skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My condolences.

Can someone explain, even if there are resistant pathogenic bacterial strains floating around, where the entrypoint for infection is? Operating rooms are cleanrooms, and after that, with good dressings on the wounds, bacteria should be prevented from entering.

"Flesh eating bacteria" due to scratching is one thing; bacteria that gain a foothold through the GI tract is another; I understand how those infections get started.

However, internal infections caused somehow by surgical wounds? Are surgical suite clean rooms not a low enough class and therefore not sterile enough? Is wound aftercare not good enough? Are surgical tools getting contaminated after sterilization but before the surgery?

Maybe hospitals should be turned into high-class[1] (lower-effectiveness) cleanrooms. I realize laminar flow in such a chaotic environment is impossible, and of limited effectiveness if people are not gowned and so shed contamination all the time, but there could at least be an attempt to push some of the contamination to vents on the floor. How much would that increase costs? It wouldn't have to be entire hospitals, only the recovery wards.

Other than that, a major initiative to clean up hospitals could be undertaken. Surfaces and floors and everything else commonly touched should be sterilized more often, to start with. Any area that sees a lot of patient turn-over is going to be heavily contaminated. Anyone who goes from room to room (doctors, nurses) should wear gloves before entering a room to avoid cross-contamination. Donning new gloves once in a room is not good enough; doorknobs, clipboards, light switches, etc. are all still subject to cross-contamination.

Recent studies on hotel rooms made me never want to check into one again:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/11/07/marketplace-d...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=hot...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanroom#Cleanroom_classificat...
Instead of focusing on monetizing crap, why not focus on producing high-quality content? I may be alone in thinking this, but there have been fewer really good movies/TV shows in the past few years.
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the "value" of a degree from a certain university in Britain correlates almost entirely with the difficulty of gaining entry to that institution. "Posh people" tend to do much better on average academically than the rest of the population, so it is hardly surprising that they are found in such large numbers in Britain's top universities.
I'd be curious to see your statistics. If they control for situations where two criminals have guns and are shooting at each other (i.e., they're actually about defensive gun use by the good guys) I'll be pretty shocked.
Yes. This one: http://www.littlechips.com/sbc_main.htm (ARM9, apparently)
A hell of a lot less time than it takes to master architecture.

Autocad takes more that a few years to master, your architecture degree is only like 5 years + an apprenticeship. Yes, you will master autocad before architecture, but you will likely not have time to master any other competing cad package that doesn't greatly resemble it (hence, lock in extreme), if you also want time to master architecture.

Basically if you're hiring an architect or designer based or their mastery of software, you're probably doing it wrong.

Think of this as a bare minimum. You don't want to hire a young visual designer who doesn't have adobe CS proficiency. Of course, they should be good designers also. But you might make an exception for someone senior (experienced) who predates Adobe and does everything the old fashioned way; their skills are still very useful.

I've never been involved in any hiring 3D artists.
Yes but if you forget to open them all up, Chrome will lose that grouping in short order. Which has bitten me more times than I can count.
I like it. Was actually looking for something like this.
stupid marketing.
How much money does anyone need to start these days? Are you referring to a manufacturing business that requires initial significant funding for machines and supplies?
"Easier said than done" is itself easier said than backed up.
I absolutely fail to see the point here. Why should I use this? Is this again one of these instances where, magically, free RAM is good?

30 tabs opened simultaneously (with AdBlock, Ghostery and Disconnect), alongside Thunderbird, Emacs (+daemon) and a full DE run up to 1.8GiB of RAM used on my machine, which is everything but fast, new, or fancy. Consequently, I still have 2GB of RAM remaining that are not directly needed (and hence used for caching by the OS).

I'm writing all this from a Core2Duo laptop, so really, when exactly does any computer bought at the same time (or since) have actual problems of running out of memory? I have not experienced such problems in years on anything other than a Raspberry Pi. Is this a problem that really needs solving?

Feel free to point me to use cases where this is essential or useful, for I cannot see any.
How do you bootstrap a business without a decent amount of savings and a sizable economic and social safety net? And the whole point of michaelochurch's comment was that some/most people can't bootstrap their business.
ah! That makes a lot of sense actually.

If you want to cause side effects in a function, you have to dereference something. (or call another evil function)

The only exception being dot operators, which implicitly dereference their left hand argument.

(&x).whatever() == x.whatever()

I wish go had used arrow notation now. Explicitly marking side effects is a good thing.
+1 for the contrast. I'm on the CalTrain and I can barely read any thing without holding my hand up to block the sun.
Wow, thanks for making my day.
Explaining cryptography using only the 1,000 most common words in English
That pointer example is a little weird. A C/C++ pointer used that way wouldn't print "Leto" "Paul", either. All it would do is update the local variable to point to a new object, but the caller would still be pointing to the original. I think the poster meant to use a pointer to a pointer here (which would work as intended in both Go and C/C++).
Pretty sure it is a good bet. Just my opinion. It's endorsed by the most important internet company, and people I know and respect told me they like it.
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The OneTab servers are never accessed unless you click the "share as a web page" button. We don't know what tabs you have open, or what tabs you have put in your OneTab list.
Wow, sounds like you lucked out.
That just ruined my day.
I've switched back to Firefox recently too (from Safari). Here's what I had to tweak to get it working like it should: http://sdfjkl.org/post/2013/03/07/Making-Firefox-behave-on-O...
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Chicago's problem is that their guns laws only affect the city itself. If a criminal wants a gun he need only drive out of Chicago, buy the gun, and drive back home. In fact, a recent article (don't have the link on hand, sorry) pointed out that a large percentage of guns used in crimes in Chicago were bought from a single store just outside the city limits.

The point is that cities don't have monitored borders, and so they have a hard time regulating the influx of guns. A country-wide ban would actually stand a chance of working.

Edit: here's the article I mentioned: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/us/strict-chicago-gun-laws...
They can still have all of that for most of their users. Users that can't use these newer features should be offered a simpler more basic experience. Just because it's a minority of users that want to access your medical claims portal from abroad (who'd have guessed that this would be a valid use case for someone who has bought world wide health cover?) this doesn't mean that you should lock them out.

You are very short sighted. I hope you end up in a position where you need minor surgery in Vietnam during your gap year and can't enter the claim in the insurance companies system because they insist that ALL user must be able to see their fancy drop down menus with rounded corners OR not being able to book an onward flight from Cambodia therefore being refused entry because you can't prove that you plan to leave in the next 3 weeks all because the internet kiosk you're using is blocking the CDN that pushes some crap JS that adds nothing other than eye candy.

What's wrong with creating an alternate UX without all the overhead?

I hope you suffer the consequences of your own short shortsightedness.

Also, FYI, horses are still allowed on roads.

EDIT (can't reply) I think you'll find that medical insurance sites and travelling / booking sites are very similar and attract a very similar userbase. People book flights ticket and medical insurance, people fly then use the medical insurance when they have too. You seriously do live in a bubble, i have a feeling you are an American who isn't very well traveled outside of his own country and only uses medical sites in the context of your non state health insurance. You probably aren't the kind of person that would use any of the services I care about.

SECOND EDIT.. I spoke about my two target services from the offset and did not switch context. Do you not realise how these two sites / services go hand in hand?

I just got back from skiing. I used an airline site and medical insurance site for the same trip.
Initially I thought this might be an easier way for me to save sessions than my current session saving solution which doesn't make saving a single window a one click operation. I could use in conjunction with the split tabs to new window extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-split/imjbfepo...

to get just the tabs I want to save, and then put them in a new list. However I think I'll stick with Session Buddy

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...

as it allows:

1. naming of saved sessions (of which I have many). It's list of saved sessions will be easier scan to find the one I'm interested in.

2. opening of saved urls without removing them from the saved session. This I would find infuriating due to the way I use saved sessions as a more powerful bookmark feature.

Also, if I closed the OneTab tab there didn't appear to be a way to bring it back without creating a new list.

Some features that I'd like to see in a session saving chrome extension:

1. Sync to my google account with chrome extension syncing. Sessions Buddy will hopefully have this in the next release but it's been in development for over a year...

2. Multiple saved session lists so I can separate sessions between e.g. work/private, or "things I want to get back to" and "archived things that might be useful in future."

3. Integration with omnibar searching.

1 and 3 Could be done by saving sessions as bookmarks, which is what FreshStart does

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/freshstart-cross-b...

but I don't use that extension because of it's confusing UI.

After Edit:

I should have mentioned. The easiest way I've found to limit chrome memory is to firstly only enable the extensions I use on a day to day basis, and enable/disable others as needed using Extension Manager

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensions-manager...

and then kill every tab process in the chrome task manager after chrome starts up. I usually have 90-100 tabs and currently have 142 tabs open. My system would grind to a halt if I didn't do this.
> Drug resistance is a problem, but check a reasonable source: http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/about.html

Did you read your reasonable source? That page links to:

http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/antibiotic-use/antibiotic-resist...

"Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the world's most pressing public health problems... antibiotic resistance is among CDC's top concerns."
I applaud Danielle for writing this piece, but it should be really obvious to any startup founder. If you're not growing in any important metric: change course. It's not rocket science. The problem with raising money too early is that it's an excuse to flounder for longer. You won't have this issue as a startup if you start off by bootstrapping yourselves.
Is the book available somewhere in epub/mobi format? Seems like even if you pay for it you get only a PDF?
It's more secure because you don't have to delegate admin access to random people to install the software. Any of these "RAT kits", I guarantee you, requires admin access to the system at one point or another, be it during the install, by explicitly asking for admin password, or implicitly by using the fact that most users are logged in as admin.
Besides the few special built-in types that are passed by reference, everything else if passed by value. (Even "reference types" are actually structs that are passed by value (http://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#SliceHeader). And not reference types in the sense they are in other languages.

For example if you pass a struct, you are passing it by value, but if you pass a pointer to that struct, you are also passing by the argument by value. Why? Because even though the pointer contains a reference to the struct as its value, the pointer itself (which is the same as any other integer datatype to the computer) is being passed by value.

If your not familiar with pointers and C and languages with reference values like C++/Java this distinction isn't going to mean much to you however.
Not only can you sync, you can even run your own sync server.
Aliasing.
You're not on the attack, you're just sayin' that I'm "either hyper-conservative or [..] haven't had much long term experience in the region". Right.

I mentioned Singapore because it's a city in Asia that speaks English, thus making it substantially more accessible. It's also a clean, modern, livable city. I probably wouldn't live there but I know plenty of people who do and it's hardly a bad place, especially for a startup.
I'm a bit amazed by how efficient my wood boiler is -- I can run it for several hours off a few logs, while maintaining about 175 degrees in the boiler. On a good day, I end up burning less than a log an hour to heat my entire house, including the water heater.
> Using terms like "unwashed masses" and "Joe sixpack" to describe the computer users of working class background where I come from is insulting. Why not just go all the way and them call them "white trash"?

This highlights your confusion. The set of people that have average computer savvy contains all kinds of races and economic standing. It has nothing to do with "working class," wealth, or racial status and everything to do with computer skills.

> You don't have to have a college degree and a six figure income to be discerning about technology.

I'm not going to point any fingers, but I just want to say someone has some massive insecurities.
You can make the same argument. OneTab is a partial solution whereas using another browser which consumes less memory per open tab isn't a solution at all if you want to use Chrome's features.
> Apparently the word irony, pre-14th century had more to do with an author writing an opinion he or she did not hold, as if he or she did hold it.

It still means that; people just misuse it when they actually mean "coincidence".
Read the source code of stuff you are already using. Dig into that networking library, or explore that templating plugin.

This not only lets you read more code, but also lets you pick up knowledge in areas that are often taken for granted (no need to think about X, there's a library / plugin /framework for that).
Idea: Open-source Kickoff :)
Price discrimination -- the ability to tailor prices according to your willingness to pay. The willingness to pay can conceivably be extracted using your browsing information.
Yield management is a type of PD but it doesn't use personal information.
Oh hey! I built something similar a while ago, for somewhat similar reasons: "Pause Tabs" (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pause-tabs/gldljdh...).

The use-case is slightly different, though--instead of being an en-masse "dump these things out of my sight" button, I basically wanted a single-page "bookmark" that works more like the real kind you use in books, where the two fundamental operations are:

> "Open, remove the bookmark, and restore reading to previous position, atomically"; and

> "Save position, create bookmark, and put away for later, atomically".

If you want, though, it can still give you the same effect of "hammer the button to 'put away' a window's worth of tabs."

On the other hand, the bookmarks Pause Tabs creates [despite just being regular bookmarks] preserve of your vertical-scroll position on the page, which is kind of nice for long documents. I wonder why that isn't a "built-in thing bookmarks are just expected to do", actually.
>A Serif title with Sans body-text for the web makes content easier to read, and the inverse is true for print.

For whatever it's worth, these conventions are largely unfounded.

With respect to readability or legibility alone, a majority of any research of a sans vs a serif has been weak or contradictory; you can't make a conclusion either way. These studies are often cited which continues to perpetuate the myth,

While I admittedly do prefer these conventions, they're largely arbitrary and shaped by historical precedent and evolved over time. For example, poor resolution screens were the primary reason to use serifs, yet I've heard plenty of questionable rationale for it over time
‘Tired,’ ‘dirty’ passengers of stricken cruise ship Costa Allegra to be compensated with voucher for free cruise

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/03/01/stricken-costa-alleg...
I was able to learn Clojure in half an hour. How? Easy - I knew Scheme already, so the only thing I had to pick up was a bunch of reader macros, like [ or { or :.

I was able to learn Smalltalk in a day. It has stupidly simple syntax - one of the simplest in existence! - and there are objects everywhere - and we all just know objects, right?

That's stupid.

As I noted above, knowing a language and knowing how to use a language are two different things. To really master a language usage you have to learn and internalize a whole bunch of things, from which the language itself is the smallest bit.
Small roundup here, with Twitter Q&A with pc:

http://www.whiteboardmag.com/stripes-first-acquisition-an-ac...

(self link)
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Who exactly is having children like there's no tomorrow? If not for immigration, the US population would be declining already. Educate people (esp women) and suddenly your major western nation can't maintain population replacement levels of births.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0...
Exactly why industrial scale monoculture is the single greatest threat to humanity. We rely almost entirely on a few dozen animals, vegetable plants, grasses and a handful of other organisms that have all have their comfort zones artificially inflated and their genetic variance severely compromised by human intervention.

We've essentially created vast plateaus within the evolutionary landscape and these are beginning to be occupied by pioneer species that will quickly take the advantage to adapt.

Scary stuff indeed.
I keep pressureNET running in the background on my phone. I don't get much use out of the app itself -- barometric pressures on a map aren't that useful to me, but I like contributing to the project.

I worked with the developer(s) on previous releases with custom builds and I can confirm that battery life is very respectable and that this app does not consume crazy resources. On my Galaxy Note II w/ Android 4.1.*, when my screen gobbles about 30% of my battery, pressureNET sits around 2%.

Question for the developer: Will my alpha .apk distributed to me via email automatically update to 3.1+, or do I need to remove it and jump back into the official release channel?
Hmm, indeed. Some sort of rogue mesh network installation powered by induction should be interesting for people like the Syrian opposition.
Obsession.vim: Persistent, continuous sessions for vim
Could it be that you have "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" setting to be on?
I find that I agree with the article, but thought that the article would be about how inspiration itself can be procrastination. I know I have a problem where I constantly have so many good ideas that I end up stuck in a loop of never finishing, as I keep moving on to the next idea, or working on multiple things at once.
Does anyone know a place to play the Infocom game online? The original is here http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html but it requires java, and the BBC's illustrated version http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml doesn't work anymore. Oh well you can always download an emulator and the original Apple II disk images! http://www.virtualapple.org/hitchhikersguidetothegalaxydisk....
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Everything in Go is passed by value, even the "reference types". Those types are called reference types because they hold a reference to some value in memory, exactly like a pointer.

If they were passed by reference, then we would expect this playground snip to print "false": http://play.golang.org/p/r6naknvzng
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> I would suggest to rather see it this way: If they are making above average gains they are probably better at investing their capital than the average person, but also helped by the increased bargaining power of the amount of capital that they have.

Again you ignoring mathematics. The interest function is an exponential function. It transfers money from borrowers to lenders - it's a law. It has nothing to do with wiser investment decisions. If don't have savings you can't invest.

> The USA has a much lower GDP per capita than most of those countries you have mentioned.

I am sorry, that is not right. All countries that I mentioned have lower GDP per capita that the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_... There are only 3 countries in Europe who have a higher GDP per capita: Lichtenstein, Luxenbourg and Norway. The economic power of the US is immense, but the allocation should be optimized.
Congrats!

I thought @tba was working on Kickoff, he's not joining Stripe?
Lactase persistence is simply a gene we're born with failing to turn off. Hardly a radical evolutionary change. Animals which eat plant or grain-based diets have completely different digestive systems than humans.
Also it's been done.

Western fertility rates are on average ~2. Development and education in poorer nations - especially for women - also results in declining birthrates.

Interesting side point though: reduced birthrates don't result in any benefits to drug-resistant bacteria though, since a small population can still run high density feedlots which promote them!
Which is still slower: making the assumption that automatic updates are actually enabled (which is often not the case), Microsoft's update cycle is slower (monthly) whereas Chrome & Firefox have both deployed patches within a day of learning about a new zero-day. Microsoft also does not update Flash (prior to Windows 8) or blacklist known-insecure plugins as quickly – better than in the past, to be sure, but still concerning as the reaction loop speeds up.
So at that point the degree is really a proxy for A level results. I would wager that A level results correlate more strongly with social class than degree results once you factor in mature students etc. Though I have no idea if that is true.

I imagine that pure online universities will have low or non existent entry requirements. So will be interesting to see how their value is perceived.