Sea planes aren't all that common. Your article suggests that there is a pretty decent risk of a crash following a collision with a drone of this size.
You end up with bad passwords anyway (like Fuck Off 45). Or you end up with everyone using the same account, or post-it notes with passwords, or notebooks with passwords, or an email draft with passwords.

I've seen smartcards have the best impact. Yeah sure they can be swiped or forged, but compared to the real, effective security of passwords, they're much better. You also can't lock yourself out of a smartcard system. You can forget your card at home, but it's easy to just reissue a new card and invalidate the old one (throw it away when you get home, it's just a hunk of plastic now).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

(You would end up with the same thing)
Moreso for music than books, but I personally find that most of my favorites tend to have at least as many people that hate it as love it.

Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea", for example, is an extremely polarizing album. Between Mangum's nasally vocals, beginner-to-intermediate technical talent, the inclusion of saws and theramin as instruments; it all adds up to a love/hate affair. I'm not a big fan of any of Mangum's other works, but AOtS has an allure that is just... indescribably gripping.

I don't go around recommending it, but when it comes up in my playlist, I find that I am simply compelled to stop what I'm doing and listen to the entire album, which is thankfully short, as far as albums go.
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While I too dislike when stuff I use is shutdown, there's another possible way to look at this. Maybe the product lived a much longer life than it would have otherwise, had the original creators abandoned it after failing to make sufficient money on it directly.
I think it is uncontroversial that many tools would benefit from access to the frontend. But what is the interface to the frontend? There is tremendous diversity among frontends; it's the key distinguishing feature of most languages. What exactly are you going to expose? How should the build system interact with this?

LLVM is a great example of a modular compiler which is a pain to program against, because it is being constantly being refactored with BC-breaking changes. As silvas has said, "LLVM is loosely coupled from a software architecture standpoint, but very tightly coupled from a development standpoint". <https://lwn.net/Articles/583271/> In contrast, I can generally expect a command mode which dumps out Makefile-formatted dependencies to be stable across versions. Modularity is not useful for external developers without stability!
Well, in that case the hospital should pay for extra childcare that evening (including possibly relocating the child to another child care location, which is no fun for the child either), and give them extra time off to have time together with their child at another time. Times have changed, people often live alone with their children (or their partner may be working), and you just don't leave a child alone.
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For people thinking this not hacker news related. I thought so too, but according to the guidelines it is.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Thanks for sharing OP.
Thanks for posting. The hard thing for me as someone that does not understand clearly what I am getting myself into is knowing that after X I do/learn Y. And I was afraid that if I finish X I might be at a dead end, e.g., not knowing what to do next. That's why I wanted have a clear idea of what would be a good set of programming skills for me to aim for from the start. Thanks again for the tip!
Thanks, looks interesting.
#sendDonaldToSpace
> You would seem to find it reasonable to reschedule her yet again

No, I find it unreasonable that not everyone knew the schedule beforehand, or that someone who knew about it didn't raise it as a problem. This should never happen right before the operation. At that point it's too late and it's on everyone to deal with the situation at hand. What I'm pointing out that if the plan was a surprise then it's completely understandable that someone says no.

As for solutions, it depends on a hospital, location, patient's state, available team, etc. Lots of possibilities. (BTW, anyone shouting at anyone else is not even close to a solution)
It's not a minor inconvenience when a patient can't get a needed surgery because someone can't sort his personal life out. Medicine is (or should be) a profession, which is to say, a lifestyle and an ethic as much as it is a career.