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> > I want to study medicine because of a desire I
> > have to help others
>
> Let's get real--this is said over, and over again,
> and I've never bought it.

The article is aimed at people who are trying to do as much good as possible with their careers. They're not asking "is the typical doctor altruistic?" but "if I'm altruistic should I become a doctor?".
CRT is often given with a closed form for the satisfying solution, although requiring computing multiplicative inverses mod each of the n_i (your primes). Since all of these values are known at design time, they can be precomputed and the run time for encoding becomes a constant M multiplications, M-1 additions and one mod at the end where M is the number of items you are encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem#Gene...

For example, the 3, 5, 7 packing yields a closed form of 70a_1+21a_2+15a_3 (mod 105). Plugging in 2, 4, 3 like your example yields 59 directly.
This made me check what version of p4.el I've been using. Turns out it's from March 1997. Might be time for an upgrade :-)
At Silicon Valley Bank, risky tech startups are lucrative business
Augmented and virtual reality with Big Data
"The bank is aggressive in courting investors as well, part of why it has become the 'first call' bank for many of them, said James Slavet, a Menlo Park, Calif., venture investor with Greycroft Partners."
Weights are small pieces of lead used to compensate the wetsuit buoyancy. They don't have a big surface so they don't have hydrodynamic impact.

In some freediving disciplines weights may be used to go deeper in less time, but then you leave the weight at the bottom, otherwise you would not be able to come back to the surface.
The contracts were a scam. Seems great at first, but eventually you realize you already paid for your phone and are just getting fleeced. So you try to leave one month before the contract ends for a service that is half the cost, and they nail you for $200. Only your credit is already useless, so they don't get the $200 and instead just get a lot of angry former customers.
Two competing opinions ... a sad ending and a happy ending. I'm going to play it safe and say that it has an ending.
Aug 9 2015 – Singapore 50th National Day
Fluff is not content that you already know. It's narrative that isn't directly relevant to the topic at hand.
Lots of dead and nonexistent people vote in elections all the time. Come to think of it, this could be a reason that it is so easy to do these things.
We loooooooooove Perforce in the games industry because it handles repositories with hundreds of gigabytes of binary data better than most (if not all) other source control systems. It's fast, reliable, and space efficient on the client.

The DVCS features in the new versions of Perforce plug the holes where a lighter weight solution is desired, and have also been allowing us to more seamlessly mirror projects across previously separate servers.
The Selfish Gene is wonderfully tight, indeed very little noise and a whole lot of signal.

Here's two books if you want to learn about math you might want to learn about: The Facts on File Dictionary on Mathematics by Gibson, and Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics by Howard Eves, which takes a historical approach, but is not a history per se. More like "this is what the Greeks did, in this period the use of calculus was pretty loose and look at this equation that Euler thought was right, these are the steps that brought rigor to it" etc.

Susan Wise Bauer has been writing a series of history books solely focused on "politics", i.e. no coverage of the arts besides occasional mentions; that can be a very useful framework to then hang study of things like the arts off of. Also no wild speculation like Guns, Germs and Steel is filled with, if it wasn't written down and passed down to us, it gets only brief mention. Here's the first one: http://www.susanwisebauer.com/books/history-of-the-ancient-w...

Samuel Eliot Morison wrote a series of book on the History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, they're focused on what happened in detail, with charts of the movement of the ships in various battles and so on. The TV series Victory at Sea was based on them, and they're a good framework to then hang more detailed study of the war off of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_Naval...

As Wikipedians put it, This History of U.S. Naval Operations also intentionally avoided a certain amount of analysis, for instance deferring to other works for the causes of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor. The intended audience for the work, to quote from the preface, was "the general reader rather than the professional sailor."

There are two very tight and short books on self-defense, Jeff Cooper Principles of Personal Defense and Massad Ayoob's In the Gravest Extreme, The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection, "Just the facts, ma'am", firearm centric but wonderfully focused.

ADDED: Sun Tzu's The Art of War is itself very focused (the media on which it was written strongly encourages that!), although the commentary, traditional and what modern translators add, can wander into fluff. A lot of it is relevant to modern non-violent life, and don't forget that "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you". I recommend Samuel B. Griffith's translation, he was a professional military officer.
> If you use the phrase "social outrage" or "social justice" as a pejorative, you're part of the problem :)

The first thing is to understand it's a problem to simply prima facie discount someone.

It is outrage at social things. 9/10 of the people complaining are just trolls who don't even code.

The rest are beta males who emasculate themselves playing apart in it. 5 years from now - they're going to risk losing too much face to dig themselves out of the chasm of imaginary virtue they dug themselves into.

Also, for those who may be open to hearing a different perspective from their own (hint hint: we conservatives are not boogie men seeking to bully women and gays) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRUgFG5XQiM
To give a little context, it reads:

> We will not act on complaints regarding: ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’

This was taken from http://geekfeminism.org/about/code-of-conduct/ with one omission:

> The Geek Feminism Anti-Abuse Team will not act on complaints regarding: ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’ (because these things don’t exist)

I'd agree that the reverse-isms do not exist. Sexism is sexism no matter who it affects. But it is not clear to me if the text should be interpreted this way...
All that security theatre and yet there's hundreds, maybe thousands of root certificates out there, that can sign any website on the planet.
BitTorrent over Tor isn't a good idea
Scientists: we are 'condemning' forest elephants by ignoring evidence
But what makes Times<Times<Newton, Meter>, Meter> the same as Times<Newton, Times<Meter, Meter>>?
Ah, I'll confirm that imagining. I'm unfamiliar with glue records. How I've not encountered them I don't know, and it should possibly concern me. Maybe I have and have forgotten. Anyway, I was thinking hang on, back to square one, where do we get the ns ip addresses, we're going to go round in circles. Thanks for filling in the missing piece.
Merkel's government is one if the worst thing that have happened to EU
I learned quite a lot reading "Understanding Physics" by Isaac Azimov. It covers just about every level of basic through college level physics, and unlike textbooks it is actually readable.
Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christipher Alexander is the most meaning-dense book I've ever read. The number and quality of his footnotes serve as proof.

http://www.amazon.com/Notes-Synthesis-Form-Harvard-Paperback...
That's only when you count every unsuccessful intervention as a "cause".
The research paper that created this factoid counted every possible way medicine could have prevented the death, and did not weighting of other factors like me underlying illness or injury.

One of the paper's highlighted cases of " doctor-caused death" from its own summary , was a case where a kid had an unprovoked heart failure while running track, and the doctor forgot to tell him that doing that again might kill him, and then he kid ran again, and had another failure, and died. That's ridiculous to blame on faulty care.

If 10 people have heart attacks, and medicine saves 5, suboptimal care fails to save 3, and 2 cases were beyond the reach of even perfect care, that research paper would say medicine killed 3 and heart disease killed 2, ignoring the 5 saved. Medicine has room for improvement, but is an absolutely massive net win.
Wow, thank you. I had no idea swiss watches were so expensive.
> Four Italian restaurants. Did you completely miss the point? Of course you did.

The point was that Italian food is more than pasta and pizza.
We're all going to die eventually. Does it make it worse or better to have lived a 'good' life first? I suppose it doesn't matter either way once you're dead, but all we can do is live life to the fullest, most rewarding, way before we die, right?
I really like what I'm reading now: http://www.amazon.com/The-Singularity-Is-Near-Transcend/dp/0...

...but it may not be what you want (some may consider it fiction)
Statgo: Access OS Metrics from Golang
https://github.com/sbilly/awesome-security
Ask HN: Criteria for judging JavaScript project?
I'm thinking about making a JS lib/framework comparison site, something like ruby-toolbox.com but for JS. And I need some objective/subjective criteria for comparing projects.

# Objective

I plan to use npmjs.com and github.com API to retrieve data and get some objective criteria. Apart from the apparent star/watcher/fork counts, NPM downloads, I come up with:

- Issue Open/Close ratio
- Issue creation frequency
- Commits frequency
- Star increase frequency

Q: What are some of the objective and calculable criteria that you would use to judge a JS project?

# Subjective

I want to add user comment/rating for each project. I'm thinking about adding rating for:

- Code quality
- Doc quality
- Mail-list/Issue tracker responsiveness/helpfulness

Q: Are there other subjective criteria that you would find helpful for judging a project?
> it's saying you appreciate the finer things in life and that you are someone interesting

Another way of saying it is "you spend your money on worthless crap". This is emphatically not what I think of you, understand, just that wearing expensive jewelry may open doors, but it will also cause people to judge you. Perhaps rightfully so.

Personally, I would never want to think that anything I earned was through cultural manipulation. Of course, I can't help it, but I also can't help being a white male.

I really take issue with people who attempt to argue that jewelry is anything but a frivolous luxury.
And if you don't read the cheatsheets there's something to be said for using a framework that implements most of the stuff by default. For example web2py tends to secure by default for the owasp stuff: http://www.web2py.com/book/default/chapter/01#Security

Personally I think I'm too dumb to implement all that stuff by hand without screwing something up.
I feel like the banking industry needs to catch up here: in this day and age with digital fraud being easy and getting easier, they should be able to reverse any transfer internationally.

This will fall apart when we get to cashing out downstream, or buying physical goods that are on-demand manufactured/shipped, or stock market trades, but a large percentage should be recoverable in $large cases and (outside of certain sophisticated patterns) the receiver of the money who spent it should be on the hook for the difference.

30m unrecoverable as yet is just silly.
nope, most of the price is the patent costs for the telephony transport used..for example the LTE chip is more expensive than the 3g due to patent costs alone..part of that cost is also the fact that firms like Qualcom can only produce so many chips
It is very long though so I'm not sure it's exactly the type of book being requested here. Not that the data is unimportant, but the inclusion of so many tables and tables and charts caused me to give up on trying to finish the book.
The whole philosophy is silly. They advocate high paying careers (which tend to be exploitative ways to get money) and ignore the moral hazard of well intentioned people turning out to consume that income later. They inore that a smart person in a "mundane" public service / charity job might develop experience and connections that lead to a massive novel improvement to that sector.
As a youngster I rode a unicycle ... Now I want one of the self.balancing motorized ones. The "transportation" device described in this article is totally unappealing compared to both powered and unpowered skateboards.
Ugh, I hate this article because it just buys into the industry PR terminology. Buying a "subsidized" phone doesn't mean the big phone company is cutting you a deal, being nice to you, and putting money in your pocket. No, it's providing financing for a phone purchase at an effective APR of around 100%. It's ridiculously lucrative for them.
Yeah, I was just gonna ask - what does this have to do with GitHub beyond being hosted there?

But now I guess my question shifts to - what does it mean to be a "member" of this group? Is using any of the services provided by member companies binding me to that CoC somehow?

EDIT: Ah, looks like there's answers in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027561
But we have a shortage of doctors in this country (USA) at least, due to cartel controls on med school. More doctors, modestly paid, could serve more people currently underserved.
I've written a few code spikes using metaclasses and to be honest, it never worked out well for me. I always found a simpler, clearer way of achieving the same outcome without them and the code that I did write felt dirty.

It's a very powerful language feature. Also very dangerous. It's a magnet for technical debt and obscure bugs.
This reminds me of the time I unlocked the premium version of a trial fractal making program by bugging one of the shared libraries it came with.

The shared library in question was libcrypto, which is open source software. It wasn't hard to download the source for the correct version and bug one of the RSA functions to always return true, causing the program to think any correctly formatted license key is valid.

If it weren't for the vulnerable dependency idk if I could've made a key generator; they used the public key/private key infrastructure so to make a keygen I'd need their private key.
I'd second this. The core message of the book is well stated and though I read it a few years ago now, I still regularly use the communication techniques in every day life.
I guess I'm confused. Most of these people that are praising Kelsey for "saving these children" are pro-choice. In other words, they're glad that the mother can't take drugs to help her feel better during the first and second trimester to protect the baby, but if the mother wans to to straight up kill the child, that's the mother's choice and is ok.

Cognitive dissonance much?
I didn't even know .works TLD was a thing. Feels like the 'market' is oversaturated with a new one every second. Here's a link to a bunch I didn't know existed: https://iwantmyname.com/domains/new-gtld-domain-extensions

I did smile when I saw it was by DNSimple, absolutely love using them.

EDIT: I'm not a shill for these guys, but I signed up with them very early on and their customer service was fantastic. What made me become a (hopefully) life-long customer was when I emailed them to say that as a result of a botched cochlear implant surgery leaving me very sick, and out of work I could no longer pay my plan -- and they actually offered to help pay all my services I had with them until I was back on my feet! It was a small token on their behalf but so appreciated by me (but I asked a friend to meet the repayments instead to try maintain some self dignity). I just thought I should share this wee story!
Well, HSC is most certainly still around. Often cheaper than Digikey, with a great selection of jellybean components, as well as a really long tail of more obscure parts.
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Cool toy but seems gimmicky. The research just keeps piling up about how sitting at our desks all day is terrible for our health... That we need to get up and walk and move, the exact thing this product seems to be trying to outsource. Too bad we evolved to move about our environments using our legs, instead of stay immobile in a dark swampy cave with bio-luminescent algae interfaces.
Does anyone know what are the motor and battery specifications on this device? Which motor do they use? Which battery?
Your username is not inspiring confidence in your opinion on these matters ;)
Most games are generic crap. I've seen crap games make money, but I haven't seen a great game fail. People see Flappy Bird and want to imitate it because it's easy. Those who work hard don't rely on luck can still build a sustainable business. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=45&v=1BCg31KVJok
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I didn't know about this code of conduct until just now when I saw this article, so I don't know for sure why people are so against it.

Part of the problem may be that there have a been a few high profile cases (posted to HN, etc.) where a bunch of people unrelated to a project (not committers, not forkers, not users) have come in and started big commotions over committer behavior outside of the project (i.e. on their personal twitter account having nothing to do with the project), or have demanded changes like "he" be replaced with "they" or "he/she" in the documentation. Basically, a bunch of political stuff that doesn't have perceived technical value for the project.

It could be that a GitHub endorsed "code of conduct" would give those people more ammunition against projects, and I think that worries people. Most GitHub users aren't big OSS projects, they're just using it to host their hobby projects, they're not out to make political statements.
XSS by writing the message:

<i<script></script>mg src="#" onerror="alert(1)">

Just stripping out tags doesn't work. Stripping out the script tags there simply ends up creating another new tag. You need to understand and implement proper escaping.
Not a book but Charles Munger's talk, A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business is good and I see a copy is hosted on this very domain http://old.ycombinator.com/munger.html
The concentration technique (attention deconcentration) mentioned in the article sounds very interesting. Anyone know more or have tried it? Edit: Could be a useful technique when free-diving into a code base. Apropos diving, another concept that comes from the diving world which I have found useful in Software Development is "incident pit" which can be useful as a perspective to post mortem failed projects and conversely for a PM to know about the danger signs.
As a freediver myself, I dit not like THE ending ;)
> but I haven't seen a great game fail.

Think for a bit about your sentence and what it implies :)

(solution: that you've seen 100% of all great games ever submitted to the app store, which seems doubtful)
Well you could have phrased it more eloquently. Please feel free to elaborate on what a truly neutral perspective is.

Memories seem to be short when it comes to politics. Timeline... Russia has historically strong ties with with Ukraine and a bunch of trade agreements. NATO make noise about Ukraine joining (dangerous provocation, imagine Russia got Mexico on board with military strategy) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7312045.stm .... Yanukovych gets democratically elected (accepted as legitimate by international monitors... whether it was or not in reality I don't know so I will take this at face value. You can read the wikipedia on Ukraine Election 2010 for more infos).... EU push for trade deal that will bring Ukraine closer to Europe at the expense of Russia (despite all the marketing fluff about shared values, democracy, good governance that the EU like to roll out I think we are all smart enough to read between the lines. There is also a side story here in that EU were trying to slow the NATO expansion by stepping in first https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/16/1653792_us-embassy-cab...).... Euromaiden happens after a tug of war between Russia and EU ... Yanukovych gets booted (undemocratically... it's ok when it suits us but not when it doesn't)... The likes of John McCain turn up in Ukraine to supports the demonstrators (wtf is he doing there?)... Russia invades the Russian parts of Ukraine and takes over.

I am a little biased in that I think peaceful methods should be pursued almost exclusively and I think the EU has been largely successful with this internally so far. Ukraine was a step too far. All parties involved in Ukraine acted deplorably and it pains me to see people taking sides based on a perceived moral superiority. I find it hard to buy into the good guy bad guy narrative when everyone is slaughtering each other left, right and center. Having a soft border, both geographically and economically, between the EU and Russia is probably best for everyone involved in regards to Ukraine.
> Wait, really? I've never posted it myself, but textual descriptions like "[hug]" as a way of expressing gratitude or solidarity are common and mundane in plenty of communities.

I'd bet none of the communities you've seen it is a workplace.
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I don't want you to hug me, or otherwise violate my personal space, thank you. I don't know you, it's completely inappropriate.
Textual descriptions thereof also make me feel weird and uneasy.

(And if you don't think that the words matter because it's just text in a browser, imagine that next time you make an angry/frustrated post, I reply "aww, boo hoo. ruffles your hair". You'd be fucking pissed. Words have meaning, that's why we use them)
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What about people who disagree and are not willing to follow the CoC? Is it preferable to turn some brilliant (but very ill-tempered; so many of them exist) mind away from a project because they are not our favourite? In the end, is it the software that matters or the 'community'?
Ah, yes, there it is. I didn't initially scroll any lower than the watermark.

Love Agoda by the way.
But those reasons were enumerated by experience and were repeated over and over -- like religious hate. What I like is they did not start with a committee of people saying, "Let's brainstorm what could go wrong."

The distinction doesn't seem that clear to me. It seems like this committee has gotten together as a response to the well known social issues that have cropped up over and over in specifically the github community and more generally the open source and software development communities.

You bless the Apple rule or guideline around religious hate, but dismiss the entire code of conduct here? Do you have any specific gripes or examples of policies you think are wrong? Could it be that you agree more with the rules Apple has put in place, or at least don't feel as strongly about the rules of the App Store, but maybe feel some distaste for someone trying to "police" this somewhat different arena?
Game development seems to be one of the most competitive and least forgiving corners of the larger software development industry.

A long time ago, games are what originally motivated me to learn to program. But some point along the way, I came to believe (whether true or false) that game development was really not a very enticing career path, both in terms of compensation and technical & creative challenges open to solve.

I wonder how many others came into software along the same path.