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This guy gets it. Many replies in this thread are asking about computers interpreting scans, assuming I know nothing about the underlying technology, or am blinded by some form of bias.

I have been programming computers since I was 5 years old. I have a MS in neuroscience, and I am a board certified radiologist, so I think I'm qualified to understand the problem.

Believe it or not, nothing would make me happier than a magical black box that could spit out accurate radiology reports. Someday I'm going to get sick, and I would benefit from the technology.

If my job was replaced tomorrow I would be OK. I'm smart and hard working, and I'm good at almost everything I try, eventually. Also, I'm saving every last penny I earn, so I can keep things up for a few more years I should be financially secure.

Having said all that, I still think the problem is not solvable. On any given day I read xrays, CT scans, MRIs, ultrasounds, PET scans, mammograms, nuclear medicine studies, or live flouroscopic studies, and using CT or ultrasound guidance I can get a needle into just about any part of your body to take a biopsy. Doctors talk to me and our discussion influences the differential diagnosis, and the interventions planned. I am not just matching patterns, I am thinking and using my hard worn judgement.

Wishful thinking aside, computers cannot do this now, if ever. And if / when we reach the point that computers can do this, my guess is every other job will have fallen, with the exception of plumbing.
I don't understand why you felt the need to comment when you say yourself "from what limited knowledge I have".

PHP and Python both have "true multi process capabilities". It's called forking. I think you are confusing forking with threading.
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Ask HN: who wants to participate in a problem interview for Kodesk?
I'm a co-founder in Kodesk, the AirBnB of office space. Our goal is to help startup founders and entrepreneurs optimize their office costs through flexible office sharing.

We already launched a first version of the platform in last May. It was TechCrunched but it requires a business model pivot. Now we are trying to refocus our customer segment and we are interviewing startup founders and entrepreneurs to better identify their problems.

We are based in Brussels, Belgium for now so the interview will happen mostly over Skype, it will only take 30 minutes of your time and it doesn't require any preparation.

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It looks like, though, that the sicp.mobi file is from the original repo (revision date of Jan 10) and the fork that this post points to includes a series of improvements to the text (revision date of Sept 18) that the .mobi hasn't been updated to take advantage of. Thus, it looks like the .mobi needs to be recompiled to include the improvements that @jonathanpatt has committed. There is also a pull request on the original repo that should likely be included in any revision, too: https://github.com/twcamper/sicp-kindle/pull/5
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Ask HN: Launch iOS/Android/Both?
Hi Everybody

I think this question applies to really almost any app/startup.
What do you think should we launch: one version on one of the platforms or both?
If one then which one?

EDIT: More specifically - I'm talking about tablets (iPad/Android tablet of choice).

Yours, sushidev
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127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

127.0.0.1 facebook.com

127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net

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127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net

127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.net

It sure seems to speed up using the web.
You have accurately described me.
Making friends can be turned into an algorithm for processing inside the programmer mind.

Read this 2 or 3 times and do everything it tells you to do, and you'll have people going out of their way to be your friend.

http://www.amazon.com/Likeability-Factor-L-Factor-Achieve-Dr...

I got the audiobook on this and listened to it twice 6 months ago, I've been following the rules religiously, and my emotional intelligence and personal likability has skyrocketed. I have people who I know who's faces light up (male and female) when they see me and are eager to see me again. They don't know I'm running an elaborate algorithm to do exactly that, and can turn it off as quickly as I turn it on. Learning the basic syntax and procedures are for maintaining loyal close friends is easier than learning Programming.
EasyPrivacy rules can be seen here:
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt

Search that for 'face' and you'll find only 4 rules that would apply, and those are about removing pixel trackers whilst leaving content intact.

The rules above remove content, which is just as well as anything a pixel tracker can do content could do. Which is where the current paranoia level seems to be.
I said this yesterday on the original discussion.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033475

Good that you ran with it, though, and illustrated the point.

Perhaps a better headline would have been "Facebook is still tracking you across the web even after you log out", though. Generally it's only hackers that know what "enough" means in this context, and Facebook's market is, as we all know, much much bigger than us.
> it's one of those areas where the problem is a lot harder than it seems.

Yes, exactly. To computer savvy people unfamiliar with radiology it looks like something a computer might be good at, but I suspect the best we can hope for is a computer to aid me in my work, not replace me.
I am curious: What was an the CD? Was it empty?
I run a UK startup (www.scirra.com) and recently secured angel investment. I keep hearing about how much the UK government wants to encourage UK startups, but so far I've not read anything relevant to me, heard from anybody useful, or generally seen anything the UK government might be doing that interests me in any way. Are they just full of hot air or am I supposed to be doing something I'm not? Right now I feel very much like our business is fighting alone with no help from the government at all, despite all their talk...
I've been in the process of minimizing my Facebook presence, but have left the account open just in case a specific need to use it arises in future. I'm already on other social networks, and Facebook is relatively high maintenance in terms of chasing privacy issues and dealing with other nonsense. For me the cost/benefit just isn't worth it, although I realize that this won't be the case for everyone.
I think you're wrong in that department. It's become a fundamental in online identity, especially for younger people. I watch my younger siblings (teenagers) who depends on that for their social lives. Sure, they wouldn't die without it, but it's an essential part of being a part of their community. I could say the same for myself, I don't like Facebook and what they do, but if I wasn't on it during college and especially grad school - I would have missed out on a lot of the experiences with my colleagues.

I have no idea on how you live, how old you are and who you keep as company, but I think you're going to be in the minority or already are) soon enough. It's a social organizer that everyone has opted into which means breaking from it makes it infinitely harder to remain social.
It's funny, I would assume pg - as in "a plan for spam" pg - would be supremely interested in running some kind of Bayesian predictive model over YC candidates. Maybe the subtext of that quote was that he tried it and it didn't give any useful data.

An interesting conjecture is that numerically predicting startup success (defined as a high standard deviation of return on investment) might actually be impossible because any venture risky enough to get those kinds of results would fall outside the acceptable error bars of the predictive model. The equivalent in spam filtering would be if you wanted a system to show you only messages that were 99% likely to be spam, but still not spam.

I'm not sure if that actually makes any sense, someone feel free to jump in and tear it to shreds.
Jerry Lettvin seems to agree (http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn/interviews/jeromelettvin...):

"Up to about 1950's there was a kind of freedom in the scientific world — certainly at MIT — that allowed you to play games of all sorts. As two or three decades went by MIT was taken over by managers."

"Managers have wrecked education immensely. The differences between education and research now and what was done 50 years ago is fantastic. There's a profound difference in the freedom to research and question that you could do then, and what you're not allowed to do now. I wouldn't be able to get a job now under any circumstances."

BTW, one of his hacks showed up on HN a while back. (http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2670243)
But then some sites stop working, like Twitter and even some parts of Google :(
Have you seen a typical medical school class recently? The people getting in these days is almost shocking. I have a hard time believing that qualified people are being shut out of admission.
I haven't looked, but I would bet any money that Google does the exact same thing, too.
I thought about it, but I found that most people who say that actually spend more time than they think. Its like instant messaging insofar as it's easy to think you spend a few minutes but in reality you are spending hours. I'd recommend you time yourself (and confirm you really are only spending a few minutes a day)
Bias: people not interested in facebook probably won't click on this story...
That's really a slippery slope. I'd highly recommend timing yourself and confirming it's only a few minutes a day.
I'd hope the fact that it's a poll would draw people not interested in Facebook :)
Given the number of people who don't have or don't use Facebook, I think there are a lot of people who don't derive social value from social networking.
Good question and I'm not sure. I would guess that if it doesn't accept them then it wouldn't read them either. The first step in the cookie transaction would be to check whether that cookie already exists (an attempt to read the cookie). It would seem easiest to stop that process at that point based on user preferences rather that just programming it to check at the actual write time.

This is all speculation though.
This is exactly why Django used to call itself an "MTV" framework (Models, Templates, Views) rather than an "MVC" framework - we realised that the classic MVC pattern didn't really apply to the Web.

We lost that argument because no one cared - in fact, I think we probably caused a whole load of confusion by not using the same terminology as all of the other frameworks.
These are the AdBlock Facebook rules you want:

||facebook.com^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||facebook.net^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||fbcdn.com^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||fbcdn.net^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net

The key is to allow FB's CDN when on FB, but to disallow it and everything else when not on FB.
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I thought about it, but I think anyone who says they spend "five minutes a day" in reality spend much more time. Years ago I thought I spent 5 minutes a day on aim until I really started clocking myself (old school way, with a stopwatch). That 5 minutes was actually an hour :(. That being said I highly recommend timing
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I have family all over the world, as well as old friends whom are residing in different countries that I like to keep up with. To be able to stay in touch with these people is very important to me, so because of this I spend perhaps an hour a week with no interest to increase that usage. If they were to live closer by I probably wouldn't bother with a Facebook account.
otoh, you need a browser signature if you want to avoid CSRF attacks.
I used to think that designing railway signals must be the hardest problem in engineering, because every time I'm delayed on a train (a pretty common occurrence in the UK) the announcement blames it on a "signal failure".

Then I found out that the problem is caused by an epidemic of metal theft on the railways!
not that I want to turn this into a pissing contest, but I emailed this to them on the 14th of November 2010. I emailed them again on the 12th of January this year. I have been sitting on it for that long.

I updated my post to make that clear, that this is an issue that is almost a year old.
> Who would want to share something before they even read it?

Apparently Mark would, as he has already installed the "great app" Washington Post Reader, as the OP pointed out.
To everyone who thinks he or she spends five minutes a day or some other short burst of time per day: please time yourself. Please! I insist because, as I mentioned a few times in a few replies, I found that people who say they spend 5 minutes actually average about 1 hour, be it on aim Facebook or blogging or slashdot or HN. If there are enough people who truly spend 5 minutes a day, I'll add an option in the next poll (which I will ask during the work week to control for the time of day)
Does it increase or decrease as a function of relationship status? Maybe there is some sort of correlation with number of partners ...
I'm a Rails person, but I always respected the Django community. The fact, that you were clear with the MVC vs MTV approach since the beginning was one of the reasons.
The pre-regulation environment was not a modern information economy like ours is today. In today's world, financial regulation is created at the behest of industry to create the appearance of responsible management.

Much like a seatbelt made of paper, financial regulations are for appearances only, as the recent massive crisis should illustrate profoundly.

Financial firms are the top donors to both political parties and are the recipients of unprecedented handouts. The idea that we have any sort of meaningful financial regulation at all is absurd.

The best evidence of this is how people nitpick about a tangential but easily sound-bitable thing like marking to market or the SEC jumping on Groupon after there's already blood in the water. They bear no impact on the quality and scope of governmental oversight over the financial system, yet the public is supposed to believe that tales like these are evidence that oversight is occurring.

The most charitable argument in favor of the SEC is that it's understaffed/underfunded and must focus on high profile enforcement actions. In reality, it's a sham agency whose role is to fool the public into thinking that the financial services industry is regulated in a way beneficial to the public.

Even today, the core problems that actually caused the recent crisis have not been addressed. These are the government programs that artificially elevate housing prices and the conflicts of interest had by ratings agencies who depend on the business of those whose products they are intended to rate.

It's important to realize that we live in an economy where 50% of capital is allocated by the government and where the private/public partnership of the financial industry and regulators has an extremely large impact on day to day life.
If you do a few (relatively simple) qualifying steps your investors can qualify for EIS tax relief which makes angel investment more attractive as it reduces the downside.
Why should any cookie last more than 30 minutes anyway in this day and age? Make all cookies session cookies.

Also disable third-party-cookies entirely.
I gotta say I love El Reg's sarcastic style
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Expand on this more. How does this differ from privacy mode (at this point most browsers have a "InPrivate" browsing or "Incognito" or "Private" mode
Considering there is a giant "ad" at the top of Google.com, I'm surprised it's such a small number, relative to total number of GOOG users.
Thanks platokant :)
The dreaded Facebook firewalls. I can recall 5 startups I couldn't even see because the first thing they ask is for you to log into Facebook. Its a nonstarter.
This is so immensely interesting and useful what the guy documented here... and thanks to Mark Erdmann, it's perfectly illustrated.

What you really see here is not just "his progress" but how he actually did it:

* He went back to the classics (greek statues, classic poses, perspective etc) to really learn the ropes

* he practiced over and over again, often the same subject again and again

* even if his taste seems to lie with those scifi/fantasy-style figures, he nevertheless trained to sketch poses, the human body, faces, muscles and so on

* his strokes become more confident year by year

* he needs less strokes on a sketch to make the viewer see something recognizable

* he judges his work repeatedly

* he lived with being a beginner for quite some time but didn't give up

If some of you might remember Douglas Crockford's JavaScript lessons series - he stressed the "knowing the history" quite a lot - quite similar to many "how to become a great developer" howtos stress to know a language like Lisp. (Basically our version of "learning the classics"...)

The same applies btw for what writers documented about their progress and journey to become good writers: "know the classics" and "do it every day".

For the folks interested in the science side of "becoming an expert", please consider Ericsson's "Expert Performance" (Cambridge University Press) - that's the source/foundation of the notion of "a decade" and the "10000 hours of deliberate practice" comes from. (And a very interesting read...)
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PDF started as a pure (100% ASCII!) page description language, but it later was transformed to a binary format, and even later, accessibility support made it easier to retrieve the text from a PDF document (before that, all you would have were the glyphs. For English text, these often mapped 1:1 to characters, but they did not need to) and some support for reflowing documents was bolted on (http://www.adobe.com/uk/epaper/tips/acr5reflow/).

Both accessibility and this reflowing do require participation by the creator of the file, though.
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Medical degrees are first degrees in the UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_school_in_the_United_Ki...

I believe traditionally junior doctors in the UK were also made to work extremely long hours - there have been efforts to change this recently.
Yeah, Google doesn't really get it how to set permissions properly. They do this on Android, too, and freak people out when they see permissions that at least seem so general - like giving a SMS app "full Internet access" or "full SD card access" and so on.

The problem with naming them like that is that showing the permissions becomes pointless, because people will install them anyway seeing how 95% of the apps have that permission, so they might miss the malicious one that has that, too.
"no help from the government at all"

I'm not sure what kind of help a government can realistically offer a startup - other than tax breaks, we had angel investors who benifited from EIS and I saved a chunk of CGT because of the tapering relief rules that were in place at the time meaning I only paid 10%.

Based on my own experiences I'd be very wary of any other "help".
Well you decide if you can afford financially to make both in the same time, but if your app gets hyped a lot on blogs and such and it's a good app, too, I can tell you potential users will get angry with you for not launching for their platform as well.
I offered neither a definition nor a description. Indeed, descriptivism doesn't mean that, and that link is where I got the example from. I was correcting the implicit definition people use when they invoke descriptivism as a cop out from any argument on usage (although I certainly applaud ending any such argument). Descriptivism is a stance for linguists to take in their research, and has nothing to do with the rest of the world.
But you can't really use incognito mode all the time. It will log you out of all other 'legitimate' sites you want to be logged in forever, like Gmail.
Telecom companies (including cable operators) are all about cash-flow. When you have a solid subscriber base, there's not an issue with carrying a lot of debt. What is a problem is that the younger generations aren't tied to having a land-line and the older generations are gradually following suit.
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> Missing poll option:

Missing poll option: I've never been a member of Facebook, and will never be a member of Facebook or any other "social networking" site.

FTFY.
Eventually we intend to launch for both platforms, but the question is whether it's worth the effort to do it at the initial launch.
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Anything that you don't want to be published on facebook, just don't do it on facebook. So that article you want to read privately, just go to news.google.com and read as much as you want. Don't use the facebook app for that. Same thing, if you want to listen to spotify, don't link it to your facebook account, etc...

This is how things have been for years, and if you are a more private person (like me), just reading news and listening to music "offline" and go to facebook when you feel like sharing.
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Would you call this a hack? 
There was a recent post here on hacker news - 'http://frustimonials.com'

Lots of people started posting some frustimonials like 'hackernews frustrates me because it calls frustimonials.com a hack'

So to make things a bit 'like' hack , and to give the owner an insight of security, a small script is what I ran.

I'd say , a nice idea but be careful about security. This is exactly same way I learnt my first security lesson, and trust me , it was thrilling! I dont know about how you would feel though - Hrishi. :)

In good faith, it all was!
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> discriminate in transmitting

So, QoS is now banned in US?

There's another side to this. Consider an ISP, which policies traffic in 3 queues: realtime (VoIP, games), normal (ordinary browsing) and bulk (file sharing, big downloads). No per-queue packet shaping or dropping, just putting packets in different queues, with different priorities - but some still could consider this "discriminating", even though such policing is done to improve the experience, not worsen it.

Gaming traffic is relatively low, compared to file sharing. Obviously, if there are enough file sharers on the network, the latency will rise and gamers may experience "lags". On the other hand, BitTorrent users do not care about latency, but only about steady downloads (and uploads), so they won't lose anything if their packets would be put somehow further in the output queues.

Sure, users themselves could put wanted policy in DSCP field of the packet, but sometimes they're too incompetent (rude, but true) to put the proper value (and wrong values will screw the idea, making it worse, not better, than not having any traffic priorities). Sorry to say, but things won't work this way.

Obviously, if there's not just a latency increase, but packet loss - it's a sign that hardware upgrades are required. On the other side, even when hardware is operating normally, and uplink channels are not saturated, latency still matters.
You are not going to hear back from Facebook because they will not believe this is an "issue".
I believe this is a problem with the extension API, where the extension needs to request "your data on all websites" in order to be able to run JS code in the context of the page/tab.

Technically if it's able to do this, then it is able to access the data on that page as well, whether or not the extension is doing so.
pyramid is also following you there however you are right on causing confusion.