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There is not a doubt in my mind that this schedule ensures that they learn less and perform their jobs in much worse ways than compared to when they would be able to get more sleep and less stress. There's zounds of experiments that back me up on this.

As far people saying it's cheap labor: when residents make mistakes and the hospital gets sued, the labor suddenly isn't so cheap anymore. Again, there is not a doubt in my mind that this practice leads to a lot of damage and death, with the associated financial fallout.

That hospital management doesn't try to change this shows how blind they are to the consequences of entrenched practices. I wonder whether the health care market could be disrupted merely by creating hospitals that actually try to get their employees to perform optimally.
But... computer scientists don't write code! That's not what they're studying, it's not their job!

Writing code is what women do.

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In fact I am not sure there is a direct benefit to Chile at all. I assume it is a bet that some companies will stay, locals will develop support infrastructure / services and ultimately create an ecosystem that is Silicon Valley like.

They are trying to hack the economic culture of Chile. What better way to try to create a culture of startups, innovation and entrepreneurship than by creating a cultural exchange program, where they incent startups to come to Chile for 6 months. The startups bring with them ideas, initiative, an innovation oriented culture, and an understanding of things like customer service.

Not only that, but Latin America is a _huge untapped market for startups. Spanish is the 3rd most widely spoken language in the world (after Mandarin and English), and Latin American economies have been doing quite well in this global downturn. Chile has a stable government and a strong economy, and has a functional stock market.

Boot strapping a startup and technology culture in Chile is a _huge win.
I presume they mean nginx will be the default web server, rather than removing Apache altogether? You can't just replace Apache with nginx, they're two different pieces of software - admittedly with some overlap.
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My EXACT daily set of tools. :)

The stack is pretty interesting and impressive, almost everything they use are things I would choose to use under similar constraints and would love working with.
So I owe HN a blog post. Here is something of a stopgap.

I am (still) a medical student at Johns Hopkins, and I love the place very much. I have for the past 6+ years.

After my third year, essentially on a whim (my sponsor, I think, knows this) I pursued a research fellowship in cardiovascular genetics. I loved it a lot, and stayed on a second year (spontaneously; thank you, Stanley and Lola J. Sarnoff).

After my fifth year in medical school, my second year of CV genetics up at MGH and the Broad Institute, I got the opportunity to pursue the startup dream for a year. I'm midway through and absolutely loving it.

But yet, I miss medicine. And I think that the grass is always greener, so I think I will miss whatever I'm not doing. Next year, in medical school for the first time in three years, I will miss research. Or I will miss the startup life. Something. I know it, because right now, I miss the hospital.

I miss working 80 hours a week while paying $50,000 a year for the privilege. I miss having a best answer (and if you think there are better answers in software than there are in medicine, please email me so I can hire you).

But I know that soon, I will miss the freedom of working at a startup. There is no right answer for everyone. And for many of us who were drawn to medicine, I think there can be no possible right answer, ever.
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I was always curious as to what they were doing to hide their identities. I read the logs, and I am a bit disappointed that the extent of their methods of hiding themselves were so narrow - involving only VPN providers.

The old way of doing this was to own a series of boxes around the world and setup your own SOCKS server, ssh forwards etc. You use boxes that are being used internally at small companies for email or web hosting, meaning that there aren't any admins on there looking for weird traffic patterns.

You setup a group of servers like that, and chain them together. Symlink all logs to null, and make sure the first box you jump onto is the most unsuspecting (and one that you have most control over).

With a group that I was a member of 10+ years ago we would abandon boxes that had a sysadmin that seemed like he knew what he/she was doing (looking at history logs) or boxes that had a lot of user activity on them but not a lot of resources (it only takes one user to wonder why the net connection is slow for the exploit and you to be found ). The best best were to scan for old ftpd's running on old kernels.

These were boxes that had been bought and setup for something like email or a small webpage and then forgotten about (usually setup by external IT). You patch the exploit so nobody else can get it, install a backdoor, and not do anything noticeable. We had access to such boxes for years and as far as I know we were never noticed by anybody.

VPN providers are constantly monitoring for abuse, and when they get a law enforcement notice they will comply. It is only a matter of time before you get caught if you are using them. I would suspect that law enforcement found out which VPN providers were being used some months ago, and set up honeypots at each one waiting for members of anonymous to reconnect.
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Ye that was why I am asking. I remember Mint was a stock deal. I think it is a great way to get a good domain name.
I meant my first published paper: http://www.daemonology.net/papers/fft.pdf
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We all hate people. It's because people have no common sense anymore. People don't respect the Earth anymore. It's all about greed... and greed is and has always been the seed of all Evil. Combine greed with a constant influx of media and interruption, you get zombies.

It's never going to change. We are left here on this lonely planet to our own devices - we were warned about greed, but greed has in fact taken over.

The 90's saw the most productive and the most lucrative period in the history of mankind. We take it for granted. The truth is - to live in the USA during the 90's was the pinnacle of human civilization and it will never be that way again. It was unsustainable.

We are in a death spiral, there will be casualties. Those that cannot adapt will be sacrificed. Gasoline has been replaced by the Internet and global marketing. Gasoline is obsolete.

Gasoline is obsolete. Because it's cheaper to hire foreign workers via the Internet than it is to make cubicles in the USA.
I signed up in a desktop browser. Please uncheck the 'follow' and 'tweet' as default options, I completely missed them as well.

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Well. There is yet another minimalist implementation of this - http://sein-cal.co.cc/ that works very well for "I (don't) want to do X" and check for each successful day.

In principle, it would be exactly like a full-year calendar on the wall.

Edit - This was our weekend hack some time ago. Feedback on the application is welcome.
Solution: you anonymize the link for peer-review, and only include the real link in the final version. This way the code is not peer-reviewed of course, but peer review can look at the pseudo-code given in the paper.

Your last point really has nothing to do with given away code, nor with peer review: you can plagiarize just about anything. This generally doesn't happen because scientists care a lot about giving credit and recognizing priority.
Why not just fill in the link after review but before publication? Presumably that happens with other information which identifies authors, such as their names and email addresses.

Although 'blind' reviewing is something of a misnomer in small research fields where the reviewer can probably guess at least one of the authors.
I would be interested to see more CS research happen in a more open source like way, like how we see projects work on github where it is easy for anyone with an interest in an area to get involved, run the code and contribute.

Obviously this wouldn't be possible in all branches of CS research and there is the danger that these kind of projects would get stuck local maximas without a few minds driving the research and the ability to understand it well enough to make large scale changes.

Still a lot of good could probably come out of it, plenty of smart CS minds that while they don't have time to commit to the reading and work required to drive their own research project have the expertise to contribute to small parts of other peoples.
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It is all for science.

Other people can validate you didn't make any blatant errors.
Right. Turns out I completely misunderstood every sentence that contains "resident" in that article, then :-)

Thanks for pointing it all out. Does make his argument about the bad money bogus though. Nearly every other job is worse money than being a doctor (which is why he compared to investment bankers and the likes)
Oracle has typically been a licensing centric company. The "named user plus" licensing thing can be unwieldy for most small firms. The past few years have been bad for it as a result. SAAS based innovation, unconventional databases, database scaling bottlenecks, parallelization, in-memory computing, mobility and a lot of the low cost innovations around these have emerged as a threat to Oracle. The options it has had are acquiring OpenSource and aggressively defending patents. All the while its marketing teams continue to whitewash offerings like exalogic as "cloud" offerings.

I feel that Oracle tends to explore options to corral innovation. Its OpenSource portfolio is the classic trojan horse. Expect all sorts of lock-in.
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Category theory more than just a language for classifying and organizing existing results. It is the mathematical theory of universal properties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_property).

In category theory one studies what structure can be captured by universal properties. That is one tries to characterizes structure uniquely by its properties, rather than giving a concrete construction, as is common in set theory. The emphasis on universal properties leads to a different way of thinking and mathematical taste. The study of what one can do in general with universal constructions is thus interesing in itself, though perhaps not for dummies.

Anyway, what I want to say is that while category theory has been overhyped in the context of Haskell, for example, it is not true that it is "completely useless and uninteresting by itself".
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All of the life drawings, anatomy lessons, and lighting studies were incredibly important. He was able to easily apply these understandings to a new medium, so by the time he switched over he quickly excelled. I feel that if he'd started earlier with paint he would have blasted off once he saw the impact of his own work.

I appreciate this from a technical standpoint. It sort of shows the "man behind the curtain" of creating two dimensional visual art pieces, especially because you can see it in such a condensed format. We've all seen progressions of an artists body of work in art publications and curated shows, but what makes this rewarding is we get to see all of the early, average attempts. It's not like we could pick up a book on Picasso and see his first 2000 drawings, but if we could, we would gain the instructive aspects of watching an artist progress.
This is not uncommon in comics all over the world. There are also a number of mangas exposing this evolution of the artist, two of the most flagrant ones are Kazushi Hagiwara's Bastard!! and Kentaro Miura's Berserk.
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For those who keep mentioning the 10,000 hour rule, I wonder if anyone has heard of any tools for tracking this number? As in, a tool for logging hours spent practicing different subject areas with the specific goal of reaching 10,000 hours. I wonder, too, if you could quantify smaller subsets of the 10,000 to provide more immediate feedback and goals along the way.
this is very accurate, even if you don't come in like this, you come out of MIT with this view.

5 years later I've never escaped the "MIT VIEW: Increase intensity. Maximum intensity = maximum productivity. If you find yourself relaxed and with your mind wandering, you are probably having a detrimental effect on the recovery rate."

I love it, but I completely recognize that I came in a person and out a machine.
There's a special penalty that gets applied to Ask HN posts, I guess that's what's responsible for any clustering.
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To me this is even more of a reason to post less stuff to Facebook and engage with other platforms, photos go on Flickr, email is via Gmail, business networking is on Linkedin and Google+ is for the close friends. For me Facebook is about tracking down old friends and acquaintances and thats where it will stay.

I just don't trust the company and I don't trust Zuckerberg.
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In science, there are still such things are "good manners" and "common scientific practices", not all of which are directly incentivised. For example, every article contains references to other articles that helped create it. Every article credits all authors, usually in a particular order (which differs culturally per discipline). They're all fairly common sense, and there are many more. Some are listed explicitly as rules for journal or conference submissions. Some, however, are considered too obvious for that.

These are rules everyone follows. People get frowned upon when they are not followed.

Unfortunately, when these rules came to be, there wasn't that much code around. You can't print out your physics experiment setup. Additionally, every additional piece of info, be it data, code, or whatever, would need to be printed and shipped. This cost too much, which encouraged a culture in which only the most important parts, findings and a brief story of how they were obtained, were to be included in publications.

But then the internet came. The whole world adapted, but science culture didn't. The internet allows large sets of information to be shipped along with papers. This does not just hold for computer science. Entire data sets of physics experiments could be included. Survey data, code, Matlab models, and so on.

All this data is collected using tax payers' money, done for the greater good of the world. It makes perfect sense to include it all with the publication, online. In fact, it is criminally wasteful to make different teams collect the same data, or do the same work, over and over again.

I think the only change necessary to make this happen is for a few influential publications and conferences to require that all data, code, etc is published online along with the paper. It can start in a niche subject area and expand from there.

What Jacques (or anyone else) is doing to fix this system is yelling on the internet about it, so that conference programme committees and journal reviewers may at some point be swayed to add this little rule.

A rule that makes sense, just like "your paper must contain an abstract" makes sense, just like "you must include references to all works you borrowed from or built upon" makes sense.
> b) Non-transactional tables

9.1 added unlogged tables. They are completely unsafe, and quite fast.
Does make his argument about the bad money bogus though. Nearly every other job is worse money than being a doctor

If you worked those other jobs for 80 hours a week, I think you'd start catching up pretty quickly ;-)
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Not being a native speaker, I have to ask: Is a "professor" not someone who at least majored in math ?
That's very good news! I have to look at the physical data structures and what it means for memory usage though. "Unlogged" as such only means they don't use WAL.
Its a rewrite of CVS with the emphasis on security:

http://www.opencvs.org/

Edit: this project may not have actually happened - my apologies.
Took me a while that this is pretty tongue-in-cheek.
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> I presume they mean nginx will be the default web server, rather than removing Apache altogether?

It says "to provide an apache replacement for base." OpenBSD has a Base system, plus it has Packages and Ports. Packages and Ports do not go through the same security audit as the Base system. Currently the version of httpd in Base is 1.3.x, which is all patched and secure, Packages/Ports has httpd 2.2.x. I suspect they mean nginx will replace httpd in the Base system, while httpd will still be in Packages/Ports.
My fault. Good catch, thanks.
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Is Ask HN a good place to ask advice for niche B2B startups?
or is it more adequate for larger audience ventures?

thanks, P.
What makes you think software patents are worth trillions of dollar, and how do you define "worth"?

I'd guess that for the economy as a whole, the combined worth of software patents is negative.
Remarkably true.

Anecdote: first real customer (a reseller) of a consumer product that involved cell phone apps, web services and custom hardware. He had to drive by his customer 3 times because our product failed 3 times (hardware failure, configuration mistake, error in the manual). Each time the phone rang at our office we were slightly afraid it was him again. Most of the times, it was.

After it was all over and the product flew and the consumer was happy, the reseller sent us a mail about how much he enjoyed working with us and how we really cared about him and his customer. We had given him cause to drive to his customer, 100km away, 3 times too often. We expected an angry resignation, not compliments!

The bar really is ridiculously low.
Thanks socratic for summarizing well the previous discussions! I was quite vocal against the obligation to release code if there was no incentive, even though I released the code of all the papers I published so far [1].

But to my surprise, the software engineering research community decided to try something new this year in one of their top conferences, FSE [2]. All authors of accepted papers were invited to submit their artifacts (data, code, video showing how the code was used, etc.) to the artifact evaluation committee. Two members of the committee reviewed each artifact and compared it with the paper. Papers that received a grade equal or above "meet expectations" received a special mention in the program [3].

Although the artifacts are not released to the public, this is a step in the right direction. If you are motivated to package your code for artifact evaluation and you get some recognition out of it, then the next step of releasing it is a lot easier. As a committee (I was part of it), we were afraid it would take hours and hours to just try to run the code that was submitted, but the authors really made the effort to package their code well.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1868581

[2] http://2011.esec-fse.org/cfp-artifact-evaluation

[3] http://2011.esec-fse.org/program-details
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It would be even cooler if you added a timeline. :)
(That or just simple text saying 1st year etc..)
Fair point, but I and assume others had missed htme (hence the upvotes).

http://touchwoodsoftware.com/yctrends.html#seinfeld%20calend...

Two other interesting ones from there if anyone fancies a trip back in time?
Or in other words it'll be on the CD and Apache'll be in a repo.
What a great solution. I will use it, but...

I guess I found a serious security problem.

When logging ssh commands with '-vT', I can see the secret. The secret should be hard coded in the two_factor script.
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This is an alpha version that crashes all the time... Not the final version. If you try it, you'll see why ;)
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Even making it available to institutions outside the US would be a start. I'm actually doing some work on ratings in the UK at the moment, and this dataset would have been really useful to test some theories I've been developing.

I agree totally on making it available to anyone who is willing to sign up to the terms and conditions.

I wonder why they didn't use Kaggle?
For validation purposes is probably better that the researches doing the validation write their own code from scratch.