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I don't think that an agency should be responsible for the testing, just ensuring that software development best practices are in place, and that the company is actually doing their internal testing.
Monads Everywhere: Porting C#’s Tasks to Swift
Very cool article, thank you!
My biggest pet peeve with password requirements is limiting the scope of special characters to some arbitrary subset, i.e. "you may only use the characters @#$%^& in your password", or not allowing spaces. Without spaces I can't use a phrase without running it all together, and my instinct is to type the spaces, so I end up getting frustrated and using some less secure password instead.
Better have a collapsed lung than no life at all.

I've had multiple pneumothoraxes and I was able to breathe (suffering pain.. but I didn't die). You can fix that later with a drain.
Hiring and Retention Problem
A comment on the article mentions a competitor at http://lifevac.net:

"There is another version of this type of device that has been around (FDA approved) for a couple of years now. It's called LifeVac and it has been adopted by several fire departments, schools, skilled nursing facilities and families all across the eastern seaboard as well Europe and Canada. Only costs $69.95 and even that number can come down with different promotions that are offered."
One example is not proving anything. You are trying to tell me on a systematic level, it happens.

It seems you arent going to listen to reason. It doesnt really matter much to me. I will continue to dress appropriately and be treated well.

I also find it funny that you sent me your proof in the form of a skit from a comedy show (which can be cut, stopped, and changed, to push a specific agenda)..lol?
The UK. My role saw interaction across different jurisdictions and the UK seemed better than some (some of the US stuff was eye popping, even based on my experience). I'm sure there are places better than the UK but I can just base things on my experience. Others may be able to comment on the good based on their experience.
Not an 18th century French style revolution but similar results I can easily imagine. What you'll end up with is a state which becomes more and more Socialist. This is a prediction Marx made about Capitalism. It will eventually result in many more have-nots than haves and the have-nots will either through violent revolution or political policy enact Socialism.

It is not an outcome we want but it is up to the capital class to ensure this doesn't happen by regulating themselves well enough so everyone feels they are getting a fair piece of the pie.

My point is, there is a balance somewhere between chaotic growth at any cost with its wealth generation and ensuring people can participate fairly and share the results and have equity in the future.
Well, you get to ignore reality at your own peril.
Uber doesn't get to unilaterally decide anything. Customers overwhelmingly decided that they prefer Uber to whatever benefits they had been receiving from the regulated taxi industry. If they hadn't, Uber would be out of business and we'd only have taxis.

> maybe next SV-backed startup decides to ignore FDA? Because who cares about those "clinical trials", they're only slowing progress down.

Maybe they will? If a company can reliably produce safe drugs without FDA trials, why wouldn't we want that? Right now we have expensive drugs that are very safe. Few people die because they got a drug that was manufactured incorrectly (presumably, I don't know the actual statistics), but many people die because they can never afford the drug in the first place. Maybe without the trials more people would die from bad drugs, but more would live because they'd have access to cures that were previously out of reach. I don't know, but it's a question worth asking. There's also the issue of the black market created by the high prices caused by FDA trials, where drugs are sold from shady online pharmacies and manufacture under who-knows-what conditions. Desperate people will take risks like that when they have no options.

If you were poor and contracted some rare disease where the treatment costs $100,000, but only has a .0001% chance of complications, would you rather die because you can't afford it, or try a $100 treatment that has a 1% chance of complications? Right now you don't even get the choice. For whatever reason we've decided it's better for people to die because they're poor than for them to die because of a manufacturing / clinical problem with a drug. If that's what we all think, that's fine, but we should be aware we're making that choice.

> As a customer, I benefited from local company that offered pay-for-distance drive-by-GPS service stirring up the taxi market. They had some legal battles, there was a law adjustment, and the local market improved

The fact that they had "some legal battles" and the laws was changed, implies to me that they were also operating in defiance of the law at the beginning. How is that different from what Uber does? Besides, now you have the taxis, your preferred company, and Uber as options. With your recommended strategy of "everybody obey the taxi laws", you would only have the taxis. Aren't you better off this way?
> Do they pump the brake pedal?

A comment below mentions this, and it's one factor that can be age-related without invoking ‘dumb old people pressed the accelerator by mistake’. People who learned to drive before ABS were taught to pump the brakes.
Would you recommend something like "How to pitch a VC" by Dave McClure. Or something else?

I feel like there's no magic in a pitch. That you just have to tell the VC what problem you're solving. And just expect your VC to get it. Maybe the same pitch can have 2 totally different reactions in different people, because one of them have felt that pain or is identified with it.

Bottom line, my take is: make it simple, be clear and open. There's no need to "sell" or "charm" with it.
That battle testing also killed millions of people.

Modern cars are vastly safer. Demonstrably so.

Computers in cars may make them more dangerous. But this is far outweighed by the greater overall safety in the cars that have them. You can't buy an otherwise modern car with no computer control, so your choice is either to buy a modern car with computers, or buy an old car without them. If you're avoiding computers then you're buying an old car, and the result is greatly decreased safety.

This is typical human risk management, of course. The mostly imaginary scenario where your ECU goes nuts and causes you to crash helplessly into a concrete barrier is assigned great importance, where the sadly common scenario of some drunk or texting (or drunk texting) idiot killing you in an accident that modern safety design would have allowed you to walk away from is assigned very little importance.

It's much like people who are afraid of flying but are happy to drive, because the thought of plummeting to their death from 30,000 feet is much more vivid than the thought of being randomly run over by a tractor trailer even though the latter is much more likely.
Not every restaurant has a defibrillator, but every restaurant may want one of these if it's really that effective.
Hm... no.

These innovations are just a child of capitalism, not something unexpectedly changing it.
Insider Trading and Tech Buybacks
And this is so not part of a scheme to get the subscription price of an IPO higher than the institutional investors will tolerate.

I am perhaps to cynical here, feel free to dismiss my rant, but as Andressen pointed out a lot of the "value" is being captured on the internal rounds these days, not post IPO. And what that means is that when a stock comes to market it can be "hard" to get the valuation of the company to match its last round, much less get it above that. And as we saw with Box, coming in under often means having to accommodate your late stage investors some how.

So lets bring in retail investors! And with enough of those folks we can have them raise the price of the IPO roadshow and well if the price is flat to down after that and they lose all their money, too bad. But hey they were "in at the IPO" right? Watch your prospectuses closely boys and girls, I bet on these same IPOs we'll have "investor participation" which is code for the late stage investors selling their shares in the IPO rather than having the company collect the proceeds.

See? JP Morgan thinks they are doing everyone a favor and all I can see is a barely disguised scheme for the private investors to fleece the retail folks out of their money.
Those rules don't really matter if they aren't enforced.
It's not the job of Police to single out people based on their ethnicity and search them for drugs without any probable cause.
More criminals behind bars, lower crime. It may not fit your narrative but it should not be hard to understand.
They're not necessarily indistinguishable. Line-break rules, directionality and typographical conventions (height/width/alternate glyphs) may differ between apparent homographs. And using the same code point would make distinguishing between, say, Latin and Cyrillic searches difficult. How would Google tell if you mean CCCP or СССР?
> The continued eradication of Poliovirus is a testament to the almost inhuman tenacity of the medical and perimedical community that's dedicated so much of their time and professional lives to the issue.

We see a lot of things like crowdsourcing, crowd funding, and the constant stream of stories like "sick kid gets a million get well cards after plea goes viral". Those are all interesting lessons in the power of the attention of a lot of people for a short amount of time.

But I think we forget what is ultimately a greater contributor to human progress: the attention of a few for a long time.

You don't need a crowd to change the world. You just need persistence.
Which is why I use the method of making up a random sentence with a number in it and using the first letters of each word and the punctuation.

I memorize the sentence.

My favorite 7 beavers aren't taking to water!

Password would be: Mf7ba'ttw!

It's highly random just like the poems. It's easier for me to remember. It has the right length and random symbols to make the strong password detectors happy.

You tend to say the sentence as you type the password so for bonus points, you can make it a nice motivational mantra.

You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you.

Y'ge,y'se,adi,ply.
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We do have those, but it does indeed depend on the resolution.

These can do 25k fps at 1280x800 pixels (and 1 million fps at 128x32 pixels): http://www.visionresearch.com/Products/High-Speed-Cameras/UH...
anyone have any advice for online courses that deal with this? find myself struggling with it as well..
TL;DR doesn't always appear at the beginning which is what cmdkeen was talking about.
Hmm... I wonder if this can be used in browser source maps.
An earlier article in the Boise paper gives context: 76 beavers were dropped.

http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/parachuting-beavers-id...
Whether your topic is simple or complex, you still need to lead with your point. A complex analysis might have many sub-points that you prove-up in subsequent paragraphs, but your ultimate conclusion still needs to come at the beginning, and each supporting paragraph still needs to lead with the sub-point you're proving.

Say you're writing a memo to your boss explaining why you need to double the size of your engineering team. That point has to come first. Now, maybe the reason you need to double the size of your engineering team is that management wants to add new product lines, and customers are demanding more customized solutions. Okay, so each of those points are the leads in their own paragraphs.

Where a lot of people have problems is that their writing is a chronological recounting of their thinking about the issue. So it starts somewhere in the middle where they encountered some part of the overall issue, then backs up to where they recognize the larger issue, and then buries the solution at the end.

The structure you were taught in high-school: topic sentence, supporting sentences, conclusion, is simple and appropriate for business communications. There are some writers who can clearly convey complicated thoughts using a more narrative structure, but you'll rarely go astray sticking to that basic style.
Thanks for the links. They might not convince me to change my views on patents but it's always nice to get the facts straight.

Video codecs certainly have had the low hanging fruit picked, but if you look at the situation with video on the web today (ie. consumer level tech, not state of the art), the situation is not much better than in 1998 (to exaggerate a little): we're still using badly implemented browser plugins. We use Flash video because Adobe et al have the patent issue covered. Yes, HTML5 video exists but the actual codecs are such an IP and patent minefield that out-of-the-box support for video (esp. in open source browsers) isn't really ready for prime time.
There is no "French A" and no "English A", I believe both languages call their alphabet the Roman (or Latin) alphabet. So those really are the same letter.
Folklore.org: Swedish Campground
It's one thing to hike with a camera on your back, even if back then they did weigh 50lb or so. It's a whole different thing to hike with a pack of 20 beavers. And I am sure they made multiple loads of 20 beavers, to kick start the population. I am not sure why helicopters weren't used though. Perhaps helicopters were still too expensive back then.
TU TU RU
I also like this 10,000 fps video [0] credited to Tim Samaras.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/W1X1qFI.jpg
> My name is Austen from Underwater Audio. We developed a technology that makes iPods completely waterproof — it’s some pretty cool technology you (and your readers might be interested in. We’re at underwateraudio.com, and I have a [press kit/sample/demo] I’d like to send your way to [review/check out] if you’d be interested. Let me know!
> Thanks,
> Austen Allred
> [contact info]

> Once it finds the right contact info it will automatically plug that information in, so you could be pretty close to simply hitting “send” for every email you write and moving on to the next site.

> If you’re copying and pasting or just hitting “send” you’re doing it wrong.

I thought the example email was good and the article also says its good, but it has no real personalization, that email could work for any reporter. Then at the end you call that "pretty close" and say that you'd be doing it wrong by sending the same email over and over.

What level of personalization is recommended for cold emails like this? And if that email works when sent en-mass, why not set up a script that sends an email through gmail once a minute instead of spending a day sending 500?
I don't see the connection.

Your point seems to be about the chosen operating software's security model. I agree that flexibility here is woefully lacking in all the major desktop OSes today.

However, the original concern in this case seems to be about being able to choose the basic operating software for the system itself, which is an orthogonal issue to the one you're raising as I understand your comment.
The Library of Words, the Library of Babel, and Jorge Luis Borges
The question is how do you effectively communicate that to users without establishing a Persona brand?
Looks promising, could see myself using it at some point in the future.

On a related note, it's a shame SSMS doesn't work with more databases (aside from as linked databases), I haven't found any database management tools that are better (commercial or free/open-source). The only drawback I've found with SSMS so far is limited colour theme functionality and slightly awkward debugging of .NET assemblies (you'd want to use VS2013 for writing them anyway, so it's not much of an issue). I'd be interested to know what's out there, perhaps I've missed something. What do Java developers tend to use?
Well that doesn't make sense... calories in, calories out, thermodynamics, it's as simple as that, right?!?

Edit: Seems I've inadvertently demonstrated Poe's Law...
Do Police really raid Görlitzer Park? I haven't been in Berlin for long but I was under the impression it was fairly tolerated, and it seems like a bit of a waste of police resources to crack down on (what I understand is) just a bit of weed.
I really think this is very interesting in that this would be a truly broad spectrum anti-viral agent. Maybe this is the start of a class of compounds like antibiotics, but for treating viral infections. Could be amazingly tranformative of our ability to treat disease.
What whatok said, plus there's always a less of an appetite to short a stock than to be long.
The trick is: don't ask that question trying to put yourself above the police. Say it in a way that feels like asking for help. Suddenly, getting it your way becomes for them a way to show their power over you.

Haven't tried that with police, but it worked in other cases where I had to interact with people who had the means to ruin my day.
They are correct in calling out Illumina's de-facto monopoly rents they are extracting on the market, but sadly I don't share their wildly optimistic view that we are eminent for technological disruption that will re-start the price plummeting of whole genome sequencing.

Nanopores are no where near the throughput and accuracy of Illumina's sequencing by synthesis tech, and if there is a pathway to challenge Illumina's position, it will be extremely complex, iterative and _long_.

Meanwhile Illumina is amassing a billion dollar war chest and is adding its own complex and iterative improvements to its platform (two-color detection, longer and longer reads, higher cluster density), maintaining its market lead.

As much as the analogy to microprocessor manufacturing and Moore's law is alluring, the messy stuff of biology and single molecule chemical manipulation and sensor detection is unlikely to obediently follow the same innovation curve.
Are you saying he shouldn't have been released?
The summary first style of writing is a hack to enable quick trust establishment. It doesn't work for all concepts and it's unlikely to be effective for communicating very complex and innovative subjects.

Also, some things just have to be shown visually to be trusted. A paragraph explaining an anti-gravity device isn't going to cut it. You need to show it working in person where there can be no doubt it's doing what you say it does.
Strapless Prom Gown by Tony Bowls
Whenever I see those sorts of limitation I assume there's probably some kind of poorly handled escape situation to exploit and their fix was "well just don't allow that pesky < character"
> Without patents, small inventors are defenseless against bigger organizations, which can replicate the invention, manufacture it faster, and put more marketing dollars behind it.

The reverse is also true.

With patents, small inventors are defenseless against aggressive litigation from deep-pocketed bigger organizations. If an inventor is small in a strict sense, he certainly doesn't have a few million dollars to spare to defend himself in court.

It's not about patents, it's about the terminally broken system.
Here is a pretty good video at a trillion frames per second: https://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_...
If this thing can apply negative pressure to a lung, the airway isn't totally obstructed.
Calling me dumb is out of line. You're making a lot of assumptions that could also be explained by saying that risk-taking is the logical choice for men, for those exact same reasons. We didn't evolve big brains so our genes could decide everything.

Civilization is very recent in human history, and without civilization you can't have Genghis Kahn so I don't see how he is relevant.

I feel like people used to say God made people a certain way. Now that I basically only interact with nerds, they just replace God with evolution. I'd prefer some citations, since all I hear are the same assumptions.
Show HN: Automated Craigslist Poster via Selenium/Gmail API
He should learn how to read better. Seriously. Hire lieutenants that can read really well, and trust them to filter.

That aside, sucking up to journalists is a really good way to get their attention. PR win!
Does this provide a bare IP connection or is it just for MQTT channels back to your servers? I can't tell if that's "the" method of communication or just a helpful thing that you're offering.

Basically, is this something that I would be able to use directly with my company's CoAP APIs?
This is a how-to for spamming people.
I actually know three people who were run over by a tractor trailer! While I don't know anybody killed in a plane crash.

One was rushed to the hospital with a skull cracked like an eggshell. Almost fully recovered except he can't smell anything.

One had a tractor/trailer fall over while turning a corner, onto his car. He happened to lie in the gap between tractor and trailer, leaving a little uncrushed cell with him in it. No injury.

One was slowing to turn right on a highway; sleepy tractor driver ran fullspeed into the back of his old American car, crushing it utterly up to the back of the front seat. Unhurt. So old American cars have something going for them?
Hi, I created this tool because I really wanted it. Let me know if there are any features you would love to see. Hope you find it as useful as I do!
This patent gets rediscovered every half decade or so for the past two-ish decades. I first saw it when George Goble was all the Internet rage[1].

If I recall correctly, the patent applicant patented this to demonstrate the perceived silliness of the US patent system.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Goble
The Business Case for Social Impact
One of the general principles of engineering ethics states "A practitioner shall, regard the practitioner's duty to public welfare as paramount."

I think part of the problem is that software development isn't considered an engineering discipline and code of engineering ethics goes out the window.
> You're making a flawed assumption that just because a major email provider offers OAuth, that websites themselves will also integrate with that OAuth provider. Yahoo Mail supports OAuth, but that's not worth a damn if sites don't explicitly integrate with Yahoo and provide a "Sign in with Yahoo" button.

I'm not really sure I buy this premise. As a developer, it's my job to provide login options. I'm 100% on board with not providing a username / password option unless my bosses demand it and ignore my counterarguments. But I fail to see how the passwordless model is not just an equivalent case with using lots of OAuth2 plugins.

It's a neat system, don't get me wrong. I could see using it in addition to a typical suite of OAuth providers. But I don't see it as a drop-in, solve-everything replacement for OAuth2. It's really just a (node / express) library that approaches the same problems but exposes different implementation issues instead.
> At what point does it make sense for Google-likes to educate their own workforce, skipping the university model entirely?

Never. You may be too young to remember this, but it used to be very common for companies to hire employees and then train them to do the jobs the company needed done.

Eventually, companies realized that it was much more cost-effective to foist off the expense of training onto employees themselves (and, indirectly onto taxpayers through federal financial aid) so it's become rare for companies to have any kind of formal training program. They expect potential employees to go heavily into debt training themselves, and then hope to find somebody who is already trained for their exact job role.

Google is no different from other companies in this regard: Training people is expensive, and if they can avoid that expense, they will avoid it.