skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad...

HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images and writing a note takes up 90% of a radiologist's time. There are innumerable tools to help radiologists read more images in less time: Dictation software, pre-filled templates, IDE-like editors with hotkeys for navigating reports, etc. There are even programs that automate the order in which images are presented so a radiologist can read high-complexity cases early, and burn through low-complexity ones later on.

What's even more striking is that the field of radiology is standardized, in stark contrast to the EMR world. All images are stored on PACS which communicate using DICOM and HL7. The challenges to full-automation are gaining access to data, training effective models, and, most importantly, driving user adoption. If case volumes continue to rise, radiologists will be more than happy to automate additional steps of their workflow.

Edit: A lot of push back from radiologist is in regards to the feasibility of automated reads, as these have been preached for years with few coming to fruition. I like to point out that the deep learning renaissance in computer vision started in 2012 with AlexNet; this stuff is very new, more effective, and quite different than previous models.
Forums were the social add-on of the mid/late-90s that generally produced orders of magnitude higher traffic to a site higher than its core content. Especially if topics were contentious and people insisted on always being “right.”

Pair it up with CPV ads in the early days, and folks had a guaranteed income source with little work, and even less if administration of comments were lax.
"If you're a young male, doctors don't want anything to do with you. I usually Google things"

I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but as a young man who had recent health issues this wasn't my experience at all.
They'd make it a web service in a locked-in walled garden.
The are uncountably many polynomial over the reals. There are uncountably many functions from N to N. The premise of your question is incorrect.
There aren't many "legitimate" sites that operate as pure hidden service out there, out of all the studies I've been involved in I can't actually remember any of note.

With most hidden services mapping projects you'll see 50-60% being pure CP and the rest are various forums and trading sites that are about as far from being legitimate as possible while not hosting CP.
Buying drugs, zero-days, guns and w/e isn't a legitimate site, neither is any of the "hacking" boards that require you to submit a good data dump and a few defacements before being allowed in.

Same goes for exit nodes, I've been running traffic analysis on 2 nodes I have access too for the past 3 years, the vast majority of it isn't really legitimate.
People don't access their bank account, facebook, or their email, from my own personal research the vast majority of the traffic an exit node operator is going to see is going to be from automated tools primarily web vulnerability scanners, nearly half the traffic I see comes from SQLmap, Vega and pirated versions of Acunetix also make a large part of the bulk traffic.

Even traffic which is end to end encrypted I can more or less estimate that it is some sort of a vulnerability scan or an exploit, while I can't peek into SSL nor do I wish to attempt at time based demasking attacks against the TOR network when I have like 100-1000 sites being accessed randomly within a short time window on my exit node I can pretty much guarantee you that some one is running some sort of a vulnerability scan or an exploit.

I know that we would like to think that TOR is being used primarily for good but it doesn't, it doesn't mean that we should ban it for that anymore that we should ban email because 90% of email traffic is spam.
But we do need to admit that the percentage of legitimate traffic going over TOR and the percentage of legitimate hidden services at this time is more or less a rounding error.
Here is a short story about this. My wife has a computer science degree, but has since left the field to become a teacher. She worked at Foxit in software test before we got married. When we got married she moved to live with me. She doesn't like working with computers much, so she got a job at an after school program as a teacher. That went well, now she is going to school to get her teaching credential. For a while she talked about staying in software since the pay is better than in teaching. I like engineering and make enough money for both of us to have what we need. I think everyone should have a job they enjoy.
I'd like to think that's not true. At least not more myself. My parents always stressed scientific thinking in problem solving.

As engineers and scientists I would like to hope that most of us on HN are constantly looking for new tools and novel approaches. There will always be new tools and techniques for development, new frameworks, more optimized algorithms, better debugging, etc. We should all always be looking to integrate, update and enhance our toolset and skills and inspiration comes from many places, not just technology. It's a part of being the best at what you do--which for us happens to be critical thinking and problem solving.

At least I try to do this constantly myself.

Maybe that's part of the problem. Most people are trained to be whatever they are without a real focus on true problem solving. They're given one framework to solve the issues of their field and told to run with it.

That's a big part of this doctors story too, that he was willing to enhance the state of his art by thinking outside the box, pulling together an uncoordinated, distributed team, sharing information and research and opening the channels of communication.

Hmmm, sounds familiar...
Here's a question: Which sex of all the sexually dimorphic animals on the Earth can give birth?

Answer: Females.

The simple answer to all these bait questions is that women can and do have children, which is time consuming and whether people deny it or not, mothers are far more integral in raising a child than fathers.

Naturally, spending less time in the workplace leads to them falling behind even though they might have started on equal or greater footing as their male counterparts.
what's your name, boy?
I watched the video and honestly, this is terrible.

If I'm clicking on a link I want to open it with my browser, not with some app. I find this extremely annoying with facebook and even the news carousel already.

I can't open new tabs, copy the url, switch to other tabs like I would in the normal browser. This is extremely confusing and I don't how this benefits me in any way.
Seems foolish to not at least replace them with Disqus.
I had no idea most of these amazing projects existed. Thanks for this
How can you write an efficient container without generics?
IIRC, there's a study that women 20-30 make far more money than their male counterparts.

This difference reverses later in life
Set a tag based on the uid with iptables (set-mark), then set up a separate routing table (ip rule .. fwmark ..) for those packets. It's always a good idea to run application with a unique id to set ulimit anyway, even if you can identify traffic by other means (such as source ports). These things are well covered in the Advanced Routing Howto available at lartc.org.
I've been using the Gogland beta for the last few weeks and it's been quite stable. For large codebases, it's hard to beat a good IDE's ability to quickly jump between symbols (go to definition, find usages, etc).
Whole Foods' New Bryant Park Store Has a “Produce Butcher”
Any studies looking at the career trajectories of self-taught developers? Not to equate web development with actual engineering or whatever, but I think it would be interesting.
Medical procedure and vaccines can be an analogy to fungicides not GMO. GMO is like everybody suddenly want to be blond and have blue eyes. But if everybody become a clone basically, one bacteria or whatever could sweep out the whole world.
For you -- other users not accustomed to 4chan's "charm" can find it extremely painful, even if 10% the discussion is high quality
> this guy really needs to take it down a few notches

Author here. Man, if I took it down a few notches, I'd bury myself under my own hubris! I'm nobody, certainly not worth PG's time or perhaps yours, I'm trying to speak truth to power and won't apologize for stepping on anyone's hero worship. I absolutely agree with you that Graham's essays are inspiring and fun to read. I think I made that clear as well. The frustration which drove this essay was his casual observation that the best programmers are libertarians. I don't think that's true and have data to support it. I'm also frustrated to see a powerful man perpetuate self-serving ideologies without acknowledging the influences of power and luck.

> borderline ridiculous

Story of my life. But I think my caricature still stands as an illustration of how the introverted mindset can shut off more nuanced views of social and political structure and lead one to adopt a personal view that serves those in power.
Women also make up a low percentage of janitors, coal minors, construction workers, and landscapers.
Whoa, out of of context. Paul made a point about an idea. Economics is not science. Paul tried to convey the feel of a startup and the ideas which might drive it.

It's a touchy feely piece (not any worse as such). One of the important things to feed ones intuition is to convay how a thing should feel.

This was food for intuition, not a detailed analysis. That's how I read it, anyhow.

I approach any non-peer reviewed work as prose and poetry. Some other people mighr be more stringent.
Our free CMS [1] was featured on Product Hunt 1.5 years ago, after being posted to Designer News by someone, and got #1.

We were not actively involved in the posting, but it had a fantastic effect on our user base, we went from 1600 GitHub stars to 3k+ thanks to it (now we're close to 6k), plus it allowed a snowball effect on Twitter and other websites, that lasted for weeks.

The whole "happening" was described in https://getgrav.org/blog/grav-reaches-3000-github-stars

I wouldn't know how to post it on PH myself and get a similar effect. The product was discovered and featured by a prominent hunter that found it interesting / worth featuring, and had success thanks to that.
> "Taxation is theft, unless used to fund x, y, z" included. Boom, no inconsistency.

The problem is that the arguments that Libertarians use to show that taxation is theft don't leave room for that sort of exception. So sure, you could just say, without supporting argument, "I think that taxes should pay for x, y and z and nothing else". But then if someone suggests that taxes should also pay for a, b and c, you can no longer give a principled objection.
Exactly. There is absolutely 0 evidence that GMOs cause any health concerns when compared to organic food. Organic food is just for rich countries who can afford to produce food inefficiently in order to feel good about themselves. Now, I don't doubt their intentions, but it's not a solution to any problem, nor is it better for you.
sexism aside, that's textbook un-professional behavior and i wouldn't accept it from a female calling people little boys as a pejorative, either.

tell your manager about it. it's part of the manager's job to deal with stuff like this. if your manager refuses to do anything about it, either tell your coworker yourself or leave.
Then, considering that if people don't spend sufficient time/money on proper testing, how much time/money do they spend on security? Probably even less.
Some of the best discussions on movies that I've been a part of are taking place on archival movie torrent sites. There are many passionate, smart, and well-educated film buffs around those sites that have a depth of knowledge that I haven't experienced in many other corners of the web.
Location: SE Asia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: /primary/ Ruby, Python, Rust, C#, Haskell, Elixir; /secondary/ Perl 6, Assembly, Scala, C, SQL, JavaScript, R;

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/2c1Rwp9

Email: me@alexmaslakov.me

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I'm Alex. I've been building web, desktop and mobile applications for the last 6 years. In 2015 I partially switched to data science: big data, nlp, machine learning, etc and it's become one more area I'm interested in.

I'm up for freelance jobs, preferably, big and long-term ones, as well as permanent remote jobs.

Github: https://github.com/GildedHonour

Web-site: http://gildedhonour.com (CV, contacts)

Blog: http://alexmaslakov.me

Thanks && Cheers!
Hey, you're the author! Just wanted to say that was an awesome essay!

Having been through the SV startup wringer several times I totally agree - (hidden) power structures matter much more than people would like to admit, and neither work nor rewards get distributed fairly. And the whole startup hype machine (which includes pg) serves to attract more naive programmers to contribute years of unpaid overtime work in exchange for vague promises of future riches. (But I'm not bitter, just realistic.)

Also your observations about hacker politics are right on. Watching political discussions here is painful.

Sorry to see you're getting crucified here for your dissenting essay, though. People who claim to be rational end up just as susceptible to groupthink :(
Yawn. Hey look,

#!/usr/bin/lisp
(defun foo () a b c)

has an "inferred PROGN" around a b c and the first line isn't part of the tree.

What you're not getting here is that the above broken HTML has a canonical HTML representation. That canonical HTML can go to S-exp.

If we are doing HTML-in-Sexp, we can throw out some of the non-canonical aspects, keeping the ones we like. We can certainly infer element wrapping if someone using our HTML-in-Sexp finds that useful.
SEEKING WORK

Remote: yes

Location: SE Asia

Languages (primary): Ruby, Python, Haskell, C#, Rust, Elixir;

Languages (secondary): Perl 6, Java, Assembly, Scala, SQL, JavaScript, R;

Email: me@alexmaslakov.me

Github: https://github.com/GildedHonour

Web-sites: http://gildedhonour.com (CV, contacts), http://alexmaslakov.me (blog)

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I'm Alex. I've been building web, desktop and mobile applications for the last 6 years. In 2015 I partially switched to data science: big data, nlp, machine learning, etc and this has become one more area I'm interested in.

I don't just do programming. Rather I solve your problem choosing the most appropriate tool and technology.

Thanks && Cheers!
300 USD per hour pays the medical assistants, support staff, rent, electricity, taxes, etc. The number that employee physicians (a much more typical case than private cash-only practices) gross is closer to USD 95 per hour, assuming a 40 hour workweek and an annual salary of 200 000 USD. (Few physicians work only 40 hours per week, so the real number is much, much lower.)
I think you're full of yourself.
What company are you referring to?
That rather depends on context, age, where he grew up, to whom and about what he is speaking, etc.
I thought this would be about how we have prioritized the advancement of technology for the few over the welfare of the rest.

Maybe it should be titled "Still asking the wrong questions"
When the crop is wind pollinated as is the case with wheat and other grasses, AND when there are closely related weeds and other plants nearby, a little caution seems like a good thing.

As far as neonicotinamides, they are a very useful group of pesticides. Safe for applicators, effective, long lasting. I use them quite often to control pests in the university greenhouses I manage. I think the jury is still out on their role in bee colony collapses. Even if they are not implicated, there is a lot of evidence that they do kill insect pollinators
Trouble is, we are a fifteen person startup and my boss is a friend of that guy's from way back. I honestly would feel odd mentioning it. There's no way to couch it in "what if a hypothetical person..." because he's known this guy for longer than the company has existed.
Another, more cynic, way to see it is, you can choose one of two possibilities:

-You can have politicians that try to appeal ill-informed general population motivated by fear. We would call this, the European way.

-You can have politicians that try to appeal well informed lobbyist motivated by greed. We will call this the American Way.

Or, the even more cynical, and probably more realistic option, you can have both: politicians that try to eat their cake and have it too.
>Women are still only 32% of physicians in 2010, despite "large advances": https://thinkprogress.org/despite-growing-number-of-female-d....

Important difference between engineering and medicine is that they seem to be graduating at similar level [1], is this low number is due to a similar phenomenon of women dropping out mid-career. Given they seem to be graduating at similar level [1]. Pay can be attributed to women choosing to pursue less specialization. why is this the case?

1. http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/medical-school-graduate...
Statistics has nothing to do with it. People should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. I am honestly shocked that this appears to be a controversial assertion.
I completely disagree with this... when I get on nostalgia kicks I often find useful bits of information about the current lives actors and actresses from my childhood who haven't had much work recently in the imbd comments.
Can you explain what "it" exactly is?
> Kimberly wrote, “Two girls in a group had been working on the robot we were building in that class for hours, and the guys in their group came back in and within minutes had sentenced them to doing menial tasks while the guys went and had all the fun in the machine shop.”

I see this all the time. Women don't feel able to confront men about things like this. Without speculating as to why, I'll say that when I've seen women hit back ("like a man would") it often works. It sucks but you sort of have to engage men on their level, which means meeting aggression with aggression. People are always going to try to take advantage of each other, and men respect aggression.
The tech is great and should be developed. But I worry about faking evidence, in court as well as in the news. It will get to the point where you can put any words in anyone's mouth, and seeing will be believing.

Perhaps it will be detectable, with technical effort, for some time to come, but as a propaganda and government corruption tool it will complete the circle started by the "telescreen/ankle bracelets" we all carry in our pockets.
"At best you had an "ok" situation. Nothing like the "rock star" attitude you get today."

Not being rock star is not an oppression. The ok treatment is what majority of people have. I mean, not being treated as something super special is not "considered less that nothing by society". It is being considered normal.

"And this snowballed into the workplace where the only people threated like the IT department was the accounting one."

There is nothing wrong with the accounting department. In pretty much all workplaces I have been at, they have been treated with respect. In any case, if that workplace treated accountants badly too, the workplace was shitty for more then one group.

"I can recall people dreading to call the sysadmin to deal with anything. Talking to them was considered a chore."

I have seen such behavior towards admin, but then again I did not liked talking with that particular admin either. I dont doubt that there were groups of great admins that were not treated fairly despite acting all polite and all that. Bad workplaces happen.

However, admin I considered chore to talk with was condescending too often and it was hard to get what I needed from him. He was good in tech, but talking with him was a chore.

"The best way to defend this is that before the ipod existed, noone would ever say "I'm such a geek"."

Yeah, I find everybody is a geek culture annoying too.

"We call girls with cute glasses "geeks"."

Guys with pretty much zero technical skills used to be called geeks just for liking a tv show or play videogame.
And yet, a significant portion of the comments on HN when this topic comes up:

* Claim that there is no problem, and/or
* Condemn any action to address this as anti-egalitarian because it treats men and women differently
We carry the PSTN over the Internet over private IP networks that interconnect with each other over the PSTN.

I know, it's nitpicking.
I'm very interested in learning more about that sort of topic. Would you mind sharing some of those websites? If you aren't comfortable sharing them publicly my email is in my profile.
Should you trust your nose or IBM Watson when you're sick?
Original interview: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-po...
If ever you feel that your day is too cheerful, go read John Christopher's The Death Of Grass; it'll sort you right out.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/941731.The_Death_of_Grass

In it, a rice virus mutates and wipes out all grass crops in Asia and Europe --- rice, wheat, barley, oats, you name it.

tl:dr: it doesn't go well.
Start and end tag inference really means element inference. LIke, oh, here is a <p>...</p> but it's not in a <body> element; let's wrap it in one to canonicalize it. That can be done in the abstract syntax tree, rather than by literally inserting tag tokens.

(I hope for the sake of SGML and HTML that you're the one confusing character level syntax with tree manipulation.)
This platform has also gotten memed as "fully automated gay space luxury communism."
React Native Redux Starter Kit
There are obviously many factors here, but one major one is

> women, more often than men, add that they want to become socially responsible engineers, working to solve major problems and making a difference in people’s lives—which is consistent with other research showing that women are significantly more likely than their male counterparts to be interested in engineering work that is “socially conscious” (i.e., specializations such as environmental vs. electrical engineering).

Electrical engineering and computer science and similar fields are, for the most part, just not a great fit for people with such aspirations. There are some nonprofits in the area, of course, but overall the industry is very profit-oriented. Most of us optimize ad revenue or something like that. We spend most of our days writing code instead of interacting with people whose lives we improve.
I have to admit, I'm pretty bearish when it comes to serverless. Mostly because it's an abstraction which leaks to hell and back.

Your input is tightly restricted, and with Amazon in particular, easy to break before you even get to the Lambda code (the Gateway is fragile in silly ways). Your execution schedule is tightly controlled by factors outside your control - such as the "one Lambda execution per Kinesis shard". You can be throttled arbitrarily, and when it just fails to run, you are limited to "contact tech support".

In short, I can't trust that Lambda and its ilk are really designed for my use cases, and so I can only really trust it with things that don't matter.