skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I again don't completely disagree, in the event real learning is going on. That's why I feel the "scheduled" shifts should be rather short and double-staffed, with the expectation residents stay as long as it takes to "get the job done".

I would make the argument that the vast majority of scheduled hours for a resident have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with learning and entirely to do with having shift coverage and are primarily economically driven decisions.

You do make good points about less uninterrupted time with patients, and it's a good reminder of how this is a very nuanced difficult problem to solve. Even in my industry where we can more realistically staff shift overlaps, we have handoff issues due to human mistakes. Nothing is going to be perfect, but I think we can do better for patients as well as doctors.
This is where I first heard the term as well. I wonder if they are at all related.
Not to mention the relative consolidation of players in China. Some reports have suggested that well over 51% of mining hash power is consolidated amongst three organizations in China. My last look didn't agree with that number, but still it appears that it may be much easier to control consensus than was intended.

Thus, "anything can happen" if a few key players agree behind closed doors and change the rules.

I think bitcoin is a quite useful transfer platform, but I think it would be foolish to store much of one's assets in BTC.
I'm not claiming it is end-to-end, nor did I expect it to be, but perhaps some people would assume that. I thought you were claiming they don't use encryption at all.
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OK, I'm on a train journey with a moderate internet connection, but all I'm getting is a black screen. Can someone tell me what this is, and whether it's worth persisting until it loads?

Thanks.
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I'm not sure a disclosure is required for a comment like this one.
My question then becomes: where is the manufacturer's certificate stored on the phone/laptop? Because if it isn't stored in a secure manner, an attacker could still modify the ROM and replace the certificate, and you would be none the wiser ;)
There's nothing that prevents Bitcoin from being a good anonymous currency. It simply isn't.

Its design allows it to be pseudo-anonymous at best, while Monero, for instance, has anonymity built in. Therefore if one seeks a truly anonymous currency they cannot possibly find it in Bitcoin.
Not a public debt or tax, and it's noted that this doesn't "legitimize" Bitcoin in the minds of the authorities, but looks like Norwegian prosecutors recently demanded the penalty for one criminal act to be partially paid in Bitcoin:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/pay-up-in-bitcoins-norway-pro...
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There have been many volatility events. Given that governments have the ability to practically outlaw it if they choose, that makes it quite risky as a store of value.

Several of the major volatility events in the past of bitcoin were related to Chinese government announcements or rumors regarding regulation/legality.

Sure one can transfer bitcoin without governmental approval (or against restriction), but that annoying need to convert to and from fiat in order to trade for other goods and services means that the governments still have a great deal of influence over bitcoin.
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I think your essay raises a lot of points about life until 40 but doesn't talk about what comes afterwards.

You don't point out one reason some people choose nursing/PA school. They get to move between fields somewhat easily. I think that belies the difference between these professions and physicians; the doctors become specialized in their areas while the mid level providers carry out their plans.

For people who have been in the hospital, the best argument to being a doctor over PA/nurse/etc is that, at age 60, you could be teaching, seeing patients, doing research, building biomedical devices, conducting community outreach, and doing what you were trained to do. Notably, for doctors, that doesn't include dealing with bodily fluids, angry family members, an arrogant boss 30 years younger, etc.

Like in every profession, doctors need to work to get paid. But, if you want to be in charge of your own work day when you're at the middle to end of your career, be a doctor.
How would one utilize this to game the market?
The ultimate in sailing is a rig without a hull (1975)
From my experience (as a dev) it's pretty good. You have to explicitly turn off accessibility features like dynamic type (larger fonts based on a global user setting) and VoiceOver works just fine with the default <Text> component. Since it's a native app React Native seems to have better support for these things than a WebView base like cordova.

However, I am not a disabled person, just a curious dev, so I'd definitely defer to someone with more experience using accessibility tools. Just saying it looks pretty good on the surface to me.
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Agile app development dept. for non-technical co-founders.
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>Also, a 28 hour shift doesn't mean that the doctor is working (or even awake) the entire time - they're on-shift, but there are periods of downtime. It's not necessarily 28 hours of constant activity.

Do you really want me operating on your Mom after 28 hours? I wouldn't. I can't tell you the amount of times a fellow resident has got in a car crash, or made a mistake related to patient care because of lack of sleep.

Also, let me clear up the "periods of downtime" part for you. For the last 6 call nights, I got a grand total of two hours sleep.

Honestly, I created a throwaway specifically to reply to many of (what are in my opinion) very misguided opinions on how these types of hours effect quality of care.
Yes, those are the laws. The theorems are more interesting from a maintaining-software perspective, though.

Yes, all higher-order strict languages can be embedded in a monadic model. However, there's an important practical difference between a single Monad with the entire application or computer's state encapsulated (course grain encapsulation), and many Monads with fine-grained encapsulation. High-quality OOP code can be embedded in the latter, and that's where the maintainability comes from.

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Perhaps, if you focused more on understanding the point I'm trying to make instead of proving me wrong, this conversation would be more beneficial to both of us.
Joseph A Bank was sued for perpetual sales [1]. The case was dismissed for defects in the plaintiff's case unrelated to the legal theory (they couldn't produce receipts of their supposed purchases), but of course even an unsuccessful lawsuit of this nature could bankrupt a startup.

Of course, without deep pockets, a startup is also unlikely to be targeted for this.

1: http://business.time.com/2012/06/11/can-you-sue-a-store-for-...
People in a single entity are by definition not independent.
I don't think that go puts as much emphasis on cross platform.
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I tried it out a while ago and it's really easy to use. I can definitely see how someone using it day in and day out are really speedy with it.
An interesting fact of the history of self modifying fonts is that one of the first of those fonts, the FF Beowolf, was created by Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland. And Just van Rossum is the brother of Guido van Rossum.

Some more details from FontFont:
"FF Beowolf was born at the end of the dark and murky 1980s when Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland found a way to change the programming in PostScript fonts. When printed, each point in each letter in every word on the page would move randomly, giving the letters a shaken, distraught appearance."
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I wonder how much coffee plays into this. I've yet to meet someone who sleeps consistently more than 8 hours per night who feels the need to drink coffee.

edit: 8 quality hours of sleep, e.g. you wake up and you're not tired.
Original paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00994
The problem isn't the number of doctors we produce, but the number of residency spots.
I'm working on a simple.interface to Riak in Node so that you can just say:

client.get(key)

or:

client.put(key, value)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/raku

I am using that to build an ORM and a blog with GraphQL and React.
Neither.

MIT still looks out for #1.

That award comes from a particular lab that values creativity and defiance in the face of overwhelming odds (as would be needed for an amputee to become a dancer or athlete).
I interpreted that not as a cheap shot against Haskell but a warning to avoid constantly chasing the perfect technological solution. (IOW just ship what you've got instead of constantly tinkering)
That would make sense I guess but in a "lesser evil" type way.
> Why they did a big study to see what was best

As you well know, everyone lies through their teeth when it comes to hours violations.
I wonder what damage our twice yearly clock changes do. An hour doesn't seem like much but, giving an entire population a little bit of jet lag simultaneously has to be bad for us, right?
You are wrong. Many states have laws against this type of deceptive pricing, and it's against the FCC's guidelines as well: http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=0fe5a1d5614a06c2f27...
In literal ROM, as in read-only burn once memory.
Not to be pedantic, but I just learned a few minutes ago that "free rein" is the correct spelling, as in horseback riding. Thought I would share the knowledge.
> empirically produced lower rates

Come on. You know people are lying out their asses about hours.

Here's an idea. 12 hour shifts. Like nurses. And NPs. And PAs. Who also do handoffs.
Of course, I just wanted to suggest another technique that might be helpful to someone. Just going by IP address like the OP led to me to find a lot of VPNs and the like that I didn't want to detect.
Uber can play hardball with its competitors in reason like how it destroys and steamrolls the old taxi industry yet it's gone too far when it streamrolls over everyone who is not a Travis Kaladick bro!!!

From its customers to its drivers to journalists to etc and etc they treat all the same ...like garbage. That's because its CEO let his ego blow up(forgot humility and being thankful for the luck he's be given) and hopefully soon it will blow up in his face!!!

Also when and if Uber falls others who play fair will take over! I.e. All Uber drivers will make an exodus to Lyft!!!
According to Sam's own writing, Eddie might've been the main motivating force of it all, but Sam architected all the details of the fraud.
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It could be implemented at the state level here (Republicans would never allow a pro-labor law like that to be passed federally). If New York, California, or Massachusetts passed a law like this, it could be a competitive advantage in attracting top talent in fields that treat their laborers terribly (like medicine, apparently).
Without signing 1000 people can say it is secure but the maintainer can still send whatever they want
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I've tested myself for the past 10 years and it seems as though I get sick (cold/flu-like) more frequently when we lose an hour.

It's anecdata and small sample size and other possible confounding variables, but I think there is a kernel of truth in there.
Again, see #1; this is the real problem. There are not enough of us to allow a normal 40 hour work week. The guideline is no more than 80, and we regularly exceed that.

We are doctors. Society demands highly trained and skilled physicians to take care of them. It takes many years to produce one. And there are many hours in the day.
I'm one of those people. When I'm in the habit of drinking coffee, regardless of how much sleep I get, if I miss my scheduled caffeine I get withdrawal symptoms- sick to my stomach, headaches. I'm currently most of the way through slowly on my caffeine intake, though, and it's been going well- it's just abrupt withdrawal that causes problems.
I feel like Google Talkback can do basically the same with. You hover over the screen and Talkback tells you, what's underneath your finger. It can even notifications out loud. I would even go that far and say that it can do at least 90% of what VoiceOver can.

Yes, it might not work magically in every app, but with a good choice of apps, a blind person should be able to do most of the normal activities.

If I'm wrong, please, let me now.
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"Most people don't know rocket science" "Actually I know some rocket science!"
I wouldn't hand my computer over to anyone, Geek Squad or not. It's handing the keys to your life over to some person whose motivations you have no idea of. Rather than repair my computer, I would buy a new one. I recommend everyone do the same. Think of it as insurance for your livelihood, and the most guaranteed insurance at that. Well worth the money, especially considering the average lifetime of a laptop.
One of those reasons could be cost or speed of production. Mk1 could be better the mk2, but mk2 is easier to make.
RMS is more of a realist than people think. He doesn't believe in owning phones, but he'll gladly use someone else's who has decided to make that tradeoff. He's well-aware of the fact that the proprietary regime leads to more software in more niches. He chooses to stand as a beacon of light to those who want a better world.

He considers his efforts to have been wildly successful.
You can change prices for new customers while keeping the old price for existing customers. Though if it's a price drop, you might want to lower for the existing ones too.
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Especially when reporting duty hours violations is made to seem like the fault of the resident by your bosses. You are incentivized to not report violations.
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> Come on. You know people are lying out their asses about hours.

People are lying about hours; therefore in peer-reviewed research, longer scheduled shifts led to lower rates of medical errors?
Sometimes PDF files are just images of text from a scan. No actual text. Sometimes I try copy and pasting from PDFs and get random garbage. They could add OCR though.
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It is more a reflection of the instant liquidity available on exchanges. A more accurate description would be that the price went from about $1250 pre rejection announcement and has settled at around $1190-$1200.
Conway's On Numbers And Games has this feature too - I knew I'd love it when I saw that was the first page.
There are definitely measurable population-level effects, like increased traffic accidents [1] and heart attacks [2]. And given that its purported benefits are completely unsubstantiated, it's amazing that DST still exists.

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20140100

[2] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc0807104
What's the point of us paying $119 from our hard earned cash for Windows 10, when Microsoft is starting to make the Windows 10 more like an advertising trap...

Think about it,

When you buy a product, and you’re presented with ads about other products that the company is offering.

Rather than them providing your money’s worth of value, you’ll get the feeling that they’re making money out of you rather than fulfilling their promise.

It's just shady business, Microsoft...

Here's a great writeup that I found with 5 simple steps to turn the damn File Explorer ads off on Windows 10.

I hope it might prove to be useful for you guys :)

http://saintlad.com/turn-off-file-explorer-ads/
I gave up a grandfathered unlimited AT&T plan to take my phone number to T-Mobile, because I'd rather have unlimited* (with the asterisk) data that I can use abroad as well. Unlimited AT&T isn't worth the occasional, accidental $200 charge for checking the news in El Salvador or wherever.

There are caveats even for the grandfathered folks.
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> since to a lot of people it represented the coveted inflow of institutional investment into bitcoin

I would say coveted inflow of retail investment. I don't think any serious institution would invest in bitcoin. The risk is too high given that the AUM can go to 0 instantly with one data breach.
The co-author is Jerry Pournelle. Niven and Pournelle co-wrote a bunch of things together.
> Do you really want me operating on your Mom after 28 hours? I wouldn't.

No, but I don't want 3 different doctors treating her with that time period either[0] - at least, not with the findings of the peer-reviewed research demonstrating that this leads to higher rates of serious medical errors.

> I can't tell you the amount of times a fellow resident has got in a car crash, or made a mistake related to patient care because of lack of sleep.

Nor could I tell you the number of times critical information has gotten dropped at a handoff boundary, impacting the care of the patient.

Nobody's saying that sleep deprivation doesn't impact medical care. What the peer-reviewed research is saying is that sleep deprivation is less dangerous than frequent handoffs.

[0] which is what 12-hours shifts (as you proposed) could entail.
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I write on Quora on the topic. You can follow me here:

https://www.quora.com/profile/Vincent-Guidry-1

Attracting a mate boils down to two things, building yourself up and putting yourself out there. Keeping them around boils down to being emotionally mature.

I usually follow my followers, that allows private messages, so you can message me there if you need help.
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I am following two projects one extremely technical and another more sale oriented.

The technical one is rediSQL[1] I am embedding SQLite into a redis module. Until few days ago I had performance issues that I wasn't able to figure out and I tracked everything in an issues.
I finally figured out the problem, solve it, gain a lot of performance and I am about to write a blog post about. The next step is to get the exact same performance in the redis module compared with using SQLite embedded in a simple C program it is not going to be easy and I would probably defer this performance gain opportunity in favor of more features in the module.

The second project, the sale oriented one, is WalOfStickers.com[2] where I try to sell hexagonal stickers for laptop. I like to show the technology that I work with and make my laptop mine, but I don't like that the more sticker you put the messier everything became, so I made these hexagonal sticker that you can tile in your laptop and make neat, complex patterns.

[1]: https://github.com/RedBeardLab/rediSQL

[2]: https://wallofstickers.com/
I know I'm a boring middle-aged old fart and therefore completely out of touch, but my brain just refuses to even begin to comprehend why people would want to watch other people playing video games. I can think of almost nothing I would find more indescribably boring.

Even more incomprehensible is the fact that the 'spectators' are willing to pay money to watch other people play games, so that folks are actually making huge amounts of cash from this.

But, when I think about it a bit more, I suppose it's not that much different from people paying to watch other people play sports [which I also find an oddly pointless past-time] and I suppose computer games are increasingly replacing real physical activity for the obese generation. So it's probably inevitable people will want to 'tune in' and watch, just like they'd do with a football match, or athletics event.

...and don't get me started on the people who earn big money on YouTube from having people pay to watch them opening boxes. I already feel like I need to stick my head in a bucket of ice!

As regards the "mystery" [in the headline] of such people occasionally dropping dead while taking part in these 'marathons', it's not that surprising.

Anyone who spends 12 hours a day for months on end, sitting on their arse indoors, without getting a breath of fresh air or any exercise ––and probably existing on sugary drinks, junk food and cigarettes, is not likely to be in the best of cardiovascular health to start with.
Note that pools != miners. A pool might set the policy for their blocks, but miners can swap pools whenever they feel like it. Large pools have had individual miners abandon them in masses before.
You are aware that e.g. Android ROM is flashable? So it's not a ROM in the literal sense -- probably EEPROM or something. I'd imagine an actual ROM (non-erasable) would only contain the bootloader and/or BIOS. So the manfacturer could sign those and check them, but everything afterwards would be modifiable.

Let's assume that the manufacturer places its cert in ROM so nobody can change it. Great! We are totally secure! Actually, not at all. Where does the signature check take place? In software? Then an attacker could man-in-the-middle and feed the signature check function with a malicious cert. Even if this was not a problem somehow, how would the manufacturer handle key revocation? The cert is burned in, so if their key is compromised, every single device out there is broken.

In summary, unless every single step of the signature check is performed in an isolated environment (e.g., TPM), an attacker will always be able to circumvent the process. Solid crypto is not enough; you need to also ensure that the crypto implementation is tamper-resistant!
Oh God, how many stupid, power hungry, buggy chat apps will I have to install on my phone. Make it stop
Trello and Google are SaaS, they sell a service, not software.

They made it so that one could register easily and use the service quickly, without special training or any setup. That's how you grab tons of free users.

Atlassian is mostly shrink-wrap entreprisey software. They software with expensive licenses that also require extensive installation and maintenance by the client. They need a sale force.
Many organizations are going to have Office 365 subscriptions already. If it's a typical Microsoft product it won't be much of a threat though.
Civil disobedience requires a large amount of cooperation from many people to be effective. Good luck with that. The anti-Trump side couldn't even be bothered to show up to vote against him (for anyone; there were more choices than Hillary on the ballot, and there's all the Congressional and other positions too). If they couldn't be bothered to cast a ballot, you really think they're going to be bothered to risk their freedom and jail time on civil disobedience demonstrations? Hah!

The only people with guns in any substantial numbers are the Trump supporters, the anti-Trump conservative Republican voters, and maybe a few violent radical leftists. The only ones there who are going to take a real stand against the government are the last ones, and they're 1) too few to make a real change, and 2) not people you want to side with anyway--people like Timothy McVeigh. In case you've forgotten, almost all the people on the left are anti-gun and consistently support anti-gun legislation. They're not going to be stockpiling arms and ammo. The ones who have are either happy with the current situation (Trump supporters), or somewhat unhappy but confident they'll be able to get politicians they prefer elected in the next election or two since they've already succeeded in getting many in Congress now ("mainstream" conservative GOP voters). It's only the leftists, liberals, progressives, etc. who are hopping mad, and they generally don't believe in gun ownership and certainly don't believe in civil war.