skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see the argument is this case, since it is a treatment that may be applied in the field anyway.

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

Some choice quotes:

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

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

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

So no, ethics committtees don't kill. They restrain doctors from going out of control.
One of the most astounding aspects of academic research, to me, is the price of journal publication.

When you author a book, you earn some money. Not a lot, perhaps, but some. When you author a journal paper, not only do you not earn any money, but you pay the publisher several thousands USD in fees! For example, Nature: http://www.nature.com/ajg/open_access_faqs.html. Even worse, you must sign a copyright form that transfers ownership to the publisher.

I understand that there is a staff behind the scenes that puts these publications together -- editors, admin. staff, etc. -- and they need to be paid. But some journals have acquired such prestige over the years that they can name their price, and the manuscript submissions will keep coming. So perhaps these prices are not so surprising.

In the debate over which makes the most impact -- journal vs. conference paper -- most academics will say the same thing: journal, journal, journal. That message has been beaten into our heads. But in my opinion, we are entering a new period of transition similar to what newspapers have been facing. I think it is possible that conferences and journals with new subscription models will slowly usurp a share of manuscript submissions away from journals with traditional models. For example, in ACM and certain IEEE disciplines, conference papers already reign as the preferred publication format among researchers.

Of course, in other areas such as law and medicine, there is probably no hope. Things will remain the way they are.
the only way to get back on the system is buying a new iPhone or Android

Guess they haven't heard that trusting the client is a poor security model. I can think of about 10 ways to make a web app think I have a new phone.
File ->

New Doc (generate name, save in $HOME)

New Doc Named...

Rename
> Whatever it does, doesn't seem to involve separate folders.

Sure does, it overlays a standard Unix filesystem with some OSX-specific features (hides "system" folders such as /bin or /tmp, displays "bundles" as files).
does anyone have any actual screenshots or examples of the difference?
Read the spec for memcpy: memcpy's behavior on overlapping memory regions is undefined - not "required to corrupt memory", but undefined. Changing memcpy from not breaking on overlapping memory regions to breaking does not fix any bugs.

Adobe should not rely on non-spec-defined behavior, but there's no reason why glibc <i>should</i> be making this change without making a major version number change.
Since copyright only protects expression (at least in countries which haven't introduced protections for databases), couldn't important papers be liberated through a cleanroom process? Say that person A reads the original paper and produces a paraphrase that's intended to be fully accurate and as clear as possible but contains whatever circumlocutions are necessary to avoid reusing the choice of expression in the original paper. This paraphrase is then handed to person B "in the cleanroom" who hasn't seen the original paper. B produces a concise and well-written paper from A's notes. A then reviews B's work, informing him of any misunderstandings that have crept in, still without using the wording in the original paper: this is repeated until A and B are satisfied. All communications between A and B are monitored and retained to prove that the cleanroom was not contaminated.

It would be a fairly slow process, so surely only a small proportion of papers could be put through it. But if the work were focussed on the most important/high-impact papers which are under restrictive copyrights, might it not have a meaningful effect?
An $80 fixed fee for each startup-related law question seems like a great deal if you get somewhat extensive advice - i.e. something more than "come in to my office and we'll talk about it". Also, barriers to entry for this type of idea seem pretty low. Stackoverflow could easily use their existing Q&A framework to enter the legal advice market, minus some sort of document handling?

I'm sure there are other existing companies in the Q&A space as well. Maybe it depends if LawPivot does a good job getting extensive (detailed) answers to these questions, rather than superficial answers.
Yes, I wanted to say something about hackers vs. crackers/script kiddies, but decided against it.

Ssh access doesn't have to come with privileges: main purpose of ssh access is to be able to run top, iostat, ps, strace/dtrace, grep log files and also verify that my service is configured correctly.

You are correct that code can be reviewed, but that isn't always the case nor is the reviewer omnipotent. In any case, with both code and ssh is there is a strong audit trail: an employer needs to make it clear which are fire-able offenses and which aren't.

For what it's worth, "give developers read-only ssh access to machines that don't contain sensitive customer data" works great for Google, Amazon (where it also comes with a pager, something I'm in favour of), LinkedIn (recently implemented-- this made my work much easier), parts of Yahoo and I'd be surprised if that isn't the case at Facebook. In other words, companies that are strongly oriented around UNIX/Linux (it's available as an option on developer desktops), which can afford to hire (and are able attract) strong developers and strong operations engineers and which are in the business of writing Internet applications.

My personal philosophy actually goes quite a bit beyond that: hire great, generalist engineers who are considerate and nice, give them root. Let them push some code without review, if they're confident their code won't cause damage. Review any tricky code, bug fixes, or mission critical components (e.g., the HA storage system, revenue loop components, UI changes). Roll back instantly if it trouble occurs (something you couldn't do at MySpace, apparently!).
I'm pretty excited about the language. I like the combination of ruby syntax with static typing. The author is just nitpicking on puts, type declarations. It is a DIFFERENT language from Java. And it's resonating with a number of HN readers already.
So, a $350,000 tribute to Apple?
That is a complete straw man. Please stop using straw man arguments.
Born in Chester and lived there until I was 16. Now living in Birmingham.
So you agree that the financial industry gets to take risks at other people's expense?

This makes your other points about the benefits of the financial industry and your defense of them 'not stealing' seem incoherent at best.
Airlines may have pretty big revenues, but their profit margins are tiny, and at the end of the day, net profit is what matters to investors. In 2010, Google only made $30 billion in revenue, which is only a tiny bit more than Delta airlines made. But Google is worth $184 billion, while Delta is only worth $8 billion.

The costs of servers scale extremely well, while the costs of airplanes and jet fuel don't. So web companies have much higher potential profits than airlines, and they're consequently worth a lot more.
Would you pay for Twitter?
Can anyone recommend a good novice-friendly Linux distro with a clean, consistent UI that isn't being progressively replaced with presumptuous avant-garde nonsense?
You have. For example: http://www.icab.de/mobile.html

Maybe this was a restriction in the past, I'm not sure, but I've been happily running iCab Mobile for quite some time and enjoying it's more grown-up featureset.
Best Lesson from this article (for me): "Multiple small frequent iterations are better then one massive change [for already-established websites]". Amen brother.
If the financial industry hadn't been bailed out, it would have contacted. In its case, supply hasn't followed demand. Supply is artificially high, because demand has been produced by force.
-module(opine).
-export([opine/0]).

opine() ->
S = case random:uniform() > 0.2 of
true -> "love";
false -> "hate"
end,
io:format("I ~s the new website.~n", [S]).
Mentioned this below as well, but got a pretty straight forward ruby implementation of Knuths Dancing Links up at:

https://github.com/biilmann/Ruby-DLX-Sudoku-Solver

It's not hyper-fast (for speed I actually implemented it as a c-extention to ruby, but it's a long time ago and I don't think I have the code around by now) but being ruby it's fairly easy to read.

Can really recommend reading the paper on Dancing Links and playing around with the algorithm, its such a great feeling once you start visualizing how the linked list trick works :)
This is a really really tough question to answer. How many other people are contributing to the company? How big is the company? How long have you been there? How much has "the man" put into the company financially and in terms of time?
Why not make it a RubyGems plug-in?

% gem heist
> I remember the program automatically copying the files from a camera to some folder deep within the hard drive and then giving not a clue later as to which folder that was and certainly not allowing any exploration between folders...

Well the fundamental idea behind iPhoto is: why would you care where it put your files at all?

* If you want to see or edit your pictures, you can do so via iPhoto (or iPhoto-compatible image manipulation)

* If you want to mail or export pictures, iPhoto has "Share" and "Export" options

* If you want to open one of your pictures in a third-party software, OSX's standard file picker has a "media" section which gives you a special iPhoto file picker (which works extremely well, it can even search through all your tags and faces)

All the iLife apps (iMovie and GarageBand, mostly) work this way. So does iTunes.

> Don't you find "right click" with one-button mouse a bit tricky?

Control-click. And every mac that has shipped in the last 3 or 4 years can right click.
Let's hope, then, that you do not choose to share violent, nude photos of yourself. For most people, though, I think this is an adequate (and, in my opinion, not too harsh) deterrent.
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Uh... what?!
In theory, perhaps.

In practice, this sort of already exists. And the process can take years. For example, some IEEE journals take six months per review round! (I know; I've just been through one!) Why does it take so long? I have no idea; reviewers just wait until the last minute, anyway.

Another problem is the definition of an "important" paper. That, itself, sparks debate.

One more problem is corruption. When reviews are not blind, bias can sneak into the review process. It happens. And it can distort all notions of what "important" papers are.
There are 4 people working directly on the company, with two additional executives over seeing this company and the other branch (which is under a different name). I've only been here ~4 months. "The man" has put a lot into the company but as far as it comes to this new division (which occurred in two months), the number is not nearly as significant.
Hero Quest and its ilk were good for this sort of thing.
Can you edit YC application after deadline?
I had submitted my YC application before the dealine for summer 2011 and now I just edited couple of lines and resubmitted it ...since the instructions say that I need to submit my application at least once before the deadline and I can edit/resubmit as many times as I want ...but now I am freaking out. Will my application be considered late?
Why Should iPad Gaming Be Taken Seriously?
I feel a bit sad that this is so true: Android is an excellent alternative where Angry Birds runs just as well.
The financial industry makes up a much larger portion of GDP growth. Artificial growth that would have contracted if it hadn't been bailed out. Demand for the financial industry has been produced by force, not through the marketplace, unlike other industries.

Your simple, basic, elementary economics don't apply when an industry is being protected by the government.
Marion Carrette, Zilok (Paris), Team is Important not Sex of Team
What's the Secret Sauce for an HFT firm?
I was disappointed to find a pretty vanilla looking Java 101 as the Intro to CS course. I also wonder about the utility of developing a curriculum from the ground up by linking to articles and readings rather than building on existing material like MIT's OCW etc. Starting with that material and fleshing it out and filling in the gaps would be more effective I think.
And I agree with you, but Linus is still right that the user is more important. When a Fedora user sees that Fedora is broken, all the user knows is that Fedora is inferior to other things.

So in a way, it is about supporting legacy software.
I think there was a message when you clicked through saying that it would be considered late. At least that's what I saw.
How is it a straw man? You claimed something, and I said there was no evidence for it. I guess you just don't have any evidence.
If only C++ was as useful as the odd bit of assembly programming.
Ugh not to mention the constant stream of gay slurs and swastika emblems.
rwmj mentioned BCPL, but most of the languages C defeated lost by virtue of being too high-level, not too low-level. Pascal was probably the best of the lot, and "Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language" is an excellent contemporary explanation of the issues with it, none of which apply to modern Pascal dialects, but many of which apply to Fortran and PL/1, the mainstream high-level languages of the time.

On microcomputers, high-level languages in general were not viable. They were too inefficient. Jonathan Sachs wrote the first version of Lotus 1-2-3 in 8088 assembly, the same language as the operating system it ran on. Later versions of both were written largely in C. It was competing with VisiCalc, which was originally written in 8080 assembly and, as I understand it, sort of cross-compiled to the 8088 — thus failing to take advantage of many optimization advantages.

Really, though, programming languages don't win broad adoption by sucking less, except very indirectly. You rarely choose the programming language you're going to learn next according to its aesthetic merits. You usually choose it because you're working on a system that's written in it, that can most easily be called from it, or that has good support for it as a development language. You're not going to write an AJAX app in C++, but in JavaScript, or maybe CoffeeScript, because debugging and performance improvement would be a nightmare if you use the LLVM JavaScript backend. You're not going to build a search engine on Lucene using Lua, no matter how much you love Lua, because you'll spend all your time on getting Lua to talk to Java. (I don't know, maybe with GCJ this is practical? I'm not going to find out.)

And, although I wasn't there at the time, I think people adopted C in the 1980s not because they rationally weighed its advantages and disadvantages relative to PL/1, Pascal, Forth, and Bliss, but because the only internet-connectable machine their university department could afford was running BSD Unix, and if you wanted to write software for it, especially if you wanted to modify any of the large volume of software that already existed, you'd damned well better write it in C. So you learned C. And then a lot of the first-class programmers who cut their teeth on Unix moved on to the microcomputer world, where different incompatible versions of Pascal were vying with different incompatible assembly languages, and they brought C with them.
But compared to real type inference? In languages which have been around since the early 80s??

Just being able to infer the type in the right side of an expression is rubbish.
I haven't seen Call of Duty or Final Cut Pro in the web yet. Native applications haven't given up the ghost yet and I really don't expect them to. They are more responsive to the user and easier to build.

Other than the link 6ren http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2371909 provided for the Fallacies of Distributed Computing, I believe the problem for apps on the web are the crappy state of web client development. Project Builder / Interface Builder or the 1st version of Visual Studio can build better apps than tool today in an easier manner.
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It seems like most of what he's complaining about stems from the illogic of the MDI interface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface) and has nothing to do with the Quit command as such.

But really, what you want is for every document-editing app to open a single document, with maybe some tools on the side. The problems he mentions here go away and the "quit" menu option remains perfectly logical.

It's made a little tougher through Browser-tabs being the bastard-son of MDI. But seriously, multiple windows should be handled by the taskbar or some other thing.

Music is tougher question but considering every the Linux jukebox apps I know is a complete pig on resources, some way to quit pretty necessary.
How does a massive bail out 'keep the system in check'?
That is something I don't like about Linus. He's so aggressive when he speaks; it's insulting.

It might also be a european thing. We are more direct. Less talking around the issue at hand.
> we are entering a new period of transition

I certainly hope so. I cannot for the life of me understand the economics of academic journals. They do a bit of editing and send out the papers for peer review. And that's about it, right? Where's all the money going?

"Curators" are important, certainly. I want respected people to select articles worthy of publication. I don't want them to then lock those articles up where they're only accessible to academics and those willing to pay obscene fees for individual access.
Recommend taking a look at Immunet, it's for Windows, and has ClamAV built in.
I might pay for a Premium twitter account if I got past the Fail Whale - but a question: wouldn't picking any revenue model put an upper-bound on Twitter's evaluation? I mean, if the Premium account is $5 a month, and you know that 2-5% of users purchase it, then it's pretty easy to figure out what Twitter's revenues are, as a basis for a more scientific evaluation. Maybe, because the current investors have set the evaluation so damn high, they will actually SHUN a lot of the revenue-generating ideas that don't justify the inflated evaluation, thus dooming Twitter to never quite have a model, or to be sold.
wow. i just learned a lot about margarine.
So, did anyone try out the workaround in comment 55? I tried it just for fun, but Flash already doesn't crash for me, so I didn't see any difference.
Please everyone stay in the UK. We need more startups outside London - it's crowded and not a good place to work.

I attempted to get a startup going in Nottingham (we could have been salesforce!) in about '02 but managed to fluff it up miserably thanks to my inexperience.
net profit is what matters to investor

...that was the point all along.

So web companies have much higher potential profits than airlines, and they're consequently worth a lot more.

This isn't a competition between tech companies and airlines. Airlines merely act as an example an industry which, at least as of 1995 when Buffett first brought them up, had a net loss over the entirety of the industry's existence. What's the net lifetime profit of the tech sector? What will be the lifetime profit of social websites in another ten years?
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Interesting; i wonder why more people don't get into Linux hacking.
I'm Swedish. Some of this is true, but there are also many half truths and over-simplifications in this post.

The Swedish system does have aspects of corporatism in it. You may criticize those aspects, but they don't constitute corruption just because you don't like them. There's nothing secret or shady about them -- it's how the system is supposed to work.
There is a link to your application and if you click that it lets you edit your already submitted application (in my case I had done that before the deadline).

I think somewhere in HN I read that you can edit it after deadline as well as long as you submit it once before the deadline.
I think that the negative reaction is based on the lack of a check or balance. If I swipe a picture of you petting your puppy and call it a hate crime, and you get banned, what's the recourse?

What's to stop somebody like me from going album to album and flagging things?
Economists who do tell that too much finance ALWAYS led to social and economic collapse: Jensen, Faber, Rogers, Schiff... and read some history too before you accuse someone of not relying on empirical evidence.

FIRE - Finance, Insurance, Real-Estate Economy - based on fake (paper) money, fake (virtual) instruments and debt won't hold for too much longer against a real economy based on production (China). Just wait for the day when Chinese tie their Yuan to gold/silver/oil/whatever. FIRE economies repeated through-out the History. They always failed. You can't build on paper foundation (read: on promises). You need to have REAL assets to back up your economy.
In that case, I'd be very interested to know what Dr. Sethi meant by it. Even the simplest Haskell program requires one assignment (to `main`), so the idea of programming without them seems like an exercise in futility.
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Oh really? What about latest Bernanke dream that you can solve problem of too much debt by getting more into debt? Isn't he dreaming?