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Yes, this is weird. There has to be more to the reasoning.
I know this is off topic, but your "work" is stupid.
Not only is motivation more important than some time "lost" due to FB usage.
If you cannot get some of your private stuff during work hours, chances are you are going to leave earlier or come in later.
Lastly it is ineffective, you can always "stunnel" via port 443; they would be none the wiser.
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But people think that way because of the utility of the hand. Worthless hands are abstracted into the same category (junk) because they all have about the same value. A royal flush, however, has by definition a guaranteed value with no risk involved. You cannot lose with a royal flush, thus the variance is 0, which is the rarest of all things at a poker table.
Thats great, perhaps you could write about your success story, how to get first customers, and how to retain them etc. It'll be useful for everybody, in your country and around the world..
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But mechanical systems have safety checks built into them. For example, some years ago I wrote some code that helps to monitor and control gates on a reversible interstate highway. Theoretically, the main traffic center software could command all of the gates open, causing head-on collisions. In reality, in addition to many software checks, there were real-world checks and balances involving predictable manual procedures, on-site human intervention, etc. so much so that a Stuxnet-like attack would be extremely difficult, if not near impossible.
You might not see it because it's such an inconvenient thing to see; afterall your income is tied to it. The main factor keeping your income so high is the AMA and its regulatory allies.

With rising costs and increasing pressure to save money in healthcare, you better believe that one day a computer will do your job.

PS You might want to re-read The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution.
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Having said that, as Freud observed, "sometimes 10k is just 10k."
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I appreciate point #2: "The probability that I exist, given that I exist, is 1."

However, the question addressed by the OP is not "What is the probability that I would exist in this world?" but "What is the probability, across the space of all possible continuations of the world from the dawn of humanity, that the world would end up in a state that includes me?"
"Good" is a subjective term. Python's strengths have been enumerated ad infinitum by smart folks with a lot more experience with the language than I have. Personally, I generally prefer perl for the kind of tasks I'd typically consider python for, but that's more to do with my dislike of being told how to do things than any particular weakness in python.

A lot of programmers really enjoy that additional structure and I have to admit that when it comes to reading someone else's source, Python typically makes for a more enjoyable experience than Perl.

At the end of the day it's up to you to decide if Python has any value for you, and the only way you're going to find that out is to take it for a test drive.
You could go with a traditional time selector (http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHe...), but I like the single box for typing in the time. Might be able to parse more things with a library like Chronic (best name for a gem ever - http://chronic.rubyforge.org/).

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I think your definition of descriptivism is incorrect. Descriptivism certainly doesn't mean everything anyone ever says is gramatically correct. Please read http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001843.h... .
But identical twins have the same genes, so even if your gene sequence came into existence, it doesn't mean that you would exist (whatever that means). Sentience is weird.
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Or, if you want an eink reader, you could get a PocketBook (probably model 902 or 903; see http://www.pocketbook-int.com). From the site:

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This reminds me of a bit from the introduction to "A Short History of Nearly Everything", by Bill Bryson. To wit:

"Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely — make that miraculously — fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you."

That said, the calculation is exactly as meaningful as the Drake Equation: you can plug in wild variations in equally "probable" values for the several steps in the equation, yielding staggeringly divergent end results, all of which mean precisely fuck-all, because nearly every number is little better than a wild-assed guess.

It's an interesting thing to think about, certainly, and a great way to remind yourself how stupendously fortunate you are to have been given the incredible, inestimably valuable gift of being, but in the end, it's naught more than sophistry dolled up in an equation that passes muster as well as a 16-year old kid using an fake ID saying he's 35.
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Scribophile sounded interesting, but I left when I found out that I need an account to actually see anything. You even have a free user tier, so WTF?

You don't have to take my word for this either. Some basic (free) analytics can give you a ballpark estimate of how often this is happening. It's probably a non-negligible ratio of your incoming new viewers.
Is this getting blown a bit out of proportion? The correlation with birth order is 3 points on an IQ test - for reference, texting has been shown to drop your IQ by as much as 10 points [1].

Much like a MBTI, this is probably useful in the broad sense, but should not be depended upon objectively.

[1]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/st...
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Worse, they appear to be (poorly) mimicking Riak without being aware of it.

That evaluation is admittedly, based on a rather specious list of "features".
I saw a license plate today that said "ERN645W". Isn't that amazing? The chances were 1/78,364,164,096!
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The author of Facebook Disconnect (Brian Kennish) has written another Chrome Extension called "Disconnect" (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhla...). Disconnect not only deals with Facebook, but also Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and Digg tracking.
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There's some other areas where Riak is significantly ahead, such as already having Map-Reduce (allowing the map and reduce functions to be in javascript, even), scaling up and down are both already implemented, and riak supports multiple backends, including in-memory databases, leveldb, bitcask and innostore.

In a matter of days, Riak will also be getting secondary indexes, full text search fully integrated, and riak-pipe, a great way of building workflows.

If these people want to be working in Ruby, there's Ripple-- a ruby library supporting Riak, and adding Ruby style functionality (I believe, I'm not too familiar with Ripple.)

I think if you want to go your own way and build your own thing, that's fine, and good for you, if its' a learning exercise. But if you want to advance the state of the art, either do something different from the rest, or join an existing open source project that is further down the pike and help it go even further.

I say that, of course, while myself I'm working on something I've been thinking of as "ruby on rails done right" (namely, a web platform where you write coffeescript for the server, and you have scalability and database built in via close integration with riak)... but I hope that I'm cutting some new ground. (namely, letting you make coffeescript run concurrently...)
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I have to say - my time on facebook fluctuates heavily based on whether I'm single at the time...
How does String#prepend compare to String#insert in your benchmarks? eg. "bc".insert(0, "a") # => "abc"
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The sad part about this is that it shows how much Kindle's current PDF conversion service needs to improve. I have tried sending PDFs to the email conversion service and more often than not it screws up diagrams, figures and equations. Even text documents, which you don't need to pass through the conversion, don't always render well (try transferring any RFC to your Kindle and see how it comes out).
I'm confused by mono table (which implies a single table) and how mono doesn't mean single point of failure. They talk about a cluster, and adding machines, so I guess mono table lives on multiple machines... but how? Is it replicated to every machine? (EG: every node in the cluster contains a complete set of the data?) IF so, this would mean that as you scale, the updates of writes to replicate the changes across the cluster could possibly become quite a problem, in terms of bandwidth and latency. I can imagine each node spending most of its time handling updates from other nodes.

Also, unless you're locking the table on every node simultaneously (the thought of dealing with that gives me headaches) you're going to have consistency issues.

I think their goals are excellent-- zero admin, no SPOF are really important features to me. If they've got a new architecture, then it could be a really important and innovative project.

Would love to see an architectural description.
This brings to mind the excellent Feynman quote:

“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”

The point that Feynman was trying to make is that you can’t just hunt for anomalies after the fact and then say they are somehow significant. You have to make predictions and do the test and see if those predictions bear out. In the same way it’s not amazing (at least statistically, although perhaps biologically) that any one person is born. It’s just like that license plate. Of course, the license plate ARW 357 is one of millions of possibilities, but that doesn’t mean that it’s amazing every time you see a license plate. They’re all one of millions, and it has to be one of them.

I came to say that, but it's eloquently copied from: http://surplusgamer.tumblr.com/post/1114853865/derren-brown-...
Just as an FYI, disconnect causes a number of login problems on a few of said sites rendering them unusable.
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This assumes that my lineage is the only one that could produce me. Which, I believe, is wrong at least at the genetic level. As to the other levels - this starts getting tricky, cuz we quickly find out that the definition of 'me' is quite fuzzy.
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Yeah I just installed the firefox version, saw it blocked even google charts, and uninstalled it. If it had adblock like control to whitelist domains it might be ok but as it is, cool idea, but no thanks.
Also see http://www.ghostery.com/ if you don't want to be tracked by web beacons in a more general way, i.e. not only by Facebook.
I think the social impact of siblings is probably more significant that the intellectual one..... whatever that may be. I don't actually have any personal experience to draw from here. I grew up an only child and am raising an only child.
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Ok, so everyone agrees that doctors are underpaid and overworked, and when someone isn't underpaid or overworked it's a misallocation?

Trust me, a good radiologist is easily worth that much and more. They make hundreds to thousands of decisions a day and produce data which is scrutinized carefully. Many radiology mistakes also eventually come to light through time or autopsy, so they are also accountable.

People in other jobs are paid more to do far less and be far less accountable, the finance industry being the number one example. (Thanks for your good work lately.)

One final point is that medical training in other countries isn't like this. In Australia, we don't work ridiculous hours most of the time and remuneration is reasonable. As well as making actual healthcare inefficient and needlessly expensive, the US has managed to do the same to medical training.
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Maybe I'm just odd, but social networks don't really bring me any value. I have a few close friends who I stay in touch with no matter where we are, and I do it on a medium that is a little more personal than the digital equivalent of an announcement to all your friends. I thought maybe I just didn't like Facebook, but I saw the same thing with Google+. Sometimes I wonder how many people on HN are the same way.
No one places much significance on the random people who win the lottery. But if that random person happens to be you, you feel incredibly lucky (and rightfully so).
What a very confused opinion piece.
But given that "me" includes all my experiences as well as my genetics, we have to throw the probability of all those into the equation as well.

At the very least, if you're going to take these sorts of calculations seriously you're going to have to ask what the probability is not only that I exist, but that everyone I've ever met also exists.
This is mostly websockets/comet with events triggered by message queues in the backend. Disk is not faster than when Gosling reccorded, so if you have db then use voltdb.
This recent Facebook smear campaign is interesting to watch on HN. Is it the work of an organized group, or just the hivemind's gobbling up of anything anti-Facebook? Either way, it's poor form and not news, this plugin and its more broader 'disconnect' sibling have been linked before several times.

Nb: I have no skin in this game, I personally don't have a Facebook account, but it's not because I'm some anti-FB zealot.

The frontpage of HN has been very disappointing in the last week with non-substance links littering it, and even less worthwhile comments accompanying them. Let's try not to upvote such frivolous and low-signal links.
"We operate under the assumption that users will not do what they don't want to do, as long as we make it explicit what might happen."

That's a BAD assumption. Average users aren't nearly as smart as folks posting here, in that they don't understand things the same way we do. If you've worked on apps with real users, or observed what even average Facebook users do, I would be very shocked if you disagree.

"And if they make a mistake, they can always go change their settings."

Try this out with your 10 non-techie family/friends sometime - ask them to show you a list of apps they've granted perms to. That experience might change how you look at users.

"So I'm not so worried about users who sign up for the Washington Post Reader app, which is marketed as a social reading experiment, and subsequently complain that it shares your read articles."

What about family computers/tablets? Dad wants to share with friends - kid uses iPad and now stuff goes to dad's timeline. Who do you blame? How do you fix this?
It's interesting to consider "spending" an hour a day on the service. What if I pop in like 10-15 times a day to check notifications. I feel like it's a lot of usage, but total time is actually quite minimal. In addition, I have Adium signed into Facebook chat 24/7. Being a developer by trade, I'm online nearly every waking hour, so usage may seem even higher than it really is.
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If it hadn't been you, it would've been someone overwhelmingly similar to you.

Yet still not you.
This is what I finally decided two weeks ago about my "dumb app idea" Trollaroid. I put a workable version on the Android market and had a few people use it, and since then I've already had more good ideas from feedback than I had for three months mulling it over. The fact that it's now out in the public has also been a force towards me actually working on it.
Just curious, but what about the timeline made it the "last straw" for you?
This is referenced in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers when he discusses who makes it on to the Canadian Jr National Hockey team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
Do you have similar regression code in Matlab?
Well you could say Yuri Milner's YC investment approach is more based on data than anything else. It is on YC's, not on the companies, but meta-heuristics are still heuristics.
It's somewhat reminiscent of the anti-Groupon sentiment that began about the time some of the other major players started to get into the daily-deal game (however Groupon wasn't helping itself much either).
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"... It's entirely possible that this is a word well known and in standard usage within the original target audience (which is not us) ..."

'Us', isn't 'me' who does come from a fine/technical art background.

The distinction is subtle. If the writer means train artists with zeal then 'Atelier Method' would be the correct term but Atelier as a place to work? I would have thought "studio" would have been a better choice, derived from Italian, "studio" and Latin, "studium" (and "studere", to "study" & "zeal"). Note the French derivation, Atelier also translates to studio of "fashion designer" and "alchemist" or "wizard". This use is old and not used much.
There's a fairly wide appreciation among technically aware people of just how deep Facebook is getting its tentacles into things. Sentiment has been turning anti-FB for quite some time; it's been aggravated by FB's blunders in the past, by defaulting to over-invasiveness, then dialing back in response to outcry. So whenever FB gets press for something that can be viewed in the same light, there's a lot of judging them by their past actions.

So while there may be an element of opportunism in covert anti-FB PR, it's working with dry kindling. There's real fire here, not just smoke.
Your information will likely never leave Facebook. I know of a few people who "cancelled" their accounts, only to rejoin at a later time. Their information was preserved. They didn't even have to re-friend me.
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I disagree with all your points. I think the main reason for differences in salary is that it is easy to measure what a radiologist does. It is also relatively easy to measure what a cardiologist does, particularly if they are doing procedures such as angiograms.

Mostly a neurologist diagnoses stuff and manages chronic disease, and how do you measure that? Arguably, the neurologist does the most difficult and complicated job. They get paid based on consultations per time, which is clearly a pretty hopeless measure.

Also, the notion that radiology is going to be automated by increased processor power is a bit ridiculous.

We are talking about a task where lives are at stake, communication and DISCUSSION with real people is required frequently, and there are large variations in the quality and modality of scanning.

Also, any data driven approach is very limited... what happens when a new MRI sequence is developed? We have to wait 15 years for real radiologists to do enough reporting so we can get a proper dataset?
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