skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always somewhat leery about these sort of predictions since to my mind they seem to miss that being a doctor is often more than just making diagnoses and deciding on a treatment - it's also about having a relationship with the patient, especially when it comes to primary care practitioners (like GPs in the UK) and specialists for long term conditions (such as my father, an oncologist, who has patients he's been seeing for ten or fifteen years since their initial diagnosis and treatment).

Not withstanding that people are generally more comfortable and willing to submit personal information to a fellow human who they know and trust, there's also things like how does a computer tell the difference between a little old lady with a problem, and a little old lady who's just lonely and uses going to her GP as a way to get some human contact every few weeks. Her GP will likely know the difference though, because she's known the little old lady for the last five years and has realised that her visits aren't about the vague symptoms she's presenting, but the ten minute chat she has with the doctor.
FUD, Unity is great and you know it. People bashing Unity have not really tried it yet.
You had me excited there for a second... you're linking to an SD card, while this adapter accepts microSDs. Cheapest 64GB microSD I was able to find is $59: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter-SDSDQ...
This is not helpful, and it might make some reluctant to contribute. Please don't do it.
The computer has decided you don't have hypothyroidism either, the doctor you can at least persuade otherwise.
Plutonium Laboratory [July 8, 1946]
The good thing about Ubuntu is that it has so many forks: Xubuntu (Xfce), Kubuntu (KDE), Lubuntu (LXDE). They all use the same Ubuntu repositories. For example, you can get an Lubuntu system by removing the unity and gnome package from Ubuntu and installing the LXDE ones. I held off upgrading my Ubuntu machine from 10 because of the Unity thing. I installed Lubuntu 12 on another laptop last week and everything works great and there pretty much aren't any surprises going from 10.

What's annoying isn't Unity but the way Ubuntu changes the way startup scripts are done and small things like .xsession don't run by default (and if you turn them on, suddenly .Xmodmap stops working...). That's true for the Ubuntu derivatives too. But that's a fair trade-off for good drivers (even if they are proprietary) and up to date packages. Otherwise I'd go with Debian testing.
For some people money is the primary motivator. But you have completed your PhD so I would guess that you are less motivated by money than the boyz on Wall St.

My experiences range from working in multinationals to startups and then returning to do my PhD. So I think my perceptions might be of some value to you.

Academia is all about money as well. You need to acquire grants to do more research. If you chose to teach then the tuition fees are part of the revenue that you help the institution acquire. If you want to be very successful in academia then you need to bring in lots of money which in turn means getting lots of publications, etc. In effect you run a startup within an institution and they take their share for providing the facilities, support, etc.

If you choose to create a startup, then you are in control but with that control comes the responsibility for making it work. You have more freedom to choose the path. Sooner or later you need to look at monetising your work and that requires marketing, sales, admin, etc.

You ask whether there is much interest in physicists. Yes and No. Depends on what specific skills you bring to the prospective employer. Due to your skill set it is probably some large corporation. So until you prove yourself, you are but a cog in a machine. Your PhD proves that you can perform original research and that you can effectively communicate the fruits of your labours. So it is how you plan to apply those skills that matter more than exactly what you are an expert in. In the past people with your skills found much demand on Wall St for their quantitative and reasoning abilities. These days, I think Wall St is not a good option.

Although I'm a serial startup person, I've never made it big. Was able to create comfortable living and enjoy the freedom of not working for The Man. But clients are The Man in disguise - so you still need to be wary about becoming a non-indentured slave. To answer your question, I don't regret it. But you have to be comfortable with insecurity - both financial and emotional. And it does limit the choices in relationships to those who too can cope with the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

This is becoming a rather long answer. So to wrap up: I believe you need to feel "being called". You absolutely need to take stock of what your strengths and interests are and how and where they can be applied. If you can't create value in the eyes of others, then sooner or later you'll crash and burn. But that is pretty much par for the course on all three paths you are considering. So the bottom line question is how you cope when facing uncertain outcomes. Considering your background in nuclear physics you might already be at home with chaos and lack of certainity.

Good Luck !
Sorry, this should be more clear. (At the moment it is only referenced in the download.) The licence is the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike. The licence can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
The author should really let the reader know what this is in response to. Having never seen the ad nor heard of "Flick to TV" makes and otherwise good article kind of hard to relate to.
Their idea of making it better is to require review before the developer is even allowed to upload a build for testing? I can't think of any other app store which requires this sort of thing; it doesn't actually solve any problem. Malicious users can claim to be whoever they want, and I can't imagine unauthorized package ports are a serious problem.

If you're trying to make something simple, remove really stupid steps. This is my problem with open source communities, they end out trying to make something theoretically perfect, but realistically unusable.

(A better solution: if the reviewer has any doubts they can ask for clarification.)
No Vinod. Technology will make doctors more efficient so they can handle 3x-5x the workload and serve more patients.

I've known doctors/nurses who answer emails both between other health professionals, and between patients. Sometimes a 2-minute email can take the place of a regular checkup for somebody with a chronic condition.

Where technology can make drastic improvements is detecting problems when they are minor, and not becoming major. If a primary-care doctor can only do 5 minute consults, and that results in missing a major diagnosis like cancer, which is then treated at a later stage, then they've blown out any cost saving by rushing consults.
I've read my charts as well, they're made up of a mix of facts, intuition and conjecture. The later two being things which computers aren't very good at.

Medicine isn't magic, but it's also more than a checklist which gives you a definitive answer at the end, that's why the process of becoming a doctor is as much an apprenticeship as it is rote learning.
I think you always need a phase of experimenting new ideas before people find out what works and what doesn't. Ideally, those failed experiments would stay in-house and never reach the market, but it's not always easy to know which ideas are good...

So anyway, since you never know what might eventually come out of it, I'm personally grateful for the existence of "flick to tv" gimmicks.

As long as I don't have to use them myself, of course.
Thanks Cristian! I'll consider it.
Cool effect. Seeing a FOUFC (Flash Of UnFogged Content) on WebKit/iPad.
To make you happy (in case you weren't aware before): Safari on iOS 6 can open up to 24 tabs! (and before, IIRC it was limited to 9 not 8) - You can't imagine how wonderful it is to have more than 9 tabs!
OS X apps are not generally statically linked. They are dynamically linked. But Apple almost never breaks binary compatibility of the public APIs.
After all 40,000 unit tests have passed, sync that version to prod with ssh tunnel. Rsync to new directory on all target machines in a rsync tree. Switch to new version by moving a symlink. Verify new version by looking at metrics -- if something is off, automatically switch back. Repeat up to 50 times a day ;-)
PyCharm personal licenses are 40% off ($59) through Sept. 14th
It would have an ecosystem the same size as BSD's around it.

The GPL license allows companies to contribute technology to the project without fear the technology they contributed will be used in proprietary products from their competitors.

Oracle, for instance, doesn't have to fear HP will use BtrFS in HP/UX and compete with Solaris' ZFS.
It never would have occurred to me that there would ever be any kind of link between vision and reading ability. I say this as someone who is legally blind.

The physical requirements of reading for me, particularly as a young child, have at times been cumbersome - large print books, magnifiers, etc. When I try and read without those, my reading speed would slow to a crawl, but as long as I can see what I'm reading, I can read it. I never struggled with reading as a child. I've always been a very avid reader.

Of course, being unable to see what I was reading at all (where "see" is a relative term and could just as easily mean braille) I would never have learned to read, but that's more of an issue of lack of exposure to reading, not specifically a link between reading capability and visual acuity.

One thing that did come about as a result of my low vision with regards to reading, which (I think) helped me a great deal is that my dad read to me a lot. He recognized that reading for me was physically awkward to do, and so he read to me all the time, probably well past the age that a lot of kids are read to. I remember listening to him read books when I was 12yrs old.

Since he was the one doing the reading, he would read books with more sophisticated language than I might have been naturally exposed to in books at that age; books like "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Robinson Crusoe," etc. So I ended up getting exposed to a lot of language and a lot of literature. This further motivated me to keep reading more on my own and gave me the vocabulary to do so.
[Ask HN]: Laptop advice needed
I am in the market for a versatile, yet simple laptop. I have a new MacBook Pro, die hard Apple user. I have 2 x 750gb and 16gb of RAM in it.

This is for an idea of starting a new venture and on a shoe string budget.

Some thoughts I have:
- I really like how simple the cases are on MacBooks and MacBook Pro's. I know the first Chromebooks had a simple case on them too. Companies like HP, Lenovo, Dell, Alienware are just making these "outer space" looking products.

- 3G or 4G LTE Modem built in.

- Motherboard that supports lots of RAM, maybe 16GB?

- Windows, Linus, OS X (10.8), required operating systems.

- 13 inch preferred, but 15 would be OK, 11 too.

Can anyone help guide me in a direction of provide thoughts?
It's just that he seemed to be patting himself (or, his, uh, "class") on the back a bit too much.

Also, however you slice it, it's kind of gauche to do that on a day with (in however a tepid and toothless fashion, by international standards) is specifically intended to honor regular working folks.
> Most modern portrayals of organized crime have presented mobsters as a group of horribly dressed sociopaths, and rightfully so. I’ve never expected those concerned with the moral life to make a career of creatively goring people with ice picks.

Actually, people whose job involves violence and killing often take great pains to portray themselves with moral systems also called "codes of honor." (The actual morality of their activities is another question entirely.) Many crime organizations descend from feudal systems of government. The Yakuza and the Sicilian mob are prime examples of this.

> ...Shoichiro, the street boss, told me “We can get the most money out of the economy.”

One of main sources of income they had was debt collection. They would actually go and buy entire loan databases and pay off the money people owed. Of course, after that happened, those debts were just transferred over to the yakuza.

There was a highly successful US company in the 90's that bought lots of debt from delinquent debtors for pennies on the dollar and made a huge profit getting people to pay. (But they did this by being nice and winning the debtors over, not through threats.)

I suspect that much of organized crime in the US has evolved in a similar fashion to Japanese organized crime. I also suspect that the resulting corruption is a major component of our current political and fiscal woes.

> The gang made its recruits attend week-long orientations at a fishing village. I went along for one of these. There was bodyguard training, how to defend from a knife attack, stuff like that. But these recruits also rose at four in the morning to meditate. They helped local fisherman with their haul, cooked together at the end of the day. They learned how to handle samurai swords. There was something very ceremonial about it. It was strange, having these helpful and violent things happening side by side that illustrated how yakuza saw themselves…bad people doing good things.

The Yakuza are the last remnants of the old Bushido order. Bushido, for all of its aesthetics and philosophical value, has no place in modern life where competition between nations is economic and where the democratized tools of killing make violence the last resort of the marginal. Swords are no longer the tools of state. The scope of violence has shrunk to criminal life.
This is a great service. folks should give them a shot.
>Why are most open source programs dynamically linked again?

To save on bloat of shipping multiple redundant libraries with every app and to guard against the perceived 'DLL hell' in Windows(which was fixed a decade ago). Ironic that ended up in 'Dependency hell' with RPMs and Apt packages requiring specific versions of libraries.

Read through this excellent discussion thread if you're really interested in the problems with linking and the lack of a Common Object Model in Linux.

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3079259&cid=41...
I have a lot of flexibility. I am equally comfortable finishing up in c#/asp.net or starting over with bootstrap. I have a contract for a certain amount of money+equity to deliver a working web app, and then we are back to the negotions table where my next proposal will be for the mobile apps. As for sql server, i think cassandra, mongo, redis, will work just as well. I'm considering using the c# to js compiler currently mentioned on the front page to serve my api to reuse some of the work that has been done.
Time constraints aren't anything to worry about, and it would take me an equal amount of time to restart or flesh out the asp.net app.
Eh, I'd say it's about 50/50.
Down for me at least. Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
This strategy is very risky. Microsoft can litigate any OEM to the ground and the fees they extract from Android makers would eat away any profit margin in the x86 PC space. The fact they convinced Android OEMs to pay can be used to legitimize those patents on the PC space and many of their "licensees" already are PC makers (and thus will have a harder time litigating those patents).
Thanks! On which iPad does the bug occur? (I've tested on iPad2, iOS5 and it seemed ok.)
I'm just so glad they added the "-ome" in the title. Because I would not of understood the title if they had just wrote "The Shared Antibiotic Resistance of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens". But seriously, this is some pretty awesome work. It is an elegant demonstration of horizontal gene transfer, something which is widely known to be theoretically possible but rarely directly observed in the wild.
hurrah for insulinoma diagnosis:)

I think that even rare disease diagnosis can be done better by algorithms by using Isabel healthcare's diagnostic system[1] or Watson(in the future).

The place where a human will contribute the most is the interpersonal stuff:motivating people, digging data from people(although computers compete there[2]) and administering placebo.

And of course doing the physical stuff.

But that seems very different from the job of a doctor and closer to the job of a nurse.

[1]http://www.isabelhealthcare.com/home/default
[2]There was some research that showed that people give more personal information to a computed form than via face to face chat with a doc.
With coal, the danger is roughly where the profit is. You use cheap coal power? Please have your increased risk of respiratory disease that comes with it. One can make policy based on those risks, and given a democracy, people can choose.

With nuclear power, you have a low probability of a very catastrophic event with consequences that aren't local. In a very simplified scenario, 50 countries can carelessly operate a nuclear power plant each, and only one of them blows up. However, the wind carries the fallout to another country that never used nuclear power. The people who get cancer, whose soil is irradiated, never saw any benefit from nuclear power, and they never had a chance to stop the plant being built, because it was outside their jurisdiction.

So please, could we finally stop comparing Black Swan-type events with non-local consequences to managable, local risks?
Yep, on it. Getting slammed by Hacker News and Reddit..double wammy
> "last mile"

I strongly disagree with this phrase. I'm not saying making Linux usable is 90% of the work; it isn't, but it isn't "the last mile" either (maybe that + customer support + developer relations and evangelism equals to 15-20%).
That's a pretty big fabfile! Do you do anything special with your DB as you switch over?
I didn't repeat it, someone else did... I was merely saying that the President isn't some random "person". His words have influence. Nor would I ever be embarrassed about anything on Hacker News. haha
Congratulations. That sounds like a solid start. What were your first steps in getting your marketplace flow going?
I think we have enough developers now using Linux that UI nitpicking should have a negligible impact.

On every conference I go, I see tons of Macs. Those developers are very unlikely to find Gnome 3 or Unity too constraining for their tastes.
Initially just threw it up on /r/Arduino as a question. http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/rxyjb/would_you_sup...
Organic cereal crops generally yield at about 0-50% of the rate of conventional cereal crops. This means they need twice as many acres of land per bushel, twice as much fuel per acre, et cetera. In other words, it's much more of a burden on nature than conventional cereal crops.

And I really did mean to say 0 above -- organic cereal crops fail at a much higher rate than conventional crops. That's a lot of diesel fuel burned for no return.
We have a staging server which is a carbon copy of the production server, and is auto-updated via post-commit hook (SVN). Everybody tests on that server until no more issues are found, and then it is pushed manually to production.

If the push involves db schema changes, we'll take the production offline for the duration of the push, showing a "Be back shortly" page.
You can't really use transaction volume as any real measure of the bitcoin economy. It's quite normal (and recommended) for owners to transfer their coins between multiple wallets for a variety of reasons.

There's no way to tell from looking at the transaction history whether transactions represent actual exchanges or just a holder moving coins around internally.
I think a better strategy than to "replace 80% doctors" is to help doctors "replace 80% of their tasks". So focus on a business that makes a doctor's job much easier by identifying or confirming a diagnostic, or helping him reach a diagnostic much easier. The point is to get doctors to want this technology, rather than fight against it.
My reading device of choice these days is a Nexus 7 - It's significantly thinner and a touch lighter than the Kindle Fire and is useful for other things when I need it to be, with better hardware overall. Actually it's become my go-to tablet for pretty much everything that isn't "testing stuff on the iPad."

I agree about distractions, but if I'm reading, I just put it in silent mode and read. You don't have to use the social apps and check email constantly just because you can.

I know some people prefer the eInk display for reading, but I do most of my reading indoors and like (and at one point needed) the added contrast of the backlit display.
Vertical farms sprout into reality
This is a meta-study, which looks at a couple hundred studies done on this. From the article:

Many of the studies didn't specify their standards for what constituted "organic" food..

I'd say this is a pretty serious limitation to both the studies in question, and, as a result, to this meta-study.
Have you had to deal with users with sessions across multiple versions?
Cable lacing on the Curiosity rover
What is conjecture besides probability, which computers are great at? Intuition is creating new information from an understanding of how things work, and is therefore rarely needed when enough information is available. Doctors need intuition because they don't have detailed knowledge of thousands of individual cases in their heads. Computers will.

People keep trying to describe what makes medicine non-automatable, but they're using descriptions that apply just as well to driving. Non-creative work will be automated, and my understanding is that the vast majority of medicine doesn't break any new ground.
I finished my PhD in Comp. Sci. three years ago, majored in data mining - was tough, but enjoyed every bit of it.

Soon as I finished, I wanted a job that wasn't fully research-based (I was a little bit tired of experimenting, coding and writing paper cycle), and I stumbled upon my current job. We are a start-up doing a fraud detection. It was all quite fortunate, since towards the end of my PhD, I got caught up in all the startup hype.

Having said that, I think one of the main reason why I enjoy my current work environment was not because of the initial reasons of why I joined (I actually had to get this job, because it was in a different city where my fiancee lived, so job was just a good excuse to move) but the things that I have been able to do at work.

When I joined it was quite terrible - writing Java 1.2 based applet on the browser with old Swing components (shudder).

But I decided to scrap the entire platform and do the entire re-design and re-development of the platform during my spare time. I was able to get the prototype ready, using the latest Web stack and I presented to my CEO, which he loved.

And ever since then, I've slowly implemented my "hacker" way of development into my work place.

I do think about going back and researching some time in the future - I also just finished a journal paper with my previous supervisor and realised I missed it.

I also sometimes think I'm 'wasting' my research or skillset I've acquired.

But, I try to read up on research papers here and there, compete in data mining competitions here and there, enter hackathons, try to work with different people.

Anyway, sorry for extending this story, but all in all, I'm happy, not necessarily because of the decision I've made, but what actually happened AFTER I've made the decision.

French designer Pierre Cardin used to toss a coin to make a really really big decision and when someone said "why do you leave that to a chance?" and he replied - "so long as I commit to my decision, I'll be ok". (I think that's roughly how the story goes).

I'm not sure if I helped. :)
And yet, when double-blind tests are done the non-organic food usually does better.
Seems like a good idea. A lot of land could be saved this way and or more food would be produced, eventually for lower prices due to high competition.