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Inventor tests new prototype of record-setting hoverboard
If you're using an OTA antenna to get HDTV, this site can help you point it in the right direction to get the best signal. Just enter your ZIP code.

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Agreed. But the people living in those states have 14 senators representing them, to NY's 2 and DC's 0. Also, 23 electoral votes to NY's 32.
Can shell scripts do the same job? yes.

Do I want to deal with writing the code / instructions to:

* Explain how to setup/install the build tools.
* Account for differences in shell env.
* Explain to windows users to get cygwin/whatever, or make a separate set of scripts for them.

No.

Grunt/Gulp have the benefit of having a consistent cross OS package manager (npm), in a language that the coder is likely to be familiar with should they need to tweak it.
They're not publicly traded.
Not only that, these companies (AT&T) for example get paid to provide the access.
While developers create software assets and therefore create wealth, its important, as an individual developer, to work on assets that have a higher multiplier of profits.

Working for an insurance company on an internal system that helps agents sell and manage policies reduces costs by eliminating assistant and clerk positions and streamlining the process to save time. The development team working on such a project is working on reducing costs. This type of project is about lowering the floor (to increase profits, the more space between the floor and the ceiling the more profit).

A development team working on a software product that is sold is focused on adding as value to the product so that the company can charge more for the product, increasing sales and profits. This type of project is about raising the ceiling.

Ideally you want to be raising the ceiling, not lowering the floor. You can only lower the floor until you're on the ground (you can only reduce your costs/expenses to zero). If a company is focused on lowering the floor (reducing costs), they are interested and focused on removing YOU too (you're a cost). If a company is focused on raising the ceiling (increasing value and sales), they are more likely to see money spent on software development as an investment and are focused on making you more productive so you can add more value.

Work on a project that raises the ceiling not lowers the floor.
>hackers invent decentralized government democracy 2.0

I think you forget how Proof of Work works. Candidates can just buy more and more mining power to put their opponents out of the race.
I understand your point, but I think there's a difference between the cable company "correctly filtering service" and a person getting additional hardware to bypass the cable modem demarcation. It does get muddied by them allowing customer cable modems, which means there's not a clear a demarcation point anymore.
> Dr. Cheryan’s research shows that young men tend not to major in English for the same reasons women don’t pick computer science: They compare their notions of who they are to their stereotypes of English majors and decide they won’t fit in.

Yet it's education in computer science, math, or physics that needs to be fixed, not in liberal arts. Why?
Shouldn't the meme be:

AUTOMATE

ALL THE TASKS

I feel like memes should be left out of serious write ups because if you do it wrong, or if you have an audience who doesn't normally consume memes, you will end up with what happened to me, which is my attention being focused on the wrong place.
In some population genetics is a strong driver of obesity. Pacific Islanders, Inuit, some Aboriginal America groups come to mind. Any isolated place experiencing periodic famine, supports genes to hoard calories.
As someone who had the awesome pleasure of a Uncle who started in System Admin in the 1960s and a dad who bought a Sol 20 in 1976 I have to say it doesn't seem very computery. I loved programming that Sol 20 in basic and spend hours fixing it or customizing the programs. Heck a count of 1 to 1,000,000 took over 2 days to finish.
Adobe confirms major Flash vulnerability
You mean unlicensed TV broadcasters? How could they track a receiver?
I was looking for an SMBC strip that captures this (there's got to be one) but this is the closest I could get: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=1624
Thanks for the link. They seem to offer a number of different products ranging from the $1,000 "Here's your genome" to $10k "Here's your genome and a detailed analysis of what we've found in it."

What's been your experience with analysis? Something that can be picked up, or something that the professional insights you got were far more useful?
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I am reluctant to give to many details about the what differentiates the app from its competitors.

The state of the project is I have a working Android prototype featuring real-time chat. It currently uses a server-less backend that will scale once we gain traction.

I currently have a partner working on porting the app to another platform.

What we need:

Android UI/UX engineer.
iOS engineer
Marketing/branding expert
Web Designer/developer

We currently have some interest from VCs and are looking to strengthen our funding position byturning our POCs into MVP's.

We haven't named the project yet because we'd like to get some input from branding/marketing professionals.

I'm based in Atlanta, GA
Exactly true, however he's donating STOCK not money. So he's avoiding the taxation on the stock gains that he would have seen, which could easily have been upwards of 50%. Then, yes, he can be employed by and can expense costs to his foundation - so that money that he's not being taxed on is still within his control.

However, the bigger deal is that he can use that foundation to wield significant power and to distort public policy to his benefit.
That event was when we noticed the problem, but the problem continues, on and off, to this day.

What is more frustrating than anything is that we have to check manually because the logs are pretending like the events are happening immediately (timestamps), but they are not.
When you've been married for too long and they don't even try anymore.
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That looks nice, but is a bit steep especially if you still have to provide your own storage. Still, best I've seen so far, thanks.
He may not keep it, but he can control it, and it will make him significantly more powerful.
Surely the shift in the net median wealth based on real estate prices rather than any meaningful change in the real assets held by the average Swede or American in the past couple of years calls into question the validity of net median wealth as a meaningful measure of prosperity...

Not that there's much doubt about the relative prosperity of the top 10% of US citizens compared with the top 10% of Swedes, especially if they're not living somewhere like SF or NY, but I can't help thinking the people in the lower brackets notice the difference more. It's not like a Swede who's sufficiently smart to go to Harvard (and wealthy enough to pay for the course) can't go there if they're dissatisfied with the free higher education on offer in their own country. The parents whose kids are vastly more likely to die in infancy in the US than Sweden have rather fewer options.

I think you're probably underestimating Europe's "access to culture" too...
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Yeah but that has absolutely nothing to do with home 3D printers that make cheap junk using plastic. We've had 3D printing, in some form or another, for decades for industry.
Do they say anywhere what mining scheme they're considering? It seems a weakness of this scheme would be the distribution of points. If they have a scaling difficulty similar to bitcoin, it seems possible that early adopters could wind up with vast quantities of points which late adopters would be starved for, allowing them to control what content is rewarded and published for a goodly while, impairing the initial attractiveness of the platform.
Because sometimes these developments are sensible and change industry "best practice". I cringe terribly thinking back on some of the code I've written using methods which were acceptable at the time, and if I didn't keep up with trends to some extent, I'd still be writing code like that.
Do you have the same opinions for stock market investing at your house?
It could be that, but it could also be a general approach towards life.

Certainly people are born into poor circumstances and have many misfortunes. At the same time some people (for whatever reason) are just lazy, sloppy and don't take care of their lives. This approach likely produces both poverty and poor health and almost certainly entails lack of exercise.

We can't excuse every bad thing that happens as an event out of people's personal control. There is too much of that going on lately and it doesn't help anyone imop.
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> the more men and women in running gear were visible in the streets in the morning.

People who are fit enough to run:

-are probably healthy and fit enough to regularly do yard maintenance and landscaping

-probably don't smoke, leaving more available disposable income for home maintenance and improvements
I use a Homeworx dvr. Have to supply my own USB hard drive and deal with a goofy interface (not that you'll see it just for pausing live TV), but otherwise it works well. It can buffer live TV for a decent amount of time too.

http://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-HW-150PVR-HomeWorx-Converte...

I bet you could get quite a ways with a 16 gig flash drive on there too, if you don't want to save recordings.
Human evolution was shaped by interbreeding
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Maybe then I'm just not seeing the fluff because I don't read those types of sources. I wouldn;t touch anything on facebook. The few blogs I keep track of are thinks like TorrentFreak, Krebs or TechDirt. For world news every morning I read the BBC. I don't see much fluff. Or maybe I'm just blind to it.

Most of the articles I've been paid decent money to produce are now locked behind paywalls, which I ironically cannot afford. Hopefully that means they aren't fluff.
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Last time your build failed because you made a typo, did you package it up and release that version anyway?
It's still free for me w/ TWC. I have them only for broadband, but happen to get Clear QAM network channels anyway free of charge. Wonder how much longer they'll be doing that where I live.

I've even purchased an eyeTV tuner and hooked it up to an old Macbook Pro I had laying around, and basically made a DVR w/ guide for the network channels.
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Seems to me like this quote from the paper is not making a fair comparison. As far as I know, the main market that Theranos is targeting is outpatient / home testing. Yes, of course central labs in a hospital setting get simple and/or common tests back within a few hours--inpatient medicine involves a higher level of illness severity and thus a higher priority on lab values. I work with one of the major outpatient laboratory companies on a daily basis and I'll tell you that their basic results are almost always back within 24 hrs and stat labs are back within three hours of the runner picking them up. In fact, probably half of our wait time is from the pick-up schedule (late in the day) and had nothing to do with these "older" technologies taking too long.

That being said, this particular lab company provides horrible customer service and our nurses probably spend more than an hour on the phone with them every week trying to troubleshoot very simple situations. For this reason, I've been hopeful about Theranos' potential to bring some meaningful competition to the market. We'll see.
My understanding is it is often common for people to have seizures in their sleep so they wake up sore and tired but unsure if they actually had one. This will be awesome to have an "always on" sensor that can give the full picture.
> Language Checklist
>
> When you have answered those high-level questions, it's a good time to talk to your teammates and pick up a language!

No, No and No.

Please, just use something that's as close to plain javascript as possible. Your client will thank you because you don't have to reinvent wheels for the sake of programmer porn...
As Shaq says, "black people don't drink coffee"

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/shaquille-o-...
Validating EC is even harder. Accepting arbitrary curves is a bad practice. The draft of TLS 1.3 uses named curves and named primes for both DH and ECDH. And it starts with 2048 bits, because the possibility of NSA cracking 1024 primes was mentioned in the logjam paper.

See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-tls13-09#page-49
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Wrong data is much much worse that no data, since it may lead you down the wrong path. Think what the false news of a Russian nuclear strike in US soil would have done during the Cold War.
There are multiple levels of compression.

What typically happens here in the USA is that your local TV station gets, via satellite, a "master feed" which typically is very high bitrate Mpeg4.

It then converts it to Mpeg2 (which requires a higher bitrate for the same quality), and compresses it to fit into its 19Mb/s ATSC 8VSB broadcast standard. If your local broadcaster has no subchannels, then you win(1). The network show gets all 19Mb/s of bandwidth.

However, if your local station has many subchannels (eg, 24hr weather, local news, re-runs of shows from the 1950s, etc), then they all share that 19 Mb/sec and you get far less than 19Mb/s allocated to the network show (especially when there is a lot of motion on the subchannel). The worst I've seen is some ABC affiliates who actually had a SECOND "HD" subchannel for the "livewell" network, which made their network programming look horrible. I put up a bigger antenna to pull in ABC from a neighboring market & avoid a local affiliate that was doing that.

Your local cable company picks up the MPEG2 broadcast and if you're lucky, it just passes it through (re-muxing it into a 38Mb/s QAM subchannel). If you're unlucky, it takes the already compressed MPEG2 stream and compresses it harder.

Back in the "good old days", the network satellite feeds were not encrypted, and people with the right equipment (Big Ugly Dishes) could pick up the raw network feed, which was reportedly awesome.

(1) That is, you win if the equipment doing the MPEG4 -> MPEG2 transcoding doesn't suck. I've consistently seen stations that have a lower bitrate but better quality due to newer encoders doing things like adding repeat field flags to telecined film content, so your mileage may vary.
As you said: P.A. Semi and Intrinsity are "the foundation of Apple's processor engineering capabilities." That might have been their market value, but I think it's fair to say that the value to Apple was far greater (i.e. Apple got a huge purchaser's surplus in the deal).
It is surely easier to target and then hack specific engineers at VPN and certificate authorities, then steal their private keys and bingo, a great little lookup key database.

GCHQ and Belgacom spring to mind:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-spy-agenc...

Let's have a show of hands. Anyone got unencrypted private keys on their machine or on their server? How hard is it to steal those?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/25437/what-issue...

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/how-attackers-steal-pr...
> But calling it a tax shield makes it sound like you can stand to gain personally by doing this.

One (with that much wealth) absolutely stands to gain a ton from it.

A family member of mine works in financial trusts / estate planning for multi-millionaires (many times over) and this is one of the things I've heard from them used to limit tax exposure while maximizing the most typical goal - not personal wealth (these people have more money then they will ever be able to spend, that isn't the concern for them) - but rather maximizing family wealth.

And once you're extremely wealthy, it's amazing how large your family becomes.

Essentially - many charitable foundations are absolutely charitable in their fundamental mission, and best case are helping thousands of people with most of the money directly helping - however what happens in practice, is this foundation then has family members work for it earning somewhere between a reasonable to a completely insane salary depending on any number of factors.
Norway and Sweden have excellent Fiber-to-the-Home and very low population density. You can get 1GBit/s symmetrical quite cheaply (I don't remember how much, one Swedish offer I found just now is $120/month).
Yes. The line between daytrading and gambling is slight. It can become a vice. And trading from home is far more dangerous than driving to the floor or trading via a human broker. It's the speed, the potential for instant gratification, that ups the addiction risk.
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I don't think it would be.

Yes, the basis for the hypothesis is fried chicken -> black people and craft coffee -> white hipsters.
But that's actually what happens with gentrification. Diverse neighbourhoods get plowed over with rich white people.

Using race in an analysis doesn't make it racist. OP saying they wouldn't want to live in the places with fried chicken, in the context above (KFC->black people) would be.

I'd say the piece itself rides the line. It has a sarcastic tone throughout the piece, more of a "let's find out where the gentrification is" than "let's go live there".
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If only they could have found room for 60 more bytes...
well it's pointless dropping anecdota but for what it's worth I know people who are apoplectic at how trashy it's become online and offline.

Here is some actual data showing readership dropping:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/after-decade-decline-c...

Doesn't look like it's leveling off to me!

Also the Telegraph had a lot of internal conflict recently culminating in their politics head quitting. Read this and tell me it's not in trouble coupled with the above data:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-...

The last article clearly shows you can make money on advertising and trash your reputation in one swoop.

They are trying to rebrand to trashy. The recent stuff on Corbyn every day is simply mental. Clearly they are willing to run it into the ground to curry political favour.
What you're saying is not unique to lifeforms. It can apply to inanimate objects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Every car I've ever driven with cruise control has had basically that same behavior, with the only major variation being if you can set a new base speed without flicking cruise control off and then on again.
If one is not enough, why not just have a million standard keys to choose from? This makes the problem space prohibitively large, but this many keys could be passed around in a standard distribution easily enough.
We ran a private crowdfunding campaign and it worked
https://theranos.com/news/posts/statement-from-theranos
A much more advanced tool here.

http://tvfool.com/
That's what types are: enforced documentation.

That's an interesting way to think about it, but I'm not sure it applies here. From the example given about money being a string or a float. A type would just enforce either or, but the consumer of the data would still need to know what it is, and convert it to whatever is necessary for them.
This is absolutely true, which is why virtually any study around Autism is complicated.

It's virtually impossible to prove or disprove anything from causes to treatments simply because collecting control groups on such a wide spectrum is nearly impossible on it's own.
> Theranos presented the facts to this reporter to prove the accuracy and reliability of its tests and to directly refute these false allegations, including more than 1,000 pages of statements and documents. Disappointingly, the Journal chose to publish this article without even mentioning the facts Theranos shared that disproved the many falsehoods in the article.

Then why doesn't the statement say what these facts are?

This reads more like an attack on the former employees who spoke up than a scientific rebuttal of the article. Which leads me to think even more that the article is right.
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They only barely understood the world in terms of printers, too. If they'd capitalized on their entire portfolio they could have taken over the world and we'd probably be a decade beyond where we are now.
> I don't understand what these mean to you

They answer your request,

> Please any citation of "alarmism" from the real scientists (that is, an example of something such claimed by scientist, that was since disproved and that was believed by more than a few percent of scientists).

assuming of course that you stand by your closing statement from that post,

> The IPCC reports are the result of the world's climate scientists.
Arrgh, pisses me off so much that Firefox constantly bugs you to upgrade Flash due to security vulnerabilities only to be informed that the new one also suffers from some horrific security vulnerability. Time to ditch it. Thank god BBC Iplayer is changing over to HTML5, which I don't assume is free from vulns but at least its one less piece of malware for me to worry about.
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Yes, it can take a while to get things set up. But you really only need it once. I've used the same core gulpfile for at least a year across multiple projects. And when new things pop up that are useful to your workflow you can integrate them pretty easily. To me the benefits far outweigh the cost of learning or at least integrating most build tools and concepts.
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Can you elaborate on taking responsibility for anxiety and depression? It seems to me that those things mostly just happen without the person actively causing it, so they can not be "responsible" for it.
He seems to be measuring current housing prices, but if his goal is to measure "up and coming" areas, shouldn't he try to correlate between ratio of fried chicken vs coffee shops in PREVIOUS years, and change of prices in the following years?
tl;dr Here are the subheadings:

Driving is the most stressful way to commute

It’s also bad for your health

It’s bad for your relationships and community, too

Riding or walking to work makes you healthier and happier

... And the benefits vastly outweigh the risks

Happy commuting!
Using the blockchain for something like this is a total waste of energy. Just run it on a single fast server. (or a small cluster)
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Hi Everybody! I'm part of the team and we built Leova to make adding fully-functional natural language interfaces to your home-brewn or production-scale apps would be super easy. Integration is (supposed to be) super simple and deployment, even easier. We've got a couple of short videos on the website to show off how effortless it's supposed to be.

The NLP AI is conversational and as people use it, a small machine-learner learns to 'fix' errors in the recognition of whichever speech recognizer it has been paired with it. The entire system has been modeled around human conversation and works without keywords and without forcing users to speak to it in a rigid way, like an IVR system.

This first release is for LeovaTravel, which is this one :-)

The next 3 months will see us deploy the next two variants - a natural language AI for ordering food; and one for shopping / ecommerce, both wrapped in APIs.