skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much every CRUD app I've ever written was to replace something that was already being done in Excel, and the reason was always to get more of one or more things a RDBMS gives you. So I can say this from a knowing place: good freaking luck replacing Excel's other capabilities. 30 years of work by thousands of Microsoft devs is not easily replaced. It's like a moat around their business that they built by brute force.
All of my close friends are doctors and the toll that school and residency does on the body and mind is honestly shocking

Absolutely true: http://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-nu...
This tool has really helped me on several occasions with a wide variety of issues up and down the stack. Even with debugging web apps because while the chrome Dev tools are awesome they (at least at the time as far as I know) didn't expose the initial headers/network exchange for certain types of auth like NTLM.
Eric Schmidt has said outright that he's "deranking" particular sites that Google has targeted specifically (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/21/google-de...).

Other sites like The Intercept, which does indeed do very good original reporting, while criticising the hysteria over Russia, have also been hit.
Related to this from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15738392
Probably the only ethical solution is to develop everything open-source
Well, the security of a cryptocurrency (assuming Proof-of-work based) comes from the total amount of work that has happened in the chain since your transaction.

Because of that, the largest cryptocurrencies with the most work behind them will naturally be the most secure the quickest.

Monero might have some very good benefits, but the much smaller size of the network means it's a magnitude easier to attack from a state level adversary.

And the fact that Bitcoin can (and will) evolve over time means that the benefits from other cryptocurrencies can be put into Bitcoin as they become useful or proven.

This is already happening with Bitcoin, and it's not going to stop.

That being said, I don't think that other cryptocurrencies are pointless, and I do believe that they can continue to happily coexist. Ethereum is focused on the "smart contract" side of things. Monero is focused on privacy. They can all have their uses and specializations, and they can all exist together in the same ecosystem.

Even if Bitcoin ends up not being able to adapt and evolve for whatever reason, being a "store of value", your cryptocurrency savings account, is still a valid use case, and can continue to be one even if there are cryptocurrencies that do everything else objectively better.
My favorite fact: If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action was simply to accelerate and outfly the missile.
Since WDDM, a good portion of the display driver in Windows is in user space, as are sound and network drivers. This is how you can upgrade your graphics driver without rebooting or even losing your open windows, and why network and sound driver crashes don't usually bluescreen. It is probably the biggest reason why Windows doesn't crash anywhere near as often as it used to.
Exactly! Apple has explicitly opened up Siri to certain kinds of third-party apps... but not music.
Somewhat related: TV serie "midnattssol".

https://www.svtplay.se/video/10738923/midnattssol/midnattsso...
Reminds me of a guy on an internet forum discussing experimental treatments, who tests everything on his pet rat first, and posts his observations.
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Bitcoin replaces one tyranny with one that is far worse.

If it succeeded in displacing existing currencies as you attest, it would amount to an unprecedented and catastrophic redistribution and concentration of wealth.

80% of all bitcoins that can ever exist have been mined and are already owned; this is a monstrous design decision far more unjust than the inflation bitcoin sought to prevent.

Our current corrupt and stinking financial system is far preferable to the neo-feudal world of bitcoin where all spending power is concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of tech overlords who had the sheer good fortune to literally own all the money.
Part of this is because medical professors make a salary that is at least twice (and usually higher) what the next highest paid professor at a university makes. You fix the salary program across the board, and medical school will become cheaper as well.
Residents have a limited ability to choose where they attend residency.

The following shows the percentage of residency positions filled by speciality:
http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Main-Match-Re...
Thanks for sharing. Did you interact with a human on the phone? Is 10 minutes too long a time for a possible emergency condition like that?
I work in healthcare and know, and went to school with many doctors. I hear this "long hours" compliant all the time. The problem is, they all seem to assume it's someone else's problem to fix. If physicians and med students want to get rid of the 24 hour shifts during residency, well they have to make that happen internally. They drive that decision, not the patients.
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American taxpayers should fund medical schooling that is ruthlessly efficient, transparent, and operated with no profit motive.
Not on the Chromecast.

At least Prime video has been announced to be coming to the ATV, although I'm not sure what the hold up is.
Erlang VM works this way, if someone's looking for a program that does this in practice. They have the mantra "let it crash". Something higher than you is in a better position to handle your error and restart you to a known good state.
That hasn’t stopped other companies in this space.
Are there any public Fossil deployments that are free for open source projects? This might increase the network effect of the Fossil community.
My pet theory is that the long-term reasoning for artificially limiting the number of residencies/medical school spots is to avoid an oversupply of healthcare professionals after the baby-boomers die off in 15-20 years.

Sure, there is tremendous strain (and consequently profit to be made) in the system now, at the expense of overworked doctors with limited interaction with their patients. But if the supply of doctors met market demand _right now_, in 20 years there would be an over supply. An over supply of doctors would introduce a new set of problems associated with lower salaries and eventually lower quality of care (see Soviet Union). So in a way, this artificial market manipulation of the supply of doctors is forcing innovation and timing the population market, and betting on medical advances that will eliminate many doctor visits through preventative medicine or computer asssisted diagnostics.

Essentially the AMA is lobbying to prevent a scenario that created the artificial STEM shortage myth in the 1990's that new career scientists have still not recovered from.
> but overall cost-benefit accounting that would take into account such things as savings or lower medical bills for patients from the use of lower-paid residents instead of practicing physicians isn't done

This is talking about the cost-benefit from a societal perspective, not from the accounting perspective of the hospital. From an accounting or business perspective, it's pretty clear that residency programs don't make money for hospitals.

An easy way to reason about this is to remember that nothing's stopping hospitals from opening up residency slots that they self-fund. If residency programs predictably broke even, you'd expect them to do that. Except, almost no hospital does this, because the programs don't predictably break even - in fact, they pretty predictably lose money.
Could you dig up the URL for that article, please?
The medical equivalent to Google I see all the time is uptodate.com
When you put it like that, ransom1538, I'm not going to click the link!
>making proper applications out of Excel workbooks

Yes, exactly.

If we're being uncharitable, we can spin Greenspun's 10th rule[1] of programming as:

>"Any sufficiently complicated Excel spreadsheet contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of a proper centralized database."

Or, if we're being charitable, we frame it as an internal MVP (Minimum Viable Product):

>"Spreadsheets are the internal 'mvp' that proves the business value before you build the centralized systems. When the spreadsheet becomes unmaintable spaghetti formulas and the xls email workflow crushes under its own weight, that will give the company the evidence and the confidence to spend $1 million and migrate the spreadsheet to a proper centralized database."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
The screenshot in OP's post and this[0] comment, make me think that cheap plans will mostly allow you to use apps/sites where the companies pay the ISP. These will
be things like YouTube and Netflix, who need visitors for profit. Things that will be blocked by default are sites like HN, company websites, personal websites and anything else that isn't a huge company. So in the cheaper plans, the one being visited pays, in the expensive one, the one who visits pays.

In the end, it's just another revenue stream where, if they play it right, the consumer still pays the same, but the content providers also start paying. This means more money from the same bandwidth.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15757190
If what you're quoting is what you are actually responding to, you've missed the point. That quote is a comparison between a UPS driver and a Doctor, not a Doctor in the US and one in Norway. If you're trying to compare countries, you're not paying twice as much once you account for what goes into achieving that income.
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The issue here is we don't directly pay for the services. It is handle by 3rd parties, AKA health insurance companies. Health insurance company is not true insurer. They pay for everything. I meant, do you call your car insurer to pay for oil change?

Since health insurance companies merely handle the payment and get a cut for this services, they have the incentive for the cost to go up. High cost equals to higher profits.

Insurance company should be insure on highly unlikely illness, such as cancers.
> my career in business software has still mostly been about converting spreadsheets into more "proper" applications.

Still true for many people in 2017. @patio11 probably said it best:

> Every spreadsheet shared in a business is an angel announcing another SaaS app still needs to be built.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/655674551615942657

FWIW we ended up in business software after one of our open source libraries to read and write spreadsheets (https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx, demo http://oss.sheetjs.com/) ended up garnering lots of demand from businesses looking to build those "proper" applications
> If you are just a COG in a wheel writing J2EE JavaBeans, it takes almost no work to send it over to a body shop in India.

In theory, yes, in practice, you will find out that things are not so simple when you try to actually use that code.
Funny that you mention Mayo. Their doctors are paid mostly on a tenure basis and their income is not based on how many patients they see or what kind of procedures they decide to perform on them, unlike in most other places. It's still not cheap, but there's less of an incentive to milk the patient or the insurance company.
> Because there is a workaround, applications just need to be updated.

What actually happened: people reverted the patch. In the real world, you can't expect timely or even correct response from vendors you rely on. It sucks, but it's how it is.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/08/21/is-...

Well worth reading through the archives, IMO, even if you're not a chemist or biologist (I'm not). Quite aside from the methodological issues and the realities of working in the pharmacorp industry, Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" series about dangerous chemical compounds is... a blast.
You don't need technology, or at least not software, you need pre-printed templates: https://www.staples.com/Awards-Certificates-Templates/cat_CL...
> In other words, are these ‘walled garden’ plans aimed towards people who would otherwise buy a regular data plan or are they aimed at people for whom the choice is a walled plan or no plan.

You say that like there's a hard line between them. No matter what it's "aimed at" it will hit people who want to save a buck and think they only need Facebook. Except that when there is a critical mass of people who no longer have the choice, Facebook's practices can become much more abusive because it becomes that much more difficult to leave. You have to convince everyone you know not only to use something else, but to use something that requires a more expensive data plan.

Moreover, consider what you're asking for, even if only lower income people subscribed. You want to take away the benefits of competition from the people with the least means. Talk about the poor get poorer.
Excel shared workbook is versioned and comes OTB.

You can see user edits, old cell value and new one.

It gets latest data on save and even does merge
Code duplication can be seen as a "defensive copy". If you duplicate code, the original version can be changed without breaking the copies.

Disclaimer: I'm not making a value statement here :-)
Private repo or not, checking your credentials into git is amateur.

I’d normally say eventually it’d bite you if you fall into the habit and do it on a public repo by accident but it looks like it can bite you on a private one too.

Manage your secrets. Use something like Vault[1] or Pass[2] they’re free and awesome projects.

I keep all of my secrets even non-prod ones in one of these two because if you think about it, even your “non-prod” github credentials are kinda prod since you have access to code.

1- https://www.vaultproject.io/

2- https://www.passwordstore.org/

Also when it comes to AWS secrets, give your developers read only access, make them turn on MFA and assume a role that scopes permissions to the work they need to do.

Leaking AWS secrets is really asking for it. The amount of bots that consistently scan public git repos and then use the credentials to spin up massive instances to mine crypto currency is impressive. I’ve seen it do upwards of $10000 in AWS usage within five minutes of the commit containing the credentials.
I understand that feeling of incompetence when you watch them look up symptoms in front of you. But think of it like a programmer digging into a language’s documentation or a structural engineer looking up calcs in a load table. You can’t be expected to remember every single detail. And it requires tons of experience to trust the result you’ve chosen. In other words, would you rather have a practitioner that works purely from memory, or one that checks their assumptions against the corpus before making a diagnosis?
Bashing one's head against the wall in a day long debugging session for some hard bug usually cures people of the opinion that "computers only ever do what we tell them to do" is a serious limitation on their range of behaviours in practice.
How much of America is like this? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/21/republica...
Charging for access to a website like this should be considered a form of piracy. The only appropriate response is a full IP range block.
Agreed! The whole system is in need of an overhaul. Why don't students start off medical school right away in undergrad? Who the F* wants to wait until they are 30 years old before they finish school?
Good point about Microsoft, they went full Google. But they were much better at privacy before changing course.

Apple is also much better at privacy now. Maybe they'll also change course and then we might as well stop using smartphones, cause we're being treated like sheep.

The non-Siri Apple machine learning is happening on device. This is something that Google would consider doing for 5s, before all in the meeting would start laughing and they'd go for uploading everything.
I agree that mission critical data needs to get out of it and into a centralized system, but I still feel Excel is an incredible tool in any business.

You would have thought this would be obvious- it seems analogous to perl/python or other such Swiss army knife tools we use for quick one-off solutions that occasionally get pressed into permanent formal use where they shouldn't.
This really sounds like another case of whats old is new again. In a way, I think it speaks a bit to the obsolecence of what used to be 'systems professionals' that things have swung so far into the end user domain.

If the finance team (and I have been part of one early in my career at a major conglomerate) is doing essentially the same repetitive analysis on periodic data sets, it is their bad for not reaching out to their systems people for a better way. Those types of reporting can be canned at a much earlier level and output generated/delivered in the desired format directly to the end users. And nothing precludes still making data available for new types of analysis.

Excel is great for small operations, ad hoc stuff and just quick and dirty work (a REPL of sorts as others have said). But not as a primary/crucial reporting tool for large operations.
> Make Brad Spengler the primary maintainer of the Linux kernel and we may actually get self-driving cars that don't kill us when they get hacked in 5 years.

But only because every self-driving car project out there will avoid Linux like the plague.
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That's by design, and not in some secretive, nefarious way. People will drop out of med school.

There is also a lot of residency spots that go unfilled. I know infectious disease is struggling to get bodies into spaces.
There are two key differences:

* You can't outsource your doctoring from another country easily.

* People can get hurt or die from a bad doctor, but that doesn't apply to the vast majority of software development.

This puts doctors (and many healthcare professionals / companies) in an excellent negotiation position that we don't have.

I also think that doctors aren't the only stakeholders. I think doctor's offices hardly compete with each other and can still have terrible hours, fewer working days, and still make you wait after showing up for an appointment because the supply is so constrained. I wouldn't want "software developed in the US" to be similarly non-competitive.
I'm sure he's not ignorant to the fact that gene therapy could kill him.
There is comment and then there is literal ad hominem. "This guy is incredibly stupid." Lots of people do lots of things that—on the outside—look stupid. Hell, I would wager the odds of having a lasting impact in the world by choosing to join a startup are lower than this.
The r/MachineLearning discussion for this(for reference) -
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7eor11/d_d...
Michael Bloomberg did something similar at mine (UMich '16)

He condemned Trump and Bernie (without naming), but then also condemned political correctness and safe spaces.
No. And no one made that claim.
Most other wealthy countries subsidize the cost of medical education to some extent. This article didn't touch on the possibility that the extra $100 billion the US spends on doctor salaries is just being spent on education subsidies in other countries.

Many professions in the US are paid more than their counterparts elsewhere. Software development is a good example, where the salaries I see in the US are often twice as high as what I see in Europe. But Americans have basically no rights as employees, very little time off, no access to universal healthcare, no access to high quality public transportation, etc.
> Iirc residents are a profit center for hospitals, meaning that if they really wanted to, residency slots could be self funded by the host institution without federal funding. That line of reasoning sounds like an attempt at obfuscation (not necessarily by you, but by the hospitals and medical profession in general).

They're not. If they were a profit center, there would be more of them, unless you think that hospitals would willingly refuse to do something that's clearly profitable for them.
I found opening the Google Keep app on my phone to be fairly painless to quickly jot something down. I really like the location based reminders that Google introduced across the board.
Missing a trick these hackers, they don't want to ask for a one of payment, they want to turn this business of theirs into a cashflow. Pay X a month and we will keep the data safe. X could be a much smaller number than 100k. As we all know they haven't deleted the data. Think of it as a security tax levied by the internets.
Sorry，this is http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08724v1
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It's inconvenient for sure, but to be clear opening a repository is a one-time operation. It puts a file called ".fslckout" in the current directory which acts like the ".git" directory does for Git.
I tried using Helm + Projectile, the problem was that I often use emacs out of .git repos. So I ended up using ST3 instead.
It may be amateur, but it's one of the most common mistakes. Even at top companies.
> The hoops and complexity that some people go through to DRY (don't repeat yourself) are worse sometimes than the cost of maintaining two copies.

The number of bugs are proportional to the lines of code, this is undeniable from empirical data. Ergo, fewer lines of code will tend to yield fewer bugs. So if your code is literally the same, there's no reason not to extract it into a function.

That said, the moment you have to start adding parameters in order to successfully factor out common code, ie. to select the correct code path taken depending on caller context, that's when you should seriously question whether the code should actually be shared between these two callers. More than likely in this case, only the common code path between two callers should be shared.
The fact that residents aren't paid much by the hospitals doesn't mean that the hospitals aren't making a net profit, it would normally be evidence that it is profitable for the hospitals. Even working 100 hour weeks all year that salary would only come to $65k leaving another $85k to be accounted for. Some of that is benefits and some is the time used by doctors to train the residents and by hospital administrators to oversee them. But the residents also do work for the hospital that would otherwise have to be done by doctors or nurses. So I'd expect that they are profit centers for the hospital but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise if someone can come up with numbers.
The 24 hour shifts are there because it results in a higher standard of care for patients with life threatening and time sensitive treatment schedules. If they worked in 8 hour shifts, there would be a handoff and loss of information at each shift change that resulted in worse outcomes. It’s a fairly well studied phenomenon. My SO is in med school right now and they just changed the regs from 16 hour shifts back to 24 hour shifts.
Or you know, hospitals with residency programs could just use of the massive insurance money they make to fund residency positions. It's not like the residents aren't employees or something.. Even the medicaid/medicare procedures are reimbursable.
Also http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/11/15/how... or http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/01/08/met...