skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really liked most of medical school. The years are progressively better (from my perspective) as you get more clinical and hands-on, and further away from rote memorization of biochemical pathways and arcane minutiae that have only the obscurest connections to actual patient care. As a first-year resident in emergency medicine in the Bay Area, I am very happy I went to medical school - I am sure that throughout my training and career I'll have ups and downs, but it doesn't feel like I wasted my time, especially as I am starting practicing as a physician. Every so often, those obscure pieces of trivia that I memorized do come up (in EM especially, you get to see all sorts of things, and sometimes it's fun recognizing the weird findings of autoimmune disease or dermatological things, even if you're not going to order the assays to definitively diagnose them in the department).

Living out here in SF it's interesting to compare my past and current life to the friends I have who are involved in tech. I think similarities are the often-seen lack of work/life balance (something I think I developed over three years of working before entering medical school and I would encourage any new MS1 to prioritize thinking about), and the sometimes-overwhelming feelings of "imposter syndrome" or constantly feeling like you somehow fooled people into getting where you are, or that you don't know the things other people think you know. There's also a lot of love for the latest and greatest in technology or theoretical frameworks for understanding disease, sometimes at the expense of things that have been used for ages and that work quite effectively (tincture of time and observation for almost anything, ice for pain, physical exam for evaluation of hemodynamic status).

Tips for incoming first year -- if you're tech-savvy, or at least can touch-type, consider checking out Anki, and reading others' tips for utilizing spaced repetition in your studying. Focus on backwards planning your own curricula, using released tests or your professors' advice to get an idea of what will be tested material. Get, and do, as many questions as possible -- BRS, UWorld, NBMEs, etc. Make flashcards from the questions you get wrong. Repeat and repeat.

Feel free to ask any other specific questions, I'm a bit fried from a long shift. :-)
> it may put hair on your chest

One thing I like about being on the west coast is the slow dismantling of the gender binary.
A very brief history of debt will show you that, whenever in history countries have bowed to the demands of external creditors for reform, it never turned out well for them, and just another opportunity for predatory investors and foreign interests to get a hold of a country's internal policies for their own purposes.

Joseph Stiglitz, as chief economist of the World Bank, wrote a book on the matter on how the IMF's neoliberal policies of privatization functioned as a mechanism to give away national sovereignty and political power.

Do you understand that this transfer of fiscal sovereignty is not "temporary"? That the deals Greece makes now will be dependent on, literally, decades of compliance to reforms made now, under pain of the debt relief going away?

The Germans may be in the same political union, but they're not Greece's friends, and will never be. Alliances and pacts are always transitory. Giving away political power is a ludicruous proposition.
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This is one of the key issues with just issuing more debt to "solve the issue" - paying the right hand with the left hand doesn't solve anything. The reason the money went back to the creditor country is that the interest payments were due and they did this to "kick the can" down the road on how sustainable those payments were.

The can is down the road now and just throwing more money to Greece isn't going to solve anything. Honestly, I think Greece should just flip the bird to Europe and walk away from the debt. They should reintroduce their currency. They won't be able to get more than humanitarian assistance but this will give them the internal political will to balance their budget.

Re: Surplus: Here is the data I am working off of:

http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/revision-notes/a2macro-eu-g...

No surpluses or even close - send a reference if you have different data - genuinely curious.
Talk about overstating the impact of the glymphatic system. If it really lead in a direct causal line to Alzheimer's, toxin overload, and a vicious loop spiraling into overload, this would already show up in the data as all sorts of things like short-sleepers (who never get as much sleep time as claimed is necessary) having death-sentences rather than appearing perfectly healthy, less sleep while young would predict massive mortality losses, etc. None of which seems to be true or the studies seem to be the reverse effect (bad health and aging cause bad sleep). And then there's the persistent doubts about whether the beta-amyloid hypothesis is correct in the first place...

> Swart, who is also a leadership coach, has been instructing executives to sleep for years. She promotes techniques related to diet and exercise, and warns that sleeping next to your smartphone—the one that emits 3G and 4G signals all night—affects your brain patterns, restructuring your brain cells and likely preventing you from allowing your brain to clean out waste material properly.

> Research published in 2007 has already found that the electrical radiation emitted from smart devices is picked up by electrodes inside our brains. Scientists are still trying to figure out just how much damage the electromagnetic signals emitted from WiFi equipment can actually do to the human brain. But by potentially preventing our brains from flushing beta-amyloid—just by being in close proximity—it’s clear these devices already have the potential for serious damage.

Or as Lehrer's writeup says:

> Although this research shows that cell phone transmissions can affect a person's brainwaves with persistent effects on behavior, Horne does not feel there is any need for concern that cell phones are damaging. The arousal effects the researchers measured are equivalent to about half a cup of coffee, and many other factors in a person's surroundings will affect a night's sleep as much or more than cell phone transmissions.
I think one of the points of human experience is to figure out how to reduce ALL human suffering, this included.
In an economic union with no possibility of states to set their own monetary policy, there will always be a squeaky wheel. If this fact is not admitted, there is not point for Greece to be in the union.
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contains :: (NameClass, QName) -> Bool

is valid Haskel, and denotes that "contains" is a function that takes a tuple and returns a bool. As a matter of style, Haskellers tend to avoid writing function like this, and prefer to write functions like

contains :: NameClass -> (QName -> Bool)

which indicates that "contains" is a function that takes a "NameClass" and returns another function. Because this pattern is so common in Haskell, -> is defined to be right-associative, so the paranthese can be omited.
No.

I'm a pescatarian who lives a car free lifestyle. I have a variety of interests which include museums, musical theater, night clubs and restaurants. I also enjoy cultural diversity. I'd have to give all that up to move to Helena, while taking such a huge financial hit that it be difficult to move back to a city that fits my lifestyle.
I would not. It's pretty as hell, but it's too small, too remote, too homogeneous. My wife would have a hell of a time finding a job, and I'd be too worried about stability and backup opportunities.
Honestly, saying "H5" makes it sound like you don't know what you're talking about.

It's like calling HTML a programming language.
The reason you're being downvoted is because your reply is logically, to be frank, bollocks. Whether or not you believe that countries gave up fiscal sovereignty upon joining the euro you'd have to believe based on your assessment of the political implications of the euro project. How each individual country manages their affairs _in no way_ could affect whether their fiscal sovereignty was called into question upon joining the euro. What you're saying doesn't make _logical_ sense, regardless of ideological position.

EDIT: sorry for saying bollocks to you, that was harsh, i'll leave it in as a record of what i said but i take it back, again sorry.

also - in light of the fiscal and monetary distinction people are making here (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876055) - if you remember, monetary sovereignty was definitely given up (because you can't print your own money any more) at the time of joining the euro (and even the ERM in the first place when currencies were pegged). and fiscal sovereignty was given up to a degree because there were broad parameters set, like the 60% rule and the 3% rule and so on. Remember those? I couldn't understand those rules at the time but i do now, they were there to prevent situations like what's happening now with Greece! People complained that even France and Germany broke those. I suppose this is the giving up of fiscal sovereignty at the micromanagement level now, e.g. "raise so much in taxes, implement these social reforms". it stinks.
It's hard to understand, Mr. Iwata. RIP
From the stories, it seems he was a great programmer, and really loved what he did.
Really, now -- I like getting trashed as much as the next guy, unless the next guy is one of that interesting subset of HN commenters who appear to regard it as "drug abuse", but how completely buried in your own head do you have to spend your sober days for a hangover to seem psychically transformative?
Important PSA for Skype Users: Open up "Internet Options" (yes, the ones in internet explorer), security tab, and add https://apps.skype.com to the "Restricted Sites" list. Skype will still work fine, however there will be no advertisements.

This is important because Microsoft seems to use a lot of Flash advertisements without checking them (I've had plenty of "MICROSOFT VERIFIED DRIVER FIXING" ads come up inside of Skype, so I'm sure some zero day could slip though their ad system)
:( Sad news.
I was indeed talking about NSS. Thanks for elaborating and bringing links for the lazy.
Joe Davis. http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_...
Iwata's programming skills averted Super Smash Bros. Melee launch delay
Yet the "solution" on offer is to keep shrinking their economy??
It's an interesting method of trying to circumvent the key distribution and validation process. I'll be talking more about it in the next article, but it still requires you to have a well generated key. It's also somewhat of a different theat model than the traditional PGP web of trust.
Interestingly, China's employment system operates in stark contrast to that (perhaps even a polar opposite) -- employees are so disdainful about future prospects that they contribute to savings accounts, and related financial instruments, in droves. The combined value of such investments is staggering beyond comprehension.

Society is gridlocked in a similar fashion -- people are afraid to spend their money so much that the economy, on a national scale, is generally sluggish. Yes, extravagance is abound in the nouveau riche, however that is the exception rather than the rule.

There is a great fear that their new jobs will vanish on a moment's notice, and there is little faith in the social support systems.
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But wouldn't driving a road grader down the route, even once a year, be cheaper than repaving every couple of years? Just in material cost it should be cheaper, not to mention cheaper equipment (grader v. paver+dump trucks) and staffing. I fully confess, however, that I have no objective numbers.
idk about VLC, but with mpv you can just type "mpv http://www.twitch.tv/streamername" and it plays.
I think "bozo" is too harsh. It's hard to predict what books will be bestsellers and what startups will reach $1B valuation. Arguably, traditional publishers and VCs have to say "no" most of the time. Maybe Kawasaki's quip had a context that made it more palatable, though.
All the automated static and dynamic software analyzers catch only the easiest flaws

In a 64-bit environment, at least for development purposes, why can't every single malloc() cause an allocation from new memory page(s)? Then free() removes the page(s) from accessible virtual memory.

Too much overhead for production, but it would sure catch a lot of use-after-free bugs during development. Is nobody doing something like that, or is that part of what you consider "the easiest flaws"?
Thank you for reminding me that it's out!
Yes. As a full-stack eater who lives a full car life-style I think it would be fun. I have a variety of interests which include skiing, camping, hiking, beer, and restaurants. I also enjoy diverse scenery (like mountains). I'd get all that if I moved to Helena and would be happy not to live in a city full of the self-righteous .
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I grew up with a NES and SNES. He worked on many games that I enjoyed (during his time at HAL), the most notable of my collection being Earthbound (of which, I still have to play every few years just because of how good it is).

I'm sad to see him finally leave us.
Agreed. While I would never use Haskell to, say, right a next gen graphics engine, I can confidently say that learning to write idiomatic Haskell code has improved my C++ code.
This area is being jointly developed by Australia and East Timor, I believe.

200 miles is standard for an Exclusive Economic Zone.
Ask HN: I'm going to have to lay people off, and want your advice
Throwaway for obvious reasons. I'm probably going to have to lay off several dozen people, which I've never done before. Needless to say I'm not looking forward to it. What advice do you have to make it as decent as possible both for those who will be laid off and those who will remain?

(Probably helpful if you note whether you are someone who has been laid off well or poorly, someone who has laid people off, or just have thoughts about it.)
Take a nice long walk to the store while it's sunny. About a 2-mile round trip. Pressure to have a "vigorous" workout is stupid. Sun + a nice walk will help you feel great. Slow down and enjoy the moment.
Or maybe the "smart people" are exactly that and that's as far as they will go as we've seen throughout history when smart people get together decisions become more about maintaining ones ego rather than actual results. Taleb terms so called smart people as "empty suits". 50 cent is a successful venture capitalist, but do people picture him first when they think smart people?
okay but the less you allocate to your "one winner" the less your portfolio return will benefit from that winner.
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The real story here isn't Greece but Germany. What happens when the other spendthrift states refuse to tow the line? If the answer is a Lufthansa flight full of bean counters administering a nation like a receiver, that doesn't bode well for the future of the EU.
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I would be terrified of getting trapped in the backseat of that.
Does anyone have a good source on what kind of keys I should make? Or what ciphers I should enable on my key (is that the right terminology?)

Should I add a small thumbnail photo of myself in my key? Or is that generally frowned upon?

Finally, are there good sources on how I would create a 4096 bit master key, and then add a 2048 bit subkeys for signing and encryption that I can add to my smart card which only allows for keys up to 2048? Would generating 2048 subkeys allow me to still decrypt gpg encrypted emails sent to me encrypted with my 4096 bit master key?

Still trying to figure this all out after picking up some YubiKeys
Makes more sense when you look into the etymology.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bed#Etymology

from Old English bedd (“bed, couch, resting-place; garden-bed, plot”)
Just a question: How do you expect to create new markets or any kind of real innovation if you only invest in companies whose products are similar to something you already worked with?

Maybe it's a goof thing angels are doing bigger rounds taking your place.
Perhaps you're right. Perhaps I let my emotions get the better of me.
Any modern FPS played competitively definitely takes a lot of skill for sure
Yeah, I've seen the wiki thing quite a bit and think it's a good thing. I guess part of the reason why the conference idea intrigued me is that it's not easy to actually get people to go read those pages when they're just links sent out in an email. I've actually tracked some of the links I've sent out and a 10% click rate was pretty common. There could be a lot of different reasons for that so I can't necessarily draw any specific conclusions. However, if you took a day and told people you have to go to one of these presentations maybe they'd actually pick something up.
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Better for my children or his?
>It is kind of sad to me that the newer generation does not get to grow up playing old school games like Final Fantasy and Zelda

They're on the e-shop on the 3DS and WiiU, as well as sold in game stores, just as game cases that are for download codes. I'm pretty sure the newer generation is exposed to them.
Like many on this thread, I've struggled with depression for a long time. What marked the turning point for me was discovering cognitive therapy[0]. It showed me that the way I talked to myself about what happened was the root cause of my depression. I'm a born pessimist. It took several years of intense effort to implement this technique in my own life, but thankfully it's allowed me to achieve serenity.

One addition I made to the CT techniques was visualizing my emotions as having distinct personalities –– Anger, Sadness, etc. I got this idea after watching the recent Pixar movie. It's silly but it really helps to picture your emotions as people who have their own agendas and are trying to manipulate you into carrying them out because then your depression becomes a people management problem. Consider the difference: 1) how can I manage Anger, Sadness or Fear so they don't drive me nuts? 2) how can I cure my depression? The first one is actionable, and the second one is not.

Despite having good results with CT, I'm convinced there is no magic cure to depression. You only manage it all your life. But that's a good thing because it means depression management is a skill you can cultivate, and that gives me hope.

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[0] http://www.webmd.com/depression/features/cognitive-therapy
I couldn't agree more. Very succinctly put.
anyone care to explain the technical how-to that made this possible.
That's besides the point. Even if Greece would have all its debt cancelled (hypothetically), no one would trust it with more money. Debt is about trust, and after five wasted years of crisis and not delivering on its promises there is seemingly none left for Greece.
Oh, then you're right, this is definitely less okay. I was under the impression that they just stopped delivering them from Walmart (or wherever) via Shopping Express, rather than special-casing the search results.

I guess the argument one could make is that the confederate flag is more dangerous and relevant today, but I don't really buy that.

Occam's razor suggests this is just an easy PR grab. They get a few headlines in mainstream tech press for free, and very minor backlash from "free speech nutjubs" as the only downside.
Let's throw in everything Way Forward is doing as well, such as the Shantae series of games.

It's been awhile since I've played a sidescroller that warranted multiple playthroughs, but I picked up Shantae: Risky's Revenge up in one of the HumbleBundles, and I loved the hell out of it.

One part Castlevania, one part Megaman, one part Metroid.

It was so good I went out and bought an XBox One controller to play it further, even though I don't own an XBox One. Side note: apparently its the best PC gamepad you can find that has a good D-Pad; the D-Pad is probably the best one I've used since my childhood.
Fun little app to mess with and I'm glad Go's branching out. That said, I was very disappointed when the app didn't include the ability to clear the screen.
Gross Government Debt is not the same thing as a budgetary deficit. The greeks had, through massive tax increases and spending cuts, achieved an annual surplus. They still had a huge amount of debt from prior deficits:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/23/greece-primary-idU...

You'll see lots of whinging (mostly from Fortune, but also a few others) that this isn't a "real" surplus, but they're splitting hairs. The point is that the Greeks made a real positive change to their economy. They're just buried under a mountain of debt, and if Germany gave a flying fuck about keeping Greece in the EU, they'd be trying to find a way to restructure it -- as they did for Ireland.
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A great tool is Swagger, very useful is your app has a REST API as a back-end.
Could be related to this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9815464
> Lying about that is more likely to hurt your chances or get you fired down the road

that hasn't been my experience
It is equivalent to the second, not the first. The first is a completely distinct type -- though you can certainly write a function with that type, given the original function, by uncurrying it.
I can estimate it as follows.

Cocoa/UIKit works in ObjC.

ObjC is a super set of C that translates the objc parts to calls to objc_msgsend.

Go supports ARM/OSX.

Go makes it pretty easy to call into C

Therefore it should be pretty easy to port to iOS, all you need to do is to write a bit of go to interface with objc_msgsend.
I'm honestly curious what was inflammatory about my tone?
It's a little dicey. Consider also that the developer who can't be fired also can't be promoted. Do you want to be the coder who made something so essential yet incomprehensible that nobody dares to fire you or promote you? Or do you want to be the coder who built something that's awesome and essential, but also simple enough to understand that anybody can maintain it, so you're free to move on to better opportunities at will? There's always somebody willing to employ the coder who can do the latter.

Then again, there are always people who have so much specialized domain knowledge and experience that it just can't be represented with any amount of good architecture, comments, and documentation. If you're in that position, do the best you can to make things clear, and try to be reasonably helpful in finding and training a replacement when the time comes.
Oh come on.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=greece+surplus

(1st hit) NY Times: "Greece Has a Budget Surplus, a Respite That Could Be Shortlived"

(2nd hit) Reuters: "Greece sees 2015 budget surplus close to bailout target: report"

and so on ...
Five wasted years indeed. The austerity imposed on the Greeks has left them with a greater deficit than when they began.
Yep, Indie games are a gold mine for great/unconventional art and design, as well as original gameplay mechanics. Some ones I've enjoyed: Limbo, Thomas Was Alone, Cave Story, Braid, FEZ.