skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced that Access is automatically the wrong tool for every job. I worked with a team that had remote salespeople that were all over the place, with laptops and a custom VB custom configuration tool that would allow them to assemble a quote amongst thousands of parts. I can't imagine any proper grown up database would have been the appropriate solution for this kind of work, especially since they're not connected. It's the same reason why someone might use sqlite3 in a desktop app today.

I also worked in an office full of scientists that were savvy enough with Excel but absolutely not programmers. One of them threw together a Access project to track a bunch of internal data about test results with a functional, but non-fancy forms for data entry. It kept the data clean and portable, and dumped the data out into Excel as needed. If we really needed it, we could have gotten a database installed at some expense and gotten our outsourced IT manager to back it up. But why go through the hassle?
Consult a lawyer, but there can't be any repercussions to saying "no". Once it's sealed, legally it is as if it never happened.
Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns [video]
Scale for sure. Not just in terms of how far they were able to travel, but how big everything is and how many resources they would take to build, not to mention time.

Even if we knew exactly how to build everything in the movie, it would still take a TON of time to build it. Now start in the future and work backwards -- it's simply unrealistic.

That isn't to say that we won't have tons of things even 100 years from now that we can't imagine currently. I just tend to think the unimaginable is more easily attained than the evolution of those things already made.
(once again why HN is awesome)

Thank you thank you thank you thank you

from the bottom of my heart.

DBD::SQLite has been one of the most important libraries for perl that I've ever used. Including the SQLite libraries instead of making it another dependency to install someplace makes it so unbelievably useful.

Plus it's surprisingly easy to move code over to using a more grown up database later.
Good way to lose the ability to flag things.
The bigger issue for renewables than transmission (we already transmit hydro and some nuclear power long distances) is storage and damand-matching. Conventional and nuclear plants (as well as hydro and geothermal) are dispatchable power. The output can be dialed up or down to meet demand (faster for some means than others, hydro can spin on a dime, nukes and coal plants not so much).

For solar, wind, and tidal power, you get what you're given, and deal with additional demand by building overcapacity, through dispatchable power (conventional plants or biofuels in addition to hydro and geo), or by building storage.

Building a nation-sized battery is a pretty heady task. There simply aren't sufficient mineral resources for many electrolytes (including lead) to build sufficient capacity, though some abundant salts and metals may be suitable. Efficiency matters far less than scale and cost.

Floating solar hasn't been built because solar panels have until recently been more expensive than conventional sources, and more significantly, because marine environments are unbelievably harsh and electrical equipment will degrade quickly. It's far more cost-effective to simply build them on land. There's plenty of rooftops and unused acreage.
(I suggest you re-watch the 2009 movie.)
I see it more of an argument of definition.

Students - People who pay to have information presented to them in a nice and comprehensible manner.

Not Students - People who scour the internet and books in search of information that aligns with their interests.

It seems a bit backwards to me.

Yes, the actual definition requires a 'student' be in attendance of a 'school' or 'college'. What about Wikipedia, KhanAcademy, Google etc...? Aren't these new schools that I can 'attend' and don't have to hop through a bunch of red tape, apply, or send them money?
Yes, every injury type is specified. You wouldn't believe what is defined in ICD-10. E.g. Stabbed while crocheting: Y93D1 (not to be confused with Activity, computer keyboarding: Y93C1), Hurt at the opera: Y92253. And then there's the famous V9027XA: Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning water-skis, initial encounter. I should emphasize that these are all real; I am not making this up.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/03/struck-by-a-turt...
http://www.hipaaspace.com/Medical_Billing/Coding/ICD-10/Diag...
It's clear that you're here to troll or to push an agenda, and not to learn. I personally do not care what technology you use. It's not my responsibility to convince you that your current practices are suboptimal. I'm not a contributor or in any other way affiliated with Angular, I just think it's a really well done framework.
How to run a command without hitting Enter Key?
Is this for a website with an existing application behind it or just collecting emails for whitepaper downloads or something like that.

I ask because there's a lot of opinion on what constitutes an MVP.
it wouldn't surprise me if a human gave off 600 watts of heat

Much closer to 100W sustained. I can hit 600-700W, very briefly, on a rowing machine. Wouldn't care to keep that up for more than a minute or two.
Thanks for the link! This line was hilarious:

Hilariously, Schuller went on to say that being caught out lying in this way would not undermine the market’s confidence in future eurozone pronouncements – because it already had no confidence.
Couldn't agree more with that sentiment. Timing, luck, connections, execution, doing something you love. That's Instagram.
It would definitely be possible to have very simple scans done by someone who was given a crash course training (knees, lumbar spines, brains). The problem is that the most complicated work always fails to advertise itself - I found a liver tumour yesterday while scanning a lumbar spine. It appeared on 1 image of the planning scan (a crap, low res image). The student was was present didn't see it and dismissed it as an artifact when I pointed it out, and she is a good student. I'm sure protocols could be made to avoid problems (send all imaging to the PACS, even the duds) like this however.
For plot reasons, the world of Altered Carbon only lets you run one copy at a time, offsite backups are very expensive, (even though individual stacks are so cheap that literally every person in the world has one installed?) and the time between backups is 24 hours.

In the real world, there's no reason to expect any of these limitations to exist. It makes more sense for backups to be cheap(ish) and taken every five minutes.

SPOILERS:

Altered Carbon also addresses the nightmare scenario of state vector theft very well; if the bad guys have a copy of your mind, they can torture you to death, over and over, forever. But in the real world, the precise mechanism of capture used in the book would be unlikely: if you thought you were about to be kidnapped, you'd just suicide, (using a explosive charge in your brain) and let one of your backups figure out what happened.
Thats a little excessive but fun to see. As long as you damage the platters, data will be near impossible to recover. Putting an axe through them would be quicker and just as effective.
Speaking as a Real Database(tm) bigot, Access has two key advantages over Real Databases.

1. It's there.

Most large organisations stump up for Office Pro, and Office Pro includes Access. The corporate policies prevent you from installing the Real Database of your choice -- you can only use what's already installed. Happily, that includes Access.

2. It's upgradeable to a Real Database.

Microsoft make transforming Access into a true multi-user SQL database fairly straightforward: install SQL Server and run the upgrade Wizard.

If SQL Server is not your personal favourite Real Database, then with a bit more work you can get Access to talk to something else via ODBC. Not as seamless, but still a clear upgrade pathway.

One of the projects that made me realise I wanted to be a developer and not a lawyer (long story) was an Access database I wrote for my part-time job. An errors-tracking system. I calculated that it saved the company 35 hours of manager time per month.

What did they have before that? A physical book, typed into an Excel spreadsheet once per month.

Access is a tool with unique bureaucracy-dodging properties. It's important not to discount those.
Btw, I just discovered that Hoogle doesn't index many packages. Apparently "Hayoo" is the one to use:

http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html

At least it finds stuff like HXT's runX. Unfortunately, it seems buggy in that you cannot link directly to a search.
I completely agree that a safety net allows you to concentrate on good long-term work and is invaluable.

But I also glimpse a new way of organising work. New ways of bringing together teams and rebuilding old networks, flexible remote working making this possible in ways not seen before. Add into the mix totally new market-types opening up (Indian micro-products where you need to think and capture value at fractions of a rupee at a time will demand insights that no-one walking the streets of SV will ever grasp)

I doubt that new entrepreneurialism is going to be a better sort of linkedIn for HR departments - but I do think that the (tech) world of work I will retire from will be radically different to now - and there are advantages in knowing which way the elephant is pointing.
How did me make these? Also, dribbble invite?
So proud of my students. So many more applications about to be launched over the next week too.

It's great to see that in just 7 weeks, these guys and girl have come from being beginner coders to deploying cool apps.
I worked for a small PACS vendor (mainly IT support and network engineering, and satellite network stuff, but also training rads, techs, and other doctors on how to use the image viewer, report writer, etc.) which was used for dod and others in iraq/afghanistan/kuwait/etc, and spent 2 years in Afghanistan (enh), Kuwait (awesome), and Iraq (been there, done that, was kind of boring by 2010). Also by the federal bureau of prisons, and some cruise lines.

Before that I was doing satellite/wireless/etc. networking, and some of my customers were various SOF who had fairly badass medics (regular army SF 18D is probably better than a civilian paramedic, at least for trauma, and the "other" guys had people beyond that, including some actual MDs who were also shooters). I did "combat lifesaver" class and then spent a lot of my spare time hanging out with the SF or SOF medics (because they tended to be more interesting than the shooters). I got some of the rad techs to teach me the basics of how to get decent images from CR/DR/CT/US, since I was trying to figure out which problems were caused by technique, which were caused by emitters or tables, which were caused by plates or scanners, and which were caused by our system. I kind of want to do an EMT course when I have time here, although I'm not sure where I'd volunteer to keep the skills current after that.

Before all of this I actually lived out in Baghdad for most of 2004/2005 with ~zero medical care or really any professional support (2 Americans, 100+ Iraqis), so it was mostly "learn anything you might possibly need well enough to do it yourself", and "don't get shot").

There were also civil affairs/outreach efforts, and some charity efforts (rotary club) to bring medical care to civilian population, which was weird, since Kabul had a private hospital with a 64-slice CT (when DOD had 16 and 32), and there was a private 2 Tesla MR in Jalalabad.

Mostly I was in "role 3" facilities, which were essentially as good a level 2 trauma center and a little bit of additional facility in the US. Also went to "role 2" (which were essentially 5-10 doctors, plus nurses and techs, with a couple of trauma bays, and X-Ray and US but not usually CT, and some of the FSTs (who augmented role 2 with much better surgical capabilities). In general the equipment and staff were top-notch, and the only problems were physical facilities. CTs tended to be in shipping containers, and the Army CSHes were big tent farms (which sucked), while USN and USAF tended to build fairly decent hardstand buildings (not as good as Stanford, but better than most of the rural counties).

On the issue of imaging without interpretation -- it's kind of funny. One of the big DoD pushes was to go back and have a radiologist read and issue an official report for every image shot of a US patient from the start of operations (2001/2002), in ... 2009 or 2010. There is the benefit that US people can't sue the government for malpractice, and Iraqis/Afghans aren't really in a position to sue, either (arguably the only ones with standing would be enemy combatants held in US custody).
Two (semi-related) questions:

* Are high school students eligible?

* If so, my high school doesn't provide us with email addresses. Is that critical? (I have other ways of verifying my enrollment.)

Thanks!
> I'm not convinced that Access is automatically the wrong tool for every job

Neither am I (though I tend to view the idea that it is the right tool for any job with skepticism); my point above was that the particular scenario pointed out in the post I was responding to indicated that it was the "right" tool, insofar as it was, because of bureaucratic barriers to selecting certain other tools rather than purely technical suitability.
A greenhouse could, but you'd have to make a bunch of decisions and figure things out by yourself. The nice thing about using standard shipping containers is that lots of people have made the same decision, so there's lots of knowledge and tech that works yesterday.

Losing out on all that free clean fusion energy seems like the biggest weakness, to be honest.
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Boy, that takes me back to the two times I was struck. 15 the first time, my legs didn't work for about 15 minutes. Second time I only know about because witnesses told me (it's a black space in my memory).
I think an even easier way is to use .NET/Mono with the open source library called EPPlus which lets you read and write Excel 2007 (Office Open XML/xlsx) files.

http://epplus.codeplex.com/
You have to though, because when people are considering what career path to pursue, they aren't looking at one scenario, they are looking at the expected scenario. For a start-up this means lots of long hours at low pay with a slim chance at making it big.

If you lower that big payoff, start-up employment then becomes long hours at low pay for a slim chance at making very little. If this were the case, no on would work in start-ups. You can't affect the "slim chance" part of the equation because no one knows what ideas will be successful.

I am talking about the price of labor, but in aggregate not an individual. This is what sets the incentives for the labor and incentives, not any set nominal value that may be decreed objectively "correct", are what the market sets.

Both responses also seem to object along the lines of the Labor Theory of Value. Do you truly believe that the price of a product (wages or otherwise) should be directly tied to the amount of labor going into said product?
god i hope so. maybe i can finally get access to my account that my live purchases are being held hostage on.
Not so fast...
http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/05/24/xbox-live-breach-cla...
Be careful of RSI, the last thing you want to do is strain your left hand with the additional work. One thing you have to accept is that you will not be as quick as before.

If you focus on anything, let it be this, to reduce strain in your left hand while continuing to work. I personally spend a lot of money on keyboards and mouses as that is your interface with anything you do at a computer.

The most comfortable setup I have found is a small apple bluetooth keyboard (low travel laptop style keys) and a logitech mobile mouse. If you have the money, it might be worth looking into getting a touch pad.
Well, you know C (and variants) so learn Objective-C

Also Ruby or Python.
The bayfiles link is not working, wondering if this is fake or not.
According to this site, it's fake: http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/05/24/xbox-live-breach-cla...
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

Otto von Bismarck

(also attributed to others as is every good quote)
Any opinion on 300 bu/acre corn?
>For example, last year a team showed that entanglement swapping still works even if they make the projective measurement after they’ve already measured the polarizations of photons 1 and 4.

So yes, they can. Which leaves me wondering which option is right:
A. I'm missing something major here.
B. They can measure 1 and 4 and then decide whether to use their box on 2 and 3 and contradict causality.
C. This experiment isn't actually exciting at all and the 'entanglement' isn't the good kind.
The liability for refusing to transport a patient to ER who claims certain symptoms would be huge. Even doctors won't make that call in the US; there's no way an EMT or paramedic would.

And, if they're evaluating you on scene, even if they decide not to transport, they've already rolled the truck(s) to see you, which is probably much of the cost.
Uh, yeah, I was just checking whether this thing was on.
Raspberry Pi + Owncloud + BitTorrent Sync = Personal Cloud
I think theme of action movie is taking over sci-fi genre by the storm. Repackaging a legendary sci-fi movie into an action packed one does not give justice to Star Trek's reputation. I am not saying that action is bad but it should not be the most vibrant component but sci-fi, what this article trying to point, should be the one.
> High school students are eligible as well.

> Since most high schools don't issue email addresses, the turnaround for approval can be longer.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in a Los Angeles meetup?
So the tough part about living in LA is that lack of talent i.e. devs, engineers, etc.

Went to an iOS "Meetup" a couple of weeks ago - just randmom people talking about an app or an idea or another SnapChat, negative hacking going on over there.

Any hackers in LA want to organize a meetup? Is there one I'm not aware of? For software, hardware, etc.?
Again, I don't think I ever said that people will stop making mistakes, just that the frequency of mistakes and ability to deal with them when discovered (or even ability to discover them) will change with experience. I feel like too many people dismiss the problem as scary and intractable and that's IMO not a good reason to never write any C.
| It's inevitable people will reverse
| engineer the client, as was done with MSN,
| Y! Messenger, and AOL

That's not the end-all be-all though. I remember that AOL was pretty aggressive about keeping unauthorized clients off of their Oscar protocol (the original protocol was 'toc,' IIRC and didn't support all of the 'advanced' features like Buddy Icons, idle times, etc). At one point, AOL's servers would require random chunks of the official AOL IM client's binary as a protection measure. Obviously you can get around this, but it's not something you can do out in the open (distributing AOL IM with, say, Pidgin/libpurple would be copyright infringement).
How the Xbox One draws more processing power from cloud computing
If you have a single user problem, Access is fine.
FAKE!
https://twitter.com/Cyber_War_News/status/337729411287752704
The tech sounds pretty neat to me [privacy concerns put aside].

Maybe this tech is only enabled if your streaming a new release... something that was just released to the theaters. Maybe 2 people cost 20$ and 4 people cost $30? All I know is that I will pay more to watch new stuff now and from my couch.
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The Disruptive Dozen
I finally did get it running. Thanks!
Sorry rdl, I cant seem to reply to your comment below (comment to deep?), thats some great experience. There must be a few hairy stories from that period. What was your company's product name (No problem if you cant post this). Ive used Agfa, IntelliPacs, Kodak (didnt enjoy).
You would trust in the people working to set up online shops. After all, at the time they were at the forefront of technology.

Back in those days, people were more paranoid about malicious pop up windows rather than man in the middle attacks. You would be able to tell who's been on the naughty adult sites as their computers would be full of malware :P

Back then, if I purchased things online, I would make a point of requesting a new credit card every year or so for additional security.
Yea but cloud bandwidth and DC bulk bandwidth are really apples and oranges. I guess I just didn't like that the article seemed to be making it appear as if this guy is costing Verizon thousands because of his extreme bandwidth usage. Being that Verizon doesn't pay for transit to anyone, his effect on the network is even more minimized.
This a really cool idea, and great for getting students started without the stress of making code public. Kudos to Github. Does GitHub offer any similar benefits to non-profits or other types of organizations?
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Why not just use Bitbucket? I switched over all my private repos to Bitbucket some time ago and it is working pretty well.
We offer free Bronze Organization plans to nonprofits with proof of status.

https://github.com/nonprofit
Sqlite filled a desperate need with no contenders, while Fossil, released in 2006, was going up against git and hg (both released a year earlier). Though Fossil is much more than a SCM (wiki, bug tracker, blog) and while not mainstream, is still used by tcl.tk and others.
Diagonals are GMT.
Inside Boston's version of Dev Bootcamp...
Human history is a story of people nostalgic for the past, believing things are going to hell, oblivious to improvements.

When I was born two big countries had nuclear weapons pointed at each other with the very realistic possibility of exchange. Everything we built could be eradicated in an hour or two. We are quite better off.
Uhm, if you've just been learning languages as your way of learning to program I'd actually recommend that you go and look at an open source project or write a significant program yourself. Learning how a large project works, especially if you're trying to work on it with others, will teach you a lot. I'd also recommend you look out some books on problems that computer programs are used to solve rather than just picking up another couple of languages - learning about relational databases for instance is... yeah. It's more the theory side of things and some of it's awesome but I'm not sure you'd run across them picking up languages here and there.

That aside, most of the languages you seem to know are - by and large - imperative. I'd recommend you learn a functional language like Haskell or Lisp because that's a different way of looking at things. It will teach you about functional abstraction which is a really good way to get to the heart of a problem and avoid doing the same pattern over and over again in different bits of code. Some of the things you can do in functional languages are incredibly beautiful.

Ruby ought to make you really familiar with learning how to use other people's code and has an incredibly friendly community, at least as programming goes =p Learning to use other people's code is a big thing in programming - as a general rule, never program your own version of something unless you think you can do it better in some way, their interface is awful, or you want to know how it works.
https://secure.flickr.com/tools/
A friend of mine, upon seeing this page, noted that he applied for this a year ago and still hasn't gotten a response. What sort of turnaround these applications have?